Total Drama X: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 38: Ultimate Prison Break
There's six people remaining and somehow, Squirrel Girl got through the previous challenge with only sheer skill and upsetting Tanjiro Kamado, the best boy and these six that remaining are a cut above the rest even including The Coachman, Sol, Mikasa, Miko, Azula, Yumeko and Tanjiro.
For all of their pirating and stealing, they get to enjoy a good stay in a prison, trying to find a way to get outside of their cell and nab an immunity ticket, which means that it operates by Cyber Race's rules.
Last one's out, first one's going straight to the finale and there will be one last vote to determine fifth place, Chef and the interns ready to make their "prison life" terrible.
"Last time on Total Drama: Ultimate Islands, we've upped the crime rate amongst our cast...in another pirate challenge, where we really tested to see if these guys are real pirates or just ridiculously competitive friends and oh ho, we've got some real bad boys in here! No one besides Tanjiro left without doing some real pirate business, stealing stuff, shooting each other's ships and fighting for treasure...mostly!"
Lowain and Sokka getting chased by the twin Larrys were shown.
"Thanks to me and Chef, Pit got immunity because of course he did and everybody else had problems. About trying to vote each other since it's the end of the show and well, unsurprisingly, the targets were a bit obvious! Lowain was a good dude who did a lot of crazy things before he got eliminated and Tanjiro was plain OP, so those two guys were gone!"
And weirdly enough, Chris was wearing a prison warden's hat.
"Who out of the six remaining players will be scared straight! Who's gonna be coralling themselves into victory and who's gonna make the prison break because it sure won't be me...on TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS!"
A speech from an esteemed gentleman of Woodcrest and oh fuck, those are trumpets, where the fuck are they playing-
"In here, the white man respect their elders and their prison wardens, while those nigg-"
The six of them were noticing something a little bit different about their newfound surroundings, as they all woke up in a prison that was definitely not a stage set dragged from the Total Drama film lot.
Obviously, they all had individual cells that were in the middle of a mini-jail block with weirdly spaced bars and keys that weren't obvious to the naked eye.
"Geez, Spider-Man didn't even get arrested even when he got treated like trash by Marvel writers." Doreen remarked. "Monkey Joe, Tippy Toes, you guys there?"
They both chirped.
"Damn, you both expected this? Didn't know that you were both crazy."
"I didn't know that I would go to prison, it truly is the human experience!"
"Yeah, Monkey Joe, I-"
Squirrel Girl had a double take at Monkey Joe "talking" as the squirrel pointed her towards the angel that actually talked...and she didn't even notice.
"-Why do you sound like Pit?"
"I wish I could turn into a squirrel right now, would enjoy getting out of jail early." Pit finally stated, as he was looking at Doreen. "Anyways, Squirrel Girl, would that squirrel sound like that?"
"I don't know!"
Some tired guy woke up, screamed and banged the bears.
"I now know what Zuko feels like! I guess Suki was right."
Sokka had to make his presence, as Pit and Squirrel Girl tried to look at him, since he was on the same side as Pit was on.
"Wait, did Chris send us to Boiling Rock?"
"I don't think so, since I'm not boiling, Sokka!" Doreen shouted.
The two dude and sole dudette weren't the only ones that were awake and the first one to be awake realised something that was obvious with all of the aesthetics.
"Whoever owns this place really likes being a prison guard." Uraraka observed. "And I'm only that because it's really obvious."
"I agree! No-one can keep us group of buckaroos and hidden weirdos down!" Dante proclaimed, using his sword to slice open the doors. "Woohoo, now that's a prison break!"
"Are you sure these aren't open?" Uraraka asked, seeing something weird in the door.
"Those are keys, right?" Dante said, finally seeing the mini-jail block that they were all still stuck in. "Nicole, are you up?"
"Yes, I'm-"
Nicole saw Dante's door all sliced up and the mini-jail block having its own locked door and she glared right at him and noticed all of the keys and more notable how wide the bars were.
"...This is some really unfunny joke, people, the-"
"I hope it's not because I've got-"
Uraraka saw Doreen's door open.
"-a whole prison suit in here, which perfectly fits!"
Dante and Doreen were out and Sokka reached out with his arms, as Pit tried his best to not have his bracers make them stuck and soon enough, everyone was out of their cells, even if Pit had his bracers get a bit dirty.
The six of them realised something when the TV that was now suddenly there turned on to reveal the host with a most with a special prison officer uniform, probably somebody's nightmare.
"Good morning, islanders, how do you feel about your new prison! Kinda like it?"
"Compared to Boney Island, it feels cosy to not have weird wildlife up your butt! I don't really hate the new clothes, though." Nicole said. "But what did we do!"
"I think we might have pirate'd too hard last challenge, we went wild being pirates!" Squirrel Girl declared, as Nicole looked vexed. "It kinda works that way, but putting us in prison clothes is too far!"
"...That's the only thing that's too far about this?"
"Man, tough crowd especially since you dudes were all pirating up in the last challenge and you even tried to evade the watchful eyes of MacArthur! It's only fair that you guys showed up here...and also, I'm excited about today!"
The PA was a bit scratchy, but nothing too out of the ordinary for a prison.
"Since this is a prison, not that much has changed minus the food being better for some reason and...you know, being in prison! Judging by your looks, you might have figured the challenge out."
"Is it a prison break?" Sokka asked.
"Yes, it is."
"YES, WHOO!" Sokka cheered in jubilation.
"I'm actually happy that you're excited...and the other prison guards are excited that they might have heard that. There's so many creative ways to escape the prison, but if one person or two people escape, the next guy can't escape for an hour. But first, you're gonna have to get used to it!"
"I'm sorry that I ever was a bad girl or something!" Uraraka cried. "...NOOOO!"
"Calm down, it's not a real prison, but it is kinda like one! So get to it!"
*Pit's confessional*
The angel was confident in his prison.
"Please I've had a girlfriend, survived 37 challenges, beat up way too many villains and even called people jerks every day! The prison lifestyle's gonna handle me or I'm gonna handle it. But I do want to know what the prison's really like."
"That's a great point. Don't go too hasty or you might end up alone." Palutena said. "And if you're trying to escape, don't let anyone else see you."
"Don't worry, Lady Palutena, I'm wise...and the uniform even fits my wings! I wonder what prison food tastes like."
"Focus, Pit, these guys probably won't mess around."
*Sokka's confessional*
"I'm more surprised that I haven't been in prison at least twice for basically freeing the world from Fire Lord Ozai and...Azula, but I've been a prison guy and a prison guard before, so it should be not that hard. Zuko being here would make it easy, though."
*Nicole's confessional*
"Mom and dad, please don't mock me for this, mostly because it is not a real prison and I don't think being a doctor would help. Especially when doctors can go to prison."
*Uraraka's confessional*
She looked like she was in 'Nam. (Which didn't help in canon, since her world was fucked past Season 6's first half.)
"They won't break my spirit or my fashion sense! Seriously, these clothes are weirdly comfortable, but that doesn't mean anything."
*Confessional cut*
The remaining six were waiting for the prison doors to open, since Chris was enjoying them squirm over the long, long wait for the first prison guard to pop-up.
Pit was flexing his muscles towards Sokka, who did the same in a response to manliness and the two manly youngsters respect each other's strength.
Uraraka was breathing carefully, trying to make sure that she didn't get copied by Toga in some alternate universe, as Nicole looked at her with some serious pitty.
Dante basically took some more time to think about the game...or his surrogate son or his brother or some random members of his family and friends.
And Squirrel Girl thought about that the times that Kamala was doing stuff in New York City and also, her friends back in Toronto...and also looking at MacArthur for at least a minute.
"What's up, maggot?" Squirrel Girl asked. "Since you're from that Ridonculous Race thing-"
"I'm the one supposed to call you a maggot!" MacArthur shouted.
The rest of the contestants looked at the new police guard, who looked like the female version of your stereotypical mall cop with police armour, brown hair in a ponytail and...a bit of Mexican?
"Maggots, what's good? I heard you guys complainin' about Chris' challenge...I'm gonna make your job harder!" MacArthur proclaimed, cracking her knuckles. "Along with my crew of other people that got eliminated this season...and not Sanders."
"You miss Sanders?" Dante asked sincerely.
"Nah, Sanders' got crimes to worry about. I gotta worry about you." MacArthur said with a smirk, finally opening the door. "Come on, inmates, your challenge awaits."
"But I didn't do any crimes!" Uraraka shrieked out of panic.
"I know."
With the six prisoners basically being carried around like a chain gang of fall guys, the contestants noticed that this was an actual prison like it had jails, cells, cheap school tables, that mean 'ol Chef Hatchet, the lighting that was left off to show the sunlight beaming in through all of the windows and a several shades of blue that were well properly put.
It was a literal chain gang, the six of them in handcuffs being forced down to the bottom floor where all of the food was and well, they were real quite about those contestants returning.
It was Tanya Von Degurechaff, holding a gun that shouldn't really be held as a child.
Pinstripe Potoroo, genuinely looking uncomfortable in his police guard uniform, Connor, the misplaced android in a uniform that he didn't really hate, Owen, 'cause he wanted to and that was not all.
Darkness, because she's trying to do some good in the world, Samus, the bounty hunter and Giovanni Potage...somehow.
Mostly because they were standing there in a line.
"Take a look at my co-workers, who definitely want to do this." MacArthur said. "You might have some idea who these guys are or you don't! What matters is that they're gonna make your job harder-"
"I'm a bad dude, so I'm going to bad dude things!" Giovanni shouted, carrying his bat. "...As a cop."
"I was cheering for Reg because he is a fellow android." Connor stated.
"-SHUT UP, OTHER WORKERS!" MacArthur commanded. "I've been around a ton of places, Mexico included, so us guards are ready for y'all! We could do this all day!"
The six remaining players were mostly befuddled at how these guys were clearly not chosen for any reason, aside from Uraraka, who looked shocked.
"Tanya?!" Uraraka shouted like she had a history.
"You." Tanya replied, mostly intrigued.
"Whoa, whoa, we've gotta set up this entire thing and Chef's cooking breakfast, so I would suggest getting your butts over there! NOW!"
Everyone didn't need to be told twice, though Pit waved to Giovanni and Dante and Pinstripe were looking at each other like they wanted to share a moment in the future and Nicole stayed stoic.
And the food was looking a little bit familiar to at least someone, as MacArthur chuckled at the servings on the plate, but...
"Wait, this doesn't even look that bad." Pit said.
"I don't know, Chris' got misleading food down to a art." Nicole stated, taking a bit out of the prison loaf.
Oh wait, you don't know what a prison loaf AKA Nutraloaf is?
It's a bunch of vegetables, fruits, mixed meat and bread baked together into an intentionally torturous loaf of possibly bread, definitely punishment and Nicole ate it and realised something.
"...How did Chef mess up this bad? This is good!" Nicole shouted.
Pit took a decent bite out of it.
"Hey, Nicole, you're talking crazy. It's fine...which doesn't make sense." Pit said.
"Yeah, this is Chef we're talking about-"
Nicole instinctively ducked, avoiding a stone from Chef.
"-He knows how to make us suffer!"
"Honestly, I think he's trying to make prison food and it ain't even close to being bad as any food here outside of this prison." Sokka said. "Like there's probably something stoppng it from being super terrible."
Pit and Nicole were wondering, as Sokka kept on eating.
"But I get the feeling this is what we're gonna eat for every meal."
"Mph, true." Squirrel Girl stated, as she saw a random squirrel pull up. "Hold on, I wonder where we at...wait, it can't be!"
"What do you mean, it can't be, this food's alright!" Sokka said.
"I know, but I'm pretty sure we're back on Pahkitew for sure. This squirrel ran away from a mechanical squirrel that was shooting lasers, the most Pahkitew thing of all time...and you know, it says on the sign."
"WHAT-"
Everyone (minus Dante, because he was somewhere else) couldn't really miss the massive sign that did fit into the prison.
"Pahkitew Prison." Squirrel Girl stated. "Anyways, you guys want to talk about your lives again, since that's what we usually do?"
"Yeah...but I'm still escaping this thing." Uraraka proclaimed.
*Squirrel Girl's confessional*
The hero was hanging in the prison confessional.
"Oh shit, I forgot that I could swear for real and you know, this is by far the place to confess. I gotta confess that I was not expecting to play the most honest game that I could coming from Team Alliances Only, but I outlasted all of them besides Dante. Dante's gotta go for the sake of it, but I don't know how I'm gonna do that."
*Confessional cut*
Dante wasn't there for one reason...mostly because he could sense the Nutriloaf's sheer amount of random garbage that turned into ungarbage...and he got carried back onto the table by MacArthur, who was a little pissed.
"Listen, I'm sure that you're trying to get a feel of this place, maggot." MacArthur answered, as Dante was casually chilling with his plate. "Also, you can't convince me with badass manoeuvres that you're not a maggot here."
"That's a damn shame, officer, because if you get to know me, I'd be real fine." Dante remarked, still holding his plate.
"Sir, I have a boyfriend and he's about my age, so get real."
"Oh yeah, that Brody guy. Doesn't look like he's got a lot in his head."
That got MacArthur to shut up and send him and his food flying onto the table with pinpoint precision, Dante finally back with the rest of 'em and MacArthur glaring at him.
"Did you really have to insult her former boyfriend?" Nicole sighed.
"Nope, but I did anyways."
And the six of them were together again, ready to talk about the boyfriend-insulter of the hour, thought this was prison time and well, Chef Hatchet was definitely only one thing that could be noticed...
...the prison chef, one of the most indiscriminately dickish positions that you could be within the prison without being corrupt and, uh, Hatchet was no corrupt man on the stoves.
Besides, MacArthur has actual police work and a dark blue shirt.
"If you wanna know why I'm still in here it's 'cause I trust MacArthur to bring the pain! Also, I got time to cook up some horrors in here, but y'all didn't hear that!"
Chef Hatchet laughed, before getting all serious.
"You better listen or pay the price. Seriously, why couldn't let me be your co-warden?"
"Because you don't have police work...and not an android." MacArthur shouted. "Listen up, temporary criminals, in between meal times y'all get the chance to do whatever as long as you don't try to escape...and uh, this place has solitary confinement if you try anything stupid, which is practically a guarantee coming from you."
"What, we're not gonna try anything stupid, which is a fact!" Sokka exclaimed, as Pit looked at his two blades like a knife. "Pit, no!"
"Well, why not?" Pit remarked.
Chef and MacArthur shared a little moment together, as Pit put his blades back and Sokka facepalmed at the angel.
"Dang, you were right, these guys would do stupid!" MacArthur complimented Chef.
"Trust me, these guys are truly maggots and fools." Chef said. "I don't want to see you mess up!"
"I respect your military-ness, so I will not, Sir Chef."
"Thank you."
The six of them were now in the courtyard, which had a bunch of random sports and random areas for socialisation with what would have been a bunch of society's worst (or this show's worst.)
But it was just them trying to do some basketball.
"What's this?" Sokka asked. "Why are the net's up there?"
"The nets are up there becauses the balls over there are supposed to go into the net to earn points." Nicole tried to explain. "And you throw them into the nets."
"...Sounds like a real nice game. And you know, I could go for some handball, guys!"
"It's called basketball."
Sokka was real interested, looking at the baskets.
"I kinda get it, but handball's a better name and uh, we should be figuring out a way of escaping this place." Sokka focused himself. "Right after I throw some balls into hoops."
"Okay, you do you, I can't stand to be here."
The rest of them were having some important conversation about escaping the prison, since they all had some kind of stupid power to make the challenge ridiculously easy.
Which someone noticed.
"Oh yeah, no shooting laser beams or energy balls since this place is kind of a real prison." Chris announced. "Also, it would activate some stuff that I wouldn't like to de-activate."
"Geez, dude, I wasn't going to blow some place up." Dante said. "Also, I don't believe you."
"Okay...sure."
A screen popped up from the ground, rather awkwardly, but it did show exactly that, as a big beam that got shot from Axl got countered by...a mechanical shield that reflected the beam and really hurt the shapeshifting robot, him being blown back far enough to be off-camera in less than half a second.
Either way, the six of them had to cringe at the sheer pain that Axl got sent his way.
*Dante's confessional*
"Man, I'm glad that I'm not gonna get thrown like that because I don't really shoot beams, only bullets."
*Confessional cut*
And the TV disappeared with Chris' voice, so these guys were truly stuck in prison without a plan that wasn't cooked up yet, but there was one thing that you would do in prison.
"Go try and start causing some problems, dude, you may never with these guys."
"I don't think that's a wise idea." Uraraka said. "We know that at least some of them have the powers to incapacitate us and most of us can't fly away like Pit or I."
"That's true, but we've got a great secret weapon."
Everyone took the time to look at Sokka.
"I kinda figured it would be easy to distract most of them."
"Wait, really? I don't think you ever know half of these guys." Nicole rebutted. "And honestly, there might be so many ways to escape this place."
"Have you been in prison to help a friend escape from jail being a political prisoner?" Sokka asked. "Since Old Fire Nation's kinda evil."
Nicole and Uraraka was silent, as the boys grinned at the plan of action.
"If anyone's got anything else, we need to do this first."
'
These guys had their second meal of the day and they all noticed the guards were either trying to catch up with their friends thanks to not even being under Chris' eye or were looking at them very closely.
Connor, Tanya and MacArthur may have been the only ones of the latter, but damn, if that isn't a trio to be watching you and obviously, Uraraka was definitely being looked at for one reason.
And this wasn't real prison experience, so Tanya took an opportunity to her...a former friend out.
"I'm sure that you're wondering why I'm looking at you so much." Tanya basically ripped a thought out of Uraraka. "Remember that alliance from a month ago?"
"Uh-huh...isn't this not allowed in prison." Uraraka apprehensively said. "Or at least, MacArthur might have problems with it?"
"Uh, I'm above board on it since she thinks I'm torturing you with words."
MacArthur was smiling at Uraraka's displeasure for obvious reasons.
"So, this place has quite a few holes that Chris wants you to go through and honestly, there's more holes than a cheese factory. Some holes are windows, some aren't, so you better not get yourself eliminated."
"Or what?!"
Uraraka made it loud, before Tanya put a finger over her mouth.
"Or I'm going to make however your stay in that resort, however short it may be, miserable."
"Okay." Uraraka chuckled, struggling to not laugh. "Sure, Tanya, you can do that."
*Uraraka's confessional*
She was understandbly confused by Tanya's words of advice.
"What do you mean you're going to make my life a living hell? I think she's 13 and whatever Qurik she has only applies with a gun and unless this show's weird with guns as well, I don't really see that happening...but she was with my voting group of actual friends." She unseriously said.
*Confessional cut*
Later after lunch, the boys and Squirrel Girl were ready to bring that situation into reality, distracting the guards so hard that they'd forget who they were or messing around (in Pit's words, who's very reliable.) and these guys were doing pretty good for being up at 3pm.
In case it wasn't obvious, it was 3pm and time to do some bullshit, like fake a fight that was clearly happening with about four dudes.
"Hey, uh, Sokka, what is it did you say about my lady?"
"Uh, that I said she looks very beautiful and that I'd like to worship her personally!" Sokka shouted. "...Uh, you'd be useless without her or something-"
"THAT'S IT!"
Sokka nervously grinned, as he saw that the fight attempt worked...in Pit's favour, as the angel backed away to prepare something.
"You can talk all the trash you want, but you can't just lie like that! We're a team, I'm her herald and I'm sure you know what I mean." Pit explained angrily. "Also, I don't like your hair when it's untied."
"And you've got that tuft thing going on in your hair, it's like two medals on there!" Sokka feigned his anger.
"Shut up, at least my breath doesn't smell bad...all the time."
"Okay, that's it!"
These two finally walked up like they were going to fight, as they were treated to audience of no-one but the few prison guards were looking to get entertained, as Pit and Sokka were position themselves in the random empty spot that was just there.
Squirrel Girl was sitting pretty and...Dante was somewhere else along with one other guy, but we'll get into that later because Sokka kicked into Pit's chest with some awkwardness.
Pit rolled back and got up to run back into Sokka's new "effective" range, as he swung with a right hook that had no elegance that Sokka dodged and...uh, he slapped him.
It would've been a punch, but things got a little bit mixed up.
"Kick his butt, Sokka, he looks like a wimp!" MacArthur shouted.
"Shut up, he's far from a wimp...since we were on the same team!" Giovanni declared. "He's a total villain guy."
"I know, but I doubt he's a villain." MacArthur said, as Sokka managed to get a hard slap on Pit. "He couldn't even handle a slap that well."
"You're not going to diss Kid Angel like that!"
"...What a name."
MacArthur and Giovanni were the only vocal ones, but the vast majority of the guards were either watching the fight or trying to get a good view of the other remaining jailed players who were not named Dante, said players wondering who would win out of an angel who has defeated gods and funny sword man.
Well, Dante was genuinely being dragged through by Pinstripe Potoroo, who wasn't a big fan of the law, unsurprisingly enough, and though the demon hunter could've escaped at any time...
...he could definitely see something cooking up within the weasel-esque man's mind, since he had that smirk on his face.
"Okay, Pinstripe, what's your secret sauce?" Dante asked, crackling his knuckles. "What's your epic pipe of victory?"
"Shut up, do you want us to get caught?" Pinstripe whispered to his ear, as Dante sighed.
These two were slowly pulled further and further towards a literal pipe of victory, as there was an messy plumber's room with a few pipes that were in the process of being fixed by a robot without much of a face...or a wrench.
The pipe room was clearly well-lit, though and well, it was really obvious which was the victory pipe.
"Okay, then, are you being serious?" Dante asked. "Because your ass is going to be grass if you're wrong."
"Yeah, my butt's gonna be fine."
Pinstripe basically beckoned Dante to do one thing, getting within earshot.
"If you say anything, my boys are making your life trouble and...ya know the rest."
Dante nodded and then hopped into the orange pipe, smelling all of the "good stuff" that the pipe carried down into a very specific place and uh, I'm not going to reveal that yet.
Mostly because Pinstripe casually walked out of the plumbing room with the watch of the prison map and he chuckled.
*Dante's confessional*
He was dirty as all hell.
"What does that mean, man? Like how he's gonna get his fellas over here? Like I'm not gonna do what I do best, anyways?" He scoffed at his friend. "Thanks, even if you're kind of an a-hole."
*Confessional cut*
Anyways, Pit and Sokka were a little worse for wear...and also MacArthur realised that not only was Pinstripe walking back without Dante that also Dante was gone for some reason.
The two fighters took their positions and bowed...
...just as the klaxxon blared with a special announcement.
"Congratulations, Dante somehow got it the easiest and he's the first one out! He may or may not have immunity, but he has escaped which means y'all on lockdown!" Chris announced. "MacArthur and Chef, do the honours."
MacArthur looked mad and Chef Hatched broke down a door.
"Chef, this is still a real prison, those doors cost money!"
"These doors aren't looking good, though." Chef replied to Chris' annoyance. "...Of course it's Dante."
Everyone else?
They were in line.
"Since y'all like messing around and fighting each other, I bet an one-hour lockdown will do you people nice and cosy...and importantly, y'all gonna get hurt." Chef warned the rest of them. "Not by me."
"Is this the real prison experience?" Nicole said.
"Uh, obviously, I'm not letting you people off easy." MacArthur said, cracking her knuckles. "Start getting your stuff together...prisoners."
"I do have my life together, but-"
The unsafe contestants were getting their faces smashed in and well, Dante and Chris did have front-row seats to the multi-guard beatdown and you could see the demon hunter's slight anguish on your face and Chris' obvious glee.
"Look, Chris, I'm not a hater of the more insane challenge, but this is just prison brutality!" Dante said. "And you know, I'm pretty sure whatever criminals left that place are causing problems."
"Dante, dude, you worry too much! Everyone likes a little bit of prison brutality now and then and I like you guys getting that." Chris announced. "Those criminals were gonna be moved anyways."
"I don't care about those criminal guys, just that police brutality's kinda lame for a challenge."
"Man, you guys wouldn't know fun if it tortured ya!"
Dante just got off the chair, as he couldn't believe this guy enjoying the still continuous beatdown of his teammates.
"I'm gonna go find some other monster to beatdown." He pulled out his sword.
And as for the now beaten-up contestants, they were done with the beatdown, but were now pinned to the floor thanks to Pinstripe and Tanya...somehow.
"I find it kind of crazy that this isn't in bad taste." Squirrel Girl said. "Didn't someone die from this?"
"...Uh, we're tougher." Pit said. "Also, maybe we shouldn't bring up that guy."
"Good point."
Uraraka took the time to take a break, Nicole dealt with tougher situations and Sokka wasn't buckling under MacArthur's weight and you know, police brutality was kicking their butts.
*Sokka's confessional*
He was looking quite terrible for a survivor.
"Dang, this has to be worse than what Zuko went through! And to Zuko, I'm sorry for that because I might know what it feels like." Sokka said. "Had to say it."
*Confessional cut*
With all of that police brutality, there would be no end to this...
...until a digital bell rung throughout the prison, as the guards basically let up on the rest of the contestants, making sure that they had the chance to move freely once again.
"Y'all either better find a way to escape or get tougher, which I know y'all can do quite easily." Chef answered quite sinisterly, enjoying the pain. "I gotta cook my loaf right now."
The five of them were sure on one thing, their injuries very apparent on their faces or not in the case of Pit and Nicole, that they needed something else to either find their own way out or confuse the shit out of the rest of them.
"Yeah, what he said. Gotta respect a veteran in here." MacArthur said. "I wish you people would get creative, though."
"So, you want to hurt us?" Pit asked.
"Well, it's necessary hurt, that's what I'm saying!"
Pit had a firm grasp on his shoulder by Nicole, as he wanted to have a random-ass comeback for the bulky police officer that was eating a donut from...somewhere else.
The rest of them were cooking plans up, sort of, for the future and there was many escapes to be had and tropes to be fufilled in some people's case.
"Damn, I don't normally listen to the police." Squirrel Girl stated. "But she is right...we do need to get creative."
"Who do you think we've been doing?" Uraraka asked. "Since these guys do scare me and I got hit with the Lav-Acid."
"It's really, really hot soup with a bunch of vegetables, though."
"It's still that!"
The two ladies were slowly moving around realising that since there was no-one else but the random prison guards that were contestants plucked from the Losers' Resort, they didn't have much else to do than escape.
"So...what's your whole MO about being a good guy...like your whole reason for it?" Squirrel Girl asked. "Just wanted to ask 'cause I don't know much about you Deers."
"...Uh...you know how, everyone with a superpower wants to be a hero in my universe because nearly everyone has one?" Uraraka answered, sweating quite seriously.
"You live a world like that?!"
"And some people do it for money?"
Squirrel Girl nodded.
"I wanted to be a hero, so that I could support my family when I came in at school...hahaha."
Uraraka went silent at that, as Squirrel Girl looked at for a continuation of that answer.
"Once I was in school and had been there for long enough...I really, really learned how hard being a hero is and how much saving people means to me!"
"...Cool speech, I respect your hustle of being a good guy just 'cause. Same thing for me, I guess."
And that awkward conversation was over with the two of them taking their time to overshare, but there was obviously one thing that was recognised in the stead that brought itself up in the fold.
"How fast can you float?" Squirrel Girl asked. "I can get a whole bunch of squirrels for a distraction or to bite into wires."
"Uh...fast enough?"
Those two were back in...some random place that was far away, as Pit was looking through random spots in his own jail cell for his bow and sword combo to jump out the back of the prison in his cell.
*Pit's confessional*
He finally got a call on the "prison phone"
"Pit, you should be cut through the bars with...a lot of things that could be blades and well, getting creative could including finding your weapons somewhere." Palutena told him. "More importantly, you saw that really wasn't a wall at the back of it."
"Yeah, I did, Lady Palutena, so I know what I'm gonna do!"
"Saw off the bars, Pit!"
Pit looked surprised, before trying to feign calmness.
"Oh yeah, I was gonna do that. I was totally wasn't going to do cool poses or anything."
*Confessional cut*
Pit...then summoned his blades.
"Wow, that's gotta be some kind of conveinence, but I'm not complaining either!" Pit remarked, getting into cutting the bars with a few repeated swipes.
Quiet ones, too, so that the guards couldn't know and they weren't super interested in see what he had to do thanks to them not having proper sight of him.
He was cuttin' and then he was cuttin' some more.
And the bars broke off with enough slices and then a part of a wall fell off, seemingly all on its own, thanks to one cat mother and her anger aiding somebody else's escape.
"Whoa, whoa, chill out, we're out!" Pit said.
"I know, but we're not in the clear!" Nicole declared.
Nicole then jumped down from the window with incredible distance with Pit doing the same, albeit a bit more awkward than Nicole...and the two of them were out of the prison already.
"And look at that, Pit and Nicole are actually out of the prison! Seriously, they can jump like nobody else!" Chris announced. "They do have to dodge the prison guards!"
"Aw man!" Pit shouted, sprinting towards the forest. "Where's...Wait, that's a orange pipe!"
"Just focus...on running...and not getting caught." Nicole said.
These two were going towards Chris, making sure that they weren't caught at any time and they didn't stop for anything, not even the host with the most waving at them frantically...even if they turned to avoid him.
And they slid on the ground.
"Guys, guys, you two are still in the game, you don't have immunity! Did you also have to break a wall in the prison?!" Chris announced, being rather annoyed.
"YES!"
"Not really?"
Nicole and Pit said both of these at the same time, as Pit took a breather.
"Dude, it's gonna take me a bunch of money to fix it regardless! Besides, only two more can escape and someone's gonna get arrested and sent to the Loser's Resort."
"Sorry." They both sheepishly apologised.
"Good...do you want to watch your fellow campers get hurt?"
"...Not really, but I do want to watch her make it through!" Pit proclaimed.
"And I bet Sokka would be great competition for me." Nicole said.
These two were sitting down, though looking away from the gained pain that the rest of their competitors were really getting the brunt of and Dante was back from beating up another Larry.
"Dante, come join your fellow campers who are...just there!"
Dante sat with Pit and Nicole, who were a few seats away from the sadistically smiling Chris.
*Dante's confessional*
"He has been doing it for 15 years...I don't think he's gonna change anytime soon, but I wasn't expecting him to watch that comfortably." He spoke with surprise.
*Confessional cut*
Sokka, Squirrel Girl and Ochako Uraraka were all people that had to endure the second lockdown beatdown and they didn't really all that much worse if only because they already had experience from dealing with one.
Connor came up to get his obligatory screentime and also because he wanted to say something.
"I am sorry for your treatment, since the host likes the show like this for apparent entertainment reasons." Connor stated. "And mistreating you contestants is not something that I can do."
"Oh, good, so you're going to be putting us back in your cells." Squirrel Girl said, as Sokka facepalmed. "Wait, why are you-"
"That being said, for your own safety and because Chris McLean wanted me to...I have to send you three to solitary confinement."
"...Oh no! How are we going to fit?" Squirrel Girl asked the important question.
"I do not know."
And these three were truly having the prison life, one of them playing the all-time favoured instrument, harmonica, with passion that didn't exist before or would exist after.
Sokka was in solitary confinement with Uraraka and Squirrel Girl, who looked at each other with sudden regret...and he was still playing that harmonica with ease.
"We need to escape prison! Also, they literally can't fit all of us in here!" Squirrel Girl shouted. "Uraraka, you know what to do, man!"
"...Uh, I do?"
Uraraka probably's gonna have this for life.
"Yeah, you can fly as far as you can with someone else and then they jump and with that momentum, you try to get over the wall and roll around the place." Squirrel Girl remarked. "And I think we could do it!"
"I guess?"
"What do ya mean, I guess? We could win this together and even Sokka could made it quite easily!"
The two of them weren't playing around, as Sokka dropped the harmonica on the floor and the game plan was truly forming in the heads of the trio, who were set to eat the most important meal of the day.
Also, the door itself opened for one reason.
"Apparently it has been an hour." Connor answered. "I completely understand that works like that...for the challenge."
"Uh, thanks for throwing me into this cell!" Sokka complained, as the other two got out.
"...You are welcome."
The three future escapees were ready to put a plan into action, since two of them had a plan and Sokka was ready to add onto said plan with his own addition.
*Squirrel Girl's confessional*
"What's up, guys, I heard you needed a fourth wall break because this guy's been writing this fic for three dang years is bouta finish it, but we've been here for like two and something months and we're gonna finish this! Regardless, it's about time for me to get cookin' for the future!"
*Confessional cut*
"Dudes, make sure that you're not in solitary confinement again, you're not going to like there now!"
"We hated it there, though!" Sokka shouted.
"Then you're not going to like me making it worse."
Uraraka and Squirrel Girl were silent, nervous about their escape being completely caught by the now slightly vigiliant prison guards that weren't getting paid at all.
The three of them slowly eat their somehow good-tasting prison loaf again, taking their time for their final meal of the challenge, ready to take the bounce.
Or even a giant rock that was...weirdly lodged, as they were finally doing the one thing that would normally be done handcuffed...
...breaking rocks for seemingly no reason, as Tanya and Darkness were looking at the trio, literally having a gun advantage and a...weird advantage on them.
"Hold on, why aren't I suffering with them?" Darkness asked.
"Because you're trying to make them suffer." Tanya said. "Chris said as much."
"Oh, come on, why wouldn't you want to go through the prison experience." Darkness smiled.
"Because-"
Tanya looked at her.
"-because I would easily do it."
"Really? I would relish in all of the punishments."
"Of course, you would." Tanya sighed at Darkness' "eagerness" to take it all on.
*Pit's confessional*
"Why would Darkness even enjoy that so much? Since, you know, she's the one with all of the power and the strength to get through that without any trouble?" Pit asked.
"For, uh, training purposes. She wants to become a stronger crusader." Palutena answered a little nervously.
"That's great! She really seems to enjoy that training and yet she can't fight."
"Though she worships Eris, who I respect, she's...something weird."
"What kind of weird, Lady Palutena?"
Palutena knew what was up and well, Pit was only 1200 years old or something like that.
"...I'll tell when you're older."
"Okay, that's fair...just popped in my mind."
*Confessional cut*
While that was happening, Uraraka was definitely reminded of a fight in the UA Sports Festival that was real close and she had to think fast since Tanya could shoot blanks easily.
"Sorry, new plan, I use my Quirk to get a bunch of rocks together and then we're gonna fly on a bunch of rocks over the wall and out of here." Uraraka whispered. "...Do you want to use your squirrels?"
"If it's for the greater good, then I'll help. Plus they have been raring for action." Squirrel Girl whispered back.
The youngest guard noticed.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!"
"Nothing, Tanya, just talkin' about our love lives." Squirrel Girl remarked, getting Uraraka to blush.
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They toiled away for a little while longer.
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Those rocks were finally about the right size after 30 minutes.
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And by now, Darkness had left the place and it was just Tanya, as Sokka looked at Squirrel Girl with some surprises, being a bit of a distance away.
But he could tell something was going on when a bunch of random squirrels went to Tanya's person and distracted her from seeing the two ladies do something.
"Okay, now." Squirrel Girl whispered.
And then all of those rocks started floating like it was nobody's business, hers and Squirrel Girls rising higher.
"Sokka, grab onto one of the rocks!" Uraraka shouted.
"You don't have to tell me twice!"
Sokka was grasping onto one of the rocks, Uraraka was trying to not vomit and Squirrel Girls was on hers easily and well, only two of them would be able to move on ahead.
*Nicole's confessional*
The cat mother looked surprised.
"Wow, I really have my competition worked out for me. Richard and kids, looks like momma really might not get first prize!" Nicole said. "And I'd be happy with that."
*Confessional cut*
Darkness then ran back to see the remaining contestants float up into a good position to be over the wall and she couldn't really do anything, as she blew a whistle to get everybody over here.
Obviously, Squirrel Girl jumped over the wall.
"And Squirrel Girl's outta there, but it looks like the prison guards didn't like that 'cause everyone's on their butts!"
"I know, just stop telling me!" Uraraka shouted, trying to dodge all of the random shots.
"Okay, geez."
Sokka was using his boomerang in strangely effective ways, as he did manage to block a few things that came from the ground including even a high rock.
Didn't help that there was no tower guards in spite of the random robots that Pahkitew was filled with...only laser squirrels.
"Listen, I know that Chris is crazy, but maybe you should jump over!" Uraraka said.
"I would do that, but the rock's too small and I don't think you're an Earthbender-"
Sokka got shot in the hand, waving his hand around and he slipped on the rock that Uraraka was also now on.
"-Grab my hand!"
"Okay!"
Sokka swung onto Uraraka's hand, as the hero in studying was nervously trying to not vomit and also maintain the weight of two people, but eventually one of those had to hit the mark.
"I'm pulling you up!"
"Yeah-"
Sokka got hit in the stomach by Samus' kick, who glared at him, as Uraraka almost pulled him up and then stumbled back onto another rock that flew her up slowly.
"-AHHHH!"
He fell down to the ground, as Samus caught him, leaving Uraraka to finally get over the wall with very unnerved look on her face, almost seeing the fall, the many random potshots, the leap over the barbed wire and the slow fall in very slow motion.
Sure she was on the ground in a few seconds, but that meant-
"Ochako Uraraka may not have fully escaped, but Sokka's out of the game! Literally because of Samus!" Chris announced. "Seriously, where was she?"
*Samus Aran's confessional*
The bounty hunter answered.
"Look, maybe it's because we were on the same team or because Sokka made an alliance against me, but I'm not convinced that Sokka would spend the money well. Uraraka definitely would, she deserves it more and more importantly, played a honest game to the finals." She explained. "Nothing more, nothing less. It wasn't that personal."
*Confessional cut*
Uraraka's tear dams broke, as she went towards where the rest of the contestants were in the moment and the rocks were falling, though Sokka was long out of trouble.
The five contestants were finally done with the challenge.
Ochako, Doreen, Pit, Dante and Nicole were in the final five and before they could even process how brutally biased Samus was or how Sokka went down, Chris had to say something.
"Congratulations to you five, you've survived the challenge...and I hope it's not literal since Sokka got hit with the crazy kick from Samus!"
Sokka did get back up, a little scarred and pained...but he wasn't really intact.
"Oh, Samus saved his butt. Anyways, he's eliminated from the challenge, the game and from getting 4 million dollars and also, Dante has immunity!" Chris announced. "That was quite the challenge, but in the end, someone has to be sent towards the Sling-Yacht of Shame and even if Sokka was voting!"
Uraraka had stopped crying by now, as she looked like she was ready to kill...quite unusually for her and she turned away from her friends in shame.
"I'm sorry, you guys."
"Don't be sorry...you still tried to pull up your competition, that much I can respect." Pit replied. "Plus dealing with Samus is something different."
"Yeah, but...I could've."
Uraraka was plainly slightly traumatized.
"Trust me, you just saw the real Samus come out. Pretty scary in Smash and even scarier anywhere else."
"I really could have...so why didn't you, Squirrel Girl-"
"I didn't know! I didn't know that Samus would go ape like that!"
These two stared at each other, as the rest of the contestants had a lot to think not only from this episode, not only from the final merge or even the two-team stage.
No, from the start.
*Sokka's confessional*
He sighed, sitting strong like a champ after getting smashed in the stomach.
"As much as this is a competition, I really want to vote out Samus. I can't hate on someone this much, since Nicole's the most like her in being a true strategist. Gotta vote Nicole."
*Squirrel Girl's confessional*
Her mind was stuck on that moment, realising something important.
"You know, since she told me that she did it to support her family and I kinda know that her family's doing a home grown business. I'm a superhero in New York, so I'm doing pretty good for myself...so, yeah."
She was thinking about it.
*Pit's confessional*
"I'm going to keep it real. I have no idea who to vote for other than not voting Uraraka because she's cool, because all of these guys are real serious about playing the game and you know, Dante and Nicole together would be a hard to fight!" Pit explained. "It's hard to vote today!"
*Dante's confessional*
"Sorry, squirrel lady, but you're not exactly the strongest out there even if you're cool." He casually remarked. "Also, you left Uraraka out to dry, not a thing I would do."
*Nicole's confessional*
She was deep in there, thinking her next move.
"I'm pretty sure I could beat the both of them...but they're a serious threat to the game nevermind being overpowered to a decent amount. Sorry, you don't really deserve the vote, but I do want 4 million!"
*Uraraka's confessional*
She was looking to the sky for her next move, sure that her vote would do something to the game so far and that they all deserved it in different ways.
"You know, I think I want to support my family." She answered apphrensively.
*Confessional cut*
The five remaining contestants and the newly eliminated and injured Sokka were on the elimination ceremony stumps, ready to reveal the last eliminated contestant.
"You five and Sokka have been through 38 or so challenges of pain, madness and insane action and honestly, it's weird how there's only four marshmallows left! Normally that would mean that there's two more challenges left, but the four-person finale I planned from the start! It's gonna be more of that, but you do have a good chance of winning the cash!"
Chris had to emphasise.
"Whoever joins Sokka means that they don't have a chance to win money and gets shot off on the Sling-Yacht of Shame! And I can't say that I would've seen this camper be eliminated!"
A loud whistle even came from Chef Hatchet, expecting something unsurprising and Dante wasn't surprised.
"Dante, your immunity precedes! Uraraka, Pit, Doreen...and Nicole, one of you is about to be sent home rather seriously!"
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Nicole looked at Pit, who looked at him with a bit of contempt.
Doreen and Uraraka nodded at each other.
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"Pit, you're going to the finale!"
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"And Uraraka, you're about to join him!"
"I completely understand why I'm down here." Nicole remarked. "But I don't get Squirrel Girl being down here, don't you have stuff that you need to do?"
"Uh, yeah, I do!" Squirrel Girl beamed like she had a drug.
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"Squirrel Girl and Nicole, you don't exactly share an equal amount of votes! One of you has two and one of you has four votes!"
Nicole was looked very surprised, as Squirrel Girl didn't really wonder at all.
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Chris was taking the time to waste the contestants' time.
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The host's dramatic marshmallow grab really got the two questioning themselves.
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"Which one will it be?"
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"Who knows, could be someone that played a honest game the whole way through for the heck of it..."
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"...or someone who's played the long game and revealed herself to doing some good strategy only after all of the bad guys had gone and messed with a few people along the way."
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Chris still held it.
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And though he threw it towards the nervous cat.
It was like everything was in slow motion for Nicole, wondering why Squirrel Girl wasn't even mad at all, considering that she was definitely not rich.
Nicole took it and said something obvious.
"You told a few people to vote for you?" Nicole assumed.
"Yeah because I've been in this game for a while and you know, if it wasn't going to be you guys, it was gonna be me!" Doreen declared.
"But why? You could use that money for many good cause, so many that I can't even list them!"
"Well...I don't need the money. Just wanted to spread a good cause around because none of you guys are bad people and that cause was being cool as all hell!"
Nicole was mad at this point.
"Really?"
"Yes, really. I've got my friends, Galactus, Kamala and a whole bunch of people that probably want me back in New York, though, saving people and the money wouldn't matter that much to me. Plus, uh, I wasn't gonna win against Dante, Pit or you without biting your ankles and you ain't villains at all-"
"You could've given it to charity to end up somewhere!" Chris interrupted. "Anyways, that almost made my cry...and I don't like crying, so get out, Doreen."
And the final two eliminated contestants went on the Dock of Shame, looking back towards the remaining four players who were plainly shocked by well the Samus kick.
Sokka looked rather impressed, as Squirrel Girl saluted the other players, as they were feeling the wind on their own faces.
"Alright, you four have one more challenge ahead of you! Dante, the demon hunter, Nicole, the most powerful mother, Pit, the mostly flightless angel and Uraraka, the weightless hero! Coming together to fight through these four islands on..."
These two weren't impressive.
"...TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS!"
To be continued in THE FINAL EPISODE, which is going to be a two-parter! A massive one at that time, ending the season somehow with 128 players in the building...or not since that's way too many people being stuck in one challenge at a time.
So, we've got the four finalists with each of their four friends going through the four islands which contain four challenges for the chance to win 4 million dollars on their own! 2nd and 3rd get 250,000 dollars each and 4th gets a little something, but it's not much compared to even silver or bronze!
Hotel Rockies has less people and Going Global has less than half of this season with 56 or 58 contestants in the game, which means that there's 30 or so episodes.
Here's a list of a few newcomers and two veterans for the season that's not gonna come until maybe late 2025 or January 2026, since Hotel Rockies' is gonna be number one priority:
Ken (Barbie 2023)
Hobie Brown AKA Spider-Punk (Across The Spider-Verse)
Panchito Pistoles (Mickey Mouse)
Manolo Sanchez (The Book of Life)
Robyn Goodfellowe (Wolfwalkers)
Tohru (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)
Ermes Costello (JoJo's: Stone Ocean)
Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim)
My first priority's in Hotel Rockies and it's not impossible that the roster could change way before the first hints of Going Global, since that's not for a year or two.
It is kinda weird how the four finalists represent the four teams pretty well, tho...