Review time!
Joel Connell: Thanks! That author is still active, they've added onto another of their stories April 15th. But not since, I don't believe.
Gucci Mane LaFlare: Thanks! That's what I get for trying to adapt Hollow Knight into a Total Drama episode. NEVER. AGAIN. (Ghost was a delight to work with, though. Hornet, too! ^^)
GUIPA: The last challenge was based on Hollow Knight. I have no plans on making a Stardew Valley or a Yu-Gi-Oh-themed challenge.
Idkwhatmynameis: Thanks! I never got into the whole comics thing, but I think I did something like that already. I prefer OG-style fanfics because OC-style fanfics are harder to do well on account of having to make a whole new character from scratch. Noah is my favorite character (why else is he the protagonist?) and Nemma is my OTP, with Codammy a close second.
FreneticGrape87: Thanks! Chris is the main antagonist, but Blaineley is equally vile yet is the secondary antagonist due to her out-of-the-way role in THD as the host of the Aftermaths. Blaineley the kids have known for longer though, so she knows how to get into their heads. She helps Chris pick out ways to taunt them. Evil love! :D
PrincessGumballWatterson777: Thanks! Hellflores needs to use spellcheck a lot more often than he does, I can't make sense of his writing. One should ALWAYS be careful what they write; Toons know EVERY piece of art and literature that is made about them, and they don't take too kindly to bad content (as they should, it's not good for their health).
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
"Last time on Total Drama – another virtual reality challenge gone mad! [Justin throwing Primal Aspids at Beardo] Junior once suggested we do an Empty Soldier-themed challenge, and I finally found the time to oblige! [Owen smashing open the Lifeblood pod] It was a long day's work [Ennui convulsing] but the Soldiers managed to pull through! [Sammy outlasting Chef] In a surprise turn of events, one minor mess-up cost Laurie her tenure here. [Laurie's elimination] And a surprise visit from contestants past may have big implications for future games. [Devin being pulled aside]"
Chris stood at the Dock of Shame. "Thirty-nine contestants remain. Who'll do their dance at the space jam, and who'll be experimented upon? Find out here on
"Total.
"Drama!"
Theme song
*Instrumental*
A camera appeared from the snow-covered bushes, scaring off a squirrel. Another came from a tree, startling a blue jay. The third popped out of the ground, but this time Harold jumped clear of it, only to hit his head on a low-hanging branch.
Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doing fine
You guys are on my mind
The camera flew across the snowy island, passing Chris looking out at the world from the comfort of his room, Brick trying to learn how to channel another song, Sam playing one of his videogames, Lindsay making a snowman, Crimson and Ennui staring blankly into space, and Shawn running away from a once-again awake Scuba Bear.
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 few animals still awake during winter. DJ looked at a drawing of Dawn he'd made for an art class and sighed wistfully.
I wanna be famous
Heather, Josee, and Taylor battled it out on the banks of the frozen lake in a snowball fight. Taylor ended up throwing her snowball at a tree, which dumped snow all over Heather, much to Taylor and Josee's delight.
*Instrumental*
Owen trudged across the ice covering the river, then slipped and faceplanted into the snowbanks. Geoff and Bridgette immediately rushed over to help him up.
I want to live close to the sun
Well, pack your bags cause I've already won.
Jo and Zoey climbed to the top of Bluegrass Hill, where Jo let out a roar that triggered an avalanche beneath them. Jo smiled sheepishly at a confused Zoey.
Everything to prove nothing in my way
I'll get there one day
Chef was making dinner, and Tyler, Sanders, MacArthur, Beardo, and Ella were eying his no-longer-deliberately-bad cooking hungrily.
'Cuz I wanna be famous
Sammy and Cody were making out, and with one of his hands facing backwards Cody accepted a high-five from Sierra.
Na na nana na na nana nana na na na na na naaaaah
Eva, Leshawna, Sky, and Jasmine worked out in the Drama Gym, although Sky was struggling with her weights.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous
Alejandro had lit the campfire and was standing behind it ominously. Devin and Carrie, unbeknownst to him, were watching, and Carrie raised an eyebrow at Devin as if to say "See? I told you he was evil."
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous.
Topher chatted with Dakota, who was busy with intern work. Behind them, Scarlett was pushing around a snowblowing machine she'd recently invented.
*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 Jen appeared between them to show off some new designs. Though slightly miffed, Noah and Emma shrugged and struck up a conversation with her.
Team E-Scope
"So it's true," Devin sighed. "Alejandro's been lying to me the whole time."
"Oh, Devin!" Carrie winced. "I know you were just trying to get away from Jacques and Josee's influence."
"Yeah, and I wound up someone else's puppet," he sighed bitterly. "What a year! I get pulled onto this terrible TV show, get duped by one of the smartest kids in the eleventh grade, vote out several undeserving people, and Shelley dumped me for trivial reasons!"
Carrie looked at him. "Shelley wasn't good for you, Devin."
"I know, it's just...I was worried that she'd do something horrible to me if I tried. You know what happened to Emma."
"Different circumstances, Devin," Emma replied from her chair, finishing the last day's physics homework. "But yes, I get what you mean. No one deserves what Jake did to me except for Jake himself."
"Campers! Report to the Drama Theater for today's challenge!" Chris barked over the intercom.
"Welp, back to the grind," Carrie said.
Drama Theater
"Okay everyone, history time," Chris said. "Ever heard of Area 51? Well, to tell you the truth, there are no aliens in there. Just a bunch of experimental planes that a bunch of stupid people thought were alien spacecraft because they never considered the possibility that planes could look so fancy."
"Aw, bummer," Geoff sighed.
"But! What if it did? For today's challenge I want you to break into your alphabetical gem teams!" They did so. "The first part of our challenge is relatively straightforward: design an alien based on the habitable planet that I assign your team. My intern Joseph, who just so happens to be a biology major, will evaluate your aliens for biological plausibility. Whoever builds the best alien wins an advantage in the second part of today's challenge!"
"By 'alien', do you mean any lifeform not from Earth?" Scarlett asked.
"I do! But it's gotta be multicellular. A microbe can show up just about anywhere, and I wanna make sure you actually put some effort into your designs. Now, your planets!
"Iolites, you get a planet 10% more massive than Earth and two degrees Celsius hotter. Peridots, a world where the ocean covers the entire surface. Topazes, 80% the size of Earth and in a triple star system, orbiting two yellow dwarfs with a distant orange companion. And Kunzites, your world is the moon of a massive gas giant. Begin!"
Insane Iolites: Alejandro, Beardo, Brick, Bridgette, Carrie, Cody, Crimson, and Devin.
Precious Peridots: DJ, Ella, Emma, Ennui, Eva, Geoff, Harold, Heather, Jacques, and Jasmine.
Terrific Topazes: Jen, Jo, Josee, Justin, Leshawna, Lindsay, MacArthur, Miles, Noah, and Owen.
Kooky Kunzites: Sam, Sammy, Sanders, Scarlett, Shawn, Sierra, Sky, Sugar, Taylor, Tyler, and Zoey.
Insane Iolites
"I have the best idea!" Cody exclaimed.
"Well, you're the second-smartest on the team after Alejandro, and I know you like aliens, so shoot," Bridgette said.
"Bioluminescent turnips!"
"...doesn't sound very exciting to me," she said finally.
"No, but think about it. An alien root vegetable that colonists have to eat in order to survive. They produce glowing chemicals in their leaves to confuse the nocturnal herbivores that would like to eat them. There are glowing parasitic bugs on this planet, so by mimicking their patterns they avoid predation."
"That actually sounds kinda plausible," Beardo said, nodding thoughtfully. "So if this planet is a little bit bigger than Earth, it's going to have more gravity. Well, Chris didn't say it was more massive, but I think it's safe to assume that."
"So its stems will be shorter and thicker than an Earth turnip's," Crimson said emotionlessly. "Sounds alright. Who here can draw?"
"I can do it!" Carrie volunteered.
Off to the side, Alejandro scowled. "Joseph will not vote for a turnip," he said bitterly.
"Alejandro, Joseph cares about plausibility, and if a glow-in-the-dark turnip is the most plausible thing he gets, then it's okay," Brick replied.
Confessional – Alejandro.
"Ever since Devin learned the truth, my alliance has been finito," he sighed. "And no one trusts me. Rightfully so, but if I don't do things right, I'm not going to survive."
Precious Peridots
"We've got an ocean planet, so unless there are some really tall volcanoes there's not going to be much in the way of land," Jasmine explained. "Our lifeform's going to have to be aquatic, and probably built for higher water pressures than life on Earth."
"So we should make it look like a deep-sea fish," DJ nodded.
"And they should have hemerythrin as their blood protein, so they're going to turn out like, purple," Harold added.
"A purple anglerfish," Heather scoffed. "That's gotta be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard, and I used to hang out with Lindsiot."
"Hey, it's plausible," Emma shot back. "And if we get bonus points for it looking cool, then we could win the advantage for the second part of this challenge. ...whatever that is."
Terrific Topazes
"I'm thinkin' this planet might be a desert world," Leshawna said.
"Not completely," Noah replied. "Depending on how inclined our planet's orbit is, there's a pretty good chance that there'll be tundras at the poles. There's no such thing as a single-biome planet unless it's outside the habitable zone or a gas giant."
"Right, Earth has more than one biome, so why shouldn't another life-bearin' planet?" Leshawna admitted.
"Our creature's going to need protection from the sun, though," Justin pointed out. "And last I knew, sunglasses didn't grow on trees."
"Then we make it subterranean!" Miles exclaimed. "You don't need eyes at all if you spend almost your entire life underground."
"Polar moles..." Noah muttered.
Confessional – Noah.
"My incredible intelligence is a net value," Noah explained. "It's not spread evenly across all subjects. Scarlett's team's going to make the best alien, I'm sure of it." He shrugged. "But hey, a strategist and philosopher is still pretty useful in a pinch."
Kooky Kunzites
True to form, Scarlett had quickly set to work designing their team's moon. As Chris never specified the star its parent planet was orbiting, she assumed it was a G2V yellow dwarf like the sun. The moon's size hadn't been specified, either, nor was the planet's, so Scarlett guessed that the moon would be about 20% larger than Mars and the planet about 177 Earth masses and 79,000 miles across, give or take a few kilometers.
"Now what?" Tyler asked once she finished and presented her drawing of their lifeform's homeworld to her team.
"We design a lifeform," Scarlett replied. "Its parent will be releasing a lot of electromagnetic radiation, so while our moon is protected from solar flares it still might not have terrestrial life."
"Undersea worm thing, then?" Sierra asked.
"Undersea worm thing."
Some time later
"And time!" Chris announced. "Kids, show me your aliens!" One by one, the teams showed him the drawings they'd made. "Joseph, get to work!"
Joseph roused himself from his seat and walked onto the stage. The Iolites were first, their creature a plant with thick stalks, thin leaves, and a bulbous white root with red markings. The thin leaves were speckled with light blue dots, and the whole plant was surrounded by black. Off to the side, the Iolites all had black ink covering their hands. All, that is, except for Alejandro, who'd refused to participate.
Next came the Peridots. Their creature looked like a classic deep-sea fish, with thin, spindly fins, an oversized mouth filled with long teeth, and two massive eyes. The fins on its back glowed an eerie red, its skin a muddy fuchsia color. Its body was portly and gelatinous, reminiscent of a blobfish.
The Topazes showed their drawing third. It resembled a mole, only it had four digits per foot instead of five and was chubbier to eke out an existence in the cold, where food was scarce. Its eyes were mere lumps on its face, its vision instead focused on six viper-like heat pits, three on each side of its blunt snout. It was extremely animesque.
The Kunzites were last. Their creature resembled a tube worm, only blue instead of red. Small, featherlike structures grew from its face, while its tail end was protected inside a thick white shell. Two worms were shown, one with half the shell broken off so the tail could be seen clearly.
"Not bad, glad some of you are paying attention in your science classes," Joseph said. "Although I have to ask, who drew the mole?"
"I did!" Lindsay grinned.
"And why is it...anime?"
"Because it's cute!"
"The rest of us...aren't as good at drawing," Owen admitted sheepishly. He pulled out a draft of the mole to demonstrate; his artstyle was scratchy and simplistic, due in no part to his thick, fat fingers.
"I see. Well, unfortunately, the style cost you a few points, but I'll let it slide since you tried your best." He cleared his throat. "The Peridots win this challenge. I don't see much incentive for a bioluminescent plants, and tubeworms are red because it makes them hard to see in the darkness of the deep sea; a blue worm would still be visible."
"Sorry, the color idea was on me," Shawn admitted.
"It's okay, it's still a nice-looking worm."
Chris groaned. "You done, man?"
"Yessir. You may award the Peridots the advantage."
"NOW we're talking!" Chris shoved Joseph aside roughly and handed Eva a metal detector. "Remember this bad boy? Well guess what, it's back!"
"Great, a treasure-hunting challenge," Eva groaned.
"Oh, don't be such a downer, Eva! You're gonna have fun!" He turned to face the camera. "So what kind of otherworldly goodness is Eva going to look for? Find out after these messages."
Do da do da doo. Commercial break!
"And we're back!" Chris announced to the audience. "For the second part of today's challenge, we're going to be looking for hidden alien treasure!"
"Wait, there were actual aliens on this island?!" Geoff exclaimed, excited by the prospect.
"No!" Chris replied cheerfully.
"Aw, bummer."
"I meant these." He pulled out a small metal jar the size of his hand and opened it, then took out a yellow-green eraser shaped like a humanoid figure with three eyes and a pair of horns and showed it to the kids before putting it back inside the jar. "These erasers are our stand-ins for alien artifacts. Each team will get five erasers color-coded to your team. Iolites' are indigo, Peridots' are yellow-green like this one, Topazes' are orange, and Kunzites' are mauve.
"The Peridots get the advantage of our handy dandy metal detector, along with one of the erasers already found for them." He closed the jar and tossed it at Harold, who fumbled with it before finally dropping it on Heather's foot. "You need to get all five of them and bring them back here before you can win. Team who presents their jars, the correct jars that is, to me first wins. Team that does it last loses the game.
"Lastly, each team will get a particular area to search in. Iolites get Bluegrass Hill, Peridots get the beach, Topazes get the forest around Climate Hall, and Kunzites get the forest surrounding the cabins. Get hunting!"
Insane Iolites
"Everyone, look for spots where the snow has been disturbed. That's where the jars are gonna be," Devin said.
"Especially if they've got a bare dirt spot underneath them!" Carrie added. Most of their team nodded and set to work scouring the hill. "Hey, Devin, you okay?" she asked, approaching him.
"I've been lied to this whole time," Devin said bitterly. "It's heavy stuff."
"No one can completely fault you for falling for Alejandro's lies," Carrie replied, placing her hand on his shoulder. "He's incredibly intelligent. He knows exactly what to say to people to make them trust him. Heather and Noah are so far the only people I know who can't fall for his words." She sighed. "Although he no doubt has other ways of getting ahead of the crowd, even if Heather and Noah are the ones in front."
"Thanks, homie. Man, maybe I should've been dating you all this time. 'Course, we're just friends, and it would be rude of me to presume you had feelings for me just because you're a girl." He left with a new bounce to his step.
Confessional – Carrie.
"Oh, Devin," she sighed, shaking her head and smiling. "So considerate, yet so clueless at the same time. Still, he has a point, it is rude to presume platonic life partners will always become romantically involved."
Kooky Kunzites
"Found one!" Sierra exclaimed, pulling out a metal jar from underneath the snow lying beneath a dormant maple. "Now let's see if you're really what I'm after." She easily twisted the lid off and found a pink eraser inside it. "Guys, I got one of our jars!"
"Good work, Sierra!" Sanders complimented her. "Zoey thinks she might've found one too, but it seems to be stuck. Can you help us?"
"Sure thing!" Sierra followed her over to where Zoey was trying to lift a heavy rock off of a bare patch of snow. The lid of a jar shone beneath it.
As they worked to dig it out, Sugar growled. "Yer wastin' daylight here, folks! There's gotta be sumthin' in thar firs!"
Tyler looked up and down at a nearby fir grove. "No way, man. Scary things live in there. Don't you remember what happened to Cameron?"
"Wussy!" Sugar declared, storming into the grove. However, she was soon frightened by the dark, dreary woods. The thick branches, their true forms and colors obscured by the thickness of the trees and snow, began to morph into horrible monsters in her mind's eye.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!" she screamed, bolting across the ground, stopping about twenty feet later in front of a very young fir that only stood at about ten feet tall. Beneath it was a small hole dug into the ground beneath it. Confused, Sugar decided to stick her hand down the hole, thinking she might've found another jar like she'd hoped she would.
But what actually came out confused her even more. "Th' chest o' untold secrits had a baby?" she asked, raising a blonde eyebrow at the small wooden treasure chest she now held in her hand. She pushed the button that comprised the latch, and it sprung open...
Revealing ten immunity idols inside of it.
"So that's what th' little Indian punk was hidin'!" Sugar realized. "Ah could use these up for whenevah mah team loses!" Then she thought a little more. "But if ah use one tahnight, then Noah's just gonna steal 'em back. Maybe if ah play 'em all at once, I can be safe until th' merge!"
She thought again. "Nah, these'll only last for tyen, no mattah how many ah play." But then she got a very evil thought. She grinned wickedly and unzipped her coat, hid the tiny chest in a breast pocket, zipped up her coat again and returned to her team, resuming her default expression.
"Sugar!" Zoey exclaimed. "There you are! Are you okay? We heard a scream!"
"It weren't necessar'ly mahne, Red," Sugar retorted.
"Considering you were the only one of our team not here, doubtful," Scarlett said dryly. "Anyway, we found two erasers here, that means we have three out of the requisite five. Shawn thinks the north side would also be a safe place to look."
"Whatevah," Sugar shrugged.
Confessional – Sky and Shawn.
"That was weird," Sky decided. "I mean, it's in-character for Sugar to deny being scared of something, but you'd think she'd come back faster..."
"Sky, she's overweight," Shawn said. "People with her figure can't run very well and have terrible endurance. Trust me, I'm friends with Owen."
"Yeah, that makes sense. Guess I was reading too much into it."
Confessional – Sugar.
She laughed evilly. "Heh heh heh heh! Alejandro's gonna LOVE these babies! And if he wants 'em, he's gotta make a deal with me! Plus, Ella's idal is in heyuh, which means I can FINALLEH get riddah her!" She laughed some more.
Precious Peridots
On the beach, Ella sneezed. "You okay?" Jasmine asked. Their team had three jars, finding two buried beneath the frozen sand.
"I'm fine, my liege. I just wasn't expecting it," Ella replied, wiping her nose with her mitten.
"You know, in anime whenever someone sneezes randomly it means that someone is thinking of them," Harold mused.
"Harold, shut up," Jacques snarled.
"He's allowed to talk if he wants to," Emma growled back.
"Guys, please, let's all calm down and keep lookin' for our jars," DJ said. "Just because we got one at the beginning doesn't mean we might lose."
"I'm still angry that Harold was such a klutz," Heather growled, sweeping the metal detector over the beach. "Could've broken my foot with that thing."
"And yet he didn't, which in all honesty was the real tragedy," Eva grunted.
"Eva, if Heather was genuinely injured, she'd be much worse than she already is," Jasmine replied.
"Right, right."
The metal detector beeped again. "This better not be another beer can," Heather growled as she stepped aside for DJ and Eva to dig.
Confessional – Chef.
"Guess that explains why they thought storin' a buncha toxic waste on this island was a good idea," Chef grunted.
Terrific Topazes
"And...five!" Jen said, picking up the fifth jar. She, Justin, Owen, Leshawna, and MacArthur each held a jar in their hands.
"Good work, guys!" Leshawna exclaimed. "Now we can win this game for sure!"
"Not quite," Noah said. "We still have to get back to the theater, and we're a long way away from it."
"Second place wouldn't be so bad," Owen said. "We wouldn't have to vote."
"Yeah, but first place gets nicer beds and a hot tub," MacArthur retorted. "And after digging this much in this weather? I'm not planning to leave the tub until Thursday."
Owen laughed. "Well, in that case let's go back to the theater!"
Confessional – Lindsay.
"I dunno if anyone's said this, but...Owen is kinda like Big Bird."
Confessional – Big Bird.
"Well, I'm flattered by the comparison," the moa said, "although I'm not quite sure if I'm old enough to be on this show..."
Noah's prediction came true. The Peridots were much closer to the theater than the Topazes were, and after finding their final jar returned first. "Okay everyone! Time to score!" Chris announced.
"Welp, looks like we're in second place," Leshawna sighed.
"Hey, we'll let you guys use the tub. It's the sportsmanlike thing to do," Geoff replied.
"Really? Aw, thanks, bro."
"Precious Peridots! You found all five of your jars and returned here first. You're today's winners!" The Peridots cheered. "Terrific Topazes! You found all five of your jars. You are safe from elimination!" The Topazes cheered less enthusiastically. "Kunzites! You found four out of five jars. You are safe from elimination!" Ditto the Kunzites. "Iolites, you found three out of five jars. You lose!" The Iolites groaned. "Meet me at the campfire at eight, Insane Iolites, it's time to vote someone out!"
Team E-Scope
"What did you want to talk to me about?" Noah asked.
"Urgent business," Carrie replied. "Stephanie told me that she saw Alejandro find an immunity idol in season one. She wasn't sure if it's someone who was already eliminated, she couldn't read the name and she hasn't gotten up to watching the episodes as they first air yet."
"I see," Noah nodded. "And what else?"
"El Coalicion de los Hombres doesn't exist anymore now that Devin's in the know. Alejandro's going to be desperate to stay on, and if it means knocking someone else out, he'll do it. I propose we hold off voting for him until we can verify whose idol he has."
"Good to know. I'll tell Cody so he can get Harold's deal in the know. You go after Crimson, Ennui, and Devin, and I'll tell Beardo and Brick not to vote for him."
"Well, we should act fast, voting starts in ten minutes."
Insane Iolites
Sugar approached Alejandro. "What is it, Sugar?" Alejandro sighed.
"Ah found all o' these under a tree! They gotta be Noah's!" She showed Alejandro the idols.
Alejandro's green eyes widened. "Qué susto," he breathed.
"And ah'm willin' ta give 'em to yah, on one kundishen."
"Which is?"
"Never vote fer me again. If you vote for me even once, I'll tell ev'ryone about where ya got these. And yeh don't wanna look like a pansy 'cuz you couldn't find 'em yerself."
Alejandro sighed. "We have a deal."
"Awright!" Sugar threw the chest at him and ran off, laughing evilly.
Alejandro chuckled to himself. "Sugar, you fool. Who's to say I can't just sabotage your team so that they will vote for you?" And he stalked off, idols in hand.
Confessional – Cody.
"If Alejandro even gets ONE vote today," Cody said, writing CRIMSON on a piece of paper, "he could play an immunity idol and kick someone out."
Confessional – Crimson.
"Not a risk we want to take," Crimson said, writing BRIDGETTE on a piece of paper.
Confessional – Devin.
"So to play it safe, we're all voting for someone else," Devin said, writing CRIMSON on a piece of paper.
Confessional – Alejandro.
"Fortunately, one of us is still willing to commit to my plan." He wrote ALEJANDRO on a piece of paper. "After all, I can vote for myself and take the risk."
"Here's how we do eliminations," Chris said. "We use the marshmallow system here. When I call your name, come get one." A mere three colored marshmallows were present. "The marshmallows are color-coded to show how many votes you got to hustle up some drama. White means no votes against you, and the recipients are Beardo, Brick, Carrie, Cody, and Devin." Everyone who wasn't Alejandro gulped, even Crimson. They'd forgotten that they could vote for themselves.
Next, Chris pointed to the lone blue marshmallow on the plate. "Blue means you received only one vote against you. Today, that would be Bridgette." Bridgette, confused, went up and got her marshmallow.
"Green means you got more than one vote, but are still safe. None of them will be given out today." Two marshmallows remained. "Orange means you're close to being eliminated, and red means you were. Crimson. Alejandro."
The two of them glared at each other.
"Crimson, your lack of emotions is troubling. Alejandro, you're perhaps one of the most influential contestants that I've ever seen in my many years of being a host. It's incredible what you can do."
"Get on with it!" Cody snapped.
"Okay, okay, sheesh! Can't I praise a good competitor? Anywho, with six votes against one...
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"Crimson–"
"Chris," Alejandro interrupted. "Might these be of interest to you?" And he pulled out a thick stack of immunity idols. His team gasped. "Noah thought he could hide these from me so he could protect his friends." He chuckled darkly. "He was wrong."
Chris swiftly grabbed the idols and looked through them. His eyes lit up with sadistic glee. "Well I'll be!" he exclaimed. "Alejandro, you are safe! Beardo, Carrie, Devin, Ella, Eva, Lindsay, MacArthur, Owen, Sammy, and Tyler, you have been ELIMINATED!"
It was a sad sight when the ten teenagers learned they were being sent away. "So that's why you didn't want me voting for Al," Beardo said mournfully. "Even a single vote would be enough to warrant an immunity idol."
"Yeah," Noah sighed. "I had no intention of playing any of them. But I knew someone might try to."
"Little buddy, you did your best," Owen said. "But it looks like Alejandro did better."
"No," Carrie replied, shaking your head. "Alejandro cheated. Someone helped him find those idols. Dakota said that she found a shovel behind the tree where you hid them."
"But Charlie didn't say we couldn't dig up another person's idols," Lindsay said, confused.
"Us, yeah. But I think he's got a rule against hosts helping us," Sammy said bitterly.
Confessional – Noah.
"I failed...I tried to help them, and I failed..." He sighed. "How the heck was I supposed to know that the idol he had was Duncan's?!"
Confessional – Cody.
"I checked, and I found that Chris does have a rule against hosts, i.e. himself, Chef, Blaineley, or the camera crew, from interfering with challenges. He also has a rule that the maximum number of immunity idols that can be played at one time is three, which is something that he never told us," Cody said, thumbing through a rulebook. "Courtney gave this to me when she visited, and she told me that I might find something of use in this. I believe I have."
"What a twist!" Chris exclaimed outside the Good Cabin. "Let's see if this finally puts Noah in his place! Forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four, and fifty-five down! Thirty-eight, thirty-seven, thirty-six, thirty-five, thirty-four, thirty-three, thirty-two, thirty-one, thirty, and twenty-nine remain! Who'll get to stay here another day and who'll be abducted back to their home planet? Find out on
"Total.
"Drama!"
Suddenly, a strange spaceship appeared, and from it beamed a gray-skinned creature resembling the erasers, only six feet tall, dressed in a dark blue jumpsuit with black shoes, and smelling of horses. A comrade appeared, this one a female as denoted by her shorter horns, and together the aliens gave Chris a painful atomic wedgie before leaving as quickly as they came.
"Never underestimate the power of a dinosaur with a wild imagination and anger management issues," I quipped, glaring at the fallen Chris.
Votes:
Alejandro – self (VOID)
Beardo – Crimson (VOID)
Brick – Crimson (VOID)
Bridgette – Crimson (VOID)
Carrie – Crimson (VOID)
Cody – Crimson (VOID)
Crimson – Bridgette (VOID)
Devin – Crimson (VOID)
Results: 6-1-1 Crimson-Alejandro-Bridgette (VOID)
Eliminated: Staci, Leonard, Tammy, Leshaniqua, Spud, Chet, Dakota (ii), Phil (r), Ellody, Rock, Rodney (t), Anne Maria, Mickey, Jazz (r), Max, Mary, Junior, Zeke (t), Beth, Brody, Scott, Lauren, Brady, Lorenzo, Katie, Trent, Kitty (t), Gwen, Dave (ii), Courtney, Tom, Dawn (t), Izzy (r), Jay, Lightning, Stephanie, Cameron (nj), Ryan, B, Mike (q), Duncan, Amy, Topher, Sadie, Laurie, [Owen, Carrie, Sammy, Tyler, Lindsay, Devin, Eva, MacArthur, Ella, and Beardo] (ii)
Known active immunity idols: Josee (Crimson), Geoff (Geoff), Justin (Ella)
Future eliminations immunized against: Alejandro (9)
Bonus clip:
Once back home, the kids sadly went home. But, to their surprise, once the boat arrived back in port, they found that their families and classmates were hailing them as heroes.
And, watching the boat from a distance, a certain Hispanic couple made a plan.