Total Drama X: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 28: Desert Downs
Part 3: Dry Eliminations (Or Elimination On A Desert Island)
1602jaw: With that being said, unlike World Tour there will be songs and unlike the other multiverse seasons, it's still all about foreign cultures like Pakistan, South Korea, Switzerland and Denmark (sometimes in the Total Drama world and sometimes in an whole other universe) and the multiverse stuff might be contained to some crossovers.
Memeking: In this universe, for some reason, people have been dealing with multiversal DNA for a good while and as a result...sand raptors! That being said, it's not like Chris is not unfamiliar with that kind of dealio, but he didn't really do it.
Anyways, we have eliminations on a desert island, which means that the sling-yacht will not change a single bit...but the people on them will definitely change the scene of the game because it's been relatively easy going since Coachman left.
Not today, I can promise you thanks to the major alliances and friend groups that practically act as alliances...having to eliminate three random people...
...not a fate I would wish on anyone, especially since most of them like each other besides Azula, Tanya, Cassie, Nicole and Crimson, which I'll explain soon.
Team British: Basil & Bayonetta
Team Brunette: Crimson, Mikasa & Squirrel Girl
Team Fighting Squad: Mai, Nicole & Cassie
Team Youngsters: Reg, Miko & Pit
Team Rhinos: Muscle Man, Azula & Pinstripe
Team Bad Boys: Dante, Joseph & Reigen
Team Other Peeps: Scott, Tanjiro & Sandy
Team Cool Girls: Nobara, Uraraka & Tanya
Team Swordfishes: Terry, Sokka & Heavy
Team Small Drama: Lowain, Yumeko & Ryuko
The Bad Boys, people who actually have their chests and the Fighting Squad, ladies who were running around from chest-lookalikes, were on a collision course with each other.
Especially since there really was only one way in and that was from the south of the island with the dock that protected Chris and Chef from the sandy elements of the...Caesar Island, a place that wanted to be a casino so badly that it got cursed by all sorts of stuff in the meanwhile.
Also, sand raptors were running towards them as per the rules of nature and Total Drama...and at least their watches told them to go southeast.
"AH!" Joseph shouted. "These guys again?"
"Yes, these guys again!" Reigen practically panicked, as he was sprinting along with the best of them.
"Nice." Dante commented, as him and Joseph had a smirk.
"Hey, have a heart for this psychic!"
Reigen's jaw couldn't be picked back up, lest the raptors gave them space.
It was like that for a smile, right up until three ladies came into their own view and Nicole just casually went up to one of them, as the Bad Boys just looked at her like she had a great plan.
It wasn't a great plan.
"Hey, you, find your own food! Like those things chasing us or something!"
The raptors just looked at her like she was stupid.
"Yeah, that is right, you should be ashamed-"
Nicole just looked back at the chest mimics.
"-Never mind, just go!"
Nicole, Mai and Cassie were finally up against Dante, Joseph and Reigen and thanks to these circumstances, Reigen realised something important during the competing runs.
Especially since The Fighting Squad just cringed at the scruffy box that The Bad Boys were carrying and the dudes were satisfied with not having a fight at the moment.
*Reigen's confessional*
He didn't really have heatstroke, but heat definitely has struck him.
"You know, being a returning player and knowing the dynamics of the remaining people here, I'm basically in on a lot of the knowledge that these people know and socially, I am on the outside, so if I have to take advantage of my chances to win...that's what I'm going to do. Make my own alliance, hopefully with Sandy convinced of my psychic powers and it should be smooth sailing to at least the final eight!" He explained.
*Confessional cut*
The two hosts with the most were a bit disappointed, as the Fighting Squad much faster than the Bad Boys...mostly down to two people who weren't the best runners.
"Fighting Squad, your immunity is well earned...and Bad Boys, you also have immunity, dudes! But...why aren't you guys fighting for each other's chest?" Chris announced. "Both of them are going to be good for your game!"
"...That's not a great-"
Reigen tripped up on nothing.
"-explanation, I've seen enough to know that you might be lying."
"Come on, man, one of them definitely has a powerful advantage and the other a nice reward! You guys can swap chests until...the last team arrives!"
"That's a fair point. Us ladies know how to tell a good chest from a bad chest." Mai shouted. "Am I right?"
"Are you three treasure hunters 'cause I don't see any treasure hunting accolades, nevermind the fact that dusty boxes always provide the best treasure." Dante started speaking with a grin.
"No way, you heard that from a movie!"
"Sometimes, movies can be true...as you should know."
And that lit a fire under these two trios.
Much like the raptor fighters, whose fires were lit once a mouse detective and a god-killing witch joined their ranks to find a lot of chests and it was...surprisingly even.
Mostly down to numbers, as Lowain cut one of their legs.
"Bruh, I'm at your leader's place! Can you at least lemme steal your stuff peacefully!" Lowain shouted, trying to dodge a raptor's swing.
"Pretty please, bro!"
Lowain got kicked by that guy's tail.
"I doubt that these revived...raptors are going to listen to reason, especially when reason says that you are a thief." Basil explained, kicking one of them in the shins and making it cry in pain. "Besides, we are technically thieves."
"Shut up, mouse dude, it's not theirs either!" Lowain shouted, holding a knife under a raptor's foot.
Basil and Lowain weren't doing too great, but others were surprisingly doing much better because they could actually fight like crazy...in the literal sense, with the raptors getting the full force of the tree climbers.
And Doreen Green.
"Sorry, guys, but you're a Canadian science experiment! And trying to kill us, so no hard feelings." She replied, seeing a raptor get bitten to death. "Are you sure that Chris isn't a supervillain at this point?"
"If there was a category for super-duper, he's in there. Luckily, I've stopped caring for reawakened fossils!" Bayonetta shot one of them. "Besides, this is easy."
"Sure it is!"
"Quite so!"
Crimson just had that glare for her raptor, who was just respecting her and also couldn't reach the chest...and Yumeko was quite afraid.
"Do you-" Yumeko tried to ask again, just to cope with not having a gambling death.
"No...I don't need cash."
"Okay, that is good. Unlike this raptor, who cannot even reach the chest."
The raptor just screamed and then talked to its friend about doing some epic betrayal, by that time, Yumeko had fallen off and Crimson slid off like it wasn't a big deal.
"Cliche." Crimson remarked, before seeing another raptor fall. "That's sad."
"What really is sad and is how obvious that you're hiding emotions to keep yourself from being happy, that your gothness is entirely dependent on your makeup...and also that you have a perky nose."
"Imagine being evil and an gambling addict."
Yumeko got read, though Crimson was definitely hurt.
"Kinda cringe."
The raptors were...watching the chicanery, mostly due to the fighters of the chest raiders being total badasses and also due to Crimson's deodorant being scary as hell.
*Crimson's confessional*
She sighed like she knew her mistake.
"Ennui's going to call me weak, which is true, because I had a weak moment. But, like, Yumeko deserves it and my vote." Crimson stated flatly. "And I don't want to gamble with such an empty person."
She blinked twice.
"I'm being dramatic again."
*Yumeko's confessional*
Good news, her eyes were really predatory.
"I know this is on. Crimson, you may refuse to do my gambles and you might betray me in this challenge, but you will not get me to be eliminated for I have a plan!" She proclaimed.
*Confessional cut*
Yumeko and Crimson just stopped looking at each other and looked towards the winning fight with the other two ladies going to town on the raptors and basically knocking them out.
"For animal preservation, you're toast!"
There were a lot of raptors that were just sleeping on the floor, mostly down to Bayonetta kicking the habit into them...quite literally too, though Squirrel Girl definitely helped speed up the cycle of life by accident.
"Guys, guys, I'm sorry, I know you people are herbs, so you all can carry a chest, right?" Squirrel Girl asked, as Monkey Joe just gave a thumbs up. "Awesome and there's...a water cooler."
"It did rise out of the ground!" Bayonetta said.
Bayonetta looked at everyone, the duo of Lowain and Yumeko carrying the chest with sly smiles and Doreen having her squirrels support her chest-carrying deal and Basil and Crimson trying to carry their third cast.
"Unless you're going to transform into sand-loving fossils, you people need the water!" Bayonetta bragged. "Me. I'm already hydrated."
"Stop bragging, you witch with a b!" Lowain yelled.
And the third chest was picked up by
As for Mikasa and Ryuko, they were doing real good...
...at getting nowhere exactly, as they realised that it was the same place where the ground seemingly cracked into the underground that the former had arrived at.
"GODDAMN IT, where's my teammates!" Ryuko yelled. "...Just mad at my teammates for getting lost-"
"Very much true." Mikasa remarked. "But considering that this is the same way that we went in, they couldn't be too far behind."
"I mean, that is kinda bullshit." Ryuko said. "Did they find three chests or something?"
"For your sake, I really hope so." Mikasa answered.
The two of them were sure of something important...as they were starting to see some other people carry something ridiculously heavy, that being the two chests that they had.
And also, a decent amount of sand raptor blood.
"Uh, I'm glad we got lost because we found our teammates again. Even if we didn't achieve much, but get messed around by rock signs." Ryuko figured. "And underground mirages."
"That is not true. We did fight a giant rock." Senketsu added, as Mikasa just glared at him. "It is true."
"Yes, I don't want to fight that giant rock again!" Mikasa shouted. "We definitely fought a giant rock."
"...We didn't fight a giant fucking rock."
And it was the same guys from the battle of the sand raptors, being the quartet that dealt with the sand raptors minus two obvious fellas that were a whole other team.
"I knew, just wanted to hear it." Lowain remarked, having his arms struggle with the chest. "Not surprised that you two got lost in a desert island that's practically a casino and a whole city."
"Shut up, Lowain! You're cute when you say stupid things."
"I don't know 'bout it, Yumeko, these buildings are lookin' pretty funky and sharp as heck!"
"Yeah, it definitely is an actual building by some Arizona players!"
Yumeko had a mocking smile, as Ryuko and Mikasa were wondering what had happened with her specifically and why these two had one chest for both teams...and someone had a better answer to cut through all of the bullshit.
"Building or not, let's go before some raptors get another idea." Mikasa answered. "Yumeko, stop talking."
"Well, she's right, so stop talking." Squirrel Girl just stared right at Yumeko.
"Do you want to win or not? I'd like to say that making rough comments is something that could motivate people." Yumeko answered. "Besides, it doesn't really look like Arizona."
Mikasa, Lowain and Crimson just conceded the argument right then and there, deciding it was time to do the hard carrying and Squirrel Girl was quite simply stronger than a good chunk of them.
"It does look like Caesar's Palace, if it was ancient." Squirrel Girl remarked. "and that one pyramid-looking casino."
"...Oh yeah! Maybe one day I'll be able to see Las Vegas on my own!"
"You have stupid money! Why not fly there."
"Because I want to finish my education or further my chances of improving my gamble."
Squirrel Girl was struck silent by the gambler's answer, hearing something quite wacky like that and also because she was starting to struggle to carry the chests.
*Lowain's confessional*
The blonde cook was just smirking.
"...Wow, I have no idea what she said, other than that it was some kind of crazy and that I'm gonna head to Las Vegas with my friends on the ship with that cash!"
He just had a smug chuckle.
"That money's going to disappear forever if I get there."
*Confessional cut
"Guys, apparently, these mics weren't working before and now I have to fire some dudes! Anyways, how long has Azula vs Uraraka been going on!" Chris announced. "Enough for a decent amount of vomit, dudes!"
Azula and Uraraka were actually having a fight in the air for no apparent reason after having a fight on the ground, as Tanya and Nobara were handing Muscle Man his butt...and Pinstripe had a much better idea than participating in a crazy fight.
Nobara was just throwing some rocks with her hammer as Muscle Man, who was scarred to heck and back, with all sorts of rock hits, stood strong and brang the punches that Tanya couldn't really handle at all.
Put it this way, Nobara was unscathed and still trying to get a treasure that on top of a very tall ladder, Muscle Man lost a tooth and Tanya was getting beat down by Muscle Man.
Anyways...
...
"Do you think that your efforts are more than enough to beat me considering that you're creating a new type of sand through your nausea?" Azula suggested.
"Yes, it is!" Uraraka shouted, trying to aim for a punch...
...and then ending up spinning around.
"OH NO-"
Too bad it wasn't enough to stop Azula from sending her down into the general sand that covered the floor like butter on bread...and hilariously, Uraraka landed face down.
"Anyways, I'd suggest to stay down there considering what you're doing and figure out your next plan! I'd like to see you try!" Azula picked up an odd box. "Besides, our...group has the treasure to potentially make us immune, so you should go and find your own treasure."
"Cool, thanks for freeing me up-"
Azula held a chest in her hand and Uraraka saw that it was a good one.
"And Azula has her small treasure!" Chris announced. "Looks like her team can rest easy! Also, the Other Peeps are...speeding in the pyramid, if that's possible!"
Pinstripe Potoroo was at the exit and Muscle Man got up tiredly, as Azula reformed with her team.
"You know your game needs work!" Azula shouted.
"And you need a damn chest, so make with it or else, I'm gonna get tired of waiting!" Pinstripe mocked the Girls, carrying Muscle Man. "What happened to those two?"
"...Nothing important." Azula answered.
*Muscle Man's swollen confessional*
The man with the muscles, fat and scars stood tall.
"Nah, bro, I let myself get knocked so that I could figure out that No-bar-uh's powers! She's real good at hammering like a guy that I know! Where the hell did Mordecai and Rigby go?"
*Confessional cut*
Tanjiro, was speeding at the very least, as Sandy and Scott finally managed to find a way to pick up the chest and it wasn't even close to being easy...what with rocks being thrown around and all.
By the way, Tanjiro stopped and then provided the power to really pull the chest backward and behold.
"And the Other Peeps have their chest no problem! Though they really need to go light speed!"
"That we can do, Chris!" Sandy shouted. "Tanjiro, you can do that fire breathing thing."
"Isn't it called Sun Breathing or Hinkamo Kagura or something?" Scott asked.
"...Yes?" Tanjiro answered, a bit confused. "But what about the chest?"
"Luckily, I might have a thing for that or rather,..."
Sandy kept on looking around, as Tanjiro just carried the chest on his back like a whole-ass backpack, as Scott and Sandy were looking through some odd stuff.
"...Tanjiro's gonna do what he always does!"
"But can he-" Scott questioned it.
"You're darn right he can!" Sandy yelled.
And like Chris definitely prophercised, the other peeps were going quite a bit faster than usual.
*Sandy's confessional*
She was a bit...dehydrated?
"You know what, even if the treasure's nothin' but a bunch of trash, at least I got to see Tanjro go as fast as the fastest man alive, so that's something to be happy about!" She shouted.
*Confessional cut*
The Youngsters had no screen time and today, they will get some.
Mostly because Pit and Miko were having a weird adventure with each other and half because Reg had definitely a real question about the last three chest mimics and when you're deep underground, you got some consistent water.
"Guys, guys, we got really unlucky!" Pit called towards the other two. "Maybe this one, this one's the best one!"
"How many times have you said that and get cursed?" Reg asked. "And how many times has Miko kicked them?"
"Five times and maybe the sixth time's different, you never know!" Miko said optimistically.
Reg was preparing his arms for another battle, Pit just pulled out another club and Miko was just shaking her arms and hands, as she threw another rock towards the chest.
And another...and another.
"Yeah, the sixth's time different." Miko said, as Pit carried the chest. "Let's go!"
Weirdly enough, these guys may have done a lot, but that...was cut out totally not because I forgot them, but because they found chest mimics and Pit just beat them with a different weapon like it was Medusa's time and getting lost and it was...
...one of those days for them, as Pit carried the thing awkwardly, as Reg looked at Miko, who was just frustrated.
"FINALLY, IT'S OVER! WE GOT A GOOD ONE AND WE CAN'T OPEN IT!" Miko shouted.
"...Can we, though? It's not like there's a rule against it and more importantly, they're...locked." Reg answered, as Pit wasn't preparing anything. "Well, that's actually good because I'm tired of surprises."
"No way! Surprises are what got us two gaming together and what got us two training together!" Miko exclaimed. "And surprises is what even got me on this season!"
"...He's talking about the underground surprises, which have not been that many." Pit remarked. "And it has been unfun!"
"Maybe fun for you because...you should know...that I got my butt kicked."
"Of course I know that you got butt kicked! We kinda saw it."
These two were a bit quiet for a minute or so, as Reg carried the real chest without any problems and honestly, these two were just looking at each other wondering something.
Something that Pit had to say.
"...Yeah, that's cool! I'm glad your training paid off because you did better than usual."
No, not that, but they were back on the outside again, Reg looking towards the Dock's direction and trying to get a good eye for it, Miko trying to hide her overpowered powers and Pit...taking to the air and saying that one thing.
Actually, it was Reg.
"How long can you fly?" Reg asked.
"As long as Lady Palutena grants me the power of flight, which means that..."
Pit's stomach dropped.
"...let's test how good I am at flying and how Reg can carry the chest."
Reg raised a thumbs up, though he wasn't really smiling.
"Maybe there's someone you should ask for her bird." Reg asked. "Because the bird's really good at-"
"Actually, let's fly!"
The excitement of flying at thirty miles per hour with a treasure chest managed to be really cool for about a minute and thanks to there being a watch that Reg was looking at...
...they were soon going down right near the dock where Chris looked not that impressed.
"Youngsters, you got here after more than a few teams had already arrived! But that's okay because you might have gotten some epic treasure!"
"Is it an epic treasure?!" Miko shouted in Chris' stunned face.
He then smiled before saying.
"You've gotta wait for everybody."
Tanjiro was dazed as all hell, practically being baked without the green, as his teammates were just trying to pry open the case without avail (The Other Peeps arrived in 7th.)
Azula, Muscle Man and Pinstripe Potoroo wondered what happened to Moredcai and Rigby, but they were at least pleased to get a good position...actually Azula glared at Dante because she got 5th. (i.e. The Rhinos got 6th)
In 5th place was the displeased trio that had some small drama with each other, even if Ryuko didn't really care for Yumeko's dig at her scantily-clad outfit and her general attitude and Lowain...wasn't digging into all of that.
In 4th place, the mostly Canadian and all brunette trio of Mikasa, Crimson and Squirrel Girl were mostly relieved, the latter most so because she could feed all of her squirrels and even revived a few like a true lifeguard would.
And in 3rd, was the incredibly satisfied duo of Basil and Bayonetta, mostly because they found out something important about each other due to their respective backgrounds.
"Congratulations, you three...you did survive this artificial desert and honestly, have you learned something about each other?" Basil asked, as Bayonetta just looked at Dante. "There really isn't much to do other than socializing."
"Then you should have done that at the start." Reg answered. "...I have no idea how those two are doing."
"Well, that's quite interesting really. So, you're just going to do this alone."
"...I don't really know, but everyone's kind of in a group or their own alliance." Reg answered. "And I'm not doing that bad alone."
"As a detective who's saved a child's father from the clutches of my archenemy...I can't see this going well."
"Well, stop seeing that! I can do this fine!"
Reg just huffed away...a few meters, as Basil wasn't that surprised.
"Smooth moves talking to a child, you know." Bayonetta remarked, as Basil frowned. "You know considering that I have experience being a mum of sorts, you should have asked."
"Do you know how Reg is? He's one of the strongest lost children who has explored quite a poisonous pit of wretched monsters and apparent villainy!" Basil shouted, as Bayonetta and Reg were a bit shocked. "Of course, I did some research."
"...Okay, I'm glad you're an ace detective." Reg said. "Uh, I'm gonna do something else!"
"Well, okay, then." Bayonetta waved the robot kid away with her words.
A lot of people didn't hear it, except a certain bunch of people that he wanted to avoid talking about that kind of stuff.
*Basil's confessional*
The brown mouse detective was a bit nervous, albeit keeping it under a cool facade.
"Please tell me that I didn't send myself to elimination, because some people are just caught in trying to send people that might potentially be in their way." He said. "That being said."
*Confessional cut*
The Short Girls and The Swordfishes somehow ended up in the same place through some quicksand fuckery from the latter team and one of them had a moving chest and the other still had none after several hours in the desert.
And the former team was looking at the sand condition of the latter and suspected something obvious about the latter team.
"How much quicksand did you guys swallow?!" Uraraka shouted, seeing Sokka covered in that sand.
"More than I wanted to! Guys, I told you it was a mirage." Sokka told her. "Did you ladies get lucky-"
Nobara slapped him.
"-with the treasure, which I was going to say anyways?"
"Sort of? It grew legs and led us here." Uraraka answered, the brown-haired hero looking tired. "Maybe it was a-"
Nobara just killed the chest's legs with a hammer and a nail, as Sokka threw a boomerang at it and the chest was just sitting there, for real and definitely for the taking.
"Whatever it was, now it has treasure in there!" Heavy shouted. "So, finders keepers."
Terry Bogard took a look at it and wondered what the fuck the chest was.
"We both were finders keepers at the same time and we do not want to fight, so I suggest handing that over to us." Tanya asked seemingly nicely. "Or else, you will."
"You shouldn't be making that threat considering you're kinda only good with guns and...I'm trying to not make fun of you! We won't go down without a fight!"
Heavy Weapons Guy (or Mikhail) didn't really care, as Nobara was swinging on him and...Sokka and Tanya gave some glares at each other as self-proclaimed team leaders.
Terry and Uraraka were now fighting on the ground for a chest that just had legs and then lost them...along with the two other players that were in a fighting mood.
"You want fight, you get fist." Mikhail proclaimed.
"Show your own fists, big...Russian...guy!" Sokka struggled with the insults.
Sokka's sword was definitely hitting the big man's bullet-protected chest, just trying to get him to shake off the aggression that made his face a bit worse.
"Guys, guys-"
Nobara got swung on by Terry for saying that stuff and then smashed him with a hammer.
"Who's going to carry that!"
"Us guys because some of us have big muscles! Thought it was kinda obvious." Terry just stated. "...Do we have to fight?"
"I don't know, why are you making this a guys vs girls thing?"
"Dude, we need to work together or else, we're going to be stuck here for hours! I know that Chris doesn't care about us, but this is kinda boring!"
"Tell that to...someone."
Uraraka stopped fighting, as did Sokka thinking about the words that the street fighter had said and it was a cramped corridor anyways and it was already starting to get a little bit uncomfortable.
While Nobara stopped swinging on Terry Bogard and started swinging on Heavy, not seeing how Tanya actually pulled the thing out.
"Who let you-"
"As your leader of this odd trio, I think Terry's plan is the best plan mostly because we do not have time to waste and Uraraka got hit by Azula, who I hate!" Tanya declared, leaving Sokka to gasp. "And to prove that we are not weak, we should get the treasure before Chris doesn't allow us too."
"Stop talking, you guys have 30 minutes and...you two groups of people are, like, an hour behind the rest! It's boring honestly, so..." Chris definitely activated something. "...might as well be snake-charmers! Also, Heavy will forever be named Mikhail."
"...We move or we lose!" Tanya yelled, ignoring Heavy's real name.
*Uraraka's confessional*
Her shock still continued on.
"I can't believe that they said Chris' name twice! It's like a thing of misfortune every time we call him out...wonder what surprises that he has." Uraraka said.
*Terry's confessional*
He had a...stoic face.
"This challenge hasn't really been fun...I mean we got stuck in quicksand, found monsters that look like chests kinda like D&D and broken a lot of walls! The best part was the wall breaking because everyone did it together!" He shouted. "Like escaping Chris' traps."
*Confessional*
Six players, one chest and maybe another one that was yet to be found and all they had was thirty-something minutes on their watches, even covering the map that they had.
"You are a scary little girl." Sokka commented.
"Don't worry, I'm 13, I know what reason is." Tanya replied.
"Let's just say that someone one year younger than me could beat me easily. She's about your size."
"Oh really, what does she do?"
"She bends the earth and metal! She invented metalbending, she's crazy good at that!"
"...Good for her."
While that conversation was happening, Heavy was carrying his team's chest while Terry was ready to carry another team's chest and it was all on the spot from there.
Sokka was using his boomerang to find a chest.
Lo and behold, there was one...
...right near the top of the place and the boomerang didn't come back.
"Not the boomerang!" Sokka screamed. "What will I do without you."
"What matters is that you found us a chest, meaning that you have betrayed your squad." Tanya rubbed it in. "Finally, I have a victory on you."
"Okay, then..."
And hilariously, there was already someone getting those treasures.
Terry was climbing since the Cool Girls actually had no time to lose, climbing the steady and solid ladder without much of a problem and not forgetting about being a chivalrous dude.
"Terry, you don't have to do this alone!" Uraraka shouted. "I can float it down from there."
"Don't worry, all you need to do is activate your floaty thing before...it crashes down onto the ground!"
"You mean catch it."
"...That works, too."
Terry got to the top of the longest ladder and he held the second chest up.
*Sokka's confessional*
He was astounded, but not necessarily in a good way.
"Wait, she's right! If Miss float over here can make that thing fall down slowly, then it wouldn't have the chance to break! I've seen smaller things break from short falls and no way that chest is surviving!" Sokka shouted. "Better hope that Terry doesn't overshoot it."
*Confessional cut*
Terry basically dropped it down near the ladder and it fell...
...and fell...
...and fell, as Uraraka activated her Quirk...
...and the chest still fell...
...and it landed right on top of Uraraka and had gotten weightless.
It worked and it wasn't glorious, since she had already taken enough of a beating from a challenge like this one, but it definitely worked in her own favour.
Terry slid down the thing.
"Guys, that was stupid fast! We've got only twenty two minutes and I doubt that any of us are fast to make out of here and get back to the dock with that kind of time!" Sokka shouted. "And I'm pretty sure none of us have a driving thing."
"Gonna be honest, I would love something like that right about now." Terry wished, wiping a bunch of sweat of his bead. "It could be much worse than that."
"Yeah, there's just a giant open door. Certainly not booby-trapped or anything!" Sokka unwisely advised the rest of them.
"Nah, the only thing that he apparently has is some raptors of sands." Terry said. "Hey, Tanya, you have something to say."
"...You forgot what I said before we found that chest! MOVE!" Tanya barked at everyone, as she startled the lot of them...and Heavy moved anyways.
"Oh god, these people are slow." She whispered to herself.
Not surprisingly, she was the last one out of there, because the other people were both much taller and a little bit faster than her, due to her not having the jewel of flight.
That being said, the six of them were hastily making their way towards the dock or trying to get there anyways, when someone at random just pulled out of their dune buggy and...
...she couldn't really do much about it, when it was revealed to be-
"Some blue bird dude and a talking raccoon?" Heavy said. "Still very crazy."
-Mordecai and Rigby, who were being by chased by a dude that was definitely part of the payroll and they stopped because of one thing.
"Dude, we've gotta carry the diamond!" Moredcai shouted. "Why did you drop it!"
"I don't know why you dropped it? Because it was in my hand for just a second!"
"Okay, just go and get it."
"Fine, I guess."
These two may not have realised that they were kinda fucked, especially when there was six people in the fight and more important, his friend was getting the diamond.
All of them stared them down.
"Wait, you guys haven't finished the challenge yet?" Mordecai asked, as there was a lot of cracked knuckles. "Wow, you people must suck!"
"Suck enough to take your dune thing?" Heavy answered. "Yes, we do!"
"Wha-" Mordecai got a hammer swing to his gut.
Which meant that he was fifty feet into the air and these guys didn't waste any time on taking that dune buggy towards the dock with ease, leaving Mordecai and Rigby in the clutches of...
...well, both teams weren't going to wait around to find out, because they were not fucking around and those two were getting it through to some guy with silver ashy skin, entirely taped hands, a North African traditional hoodie, a old-school black jumpsuit and black boots.
Moredcai and Rigby were dealing with that guy's sand powers pretty decently.
"Okay, these guys are going to deal with Kukri! He's...a bit of a edgy man and won't hesistate to hurt them real bad!" Terry shouted, sitting in the back of the dune buggy. "But why? Doesn't seem like he's involved with diamonds."
Uraraka was wondering this, Tanya was just sitting comfortably looking at the time and Sokka was in the passenger's seat
"If you stole someone's diamond, I bet they would be really mad...like insanely so." Nobara stated, driving these dunes like crazy.
"...You have a point." Terry said. "What about your clothes!"
"Same thing with my clothes! Which are getting real sandy about now, so I'm going to ignore it."
Though these drives, there was a few things that had been left unsaid.
*Sokka's confessional*
He was in a panicky mind.
"Okay, seriously, how I will not get eliminated because Azula's probably safe by now and trying to find some way of sending me on that yacht of speed." Sokka stated. "All I have to do with figure out my alliance and someone will be going home."
*Nobara's confessional*
She was in a weird mood.
"Hohoho, I'm about to make this alliance work out!" She grinned. "Muscle Man, Tanya and some other peeps, we're going not get ourselves eliminated! Because I'm tired of being in the middle, not doing crap to avoid elimination."
*Confessional cut*
The two trios arrived at the docks, vehicles skidding to a stop in a unpracticed manner and literally
"And here comes the final two teams with...five minutes to spare and also some cactus juice again!" Chris announced. "Both of your chests are safe!"
"What does that mean?"
"If you didn't arrive here after those five minutes, no chests for you!"
All of the contestants didn't really celebrate because they weren't sure yet.
"You're still up for elimination."
"Oh man!" Uraraka shouted. "Azula really did beat us."
"Yeah and I bet she is smiling about it!"
Sokka then turned to see the fire princess smiling.
"...What's your problem, your nation's your brother's now!"
The other five just disbanded and wanted to know one thing about these chest...as did the vast majority of the people that had been waiting for quite a good while, who was starting to get tired of the chicanery.
"Okay so the Bad Boys and the Fighting Square are immune this round and the rest of you aren't...just yet because this was a challenge about hunting treasure, obviously! Some suck a lot, some don't suck and some..."
Chris put this next one emphasis.
"...are so good that revealing them means you become a big target, dudes! So I'm gonna do that."
"Say what now?!" Reigen protested. "If it's that strong, then why reveal 'em?"
"Come on, you know the reason by now." Joseph practically guessed with a smile.
"Yeah, Joseph here understands that it makes for killer TV."
Joseph had a smirk.
"No prizes, dude, we've gotta get back to Boney Island!" There was a notable amount of groans. "Come on, you guys have been through harder challenges, the island will be okay!"
One big boat ride later and a place to put down the treasure, Chris and Chef, as usual, were unharmed by the crazy wildlife that was going in this specific area and the campers could have looked worse.
Much, much worse, but there was something that needed to be said.
"Did you activate the Boney Island whatever or something 'cause it feels like we're being hunted by a badger without a concuious!" Sandy complained. "At least these chests survive!"
"That they do, campers and you know what, I'm gonna by teams 'cause it's going to be really funny! First up, the Fighting Squad!" Chris announced. "Nicole, Cassie and Mai, three ladies who beat the stuffing out of everyone who's their enemy!"
"That is very true, though." Nicole stated. "Only metaphorically."
"Unlike this cat mom over here, we don't exactly fight with metaphors." Cassie remarked.
Their chest was now unlocked, actually all of the chests were unlocked and the rest of the teams waited and these three girls just got a confused look.
"The Fighting Squad get a box of donuts! Well-peserved, too."
"I don't know about well-peserved, but these are definitely...a box of donuts." Nicole remarked, getting the...dusty box of donuts out of the chest.
"And next up, the Bad Boys, who get...something good!"
Dante just picked out a free voucher for something that wasn't a box of donuts and his grimace probably clued in half of the contestants.
"Wow, those sure are a lot of dirty socks." He answered. "How long is it going to take to wash them?"
"Long enough to realise that the socks fit all three of you! And for the rest of you, one of you has gained a great treasure!"
"I don't know great treasure means to you, but does that include immunity for last place?" Sokka asked. "Feels wrong."
Terry and Heavy were glowing with smiles.
"Sokka, Terry and Heavy, you got real lucky!"
*Azula's confessional*
She kept her poker face, which was a frown, while she was steaming inside.
"Of course, that useless Sokka had to get immunity while I get only these pictures that show his friends' disdain for me and my perfection. That being said, it still will be easy to vote for Ryuko with her potential absurd power and more importantly, her anger." Azula answered.
*Confessional cut*
Azula, Muscle Man and Pinstripe Potoroo obviously got their pictures.
"At least I'm mostly liked by my guys back at home!" Muscle Man shouted.
"Yeah, don't mention it!" Pinstripe smirked, as the dog wasn't in the worst of moods. "Azula, what friends do ya even have? I even got more than a few!"
"Bro, why Coachman."
"Why not, though?"
Uraraka, Tanya and Nobara got a...a basket of random stuff and it was truly random, as Nobara smashed an alive snake in that basket.
Scott, Tanjiro and Sandy were the trio to get some random...goggles and they were futuristic snowbard goggles, too.
"Why?" Scott asked. "This kinda reminds of-"
"-SONIC RIDERS!" Pit shouted. "That being said, I got a whole lot of rocks...just in case."
Miko and Reg just held two more.
Basil and Bayonetta got something that they were careful about revealing.
"Uh, Team British, you got a..."
Three double-vote cards.
"...Wow, guys, come at look at this!"
"No thanks, I'm good with my remote control!" Squirrel Girl snarked.
"What does it control remotely?" Lowain said. "I just got this plunger gun!"
"Nothing."
"Cool...I'm gonna go with Yumeko!"
And there he went, anyways...there was definitely a lot of looks being passed around especially around the British duo with the double vote game.
"None of you can vote for Sokka, Cassie, Dante, Reigen, Mai, Terry, Heavy aka Mikhail, Joseph and Nicole at the new campfire ceremony! You know how it will go anyways!" Chris announced, as the two of them were dreading the pre-vote situation.
Like this one, where there was a whole bunch of people trying to get that third double-vote card since Chris tends to be rather fast and loose with the card...and Basil was getting the worst of it mostly because of Bayonetta not even being in the same room as the good majority of the less shrewd contestant.
Speaking of alliances...
Bayonetta had a smirk.
"Well, at least one of us is immune and I'd like to give Azula the double-vote card for hopefully obvious reasons." Bayonetta started to explain, getting an glare from Azula and Yumeko. "Azula, I know what you want to do and whatever it is, do not vote for Sokka in the next episode mostly because your hatred's really obvious. Plus he doesn't do much."
"But he has the potential to be powerfully strategic! I saw first hand his useless brain come up with ideas that out-flanked us." Azula stated. "The real problem is that a lot of people are like that."
"...So it's personal, huh?"
"I'd like to use my own fire to take him down if that makes sense."
Bayonetta nodded to that answer and honestly, she looked at the Firebending princess, as Lowain and Yumeko were just taking in a deep kiss that only Nicole noticed...and didn't want to notice.
These two had something.
"You know who's simply both very strong and very well-liked by everyone?" Bayonetta asked. "Ryuko."
"I was going to say Tanjiro, but he is too nice and doesn't hurt other people necessarily...weak in my eyes! Ryuko is...too strong to not be voted out!" Azula shouted.
"As a fellow Swordie, you're actually speaking facts for once." Lowain explained.
"I always speak facts."
"You know what, all of us voting for her should send her home!" Nicole shouted. "And that's final."
Yumeko just stretched herself.
*Yumeko's confessional*
The Japanese gambler was just sitting down.
"I would normally go for the gamble with my vote especially since there is a lot of great targets in this competition, but I can sense that Ryuko might get more votes than our nice alliance! That being Tanjiro gets my vote, no problem." Yumeko answered.
*Bayonetta's confessional*
The black-haired gothic witch stood tall in the confessional.
"Do I hate Dante or do I just want Dante to pound sand. Either way, I actually like that he is immune...though Azula might be a problem." She said.
*Confessional cut*
Whatever was left of the Drama Berets, these guys were getting real with it and it was mostly because two new members joined their alliance or rather, they joined the Swordfish alliance of old.
Sokka, Terry and Joseph, apparently, were one or rather, they just hung out together.
"Listen, you guys, we've gotta agree on something! Who are we voting for?" Tanya asked.
"Hopefully Mikasa. Unless you can tell me that she's loyal, she's definitely playing the game and I mean, playing the mean girl game." Nobara noticed that Mikasa was staring right at her.
"Mikasa it is." Sokka whispered. "She just scares the balls right out of me."
Mikasa's odd stare towards the six of them just prompted Muscle Man to jump on the table for no reason at all.
"Okay, what's problem."
"Nothing really, so what's your problem?" Mikasa coolly replied.
"Nothin!"
Muscle Man sat back down.
*Terry's confessional*
The blonde fighter had a smirk.
"I'm glad that we're all voting for Mikasa, but where the heck did that come from! I ain't intimidated by her, but I'm not going to jump on the table...and get scared."
*Confessional cut*
"No way, this chapter is getting too long!" Lowain exclaimed.
"True." Squirrel Girl said. "It is-"
"This EPISODE has been quite the rollercoaster and I can't wait for it to be over! Mostly because my hair's looking a bit weak and most of these votes were for three different people, funny enough!"
The new campfire was somehow very familiar with the same kind of layout on Pahkitew and Rushall's place with all of the logs that were cut off the top, except it had vines on the outside, greyer rocks, actual lampposts with electric lamps that simulated the fire lamps and a general wooden wall that the contestants had gone through.
With that being said, it was down to Mikasa, Crimson, Ryuko, Tanjiro, Scott Pilgrim and Basil of Baker Street, the six of them having actual votes and the rest of them carrying marshmellows.
"Ooh, what made you get down here?" Mikasa answered.
"I guess it was my threatening aura." Crimson snarked in a monotone. "Also, like, I haven't been here long."
"Fair point-"
"Tanjiro, you have two votes to your name!" Chris announced, as his shocked scream got shut up by a marshmallow. "Scott Pilgrim..."
He got his eyes peeled on the host with the most.
...
...
...
"...you have two votes and you're safe!"
Scott wiped his sweat.
...
Mikasa wondered if she put on a little bit too strong or rather, the competition made her strength a weakness.
Crimson knew that her aura was kinda strong.
Ryuko was sure of something...something that made her more mad than usual.
And Basil wasn't surprised that his observations would get him into trouble sooner rather than later.
...
"And the last contestant to be safe in this dry, dusty and certainly hot episode is..."
The mouse had his head in his shoulders knew that he was out and Crimson didn't allow herself to smile, but she felt relieved that at least she was in-
"...Crimson!"
"HUH?!" Scott screamed.
"THE FU-" Ryuko said.
"Language you guys! Ryuko...Basil and especially Mikasa!"
"Especially Mikasa?!" Basil yelled. "Do you know she's capable of."
Ryuko was a ball of anger and then Mikasa just looked at him.
"Do you know how many people are left in the competition at the moment that don't talk to other people? Actually it's just Crimson, but she was in Ridonculous Race and I doubt she'd be in the books only. Is the book your only friend or are you just trying to win through...snakier means?" Mikasa said. "Sorry to say this, but I would have stabbed all of your backs to win...minus Crimson."
"Are you kidding me, though? I am quite the ace detective and that's..."
...
Ryuko just calmed down.
"Are we going to finish this episode or what!" Ryuko screamed in Chris' face.
"Alright, kid, just calm down! Gosh, why are you so determined to finish this?"
And they were gone, Ryuko sure of one thing.
*Ryuko's confessional*
She had a smile of self-confidence.
"You know hearing that there was another me roaming being all badass, kicking ass in whatever intergalactic bullshit that she's involved and saving the world, meant nothing because I'd like to think that I went through this chill competition being consistently badass!" Ryuko declared. "I may not be her, but I kicked enough ass!"
Senketsu woke up again.
"Well, whatever this journey may contain, hopefully we should be back for the next one. Hopefully." Senketsu remarked.
"Maybe with better food 'cause there might be a world tour or something."
*Basil's confessional*
"...I really was too deep into the books and well, since my purpose here is finished and over, I would like to say that it was a horrible place to have a good vacation." He remarked with an air of regret.
He was right into that corner of melancholy.
"In spite of that...this was a good vacation. Also I don't really like being human sized, since...actually...what should I do...other than investigate the possible reapparance of a certain nemesis."
He had a determined smile.
"If he comes back in this Total Drama, then I will be there to stop him! If he's not here, then I won't be here."
*Mikasa's confessional*
She had a honest smile for once.
"Something about Eren's changed and I do not like it. At least I beat a lot of those self-proclaimed villains 'cause I came from a world where riding the line between villain and good guy's part of being a Scout."
And then she dropped it and returned to frustrated frown.
"Looks like I'll devote my heart to being a scout!"
She did the classic...hand on the heart, left arm behind her back, Scout sign.
"Shinzou wo sasageyo!"
*Confessional cut*
"Alright, alright, we're down to twenty-six campers and they're about to fly high! Maybe they are, maybe they not, but either it's gonna be...TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS!"
To be continued in Episode 29, where it's all Sonic Riders. There's probably only one answer to the challenge that's about to be ahead.
Anyways, I'm going to sing the theme through text because Sonic Riders is underrated.
i'm gonna hit you, sonic speed (that's what it says.)
ELECTRONIC ROCK SOLO
i'm gonna hit you, sonic speed
riding all the way, super sonic
(guy getting beat up by five other guys)
i'm gonna
i'm gonna (x50 or something)
show youuuuuu
MORE ELECTRONIC ROCK SOLO.
(more beatdown)
i'm gonna show you, true speeding
riding all of the way from super sonic
(more guys getting hit)
i'm gonna (x5 again)
show youuu
super sonic (x3)
speeeeeeeed.
Ah, good memories from 2006 and more importantly, you can tell who's going to suck in this challenge for obvious reasons.
...I'm going to have to say this for the sake of not having another Deadpool in a Total Drama fanfic, because he won't be coming back for the true sequel to this thing.
Squirrel Girl will have her comeback, though.
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Crud, I heard his cries! Don't worry about it, man, you still might get in.
Mikasa's one of those people who would rule the season lest some other people take the reins and thanks to the power of some rumours swirling around, Tanya hasn't been eliminated yet! Besides, she's plain dangerous with...
...Basil of Baker Street may have wanted to get past this episode and he almost did on a first pass, but there's a very good reason why Crimson about to go for revenge and you people will understand! Don't underestimate the power of a lone goth!
I'm going to keep it real, Ryuko in Cruise is genuinely awesome and it's a bit hard to top that and more importantly...I really want some other people to get the spotlight properly and not just win challenges and what not!
Those are my eliminations, come back for Sonic Riders!