Chapter 8: Up the Creek
"Last time on Total Drama Island... The competitors were forced to conquer their deepest, darkest fears. Not all of them succeeded, but others surprised the group and faced their fears head-on. In a shocking twist, Taylor let the Bass down when he was too chicken to face the chicken. Get it?" She laughed. "And it was 'Buh-Bye, Taylor.' Once again, the Bass find themselves behind. Can they pull this one out of the water? Find out today on TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND!"
*Theme song*
Both teams, except for Bert, gathered at the beach with Kris in front of them, as she began explaining the challenge of the day. "Bass, Gophers, today's challenge is a true summer camp experience. A canoe trip." Kris gestures towards a number of canoes on the beach. Half of them are green for the Gophers and the other red for the Bass. "You'll be paddling your canoes across the lake... to Boney Island!" Kris said in a spooky tone. "When you get there, you must portage your canoes to the other side of the island, which is about a two-hour hike through treacherous, dense jungle."
"We gotta pour what?" Georgia asked, confused to what Kris told them to do with their canoes. DJ rolled her eyes and Bradley facepalmed at Georgia's reply behind her.
"Portage." Kris corrected. Georgia just stared blankly at Kris, a fly buzzed through her head ear-to-ear. "Girl, walk with your canoe!"
"Oh."
"When you arrive at the other end of the island, you'll build a rescue fire that will be judged by me. The first team to paddle home and return their canoes to the beach is the winner of invincibility! Move, campers, move!" The two teams ran to their respective canoes. "Oh, wait!" The campers stopped in their tracks and look back at Kris. "One more thing I should mention. Legend has it, if you take anything off the island, you'll be cursed forever!"
Suddenly thunder was heard, causing nearly all the campers to flinch as Olivia laughed. "Yeah, haha! A cursed island! Whoo!" she exclaimed with raised fists. Of course, no one shared Olivia's enthusiasm and simply stared silently at the fat girl, who dropped her arms down.
"Now, get in your canoes and let's have some fun!" Kris instructed as the campers head off with Olivia cheering again. "Yes!"
Just then a toilet flush was heard and suddenly Bert came running into the scene with some toilet paper stuck under his shoe, and stopped in front of Kris. "What'd I miss?" The braces-wearing nerd quickly asked.
"Canoes." Kris pointed in the direction of the beach with Bert quickly following the other campers.
CONFESSIONAL - CADY
"Kris told us to pick a paddling partner. It was time for me to make my move." Cady explained as her mind was currently focused on impressing a certain goth. "If I could just get Glen alone for five minutes, I knew I could wow him with my girly charms."
At the beach, campers began pairing up, such as LeShawn and Isaac. Glen was walking down the stairs to the beach when he stopped to see Trisha looking up at him with a smile. The guitar girl gestured her eyes to the canoes, silently asking the goth to share a canoe with her. Glen smiled and was about to head over to her, "Hey, Glen!" Only to be stopped by Cady suddenly standing in front of him with pleading eyes. "You and me, open water! What do you say?" Glen's response was pushing Cady's face away from him in arms-length.
"Hey, Trisha!" Glen heard Lenny's voice speak up annd looked to see Bert and Lenny surrounding Trisha and pulling her towards the canoe they'll be sharing. "You have to come with us!"
Glen had to watch Trisha get dragged away, with Trisha mouthing a "sorry" to Glen, leaving the goth to sigh and let go of Cady. "Fine." Glen reluctantly said. "But you gotta take orders!"
"Aye aye, captain!" Cady eagerly said while making a salute, as she followed Glen to the canoe they'll be sharing.
CONFESSIONAL - CADY
"Yes! Yes! Yes! I can't believe we're gonna be in the same boat!" Cady exclaimed so excitedly.
CONFESSIONAL - GLEN
"Cady? She's like an annoying sister. A really annoying little sister." Glen gave his opinion on Cady before sighing. "So much for hooking up with Trisha."
Isaac tried pushing his and LeShawn's canoe to the water, but ended up flipping over to the seat. "Just follow my technique. I'm 1/87th Cherokee, you know? Which means, like, the tribe could totally, like, claim me at any time."
LeShawn pushes the canoe into the water. "Let's hope it's today, dawg." he muttered.
Denica puts her arms around Harriet and Sam.
Bradley saw Georgia heading down the stairs and waved at her with a smile. The surfer dude had no idea how Georgia reacted to his little... gift he left for her on her bed. He was hoping to get her to be his paddle partner and he thought that this would come true as he seem to have gotten her attention... but then, DJ suddenly came up from behind Georgia and locking arms. "Hey hon, need a partner?"
"You bet!" Georgia said, giving her a thumbs up. The two girls walked side-by-side to the canoe they'll be sharing. This made Bradley facepalmed.
CONFESSIONAL - BRADLEY
"Bogus man, I thought Georgie and I were tight, but suddenly, I don't know, it's like she's fadin' on me." Bradley said with a sad tone and frown, putting his hands in his hoodie pockets and crossed his legs. Then his mood took a sudden 180. "Nah! It's all good!"
"Hey Curtis!" Bradley called to the CIT as he was coming down. "Wanna be my partner?" Curtis nodded and went over to Bradley.
As Georgia and DJ went over to their canoe, they passed by Bradley as the surfer threw Curtis a lifejacket. Georgia avert her eyes as Bradley looked at the party girl.
Heath stepped onto the sand, and much to his annoyance, Olivia is standing right behind him. The big gal smiled and waved at the rich boy, oblivious to his frown. "Great, I'm stuck with this fat tub of lard!" Heath thought.
When DJ and Georgia reached their canoe, DJ seemed to be a bit skittish as she tapped the canoe with her foot as Georgia grabbed both the lifejackets out of the aquatic vehicle. "Yo, girl. Do canoes flip over a lot?" DJ quickly asked as that was something she wanted to know before getting into this thing.
"Nope, you're thinking kayaks." Georgia told DJ, making the tall girl breathe a sigh of relief as Georgia hands her the lifejacket. "Unless we hit some rough water."
That quickly made DJ tense up again. "Water can get... rough?" DJ asked fearfully.
"Oh yeah." Georgia spoke up as if it wasn't a real big deal as she puts on her lifejacket. "Sometimes it can get totally radical out there!"
CONFESSIONAL - DJ
"When I was eight, my sistas dared me to jump off the high-dive platform at the pool." DJ started giving the story of why she has a fear of water. "I was scared, but I jumped. I wasn't gonna let them call me chicken. I landed on my butt. Sounds better than a belly flop, right? Wrong. My bathing suit rode so far up my butt, I had to go to the hospital and get them removed. They invited a new word for what I did. The wedgie flop. I've been afraid of water ever since."
"Woohoo!" Olivia hollered, as she carries Heath to the canoe they'll be sharing together. "Oof!" She drops him into the aquatic vehicle and pushes it into the water.
Cady tries pulling on the canoe she and Cady will be sharing together. Of course, she has no upper body strength, but it doesn't stop Cady from trying. "It's okay. I've got it."
"Look, why don't I just drag it myself?" Glen said, as he was sitting with his arms crossed watching Cady's pathetic attempt.
"Nah, I'm good." Cady groaned. She continues trying to pull on it until her hands slipped from it and she fell into the water. Glen rolls his eyes.
DJ held onto the canoe tightly as Georgia brought it into the water. "Whoa!" The tall girl flinched a bit when the canoe shook as Georgia got in. "Girl, relax." Georgia assured DJ in a calm tone as she handed her friend an oar. "We're gonna be fine."
"Hey girls!" The two watched as the canoe Olivia and Heath were in passed by them. "If this canoe's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'!" Olivia laughed... only for Heath to get sick of the fat girl's antics and smack her big butt with an oar. WHAM! "Oww, that smarts!"
Soon enough, everyone was in their canoes and was in either pairs of two or three. Kris was on the beach with a gun in her right hand. "On your marks..." Kris counted down as she puts her thumb on the trigger. "get set..." aiming the gun into the air. "paddle!"
BANG!
Kris shot her gun to signal the start of the challenge as all the teams quickly started paddling their canoess in the direction Kris instructed. And as they left, a hawk fell to the ground from the air in front of Kris with the host having accidentally shot the animal. "That's gonna provoke some angry emails."
"So not cool, lady!" DJ angrily shouted, being an animal lover.
As the teams were paddling, many of them passed the time with conversation. Cady tried with Glen, mostly flirting.
"So, do you wanna go out sometime?" Cady asked, batting her eyes.
"No." Glen bluntly answered.
"How 'bout Friday night?"
"Uh, no."
"Saturday's good for me. How 'bout Saturday?"
"Look, I'm not interested in going out with you. Ever!"
"Fine, have it your way then. So I guess Sunday is out of the question." She then sighs.
CONFESSIONAL - CADY
"Okay. Maybe he wasn't quite ready for his lady here." Cady believed with utmost confidence.
Rowing behind Glen and Cady was Isaac and LeShawn. The redhead is telling the homeboy one of his weird life stories. "And these bushmen taught us how to properly catch and cook crocodile, as well as koala."
"Uh, isn't killing a koala bear illegal?" LeShawn asked.
"Oh, I dunno. Probably, yeah." Isaac laughed. "Probably, it's illegal."
LeShawn is definitely weirded out by the redhead. And with Bert, Lenny, and Trisha...
Lenny is putting on suntan lotion on. He then takes off his shirt. "Hey, can you tan my back, please?" He holds the bottle over his shoulder for Trisha to grab.
"Uh... sure, no problem." Trisha blushed as she starts rubbing lotion on his back. Bert looks back at them with a frown.
As for Georgia and DJ...
"Omigod, DJ, it was so bad." Georgia said. "I come back from brushing my teeth and I notice something bulging under my covers. When I lifted them, there it was." She recalls the moment she pulled one of those containers you put change into in the shape of a heart with macaroni glued to the sides... and on the bottom of it was a picture of Georgia with a photo of Bradley taped together, making it look like a picture of Bradley and Georgia standing next to each other. "A heart-shaped coin case he made himself with a picture of me and him together at the bottom, with uncooked macaroni noodles glued to the sides."
"No!" DJ gasped.
"Yes! And it gets worse." Georgia added. "Etched into the back was an inscription that said 'I hope you think of me whenever you drop loose change into this. Bradley.'."
Georgia gags and DJ facepalmed.
"I... I really have no idea what to say about this..." Georgia said as she rubbed her temples a little bit.
"Dang, girl. That is so bad, we need a new word for how bad that is. You see, datings' like feeding a bunny. You want the bunny to come to you, so you don't make any sudden moves. Here bunny, bunny, bunny. You drop a heart-shaped, handmade clay bowl on a bunny, and the bunny's gonna run, man. You feelin' me?"
"I do." Georgia sighs. "I know he means well, but I don't know how to act around him now."
"Can I ask you something, brah?" Bradley asked, getting the CIT's attention. "I gave Georgia an awesome gift this morning, but she's been sending me some weird vibes."
"Yeah, I noticed some tension between two you." Curtis said. "What did you give her?"
"I gave her this awesome coin case, brah!" Bradley explained what he thought was an awesome gift for Georgia. "I used a pic of myself and did a little editing and got this pic of Georgie. Got it to make it look like I had my arm around her."
Curtis' eyes widened... and quickly figured out why Georgia seem to be avoiding Bradley like the plague. "You're kidding, right?"
Bradley grinned and shook his head, feeling rather proud of it. "I made it in arts and crafts."
"Tell me you didn't." Curtis said, not believing that his partner could mess up so bad at gesturing. Romantic or otherwise.
"I did, dude." Bradley told Curtis, not reading how his partner was feeling about his gift to Georgia. "And it gets better. I etched an inscription into the back that said 'I hope you think of me whenever you drop loose change into this'." Curtis sighed at this with Bradley finally taking notice of the vibes the CIT was sending out and asked. "Uh... not good, dude?"
"You screwed up, big time." Curtis bluntly said while crossing his arms.
"I think I know why you keep shooting me down. It's because of Trisha, isn't it?" Glen's eyes widened. "Look. I'm pretty tight with Trisha. And I was definitely sensing an 'I'm into Glen' vibe from her. And she really was flattered when she heard what you wrote about her from your journal." That briefly made Glen feel awkward, and narrowed his eyes harshly at his paddle partner who wasn't taken aback by it. "But I'll put in a good word for you, you know, if you want."
"Wow." Glen said in a pleasant tone. "That's really nice of you."
"Ah..." Cady shrugged sheepishly.
"If you can get us in the same boat on the way home, I'll so owe you one."
"Interesting that you would say that." Cady began a bit nervously "See, I'm in a bit of trouble myself."
"What do you mean?" Glen asked.
"Well, Olivia kinda dared me to snatch one of your underwear, and if I got it she'd do all my dishes for the rest of the competition." This quickly got Glen to glare at Cady and for him to hit her on the stomach with his oar. "Heh, right. Asking too much. Got it." She groaned painfully.
Suddenly they noticed a gust of eerie fog creeped up. "Hey, was it foggy here earlier?" Cady asked.
"I don't think so." Glen said worriedly.
"You'll be paddling your canoes across the lake... to Boney Island!" Kris commented. Right in front of the campers was Boney Island. Looking exaclty as the name implies. Rock formations in the front made a part of the island they were paddling to look like there was a giant skull glaring down at them. The canoes reached the shore of the cursed island.
"Okay. Did you see that skull?" Isaac excitedly said, the only camper not to be frightened by Boney Island at all. He jumped out of his canoe and has his sandaled feet on the sand. "How cool is that?! It's like this place is haunted or something!"
Just then, the sounds of some vicious creatures were heard coming from within the jungle of the island making most of the campers flinch.
"Let's just get this over with." Glen said, as he and Cady carry their canoe.
And so both teams quickly got to work. Everyone who shared a canoe picked up the canoe they were sharing and quickly took off into the jungle in the direction Kris pointed out to them on the map this morning. The scenery seemed to only get darker and grimmer as they ran forward. There were skulls all over the place either on the ground or staked on spears. Many trees seem to be bitten down with the stumps having large teeth marks on them.
"I really don't like the look of this place, guys." DJ said in a fearful tone with members from both teams nodding in complete agreement.
Just then, halting the progress of both teams, was a large tree falling right in front of them.
Everyone flinched and looked around to see what caused this and a few spotted shaking bushes and some large glowing eyes peaking out. "Gah! I think I saw something." Cady whispered, and gasped as the shaking bushes got more violent.
Something finally emerged from the bushes and everyone saw what looked like beavers... except they were the size of bears and had tusks on them. "Monster beavers!" Cady shrieked as nearly everyone screamed in terror as the monster beavers all looked at them with rather... hungry expressions.
CONFESSIONAL - KRIS
"A remnant of the Pleistocene Era, the woolly beaver is a day-active rodent indigenous to Boney Island." Kris explained what the deal was with those monster beavers, as she's sitting down with her legs crossed. "Oh yeah, and they're meat eaters."
Luckily for the Bass, it seemed all the woolly beavers had their eyes on the Screaming Gophers as they all screamed and proceed to run away as fast as they could.
"Dead end!" Olivia said.
They then thought they got them to leave them alone when they walked into a small pond. "Hey, they're leaving!" Trisha said.
"Hey, you girls wouldn't happen to have a pair of clean panties, do ya?" Olivia asked. Her team laughed as if it were a good joke. "No, seriously." she chuckled, then farted, much to the various remarks of disgust. This has awakened a bunch of prehistoric geese, which made the Gophers realize they're in a nesting ground. "Oh, man."
The Gophers again run for their lives as the screeching geese are chasing them.
"I am definitely gonna need some new panties." Olivia said.
All this has been observed by a bear that was scratching its back on a tree. It thought it needed glasses to see if it was seeing right, but it breaks them.
"Somebody do something!" Glen yelled.
"Oh, wait! Look!" Cady pulls out a loaf of bread from her pocket.
"Where did that come from?" Glen asked.
"I thought we could have a romantic picnic." Cady said.
"With bread from your pants?!" Glen asked.
"Just throw it already!" Trisha screamed. Cady threw the bread to the prehistoric birds which got them to leave them alone.
"It worked!" Glen exclaimed in relief. Just then the Killer Bass ran past them, now taking the lead.
"Come on, the race isn't over yet! We still have to burn stuff!" Isaac said.
Georgia and DJ came across a splitting pathway. "Which way are we gonna go?" DJ asked. Bradley and Curtis showed up.
"Left. Definitely left." Curtis answered.
"I don't know." Georgia said. "I think we should take the one on the right."
"You're right, the right trail is wider." Bradley added, staring at Georgia.
"What are you looking at?" Georgia said in annoyance, as she and DJ head right. Bradley sighed as he and Curtis followed.
The Gophers are not far behind.
"I can see the other team!" Trisha said.
"They're taking the path on the right." Glen said.
"Then let's go left!" Trisha said.
Things seemed to bbe goinng well for the Gopherss ass the was nothing in their way to disturb them. At least until Trisha suddenly started going lower into the ground. "Whoa. Guys, uh, don't wanna panic here, but I'm shrinking!" Trisha screamed to everyone as they all looked to see Trisha ended up in a pool of quicksand.
CONFESSIONAL - TRISHA
"Right. How am I supposed to know what quicksand looks like?" Trisha questioned with a frown. "It looks just like sand."
CONFESSIONAL - KRIS
"Hahahaha! Can you believe they fell for that?!" Kris started laughing hard at the fact that Trisha actually ended up getting into the quicksand and thinking she was shrinking. "Haha, I set it up, but I didn't think anyone would walk into it! Haha, that's just great! Ahahahahaha!"
"Uh-oh..." Trisha let out as everyone gasped as they watched the guitar girl sink further down into the sand.
"Guys, Trisha's stuck!" Lenny yelled to the rest of their teammates as he and Bert set down the canoe they and Trisha were carrying. He then went after Trisha. "Don't worry, Trisha, I'll save you!"
"No, stop!" But Trisha's words were in vain as Lenny soon found himself sinking right next to her.
"Hey, I'm stuck too!" Lenny gasped as he looked at his sinking body. "Man, I did not see that coming."
Trisha facepalmed at the blond knucklehead's idiocy. "Help! Somebody help us!"
Everyone quickly looked around to see if there was anything they could do. Just then, Cady spotted something as she let go of the canoe she and Glen were carrying, with the goth setting it down on the ground as Cady ran off. Everyone watched as Cady grabbed a long vine from the ground, tie a loop and started lassoing it towards Trisha's sinking hand, which she's able to grab the vine. Then Cady started pulling, with help from the rest of the Gophers. They manage to pull out Trisha who climbed herself out of the quicksand, with Lenny holding onto her leg. They're now safely standing on solid ground. Lenny noticed that his sandals are gone, now he'll have to go barefoot.
Everyone cheered for Cady. "Booyah!" Olivia hollered.
"Whoa. Hey, thanks, girlfriend." Trisha walked over to give Cady a hug. "You're a life saver."
"Don't mentioned it." Cady blushed.
"You saved my life, girl!" Lenny gave Cady a hug too. "Where did you learn to lasso?"
"You know, I watch a lot of movies." Cady explained.
"This is very touching, guys, but we've still got a challenge to win!" Glen stated.
"But I lost my shoes in the quicksand, man." Lenny complained.
"Forget them! Let's beat it!" Heath yelled, pushing Lenny who has to hop around in his barefeet avoiding sharp rocks.
"Just when things were looking up for the Bass..." Kris commented as suddenly Bradley suddenly screamed in pain and fell to the ground. "Disaster struck."
"Ahh! My leg! I'm down! I'm down! Oh, it's so unfair!" Bradley held his now-numb leg as everyone stopped to check on him. "Why did this have to happen now? Oh! Why? Why?!"
"Bradley!" Georgia called out in concern as she went to go check on him.
"You've gotta go on without me!" Bradley told them. "I'll just slow you guys down!"
"If we must." Curtis said solemnly, as he was about to walk away only for DJ to grab his arm.
"We're not leaving anyone behind!" DJ said firmly. "Not on my watch!"
CONFESSIONAL - BRADLEY
"I didn't know if I was gonna make it." Bradley said, followed by a sharp inhale. "It was touch-and-go."
CONFESSIONAL - GEORGIA
"I've seen some drunken frat boys taken to the hospital for falling off roofs, but this?" Georgia said with a look of horror on her face. "This was horrifying."
CONFESSIONAL - DJ
"The man just... kept going!" DJ said with the utmost respect for Bradley. "Dude's got heart."
Bradley is lying on one of the canoes being carried by DJ and Curtis. When the Bass got there, they saw that the Gophers had beaten them to the beach. Looks like the Bass had taken the longer path. The Gophers waved to the Bass in a bit of a taunting fashion, as they're already trying to start a fire. DJ and Curtis set the canoe with Bradley down, so they can get to fire-making.
Kris was monitoring them from a helicopter high above them. On the Gopher's side of the beach, Heath was rubbing two sticks together and LeShawn was banging two little rocks to make some sparks to try and get a fire going. But Heath stopped and gasped when he saw the Bass already had a fire going, with Curtis blowing at the the flame to make it bigger. "How did they do that so quickly?" Denica silently answered Heath's question by pulling out and igniting a lighter she had with as smirk on her face.
"No rule against carrying lighters." Kris said as the camera went over to her in a helicopter. "Edge, Killer Bass."
Meanwhile, Bert spotted something in the bushes that got his interest.
"Hey girl, thanks for saving my butt." Trisha said to Cady while sitting on a rock.
"Hey, just lookin' out for a fellow Gopher." Cady pulled out a soda pop bottle from her pocket. She opens the top and offers it to Trisha. "Want a sip?"
"No thanks, I'm good."
"Trish, I can call you Trish, right? Can we talk, girl-to-girl?"
"Okay. What do you wanna talk about?"
"Glen. See, I tried to ask him out, but I struck out. A few times, actually. The point is, he's not into me. He's into you."
Trisha then walked up to Cady's face threateningly. "If you're lying, I'll rip off your hair!"
"Whoa, take it easy! I'm serious! He really likes you." Cady reassured.
"Okay." Trisha calmed down, then sighs. "So what do you think I should do about it? We haven't really talked much since the talent contest."
"Well, I'll tell you, Trish. Here's how I'd play it."
Heath walked up to them. "Ladies, are you almost finished with your tea party? We're in the middle of a challenge here!"
Bradley drags himself to the fire to throw in a couple of sticks.
"Georgia, maybe you could check out Bradley's wounds." DJ said.
"But I..." Georgia tried to protest, but saw Bradley giving him a desperate look. She relented. "Okay."
CONFESSIONAL - DJ
"I owed Georgia big time. She helped me get over my fear of water." DJ explained with a smile on her face. "When I saw her being bashful with the fellas, I had to help the girl out." DJ then chuckled when she realized something. "Hey momma look, I'm playing cupid!"
Georgia kneels down to get a hold of Bradley's leg. The surfer gives DJ a thumbs up, and she winks in return.
"So where exactly does it hurt?" Georgia asks as she got a hold of Bradley's leg.
"Ah! There, right in this spot." Bradley points to a spot in the middle of his calf.
"I hope he doesn't get gangrene." DJ said worriedly.
"Or jungle rot!" Bradley added.
"Or athlete's foot!" DJ finished.
"Don't worry, I've got first aid training." Harriet spoke up. She kneels down next to the surfer to get a closer look at his leg, and noticed a splinter punctured through his skin. She pulled out a pair of tweezers to pull it out, then she wrapped up his leg. A few deadpanned at Bradley thinking he was being overly-dramatic.
Everyone attention at the moment was Harriet patching up Bradley's leg, thus they didn't see a couple of wooly beavers grabbing the paddle oars that were left by the canoes.
"Guys, I don't think this is going to be big enough." Curtis said, as their fire doesn't seem to be getting bigger.
"You heard the man!" DJ called. "We need more wood, guys! Come on, let's go!"
As the rest of the Bass went further to search, Sam noticed their oars are suddenly gone. "Hey, where's our wooden paddle thingies?" Sam asked his teammates, who looked to see that the oars indeed weren't where they left them.
"What?! Where are they?" Curtis looked around frantically, until he spotted some wooly beaver tracks. The Bass realize that they were stolen.
"Great! How are we supposed to get home now?!" Bradley said.
Back at the Gopher's side, Isaac is holding a big greasy ball of glob. "This ought to do the trick! It's a handmade fire-starter I made from some tree sap and saved. Stand back, guys." He suddenly made a sinister grin. "This is gonna be big." His teammates backed away from him and the fire, then he threw it in and...
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The shockwave from the explosion nearly caused Kris to crash her helicopter. "Whee-hee-hee! We have our fire-building winner! Point for the Gophers!"
"Where the [BLEEP] did you learn to do that?" Heath asked Isaac, who's lying on the floor next to him covered in soot and one of his sandals flew off.
"Oh, you know, I spent a summer training with the reserves." Isaac sat up. "Yeah, I got in to some trouble there and like, blew up the kitchen by accident, which is why the RCMP is like, still all over my butt." He put his arms around a weirded-out Heath. "I am so totally AWOL, man!"
Both teams head walked back to their canoes. Cady suddenly spoke up. "Guys, since you're both a bit shaken by the whole quicksand thing, we should split you up. How 'bout I go with Lenny and Bert, and Glen can paddle back with Trish?"
"Sounds cool." Trisha said with a smile.
Glen gives Cady a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks."
"What are we gonna do without paddles?" Curtis asked.
"You guys could get someone to swim behind the boats and push them." Suddenly Isaac, someone from the opposing team, spoke up to the Bass. "I did that once for this huge like, 60-foot yacht; the whole crew had to flutter kick for like, 80 days to get to shore. And like, four of us got eaten by sharks. [laughs] I didn't. Not me. But it was really insane. Okay, later!" Suddenly LeShawn aggressively paddled forward to shut Isaac up. "AAAHH!"
"That might work!" Bradley, now able to stand up on his own, said with a smile on his face. If someone strong enough could swim fast enough, they might just be able to barely make it in first.
"We need someone big enough to push all the canoes back." Georgia put a hand to her chin in thought before she smiled as she looked at the Bass' big girl. "DJ, you're the only one who's strong enough."
"You can't ask her to do that! The bra can't swim!"
"Listen DJ, I know you can do this, you're the only chance we've got!" Georgia said, as she puts her hands on DJ's shoulders.
"She's right." Curtis said raising his arms up. "I don't think my arms can cut it."
"I'll do it." Bradley offered only for Georgia to stop him.
"You can't swim with that kind of injury! You're horribly disfigured!" Georgia exclaimed.
"You're right... I can do this." Everyone looked to DJ as she spoke in a completely serious tone. "I have to."
CONFESSIONAL - DJ
"It was all up to me." DJ said to the audience at home with a determined look on her face. "I needed to swim like a Killer Bass should and no wedgie flop was going to stand in my way."
"That is one... brave woman." Bradley said while pointing at DJ.
Georgia's respect for the big girl was at an all time high at seeing DJ willing to put her fears aside to help her team once again.
Sam claps for DJ.
As it turns out, this was probalby faster than using oars. All of the Killer Bass canoes were stacked onto each other with all of the team riding on top of the stack with DJ pushing them forward. And DJ was pushing them so fast they were easily catching up to the Screaming Gophers. In fact, they didn't just catch up, they passed them! All the Bass were cheering DJ's name. "DJ! DJ! DJ! DJ!"
Although DJ seemed to not know how to stop as when they reached the beach, they proceed to fly off a rock like a ramp, fly over Kris, and crash on the other side of the beach. But they were still the first team on the beach. "The Bass are the winners!" Kris announced leading to the Bass all cheering for the victory.
When the Gophers reached the beach, most were quick to glare at Isaac. The one who gave the Bass the advice that allowed them to win. "You cost us the game!" LeShawn yelled while glaring daggers at the crazy redhead. "You're a dead man!"
"You're lucky that my license to kill is currently expired." Isaac said with his hands on his hips, not at all threatened by the homeboy.
"Well mine isn't!" LeShawn said through gritted teeth as he pick up his oar and chase after redhead.
"Well at least we made it back alive." Olivia said, trying to look at the bright side of things. "Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go change my panties."
Night has fallen on the camp. A wolf howled in the distance. Once again, it was time for the ever-tense bonfire ceremony where tonight the 7th camper would be leaving Total Drama Island. Forever. "And now, the always anxiety-inducing marshmallow ceremony. When I call your name, come and get a marshmallow." Kris announced while holding a plate of eight marshmallows. "Bert. Trisha. Glen. Cady. Olivia. Heath. LeShawn." The campers smiled and went to go get their marshmallows with Trisha and Glen looking at each other.
"One last marshmallow." And there are two campers, Isaac and Lenny. The latter is wearing a new pair of flip-flops. "The person who doesn't get this marshmallow will walk off the Dock of Shame and take a ride on the Boat of Losers. Who's it gonna be?"
Before Kris could name the camper that was staying, a helicopter was heard and everyone looked up to see there is indeed one flying above them with a searchlight shining down from it and onto Isaac. "Isaac O'Carroll!" A voice called out from within the helicopter. "We know you are down there! You are under arrest!"
"You mean all that trash you were talking was true?" LeShawn asked with a surprised look and tone as he remembered all of Isaac's crazy stories he told during the challenge. Including one where he was wanted by the RCMP for blowing up their kitchen.
"No. Just the RCMP part. See ya!" Isaac said before standing up and giving the helicopter the double middle finger. "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIIIIIIIVE, SUCKAAAAA!" Everyone then watched as Isaac laughed manically as he quickly ran away, the helicopter in hot pursuit of him.
"Well. That wraps that up." Kris said as everyone watched the scene with shocked looks. "Night everyone."
At the girls' side of the Killer Bass cabin, Cady felt something under the blanket of her bed. She pulls it out to reveal a pair of black underwear. No doubt it's Glen's.
"Nice!" Cady exclaimed.
"Is that... a boy's underwear?" Olivia chuckled.
"You know it! And you know what that means. Enjoy dish duty, girlfriend."
"You mean it belongs to..."
"A lady never reveals her secrets."
As they're speaking, Glen and Trisha are outside sitting together at the dock.
At the girls' side of the Screaming Gophers cabin, Georgia is picking up the pieces of Bradley's gift from the floor.
"Do you have any glue, DJ?" Georgia asked.
"Uh, are you sure you wanna fix... that?"
"Maybe I do." Georgia said with a smile.
Unbeknownst to the campers, Bert has a souvenir from the cursed island tucked under his pillow that will spell trouble for his team.
Author's Notes:
I have the roles reversed for Geoff and Bridgett's genderbend counterparts here.
I feel that Harriet wouldn't be dumb enough to throw their oars into the fire. So I changed it to the wooly beavers taking it instead.
"O'Caroll" is FlameFyre1235's headcanon surname for Izzy. She has a list of headcanon last names for the characters in her deviantART gallery. O'Caroll is also an Irish surname, and Fresh TV confirmed that Izzy's ethnicity is Irish. I also feel that the people arresting Izzy/Isaac would say their full name.