Total Drama X: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 37: Pirating In The Wild
There's eight fellas and we're hitting the endgame this time around and oh man, the pirates back and this time they're going for broke with the pirating with all of the stakes and the mystery prize that guarantees one person going straight to the finale...sort of.
So, of course, there was going to be some pirate business in here since about half of the remaining contestants did something that a pirate would do...
...like steal, cheat and eat hot chip, maybe a lie or two, which doesn't even apply to any of them minus eating hot chip, so Chris is going to teach them that through the crazy challenge!
Also, Pit and Dante are warming up to each other, Lowain's getting some suspicions on him and Nicole's hoping that the giant target on her gets a little bit smaller.
"Last time on Total Drama: Ultimate Islands, our ten remaining campers went into Cyber Space, which was definitely a place on someone's computer and that space contained all sorts of awesomeness, like obstacle courses, demons, angels, whatever was a problem for them, it was in there!"
The utter chaos of the race was shown.
"Oh and each camper got either an eliminated friend, enemy or random camper to try to get first place with or fight with and there was a whole lot of fighting in between the cyber racing! 1st went to Tanjiro and Samurai Jack, giving them immunity and Sokka got 2nd and Sandy got 3rd, giving all of them good food to eat! Through a plain surprise, Bayonetta got last place giving her elimination! And when these guys had to vote, Sandy, despite getting 3rd, got to join Bayonetta on a one-way trip out of the game!"
Bayonetta was more mad than Sandy, who still wasn't pleased, but they weren't raging about it.
"Alright, since we had a huge episode last time we was here, this one's going to be a only a little bit smaller! We've had vikings, sea-faring dogs and pirate dudes, but the rest of these guys are about to be temporary pirates on TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS!"
Sokka and Nicole looked at each other, knowing that they both managed to eliminate each other's strongest ally in completely different ways, Bayonetta through a sheer knuckle-dragging challenge and Sandy getting voted off due being apparently suspicious.
There wasn't much ill will, it was just the endgame, which made Nicole all the more strange.
"Oh, hello, kids. Fine day for a little bit of drama?" Nicole asked, trying to be cordial.
"Yeah, it sure is." Sokka answered stiffly. "Since you did cause it."
"Look, if I wanted to be lectured, I would go to my parents."
"That's really cool, though, but you're still not off the hook from the alliance thingy."
"I dunno, Sokka, she was cereal about those words."
Yeah, it wasn't a friendly atmosphere on this specific table, but on another table, it was a whole lot more friendly since aside from Pit realising that he might have messed up on Dante's side.
Nicole moved tables obviously to that friendly table.
"Hey, Nicole, what's going on? You're looking quite competitive as usual!" Dante was chilling. "You know what, I'm surprised that there's no secret alliances right now."
"Really?" Nicole said. "I don't know, there's bound to be a few-"
"I'm talking about the Girlfriend Squad and the two green people, they're gonna vote a certain way and no-one can lie to each other!" Dante shouted. "They're just voting for whoever's threatening."
Nicole hardened her face, as she didn't just see the alliance's most ad hoc player tell her that stuff.
"That's fair, so what would you think about my team up with that witch you like so much?" Nicole asked. "Or fought with so much."
"I'm not gonna lie, that was stupid to keep it a secret. All of us aren't bad guys and I don't think you're a bad gal, so-"
Dante wanted to say more, Nicole wanted to have a relatively peaceful day and Squirrel Girl wanted to keep on hanging onto the ceiling as a self-imposed challenge, but Chris was louder.
"Okay, campers, you ready to become a scurvy sea dog of the highest calibre! Meet me at the docks in 20 minutes or be considered unworthy!"
"I don't want to be unworthy!" Squirrel Girl shouted. "Guys, let's bounce!"
"Why would you consider Chris' opinion?"
"Why wouldn't you!"
These two took off as Scott did with Nicole slowly getting up.
"Hopefully, this isn't some kind of torture challenge." Nicole predicted, probably wrong in some form. "And I don't know why I hope."
Chris was wearing his pirate costume with pride, the now very real parrot sitting on his own shoulder and he was definitely having a short wait with even Chef partaking in the activity of wearing a pirate costume.
Since the other interns were a little bit busy with doing their bidness, Axl, Kurapika and Mako were all trying their best to keep the challenge working and the contestants are here.
That wasn't really awkward, since the three interns never get a chance to get the spotlight and the remaining contestants were really interested.
"Uh, what are we doing now?" Uraraka asked in confusion.
"I'm glad ye asked, you little scallywag! Another challenge about the legendary pirates that sailed the seven seas...and multiverse, inspired of the challenges of old and the stories of legends from eras past!" Chris announced. "I'm really going to teach ya the ways of pirating and the skills that you need to be a proper pirate!"
Uraraka was fully listening as was most of everyone else, even if Dante was trying to not hold in a laugh.
Besides Lowain.
"I thought it was the seven skies, broski?"
"Hey, hey, if those guys could take the sky they would!"
"Then they ain't me!" Lowain replied.
"Alright, dude, are you a real pirate or just a cook on a sky ship?"
Lowain was silent at Chris' annoyance, as were the others.
"Okay, the first challenge of the day's simple and it all involves trying to avoid ye loot from falling off ye ship! Each of you has a dinghy and a mini-cannon to shoot each other with and these cannons hurt! You only lose when either your six barrels fall off, even if you don't have a boat! Any real pirate ain't letting other people steal their treasure!"
Pit and Sokka wanted to ask that one question, but...
"The winner gets a treasure map to their treasure, simple as that!"
...they saw the dinghys weighed down with barrels of emptiness and nonexistent loot and well, it was time for the first of the final challenges to really start.
*Squirrel Girl's confessional*
"Not gonna lie, I've always wanted to be a pirate since that one time and you know, pirates are cool and all, but being a squirrel superhero's way cooler than that! Plus no-one wants to be a pirate!" Squirrel Girl shouted.
*Lowain's confessional*
He chuckled.
"Dudes and babes at home, this is my kind of challenge! The vibes may not be going my way, but the sea's like our sky except with this new thing called swimming and I can do that!" He had to brag. "I could rock this, especially as part of the Girlfriend Squad!"
*Sokka's confessional*
He looked around the place.
"This challenge is either going extremely tense or hilarious for Chris and you know that I don't like Chris' challenges." He said in a deadpan manner. "But, hey, at least I can show why I'm part of the Water Tribe and honestly, it's looking good for the Girlfriend Squad..."
He sighed.
"...why did I let them name it that?"
*Confessional cut*
They were eight pirates floating on the waters.
Floating on waters that were a little bit wavy in the sea, though it was close to the island that contained strange wildlife.
Any sea dog worth their salt would be shooting at the moment, but it was a bit too quiet...comparatively speaking compared to the waves crashing against the dinghys.
Anyways, there's always something to start it off, as Dante shot into the sky.
"Dude, there are birds up there!" Chris announced, as the demon hunter made the battle start. "But you guys could have started already, pirates always take charge!"
Dante smiled for one reason.
"You heard the legend himself!" Dante shouted, as Sokka threw a boomerang at the demon hunter and he ducked it. "Finally, some initiative."
"Yeah..."
Sokka rowed a decent distance away slowly.
"...I'm taking it and moving away from you!"
Sokka got his first barrel shot for that, as Dante smirked, sure of one thing.
He wasn't going to have an easy time doing the competition, since everyone was getting his own butt or thinking of it at the least with a few random rocks that made its mark.
Mostly from the more resourceful people like Sokka (hey, wait a minute)
"Alright, your loss." Dante stated, holding Sokka's rock. "Time to go off."
"Buddy, you're not ready for me going off from a distance!" Lowain yelled, as the blonde skyfarer held some stuff in his hands.
The other guys were looking for their opportunity or in the case of Squirrel Girl and Tanjiro firing at random with two of their mini-cannonballs that just about missed Lowain, who had a grin on his face.
"Does anything you can throw count?" He asked, holding two balls in his hands.
"Yeah, that'd be awesome actually!"
Lowain basically used two of his mini-cannonballs...in hilarious fashion, shooting near perfectly by accident and distraction, nailing those two's barrels easily.
"Get your game on, guys!"
Dante and Squirrel Girl heard and got to doing some stupid stuff, the latter especially so with a strong acorn throw that broke another one of Tanjiro's barrels.
"Calm down-"
Tanjiro got shot by another.
*Tanjiro's confessional*
"Being a demon slayer in training means you have to survive some wild situations and yet nothing's as crazy as this! I don't mind the challenge, but I don't know why they're targeting me." He stated with a smile. "Maybe it's because I'm strong, though."
*Squirrel Girl's confessional*
She was just hanging off a tree.
"Come on, Tanjiro's genuinely the second most OP character over here aside from Dante and Big D's got a whole redemption arc to go on!" Squirrel Girl shouted. "Plus he's not good with a boat."
*Confessional cut*
Tanjiro had a few buckets broken, but his boat was surprisingly safe thanks to said boat being a little bit tougher than your average pirate dinghy and the other fellas were clearly into fighting each other.
Nicole and Uraraka were pretty much up against each other and that's how you know that the latter was losing, because her ship wasn't nearly as fast as Nicole aim at the brown-haired hero of floating.
Sure, Uraraka hit a barrel, but did that matter-
*SMASH*
-her boat was clearly sinking from a direct hit.
"No, no, no, I can do this!" Uraraka panick shouted, as she was floating in the air without cannonballs. "I lost."
"Yeah, Uraraka gets no map!"
"Yes, I did that!" Nicole declared. "Don't worry, competition's about to get serious!"
Sokka looked at the now loud mom of two and a half and then Tanjiro, carefully picking his own options out of the two while trying to avoid Dante's shots...for the second time.
Two barrels didn't survive from his boat and it doesn't exactly when Tanjiro didn't really have an good idea of how to row...and also got hit by a mini-cannonball.
"What's with these cannonballs, guys?! It's like it's a weirdo version of one!" Lowain complained, trying to smash Tanjiro's boat.
"Then hit him directly, no-one's going to complain!" Nicole shouted, right before...
...trying to avoid getting shot by someone.
"Right, ma'am..."
Lowain finally got it, cutting a minor hole in a barrel.
"...this sky dude's got it."
"Wait, nononono!"
Too bad it meant that Lowain finally got a direct hit thanks to getting a hit at the bottom of Nicole's boat and well, the boat sank as fast as it was comedically allowed to.
"Nicole's also out! And I think Tanjiro's gonna go real soon!"
Chris could sense that the demon slayer was getting his barrels shot by the demon hunter or it was very visible to everyone but Tanjiro at the moment, since he was doing some real damage towards Sokka, who was struggling to put on the cannonballs.
Mostly because Tanjiro could really see what Sokka was up to by complete accident.
*Tanjiro's confessional*
"My Opening Thread usually doesn't activate unless there are demons who specifically eat people around. Wonder why it activated this time around."
*Confessional cut*
"Stop, man, you're a good guy doing good things!" Sokka panicked. "We're both that!"
"Oh okay!" Tanjiro answered, before Sokka did the obvious.
And turned towards him with slow intent and a cannonball that had no reason to miss and uh, Tanjiro was gone from the game thanks to his last barrel breaking.
"And Tanjiro goes as well!"
"I'm glad that you beat me!" Tanjiro shouted. "By the way, I think that Dante guy's not messing around!"
"...Okay." Sokka replied honestly, seeing that his ship was pushing Tanjiro's. "Yours still hold up, right?"
"Yeah."
Sokka and Tanjiro may have teamed up, that didn't matter that much compared to the one man pirating legend that was Dante, who grinned at the opportunity.
Dante saw the obvious, seeing that these two kinda teamed up and decided to put in a little cannonball for the road and unfortunately managed to hit Tanjiro's already eliminated in the process.
"I'm sorry, man...you can swim, right?!" Dante questioned
"Sort of?" Tanjiro answered, trying to get onto Sokka's boat.
"Come on, jump on my boat!" Sokka shouted with his hand out.
And that was the start of a long and well-honoured friendship...
...and the end because Dante hit that boat with a simple cannonball.
"NEVER MIND!" Tanjiro shouted.
"And Tanjiro unintentionally sends Sokka out of the game! Is Dante gonna be a pirate of the pizzas!" Chris announced, as Chef groaned. "Come on, man, Dante and demons don't exactly get along."
"I don't know about that, Chris."
Chef saw that Dante already was getting shot at by the other two remaining players, who were not messing around at all, Squirrel Girl and Pit, who shared the ability of being mad goofy.
And then there was Lowain, who was running off the high of defeating Nicole, who wisely avoiding the newly made three-way fight with one of the gunning duo.
And also, Squirrel Girl was shooting rather widely to some kind of avail, which was just a few barrels that didn't much that much.
"Hold on, this is the part where I get hit!" Squirrel Girl shouted, throwing another cannonball literally.
"Wish it was, miss!" Lowain shouted back. "Dude, you're gonna be toast in a min-"
Lowain wasn't a seafarer, so he couldn't see that cannonball coming from her hands and he definitely saw that the boat got blown apart with one arm throw...and he got hurt.
"Man, look at that, he got blown out!"
"Ouch, that's one heck of a chickadee!" Lowain complimented Squirrel Girl. "Get out a new comic out some time!"
"Thanks!" Squirrel Girl shouted. "For the comic book!"
Pit shot a hole in the dinghy...or a few holes in the dinghy of hers.
"No way, I already have enough of those! Plus I can't read!"
"Due to Pit not being able to read, Squirrel Girl's out and surely, the epic conclusion to this mini-challenge is going to be the angel of love and...the demon hunter!"
Dante stylishly blocked Pit's cannonball and then kicked it back with style and a bit of anger into the boat.
"Dante answered that quickly and wins the map!"
Dante, Pit and Squirrel Girl quickly went towards where Chris was.
"Jackpot! Gimme that treasure map!" Dante remarked with a grin, as Chris gave it to him. "...Uh, this is supposed to be helpful, right?"
"Yeah, sure it is!"
The rest of the contestants did arrive swiftly, as Dante hid his map to reveal the location of said treasure for obvious reasons.
"Onto the next challenge that I may warn you! You might not like pirates that much anymore."
"Come on, why the heck not?!"
The eight of them were outside of Chef's Kitchen, ready to do the other thing that pirates are known for and almost all of them know that one simple thing, aside from that this place had slightly extra security.
"A do not steal sign? Wonder if we're gonna ignore it." Pit stated.
"Uh, obviously, you guys are pirates and I'm not involved in your raid on Chef's kitchen! But anyways, you're gonna do what Beth did all those years ago and steal a little something from that place...hopefully a hard challenge." Chris announced. "As usual, you win, you get a map!"
"Okay, how?" Pit asked. "It sounds stupid."
"Chef doesn't like his stuff being stolen and...about half of you, so it's still hard."
Pit just shrugged.
"Can this fit into a montage?" Squirrel Girl asked.
"Oh yeah, could it?" Pit urged Chris.
The non-fourth wall breaking guys were confused, but Lowain was looking at whatever the fuck he was looking at...and Chris was bemused in the general sense.
"I mean, it could." Lowain shrugged.
"Okay, campers, get started please!" Chris said, unusually tired of the camera shenanigans. "Dante, you can't get a second map."
*transition*
Dante smashed open the door with a careful kick to understand who was in the area and he slowly crept around trying to be all stealthy...and vaulting himself over the counter right into Chef's point of view and in true Metal Gear fashion, he ducked under the counter.
Unsurprisingly, Chef has object permanance, so Dante didn't get a second map for no reason.
*transition*
Pit literally kicked the door down, albeit he couldn't even do that since the door was already open thanks to the lock being locked when it was open and he crept around the place...not really like Dante except he saw a bag of chips that looked suspicious.
"Huh, maybe it's not that hard, Snake." Pit shrugged, before creeping towards the chips. "...Would Snake do this?"
Even with chips gotten, he second-guessed himself for one reason and that one reason was picking him up.
"You ain't a genius." Chef scoffed.
*transition*
Tanjiro slowly walked into the cafeteria, as the demon slayer had one dillema to consider about in this one single challenge for some reason, even if it was make believe.
And he was doing a great job.
Why was he stealing stuff from Chef's place?
How do you win this challenge?
Why does this shadow look like Chef?
Oh god, that is Chef trying to look for someone.
Weird questions to ask, but hey, at least he wasn't caught at the moment, he felt Chef's presence and subsequently left the kitchen slowly.
*transition*
Lowain went in rather casually understanding that he was 'bouta steal some stuff and that his bros were not helping him, so he had no plan of action, but this was Chef anyways.
"Broski, it's an honour to steal."
He whispered to start it out, slowly keeping his butt down and then he finally got to the thing from a lower drawer, which was a pan...that he put his head for reasons.
Lowain then carefully around a few tables, especially with Chef walking around picking up some stuff on his head...and he thought his head was lighter.
But he had to commit and he went out a man.
"Do you know you have-"
"I know, man." Lowain answered.
"Then don't interrupt me, dude."
*transition*
Uraraka tried to not squeal, as she slid into the Chef's kitchen with quite the frustrated.
*Uraraka's confessional*
She plainly panicked.
"Out of all of the Total Drama people that I remember, I feel like Beth right now for more reasons than one. I'm stealing something for no good reason, please forgive me, Mr. A-Eraserhead!"
*Confessional cut*
Uraraka did manage to get under the counter in an awkward position and didn't want to get out, as Chef wondered something important while looking at her.
"She has no chance."
She bonked on the counter, let some chilli powder drop, missed it, tried to grab it and it got in her eye.
"AHHHHH! CHEF, HELP!"
"Yo, Chris, this can't be good for her." Chef almost winched, as he picked Uraraka almost by accident. "Uh, you lost."
"THANK YOU!"
*transition*
"Oh god, Uraraka."
Squirrel Girl slipped on through.
"I'm gonna win it for women."
She actually opened the kitchen door with some hesitation, ready to use them squirrels when Chef catches her, but she was smart, getting a vial of "mixed spice" and putting it in her pocket.
And she did a little something, basically, slipping right under a few tables and misjudged the distance by doing the table bonk, a Total Drama classic at this point.
She did manage to run faster than Chef could even react.
"Come on, miss, you got nothing." Dante remarked, as he looked at her. "It's like some powder or..."
Squirrel Girl pulled said powder out.
"...do you know what that is?" Dante asked.
"Yeah, I know. But why-"
"Hopefully, we don't have to answer that because Squirrel Girl wins the second map for the final challenge! Put it this way, there's been a lot of dudes who came here to be criminal...and uh, someone should report this."
Chris took the white "mixed spice" powder and kept it for the police.
There were eight pirates, Chris knew that all of them predicted the obvious challenge and these guys had one thing in common.
"Believe it or not, Squirrel Girl and Dante do have an advantage in that map they're holding! A treasure hunt, an all-time Total Drama classic and no, you guys are not going to Zeke's place or anything!"
Most of the eight remaining players cheered.
"Just an incredibly dangerous place deep in Boney Island, no doubt about it! You guys have survived crazier things deep in the island and the first time, you explored all of the crazy wildlife, no dangerous animals, so it's extremely unlikely that you'll die! Come on, all of you can fight to some extent, it's not that serious, dudes!"
None of them were pleased at this point, minus one.
"Who do we have to fight?" Pit asked with a smile.
"I don't know, that's the magic of the challenge! First one back with the treasure wins immunity, stolen or gotten simple as that." Chris announced. "Go!"
"Wait, you're not gonna explain where we're going?" Sandy asked, tired of the shenanigans that Chris had.
"Nope!"
'
Believe it or not, Dante was being the slower of the two and he was booking right into the middle of the weird, weird island that they had been living in for the past two and a half weeks and had several challenges where they explored it before that time.
...
Also, he was definitely being followed thanks to Nicole not being a sneaky person.
"My god, you're no Snake or Samus, that much I can tell you." Dante remarked. "But I can't really get rid of ya 'cause I'm trying to be nice."
"You have a whole treasure map, I don't want to get lost and...you're my biggest competition." Nicole answered. "Plus we're both in some kind of trouble with alliances."
"Is that really it? You could fight those plants easily."
"You have a map."
The two of them kept on walking in acknowledgement, sure of the fact that they were 'bouta get jumped by Boney Island's aggressive and bizarre fauna in the not so beautiful part of Boney Island, a few skulls on the rocks.
They were creeping around the area, making sure that any beast wasn't going to jump them or walk behind them.
"Do you think that they're going slow?" Nicole asked with hastily.
"Who's they? Squirrel lady's got a map and the rest are either gonna follow her or find their own way trying to match us!" Dante shouted. "Or be Tanjiro."
"What does Tanjiroo-oh."
These two had a realisation that however fast they might be, Tanjiro probably was much faster than them in sheer speed with his power...and would get lost.
"So, what's it like being a mom of 2?"
"Rewarding and tiring and you know, I'm gonna assume that you're bored."
"Yep, and learning where you got the weirdo power's-"
There was a noticeable amount of random screams that were shouting from a specific part of the canopy and Nicole stole the map and compared it.
"Give me that!" Dante shouted.
"I know where it is." Nicole was all somber all of a sudden. "It's another one of those challenges."
"You've gotta be kidding me! Another fun one?" Dante asked.
As for Squirrel Girl, her and Pit were workin' together to help a former teammate out and these two were clear in doing one single thing in going the most direct path towards the apparent treasure.
They were not at that part yet.
Smash the aggressive fauna into the ground or out of their faces, since they were real good at fighting.
"Why won't this guy go down?!" Pit asked. "Is Chris some kind of...mad science guy."
"Nah, he just doesn't seem like that." Squirrel Girl said. "More like a guy that stole stuff from mad scientists and thought it was cool!"
"Come on, it is cool!"
"I hate it when you're right."
These two were on the look for pointlessly aggressive fauna, even if they were sprinting straight through some unsacred ground in true pirate fashion and...
...they had to realise something important about the sand that they were sprinting on at the moment, thanks to the power of reused jokes in a weirdly beautiful place.
*Chris' confessional*
"In every universe with a patch of quicksand to stop the contestants, two people always land in it!" Chris shouted, trying to not laugh. "Funny how you can't verify that."
*Confessional cut*
Squirrel Girl and Pit just about managed to jump at the far end of it, especially since they could both have some ability to either jump stupid high or fly...and Pit forgot to fly.
"OH GOD, HELP, QUICKSAND!" Squirrel Girl shouted. "...Squirrel guys, we're going to be stuck for a minute."
"Hold on, I'm about to get creative" Pit declared, as he was trying to use the Ore Club in unconventional fashion and blew more sand onto random places around him.
"Honestly, it could be worse." Squirrel Girl said, as Pit tried using his wings.
The Ore Club blew quicksands in all sorts of direction, but that didn't mean they were unstuck, as Pit finally managed to fly out of there with Squirrel Girl holding on for dealing life.
"Let's go, it could be way worse being stuck down there!" Pit shouted. "But the map's gonna be fine, right?"
"Uh, about half of it is."
Squirrel Girl still had the majority of it, anyways...and not the X, which they didn't want to say anything about it, but they were at least flying.
"Does it matter, we're in the air and uh...Lady Palutena, can you help me out?" Pit asked, before...nothing happened. "That's fair, I'm flying through an island."
"I'm gonna be honest, what do you think's gonna happen when we-"
The disconcerting roars that rung through the ears of the duo, clearly came from a place that they were pointing at, which was good...
...because the rest of the map fell down without the two of them noticing.
"Sweet, let's move!" Squirrel Girl shouted, as the map fell down. "We kind of know where it is!"
'
Weirdly enough, the three were in chasing each other into being lost also didn't really have a single map to them, but going ham on the competition was weird when you were all previously on the same team.
Also, Two dudes were trying to avoid the big biting Larrys, so it wasn't quite the tranquil deseperate chase on the hillier side of Boney Island that they could mud through.
Speaking of deep mud-
"Dude, you can't just do that!" Lowain shouted. "My best drip, dude!"
"Come on, it's not that bad." Sokka said. "Okay, it is pretty bad, but it still isn't that bad."
The two of them were slowly running through the mud, disgruntled by the Larry's still chasing them through the mud.
"Someone shouldn't ask how this is going to get worse 'cause it might just!" Sokka said, still wading through the mud, as Lowain looked tired.
"A pirate...never backs down,...even when his clothes...gets tarnished." Lowain spoke.
These two were out of the mire and immediately booked, the two Larrys doing nearly the exact same thing, the chase still going through the hillier parts of Boney.
*Lowain's confessional*
"Man, being a pirate's real sick especially when you get muddy! Wasn't expecting the giant plants to chase that fast, but you know, compared to dealing with Belial or 'Bub or any villain from my world, it's a sweet vacation." Lowain said, poorly trying to hide his sadness. "Yeah!"
*Confessional cut*
The two of them were now rustling through leaves, sure that they were plainly lost and going slightly northwest to stop those damn Larry plants, Sokka was noticing quite the big something.
A piece of a giant skull that he stared at.
"I'm gonna be real with you...unless you're seeing a diamond, I don't care what you're staring, dude-rino!" Lowain called out. "Also, these guys aren't even fighting."
"Not-wait, they're not fighting us!" Sokka exclaimed, running back into the Larry zone for one swing.
"Hold up-"
Sokka leaped right into Larry's arms quite literally, as Lowain finally got some space to take the look...and hilariously, he cut off those arms in a second.
"-Sokka, those plants totally aren't fighting. Just playin' the mental game!" Lowain bragged, as Sokka saw those plants be angry. "You looked like you had something to say!"
"There what looked like a sku-" Sokka had to tell him.
And there was definitely some roars coming from the area where the skull was, as these two were still running from the oddly noncombative, yet aggressive plants.
*Sokka's confessional*
"I didn't really have the chance to tell Lowain 'bout the treasure area, but those roars are a good signifier for the treasure area, which considering that I've been on this show too long, is probably right." Sokka figured, putting his thoughts in there.
*Confessional cut*
Tanjiro and Uraraka were somehow doing the best out of the four duos that didn't want to get lost for exactly one reason and it was lung related or vomit related in that specific order.
"Hold on, I'm actually fine!" Uraraka shouted. "Your Water Breathing technique actually works."
"...I don't know, though, you seem a little bit shaken by the breathing." Tanjiro stated. "Are you okay?"
"Yes!"
"Then we'll win together!"
These two then sped off in a fashion that Sonic would be either proud of or pissed off by, going on the more mountainous route with big lungs and big determination.
And those roars that everyone kept on hearing rung through their ears, that allowed them to take a second to turn in a different direction, looking at the skull that was on barely visible.
"All we've got is each other and...your desire to cure your sister!" Uraraka shouted.
"And your desire to take care of your family is nice! Anyways, let's be heroes!" Tanjiro shouted, not stopping his breathing.
These two were not messing around at all, using Total Concentration Breathing to sped the fuck off with water 'round her.
*Uraraka's confessional*
She was feeling very different and very much shaken on the ground.
"For 5 million dollars and maybe a little bit of dizziness, this might be worth it. For 3, I'd still do the same thing, though not being able to stand up for a few minutes still hurts."
*Confessional cut*
The two of them, in about sixteen minutes, found the source of the roars that shook the entire side of Boney Island that people cared about...in the previous seasons.
Mostly because it was up on that skull and Uraraka was stuck on a whole other side of a hill.
"Ochako, are you okay?" Tanjiro said.
"Never been worse, Mr. Aizawa..." Uraraka said. "...I took a ride on a guy."
"Don't worry I will make sure that you won't vomit." Tanjiro spoke with confidence, stil carrying the zero-gravity gal on her back.
The two of them were slowly creeping around the place, Tanjiro not even being able to use his Nichirin Sword to deal with them, but the demon slayer could jump.
Jump like a small chunk of the cast, sliding down on the dirty ground towards the skull-shaped rock and these two were finally about to cross a bridge into a whole lot of unfriendly folk.
"Something tells me that we're in the right place." Uraraka answered. "And I don't know if I can stand up."
"...I wonder if these things are demons-"
Tanjiro got caught off-guard with some arrows blasting a few of the more classic monsters that came from two flying former Crafty Crow members, as the other duo walked up to the massive x that was emblazoned on the ground.
"Uh, hello, Pit!" Tanjiro shouted. "So, what are you doing?"
"Winning, maybe!" Pit bragged, shooting some arrows in the face. "Squirrel Girl's kinda brutalising these weird things, though."
"That's great, but I'm also trying to win." Tanjiro said, as Uraraka got up fine. "And we're kinda together!"
"Cool...you can try to beat me." Pit stated, pulling out his two blades, as Uraraka got into her fighting stance.
While the two leading duos were having no problems with each other, the most interesting duology of players were by far the fastest if only because of sheer desperation.
"I don't want to lose!" Nicole shouted.
"Oh, I feel the same way!" Dante remarked.
Nicole's sprint had a punch to it, which was a bit literal with Nicole swinging on another Larry into smithereens and Dante only had speed on his side...and his sheer power.
The two were plainly chopping each enemy they encountered into either plain submission or being chopped into bits.
"You should slow down!" Nicole said. "Please for myself!"
"Nah, I wouldn't."
The two of them didn't care about each other's woes in the middle of running in the forest towards some treasure, nor did they notice the two dudes that finally had a chance to catch up.
Mostly because they were faster than them, but the screech of the PA basically stop the four of them in their own tracks.
"Wow, the competition's real close! What if I put in some extra protection 'round the treasure! Just so you people knew!" Chris announced, stunning everybody in the fold. "If you want to know, the creatures of Boney Island don't like loud noises."
"Oh, good to know!" Sokka shouted all of a sudden. "At least we're close to the end of this challenge."
"Yeah, we sure are." Nicole said.
The four treasure getters that were younger were all looking at the now Canadian-Geese infested area with some apphrension and a butt load of disgust as the geese's misplaced anger and in the middle of it all was a special chest.
"Oh, dang, wonder how we're even going to get back to Chris-"
Pit could see that even within the rock, that Chris was on a beach that would be familiar to any long-time Total Drama viewer...and pretty close to the four of 'em.
"-I'm gonna say that it's kind of easier now."
"Is it?" Squirrel Girl asked, as a Canadian Geese glared at her. "Doubt it-"
She instantly got a geese in her hands, as Uraraka instantly dove for the mini-chest that clearly could fit in her hands and...got a ton of geese on her person, the two of them not having much success.
Tanjiro looked quite intimidated by the real problem in the cave, including a serious pterodactyl that wanted to fight him...sort of, but that didn't matter.
Pit just flew over the geese, who was jealous of extremely controlled flying and he got the chest in his bare hands, looking around at the geese and two pterodactyl.
"Yeah, that's right, I really like Canadian Geese! Seriously, why are these ones Canadian aside from being here?" Pit questioned the geese. "Are you guys just here to hang-"
"I don't think they're here to hang!" Squirrel Girl yelped, getting the full force of the geese yelps. "They're anti-hang."
"Exactly, I knew that!" Pit flew with realisation, basically dashing out through the stairs.
"What?!" Squirrel Girl dodged her enemy geese.
"Did you know that Pit's got the treasure chest! Man, I love providing you all with information!" Chris announced, as Pit grumbled.
Tanjiro was still too busy trying to fight a pterodactyl and Uraraka finally managed to get these geese off her, Squirrel Girl instantly turning on her Canadian Geese.
"Guys, Chris might be lying!" Pit shouted.
"But I have eyes!" Squirrel Girl yelled, as Pit realised he was bad at trickery. "I would do the same, though!"
"Fair point." Pit called out. "Guys, I'm flying with the chest!"
Uraraka saw this and wondered one thing.
*Uraraka's confessional*
The brown-haired hero was pretty shaken.
"I get he has nothing to hide, but why is he doing that? He's trying to win like the rest of us fairly, but is he trying to get us to fight? Probably."
*Confessional cut*
Finally, Dante and Nicole arrived to the chicanery that was people trying to chase Pit down towards the sands that Chris saw...and also animals that were trying to fight the other people there.
"Imagine my job getting less fun, but I definitely see Pit taking the lead!" Chris announced. "Or trying to not flip over the chest!"
"I can't flip over the chest, though." Pit said, carrying his chest in his arms. "Or fight."
"Sweet."
Pit basically flew down quickly and made the end inevitable, as the other seven were plainly trying their hardest to even catch up with the flying angel or complaining.
"Hold on, this is absurd, right?" Nicole asked.
"Actually, we're pirates, so complainin's not our biz and Pit's already got the gold." Lowain said, not seeing the one person that dived down to get Pit's attention. "Uraraka ain't listening though."
Nicole looked at him like he didn't know the obvious.
Uraraka turned off the Zero Gravity just as the right time, as Pit was flying as fast as he could and in somehow hilarious fashion, these two crashed into each other and...fell into a random pile of sand, Pit still holding the chest.
These two then decided to pick themselves up and the angel and the floating hero decided that this was the time to try and make sure that they specifically won this challenge.
But...this is Pit we're talking about and Uraraka recovered only a short moment later and.
Moments matter.
"Pit wins immunity simple as that! The rest of you have some hard decisions to make...or not, but you guys know each other!" Chris announced, still picking up Pit. "Ye scallywags should know of betrayal."
"Stop that please." Uraraka said, slowly walking by, as Chris looked peeved.
"I wanted to do that willingly!" Chris complained. "Anyways, the rest of you can find your back to wherever the rest of you are at! Pit gets to eat...better food!"
Pit was looking a little bit confused, as Uraraka just shrugged.
"What kind of better food?" Pit asked.
"A pizza without pineapple!"
Pit gawked, just as Sokka and Lowain managed to make their way towards Chris.
"Really nice of you, Chris. But it means that my Girlfriend Squad's gonna be down a member." Pit remarked. "We had cool times together."
"I don't know, there wasn't that many words about it." Lowain said.
*Dante's confessional*
The hunter was feeling scuffed after being mid-fight of a pterodactyl.
"I'm gonna say that I found it kinda funny that after all of that, I got swiped with a flying demon looking thing and I made it mad enough to forget who won in this battle. Gonna be a hard elimination ceremony, though." Dante heard a guy knocking.
"Bet it's that pterodactyl."
*Confessional cut*
Pit was eating a whole-ass pizza because it healed health, mental included, as the angel was trying to check out whoever was going to be eliminated in this night of action.
Mostly because Dante was still outside fighting a pterodactyl with ease, stylishly proving himself on a dinosaur...and also because there was a disquiet in the air that Lowain was about to break.
"Fellow bros, who's gonna be eliminated tonight?" Lowain asked. "Trying to put the kibosh on this elimination thing and uh, nobody's got the kibosh?"
Nicole stared at Lowain.
"You guys trying to eliminate me?"
Nicole and Uraraka got spooked, as Squirrel Girl tried to lie.
"No?"
Lowain was pissed, as Sokka and Pit gave the ladies some suspicious looks.
"...I'm more mad that you're lying than you trying to eliminate me." Lowain answered. "Besides, I ain't voting for any of you ladies."
"Yeah, we're not!" Pit declared, pulling a slice out of his mouth. "I'd like to give you some, but Chef's staring at me."
"Oh, come on, that's not true." Lowain tried to grab a slice...
...and got subjected to Chef's cooking rod.
"Told you. Wait, who are you voting for?" Pit answered.
Lowain had to whisper to his alliance partners, as well, that someone was a real challenge breaking dude and Dante arrived in there, a bit of that wing sliced off.
"Damn, what's up with you all?" Dante asked. "Tanjiro helped me out!"
"Yeah, about Tanjiro-"
"What about him?" Dante interrupted Sokka.
Dante basically sat down trying to not eat that pizza, as the Girlfriend Squad had one thing to do especially with the strategic brain of said squad in his ear.
They all finally shared one vote to their name, four dudes against three different ladies...and Tanjiro, which was going to be not that surprising in the season.
*Dante's confessional*
The white-haired hero looked a bit dissapointed.
"I know that you're a real nice guy, a real nice swordsman and a real Japanese dude...it's really sad that I do have to eliminate you and I'm pretty sure you would say the same."
*Squirrel Girl's confessional*
"On one hand, Lowain can break the fourth wall sometimes, is a real dude and he's probably the second funniest person here, but on the other hand, he's learned from Yumeko with the strategies! Weird ones and he watched Sur-"
*Confessional cut*
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The eight campers were sitting on the now oversized elimination ceremonial area, since there was a lot of empty stumps that signified all of the heroes, villains, friends and players that had left the season...Chris bathed in the wamp campfire light.
"I'm not gonna lie, this one should be fast mostly 'cause there's only three people that even have votes to their name! Pit has the treasure of immunity, as he does!"
Pit caught the marshmallow.
"Three pieces of goodness in one day? Pretty good tasting."
The seven remaining players were there.
"Nicole has no votes."
She looked shocked, as she snatched the thing.
"Thank you!"
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"Sokka, no votes for you!"
Sokka took it in solace, though a little bit suspicious of Nicole's lack of votes.
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"Uraraka, same thing!"
"Oh, thanks!" She complimented the marshmallow.
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"And Squirrel Girl, you also have no votes!"
She had a sigh of relief...and looked at Dante.
"Damn, looks like your time's up."
"That's a dang shame, I've been too strong all season." Dante remarked.
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"Dante, Tanjiro and Lowain, all of you have reasons to have at least one vote and I'm gonna let Chef speak!" Chris announced. "Just for the heck of it."
Chef Hatchet cleared his throat.
"Dante, everybody thinks you're OP and some people think that makes you too good! Tanjiro, you're a wholesome overpowered fella and like Dante, some people think you're too strong!"
"Mr. Hatchet, that's a fair point." Tanjiro answered.
"Lowain, you got a crazy girlfriend and made your own squad, which Nicole got off the hook for and they probably ain't letting you off the hook!"
"That's what I'm...saying."
Lowain was deep into thought.
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"Surprisingly, Dante's got a single vote to his name! Tanjiro has four votes and...Lowain has three! Pretty dramatic, you wouldn't say!" Chris announced, as Tanjiro wasn't really angry.
He just sighed, as Lowain had a realisation.
"You ladies just couldn't handle the Girlfriend Squad, couldn't ya?" Lowain figured. "That or you kinda knew about Azula."
"We were in the same alliance, I knew about your shenanigans." Nicole answered, crossing her arms.
"That's fair, ladies, I was playin' too close to the sun."
"You did betray your friend, though." Tanjiro said pretty seriously. "Even if you weren't really friends."
"I understand, slayer dude..."
Lowain hugged the heck out of his former squad, as Sokka looked shocked.
"No way we're going to let all of us get eliminated!" Sokka shouted.
"That's what I'd like to hear, fellow girlfriend havers." Lowain remarked. "Stay strong and stay kissin'."
"Thanks, friend. And I won't be kissing!" Pit declared, as his fellow teammates looked at him like he said something insane. "My lady doesn't approve."
"Alright, fellas."
Lowain walked himself to the dock, as Tanjiro bowed to everyone in the competition for one reason.
"I'm glad that I even made it this far into the compeitition and I see that every one of you left is a nice guy and I know that I'm going to miss most of you when I get back with the sword people!" Tanjiro shouted. "All of you try your best to be good guys and I really appreciated my time here. Even if the host's a bad guy!"
All of the people shared some warm feelings and two of them almost cried.
"Dude, stop having the speech, I don't want this to get sappy! Anyways, you two, the Sling-Yacht of Shame awaits!" Chris told everyone. "The six of you things will not really be easy next challenge, so get prepared for it!"
"We will and it's gonna be well-written!" Squirrel Girl bragged.
"Trust me, it's gonna be painful."
Lowain and Tanjiro weren't exactly the ones to enjoy that wild ride, but they were on it anyways.
"Alright, not the craziest episode ever, but we plan to make up for that next episode and yeah, these guys know what this place feels like and kinda is...on TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS!"
To be continued in Episode 38, the penultimate challenge for the biggest season in terms of numbers really and Chris really doesn't deserve a break after Ult Islands, but...you know, the cumulative effort has to mean something after this prison of a show that he's putting these people in!
I sure hope that after all this pirating that they don't get arrested by some random interns that don't want to do this!
Yeah, that would be bad and totally not a episode with a different challenge complete with a few people that have competed in this season before!