Pre and post challenge written by FreshmEn
Challenge written by Zoryan El Muerto
"Last time on Total Drama Sakamannano Island!" The camera showed Drew lying down on a hammock, "Our interns were left in charge to give the contestants four different challenges to go through. Starting with Carlton, we got to have a funny little game of improv where some did great and others..." The camera showed Flora getting booted out of the challenge, "Didn't do good at all. Then we had Buck's challenge, which required the contestants to build the best invention, something they both sucked at doing! Then Mitch had them go through a bunch of horror games with the Chickens as the killers chasing down the Frogs, which the Chickens took with ease. Lastly, Billy had them go through a custom obstacle course, where after an intense battle... they tied. Which normally would've meant for each team eliminating a contestant, but due to the incompetency of the INTERNS, nobody got eliminated." Drew groaned in annoyance, "Let's just see who gets eliminated on this episode of... Total... Drama... Sakamannano Island!"
Intro Start
Multiple cameras popped out from surfboards, tiki torches, statues of Drew, and other objects on the island. The camera then flew past Drew, Pamela, and Hack, with the former two arguing about something and the latter drinking from a barrel of rum.
"Dear mom and dad I'm doing fine, You guys are on my mind." The Camera went up the dead volcano, revealing Kaito setting up some of his stargazing equipment, and Vanessa helping him out.
"You asked me what I wanted to be, and now I think the answer is plain to see." The camera jumped down into the volcano, where Timothy was listening in on Kaito and Van's conversation with a radio. In addition to Timothy being there, Wane was checking the cages of shame for any lost coins or valuables.
"I wanna be famous." Wane dusted off one of the cages, revealing that Alex somehow got trapped inside. Wane tipped the cage over and kicked Alex out, before hopping inside of it to search for valuables.
"I wanna live close to the sun." The camera then made a cut to inside the mess hall, where Kodi was teaching Will how to play Chambers and Beasts at a table, with Will shaking his head and pretending to understand how to play the game.
"So pack your bags, 'cause I've already won." The camera moved outside where Melissa and Beatrice were chatting together.
"Everything to prove, nothing in my way." To the left of Melissa and Beatrice, May was walking until Paige jumped out of the bushes, scaring the daydreamer.
"I'll get there one day." The camera moved towards the nearby Hilahala hut, where Wyatt and Flora were both petting Spirit's belly.
"Cause I wanna be famous." On the other side of the area where the Haaheo mansion was, Klaas and King were playing a match of poker, with almost all of the chips being on King's side.
"Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na." Moving away from the hut and the mansion, Persephone and Sasha could be seen arguing about something.
"I wanna be, I wanna be famous." The camera jumped over to the beach of the island, where an oil-covered Brandon could be seen fixing up an old boat. Behind him, Elizabeth was pretending to be a scarecrow.
"I wanna be, I wanna be famous." Finally, the camera moved over to Becky, who was writing down song lyrics in a notepad. Becky turned around and noticed the camera, elbowing it to the ground for privacy. The shot was then cut to Buck, Mitch, Carlton, and Billy, who all set the camera down for the final shot, as they got the camera in position they ran behind Drew, causing the camera to flash and take a photo of all of everyone previously seen. The screen moved back to show the photo on a postcard that read 'Aloha from Hawaii!" with whistling accompanying it.
Intro End
Beatrice yawned as she got up and woke up in the garage, "Oh yeah... we fell asleep in here..." Beatrice rubbed her head as she looked at Brandon's ATV, which looked like it was on the verge of completion. Beatrice groggily looked around the room to see Brandon passed out right next to a bunch of paint cans, "Yeah... how long were we working on this?"
Beatrice hopped out of the garage and stretched her arms out as she saw a plane flying towards the island, "Huh? What's up with that?" Beatrice noticed the plane landing near the host's house. The mermaid fan decided not to investigate the planes, "Eh, it's probably just food or something... I should go wake Brandon up."
The camera panned over to the plane to show two interns pulling two giant presents out of it while Drew and Pamela watched on, "Make sure they're not damaged in any way!" Drew ordered, "We can't deal with any trouble here!"
"Aren't there safer ways to do this, Drew?" Pamela asked and raised an eyebrow, "Ones that don't have any risk?"
Drew grinned as he watched the presents be brought to the mess hall, "Yeah, but none are quite as fun as this."
"Yeah... lawsuits are really fun." Pamela deadpanned as the presents were put in the mess hall.
Elizabeth walked into the mess hall to see the two giant presents set up against the wall. Interestingly, both presents were colored like the two teams' logos, as one was orange while the other was light blue. "Huh? What's this about?" Elizabeth questioned while looking at the two presents.
"Excuse me." Van moved past Elizabeth and noticed the boxes, "Huh? Is it Christmas or something? Why are there two random presents here?"
"I don't know." Elizabeth replied as she walked past the boxes and grabbed some breakfast from Hack, "But I guess it's for today's challenge or something like that."
"Umm... not exactly!" Drew popped into the mess hall only to spot nobody else there other than Van and Elizabeth, "What the?! Where's everyone else!?" Drew asked the two, who just shrugged in response.
Van looked down at her phone, "I think everyone's still asleep, it's pretty early in the morning man."
Drew let out a loud sigh and walked out the door, "Alright I'm gonna go collect everyone! You two wait here!" Drew ran off to go make an announcement on the intercom to get the attention of the other contestants.
"Well, that was kinda odd." Elizabeth looked at Van, "I wonder what's so important that Drew needs everyone to be up earlier than usual?"
Van shrugged and kept looking at her phone, "I 'unno, guess he just wants a super early challenge for some reason."
The camera flashed forward and showed the tired contestants gathered in the mess hall. Timothy yawned and rubbed his eyes, "What was so important that you needed to wake me up at like seven in the morning? If it's for Hack's food the answer is no, I'm not trying it."
Drew grinned, "Oh it's much more important than that. I'm here to tell all of you about a special announcement!" Drew cleared his throat as Hack pulled out a confetti blaster and shot it off, "Welcome to the merge Malihinis!" Hack clapped while Drew made his announcement, "Pat yourselves on the back for making it this far! You guys have proven you're the best of the best and now the chance to earn the million is closer than ever. Of course, like any other merge, the teams here are no more, you'll all be on your own, or in your alliances while you compete to earn the million for yourselves. Now that you've made it this far, how about you celebrate by opening your presents?" Drew motioned over at the two boxes.
"Ok..." Kodi grabbed the present and ripped it open, revealing that Will was trapped inside the box, "Will!?" Kodi immediately hugged the Parker twin as soon as he saw him, "I can't believe your back! Are you gonna be a part of the competition again?" Kodi kept Will in a bear hug as he returned the hug.
"Yep!" Drew grinned as he watched Kodi and Will, "Will won the redemption challenge that we had in the aftermath special, making him one of two returnees... of course, the Chicken who will be returning was a secret popularity poll we had! How about you guys go find out who that was?"
Sasha looked at the box, "Which one of our teammates could be popular enough to come back?"
Paige looked at the box with excitement and began ripping it open, "Is it Wyatt!? I hope it's Wyatt!" Paige ripped all of the paper away to reveal Kaito inside, "Oh... that's cool too."
"Kae-kae!?" Van greeted her friend who gave a slight smile in response, "You get a second chance too!? That's so cool!"
"There you have it everyone, Kaito and Will are our two returnees!" Drew announced to the contestants, "Hope you guys are happy with this outcome, since there's no takie backsies on who you guys get!"
"I can live with this!" Kodi grinned as he continued gripping Will next to him.
Melissa looked at Will with concern, "Are you sure you can keep playing Will?"
Will gave a grin, "Yeah! I'm gonna redeem myself for what happened during my run! Just watch me!" Will confidently stated.
"Me as well." Kaito nodded, "I'm going to go all out for your sake Van."
Van smiled in response to Kaito's claim, "Aww, Kae-Kae! I just can't believe you get to return at all! I missed you so much, man!"
"Well, I'd hate to cut your reunions short everyone, but it's time for the challenge! So go meet me down at the beach, but first, how about you give a confessional about how you feel right now?" Drew asked the contestants as he walked out.
Confessional: Beatrice
"I made the merge!?" Beatrice happily held her hands together, "I can't believe it... I feel like I'm dreaming... somebody pinch me!" Beatrice yelled out.
Confessional Over
Confessional: Elizabeth
Elizabeth smiled and sat down in the confessional, "Already at the merge... all I gotta do is keep it up a little longer and I'll be able to win the million!"
Confessional Over
Confessional: Kaito
"I'm completely serious when I say that I'm going to go all out from now on." Kaito had a slightly confident look on his face, "I made that mistake before, and I won't do it again."
Confessional Over
Confessional: Paige
Paige laughed as she sharpened an arrow, "Alrighty! The merge has been reached, all I gotta do is keep going strong and I'll win in no time! And then I can pay for Wyatt's park!"
Confessional Over
Confessional: Sasha
"Good. Everything is going to plan right now... Brandon and I can try forming an alliance with Beatrice and we can use that to counter the others until we make it to the final three... we just need a little bit of luck."
Confessional Over
Confessional: Timothy
Timothy went into a maniacal fit of laughter in the confessional, "HAHA! TAKE THAT EVERYONE BACK AT HOME WHO SAID I'D NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING! LOOK AT ME NOW! I'M A MERGER ON TOTAL DRAMA! WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Timothy yelled out in excitement.
Confessional Over
Confessional: Will
Will smiled lightly as he looked at the camera, "It's nice to get a second chance, especially to make things right with Kodi... I hope I don't mess it up again..."
Confessional Over
The fourteen Sakamannano mergers were all gathered around Drew and the hosts at the beach, "Alright people, ready for your first official challenge of the merge?" Some of the cast gave him excited reactions, others a determined nod, and King... well no reaction. Though under that gaze he vowed to destroy these peons that couldn't even strap his cast. "Alright, now for today you guys are doing a favorite beach time activity for ages forty-five and up... metal detecting!"
"Huh?" The casts asked as the interns handed out a metal detector and a headset to each of the players.
"The task is so simple even a nine-year-old kid could figure out, collect as many 'valuable' items, that we've hidden, as possible with these detectors," Drew told them, as a man in formal attire walked up to Drew. The host patted the visitor on the back, "This is Frank Smithers, owner of the nearby pawn shop and a master of metal detecting. He will determine how much your findings are worth, whoever's junk he decides is worth more money overall will win this challenge and a fifty-off coupon for the Saka bar. On the other end of the spectrum, the player with the least valuable haul will be automatically eliminated."
Wane chuckled as he had his detector ready at the whim. Kodi raised a hand to Drew, "Um, so what are we allowed to bring back?"
Drew snapped his fingers to which Pamela brings in a whiteboard, "For starters, you can only submit items that you find either buried around the beach, in the ocean, underground or the trash. You cannot take any items that are kept within the tribe's mansion, the hosts' mansion, or any large structure made after the year 2000. Trust me, Frank will know if you try and pull a fast one, and Wane don't try and bury any of your stolen loot, we have cameras." Drew told the cheapskate, who groaned as he snapped his fingers. "Alright, now spread out and get something that can buy out Stewie's house! The estimating begins at sundown at the mess hall."
The cast all got their metal detectors ready and fanned out to look for valuables, though one certain player was having some trouble figuring out how to attach her mechanism. Elizabeth looked at the buttons on her detector, "Okay so, which ones is the finding button?" Elizabeth looked around for help before sighing, "Right, merge, gotta fly solo like a crow Elizabeth!"
Many of the islanders either went in pairs or flew solo, one group of friends made plans as a trio. Kodi, Will, and Flora all huddled together outside the former frogs' hut, "Alright guys, you ready for this super special awesome challenge?" Kodi excitedly asked.
"You know it Kodex," Will replied as he put on the mask Kodi gave him. "Let's detect some metals!"
Kodi was surprised at the nickname, as was evident by his blush. "That's the spirit Willy Nilly!" Kodi giggled cutely as he combed his hair nervously.
Flora smiled, "So nice to see you doing better Will."
"Thanks, I think some time away from the competition was all I really needed." Will said before the three put their hands in the middle.
"One, two, three, Friendship Trio slash Peace Troop slash We're gonna win!" All three chanted at the same time.
"We really need to work on that," Kodi noted before the three went East, with Kodi and Will holding hands as they scanned for metals in the sand. Flora was a little behind as she watched the two boys search and occasionally stole glances at each other.
Confessional: Flora
"Awwww, young boy love~ Is there anything sweeter?" Flora sighed.
Confessional Over
Confessional: Kodi
"Having Will back is so cool, him leaving was tougher than beating a level ninety-eight gargoyle with only two healing potions and a pitchfork. But now that he's back I promise that I will be the best maybe boyfriend that I can be!"
Confessional Over
Confessional: Will
"Look out Saka, there's a new Will Parker in town! And he's here to drink iced tea, win a million dollars, and snuggle Kodi!" Will blushed at what he said, "I mean... uh... you didn't hear that!"
Confessional Over
With one of the pairs, we see Kaito and Van searching the forest as Kaito scouted ahead of Van. He searched in every nook and cranny for anything that could be of worth for him or Van, who chuckled "Wow Kae Kae, I never seen you so invested in anything that wasn't on this planet."
"I made the mistake of being a poor player before, and I refuse to do that to you again." Kaito shrugged as he heard a beep as his detector bussed above a rock. "Hmmmm?" he overturned the rock and finds something sticking out of the ground, he moves some dirt to reveal...
"A telescope?" Van wondered as Kaito pulled out an old telescope.
Kaito examined the telescope before finding a name on the handle, "Morton Dreshal Space Research Facility?" he read "What's this doing all the way out here?" Kaito wondered before he turned to Van, "Can you search up Morton Dreshal-"
"Done." Van held up her phone before reading, "Morton Dreshal was a Saka-born astronomer who built his own observatory deep in the Saka Forest." she read articles about him, "He studied the possibilities of humans to sustain civilization on Uranus." Van chuckled, Kaito rolling his eyes at the juvenile planet joke. "He died of a stroke at the age of eighty-seven in nineteen ninty-seven."
"So, there was an observatory here," Kaito said to himself.
"You know if his stuff still works, it could be worth a fortune." Van stated as she looked on a map of the forest, "Plenty for the both of us."
Kaito raised an eyebrow, "But I thought we couldn't take stuff that wasn't buried."
"Technically she said nowhere from a modern building, this observatory was built in sixty-five. So, I think we're good." Van replied as she found the observatory on the map.
Kaito gained a concerned look on his face, "Are we sure it's even still standing?"
"Like I tell my Vaniacs, just stay positive." Van grabbed Kaito's gloved hand as she pulled Kaito toward where the map said the observatory is. Kaito blushed as Van dragged him through the forest to the observatory
Brandon was searching near his shop where his ATV was almost complete, he scanned the ground before he came up to the shop's dumpster and got a series of beeps as he scanned the waste reciprocal. "Well, I guess it couldn't hurt." he put down the detector and hopped into the dumpster.
As Brandon dumpster dived for valuables, Wane snuck around the corner and swiped his car repair buddy's detector. Lowly chuckling was that greedy fat man as he snuck off with two detectors as he dragged a wagon full of jewels, a lava lamp, a mountain of spartan helmets, and an antique music box.
Minutes later Sasha came around and sees Brandon popping out of the dumpster, "Oh hey Sasha." he waved, "Don't bother checking in here, all I found was broken hub cap, some beer bottles, and wait... what the?" Brandon found a money bag that said 'Property of Wane' on it in place of where his treasure was. Brandon groaned, "Dang it Wane."
Sasha sighed and looked around, "Yep, he took your detector too."
Brandon looked to where he put his detector and found that it was gone, "Why am I not surprised? Well at least he left me something-" he emptied the bag only to find instead of gold coins its little circles of metal sheet painted gold, "Of course." he hopped out, "Guess I'm out of the challenge."
Sasha tapped her fingers around the handle of her metal detector, "Um... well... I mean if you want we can..."
"Huh?" Brandon looked to Sasha, who seemed lost in his kind gentle eyes.
Sasha shook herself, "No never mind, its dumb." she turned to walk away.
Brandon stopped her, "Uh... maybe we can... excavate together and split our findings?"
Just then Brandon found his arm linked with Sasha and a blue tooth hooked up to Sasha's detector in his ear, "Well since you're offering." And with that, the two were off to search for valuables that can bring in enough money to impress the estimator.
Confessional: Sasha
"Usually I wouldn't have acted so nervous or shy around boys, but Brandon is just different from all the people I've dated. Most of them were either testosterone-oozing jocks or losers that think impressive figures count as a personality, it's refreshing to have a nice boy."
Confessional Over
Confessional: Brandon
"Was nice of Sasha to help me out, always looking out for others. Even if they don't want her to." Brandon lightly chuckled before wincing about Becky.
Confessional Over
Confessional: Wane
Wane held up a tray of valuables, "As a class seven treasure seeker, I know all the best places to look for buried valuables."
Confessional Over
Elsewhere, Timothy scanned the southern edge of the beach. "Come on, why can't finding rare items be as easy as finding secrets?"
Timothy then caught something before he followed the signal, and reached the strongest signal right as Melissa reached it as well. They both gasp before giving each other annoyed stares, "Timothy." Melissa spoke with a challenging tone.
"Melissa," Timothy responds in kind.
Melissa smirked as she saw him, "Raided anyone's privacy lately?"
"Oh Melly, I have been on my best behavior since Becky left." Timothy teased Melissa, "I still seek the truth but now I've removed all the cameras from the frog hut."
Melissa and Timothy butted heads, "I still have my eyes on you, Hale, one slip up and I can still convince the others to vote you out at the first chance I get."
"We'll see about that sweetheart; I'm sure I can convince them to stop your tyranny. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got valuables to collect." Timothy tried to grab whatever was buried but was stopped by Melissa.
"I don't think so," Melissa replied before they both looked down and saw a hole right in between them.
They heard Wane cackling behind them as he tossed a holy grail into his wagon, he looked at the two squabblers. "Don't mind me, go back to your old married couple bickering."
Both Melissa and Timothy gagged at the implications of them being betrothed to each other, "Alright look, neither of us will get anywhere if we spend our energy fighting each other." Melissa pulls out a map of the island before tearing it down the middle. She gave one half to Timothy, "Here, you take the west side of the island. I'll take the east, fair?"
Timothy' hmphed' before he grabs the map half, "Fine." He looked at the map and noticed,"Hey, you took the half with this beach!"
"No backsies!" Melissa chuckled before she ushered Timothy away with a smack on the back of his head.
"EEP!" Timothy ran off to his side.
Confessional: Melissa
"I don't know why but Timothy just finds always to push my buttons, maybe Elizabeth's right. Maybe if I just ignore him then he can't bother me anymore." Melissa then yelped as Timothy kicked down the door to the confessional.
"Sorry, but the confessional is on MY side of the map. You best be off." Timothy threw Melissa out of the confessional.
Melissa rolled up her sleeve, "Why you little-"
Confessional Over
While others searched on land for valuables, Beatrice searched the vast ocean for treasure with her detector. Sebastian Jr. scuttled beside her as she scanned the ocean floor.
The mermaid enthusiast dressed in her mermaid costume had an oxygen tank worth 3 hours of oxygen, so she had to space out her underwater expeditions to preserve her air.
Currently, she was following a trail of gold Aztec coins which Sebastian was picking up and adding to her wagon, soon the two saw the trail lead to a sunken ship. Where inside they found a sunken treasure chest, Beatrice made room for it in her wagon before she lifted the chest up. Now even with the water around her making it weightless, the chest was still a heavy lift for her.
Beatrice took the chest up to the surface and finally was able to breathe normally, "Look at this Jr!" Beatrice pulled open the chest ot see a ton of gold coins, "All we gotta do is keep this safe and we'll be able to stay safe easily!"
Sebastian Jr snapped his claws a few times as he and Beatrice went back to shore together, with the crab resting on Beatrice's shoulder.
Elsewhere King was limping down the beach as he scanned for anything that could impress a lowly estimator. He picked up something and began to follow the signal, to where he found an old Royal-looking cane buried in the sand. He picked it up and twirled it around with his good arm so he doesn't break stride, "What piece of trash leaves a perfectly adequate cane?"
Near him, Wane was shown digging up a hole where he found... "Another one?" He holds up a spartan helmet, "Why are there so many of these buried in Hawaii?" He tossed it on his pile before he saw King swinging his cane, he gained a smirk before he heads over to the emotionally stunted narcissist. "Greetings there my old stone-faced teammate, what a mighty fine cane you have-" King just passed him without even looking at him. Wane ran back to face him, "As I was saying-" Wane saw King pass by him again before running in front of him again, "Will you just stop and let me-" Wane yelped when he felt the cane pressed against his Adam's apple.
Wane saw King's eyes were cast in a dark shadow, "Even the lowest of trash knows when to focus on their own load, less they want to get a perfectly sized fourteen where the sun never shines its light."
Wane gulped before King walked away, leaving Wane to watch on in fear as he clutched the handle of his wagon. He just whistled to himself as he goes back to searching for more valuables for him to sell on eBay after the challenge.
Confessional: Wane
"That Prince kid has issues."
Confessional Over
While the players have made varying levels of strides, one girl was having no such with her equipment, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was looking at her screen for any treasure but no signal was being picked up, "I thought there would've been more treasure here..." Elizabeth was on the beach as she finally caught something. "Finally!" Elizabeth wasted no time digging up whatever it was and pulled out a false-gold bar, "This should do!" Elizabeth sighed in relief as she put the bar in her cart, "Too bad that's not real, I could just pawn it off and use the money for the farm."
Elizabeth passed by King, who was digging up more treasure, "Hey there King!" Elizabeth cheerily greeted her former teammate, only to get the silent treatment in response.
"Yeah, that was about expected." Elizabeth sighed as she shrugged her arms and passed by King, "Good luck on the challenge I suppose." Elizabeth walked away and found another signal coming from her metal detector, which she immediately followed and discovered a plate made of fine china. "Not bad..." Elizabeth carefully put the plate in her cart before looking for me treasure
We then move back to the deep Sakamannano forest where Kaito and Van were closing in on the coordinates. Kaito smacks away some mosquitoes as he follows Van, "How much longer?"
"Just a few more feet," Van told him as she followed the directions on her phone.
"Ugh." Kaito kept swiping away bugs, "This is why I hate being outdoors, I'm exhausted, covered in bugs, and I think someone is following us..." Kaito looked behind him to see Paige was just standing there, causing the astronomer to jump back, "Dear Mercury there she is!"
Paige waved and smiled, "Heyo! I figured I'd follow you guys since we used to be on the same team, mind if I stick around?"
Van nodded, "Sure, the more the merrier, am i right?" Van asked as Kaito got up and dusted himself off.
"Well... it would make for a good strategy for us to work together in these challenges... so yes, you can join us." Kaito turned around and saw the observatory in the distance, "There is is!" Kaito gasped, "Holy Galileo." Kaito ran to the building before he looked at the old letters on the front of the building that were covered in vines, "Yep, this is the place. Must have been taken over by the island's vegetation since Dreshal died." Kaito tugged on the front glass door, "Of course, locked. Guess we went all this way for nothing. I think if we haul back now, we can find some watch a millionaire left behind or-" Kaito heard a crash and looked to see Paige had broken the glass door with a rock.
"Find a way in." Van stepped through the door as Paige got rid of the excess glass to avoid them getting cut.
Kaito sighed before he looks up, "I'm sorry Morton for their actions." he stepped through the hole Paige made and looked around to see the wonders the observatory "Woah, the foruteen moons of Neptune?" he counted off the moons "Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Hippocamp, Triton, Nereid, Halimede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe, and Neso!" Kaito then gasped and went to a model of "Viking 2!"
"He's having fun." Van chuckled as she scanned over a rock display "Hmmmmm." She packed a few rocks to see if they were actual space rocks, she then read the observatory had actual rocks from planets they observed, collected via satellites.
"Oh my gosh Van, Uranus has never looked more beautiful!" Kaito cried.
Van snickered at Kaito, "Thanks." Van joked as Kaito gave a confused look in response.
Kaito blinked before he realized, "Uh, no I was just talking about this display of the planet Uranus!" He quickly explained, "I wasn't referring to your posterior! I mean it's not- I mean it is! I-I-You-planet... Dear mercury I need a moment!" Kaito ran further into the observatory as he cursed himself for the extremely embarrassing awkward moment.
"What was that?" Paige asked as Van giggled.
"He's so cute when he's nervous." The two followed after Kaito to
Confessional: Kaito
"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid baka!" Kaito repeatedly smacked his head, "Why do I feel like this when I'm around Van? I mean, it was a simple explanation and I flubbed it!"
Confessional Over
Confessional: Van
"I knew he was talking about the planet display, but it's just fun to tease, Hehehe."
Confessional Over
With the friendship trio, they came across a dumpster outside a taco shack where they all got high signals of metals.
Kodi looked to Will and Flora, "Okay guys, whatever you grab you keep."
"Last one in is a bag of stinky cheese!" Will leaped into the dumpster, followed by Kodi. The two rummaged around for anything that could be of value while Flora stayed and watch over their metal detectors in case anything happens to them.
Kodi pops up saddened, "Someone threw away a perfectly good copy of the movie Dragon Dungeon Four." he held up a case with the movie DVD inside it.
"Eh, that movie was a bomb anyway." Will looked at the movie, "Too much exposition, terrible CGI, and the dialogue was just a little too stale."
Kodi sighed before he tossed the movie into his wagon, "I know." he then went back to looking.
Flora noticed a PC and a TV before she struggled to lift up the PC, barely managing to get it in her wagon, "Phew." Flora wiped her forehead. "I gotta lift some weights when I get home and do extra time on my rowing machine." Flora then got the TV up and placed it in her wagon as Will popped up.
"Oooooo, a samurai sword." Will unsheathed the sword as Kodi popped back up.
"Careful Will, you'll poke your eye out." Kodi worried for his friend's safety.
Will hops out and swings it around, "Oh what's the harm?" just then he accidentally let go and it flies off, skewering a nearby Wane's hat to a tree. He blinked before he looks up and grabs the sword, he looks intrigued before he took it and walked off with it. Flora and Kodi looked at Will before he embarrassedly chuckled, "Um, let's just keep looking."
As he hopped back in, Kodi found an acoustic guitar "Sweet." He fine-tuned it and strummed a few chords. "It Still works!"
"Anything else?" Flora asked as she began wiping her sweater off.
Will took one final look, "Nope, that's everything except for some soda cans." he filled a trashbag with soda cans before he and Kodi hopped out.
Flora sighed, "Those should have been recycled." The three then headed off to look for more valuables, as Kodi played a few more chords to play them off. In the background, we see Melissa digging up a metal canister and opening it up to reveal it was full of nails. She sighed before tossing it in the wagon.
The camera cut back to Brandon and Sasha, who were talking about previous dates.
"And so that's how I found out my twelth boyfriend was cheating on me with the captain of the swim team." Sasha finished the story, "After that, I swore off dating for good... or at least I find a decent enough guy." she told Brandon as they kept sharing the metal detector, the mechanic was carrying a wagon full of found watches and pearls, some wrenches, a bunch of gold coins that Beatrice let them have, and also Timothy's old cameras from when he had to throw them out on Elizabeth's orders.
"Sheesh, I don't blame you." Brandon told her, "Sounds like all your exes were jerks."
"They were, but right now I just want to focus on winning this game and using the money to pay for my tuition as I get my psychology degree," Sasha stopped as she got a beep and followed it.
Brandon clenched and unclenched his hand, "You know Sash, if all those guys couldn't see the type of person you are. Then that's their problem."
Sasha sighed as she turned to face him, "Thanks Bran, but I've heard that same shit before." She came to where the beeps were strongest and started to dig.
"I'm serious. I've seen you as more than just a pretty face." He caught a medallion Sasha found and put it in the wagon. "You're incredibly smart, and you got amazing persuasive skills." He told her, "Heck if you hadn't told us that Persephone left us, we probably would have voted King off at the chickens' first elimination ceremony. That somehow got you some thanks from him, and he doesn't like anyone here from what I saw of him."
Sasha rolled her eyes, "Wasn't really much of thanks, he has no idea how lucky he is to even be at this point." Sasha groaned as they walked more into the forest near the beach, "Think if I hadn't told them to vote Persephone for ditching us he would have been gone, if not for Kaito's terrible script he would have been gone, if not for Klaas ditching us he would have been... ok that would've been Wane. He thinks he's so perfect, yet he never even makes an attempt to make connections, or contribute in the team challenges, or even show some level of respect to people! Even those that saved his ungrateful ass on multiple occasions without any form of compensation whatsoever!" Sasha took in a gasp for air. Brandon listened to her rant as she looked to him, "Sorry you had to hear that, it's just a little overwhelming at times."
Brandon strolled up to her and patted her shoulder, "I get it, we're all a little tired at this point in the game. The merge, some hard elims, everything that we've done already. It can wear down on you if you don't take the time to get proper self-maintenance, you just gotta remember to stop and take a breather to do something relaxing. Heck, you can join me for a breather sometime if you like." Brandon chuckled.
Sasha blinked with a blush, "You mean... like a date?"
Hearing that made Brandon's face blush, "I mean... well uh... I mean... only if you want but it's... cool if you don't-" Sasha then pecked his cheek, to which he froze.
"Let's discuss more after the challenge." Sasha then took him by the hand as he carried the wagon.
Melissa was shown pulling a wagon of jewels and coins as she picked up a large signal before she runs to it, several feet away from her Timothy finds an equally large signal as he pulls his load of cameras he tossed out and some jewelry. Both players run towards the signal before they ended up finding the same spot, they slowly looked up and glared daggers at each other. They both dive and dig into the sand, "IT'S MINE!" Melissa shouted.
"NO, IT'S MINE!" Timothy replied.
Both furiously dug before they found a shiny diamond, "I FOUND A DIAMOND!" They both shouted and idened their eyes before shooting their heads up and accidentally clashing their lips together, causing both to gag and wipe their tongues. "EW GROSS! BLAAAAAAAAAH!" They then focused on each other again after disinfecting their lips.
"Get lost Rat Face, this diamond is on my side!" Melissa showed him her half of the map.
"No, it's on my side you harpy!" Timothy showed her his half and they clashed it together.
As they argued Elizabeth could be seen walking by, "Okay, not bad progress right now..." Elizabeth looked at her pile of antiques as she overheared Timothy and Melissa in another spat. She groaned before she passed by them.
"LIZZIE/SCARECROW GIRL!" Melissa and Timothy called for her when they spotted her.
Elizabeth sighed before she dragged her feet towards their squabbling now, "What now?"
Melissa began to explain the situation, "Well, since you told us to stop fighting, we agreed to split the island-"
"And tell your sidekick that the diamond is on my side!" Timothy cried, interrupting Melissa.
Melissa growled, "No, it is clearly on my side."
Elizabeth then checked the surroundings before she connected the two halves, "Actually guys, it's on both your sides."
Melissa and Timothy realize that she's right, "Oh... I see."
"And since you guys can't learn to share the diamond, and because you can't break a diamond. I guess I'll just take it- wait where did it go?" Elizabeth asked as she and the two saw that it went missing.
"It was just here!" Timothy exclaimed, "How did-"
"Hello!" Wane called from a few feet away from them, having swiped the diamond from them when they looked away. "Thanks for the big catch!" he cackled before trying to leave the three.
Timothy chased after him, "Get back he-" Timothy was met with a swift kick to his kiwis in response, the boy winced in pain as he fell to the ground and Wane got away.
"He's the least sneaky person I know, how did we not hear him?" Melissa wondered.
"No matter." Elizabeth sighed before looking at her treasure, "We're at least making good progress now."
Melissa looked at Elizabeth's treasure before giving her a few extra coins to boost her value, "That should help you out even more."
Timothy kept wincing as he put some of his findings like some of his old cameras and a pearl necklace, "Yeah... this thanks for being a good captain."
"Aw, thanks guys." Elizabeth hugged them both and went on her way.
After she left, Melissa and Timothy glared at each other again. "Mention that kiss to anyone I'll shove every last camera you own down your throat."
"You do that, and I'll reveal you still sleep with a stuffed bear dressed as Lebron James," Timothy threatened in return.
They growled before they turned away and marched off. As they left Beatrice was seen coming out of the water pulling three treasure chests that she found in sunken ships, "What an adventure Jr, this haul will certainly get us the win don't you think?" She asked her pet crab, who was wearing a tiny gold crown and playing a golden violin.
Confessional: Timothy
"Annoying witch."
Confessional Over
Confessional: Melissa
"Invasive prude."
Confessional Over
Kaito, Van, and Paige exited the observatory pulling their own wagons of, somehow still functioning, computers, science equipment, and some telescopes. Plus, several rocks that were collected from many planets that Morton had sent rovers to for recon.
"I can't believe all this stuff is still running even after all these years," Kaito noted as he looked over a space flight simulation on Neptune on a VIC-20 computer. "I'm so using these for my mars reports."
"Certainly, now let's head back to the mess hall. If we hurry, we can make it in time for judging." Van told the two as they headed back to the mess hall.
Kaito looked to Van, "Um, Vanessa. I just... I just want-"
"It's okay Kae, I know earlier you've been wanting to leave since Day one." Van told him.
"Yeah, but... there was one part that made my stay here bearable." Kaito smiles warmly at Van
Van saw Kaito this and blushed, "Oh... hehe..." she nervously chuckled. "Uh let's just hurry on back!" She grabbed Kaito's hand and pulled him harder back the way they came, leaving Paige behind.
"Aww, they're best friends like me and Wyatt!" Paige laughed as she followed after them.
Elizabeth had collected a good amount of treasure after splitting off from Timothy and Melissa, "I do reckon this'll be enough to get me immunity, I just hope the others will do well." Elizabeth found a signal and began to search for it as Wane snuck up on her cart.
While Elizabeth's back was turned, Wane began taking treasures from her cart. After grabbing a large amount, Wane laughed loudly to get Elizabeth's attention before running off.
"Hey!" Elizabeth ran after Wane while he cackled as he ran off, "Get back here!" Elizabeth failed to catch up with Wane and looked back at her treasure, "Looks like I still have some stuff left." Elizabeth dropped a few metal bars in her cart, "I still have a chance! I need to make it back before anything else can be stolen!" Suddenly, Drew's voice came in on the island's intercom.
"Get your butts in gear people!" Drew's voice called over the intercom, "You have ten minutes to report to the mess hall, or else your findings won't count!"
Elizabeth ran to the mess hall, "Good timing too!"
The camera cut to all fourteen islanders waiting for the results of the competition. Drew walked into the room with the judge next to him, "Well, Frank has valued everyone's treasure, so we'll be doing a little elimination ceremony as we slowly go down the list of people. For starters, Wane, you're safe with the most valuable... mostly ones you stole." Drew tossed a miniature treasure chest to the conman.
Wane laughed cockily as he looked at his cart full of treasure.
"...Beatrice."
Beatrice rubbed Jr's head as she caught her treasure chest.
"...King."
King raised an eyebrow and caught his reward for staying safe.
"...Kaito, Van, and Paige! All of you got the same score!"
The three looked at each other happily as they found out they were safe.
"...Flora, then Kodi, then Will!"
"Yeah!" Kodi called out and hugged Will as Flora gave a smile to the two.
"...Melissa!"
Melissa began to look worried when she realized who hadn't gotten their name called out yet.
"...Sasha!"
Sasha looked just as worried due to Brandon losing a huge amount of treasure earlier.
"...Timothy!"
"Oh thank god." Timothy caught his chest and held it carefully.
"Now we've got the two who were hit the hardest by Wane's stealing... Elizabeth and Brandon..." Drew looked at the two, "Who's it gonna be? Well... the answer for who's been eliminated tonight is none other than...
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"I knew this time was gonna come eventually." Elizabeth smiled despite being eliminated, "Well, I made the merge, so I can't complain. I just wish I could've made it a little bit farther." Elizabeth shrugged.
"Goodbye captain..." Melissa saluted Elizabeth as she got ready to leave.
Elizabeth let out a small laugh, "Goodbye Melissa, I hope you and Tim can at least argue less while I'm gone."
"No promises on that!" Both Melissa and Timothy responded as Elizabeth laughed and began to leave the room to go to the floater.
Elizabeth opened the door, "I tried. Goodbye everyone!" Elizabeth waved, "It was nice meeting you all!"
Kodi, Flora, and Will all waved goodbye to Elizabeth as she followed the interns to the elimination floater. After the former leader of the frogs was gone, Drew shrugged, "Well, on the bright side, no more cage of shame, that's cool! Right, guys?" Drew asked as the other contestants just stared at him blankly, "Yeah, I guess it's too soon. Well, see ya next challenge!"
The contestants all eventually left the mess hall, leaving Melissa all by her lonesome. The athlete clenched her fist with a small look of rage on her face, "...Wane... you're gonna pay..."
FreshmEn: Like before, this is a triple feature, so no AN
Reasoning For Elimination: Elizabeth was a really fun character to write, but we knew she had to be the first to go after the Frogs were disbanded due to her status as their leader. Especially since she was the one keeping a lot of them in check most of the time. Also funnily enough, her getting first in the Rank 'Em Bank 'Em scene in the aftermath special wasn't foreshadowing, that was just the results of an actual 'poll' we did for who people thought was the most and least likely to win. Kaito returning wasn't decided by real people though, that was always pre-set
Current Merge Cast: Beatrice, Brandon, Flora, Kaito, King, Kodi, Melissa, Paige, Sasha, Timothy, Vanessa, Wane, Will
Elimination Order:
22nd ~ Alex Parker - The Pessimistic Klutz (GirlPower54)
21st ~ May Summers - The Daydreaming Genius (Kadachi935)
20th ~ Persephone D'Armours - The Princess (lordgemini)
19th ~ Kaito Kiyora - The Passionate Astrophile (Epifanio Therion) [Returned at Merge]
18th ~ Klaas Driessen - The Gambler (Alexneushoorn)
17th ~ Wyatt Reins - The Animal Caretaker (Nobody245) [DISQUALIFIED]
16th ~ Will Parker - The Happy Go Lucky Influencer (GirlPower54) [Returned at Merge]
15th ~ Rebecca 'Becky' Hellblood Jones - The Hellborn Singer (MTDN)
14th ~ Elizabeth Mikeston - The Scarecrow (BaseballCapClyde)
Idol Status:
Immunity Idol: Found by ?
Vote Steal Idol: Not found
Second Chance Idol: Found and used by King