Review time!
Yeezynight14: Thanks! The VR challenges are usually not based on actual episodes, so they give me the opportunity to show off my mad writing skillz. :3 Blaineley will be hosting the Aftermath as per canon, plus three adults from the Ridonculous Race. More on this next chapter, as the Aftermaths appear after every sixth challenge.
Mattafat: Yes, I'm a Dawn-J shipper. Their auras lined up quite well. XD Given who the main character of this fanfiction is, it should be fairly obvious who's likely going to be a finalist, but DJ will be making it past the 3/4 mark. Junior will be ending up with Kitty, and Dave will pair off with Sky (of course, the story will feature the whole Keith drama; have to mash up the entire series, y'know).
Sunshine: Thanks! As an anthropomorphic sauropod myself, I had to pay tribute to my heritage. I needed the contestants as different dinosaurs so I could tell them apart, and each species actually reflects who they are. (More on this later). I assume one of the interns saw blood dripping from Crimson's seat and told Chris through the helmets. FYI, the game didn't restart because Crimson voluntarily left; the game didn't eliminate her, so she was still in.
(AN: Tornado, 2011, Geo-cane, and Henchmen are the TD-verse versions of Twister, 2012, Geostorm, and Minions, respectively.)
Monday, September 25, 2017
"Last time on Total Drama – we rolled back the rock to the dawn of time! [Alejandro getting darted] Well, sort of. Our first VR challenge turned our contestants into dinosaurs bent on protecting their eggs from poachers. [The poachers failing to take out Dakota] Broken up into five teams, one for each major dinosaur clade, they had to last the duration of the poachers' visit and have enough eggs at the end to win. [Noah making off with a sauropod egg] Thanks to some badly timed menstruation, Crimson was able to help her team trick the poachers and secure their position in second place. [Crimson laying eggs; cut to Gwen and Scott looking at the poachers raiding the wrong nest] And the Ice Dancers got Eva to go on a rampage. [Eva getting bitten] Their efforts got the Threatening Theropods a trip to the ROM [The team cheering] and the Ordinary Ornithopods a trip to elimination. [The smashed nest] Spud was eventually eliminated for his chillax nature, [Spud's elimination] but not before ticking off Amy. [Amy screaming at her team]"
Chris stood at the Dock of Shame. "Seventy-nine contestants remain. Who will shake it up and take down the competition, and who will sink like a rock? Find out in today's episode of
"Total.
"Drama!"
Theme song
*Instrumental*
A camera appeared from the bushes, scaring off a squirrel. Another came from a tree, startling a blue jay. The third popped out of the ground, hitting a passing Harold in the groin. Duncan and Jacques laughed at him.
Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doing fine
You guys are on my mind
The camera flew across the island, passing Chris on a beach chair getting massaged by an intern, Dawn meditating with Zoey, Brady and Beth on a rope swing together, Leonard and Tammy casting "spells" while Ella watched, Crimson and Ennui staring blankly into space, and Chet and Lorenzo fighting to the disapproval of Ellody and Mary.
You asked me what I wanted to be
And now I think it's plain to see
DJ, Miles, and Laurie were one with the animals. That is, until a mutant gopher showed up. They screamed and ran away. Pan to Scott, Lightning, and Jo, who'd disrupted the session with the gopher. They high-fived.
I wanna be famous
Heather, Josee, and Taylor battled it out on a rubber raft. The raft fell off a waterfall, taking them with it. Bridgette, Geoff, and Brody watched.
*Instrumental*
The three girls found Owen underwater. Owen farted, sending the rivals and more than a few dead fish to the surface. Above, Zeke, Mike, and Rodney were fishing in a little boat when the lake became littered with fish and three teenage girls. Zeke grabbed one of the dead fish and triumphantly held it over his head, while Rodney began checking out Taylor's rear.
I want to live close to the sun
Well, pack your bags cause I've already won.
At one of the beaches, Katie and Sadie admired Justin. Behind them, Justin's ex Lauren sighed sadly. On the other side of the beach, Izzy, wearing a spider costume, was chasing Cameron, Dakota, and Sam for no apparent reason.
Everything to prove nothing in my way
I'll get there one day
Chef was cooking some disgusting green slop in the cafeteria. Kitty and Junior looked at each other, frightened of what was to come. Behind them sat Tyler, Leshawna, Ryan, both of the Jasmines (looking at each other, very confused), Lindsay, Mickey and Jay, and Shawn. Dave obsessively cleaned the tables, while B looked on.
'Cuz I wanna be famous
Sierra had Cody in a headlock out of love. Amy had Sammy in one out of hate. Cody and Sammy looked at each other and sighed.
Na na nana na na nana nana na na na na na naaaaah
Rock and Spud air-guitared. Courtney and Gwen looked at each other with raised eyebrows. Then they saw Trent jamming with them. He stopped and smiled sheepishly at the girls.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous
Carrie and Devin sat together on the dock, watching Tom, Jen, and Anne Maria compare fashion tips. Then the dock gave out under them, sending them into the water. It turned out Alejandro had been responsible. He grinned evilly at the camera.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous.
Topher cockily smiled at Eva, who decked him in response. Behind them, Scarlett and Max passed through a field of lustblossoms, and suddenly began making out.
*Whistling*
At the campfire, as the other campers I didn't have time to name looked on excitedly, Noah and Emma looked each other in the eyes...and then Sugar interrupted the moment by appearing between them. Angry, Emma started chasing Sugar around the camp to the amusement of the others, while Noah stared apathetically at the camera.
Threatening Theropods
Scarlett stood behind the good cabin and in front of the lustblossom field with a gas mask over her face as she hung strange tubes from the lip of the cabin's roof.
"What are you doing?" Emma asked, watching.
"Preventing these flowers from affecting anyone else. The female flowers release pheromones that act as a powerful aphrodisiac to attract pollinators. Overpowering their smell will keep us focused on winning. These tubes release a powerful citrus scent periodically. They won't prevent the flower's drugs from taking over our minds if we get close to them, but if the susceptible stay at this distance, they'll be safe."
"How come some people are affected and some aren't?"
"Chirality. Half of the scent molecules the flowers produce are left-handed, if you will, and the other half are right-handed. The left isomer smells like wet sand; the right smells like a combination of blueberry and pomegranate, and it's the right-handed isomer that is the aphrodisiac. But people only have scent receptors for one isomer."
"So I can only smell the left-handed ones, and you can only smell the right-handed ones," Emma finished.
"Exactly. Hence the mask on my face, and the lack of a mask on yours."
"CAMPERS! Come to the beach, we're having another challenge!" Chris called over the PA.
Confessional – Emma.
"Scarlett's been really focused on protecting us from the lustblossoms ever since we got back," Emma explained. "Apparently they're really dangerous, and turn anyone who's vulnerable into a quivering mass of hormones, fueled only by the desire to mate, for fourteen hours or until they smell something nasty. I hope Kitty doesn't get anywhere near those things."
Kitty didn't, but someone else did. "These flowers would be perfect for my anniversary gift for Ellody," Chet said, picking a blue and a pink flower. "They sure smell funny though. Whoever heard of a cheese-and-sand-scented flower?"
Chris stood at the beach. "Everyone, we're returning to the three teams from the snowball fight – that's Teams Amazon, I'm Abso-Smokin'-Hot, and Victory."
"We're reusing the teams?" Cameron asked.
"Yeah, I didn't feel like constantly remaking the teams, so every so often, teams will repeat. Everyone into your spots. Team Amazon, you're on the left, Team Victory, you're on the right, and Team I'm Handsome Beyond Your Wildest Dreams–"
Confessional – Sky.
"Or in this case, nightmares."
"–you're in the middle."
Once that was done, Chris continued. "Can any of you name a disaster movie?"
"Tornado!" Beth said confidently.
"2011!" Brady added.
"Geo-cane!" Tyler said.
"Henchmen," Noah said flatly. From where her team stood, Emma burst out laughing at his joke, and some of the other contestants snickered.
"That one's more of a disastrous movie," Cody chuckled.
Chris facepalmed and waited for the laughter to die down. "ANYWAY, what we're doing today for part one of our challenge is an obstacle course, from here to the big pine tree half a mile away, and back. Along the way, you're going to be experiencing some natural disasters. Earthquakes, volcanoes, flash floods, y'know, the normal stuff. Each team will go one at a time. The team that completes the race in the shortest time wins an advantage for part two. Team Amazon, you're up first!"
Team Amazon: Cody, Heather, Gwen, Courtney, Sierra, Jasmine T., Eva, Dawn, Beth, Emma, Kitty, Zoey, Dakota, Mary, Ellody, Sanders, MacArthur, Katie, Sadie, Laurie, Miles, Ella, Sky, Sugar, Carrie, and Lauren.
Team CIRRRRH: Tyler, Izzy, Owen, Alejandro, Duncan, Noah, Trent, Topher, Tom, Jen, Crimson, Ennui, Justin, Jo, Anne Maria, B, Beardo, Cameron, Devin, Ryan, Stephanie, Brick, Phil, Mike, Rock, Dave, and Scott.
Team Victory: Harold, Leshawna, DJ, Bridgette, Zeke, Lindsay, Jasmine O., Sammy, Amy, Chet, Lorenzo, Junior, Scarlett, Max, Geoff, Brody, Brady, Lightning, Shawn, Rodney, Taylor, Jacques, Josee, Sam, Mickey, and Jay.
Team Amazon
Team Amazon took their place at the starting line. Chef pulled out a large gun-like device and fired a large, stale meatball into the air, signalling the team to start racing.
They'd only gone a hundred feet when the ground began vibrating underneath them, knocking some of the team to their feet. "The ground is moving! We're havin' an earthquake!" Jasmine T. exclaimed.
"I wouldn't be so sure," Ellody replied, carefully watching her step. "We're pretty far from the nearest fault line."
"Will you guys just shut up and keep walking?" Heather snapped, before karma kicked in and knocked Heather onto her butt.
Gwen laughed at her rival's misfortune, but then the ground shook again, causing her to fall face-first onto Courtney, who fell on her back. The two girls got tangled up in each other, and when they opened their eyes their faces were uncomfortably close together. Awkwardly blushing, they quickly pulled apart.
Confessional – Courtney.
"That didn't mean anything! I like boys!" Courtney said firmly, her eyes still wide from the shock.
Three hundred feet later, huge amounts of water splashed in front of them from overhead troughs meant to simulate a rainstorm, turning the ground before them muddy.
"Ew. No way am I ruining my shoes for this," Dakota grimaced. Eva responded by picking her up and setting her on her shoulders before charging through. "Thank you."
"Chris TOLD you to bring your sneakers," Eva retorted.
"I am wearing sneakers! But I still don't want them to get ruined."
"Must...not...drop...must...not...drop..." Eva muttered to herself.
Elsewhere, Miles and Laurie simply took off their sandals and waded barefoot through the mud. They sighed happily at the feeling of bare skin meeting damp ground.
More of the team caught up. "Hey Ella, why not a song to motivate us through?" Carrie asked.
"I thought you'd never ask!" Ella opened her mouth, but then got drenched by one of the troughs. "Never fear, I am alright," said a soaked Ella, before spitting out some wet hair.
Sugar laughed at her as she ran past, then got drenched herself. "MAH HAIR!"
"At least she smells better," Emma remarked to Kitty.
"Agreed."
Confessional – Kitty.
"Seriously, when was the last time she took a bath? Some pageant queen."
Another three hundred feet later, a viscous, steaming hot red liquid exploded out of the ground. While everyone else scattered around the growing puddle, Eva simply ran through it, not caring that blisters were forming where the fluid splattered onto her legs.
Five hundred feet later, massive fans blasted high-speed wind at them, and many of them struggled to stand.
Four hundred feet later, the ground began to give way underneath them, forcing the team to dash ahead of the emerging sinkholes. Katie tripped over one, but Sadie quickly scooped her up and kept going.
Two hundred feet later, they were attacked by Africanized honeybees. Lauren particularly had it bad, as she was allergic.
Five hundred feet later, another set of fans blasted cold air at them, along with some fake snow. Courtney was forced to spit out a mouthful of mush as her team left the mock blizzard.
Eventually, battered and bruised, Team Amazon crossed the final 340 feet to a towering pine tree.
"Phew!" Eva sighed, dumping Dakota onto the ground. "Finally!"
"I'm so sweaty," Cody panted.
"Want me to wring out your shirt for you?" Sierra asked, still full of energy.
"..."
"Oh, crap," Mary said as she realized something.
"What?" Zoey asked.
"We're going to have to do this all over again to get back."
Everyone groaned. MacArthur faceplanted into the dirt at the base of the tree and screamed into it.
"Team Amazon, you completed the race in 19 minutes, 42 seconds. Whoever gets less will probably get the advantage. Team Me! You're up!"
Chef fired another meatball once the entire team was at the starting line.
Team CIRRRRH
Tyler tumbled across the sand covering earthquake-mimicking shake table. "Good thinking, Tyler!" Izzy said, before letting the table knock her over and shake her to the end of it. "Wheeee!"
It turned out to not be so good thinking for everyone, as Owen was turned into a human bowling ball when he fell over. He rolled to the end of the shake table (flattening Tyler in the process ["Ow."]), slid through the mud directly to the fake volcano setup, and ended up with his face close to the red liquid.
Owen sniffed it, then took a lick. "Hey guys, it's not real lava, it's tomato soup! Really hot tomato soup...ow! My tongue!" he cried, looking at his burnt tongue hanging limply from his mouth.
"Oh, poor baby," Izzy, who'd rushed over to her injured beloved, cooed. "Want me to kiss it better?"
Owen nodded, a few tears forming from the pain.
Although the camera didn't see what happened next, his team, busy trudging though the mud, did, and frankly they were a little disturbed.
"Ew," Duncan cringed, before getting splashed.
"Lucky," Justin muttered to himself, looking enviously at Izzy and Owen's interactions.
Confessional – Justin.
"I'm happy Owen has a girlfriend, but in all honesty, why hasn't a girl asked ME out yet? Do you guys at home SEE this face?"
Confessional – Crimson.
"I hope I get burns from that soup too," Crimson said monotonously.
Static
Some time later, Crimson reappeared in the confessional. "I did," she said monotonously, revealing a burn mark on her arm. "I love it."
Eventually, the team finished the course. Owen got his tongue bandaged by an intern and was instructed not to remove the bandages for four days. "But what if I need to eat?" he asked, worried.
"Live off your body fat, you've got plenty to spare," Duncan retorted.
Behind him, Noah glared at him.
"Team Chris is Really, Really, Really, Really Hot, aside from Owen's injury, you finished the course in good time: 16 minutes, 37 seconds. Team Victory! You're up!"
Chef fired the final meatball. It hit a seagull, which surprisingly had a reptilian tail, and sent it to the ground.
Confessional – Bridgette.
"That poor seagull...what was up with its tail?"
Confessional – Scarlett.
"The mutated fauna are back as well," Scarlett shuddered. "This is worse than I thought."
It was. While everyone else was busy, one of the bull sharks from the first challenge, who'd escaped capture, swam into a current that momentarily stung him, almost as if it was electrocuting him. Then, suddenly, his brain seemed to get bigger and denser.
The shark didn't know what to do, but for the first time in its life, it KNEW something was never going to be the same again.
Team Victory
Rodney was carefully stepping around the sinkholes when he saw Brody fall down one. "HELP!" he called. "Jacques! Help me! I'm in a hole and not liking it, dude!"
Jacques, who'd been passing by, stopped and looked into the mock sinkhole, then walked away.
"I'll help you!" Rodney declared, sticking his beefy arm into the sinkhole. Brody grabbed his hand, and the Lovesick Farmboy pulled him out.
"Oh, thanks dude!" Brody said, breathing heavily.
"Brody? You alright, brah?" Geoff asked, running over to his friend.
"I am now. Can you believe it? I fell down a hole and Jacques wouldn't help me get out!"
"Of course I believe it, dude. Jacques and Josee don't have good sportsmanship. They cheat to win. C'mon, let's go before the bees come back."
"DAAAAAAH!" they heard Lindsay scream, and saw her running away from the bees.
"Never mind."
As they left, Rodney thought about what Geoff said, and decided he knew who he was going to vote for if his team lost.
"Team Victory, you did better than Team Amazon, but not better enough. 17 minutes, 5 seconds. Team CIRRRRH wins part one of the challenge!"
"Yes!" Jen exclaimed, punching the air.
"So what's the advantage?" Trent asked.
"You'll see," Chris grinned evilly. "What's the answer to Trent's question? Find out after these messages."
Do da do da doo. Commercial break!
"And we're back!" Chris said to the viewers. "A natural disaster-riddled obstacle course has determined that Team Chris is Really, Really, Really, Really Hot has earned the advantage for part two of our challenge. The advantage? A submarine manual!"
"Heads up!" Chef grumbled, throwing a massive textbook at the team. Izzy caught it just before it could break Owen's jaw.
"Submarine? Uh-oh, I think I know what part two of our challenge is," Topher said. Gwen and Jasmine T. gulped.
"Correct you are, mini-me!" Three old-looking submarines emerged from the lake. "Part two is a different type of disaster. Each team will be shut in an ex-naval sub that, once submerged, will have a hole made somewhere along its weak points by our interns. This hole will let in water. Your challenge is to find and patch that hole, wherever it is, and then get your sinking sub back to the surface. First team to do so wins! Last team up throws someone overboard."
Confessional – Gwen.
"I have pretty bad claustrophobia," Gwen said, rocking back and forth in the fetal position. "I hate Chris so much right now!"
Each team entered their designated sub, marked by a flag standing in the back. Once the hatches closed, the subs automatically dove to a certain depth.
A moment later, three interns, each armed with a sharp poker, emerged from the water.
"The holes have been made!" Chris announced. "Let the challenge BEGIN!"
Team Victory
After an awkward silence, Geoff spoke. "Okay, so like, does anyone have a plan?"
"Who made YOU leader?" Amy scoffed.
"I never said I was the leader," Geoff replied. "I just wanted to start the conversation."
"We may not have the manual, but I'm pretty sure I can figure out where the interns would most likely puncture the submarine," Scarlett mused.
"Please! Why would we even need that stupid book?" Lightning scoffed.
"Because it would make finding where the hole would probably be A WHOLE LOT [F WORD]ING EASIER, DUMB[A WORD]!" Amy shouted.
Her team gasped. "Is she even like, allowed to say that on TV?" Brody asked.
"We're in a T-rated fanfiction, and the author's too much of a wuss to uncensor cuss words," Amy muttered.
"I resent that!" someone very important shouted from offscreen.
Team CIRRRRH
"What use is that thing going to be?" Stephanie asked, frowning at the manual.
"Well, I was thinkin' we'd use it to find the weak spots," Ryan replied.
"I know that! I meant that we're not gonna have time to find 'em all! Do you SEE how thick that thing is?"
"Oh," Ryan said, and then his eyes widened. "You're right! None of us can read fast enough to cover that whole book! And the water's already coming in." Indeed, the floor was starting to get wet.
"Obviously, we've never shared classes," Noah said, motioning for the Personal Trainer to move aside. "I can cover the biggest dictionary in the local library in under twenty minutes. This manual's gonna be a piece of cake." He opened the book and began to rapidly read through it.
Confessional – Mike.
"Noah has the highest reading speed of anyone in our school," Mike explained. "That's why he's got so many books at all times. He uses them up really fast."
And soon Noah was writing something on a piece of paper. "Here," he said, handing it to Stephanie. "Those are all the critical places where we should look for a hole first."
"Got it," she said. "Everyone who's short, go to one of the places on this list! Find the hole, come back to us and we'll figure out how to patch it!"
"Ma'am yes ma'am!" Brick saluted.
Team Victory
Suddenly, Bridgette sniffed the air in the sub. "Hey, what's that smell? It seems...familiar...Geoff." Her pupils dilated all the way. Geoff did the same, and soon they were making out again.
"Uh, guys?" Brody asked. Then his own pupils dilated. "MacArthur."
"Oh no! Someone brought lustblossoms onto the sub!" Scarlett panicked, quickly putting on a gas mask. Max looked confused, especially when Scarlett did the same for him. Around them, about half their team ended up in a hormonal trance, attempting to either break out or harass someone, and those who didn't have a crush or a significant other simply stood there and giggled stupidly, massive blushes covering their faces. All the while, the other half looked on confusedly.
Scarlett slapped a gas mask onto Harold before he could breathe the intoxicating scent and embarrass himself. "Gosh! What's going on?" Harold yelped.
"No time to explain! We need to find the hole and–" she spotted the hole in the wall behind her. "Well, that was certainly convenient."
Team Amazon
Gwen and Jasmine T. huddled together on the floor. Water was rushing into their submarine, and fast. And neither of them were feeling any good.
"Come on! Help us out, wimps!" Heather snapped.
"They can't help it, they've got claustrophobia!" Carrie retorted.
"Come to think of it, I actually agree with Carrie," Courtney said. "Fear isn't something to laugh at. Would you call ME a wimp if you saw me freaking out because of green jello?"
"...What?" Heather asked, baffled.
Confessional – Courtney.
"Of course I'm afraid of green jello! It looks like boogers! Technicolor boogers, yes, but still!"
Confessional – Chris.
"Bad move, Courtney,' Chris chuckled evilly. "You've given me the perfect idea for a challenge...and there WILL be green jello." He cackled maniacally.
"I think I know what you're thinkin'. And how am I gonna get that much jello on such short notice?" Chef asked from outside the confessional.
"Not my problem!"
Chef groaned.
"I found the hole!" Sanders called from somewhere in the back. "Now all we need is something to patch it up with."
"I can weave us a stopper!" Sierra proclaimed. "I'm a fourth-generation basket weaver, I can do this! FOR CODY!"
Cody facepalmed while Sierra quickly weaved a cylinder out of yarn, then threw it to where Sanders was standing.
"Not my idea of a patch, but oh well," Sanders mused, before shoving it into the hole. The water stopped rushing in immediately. The yarn stopper took on water and expanded, plugging the hole even further.
"I know where the ballast is kept, " Ellody said. "Mary and I will open it up so we can send the water there."
"Please do," Dakota whimpered. She was sitting on a shelf so as to avoid ruining her designer sneakers.
"Wimp," Eva muttered, grabbing a mop.
Thanks to patching the hole early on, Team Amazon surfaced first, and Team CIRRRRH came up not long after.
Chris checked his watch. "Not bad, but Team Amazon came up two seconds earlier, so they win." Team Amazon cheered. "Team Me, you had the manual but came up second. What happened?"
"It took us a long time to figgah out what to patch da hole wit, alright?" Anne Maria snapped. "Luckily we were able to use my hairspray to put da pieces of da sub back togetter." She proudly knocked her fingers against her hair, which strangely created a clinking sound and didn't deform it.
"Huh. So what's wrong with Team Victory?"
Team Victory
What was wrong was Lightning, unaffected by the lustblossoms, wouldn't budge from the control panel. Although the hole had been patched (thanks to some window sealant Max had with him for some reason), the sub was still sinking. Lightning had gotten the idea that he was the best person on the team, and thus the one to save them. Despite literally knowing nothing about what he was doing.
"Lightning, please! Let us operate the sub. We have more experience with this!" Scarlett pleaded.
"Nuh-uh! Lightning doesn't care if Harold went to Master Steve's Sub Camp or whatever it was. Lightning can do this!" He pressed a button.
The sub sank further.
"Yeah...I don't think that's a good idea," Junior said.
"Pfft. Like a tiny little freshman would know what they're doing."
"Dude! Move! We're taking on water, and it ruined the flowers–"
"What flowers?" Scarlett asked, cutting Chet off. Lightning was distracted by this enough so that Max was able to shove him aside and press some buttons, which began pushing the sub back to the surface.
Once his team was out, Chet showed Scarlett the lustblossoms he'd picked, which had been reduced to mush by the water. "These!"
Scarlett took off her gas mask. The water had washed away most of the scent, but there was still a hint of blueberry/pomegranate, and it made Scarlett feel a slight urge to do things I cannot write in this story to Max.
Scarlett suddenly picked Chet up by his shirt collar. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE DONE?!" she snapped. Her hair freed itself from its bun, and she suddenly looked much scarier. "YOU ALMOST GOT US KILLED! THOSE FLOWERS WERE INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS AND YET YOU RISKED OUR LIVES FOR THEM?!"
Owen farted. As the massive cloud passed the affected, they returned back to normal and promptly began throwing up all over the beach.
"Sorry," Owen apologized. "I get gassy when I'm frightened."
Scarlett composed herself, then saw everyone staring at her, mouths agape. "Oh. Sorry, I lost my composure there. But the lustblossoms are no laughing matter. Bridgette, I remember you asking yourself if Wawanakwa used to be a nuclear waste dump."
"So?"
"You're absolutely right." Bridgette gasped. "In the 1950s, the United States used Wawanakwa as a dumping ground for nuclear waste. Eventually that was banned, and the island was cleaned up by 1994. But apparently, it wasn't completely thorough." Scarlett glared at Chris. "And the construction of the buildings to be used for this show exposed the radioactivity long buried in the soil, reawakening the should've-been-extinct lustblossoms. Is that right, Chris?"
"I had NO idea about the nuclear thing," Chris replied. "But now that I know, we're gonna have to do something."
Confessional – Chris.
"I'd actually heard rumors about the nuclear waste on this island and of Sci-fi-like mutated creatures created by it, but I thought they weren't true," Chris said honestly. Then he grew a sinister grin. "But now that I KNOW they're true, then a whoooole lotta challenges just got way more interesting."
"That will have to wait until tomorrow, though. Right now, Team Amazon goes to the good cabin, while Team Victory figures out who gets the boot. Meet me at the campfire at eight, Team Victory, someone's getting discharged tonight!"
Confessional – Bridgette.
"So you KNEW about the dangers of the island and DIDN'T tell us?! Not cool!" Bridgette growled, writing SCARLETT on a piece of paper.
Confessional – Josee.
"From gold to bronze because that sack of potatoes brought those stupid fleur de luxure onboard!" Josee roared, writing CHET on a piece of paper.
Confessional – Brady.
"I'm still worried he'll go after Beth," Brady said, writing RODNEY on a piece of paper. "I hope he doesn't want ME gone."
Confessional – Rodney.
"I don't like cheaters," Rodney said, writing JACQUES on a piece of paper.
"Here's how elimination is done here," Chris said. "We use the marshmallow system here. When I call your name, come get one." Team Victory saw a plate of twenty-six marshmallows, six of which were colored. "The marshmallows are color-coded to show how many votes you got for drama. White means no votes against you, and the recipients are Harold, Leshawna, DJ, Bridgette, Zeke, Lindsay, Jasmine O., Sammy, Lorenzo, Junior, Max, Geoff, Brody, Brady, Shawn, Taylor, Josee, Sam, Mickey, and Jay."
Once they all had their marshmallows, Chris pointed to two blue marshmallows. "Blue means you received only one vote against you. Rodney and Jacques, come on up." Jacques looked absolutely flabbergasted, and Rodney did his best to avert eye contact.
Then Chris pointed to, for the first time, two green marshmallows. "Green means you got more than one vote, but are still safe. For the first time, two people get the greens. Scarlett, against you are two votes, and Amy, four."
"Why do people keep voting for me?!" Amy whined.
"I neglected to tell my team vital information. You're a [b word]," Scarlett replied simply. Amy's jaw dropped, and Chris used the opportunity to shoot a green marshmallow into her mouth, before walking over and making Amy "chew" it by pushing her jaw up and down.
Two colored marshmallows remained as Chris resumed his duties. "Orange means you're on the chopping block, but are safe. Red means you're out. Lightning. Chet."
The two boys looked at him, Chet nervous, Lightning unamused.
"Lightning, your ego is annoying and almost killed people. Chet, your little bouquet of mutant tulips also almost killed people. Today your team has gone with the lesser of two evils, and with six votes against him...
...
...
...
...
"Lightning has not struck out!"
"SHA-BAM!"
"Chet? What do you have to say for yourself after exposing your team to the lustblossoms?"
"I'm really sorry," Chet apologized. "I didn't know they were dangerous. I just wanted to give Ellody a present for our anniversary."
His team went "Awwww."
"Yeah...not a fan of the mushy stuff," Chris deadpanned. "But I will allow one final reunion before you have to leave."
"You've been eliminated?" Ellody asked sadly.
"Yeah," Chet said, the red marshmallow's remains in his stubble. "I just wanted to give you flowers."
"I don't need material gifts, dear. Just knowing your hormonal impulses tell you to seek my company is enough of a gift for me."
They shared one final kiss. Lorenzo and Mary looked at each other knowingly, while Chris just gagged.
Confessional – Harold.
Harold counted on his fingers. "I overheard Chris say Chet got eleven votes, making the total twenty-five. But there were twenty-six of us. Who didn't vote?"
"I don't vote for my friends," DJ replied from outside the confessional. "I just don't feel right doing it, and Chris doesn't have anything against not voting anyway."
"Ohhhhh."
Confessional – Scarlett.
"Looking back on today, I'm quite glad Chet picked flowers of BOTH sexes, for otherwise our team would've lost the challenge a whole lot earlier," Scarlett said. "Also that I should have warned everyone about the lustblossoms BETWEEN challenges."
Confessional – Jacques.
"Who would vote for me?! ME?!"
Confessional – Prescott Twins.
"I THOUGHT I told you to vote for Chet!" Amy snarled.
"I did!" Sammy protested.
"You'd better be telling me the truth, Samey. For your own sake." Amy stormed out of the confessional.
As soon as she was out of earshot, Sammy got a worried look on her face. "Oh my god. Why DIDN'T I vote for her?"
"Six down. Seventy-eight to go," Chris said as he stood on the beach. "Who will evacuate to the finish and who will be blown out of the game? Find out on
"Total.
"Drama!"
The mutant seagull Chef had knocked out of the air had recovered by now, and angry, it decided to attack Chris. Chris screamed as the scene went to black.
Votes:
Harold – Chet
Leshawna – Chet
DJ – Didn't vote
Bridgette – Scarlett
Zeke – Chet
Lindsay – Amy
Jasmine O. – Chet
Sammy – Chet
Amy – Chet
Chet – Lightning
Lorenzo – Lightning
Junior – Lightning
Scarlett – Chet
Max – Chet
Geoff – Amy
Brody – Amy
Brady – Rodney
Lightning – Chet
Shawn – Amy
Rodney – Jacques
Taylor – Chet
Jacques – Lightning
Josee – Chet
Sam – Scarlett
Mickey – Lightning
Jay – Lightning
Results: 11-6-4-2-1-1 Chet-Lightning-Amy-Scarlett-Rodney-Jacques
Eliminated: Staci, Leonard, Tammy, Leshaniqua, Spud, Chet
Known active immunity idols: Josee (Crimson)
Bonus Clip:
An intern put on a gas mask and pushed a shovel into the lustblossom field, uprooting a male and a female flower. He put them into a plastic case, then handed the case off to other interns until it ended up on a boat.
The boat had Blaineley's face painted on it in red.