It's Thanksgiving, so that means it's review time!
Loyal Reader: I just missed you! Fanfiction net's gotta be better about putting the guest reviews up in a timely matter...
Shadowguy015: Thanks! With a smaller cast, I can start focusing more on who's left. Harold's always been hard for me to write, but I'm glad you liked his appearance last chapter.
Joel Connell: Thanks! I think my version of the challenge made a lot more sense. As for the votes, Leshawna mostly voted with Heather out of shock. She'd never seen Heather truly get physically violent with anyone before (Heather doesn't like getting her hands dirty (literally speaking, metaphorically dirty's perfectly fine with her), after all), so she wasn't expecting her to punch Cody so readily. Plus, Leshawna didn't want Cody (or anyone else) get hurt even further just because she didn't want to concede to Heather. And I think Chris' higher-ups reprimanded her for the earlier incident. She won't be doing it again, THAT'S for sure, though. And thanks for catching that error! It's fixed now.
FreneticGrape87: Thanks! Reason #5 why I'm never going to present-day China. (Mesozoic China, on the other hand, is fair game.)
Gucci Mane LaFlare: Thanks! Two-person confessionals are reserved for times when two people need to discuss something in absolute privacy, so they don't happen very often.
War: Noted and ignored. I will break the fourth wall if I so please, and I don't do it too often to begin with, and NONE of those writers' work is of a quality that I enjoy reading. You're being very condescending and I don't appreciate that.
Christopher "Topher" Maimon, The Reality TV Fan.
"Ha!" Topher smirked. "This is gonna be so easy. Thanks for the strategy, Shawn!"
Sadie Ruest, The Perky Girl.
"Wow, rude," Sadie grunted as she got up.
Laurie Zinke, The Dreadlocked Vegan.
Laurie breathed in. She'd been turned into a little cockroach with a massive external covering of leaves. "Okay Laurie, you can do this..."
Alejandro's Ten, The Mass-Eliminated.
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!"
Bridgette Henderson, The Surfing Sweetheart.
Bridgette: "I don't know about you, but I don't think that's supposed to leak like that."
Jessie Sanders, The Good Cop.
"But...Sanders is my last name," Sanders pointed out. "Shouldn't Miles be going for my team instead?"
The next fifteen contestants who've been eliminated have returned to their school. But while their ex-teammates do their schoolwork–
Geoff sighed as he read The Book Thief, still sad about having Bridgette gone so soon.
–we follow up on the losers. Where are they now? What are they up to? Will Blaineley display her usual lack of tact? This.
Is.
Aftermath: Total Drama Edition.
Theme music
The screen opened and the viewer saw two clips, side-by-side, of Topher and Sadie walking, shot from the front view. Topher was on the left, Sadie on the right. The clips then wiped up to show Laurie and Alejandro's Ten in the same setup. It happened again, revealing Bridgette and Sanders. Then the clips wiped up entirely.
Kelly, Dwayne, and Gerry waved to the camera. Suddenly, a flat panel fell from the ceiling on top of them, crushing them underneath. Blaineley was sitting on the panel and waved to the camera.
A spotlight focused on a curtain. Two interns shakily held up a sign reading TOTAL DRAMA AFTERMATH VIII: THE BIG ONE. Then they fell over, the sign falling on top of them.
"Welcome to Total Drama's eighth aftermath!" Blaineley said to the camera. "Our next fifteen eliminated contestants will be answering our questions from our judge's panel, and there will be some other fun stuff too! You already know the judges, so let's just get to it!"
"You seem happy today," Dwayne said.
"Why wouldn't I be? That rat twerp Wodeyar just lost half of his remaining allies! Of course I'm happy!"
"I thought hosts were supposed to be unbiased," Gerry grumbled.
"Well, of course you are, your grandson got the boot after all."
"That's...not why I said that..."
"First up is our first eliminee of Season Three, I am a mistress of poetry – Topher!" Topher begrudgingly sat down in front of the hosts.
"Topher. Never heard that nickname before," Dwayne mused. "How'd you get it?"
"I can't remember, to be honest," Topher shrugged, starting to get into a better mood now that he was talking to a reasonable person. "I guess there might've been another Chris in my class at some point? I dunno."
"Topher, you were eliminated halfway through the game," Kelly said. "If you were eliminated in the first half, which challenge would be the one most likely to send you packing?"
"Well, my elimination challenge was the only one where I got voted for, but if I got voted off in an earlier one I'd have to say the beach challenge. If I'd been chosen instead of Trent, I'd have lost even faster. I can't dance."
"Have any fun facts for us?" Gerry asked.
"Chris got tungsten's boiling point wrong back in the hero episode, it's actually 10,706 degrees Fahrenheit. Granted, the sources for that kind of information don't always agree, so..."
"How do you know tungsten's boiling point?" Lorenzo asked from the audience, confused.
"Wikipedia."
"But I thought Wikipedia couldn't be trusted!" Kitty exclaimed.
"Actually, Wikipedia has like, one of the strictest editing policies of any free-to-edit site on the net," Gwen corrected her. "You make one false move and you're banned for life. And Wikipedia makes you cite your sources too, so...just be careful, alright? And at least it's a good place to find a lot of information all in one place."
"Blah blah blah, NO SCHOOL STUFF DURING ENTERTAINMENT HOUR!" Blaineley shouted. Topher left the stage for the Peanut Gallery. "Now then. Where were we?"
"Announcing the next contestant who got kicked off the show?" Gerry snarked.
"Why thank you, Gerry! And here she is – Sadie!" Sadie took her seat.
"So Sadie, you said you didn't trust Noah when you got eliminated," Dwayne said. "What do you think about him now?"
"I get why he hid the idols, if that's what you mean," Sadie replied. "I'd want to protect my friends too if most of my friends got on the show."
"Speaking of friends, you hang out with my daughter in real life, but you didn't bother making an alliance with her. Why is that?" Kelly asked.
"Ms. Wells, with all due respect, your daughter is one of the last people I'd want to be in an alliance in. She might be able to make others bow down to her here, but on the island? She's basically stripped of most of the monetary advantages she had back home."
"Yeah, I'm...starting to see how she speaks to you guys," Kelly admitted sadly. "Maybe Julian and I should've been firmer with her when she was younger."
"Are you kidding me? Taylor's a model student!" Blaineley blurted out.
"Yeah, a Model B," Amy grunted.
"No offense to you, B," Dawn added hastily in B's direction.
None taken, Amy took the words right out of my mouth. Er, watch.
"Anyway, Sadie, you said you were worried that the Gwourtcan love triangle might consume the show if you guys hadn't cleared it up when you did," Gerry said. "Any reason you didn't like those prospects?"
"I just hate it when friends fight, y'know? It's painful to watch."
Confessional – Duncan.
"I normally wouldn't say this, but Sadie's got a point. Gwen and Courtney were getting to be pretty chummy before I messed it up." He sighed. "I thought macho men didn't feel regret. Maybe I'm...not as tough as I thought I was."
"True toughness comes from admitting you're not tough, dude!" Rock exclaimed from outside the classroom.
"Dude, why are you here?"
"Why is anyone here?"
"You needed a potty break, didn't you?" No response. "Thought so."
"You know what else is painful to watch? An empty stage! So let's fill it up – Laurie!"
Laurie came onstage. "Heyo!"
"What does that mean?" Dwayne asked.
"It means hello, Dwayne," Gerry deadpanned. "Way to waste a question."
"I don't consider it a waste," Laurie said. "It's nice to be home, all things considered. That previous challenge? Awful."
"I agree, I think I found five new least favorite foods," Kelly agreed. "No offense, Kitty."
"None taken, I think I found six," Kitty agreed, nauseated at the memory. "That poor cat."
"Your namesake, huh?"
"Kitsune means 'fox', Kelly." Kelly made an "oh" face at this.
"But you're Chinese," Mary muttered. "Why is your name Japanese?"
"They ran out of ideas."
"Ah."
"So, anyway, Laurie," Kelly said, refocusing her attention on the Dreadlocked Vegan, "what is your favorite food?"
"I don't know, but I've always been partial to okra."
"And finally, Laurie, is there any one mutant animal on the island you'd like to cure?" Gerry asked.
"Oooh, just one? That's tricky. But I think Fang is probably the one who needs it the most. He's scary."
Previously unseen footage of Fang, thankfully still in hibernation. His anal fins were beginning to look far more like feet, like the kind you'd see on a duck, and small legs were beginning to push them away from his body. His hands had split into four-fingered appendages, small claws forming on the ends of his fingertips.
"Frightened?" Blaineley grinned evilly. "And speaking of frightened – Alejandro's Ten!" The ten kids Alejandro had eliminated shuffled onstage.
"Hey guys," Dwayne said soothingly. "You had a good run. It's a shame that you all got kicked off at once."
"Yeah, we know," Eva sighed. "It was at least nice to know that Izzy was okay."
"Izzy's always okay!" Izzy retorted.
"Not always." Izzy deflated. "It sucks that all of us got kicked off all at once. And for what? Alejandro voted for himself and that was enough to use the idols he stole? You'd think there'd be a rule against voting for yourself so you can use an idol."
Confessional – Tom.
"If there are rules about what electronics we're allowed to bring to the island, then there should be rules about what idol plays are illegal."
"Oh, quit complaining!" Blaineley scolded her. "You're not in play anymore! You've been beaten by a better competitor who deserves the win far more than you do."
"Should we ask them questions?" Dwayne asked.
"They don't deserve any more airtime than they already got," Blaineley said harshly. "Sit down!" The ten children sighed and went back to their seats. "And let's get our next chump on the show – Bridgette!"
Confessional – Eva.
"I'm too sad to get angry," Eva said mournfully. "That's what this show's done to me, folks. Destroyed any self-esteem I might've had before it."
Confessional – Lauren.
"Oh, my...Blaineley truly doesn't care about us, does she? She only cares about people who are cruel, lying backstabbers just like her."
Bridgette sat in front of Dwayne. "So, Bridgette, when did you take up surfing?" the man asked.
"I was six or seven, I think. One of my dad's friends, I think his name was Reef or something like that, asked me if I wanted to go surfing with him, and I said yes. Geoff and Brody were also in that class, so that's how we met."
"And you and Geoff started dating in ninth grade, correct?" Kelly asked.
"It is, and we've been through a lot and still come out on top. Not even that little...incident with Alejandro was enough to break us up."
"You've got a reputation for being clumsy, but I don't recall you slipping up that much," Gerry noted. "Why not?"
"I got that reputation when I was a kid. I've mostly grown out of it."
Back during "Beach Blanket Bogus", Bridgette had been the first of the Screaming Gaffers to fall off the team's board, thanks to a stale meatball to the head. Her left foot slipped as she wobbled backwards, recoiling from the hit, the manus getting itself entangled with the feet of Ella, Gwen, Zoey, Leshawna, Heather, and Dawn, bringing them down with her.
"Well, I did say mostly." She left for the Peanut Gallery, giving Alejandro's Ten a respectful nod. Beardo saw it, and nodded back in return.
"And let's wrap things up with our final eliminee this session – Sanders!" Sanders came onstage.
"How's your arm?" Dwayne asked.
"It's not as sore as it was yesterday," Sanders said, although she was clearly being careful with her arm. "Still hurts, though. I have to keep it immobile for at least three weeks."
"Is there a reason you go by your last name?" Kelly asked.
"I've been working my way up to an official police academy since I was fifteen," Sanders explained. "I got so used to being called 'Sanders' that it kind of stuck. Val too, that's why we usually go by our last names except when we're at home or it'd be too awkward to use our last names."
"Interesting," Gerry mused. "So, kid, what do you think the next challenge is going to be?"
"I don't know. That's the thing about Chris; you never know what's coming."
"But I know what's coming! A commercial break!" Blaineley turned to face the camera. "What do I have in store? Find out after these messages."
Total Trivia: Which round in Episode 3-6's challenge was Harold eliminated in?
A. Round 11
B. Round 12
C. Round 13
D. Round 14
Do da do da doo. Commercial break!
Total Trivia: The correct answer is Round 14, when Chris served the cat. Harold was not eliminated in the prior three rounds, where he was served balut, dried seahorses, and rabbit skull in that order.
"And we're back!" Blaineley announced. "Here in Aftermath, our eliminated contestants are going to compete in challenges themselves. The team with the most points at the end will get to send one of the teams in the next episode of the show an advantage!"
"So...what teams are we bringing back today?" Phil asked.
"We haven't used our Halloween teams in a while," Blaineley replied. "So we'll use those! As for those who didn't get to be on those teams? Staci through Chet, you're with the Vampires! Dakota through Anne Maria, you're with the Monsters! Everyone else, you're with the Ghosts!"
Vicious Vampires: Amy, Duncan, MacArthur, Lightning, Stephanie, Eva, Zeke, Scott, Courtney, Gwen, Lorenzo, Dave, Izzy, Katie, Staci, Leonard, Tammy, Leshaniqua, Spud, and Chet.
Magnificent Monsters: Bridgette, Brody, Owen, B, Ryan, Brady, Ella, Beardo, Tom, Lindsay, Sammy, Mike, Dawn, Sanders, Trent, Dakota, Phil, Ellody, Rock, Rodney, and Anne Maria.
Grouchy Ghosts: Topher, Kitty, Jay, Cameron, Tyler, Sadie, Beth, Devin, Carrie, Laurie, Lauren, Mickey, Jazz, Max, Mary, and Junior.
"For our first challenge, you must solve these puzzle boxes!" Blaineley produced three identical puzzle boxes. "Send up your smartest chump and get solving! Whichever team gets it first wins a point!"
Lorenzo, B, and Beth came up and started solving. B was the one who successfully opened it, discovering that it contained a single pebble. "And B wins it for the Vampires! I'm surprised Courtney didn't come up."
"I would've gotten frustrated trying to solve it," Courtney explained. "It wouldn't've been a pretty sight."
"Okay then. Next!
Score: 0-1-0.
"Send up your best marksman and try to knock down the can!" Situated thirty feet away from a line in the gymnasium were three crates, each with a single, small empty metal can on top of them. "You'll be knocking them down with pebbles fired by slingshots, and you only get three, so make it count."
"So that's why B got a pebble," Ryan said as he took said pebble from The Silent Inventor. "Whoever opened the puzzle box first got a fourth shot!"
"Exactly right!"
Ryan took his spot as Duncan and Max did the same for their respective teams. They all fired, but missed. They reloaded. Duncan got it on his second try.
"I guess we know now who's got the most experience hitting old people on the head," Blaineley shrugged. "Next!"
Confessional – Duncan.
"Oh COME ON! That was one time! And I wasn't even doing it on purpose!" Duncan huffed angrily. "Lousy stop sign ricocheted my shot is all."
Score: 1-1-0.
"For our third challenge, send one person on your team to climb up this rock-climbing wall, just like a bug!" A rock-climbing wall had appeared in the gymnasium. "Whoever gets to the top first wins! Whoever falls off loses a point for their team!"
Amy, Sammy, and Tyler went up. Amy and Sammy's relationship may have improved, but they were still twins. And twins tended to have sibling rivalries. They scrambled up the wall, completely wrapped up in outdoing each other. So much so that they didn't notice...
"And Tyler wins it for the Ghosts, tying everything up thanks to his freakish finger strength!" Blaineley announced.
"Dangit!" Sammy muttered.
"[F word]!" Amy cursed.
"GO TYBALT!" Lindsay exclaimed. She paused, blushing as red as her sweater. "Oops! Sorry Tyler."
"Nah, we're good," Tyler said. "Uh...can someone help me get down from here?"
Score: 1-1-1.
"Now it's time for...The Trial by Lustblossom!" The most recently-eliminated fifteen gathered together and Blaineley sprayed them with the female cannon. When the gas settled, Tyler and Lindsay were passionately making out, getting drool everywhere, Sammy, Bridgette, and Laurie were moaning Cody's, Geoff's, and Miles' names respectively, and what else happened?
"Devin..." Carrie breathed huskily. "I gotta say it, man. I love you."
"Carrie, I...I think I love you too," Devin replied breathily. "I just realized it like, last week. All that drama with Shelley was...preventing me from seeing it."
"Shall we?" Devin nodded, and they shared a passionate kiss.
"Awwwwww!" Kitty cooed.
"Yay, they finally did it!" Owen exclaimed, high-fiving Beardo.
Blaineley didn't look so happy. "I wanted drama, not mushy." She activated the male cannon and everyone went back to normal. "What fun is forbidden love if both parties are single?"
"Shelley's gonna be angry," Stephanie noted. "But she also doesn't deserve to date a nice guy like Devin."
"What does she deserve?" Spud asked.
"A C+ on her next exam!"
Confessional – Stephanie.
"I'm not gonna wish something TOO mean on someone, even if she's that cruel. I'm not that kind of girl."
"And now it's time to play Bobbing for Bovines!" Three claw machines were set up with the claws resembling flying saucers, a single squeaky toy shaped like a cow sitting in the middle of the otherwise empty box. "Send one person up to abduct the cow for your team! Whoever gets it first wins! And hurry it up, I gotta return these toys to Llamarama Daycare before they realize I stole them."
"You are a sick woman," Leonard growled as he, Brady, and Junior approached the machines.
"Do we gotta pay for these?" Brady asked.
"Yep!"
"Great. Anybody got a quarter?"
Once the machines had been activated, the boys did their best to try and retrieve the cows. Luckily, Brady's troubles didn't go unacknowledged by the universe, and he retrieved the cow successfully.
"Dakota, be a good intern and retrieve those remaining two cows for me, okay?" Dakota sighed but complied. "Next!
Score: 1-2-1.
"Let's play a game called Ninety-Second Alphabet," Blaineley said. "Three people must come up and act out a scene, but they can only speak in a sentence that starts with the next letter of the alphabet, beginning with...D!"
Katie, Anne Maria, and Sadie stepped up. "Your scene is this: a couple is at a restaurant – Hey look, there's an actual couple here! – are asking their waitress why service is so bad. Begin!" She pressed a button on her phone, and its timer began to count down from ninety.
Katie: "Darling, where's our food?"
Anne Maria: "Everybodeh, you're gonna need ta wait."
Sadie: "For what?"
Katie: "Great, just great. What is it this time?"
Anne Maria: "How do ya mean?"
Sadie: "Is there a problem?"
Katie: "Just what is going on back there?"
Anne Maria: "Keep calm."
Sadie: "Like heck we are!"
Katie: "My girlfriend and I've been waiting for an hour!"
Anne Maria: "No more pants."
Sadie: "...Oh?"
Katie: "Please tell me you're joking."
Anne Maria: "Quite...not joking."
Sadie: "Really?"
Katie: "So everybody in the kitchen lost their pants?"
Anne Maria: "That's correct."
Sadie: "Unbelievable."
Katie: "Verily."
Anne Maria: "Why don't you believe me?"
Sadie: "Xenophobes...like you are ruining this country."
Katie: "You shouldn't make assumptions, sweetie."
Anne Maria: "Zero comment."
Sadie: "Absolutely nuts, this place is."
Katie: "Better leave."
Anne Maria: "Cripes."
Sadie: "Don't you start with me."
"And time!" Blaineley looked at her phone. "Wow, twelve seconds to spare! Not bad at all, girls. I'm gonna give Katie the point, though, because she used the word 'verily' in 2018."
"I was going to ask how you planned on scoring this challenge," Ellody remarked. "I guessed it was based on who used the most obscure word."
"...Sure, let's go with that!" On hearing this, Ellody promptly facepalmed. "Next!
Score: 2-2-1.
"And now, for our final challenge of today, a hearty game of Knucklebones! I need three people from each team." Izzy, Bridgette, and Carrie came up to the three desks. On each desk were four small bones.
"This is an actual Chinese game?" Bridgette ask, looking uneasily at the bones.
"It's a lot like jacks! I'm going to throw a bag from the same challenge as your current teams. Before it hits the ground, I want all of those knucklebones flat-side up!" Blaineley picked up one of the red felt bags from Is This Halloween? and threw it into the air. "Begin!"
Carrie successfully got the bones off their curved sides and onto their flat sides before the bag hit the ground. Izzy and Bridgette simply lacked the dexterity to do so. "And time! Carrie, you get your team the point and some candy!" She threw the bag at the younger blonde; it hit her in the chest.
"Ow!" Carrie opened it and her pupils shrank in horror: the bag was filled to bursting with sour gummy worms. She quietly closed the bag and handed it to Owen, who began eating the candy himself so she wouldn't have to.
Score: 2-2-2.
"But who wins?" Mike asked. "We've got a tie!"
"Simple. The Grouchy Ghosts have the most people still in the game, so therefore they get an extra point." Everyone groaned.
Score: 2-2-3.
"Now it's time to look at some of Total Drama's Funniest Moments!"
"Wake me up, and ver-ti-go-go!"
Tyler falling backwards off the board because he stood up too fast.
"Our kids are well-known for dragon their feet in these challenges."
The reveal of the oncoming stampede of animals causing the girls riding the bikes to freak out, particularly the alligator.
"The first trailer of the upcoming reboot looks great!"
Ennui pulling a crude drawing of a house out of his back pocket and proceeding to jump on it, only to fall on the floor instead of being transported into the drawing.
"No, Geoff, there aren't any aliens on this show. Yet."
Geoff being disappointed that he wouldn't get to see real-life aliens that day.
"Sierra discovers the logic bomb."
Sierra getting wrapped up in a paradox as she tried to figure out which wire would set the stinkbombs off.
"Kobe!"
Satisfied, Zeke turned around and proceeded to yeet himself off the mushroom he was standing on.
"Think happy thoughts."
Sugar's scheme causing Ella to sneeze when the former namedropped her.
"Spiders. Why did it have to be spiders?"
Jo giving Geoff a range-upgrading Goodie as his reward and opening a door to a dark, cavernous realm filled with spiders; he promptly fainted.
"And now, for our final part of the Aftermath, we will have you guys root for someone still in the game," Blaineley said to the most-recently eliminated contestants. "At the end of the show, we'll tally the votes, and whoever has the most supporters will receive a prize! As for the person who gets the most votes against them by the end of the show, they will get a punishment of my own creation, befitting of Total Drama's least popular contestant. Go to the confessionals and vote now. Except for you ten, you don't get to vote for anybody."
"Is there anything we can do?" MacArthur snarked.
"There is, as a matter of fact. Be cooler!" MacArthur's scowl only deepened.
Confessional – Topher.
"Sierra gets my vote. I trust her to use her knowledge of Chris to help my friends still competing."
Confessional – Sadie.
"I take back what I said about Noah the day I got eliminated. He needs all the help he can get right now!"
Confessional – Laurie.
"Miles, of course. Go get 'em, babe!"
Confessional – Alejandro's Ten.
"Well...I guess it does make sense that we weren't allowed to vote," Sammy mused. "If we all got sent out at once, we're technically one block that counts for ten votes. It wouldn't be fair to let all of us vote at once."
"Then why aren't we split up so we can vote for who we wanna vote for?" Owen asked.
"Because this way Blaineley can censor us," Eva said bitterly.
Confessional – Bridgette.
"I'm kinda torn...I wanna give Geoff a vote, but I think he can take care of himself just fine, so maybe someone else? Does Geoff have a vote?"
"He does! Mine!" Brody said from outside the confessional.
"Oh! Thanks, Brody! In that case, I'll vote for someone who doesn't have one yet: Jasmine!"
Confessional – Sanders.
"Noah, we're counting on you to save the show and take Alejandro down."
"And that's the end of that," Blaineley said. "Tune in after Challenge 54 for the ninth Aftermath."
The bell rang.
"And that's the end of lunch. Now go back to class before I give you detention!"
Votes against:
Owen – 3 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
Dakota – 7 (Eliminated 7th by immunity idol)
B – 7 (Eliminated 39th by immunity idol)
Noah – 10
Cody – 1
Ella – 4 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
Izzy – 5 (Eliminated 33rd by rigged votes)
Emma – 1
Kitty – 6 (Eliminated 27th by rigged tiebreaker)
Junior – 12 (Eliminated 17th)
Sierra – 5
Topher – 7 (Eliminated 43rd)
Beth – 6 (Eliminated 19th)
Brady – 8 (Eliminated 23rd)
Justin – 0
Katie – 6 (Eliminated 25th)
Sadie – 5 (Eliminated 44th)
Lorenzo – 5 (Eliminated 24th by tiebreaker)
Mary – 8 (Eliminated 16th)
Brick – 1
Ennui – 7
Crimson – 12
Scott – 35 (Eliminated 21st)
Phil – 2 (Eliminated 8th by rigged votes)
Heather – 49
Lindsay – 4 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
Taylor – 16
Alejandro – 49
Devin – 4 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
Carrie – 0 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
Ryan – 8 (Eliminated 38th)
Stephanie – 2 (Eliminated 36th)
Miles – 3
Laurie – 9 (Eliminated 45th)
Anne Maria – 12 (Eliminated 12th)
Lauren – 4 (Eliminated 22nd)
Cameron – 8 (Eliminated 37th by injury)
Mike – 20 (Eliminated 40th by voluntary departure)
Eva – 3 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
DJ – 3
Sam – 1
Scarlett – 6
Max – 7 (Eliminated 15th)
Rodney – 11 (Eliminated 11th by rigged tiebreaker)
Zeke – 8 (Eliminated 18th by rigged tiebreaker)
Sugar – 77
Sanders – 3 (Eliminated 47th)
MacArthur – 0 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
Zoey – 1
Gwen – 14 (Eliminated 28th)
Leshawna – 1
Jazz – 1 (Eliminated 14th by rigged votes)
Trent – 12 (Eliminated 26th)
Harold – 3
Ellody – 15 (Eliminated 9th)
Chet – 11 (Eliminated 6th)
Leonard – 13 (Eliminated 2nd)
Tammy – 14 (Eliminated 3rd)
Dawn – 5 (Eliminated 32nd by rigged tiebreaker)
Leshaniqua – 5 (Eliminated 4th)
Shawn – 2
Lightning – 30 (Eliminated 35th)
Jo – 13
Amy – 49 (Eliminated 42nd)
Sammy – 3 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
Jasmine – 3
Sky – 7
Mickey – 3 (Eliminated 13th)
Jay – 8 (Eliminated 34th)
Tom – 9 (Eliminated 31st)
Jen – 0
Dave – 4 (Eliminated 29th)
Geoff – 1
Bridgette – 6 (Eliminated 46th)
Courtney – 13 (Eliminated 30th)
Duncan – 30 (Eliminated 41st)
Tyler – 1 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
Rock – 7 (Eliminated 10th)
Spud – 8 (Eliminated 5th)
Staci – 6 (Eliminated 1st)
Beardo – 0 (Eliminated en masse 45.5th by immunity idol)
Jacques – 23
Josee – 29
Brody – 6 (Eliminated 20th)
Votes for Winner:
Owen – Izzy, Duncan (2)
Dakota – N/A
B – Lightning (1)
Noah – Zeke, Jay, Sadie, Sanders (4)
Cody – Rodney, Cameron (2)
Ella – Leonard, Tammy (2)
Izzy – N/A
Emma – Kitty, Courtney (2)
Kitty – N/A
Junior – N/A
Sierra – Topher (1)
Topher – N/A
Beth – N/A
Brady – N/A
Justin – Lauren (1)
Katie – N/A
Sadie – Dakota, Katie (2)
Lorenzo – Mary (1)
Mary – Ellody (1)
Brick – None
Ennui – Lorenzo (1)
Crimson – None
Scott – N/A
Phil – N/A
Heather – None
Lindsay – Beth (1)
Taylor – Anne Maria (1)
Alejandro – None
Devin – Junior (1)
Carrie – Ryan (1)
Ryan – Stephanie (1)
Stephanie – N/A
Miles – Laurie (1)
Laurie – N/A
Anne Maria – N/A
Lauren – N/A
Cameron – N/A
Mike – N/A
Eva – Amy (1)
DJ – Brady, Dawn (2)
Sam – None
Scarlett – Max (1)
Max – N/A
Rodney – N/A
Zeke – N/A
Sugar – None
Sanders – N/A
MacArthur – None
Zoey – Mike (1)
Gwen – N/A
Leshawna – Leshaniqua, Jazz (2)
Jazz – N/A
Trent – N/A
Harold – Trent (1)
Ellody – Chet (1)
Chet – N/A
Leonard – N/A
Tammy – N/A
Dawn – N/A
Leshaniqua – N/A
Shawn – None
Lightning – N/A
Jo – None
Amy – N/A
Sammy – Gwen, B (2)
Jasmine – Bridgette (1)
Sky – Dave (1)
Mickey – N/A
Jay – Mickey (1)
Tom – N/A
Jen – Tom (1)
Dave – N/A
Geoff – Brody (1)
Bridgette – Staci (1)
Courtney – Scott (1)
Duncan – N/A
Tyler – Phil (1)
Rock – Spud (1)
Spud – N/A
Staci – N/A
Beardo – None
Jacques – None
Josee – None
Brody – Rock (1)
After the Aftermath:
There was a knock on Blaineley's door. "Yes?" the woman asked. "Come in."
In marched a tan-skinned woman with brown hair, followed by a lighter-skinned man with black hair: Courtney's parents, Louisa and Ernesto Silveria. "Ms. O'Halloran," Ernesto said. "We'd like to have a word with you and your husband."
"What kind of word? Are you mad about what I said about your daughter?"
"Yes, but that isn't grounds enough to sue you." He drew level at the blonde. "However, the mass elimination of ten competitors from your show is. The contract that Courtney signed on Friday, September 8th, 2017 explicitly states in Clause 18, Paragraph 3 that no more than three immunity idols can be played at one time. If four or more idols are played, then all of them are automatically voided and the elimination is instead determined by the votes."
"It's been a while since I've read those contracts," Blaineley lied.
"Don't lie to us," Louisa snarled, slamming her hands down on her desk, causing the blonde to jump in her seat. "Chris let Alejandro eliminate ten competitors unfairly due to his own personal bias against the competitors in question, in so doing violating his contract. If you don't fix this, we're taking you to court."
"S-so...what do you want me to do?"
"Alejandro's immunity wears off on February 19th," Ernesto explained. "Therefore, on February 22nd we want all ten of the eliminated competitors restored to play. Whether Alejandro gets eliminated on that same day is up to the kids to decide."
"Oh, and don't try any more of your tricks," Louisa finished. "Your show's already violating several child labor & exploitation laws, and don't think we didn't notice that Chris bribed someone in China to let him film there."
Blaineley gulped and dialed up Chris. "Hey sweetie, what's–" Chris noticed Courtney's parents. "Uh-oh."
"Hi Dad," Topher said that afternoon. "You wanted to talk to me?"
Don sighed. "Yeah, I do. It's important that you hear this. You know how I used to write for Chris?"
"Yeah?"
"Well...I'm also the reason he got taken of the air."
"Wait, really?! You sabotaged his scripts?"
"I had no choice!" The man sighed again. "When I first started working for Chris in 2000, I thought he was a visionary. The things he wrote into his shows? Ingenious. Creative. Hilarious. They were different in those days; every last contestant, no matter who they were, was treated equally. Everyone shared in the pain AND in the gain."
"What changed?" Topher asked.
"Chris started getting really popular in the mid-aughties, and fame...it really changed him. He got bossier and meaner, the heartfelt moments that helped tie his older shows together became rarer and rarer as he encouraged the contestants to stir the pot and cause trouble, just to keep increasing viewership.
"He also started talking about a mythical day, an event when the people he liked, the jocks, and the people he didn't like, the jokes, became equal to each other, and he was trying to stop it or at the very least delay it. I think he first heard about it from Blaineley, her family's got some really weird superstitions. To that end, he began favoring certain kids over others; usually, the intellectuals, the nerds, the introverts, the socially-awkward, and those who dared to question his thought process were his biggest targets."
Topher nodded. "So...why did you stand against him?"
"You." That surprised the boy. "You were growing up, Topher, and the older you got...the more I saw your face on those scared kids that Chris was torturing. For years I made little changes to the rules of each challenge to counter Chris' executive meddling, but then something happened that forced my hand into a more active role on the offense against Chris McLean. You know what happened before Fear Tractor got renewed for its ninth season? One of the kids who competed in the eighth season, a kid whom Chris had been nothing but vicious to the entire time, tried to kill himself. And when I suggested to Chris that maybe it was the kid's treatment on the show that led to that, he brushed it off as no big deal."
Topher's jaw was almost on the floor now. "That's...really bad."
"Something inside me broke that day," Don continued, "and I swore to cut Chris off from the attention he so desired, just so another kid wouldn't be driven to suicide. Using a Google account I'd so far only used as a dummy recovery email, I shared the scripts of the episodes with my official work email, messed them up, then unshared them with myself to cover my tracks just before the deadlines. I was just one of many writers, but Chris let me be the keeper of the files, a fact that soon proved to be his undoing."
"Chris' contracts got canceled and he disappeared for eight years," Topher realized. "Years that he spent creating this show, free of a writer like you who could've held him back by reminding him of the rules or revising the rules as you saw fit."
"After Chris disappeared, I figured that I'd never hear from him again, so I quit the entertainment industry and fell back on my old teaching degree," Don finished. "But then Blaineley became the principal in 2014, although thankfully she didn't know who I was; I guess Chris never thought we writers were important enough for him to remember by name," he spat bitterly.
"So...what do we do?"
"I don't know," Don sighed. "But you need to get the truth out there, son. We can't let Chris get away with his shenanigans a second time." Topher nodded gravely and went upstairs to do the thing he knew best.
Cat on his lap, Topher made the most important decision in his life. "And...done!" he said, clicking one final button on his computer. The teal-toned webpage read thusly:
ASK TOTAL DRAMA
Authors: TonkaTophness111 (admin), +83 others
JANUARY 30, 2018: Hi everyone! Topher from Total Drama here. Do you have any questions for the former contestants of this show? Ask them here, and we might be able to answer them!
His phone started buzzing, so he opened it:
RocktheRockRock: dude, ur a madlad!
Owlicious: AAAAAAAAH TOFFER ASGYHDKJD
TonkaTophness111: Glad you like it, Carrie! This way we can tell everyone about what it's like to be on the show!
Jazzamatazz: But won't we get in trouble with the hosts?
Mellody: Not to worry, Jazz. Chris and Blaineley have decided that they're going to ignore all news about the show until someone wins the show and the final Aftermath airs.
Jazzamatazz: ...well in that case
IronGiant: too bad it wont undo our elimination
PurplePrincess: THAT might not.
Topher was intrigued by this admission. What was Courtney implying with those three little words?
TonkaTophness111: Do you know something, Courtney?
Goffick6996: Yeah, DO you know something?
PurplePrincess: Well, my parents decided to have a little chat with Blaineley after school...
BedRull: How'd she manage to get "chat" to be italicized in a text?
PurplePrincess: I'm a CIT.
ShaLightning: yeah tyler sha-pay atention alredy
PurplePrincess: So, ANYWAY