Review time! Wow, I'm impressed by how fast the turnout was when the last chapter was posted. I like it!
Lara 2244: Yep! When I'm coming up with ideas for what to write, they usually come out of order in the story (like I'll have the endings and certain scenes worked out but not the rest of the episode). That gag was one of the earliest I came up with, so I'm glad you like it. Luckily, though, Cody redeemed himself and won it big for his team.
StarHeart Specials: Thanks! Nemma will rise very soon indeed. Regarding the rest, the grease scene was actually to foreshadow my adaptation of "Brunch of Disgustingness", which will feature Geoff drinking a cup of the stuff. As for Sugar, I headcanon her as usually incredibly lazy but very, VERY stubborn, so when she sets her mind to something her intelligence jacks up a few points.
Gucci Mane LaFlare: Thanks! Sugar's my least favorite character because she's an annoying, dim-witted conservative, but her chaotic, unpredictable nature makes her a great villain. Alejandro's a more straightforward kind of bad guy, and I never liked him much either because of how heartless he usually is. When I first started watching TDWT about a year ago (as I arrived in this timeframe in 2015), there were often times when I wanted to jump into the show and scream "THIS GUY IS LYING TO YOU, VOTE HIM OFF ALREADY!" Alas, the canon is canon. But the fanon, on the other hand...
AlienGhostWizard14: Thanks!
Guest: ...I seriously think you're a troll at this point.
FangDriver8: Thanks! In the next challenge, which will be a very shippy one indeed. Mueheheheh...can you guess which episode's getting adapted next?
Guest: Again, stop spamming me.
Joel Connell: Thanks! It's just not Total Drama without a little good-old-fashioned toilet humor. XD I eliminated Jazz to show that Sugar's not always stupid, as well as to destabilize Leshawna (as they're best friends and I imagine their dynamic going along the lines of Jazz reeling Leshawna in when the latter lets her temper get the better of her). I'll be adapting a particular challenge for the Halloween episode; can you guess which one?
Great Idea Alert: Thanks! The Halloween challenge will be a bit spooky, but I definitely intend for Cody and Sammy to keep on bonding. Regarding Junior Kits, there'll definitely be something like that in the Aftermaths.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
"Last time on Total Drama – the Tour de Wawanakwa! [Chris explaining the race course] Our campers tried their hands at a little mechanical engineering. [previously unseen footage of Mary tweaking her team's bike] B went big [B taking suggestions] and Gwen went bold. [Gwen revealing she had Heather's immunity idol] Eventually, after Chef gave them the OK [Chef evaluating the bikes], we picked out riders and pitted them against each other in a race! [Geoff being blown into the air] The Perfect Peletons discovered that Cody could persevere [Cody winning] and that Noah and Emma actually do like each other. [Noah and Emma's realizations about their crushes on each other] Meanwhile, the Commanding Commuters discovered that voting for the immune actually DOES eliminate you [Jazz's elimination] and that ironically, Sugar can leave a foul taste in your mouth. [Sugar getting beaten up by Leshawna]"
Chris walked over to the VR machine. "Today we'll be having our fifteenth challenge, and you know what that means. That's right, it's another trip into the Total Drama Virtual Reality Generator." He strapped one of the VR helmets on.
A flash of light, and the scene shifted to a blue world of shifting pixels. Chris, who'd been turned into a silvery being with a compass embedded in its chest where his heart should've been, came onscreen. "They say older guys like me don't know how to use the internet. I say they can shove it. This show's site was made entirely by yours truly. Seventy contestants remain. Who will reach the top of the leaderboards and who will be reported for being a loser? Find out in today's episode of
"Total.
"Drama!"
Theme song
*Instrumental*
A camera appeared from a pixellated bush, scaring off a strange green creature with four legs and empty eye sockets. Another came from a file folder, startling a paper clip with eyes. The third camera only came halfway out of a search bar, creating an error message reading ERROR 666: EVIL HOST before the computer promptly exploded.
Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doing fine
You guys are on my mind
The camera flew across the internet made flesh, passing Tom and Jen posting on their blog, Lightning photo-manipulating himself to have white hair, Mary studying her Government lessons on a certain online flashcard site, Ella giving a like to a compilation of Datknee movie songs, Scott being baffled by something labeled "Podcast", and Lindsay almost clicking a link in a spam email until Bridgette pulled her away and deleted the offending message.
You asked me what I wanted to be
And now I think it's plain to see
Ennui and Crimson entered a certain green-colored website. When they left, their expressions revealed that for once, they were actually frightened by something.
I wanna be famous
Heather, Josee, and Taylor battled it out on a cursor. The cursor eventually had enough and physically shook them off.
*Instrumental*
Owen ate his way through a colorful mass of candy, but when his movement put three of them together, they disappeared. Owen was noticeably very confused by this turn of events. Watching him from above, Noah and Emma facepalmed.
I want to live close to the sun
Well, pack your bags cause I've already won.
Justin increased the brightness so he could tan underneath a picture of the sun. However, this meant that Harold couldn't see where he was going, and he fell off the bottom edge of the window. He landed in the trash, which Jo nonchalantly emptied, erasing Harold from existence.
Everything to prove nothing in my way
I'll get there one day
'Cuz I wanna be famous
The camera entered a game titled CODY CODY LITERATURE CLUB. Everyone there was dressed in Japanese school uniforms. The title character was trying in vain to end an argument between two of his fellow club members: Gwen, whose hair was much longer and dyed purple instead of teal, her bangs held back by a pair of hairpins; and Courtney, who had her hair in two pigtails and a crosspiece-shaped tie on one of her bangs (which looked rather silly on her, frankly). Behind them, Sammy, her hair cropped short and tied up on the left with a red bow, cowered in fear.
Suddenly, the three girls disappeared, and "Cody" became a soulless husk. Sierra suddenly appeared from a glitching mess of pixels, her hair in a ponytail held by a white ribbon instead of a braid, and hugged the screen. The real Cody, who was playing the game, fainted backwards in shock.
Na na nana na na nana nana na na na na na naaaaah
Trent and Geoff tried to one-up each other on an online guitar game titled STRATOCASTER SUPERS.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous
Dawn and DJ were in cat person paradise as they played with numerous famous kitties. Among them were a black cat and his ginger-furred adoptive brother, a dwarf munchkin with a perpetually sour expression, and a cat with one half of its face black and the other half orange.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous.
Alejandro swiped left on numerous current contestants before swiping right on himself and looking evilly at the camera.
*Whistling*
At the campfire, as the other campers I didn't have time to name looked on excitedly, Devin and Carrie looked each other in the eyes...and then a pop-up appeared with a message from Devin's actual girlfriend, Shelley. Devin opened it and began typing a response, while Carrie sighed in annoyance.
Perfect Peletons
"The lustblossoms are still up. Why isn't anyone going nuts?" Devin thought aloud.
"Thank Scarlett. Her scent distributors are overpowering their natural pheromones," Mary explained. As if on cue, an orange-colored (and scented) mist sprayed out from the one nearest them. "In a few weeks they should go dormant for the winter. Unfortunately for us, they're perennials, as they evolved from regular lilies, so they will come back in the spring."
Meanwhile, Noah absentmindedly stirred his cereal with his spoon. Cody looked a little concerned.
Confessional – Cody.
"So get this. I think Noah genuinely has feelings for Emma, but is afraid she'll turn him down," Cody explained. "It's not hard to see why, Emma's got pretty high standards. Still, I think that she'd probably say yes; although Sierra's nosiness makes her a real handful she's a good source of information. And by the looks of it, we're pretty sure Emma likes him too but can't say it either." He sighed. "This might be a challenge even for me."
Some time later
"Campers! Do you like the internet? Well look no further, that's the theme for today's challenge!" Chris announced.
"I think that's a little...cheesy for a challenge theme, Chris," Ryan said. "I mean, aren't most of the memes out there dead already?"
"Well, yes and no. Everyone check your seats for the teams!"
There was some...confusion. The team logos didn't all have the same color. Four of each were red, yellow, green, or blue, with an additional one purple. They seemed to be sorted in alphabetical order, too.
Beth, Brady, Brick, Bridgette, Brody, Dawn, Devin, DJ, Ella, Emma, Geoff, Jen, Katie, Kitty, Laurie, Lindsay, and Sky's had a cat poking its head through the ceiling.
Beardo, Cameron, Cody, Dave, Harold, Izzy, Junior, Lauren, Leshawna, Mary, Sadie, Sam, Sanders, Taylor, Tom, Trent, and Zeke's had an intricately-drawn cartoony eye.
Amy, Courtney, Duncan, Eva, Heather, Jacques, Jasmine, Jo, Josee, Lightning, Lorenzo, MacArthur, Max, Miles, Ryan, Scott, and Stephanie's had a poorly-drawn, screaming face.
Alejandro, B, Carrie, Crimson, Ennui, Gwen, Jay, Justin, Mike, Noah, Owen, Sammy, Scarlett, Shawn, Sugar, Tyler, and Zoey's had a black rectangle with a square hole in the middle.
And Sierra and Topher's both had a black, malevolent-looking cockroach.
"If you got a circle with Ceiling Cat, you are the LOLcats. Your specialty is cute kitties doing stupid things. If you got a circle with an eye, you are the Weebs. Anime and manga is where it's at for you guys. If you got the 'FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU' guy, you are the Anger Toons. Dumb comics with poorly-drawn characters. And lastly, if you got the background, you are the Demotivators. Think of what motivational posters do, and then do the exact opposite of that.
"Now, within your teams are color-coded sub-teams. Dividing your team even further is critical to today's gameplay. Each of these sub-teams must make a meme DIFFERENT from their other sub-teams in their designated category. Once done, they will send their memes to the other teams to be up- or downvoted. The team with the most upvotes after everyone's shared gets an advantage for part two.
"You've heard of surfing the internet? Well here you actually get to!" Surfer Dudes United got excited on hearing this. "The person on your team who got a purple circle is the designated surfer and is more or less the team leader." Surfer Dudes United looked at their circles. Bridgette and Brody's were red, and Geoff's was green. They sighed, disappointed. "They will ride the digital waves while facing obstacles, such as two lucky campers. If you got a black circle, you are the Bugs, and your mission is to crash the computer world before anyone can reach the finish line. At the end, the Bugs will be stuck with one of the other teams based on their performance. Good luck!"
An intern pressed a button once everyone had their helmets strapped on, and footage of a brilliant white void appeared on the canvas screen...
LOLcats: Beth [surfer], Brady, Brick, Bridgette, Brody [red], Dawn, Devin, DJ, Ella [yellow], Emma, Geoff, Jen, Katie [green], Kitty, Laurie, Lindsay, and Sky [blue].
Weebs: Beardo [surfer], Cameron, Cody, Dave, Harold [red], Izzy, Junior, Lauren, Leshawna [yellow], Mary, Sadie, Sam, Sanders [green], Taylor, Tom, Trent, and Zeke [blue].
Anger Toons: Amy [surfer], Courtney, Duncan, Eva, Heather [red], Jacques, Jasmine, Jo, Josee [yellow], Lightning, Lorenzo, MacArthur, Max [green], Miles, Ryan, Scott, and Stephanie [blue].
Demotivators: Alejandro [surfer], B, Carrie, Crimson, Ennui [red], Gwen, Jay, Justin, Mike [yellow], Noah, Owen, Sammy, Scarlett [green], Shawn, Sugar, Tyler, and Zoey [blue].
Bugs: Sierra, Topher.
LOLcats
"EEEEEEEEEE!" Lindsay squealed. "We're so cuuuute!" Her team had been turned into a bunch of cats, their fur the color of their human hair, their sub-teams represented by the color of their collars. Lindsay, surprising the rest of her team, was black-furred rather than golden.
"Okay, everyone," Beth spoke up, her authority denoted by a purple collar that sported a bell, "we should probably figure out which memes are the easiest for us to do."
"It's the digital world, remember?" Emma asked crossly. "Nothing is impossible here."
"Yeah," Brady agreed. "Now we can all see that Longcat–" and here he comically elongated his body until he was about the length of a boa constrictor "–is long." He lay down like a real cat would and made an incredibly goofy face to top it all off.
Beth laughed. "Yes, we can. Hey, Brady, maybe this can be your sub-team's meme! But how do we make it?"
"With a camera!" Kitty, her nickname now more appropriate than ever as her younger age had turned her into an actual kitten, crowed triumphantly. She pulled down a camera app from the ceiling. Everyone cleared out of the way and Kitty took the picture, which hung in the air like a painting.
Brady released his pose. "How was I able to hold that for so long?"
"Internet powers, probably," Sky replied. "C'mon, let's think of something else!"
Weebs
Frankly, none of the Weebs knew what to think. They were all in the anime artstyle now. They were wearing Japanese school uniforms and their hair looked incredibly improbably-shaped. And technicolor.
"How does this make any sense?" the now-pink-haired Sadie asked.
"I think the joke here is that weebs stereotypically spend all of their time inside, and many of us are introverts," Sam explained. He was only a little overweight originally, but was now built like a sumo.
"Well, who here actually WATCHES that junk?! It all looks the same to me!" Taylor snapped, her now-yellow hair suddenly forming into a towering spike and energy crackling around her form.
"Is her power level over 9000?" Cody asked Harold.
"I dunno man, but like, her bills probably are." They shared a laugh.
"Wait, Harold, you've watched a lot of anime, right?" Trent asked.
"Uh, yeah! Gosh, do you not know your own bandmate's habits?"
"What I meant was you could probably help us with finding good memes, since most of the rest of us don't watch anime that much."
"Oh, yeah! I'd love to! I mean, if it's all right with my honorable sensei Beardo."
Beardo made a triumphant trumpet-noise. "It's all on you, dude."
"Awww yeah."
Anger Toons
"What the [f word] is this?" Amy asked. Her team had been turned into poorly-drawn, black-and-white stick figure versions of themselves whose forms seemed to constantly shift on their own like a phantom.
"Anger Toon style," MacArthur replied. "These guys used to be all over the internet. I've read and made quite a few myself," she added proudly.
"NO ONE CARES!" Amy seethed, her head suddenly inflating five times its original size and her teeth audibly slashing out. MacArthur suddenly leaned her head back with a spooked expression as her neck stretched out like Mr. Fantastic's.
"And this would be why we're called 'Anger Toons'," Courtney deadpanned. Leave it to almost everyone with anger management issues to be stuck in close confines.
It was going to be a long, long day.
Demotivators
"Now everyone is one with their inner darkness," Ennui droned. "Do not worry, my fellows, this is perfectly natural."
"So we AREN'T zombies?!" Shawn asked. All of the color had been washed out of the people on his team, turning them sullen gray.
"We're supposed to be people who are so incredibly cynical that we can kill everyone else's happiness with minimal effort," Scarlett explained.
"Do our memes have to be that sad?" Carrie asked, a little tearful.
"Not always. Most demotivational posters are used for sociopolitical satire. Or just to be really stupid."
"Speaking of stupid, where're Sierra and Topher?" Noah asked.
Bugs
Sierra was perched on a glass outcrop looking over a swirling, periwinkle riptide of ones and zeroes. It was the gateway to the internet itself. She had been turned into what looked like an unholy case of human experimentation. She looked more mosquito-like now, with both pairs of arms ending in three-fingered hands and a single pair of legs with three-toed zygodactyl feet. She had a pair of short antennae, her nose and mouth were fused together into a long, hollow beak, and her intestinal tract extended out of her pelvis into a teardrop-shaped abdomen. A single pair of wings hummed with an autotuned whine. Lastly, all but Sierra's eyes and cranium were made of black and green ones and zeroes that every so often shuddered and glitched.
Topher's form, meanwhile, looked more like a stinkbug's. His limbs were the same arrangement as Sierra's, only less lean and lanky. His body had been widened so it looked like a shield, with a flat pair of wings on his back. A row of pits for the stink glands adorned either side of his belly, and two long antennae grew from his head. His composition was the same as his teammate's.
"When Chris gave us this team, I wasn't expecting it to be this literal," Topher commented, "though I am liking the extra arms. So what should we do while we wait for the memes to be done?"
"I'd like to check out the show's website," Sierra replied, grinning. "Being involved with one of Chris' projects is a dream come true."
"I'm with you. I mean, he's a flippin' genius. Using highschool students because his wife's a principal?" He laughed to himself. "Clever guy."
They looked down into the gaping hole that was the maw of the internet. Then they took a leap of faith and jumped right in, letting their forms meld with cyberspace.
Anger Toons
"Hey, I just noticed all of our names start with the same letter," Jo pointed out to the rest of her sub-team. "A-team, meet the J-team."
"That's all well and good, but we need to stop playing around and come up with one of these stupid comics!" Jacques growled.
Immediately Jo put her hands out, her elbows facing the ground, and her face contorted until it was both confused and angry. "Y U NO CHILL?!"
"Hold that pose, mate," Jasmine said, taking a picture of Jo. "I think we have our meme."
Max's sub-team had already finished their comic, so he decided to pass the time by analyzing the codes making up their world. Although together they appeared white, individually they were brightly colored. And Max had found the ones of his teammates, their entire online traffic and identities wrapped up in neat, thin ribbons.
Being poor, Max couldn't afford much in the way of technology, nor was his reputation that good. Accordingly, his own code, which matched his hair color, was quite short and stumpy. His beloved Scarlett's code, which was a verdant yellow-green, was equally short, as she never cared much for social media, believing it far more evil than either wished to go.
Seeing the codes gave him access to all sorts of secrets. Mike's unstable, melancholic blue code detailed how he developed his additional selves. Duncan's black, jagged one recorded every last criminal offense. Sierra's lengthy reddish-purple trail was built from a year of stalking Cody. And Emma's red-orange code, which was searing hot to the touch, revealed the incident that catalyzed her cynicism, the poor girl.
Suddenly, another black code wormed by, and Max reached out for it. It was much longer than the other codes; perhaps it came from an adult. It also appeared to be made of oil, as it very quickly slipped through the tangled mess of ones and zeroes.
Max picked it up. Being digital meant that simply touching it would let him read it.
And what it entailed made Max's eyes go wide in understanding.
LOLcats
Do you like my gift, master? read the latest cat macro. Geoff had summoned a dead bird and had it in his mouth, big kitty-eyes at the invisible onlooker.
Laurie looked uncomfortable. "You okay?" Bridgette asked, taking notice.
"I feel so...violated," Laurie replied. "Like, why does that bird actually look good?"
"That would be the cat instincts talking."
"But why do I have them? Is it...wrong?"
"Laurie, I know it's not your lifestyle choice. But cats can't survive on plant matter alone like we can." Bridgette shook her head. "Even we can't live to our maximum potential that way. We evolved from omnivores, and we still are." She sighed. "I'm a vegetarian because I protest inhumane commercial farming. I can't bear to see anything or anyone treated that way. A cramped, confined space, no sunlight...it's just not natural."
"But eating meat is?" Laurie asked, skeptical.
"Indeed, ma'am," Brick joined in. "Animal protein keeps our brains sharp. Meat also contains nutrients that can't be found in plants, like vitamin B12, taurine, and heme iron."
"Wow, Brick, I didn't know you knew so much about nutrition," Bridgette said, suitably impressed.
"My instructors back at the military academy were very keen on keeping us in good shape."
"Whatever. Bye," Laurie said, getting up and leaving.
As they watched her go, Brick said, "It may be a while before she learns to listen to her fellow cadets."
"She'll get there," Bridgette replied confidently.
Demotivators
Noah had just finished his poster. "What do you want, Alejandro?" he asked as the aforementioned enemy came up to him.
"Nothing. I just noticed you seem more irritable than usual. Is it because we're on the same team for the first time in a long time?"
"Maybe. Drop the act, eel, I know what you're really like. Are you trying to get under my skin?" Alejandro wordlessly stuttered. "Thought so. Listen, just stay out of my way and I'll stay out of yours. I don't expect you to honor it if we get elimination, but know that I will."
Confessional – Alejandro.
"Which we will not," Alejandro said, determined. The confessionals were held in a search bar. "I'll make sure that one of the other teams will throw someone out. And of course, los dibujos de rabia will be my target. I'd like Max to be out the most, but Amy's temper, immaturity, and selfishness make her a more likely candidate. But do not worry; Ryan and Duncan are on that team. All I have to do is convince them to split the votes for Amy by going after Eva. This will not only rattle the confidence of the Misfits, it'll work like a third party getting electoral votes and letting a poor choice of president win." He chuckled sinisterly. "If it worked for Wilson and Bush, it'll work for me, too."
Weebs
"Hey, string bean, what do you think of this one?" Harold looked up and his jaw dropped when he saw that Leshawna had actually come up with a meme.
Is this an immunity idol? it read as Leshawna pointed to a butterfly.
"Oh, yeah, that's pretty good. Your sub-team should use that one." As she turned away, Harold's cheeks turned pink and his eyes went comically wide. "So kawaii..."
Bugs
The winged insectoid forms of Sierra and Topher let them glide through the infosphere easily. Eventually they came across the orange-encrusted, blocky site of the show they were on.
"Strange," Topher said when he pressed a button marked EPISODES but got nothing. "It's not working."
"Maybe Chris disabled it here so we don't get an unfair advantage," Sierra suggested. She brought up the character page and grimaced. "Why does it say Sammy 'might like' Cody?!"
"Hey, Cody's pretty well-formed for a guy his build," Topher replied.
"Well, yeah, but only I am allowed to fantasize about me and Cody!"
"And they call him the perv."
Sierra fumed. "There's gotta be something out there that puts me in my OTP."
"Yeah, and I'd like to see something where I actually get to show my talents," Topher agreed.
Then it hit them. "Fanfiction!" they exclaimed in unison.
"Well, looks like they're up to some mischief," Chris, who'd turned into a humanoid version of a browser I don't like, mused. "What'll they find? Find out after these messages."
Do da do da doo. Commercial break!
"And we're back!" Chris announced. "While the memers are meming, the schemers be scheming! Or they would, if Sierra and Topher weren't distracted. Speaking of, what've they gotten up to?"
Bugs
The two glitches were at a crossroads of two fanfiction sites. One was dark red, the other a dark bluish-purple. "Soooo, which one do we pick?" Sierra asked.
"Well, the red one usually just has crappy slash, but the blue one doesn't think bloopers are acceptable for some stupid reason," Topher replied. "But the blue one has way more stuff, so we should probably go there."
"Good call." They entered the site, which was like a library filled with books of varying lengths and qualities. A lone computer stood on a desk in front of the dozens of shelves.
Sierra typed CODY into it and clicked the category for romance before pressing enter. Immediately several fanfictions glowed a bright yellow color. Squeaking, she ran over to the nearest one. With her computer bug powers, she could instantly read the entire story as soon as she touched it.
It read A CODETTE WORLD TOUR, and Sierra was immediately disappointed. "What?! Bridgette ends up with him?!" She tossed it and snatched another reading DREAMS SCENTED OF COCONUT AND APPLE. "LINDSAY?! He doesn't even TALK to Lindsay that much!" She grabbed another marked CANDY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS. "COURTNEY?!" She grabbed another labeled CHANGE OF PLANS and her frown only deepened. "Another Courtney one! And this one made me an obsessive psychopath, too!"
"Well, you are a little clingy," Topher admitted. Sierra opened her mouth to speak, realized he had a point, and closed it. "I think we should look at some other ones." He pulled out one that wasn't glowing; its spine read TOTAL DRAMA BRAINS VS BRAWN VS BEAUTY. "Cody's not even in this one."
Sierra read it as soon as she came into contact with it. "Ooh, this is a good one."
"And this one doesn't even have us. Though it does seem to build on this shared alternate universe that we've never witnessed." It read TOTAL DRAMA NATIONS. "Hey, what's that white sticker for?" he asked as Sierra read it.
Sierra noticed that CHANGE OF PLANS had a circular white sticker on the top of the spine. Opening it, she found that fanfiction "books" were actually more like a binder, and that one was missing quite a few pages between the paper leaves splicing the individual chapters apart. "It means it's not complete yet. By the looks of it, this one hasn't been touched in a while." She found another incomplete one labeled TOTAL DRAMA UNFINISHED BUSINESS. "Sammy?! Aw, come on!" Next she found a long-completed fanfic titled TOTAL DRAMA LUXURY TOUR. "Hey, I get to be with Cody! All right!" Her smile quickly turned to confusion. "And Heather, Bridgette, Gwen, and Courtney?"
She handed it to Topher, who frowned. "The author's treatment of Geoff is pretty unfair. Plus the grammar and spelling's pretty bad. But that seems to be the case for a lot of them. C'mon, let's look at some more."
They found one titled TOTAL DRAMA WINNERS and another called TOTAL DRAMA ALL-STARS REBOOTED, which both of them liked. They found quite a few by a New Zealandic authoress featuring an OC called Danni Kramer. They didn't like these works very much, with Sierra citing Kramer as an "obvious Mary Sue self-insert", to which Topher agreed. Neither was cognizant of the irony. Then they found a positively enormous one that wasn't even close to being finished; its title, hastily scrawled in pencil by hands too big to use one properly, read TOTAL HIGHSCHOOL DRAMA. Just looking at it gave them massive headaches, so it was quickly shoved back where it was found.
"There aren't enough with ME and Cody!" Sierra griped after tossing aside TOTAL DRAMA: CODY'S REDEMPTION and TOTAL DRAMA CHRIS. "Desperate times call for desperate measures!" She opened her wings and began flying towards a group of shelves shrouded in darkness.
"Sierra, be careful! That's the Mature section. As in, the one full of stories about gore and torment?" Topher pleaded as he raced after her.
"I know! That's how desperate I am," Sierra replied, passing by DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE, the perverse, lemon-scented sequel to DREAMS SCENTED OF COCONUT AND APPLE.
Topher noticed a rack denoted AB/DL. "What does this stand for?" he asked, pointing to the acronym.
Sierra turned around and landed next to him. "I dunno. I hope it's 'Awesome Boy/Divine Lady'. And look, they have one with me and Cody!" Both Bugs picked it up.
It was only then that they realized their horrible mistake: AB/DL actually stood for "Adult Baby Diaper Lover". Immediately nauseated, they opened the review tab on the story and threw up into it.
Nerdinator Studios
Many dinosaurian jaws dropped. The audience was made up of my staff and myself, watching the fanfiction be acted out like a play, so it could be recorded and brought to your universe.
"...We did NOT just go there," Bolormaa, the purple-armored, yellow-bellied anthropormorphic Saichania who directed this fanfiction, said, stunned.
"Oh yes we did. Someone needs to call them out for what's basically borderline pedophilia," I replied.
"True," Canth, the gray Acrocanthosaurus who chiefed the security guards, admitted.
Bolormaa groaned and rubbed the bases of her horns. "We're so screwed. Alright, roll tapes, go to the next scene!"
THD universe
"Okay everyone! Time's up!" Chris announced. "I see you have all your memes at the ready. Now start voting so you can get your advantage! Remember, you can't vote for your own. LOLCats, you're up first!"
LOLcats
The two memes that had been seen in the episode earlier were there. Brady's got 26 likes and 25 dislikes, giving it a mostly neutral rating of 51%. Geoff's fared a little better, earning 33 likes and 18 dislikes for a total of 65%.
In addition, there were two more that until then hadn't been seen yet. For one, Ella stood next to a clock reading 3:00 AM and had her mouth open, ready to yowl. Its caption read You're asleep at 3 AM? Let me play you the song of my peoples. It earned 40 likes and 11 dislikes, totaling 78%.
The other simply had Kitty staring at the viewer. Is a kitty. Is named Kitty. Mind blown. It earned 35 likes and 16 dislikes, which tallied up to 69%.
"Okay, the LOLcats have 134 out of the 204 possible likes for a rating of 66%. If anyone gets higher than theirs they're definitely going to be safe. Weebs, you're up!"
Weebs
Leshawna's meme earned itself 36 likes and 15 dislikes, giving it a rating of 71%. In addition to hers, the Weebs had cooked up three more.
Cameron had a smug face in his. Sierra thought it was Cody. But it was ME, Cameron! Almost everyone had a laugh at how crazy Sierra could be and gave the meme 48 likes and only 3 dislikes, earning it a whopping 94% approval.
"Hey, you gotta laugh at yourself sometimes," Cody chortled.
"That you do!" Cameron agreed heartily.
Next was a meme the subject hadn't seen. It was a picture of Taylor captioned "Taylor is my waifu." Said no sane man ever. Though not as popular as the previous one, it garnered 45 likes and 6 dislikes for 88%.
"Hey!" Taylor snapped crossly.
"Sorry Taylor, but we needed a meme and that was the best we could come up with," Trent apologized.
Confessional – Taylor.
"I could so be someone's waifu!" she snarled. Then she put her hand on her chin. "Whatever that is."
The final thing from these occidental otakus was a gif of Sam making a single uppercut to Sadie. Being digital beings, no one was actually hurt. One-punch Sam. It got 38 likes and 13 dislikes for 75% approval.
"With that, the Weebs get 167 out of the 204 possible likes for 82% approval. Anger Toons, it's your turn now! Though I'm surprised Sadie did so well without her other half."
"We aren't joined at the HIP, you know!" Sadie snorted indignantly.
Anger Toons
Jo's meme earned a paltry 22 likes and in exchange got 29 dislikes, totaling 43%. Hers was the only single-panel comic of the ones made by her team.
Max's sub-team had him and Lightning together. You're not gonna sha-violate ethics, right? Lightning asked in the first panel, to which Max coolly replied Of course not. The second panel simply had Lightning walking off. In the third, Max's face was surprisingly large and had turned blue. He had an evil, crazy grin and had somehow grown a mustache. I lied. Unsurprisingly, it only got 17 likes and 34 dislikes for 33%.
Confessional – Miles.
"That was SO not funny."
Confessional – Max.
"Pah, people are just too touchy," Max scoffed.
The third one started with Courtney, Duncan, and Heather all together. In the next one, Eva had her eyes narrowed and her arms crossed. Challenge accepted. Cut to Eva hefting all three over her head, surprised expressions on their faces suggesting that that wasn't planned. It was better-received and got 31 likes and 20 dislikes for 61%.
The final one had only two panels. In the first, Scott had a ruler on the edge of a table and flicked it. In the second, the noise caused him to have a most peculiar expression: wall-eyed, nose flattened, and a weird shape of his mouth. Me gusta. It got 27 likes and 24 dislikes for 53%.
"Okay, with only 97 out of 204 possible likes for 48%, the Anger Toons are most likely not going to get the advantage unless the Demotivators do really poorly. Speaking of, it's time to see our last group of memes!"
Confessional – Stephanie.
"Well OF COURSE we did poorly!" Stephanie griped. "We got stuck with something most of us barely even know! And now we've got AMY of all people, as in the person who didn't even BOTHER helping us, trying to beat the next part!" She sighed. "I try not to be competitive like this, but sometimes I think it's more than a little justified!...I wish Jazz was here, because she's really good at calming people down in times like this. Stupid Sugar..."
Demotivators
Noah found a picture of Chris for his. Egocentrism. Because nothing says "humble" like naming everything after yourself. It earned 49 likes and only 2 dislikes for 96%, making it by far the best-scoring meme.
"Good job," Emma told him as he made his way back to the audience, where everyone voted on the memes.
Noah blushed a little. "Uh...thanks, I guess." Both looked away from each other nervously.
Next was B with a picture of his bike from the previous challenge. I built this from dollar-store parts in an hour. Your move. It got 39 likes and 12 dislikes for 77%.
After him came Gwen's poster, which had a disturbingly large mound of plastic trash on a beach. Conservation: it won't happen by just talking about it. Action needs to be taken. It got 34 likes and 17 dislikes for 67%.
"Is that why you've never joined the environmental club?" DJ asked.
"Yes, it is. Because nothing. Ever. Happens there."
Confessional – DJ.
"Gwen really wants to protect the environment but never joined the school's club," DJ explained, "but now that I know why it makes sense. We really should be taking a more active stance. Especially here on a contaminated island."
The final meme, created by Tyler, consisted of him smushed into the floor. Failure. Because sometimes, success is impossible. It got 42 likes and 9 dislikes for 82%.
"I don't think it's impossible," Lindsay murmured to herself for reasons she couldn't understand quite yet.
"Okay, with 164 out of 204 possible likes for 80% approval, the Demotivators are just slightly beaten out by the Weebs. So the Weebs will get the advantage!" He tossed Beardo a green shield with a plus sign. "Virus protection! You can use this as a weapon to fight off the Bugs! Speaking of which, where are they?"
"Right here," came Chef's voice. Chef's entire body was covered in plastic plating colored red, yellow, green, and blue. He unceremoniously dropped the two troublemakers on the ground in front of him. "Found these two mucking around the 4th wall."
"THE THINGS I HAVE SEEN!" Topher groaned.
"Well, mini-me, you can redeem yourself by beating our surfers!"
The scene wiped right to reveal a churning maelstrom of ones and zeroes, a storm over an electrical ocean. The contestants stood at the beach in front of it. "You must surf these waves and successfully get to the spreadsheet," Chris explained, pointing to a grid-covered island far away, "and type your name into a cell. The first person who does that wins the game! Assuming the bugs don't crash the computer first. Good luck!" He and Chef opened a small panel of colored dots in front of each of them and pressed the red one, closing their windows and ejecting them from the game.
A timer appeared and counted down to five. "Beth, remember our surfing lessons!" Geoff called to her.
"Will do!" A high-pitched BEEEEEEP! and they were off.
Beardo pulled out his shield and quickly smacked an incoming Topher with it. Topher growled and released the contents of his glands, which came in the form of clickbait. Beardo made an alarm noise as the clickbait attracted a clickfish which ate his surfboard with him still on it.
Sierra targeted Alejandro, sending stream after stream of pixellated bombs that killed the ocean behind her. Thinking fast, Alejandro snatched a string of code in the ocean that came from a video, which shaped itself into a flat rectangle in his hands. He scrolled to the comments section, typed "THE EARTH IS FLAT" into it, and aimed it at Sierra. Instantly yellow fire roared from the ensuing flame war, but Sierra dodged it.
"Sierra! I think you may want to target Amy. You like her less than me, no?" Alejandro called up to her.
"AND her sister might like Cody!" Sierra added, furious. "Thanks, Alejandro!" She flew off to bug (pun unintended) her.
Alejandro laughed evilly. "No, thank you." He pointed the flames behind him to use as a makeshift jet engine and surged ahead.
Amy was busy chewing out the sky, her face red with anger, when Sierra bit her head and sucked all the blood out. Amy's head deflated like a balloon and lost its color. However, she quickly reformed and growled at Sierra, who was making the troll face. Sierra quickly opened an enormous number of tabs, assisted by her extra arms, that slowed the Malevolent Twin's progress to a crawl. Topher arrived to help her and together they fired several bombs at her. Amy was ejected from the game and sent back to the beach.
"OH COME ON!" they heard her faintly screech. They laughed and then set their sights on Alejandro. The uploader had gotten fed up with the flame war and had disabled commenting entirely, putting Alejandro's speed back to normal.
Suddenly, something incredible happened. Beardo rose from the depths, surfing on the back of the clickfish! He still had his shield, and wasn't afraid to show it off. But he used something else instead. He shouted something in Japanese, and a massive, skinless humanoid suddenly appeared from the sky and ate Sierra and Topher. With them out of the way now, he only had to deal with Alejandro. Wait, just Alejandro?
"Wait, wasn't there someone else?" he asked the Latin Mastermind.
"Yes, I believe so."
Their eyes widened. "Beth!"
Beth was used to not being noticed. She didn't like it that much, but here it gave her an edge. Sierra and Topher were so focused on her opponents that they'd completely forgotten about her. The cat made good use of the surfing knowledge the Surfers gave her, and arrived at the spreadsheet.
Clicking the nearest cell brought up a keyboard. Not having much dexterity with her paws, Beth did the most catlike thing she could and lay on the keyboard before rolling around on it. The random gibberish generated eventually came up with her name.
Suddenly, she erupted into a flash of light...
Back in the real world, Chris greeted the teens. "Not so dead now, are we? Well, since Beth got to the spreadsheet first, the LOLcats win!" They cheered. "Since our next challenge is a Total Drama Field Trip, we won't actually be going anywhere today. Buuut, there will be full wi-fi use in the homework area for two hours today!
"That's only for them, though. Weebs, Demotivators. You made good progress, great memes, and defeated the Bugs. Bugs, you took out another team AND broke the universe! Your special dinner? Lemon-lime soda and nacho cheese-flavored tortilla chips! In case you're wondering, I can't say the brands or we'll be copyright struck.
"Anger Toons, your memes were the least liked and you failed the surfing. Meet me at the campfire at eight, Anger Toons, because after tonight, someone'll be banned forever!"
Confessional – Ryan.
"Alejandro wants me to vote for Eva," Ryan said as he wrote EVA on a piece of paper, "and she's scary, I'll admit. But frankly, Amy's behavior leads much to be desired, and personally, I want her out more."
Confessional – Jasmine.
"I've known the Prescotts since I moved here in seventh," Jasmine explained, "and I don't approve of how Amy treats her sister as a servant rather than an equal." She bitterly wrote AMY on a piece of paper.
Confessional – Miles.
"Max doesn't care about messing with nature. But I do," Miles growled, writing MAX on a piece of paper.
Confessional – Amy
"Buh-BYE, you grapey gremlin," Amy scowled as she wrote MAX on a piece of paper. "Maybe next time DON'T lose it for my team?" She was referencing how Max's poorly-received meme had prevented her from getting her team's advantage. Although she, of course, was equally to blame for their loss, if not more so.
"Here's how we do eliminations," Chris said. "We use the marshmallow system here. When I call your name, come get one." Seventeen marshmallows sat on the plate. Close shot of the half-dozen colored ones. "The marshmallows are color-coded to show how many votes you got so we can decode the drama. White means no votes against you, and the recipients are Courtney, Duncan, Jacques, Jasmine, Josee, Lorenzo, MacArthur, Miles, Ryan, Scott, and Stephanie." Everyone got their marshmallows quickly and quietly.
"Blue means you received only one vote against you, and Heather, Jo, and Lightning are those unlucky fellows." Jo and Lightning glared at each other, quickly deducing they'd voted for each other. Jo was especially mad as this was the first time she'd gotten a vote. Heather was just glad Gwen wasn't on her team that day, for otherwise she'd definitely be eliminated.
Chris pointed to the green marshmallow. "Green means you got more than one vote, but are still safe. Eva, it's your turn to have votes against you." Eva grunted but got it anyway.
Two colored marshmallows were left. "Orange means you're on the chopping block, but are safe. Red means you're no longer accepted around here. Amy. Max."
Amy gulped. For all her posturing, she was frightened at the chance of being voted off. Max, meanwhile, just stared outwards grimly.
"Amy, it seems almost every time you're on the losing team, people vote for you. Strange, huh? Well, Max, you're even stranger. And we don't like strange things, now do we? With seven votes against five...
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"It's Max who will leave us tonight!"
Max grumbled as he got his marshmallow. "Thwarted for now, but not forever," he spoke ominously. He looked at his teammates, who had scared expressions on their faces. "No, not you! I don't hold much against you. Although some of you are definitely worth my ire," he added in Heather's direction.
"Oh shut up, loser," Heather snarled. Max shook his head, disappointed in his team, and left.
Confessional – Scarlett.
She sighed. "I figured Max would be at risk of elimination today. His willingness to go against social norms doesn't suit well with many people, and chaotic as he can be, he's undeniably a mental threat. I will miss him greatly. At least he remembered to give me a parting kiss," she finished sadly. "He told me he found something about someone on the show. Whatever it is, I feel it's very important, and I sincerely hope he gets it into the right hands soon."
Chris stood outside the VR machine. "Fifteen down. Sixty-nine remain." He laughed immaturely. "Heh, sixty-nine. Who's going to get featured on the Top 10 Lists channel and who's getting sent to the trash next? Find out on
"Total.
"Drama!"
"Chris, the site went down," Billy timidly spoke as he approached his boss.
"Again?! That's the third time today!" He groaned. "Get me the tech guy. Or B. Either will do at this point."
Maybe Chris should've left the programming to the younger generations after all.
Votes:
Amy – Max
Courtney – Max
Duncan – Eva
Eva – Amy
Heather – Max
Jacques – Max
Jasmine – Amy
Jo – Lightning
Josee – Max
Lightning – Jo
Lorenzo – Amy
MacArthur – Amy
Max – Heather
Miles – Max
Ryan – Eva
Scott – Max
Stephanie – Amy
Results: 7-5-2-1-1-1 Max-Amy-Eva-Heather-Jo-Lightning
Eliminated: Staci, Leonard, Tammy, Leshaniqua, Spud, Chet, Dakota (ii), Phil (r), Ellody, Rock, Rodney (t), Anne Maria, Mickey, Jazz (r), Max
Known active immunity idols: Josee (Crimson), Owen, Carrie (Noah), Heather (Gwen), Geoff (Geoff), Justin (Ella)
Future eliminations immunized against: Noah (1)
Bonus clip:
"Oh, I know you're true evil now that I have your history," Max spoke bitterly as he looked at Wawanakwa receding in the distance. His last words for the island were chilling and foreboding.
"And I will not rest until you're exposed for the monster you truly are."
But Max knew he was still being filmed, so he made it unclear as to who he was talking about.
If he was lucky, everyone would assume it was Alejandro he was talking about, and not someone else.
Disclaimer: the views of Sierra Laubach regarding the fanfictions mentioned in the story that don't pair her with Cody do not reflect the views of Nerdinator Studios. We think many of those fics are really good.
Though they definitely could've used a trip or two through the spellchecker, that's for sure.