Great Lake City and inside the apartment complex where the down floro housed the Casagrande Market; there was the apartment that housed the married couple Bobby Santiago & his wife Lori who had set up the couch and there was Lori's family the Louds joining Bobby's family the Casagrandes as they had worked together to move the Casagrandes' couch to this apartment complex. The Loud Family had come all the way from Royal Woods for the first of a new normal get together for a couple of weeks.
For you see today was the day where the new hit Canadian reality TV show Total Drama Island where the only Loud family boy Lincoln would be taking part as a contestant. The Loud family all collectively decided to watch the show together as a family to support their brother/son and Lori wanted to see about her husband Bobby joining them and it was her grandfather in law Hector who suggested that both families watch the show together.
Right now both couches were set up with the snacks being set up and the TV all set; the Casagrandes grandmother Rosa was doing all sorts of good luck rituals and putting up lucky charms around the room. "Mama; are all this really necessary?" Maria asked as Rosa was just about done with her charms that she was putting up.
"Off course Mija; Lincoln is all the way in Canada taking part in this competition with 15 other strangers and who knows what could go wrong and what could happen! I mean what if he ends up in the water and drowns; You can never be too careful!" Rosa replied with conviction as Loud family looked tense.
"Lincoln and luck..." sighed Lori shaking her head along with the other Loud family sisters except for young Lily.
"Are you ever going to explain why it's always like this whenever Lincoln and luck are mentioned together?" Lily asked with a sigh as the Loud family members looked silent about this and Lily was far too used to this.
"Still some merit to this idea; we do know what misadventures Lincoln gets up to and who knows what will happen on this show!" Lynn Jr brought up and the Loud family did seem a bit afraid that something could happen to Lincoln on this show and they could only watch.
"Lincoln will be just fine; he's your 'Man with the Plan' for a reason. I am sure he can take whatever this will throw his way!" Ronnie Anne assured looking quite confident in her 2nd best friend.
"Yeah Lincoln bro always finds a way to make it work!" Bobby said thinking optimistically about his brother in law.
"I concur; Lincoln is a smart lad!" Carlos nodded in agreement.
"Go Lincoln!" cheered CJ.
"Still wish that you could have been able to join Lincoln; who knows what will happen when he is around all those girls his age." Rosa remarked as the Casagrandes (especially Rosa) and had been supportive of the idea of Lincoln and Ronnie Anne getting together; Rosa had even arranged for the both of them to dance during Ronnie Anne's quinceañera but they had only ever remained friends. Lori gave a nod as she was supportive to the idea as well.
"Abuela; Lincoln and I are just friends and if he does find a girl at this show then I say good for him." Ronnie Anne sighed looking quite agitated.
"Would that even work though; I would be all for it but Lincoln would have to come back home here in the US and the girl would be in Canada her home." Lisa brought up as they pondered that.
"Hey we both made a long distance relationship work and if it comes to that then Lincoln might be able to make a longer distance one work as well." Bobby said optimistically.
"Linky in a long distance relationship; how romantic!" Leni squealed excited as they realised the time and getting into positions on the couch; the remote control with them ready to pause the TV when they want to react. The Casagrandes pets Lalo & Sergio joined them as they had the TV on with the premiere of Total Drama Island starting.
At the Dock of Shame of Camp Wawanakwa; Chris McLean "yo; we are coming up to you live from Camp Wawanakwa in Ontario! I'm your host Chris McLean dropping the first season of the hottest new reality TV show right now!"
"Anyone know anything about the host?" Lola questioned thinking about the celebrity judges of her pageant competitions.
"I have indeed done some backword check; a popular celebrity TV and film actor over in Canada." Lisa clarified.
"I hope I can be like that sometime; famous enough to host my own reality show." Carl spoke looking in jealous of Luna, Leni & Luan who had already became quite famous locally with their careers taking off.
Chris walked across the camp explaining "here's the deal: 16 campers have signed up to spend weeks at this crummy old Summer camp! They will compete in challenges and then face the judgement of their fellow campers. Every 3 days one team will lose and vote one off to ride the Dock of Shame, ride the Boat of Losers and leave for good!"
"Wait; 'crummy old Summer camp'? I thought that the contestants were staying at a resort..." questioned Lori and then remembered the asterisk on Lincoln's application form.
"Nothing Lincoln can't handle; remember your Gramps with Camp Mastodon." Lynn Sr brought up assuringly and the Loud guessed that it was a good point.
At the campfire pit; Chris continued to explain "their fate will be decided in the dramatic campfire ceremonies where each challenge; all but one camper will receive a marshmallow. At the end; only 1 will be left standing winning cheesy tabloid fame and a small fortune which will probably be blown in a week. to survive they will have to battle insects, wild animals, disgusting camp food and eachother! We have hundreds of cameras to capture every moment and now I welcome to you the 16 campers of... Total... Drama... Island!"
The camera pans around the Camp passing by photos and the names of each camper and ending with all 16 campers at the campfire pit; set to the tune of the show's theme song I Wannabe Famous.
"The theme song; sounds quite shallow..." Frida commented with a raised eyebrow as everyone did find the music catchy.
"Think that's the point; what you expect from people who sign up for reality TV. All they want is their fifteen minutes of fame." Lucy brought up and they knew that it was a good one.
"Not the worst song to jam to to." spoke Luna.
At the Dock of Shame; Chris was there saying "alright here comes the campers; who have all been told that they were staying at this five star resort so if they seem a little annoyed then that's why." Chris laughed.
They shook their heads at Chris admitting that he loud to the hopefuls signing up.
The cruise ship arrived with Tyler skiing on it only to have a wipe out; "Oh nice entrance but you didn't stick the landing Tyler..." Chris laughed helping Tyler up onto the Dock.
They looked amazed at the cruise ship and thought what Tyler was doing was impressive but they laughed at how it ended up.
Dawn greeted Chris with a wave as she appeared right behind him; "What? How... I never saw you go down... Did any of you?" Chris muttered in shock and confusion looking up and the campers on the cruise ship looked surprised as well. "Well welcome to TDI; Dawn." Chris managed to say as Dawn smiled at him.
"Your welcome Chris; you might need to calm down as your aura reads as tense. I am most excited to be here among nature on the island!" Dawn told him as she walked to join Tyler.
"...Okay this girl is already really giving me the creeps..." Lola stated shaking her head at Dawn.
"Feels like Lucy popping out of nowhere..." Lana said and Lucy sighed but didn't refute the statement.
"She reads auras? Oh, I have ready about people who have become attuned with spiritual energy and are able to read people's thoughts and memories." Rosa spoke up already now interested and Maria rolled her eyes at this.
"As if something unscientific could happen..." scoffed Lisa shaking her head.
Then came down was an annoyed Gwen; "Welcome to Camp; Gwen." Chris greeted her.
"You are not serious about us staying here! I didn't sign up for this! Gwen ranted in his face and Chris brought out her contract; Gwen ripped it in half and tossed it in the water.
"Lawyers make lots of copies." grinned Chris bringing out another copy of her contract with Gwen calling him a jerk.
"Oh; I definitely like Gwen already. Looks so cool and just done with it already." Ronnie Anne spoke looking impressed.
"Is her skin actually pale like that or does she use make up?" asked Carlota looking closely.
"A goth; wonder if Lincoln will tell her about me?" Lucy asked definitely interested.
DJ came down next; "DJ: welcome to the Island!" Chris said as he got a high five from DJ
"Is this really the right place? Looked a lot different on the application form..." DJ asked as he went to join the others.
They shook their heads at the disappointment showed by DJ.
Heather went down and her face was furious looking at the Camp; "Heather..." Chris said as Heather just passed him. "Yeah; polite one she is..." Chris said sarcastically.
They rolled their eyes; definitely mean girl vibes there...
"Lindsay!" Chris greeted Lindsay as she went down.
"Do I know you from somewhere?" Lindsay asked looking at Chris all confused scratching her head as Chris raised an eyebrow.
"Chris. Chris McLean as in the host of the show?" Chris asked as Lindsay said that's where she saw him and went to join Heather and Chris shook his head.
"Not the smartest one there..." Bobby spoke and there were nods at this; reminding them of Leni only not as smart.
Then came down was Justin; "Justin; welcome to the show." Chris said giving Justin a fist bump. "Just so you know; we only chose you for your looks." Chris informed Justin who didn't look bothered at all.
The teenage girls and younger were fawning over Justin with Carl looking jealous at this; show off. "To be told that you were only chosen for your looks..." Lori spoke.
"Katie, Sadie welcome to your new home for the next few weeks." Chris greeted Katie & Sadie.
"Sadie look; it's a summer camp!" Katie told Sadie excitedly.
"I always wanted to go to summer camp!" Sadie excitedly replied as they joined the others.
"Must be best friends with matching clothes." Leni said looking impressed and mostly everyone thought that it looked like that they shared the same braincell.
"Ezekiel, what's up..." Chris greeted Ezekiel who was next and pointed up to the sky Chris and took him in closer; "Here's the deal; I know you don't get out much dude with you being homeschooled by freaky prairie people so don't say much and try and not get kicked out too soon." Chris adviced him as Ezekiel went to join the others.
They laughed and were willing to bet that this idiot was out of there first.
"Zoey; what do you think about being here?" Chris greeted Zoey as she was down next.
"Fantastic; I live in a small town and I always wanted to meet new people and make some friends! I already think that I have made some friends including this boy Lincoln and hey Dawn!" Zoey said and went to join Dawn with the others.
"Wow; looks like Lincoln already has made one new friend already on the ship!" Rita spoke up pleased.
"She went to join Dawn; you think Lincoln has befriended her as well?" Ronnie Anne brought up and Rosa looked like she was in favor of that but Lola shook her head; the others looked like they were willing to give her a shot.
"Cody the Codster; the Codmeister!" Chris high fived Cody as Cody went to confidently join the others and winked to the girls who barely reacted.
The females shook his head at this wannabe playboy but Carl was thinking that he could get better results which his family would be found laughable; he had still been trying to impress Lori up until her and Bobby's engagement.
"Owen... Get off now!" Chris complained and Owen pulled Chris into a bearhug and to the others with mixed results.
They laughed at this and thought that he seemed like an excited friendly boy; CJ smiled at Owen's enthusiasm.
"Now here comes Lightning!" Chris said as Lightning confidently ran down the ramp and onto the Dock as if he was on a track.
"You see this? Lightning have been winning trophies since Lightning was in Kindergarten; this is going to be another big win for Lightning!" Lightning said flexing his muscles and joined the others.
"Remind us of anyone?" Lily joked with everyone giggling and Lynn humphed with her arms folded but felt that she could relate to this camper.
"You think Lincoln will have to watch out for this dude? If he is more like Lynn then he could be in trouble; you know how Lynn can get when she is competitive..." Luna brought up and the Louds had their eyes widen and Lynn didn't say anything but still looked worried for her brother's chances now.
"Confidence; let's see how that goes." Chris commented.
"Courtney!" Chris greeted Courtney and she went down.
"Nice to meet you Chris; I hope to win but nothing personal against any of the other campers!" Courtney said confidently joining the others.
"I count 15 campers so one more left..." Lisa spoke up and they began waiting for the final camper; not much to say about Courtney.
"Finally here is the boy who was lucky enough to get chosen for our 1 spot for an American contestant: Lincoln!" Chris greeted as Lincoln went down to join everyone on the dock.
Both families ended up cheering for Lincoln loudly and the Louds proud of Lincoln for appearing in such a big time TV contest.
"Wow; you comes from the US? What's the clothes like?" Lindsay said her eyes widening with interest making Lincoln reminded more of Leni.
Leni and Carlota thought that they would be more than happy to show her.
"You were the only American chosen? Lightning will have his eyes on you to see what makes you so special!" Lightning warned with two fingers to his eyes and pointed to Lincoln as he felt like he found another competitive teen to watch out for.
Both families gulped at this; already having a rival after him...
Chris had then all posed together for a photo and said to join him by the campfire pit in ten minutes.
They were all sitting down at the campfire pit with Chris facing them; "For the summer; Camp Wawanakwa is your home and the campers sitting around you will be your cabin mates, your competition and maybe even your friends! The camper who manages to stay on Total Drama Island the longest without getting voted out will win 100 thousand dollars!" Chris explained.
They then began cheering on Lincoln to win it all.
"How about the sleeping arrangements? I mean I am concerned that the girls here won't be able to resist the Codmeister for long!" Cody asked getting up to do some flexing motions to some odd looks, some unimpressed looks and some snickering.
"...I am literally glad that I don't have to deal with that..." Lori sighed but gave a glance at Carl and then to the TV but most of them found his attitude more amusing than irritating for now.
"Girls get one side of the cabins and boys the other." Chris explained and after some reactions Chris got a sheet of paper up. "I am going to split you into 2 teams. Go stand over there if I call your name out!" Chris said pointing as Lightning, DJ, Lindsay, Justin, Tyler, Zoey, Heather & Dawn were called out and they got up from their stumps.
"You know what this means right best friend? We are on the same team!" Ezekiel said excitedly putting his arm around Lincoln's shoulder as he was almost ready to plead to change teams as he got looks of pity from the others and there was Zoey and Dawn who looked concerned.
"Best buddy... What happened between Lincoln and Homeschool there on the ride there?" questioned Lynn with wide eyes and they were definitely surprised.
"Well he is on the same team with him and so..." Bobby muttered and they then began praying for Lincoln.
"From this point on you are the Screaming Beavers!" Chris said tossing them their flag with an angry looking beaver on them. "The rest you will be known as the Killer Hamsters!" Chris said tossing them their flags with Katie and Sadie excited about being on the same team but Courtney frowned.
"They get beavers and we're hamsters?" complained Courtney with a groan.
"WHAT? What kind of lame team is 'the Killer Hamsters'... Sounds like a bad made for TV science fiction movie!" groaned Lynn irritated and no one seemed too impressed by the name for Lana.
"Come on; if Geo was here then it would hurt his feelings..." Lana spoke shaking her head.
"Hamsters are cool Courtney; we have one at home and Geo is a neat little guy. Never leaves his ball." Lincoln said trying to lighten his spirits as well as the others who weren't too keen on their based animal.
Lana nodded at that with a smile.
Chris explained that they will be on camera on all public areas during the competition.
Chris was in the outhouse facing the camera explaining that they will be able to share their innermost thoughts and feelings on tape on video diaries anytime that they want; let the audience know what they are thinking or get something off their chest.
They wondered about what they would learn about the Campers there with Hector interested about the gossip.
Gwen sitting in the confessional said that so far this sucks.
"I am definitely a Gwen fan already... So glad Lincoln gets to be on her team..." laughed Ronnie Anne but her mother along with the Loud & Casagrande parents weren't too impressed by her attitude so far.
Lindsay was facing away from the camera trying to find it.
Carl groaned as he had his eyes covered by his mother.
"Okay to my parents and my sisters and friends back home... I am here and this place doesn't look what was expected but Camp Mastodon should have kept me prepared for what it comes. The people here for the most part seem cool enough and I think I found at least 2 girls to be friends with others I can see... Except for some... But there was this one boy I took pity on as he seemed to be sheltered and clueless but I am still not sure about my decision... Lincoln admitted in the confessional.
"Oh; a pity project for Lincoln..." Ronnie Anne commented and they nodded at this but still happy for Lincoln's enthusiasm and they could guess that Zoey & Dawn were the girls he mentioned.
"Mum, Dad! I already found my first friend on the ship! His name is Lincoln and he said that he has 10 sisters back home; I think we bonded and you know how you told me to look after the girls here because of their disadvantage? I think he can help me out with that!" Ezekiel said in the confessional excitedly.
The females had their eyes widened and glared at the screen from his sexist comment; "Lame-O better drop him soon.." muttered Ronnie Anne darkly.
"Well; he has been from a sheltered background and he seems so excited to have his first friend so perhaps Lincoln could steer him in the right direction..." brought up Carlos though he was still not happy with Ezekiel's comment like the others.
The Screaming Beavers were going into their cabin and Heather commented on the bunk beds seeming like summer camp; she then looked to her teammates and shouted "look all of you losers; don't get in my way and I will leave you alone otherwise you are dead!"
"Definite mean girl; glad Lincoln doesn't have to deal with her..." Carlota shook her head with a glare thinking of the mean girls that she had met just like Heather and this reaction was shared by the others in what they thought of Heather already.
Outside the cabin Lindsay asked about outlets and Chris explained about the communal bathrooms and it led to Gwen calling Lindsay an idiot and she complained in response.
Some opinions of Gwen soured already at how she acted.
Lightning was doing star jumps as he said "Lightning should be on a team of one; used to doing everything on my own so you had better not bring Lightning down with your lesser talent and skills!"
"...Wow... Is this what it looks like to see me..." Lynn asked and hated the uncomfortable silence from her family and sighed.
"I was hoping we could all be friends but so far, I don't think most of our teammates will be getting along..." complained Zoey as the team was glaring at Lightning but Dawn was down. "Are you still thinking about how Lincoln is stuck with that sexist idiot who he had unwittingly attached as a friend? I am sure Lincoln will be fine and he might be on the other team but that doesn't mean that we can't be friends!" Zoey assured her and they spotted Lincoln with his suitcases as he went to go up to them.
"Someone else with little friends; at least Lincoln is helping her." CJ smiled and they nodded at that.
"Wait; she already knows about Ezekiel's sexism... I am guessing he made a fool out of himself on the ship..." brought up Frida and they all probably guessed that was the case.
"Yeah; nothing wrong with keeping this a friendly competition! We can still be friends no problem; no need to make it anything close to personal!" Lincoln said with Zoey and Dawn smiling.
They were proud of Lincoln for that; no reason that they can't make friends in a friendly competition as his parents told him.
"Quite right!" DJ said having put his stuff away and Lincoln noticed Ezekiel making his way next to Lincoln.
Another possible new friend for Lincoln.
"No need to get personal is right; Lincoln and I the new BFFF squad maybe on the other team than you 2 girls but we could all still be friends! Just don't take it personally when we beat you on every challenge!" Ezekiel said with a smile and Lincoln facepalmed as the nearby girls gave Ezekiel looks and mostly glares.
More glares at the screen; "Seriously Lincoln... Drop that dead weight as soon as possible..." Ronnie Anne was close to shouting with her arms folded.
"Ezekiel... How about I put my stuff away and then we can have a nice talk about watching what you say and how to actually talk to girls." Lincoln told him with a smile as he then heard Lindsay shout from within the Screaming Beavers cabin about a cockroach.
"See; he has the idea about steering him in the right direction." Carlos brought up thinking that this coudl be a start even if he was still in his own glare.
Lincoln went into the Killer Hamsters cabin to put his stuff away while there was Courtney complaining under her breath; Lincoln was taking it in amusement as she was muttering "what is it going to look like if I put on my college application that I was on a team called the Killer Hamsters?"
They laughed at that.
Lincoln when putting away his notebook had pages fall out and Gwen picked them up and handed them to it after taking a look; "Thanks... Like I said I fancy myself an artist myself..." Lincoln told her and she gave a small smile.
"Gwen doesn't seem too bad now." Frida spoke smiling remembering looking over Lincoln's own art and giving him some pointers when the families would get together or he would come to visit.
"They are good and since we are going to to be on the same team anyway; we could hang out more... You are going to need all the help that you can get making sure that your homeschooled bestie doesn't get himself killed in his sleep." Gwen told him and Lincoln gave a laugh at this as Lincoln got out and there was Dawn smiling as she helped the cockroach within her cabin outside.
Tyler bragging that he could have done the same with Lindsay looking at him all dreamy eyed.
They giggled about Gwen's comment and thought about how Gwen could end up nicer and befriending Lincoln; still amusing about Tyler trying to impress Lindsay.
In the main lodge the scary looking Chef Hatchet told him that he will serve them 3 times a day and they will eat it and to get their trays. Most of the customers looked disgusted but Lincoln getting the best looking food that he could see sat down at the Killer Hamsters table; "I have actually seen worse in what my sister Lana has to eat..." Lincoln said and spotted Zoey and Dawn sitting next to eachother with Dawn eating some vegetables on the menu and they smiled as they waved to him.
Most looked grossed out by the food though Lana didn't seem too bothered; Lola looked like she was going to hurl and Lynn Sr thought that he could give this Chef some lessons.
"Lincoln already has girls' interest; we could be the players on the Hamsters if you catch my drift!" Cody said coming closer to Lincoln and putting his arm around his shoulder.
"You a player? No offence aye; but I think you are trying too hard to be some sort of playboy..." Ezekiel told Cody and Lincoln and other Hamsters members snickered at Cody being told by Ezekiel and Cody didn't totally get the hint.
"Did... Did he get served by Homeschool... Okay, he gets some points..." laughed Ronnie Anne along with the others and Carl didn't like the look that his cousin gave him.
Chris was there to tell them that they had one hour before their first challenge.
"What do you think that they will make us do?" Zoey asked at the Screaming Beavers table.
"It's our first challenge; how hard could it be?" DJ asked with everyone having the same idea.
"Probably something simple like an obstacle course or a three legged race..." Carlitos said thinking of seeing summer camps on TV and the others nodded.
1 hour later the 16 contestants were terrified as they were overlooking a thousand feet high cliff with the camera zooming out to emphasize the size of it all and DJ's profanity was censored out.
"Lincoln doesn't have to jump off that... Does he..." Lori managed to ask as everyone looked terrified at the screen.
"I have not brought nearly enough lucky charms or done enough rituals..." muttered Rosa shaking her head.
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!"
"...Is Lincoln even still alive? How could they even be allowed to do something like that!" screamed Ronnie Anne as mostly everyone was speechless.
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.
Lynn thought that she had the same idea.
"This is very high up..." Lincoln muttered underneath his breath gulping and taking a step back from looking down at the top of the cliff.
They gulped and prayed that Lincoln didn't fall off right now.
"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.
They groaned upon hearing that Lincoln's team was up first and that this was actually covered by the contract. "When we get home; I may have to look through our copy of Lincoln's contract to see everything down..." Lisa managed to say trying to hide her own fear for her brother's life behidn her usual stoic face and the Louds nodded with Lisa's declaration.
"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.
CIT? They wondered what that was.
"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.
Footage of Chris forcing Chef Hatchet to jump off the cliff with the sound of him in pain at the end with Chris saying that looked safe enough for him.
No one's fear was lessened from this.
"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.
They held their breaths upon learning that Lincoln was first and ready to scream; they had a sigh of relief upon seeing Lincoln make it safe and sound.
"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.
"Oh Lincoln and Gwen... I would be open to seeing him try his luck with her..." Ronnie Anne smirked as most instantly knew what she was implying.
"I would be for that as well." smiled Lucy as most didn't know what to say.
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.
"Clyde has got some complication as he has clearly been replaced..." joked Luan as they shook their heads but it did look like Lincoln had a friend out of him even if they weren't too keen on him so far.
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.
No one could blame her for that but Leni looked horrified at the hat..
"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.
Lynn shook her head at this; Lincoln's team let down by this chicken but most couldn't blame her.
"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.
They giggled about Gwen's mouth getting the better of her.
"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.
Things seemed to be doing well for Lincoln's team.
"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.
Their eyes widened and hoped that Lincoln was alright...
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.
"Well he is being nice..." Lynn Sr brought up.
"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...
Everyone let out a disgusted reaction at that and thanked Gwen for pointing that out to them before it was too late...
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.
Bad luck for the Screaming Beavers for this.
"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.
"Wow Dawn is really super nice!" Leni smiled and mostly everyone else smiled along with her.
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?
"Is she actually talking to the sharks?" Lori asked not looking like she was believing her own eyes along with mostly everyone.
"That is absurd..." Lisa scoffed.
"Yeah; a talking animal..." Sergio scoffed as well.
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.
They felt that was it was surreal but Lana became another fan of Dawn due to her cool bond with animals it seemed.
"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.
They laughed at Lincoln's reaction.
"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'.
"Aw... Sounded neat..." Lana complained there were eyes rolled at this.
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.
"At least Lincoln's team isn't the only one with a chicken." Luna said and Lynn smiled at this.
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.
The girl fans of Justin swooned at this.
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.
"That hat... It's so tacky..." Leni said horrified but everyone else was cheering when they realised that Lincoln's team won this part of the challenge.
"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.
"Can't blame him; if I was in his position and if someone was complaining about a splinter..." Lynn spoke and the Louds imagined with horror how she would react if she lost a game because 3 teammates were cowards.
"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..."
"Aura reading at work." Rosa confidently said and they looked in pity at ZOey wanting her team not to be at eachother's throats.
"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.
"Wow... What a..." glared Luna along with the others and just stopped herself from continuing or else get into trouble for swearing in front of the kids parents.
Heather sighed as she got Lindsay to start pushing both of their own crates.
They glared some more at her.
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.
The Louds nodded at this memory.
"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.
"He could actually prove himself useful..." Ronnie Anne brought up and the females allowed themselves to feel pity once it was clear just how olonely Ezekiel must have been in his life.
"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.
Ronnie Anne giggled some more as there were more questions about the CIT.
"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.
"Wow Lincoln and Ezekiel are actually leading their team and 'project manager' has deterred to their example." Hector said and they all started cheering for Lincoln and the Hamsters.
"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.
"Lincoln's team has it in the bag!" bragged Lynn and it sure looked like it.
"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.
They were stunned by her 180 in her attitude.
"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.
They went back to glaring at her as it was now clear that she was just saving her own skin.
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 with duct tape pulling ot together before it broke while a bird was swimming in it but Dawn noticing it went and took off the bit of cans plastic around it's neck.
Lana and others smiled at Dawn but it looked like the Hamsters clearly won.
"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.
They then began cheering for Lincoln and his team at managing to win the first episode.
"Lightning lost... TO HAMSTERS!" Lightning told himself looking down at the ground.
They laughed; what an embarassment that would be and Lynn could only dream of being on a team that lost to a team named after hamsters.
"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.
"...It's clearly a start..." Bobby brought up and they all just sighed at that.
"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.
"Wow... Wondered what he said on the boat..." Lola wondered and they all wondered as well.
"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.
"Gwen seems nicer than she first appears..." Lily brought up and even those not toally sold on her as a friend for Lincoln had to agree.
"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.
Good thing and the Killer Hamsters did look to be more put together than the Screaming Beavers.
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.
They hoped that they would all pick Heather.
"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.
Groans and moans at this; Lindsay was being too nice...
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.
"Wow... She really is a..." Luna muttered and stopped herself again after a look from her parents.
"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.
They then began cheering and laughing at this.
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.
They could feel the anticipation.
"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.
They cheered at this as if Lincoln had won the entire thing; seeing her being a sore loser was a plus.
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!"
"Indeed; should be literally much easier for Lincoln... Who knows what could have happened if she stayed on and coudl be stirring drama..." Lori smiled nodding with Zoey's words and they shared the sentiment.
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.
The Loud sisters coughed and looked guilty about this; "did you really?" Lily asked.
"You didn't help matters with some fecal incidents..." muttered Lola and Lily's eyes widened with embarassment as their parents scolded Lola.
"You ladies up to talk to the Codmeister?" Cody asked with a flirty look as Courtney pushed his head underwater.
Snickers at this.
"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.
They laughed and it definitely looked like Lincoln had these 2 girls outside his own team to count on as friends; the two being good sports and taking the loss in stride.
"I definitely like Dawn." Lana spoke and Lily nodded along with her.
"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.
"I hope to see Lincoln befriend her soon as well; she is totes nice!" Leni squealed and they shared the idea.
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.
"Okay, now this is a bit creepy..." Lori commented and they were put off by this.
"She said it was so easy to turn them against her... Did she say all that on purpose to make sure she stays on and that Heather gets herself eliminated?" CJ asked with his eyes filled with realisation and it sounded like uncharacteristic of her so far.
"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...
Mouths were wide open at this...
"So... Was she pretending to be a dumb blonde this entire time?" Lynn spoke breaking the silence.
"So we have someone else who is planning on causing drama... Someone who clearly knows how to manipulate people and appear innocent... They might not see her coming..." Luan brought up feeling like this was no laughing matter.
"Lincoln should be okay; whatever... She may end up doing..." Lynn Sr spoke.
"If she does anything to Linky then I will take back everything I said about her; I will wish her the worst bad hair day and fashion nightmare ever!" Leni warned with her arms folded with a glare.
"Plus Lincoln also has to deal with his new 'friend' there even if he managed to pull his weight at the challenge..." Sergio brought up.
"I am interested to see how Lincoln and Gwen work on the same team; something special happens and I will be for it as I said!" Ronnie Anne smiled and Lucy nodded along with her.
"Well he has Zoey and Dawn as friends and I wouldn't mind if somehow Lincoln got to be close to her." Lana said with Lily nodding.
"Well let's settle and calm down from this first episode... I wish Lincoln the best whatever happens on the show." Bobby said and they nodded along with his words.
"You think that anything happened to Lincoln on his 2nd day there? Chris did say that the challenges were every 3 days." Ronnie Anne brought up.
"I am sure that he had a nice boring day Ronalda." Maria assured her and everyone thought that she was probably right; worst they could imagine was if he got pulled into some idiotic idea by his new teammates...
Something to keep you satisfied until I can do the next proper chapter. Sorry for being pushy but what do you think of the reactions and the characters' perspectives on the things and other cast.