Pre and post-challenge written by FreshmEn
Challenge written by Zoryan El Muerto
"Last time on Total Drama Sakamannano Island!" Drew announced as the camera played footage of the last episode, "We took a nice trip out on the water to play a game of War Rafts!" The camera played footage of Kaito's raft being destroyed first, "Some got early losses, while others managed to be threats of their own by getting others out!" Footage of Kodi getting both King and Brandon out played, "King and Brandon had a fight on their rafts while the others tried to join in on taking King out, but Kaito seemed to have other ideas during this and got Sasha out instead, and because Sasha lost the challenge, with Paige and Beatrice taking the win, she had to play smart to get the vote to turn in her favor, and with Kodi's swing vote, she got out Melissa for trying to target her. At least she'll be able to meet her boyfriend Timothy now that she's o-" Drew was cut off by both a camera and a baseball flying through the air before hitting him on the head, like Timothy and Melissa had somehow throw it that far, "Ow! Anyways, we're in the final ten, and soon we'll be in our final nine! Who will get eliminated today? Find out right here on… 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
Kodi picked at a piece of fish that Hack had made for breakfast as he looked at Will with a look of disgust, "Erm… I dunno if this is edible." Kodi mumbled to Will who was staring off at the distance.
"Yeah…" Will replied as he kept looking at something else.
"Uhm… you're not mad about me getting rid of Melissa out right? I know I'm a traitor but I couldn't let Brandon down! He's a Frog too!" Kodi explained as Will shook his head.
Will pointed past Kodi's head, "It's not me who's mad… but even if it was, I don't think it would have anything on him."
Kodi turned around to see King was giving him the mother of all death glares while he ate his breakfast, "Woah! What did I do to upset him so much!? I've never seen him look so mad before… come to think of it I've never seen him show emotion before!"
"I don't know… but maybe you should try staying out of his way for a bit… he doesn't seem to happy to see you right now." Will suggested as Kodi shook his head.
Kodi got up from the table, "Well that sounds like nonsense, if someone's mad at me, I think it's up to me to go make things right with them!" Kodi turned to King and started walking towards him, "Hey King, is something b-" Kodi was cut off by King slamming his fist down on his table hard enough to destroy it. The DND nerd yelped before rushing back to his table with Will, "I don't think he's interested in talking right now!" Kodi looked on in fear as King got up and left the room.
"Dude… what did you do?" Will asked while Kodi gripped his head.
"I have no idea…" Kodi barely muttered while he went back to eating his breakfast.
Beatrice whistled while taking a good walk around the island's beach, "Sasha's idol is gone now… but she's definitely becoming too dangerous of a player to keep me around… she got Melissa out over King yesterday… which means she can get anyone she chooses out come the next vote." Beatrice groaned as she picked up a shell and examined it, "I guess I'm pretty lucky that I'm involved in that alliance, I don't have to worry about future votes…" Beatrice thought of her current situation and sighed, "I know sticking with the alliance is good because of numbers right now… but I need more trustworthy allies if I wanna stay in."
Beatrice looked around and noticed Flora humming as she drew something in the sand with a stick, "She could work." Beatrice headed over to Flora and greeted her.
"Oh, hi Beatrice! How's it going!" Flora waved as Beatrice looked around to see if anyone was watching, "Did you need something?"
Beatrice rubbed her arm, "Well, I was just wondering if you could help me with something?"
"Mmm, sure! What do you need help with?" Flora asked while setting her stick down.
"I was wondering if you could vote with me and a few others in tonight's elimination?" Beatrice asked, "I wanna get out some of the stronger players so things will be fairer for the rest of us, and I was hoping you'd agree to vote with me on this."
Flora happily smiled and jumped up, "Sure, but, uh, who were you thinking of voting for?"
Beatrice paused before shrugging, "Well... I wanted to wait until the challenge ended to see who to vote for! Can't make any early assumptions, you know?"
"Oh, that makes perfect sense! Anything else I need to know?" Flora asked as Beatrice got ready to leave.
"Nope, that's all!" Beatrice waved off as Flora went back to drawing in the sand.
Confessional: Flora
"I like that Beatrice is trying to look out for the rest of us by getting rid of the strongest players! How thoughtful of her!" Flora smiled and held her hands together
Confessional Over
Confessional: Beatrice
"Ok… I'm gonna ride the wave out with Sasha and Brandon for now, but if she tries anything I'll use Flora to help get her out." Beatrice promised, "Hopefully it never comes down to that, though."
Confessional Over
Kaito, Paige, and Van were all gathered in Kaito's room to discuss strategies for the game, "Ok, Sasha needs to leave as soon as possible." Kaito told the others, "She's becoming too much of a threat with her connections and is too smart to take lightly."
"But how are we gonna get her out? We just lost a potential ally with Melissa getting eliminated, Kodi seemed to side with Sasha last challenge, and Will's stuck with Kodi." Van crossed her arms and sat back on the bed, "Pretty much all of the remaining Frogs except for maybe Flora are gonna go against us, and I 'unno if she'd even help us out."
Paige raised her hand, "Oh oh, maybe we should give Flora a huge sob story about how lonely we are and how we'd like her as a friend, and then we can have her vote with us tonight!"
Kaito rubbed his chin, "One, I'd prefer to not emotionally manipulate her, and two, even if she did vote with us, that puts the vote at five to four to one… unless…"
"Unless, what?" Van asked while raising an eyebrow.
Kaito sighed, "Unless we ask King to join our alliance." The three suddenly heard a loud thunderbolt echo across the island as Kaito finished speaking, "Oh that's just a bad omen."
"King wouldn't even bother joining our alliance, he thinks everyone is a piece of trash!" Van pointed out, "Why would he ever wanna join us?"
Paige shrugged while making an arrow, "I mean, it couldn't hurt to try, could it? Even he's gotta realize how doomed he is if he doesn't partner up with us!"
Kaito looked down, "So that takes care of who else to get in our alliance… so who's gonna be the ambassador for us to ask King for an alliance?" Kaito asked as the other two Chickens just gave him blank stares. Kaito sighed and got up, "Alright… I'll do it." Kaito got up and walked out of his room to go ask King for his assistance, "Wish me luck!"
"Godspeed Kae-Kae!" Van called out while she and Paige watched Kaito go over to the King's door.
Kaito paused for a moment and knocked on the door to the room and gulped nervously, not knowing how the interaction would end. Luckily for Kaito, King did return to his room after eating breakfast and he opened the door and greeted Kaito by saying, "What do you want you useless piece of garbage?"
Kaito fixed his collar to look more professional, "Well, King, sir, me and the other Chickens were wondering if, by chance, you wanted to join in on our alliance? You're in danger as much as the rest of us are so we think we should all work together-"
"Sure." King simply answered in response to Kaito's question.
"Wait, really?" Kaito was surprised at this sudden answer, "That was a lot easier than I thought it would be…"
King laughed, "That piece of trash that used the idol yesterday has tried controlling me before, so I think it would be funny to get under her skin by being in your alliance. Do note though… the moment she and the other piece of trash are gone is the moment I leave the alliance, this isn't a friendship that you all adore… this is purely for spite."
Kaito nodded and turned around, "The other piece of trash?"
"If a piece of trash like you must know, it's that... useless piece of garbage with the lavender hair... I want him gone as soon as possible for what he did last challenge." King gained a grim tone before he turned away from Kaito and walked off, not even bothering to continue the conversation.
Kaito walked off while King slammed his door shut, "Wow, he actually said yes to it… but his response makes me wonder if he's even gonna help us out unless we vote out Kodi… but I suppose we'll have to make that a necessary evil for our safety." Kaito told the others as the intercom.
Drew's voice cut in on the intercom, "Attention all Malihinis, get your butts down to the beach in five or else!"
"Looks like we gotta get going!" Paige told the others, "Let's hope we can win this challenge and that King will actually go along with our plan!"
"Yeah." Van followed the others as they all headed off to the beach.
The contestants all arrived at the beach to see a yacht waiting for them to get on, "Hello Malihinis!" Drew waved at the contestants, "Today we're gonna play a nice game of Us Among!"
"You mean Among Us?" Will raised an eyebrow at Drew.
"No!" Drew snapped before shaking his head, "It's a completely original game that I invented with Hack! The goal of the game changes depending on your team, so we'll explain that while on the boat, but..." Drew grabbed a few boxes and tossed them to the contestants, "Put these on and meet us on the ship! But be careful... one of you is gonna be a dirty pirate..."
The contestants all opened their boxes to find uniforms for the challenge, as well as a card that said if they were a sailor or a pirate, some of the contestants looked at each other before the screen cut to black.
Shhhhhhhhhhh
The dark screen then faded out to reveal the remaining cast members in colored diving suits, all with their faces blacked out. Beatrice in an ocean blue suit with Sebastian Jr on her head, Brandon wearing a dark blue diving suit with overalls over it, Flora in lime green with her flower and Timothy's shades on her head, Kaito in purple with a jauntily angled space helmet, King in a white diving suit with his jacket, Kodi in lavender with a knight helmet, Paige in green with a bow over her shoulder, Sasha in red with a blazer, Vanessa in a black diving suit with her headband, and Will in yellow with his face mask.
There is one pirate Among Us
The ten contestants all found themselves meeting around a table, with each of their phones having a list that contained the names and pictures of each remaining contestant, a button that read 'Skip Vote' and the words 'Vote The Pirate' on the top of the phone. Someone among them had been given the role of the pirate, and it was up to them to snuff them out. Beatrice looked around at the other contestants, "Alright, looks like... uh... we're doing something I guess? I don't really know what we're supposed to do here."
"Looks like we're playing the game among us, which is a murder mystery game where people have to find an imposter before they take them all out." Will revealed, "It was a pretty trendy game not too long ago, so I know it like the back of my hand?"
"Is anyone suspicious?" Brandon questioned the crew.
Will's eyes lit up from behind his helmet as he pointed at Sasha, "Red's sus!"
"Oh god not this whole thing." Sasha groaned as she pinched her nose.
"Alright look, as much as I would like to vote out the most dangerous player here." Van started, "We don't have any viable evidence to convict her, so how's about we skip until we get more information?" She suggested, "'Sides, we don't even know all the rules for the game, so we should probably wait for Drew."
"Seems reasonable." Kodi shrugged before he raised his hand, "Skip."
Kaito raised his hand up to chime in the conversation, "Yeah, I know it's not me, so lets totes skip,"
"Skip/skip/I'll also skip." the others followed suit, except for King who just held up his colored card as a vote to himself.
Drew and Pamela then appeared and handed out an envelope to each of them, "Alright players, you each have a list of tasks that must be completed while you're boat-sitting Hack's new house yacht." Pamela told them.
Kodi raised his arm up, "I thought Hack already has a ship."
"This one he has for personal use, the Dark Pearl is his adventure ship." Drew cleared up, "But, in one of these is the slip for the imposter, who will try and get the crewmates to lose. For the crewmates, aka sailors in this case, to win they must either complete their tasks or vote out the imposter, or the pirate. Speaking of the pirate, if they win, then they're safe from tonight's vote, not only that but if they win... then only their vote will count. But if they lose, then they're immediately out of the competition." Drew explained the challenge.
Kodi grabbed his envelope and titled his head, "Don't you think that's a little much?"
"That's only if they accept their special role," Pamela explained as she handed the last envelope to Will. "If they don't, then the sailors who survive are immune from the vote. Simple as that, the only question is if the pirate is willing to take a huge risk."
After Pamela revealed the role of the pirate, the other contestants seemed slightly nervous at the risk of being auto-elimmed. Drew stepped forward, "That's right, four of you will recieve a special role to help your side succeed."
Pamela began to list off the roles, "The engineer, the guardian angel, the scientist, and for the pirate... the mutineer. Now get a move on." Pamela told them as the players ran off to a different part of the ship.
"20 bucks says the pirate wins." Drew bet.
Pamela smirked, "You really wanna make a bet with me again?"
"The Stone has a good feeling about this imposter." As he said that, the two heard footsteps coming back, "Oh, what do we have here? So I take it you're accepting the mutineer role?" After an inaudible answer, "Alright, just head into the captain's quarters." Drew directed the off-screen pirate on where to go.
Confessional: Drew
"Looks like I'll be making that sweet, sweet twenty dineros." Drew rubbed his hands together with a smirk.
Confessional Over
Confessional: Pamela
"Never count out the crew-mates, I have faith in the kids. And I get another twenty bucks from Stony, it pays to be the smart one of the group."
Confessional Over
Confessional: ?
"Normally I wouldn't need to take such a risk, but this would be the only chance to take out the most powerful player in the game. Immunity from the votes won't be enough, this might be our only guarantee." The figure said to the confessional
Confessional Over
The rest of the sailors all opened their envelopes, finding task lists inside, with some sailors finding special role cards as well. Sasha came up to Brandon, who was in the lower deck, "Hey Brandon, getting started on the tasks huh?"
"Yep, the sooner we get these done the better." Brandon replied as he was mopping the floor, "What's your task card say?"
Sasha checked, "It says electrical... which sounds like an odd place to go on a ship."
Brandon chuckled while leaning against his mop, "Wait, this ship has electrical?"
"Apparently." Sasha shrugged, "I just hope we win, no doubt I'm a target. And without my idol, I'm certainly toast." Sasha sighed as Brandon patted her shoulder.
"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you. We're gonna get these tasks done, and we'll both make it another episode." Brandon slapped her on the back before getting back to work on his task.
Sasha smiled before heading off to electrical, "Thanks Brandy."
Elsewhere, Flora entered an office-looking room and finds a card swipe. She looked at her task card to see one of her tasks, "Alright, card swipe. Well, that should be simple enough." Flora took out her card and placed it in the swipe, "Just gotta swipe and..." Her swipe just got a buzzer noise, 'Bad swipe'. "Okay, no worries." Flora reassured herself as she redid her card swipe, 'Too fast'. She redid it again, 'Too slow'. Again, 'Too fast'. Flora took a deep breath, "Okay, I can do this." She kept swiping her card again and again, each time getting a buzzer sound, meaning she has to repeat her swipe again and again.
Outside of the office, Kodi was walking by himself before heading into the craw-in cooler, the dnd nerd pulled out a few fish and put them in a bucket. "Okay, fill up the fish bucket task. Check. Now onto reinstalling wires." He went towards the hallway, passing by King who was glaring daggers at the DnD nerd. "Um... hi there?"
King let out one simple word, "Die."
Kodi blinked before walking away, "Okay byeeeeee."
Confessional: Kodi
"Yeesh, he's still really mad at me..."
Confessional Over
Elsewhere, Van was on the dock at the end of the yacht, holding out her cell phone as Beatrice popped up behind her, "What are you doing?"
"Oh, I'm trying to find cellphone reception," Van answered while trying to get reception.
Beatrice laughed, "That's not a real task, you're looking at social media stuff aren't you?"
"What, it's a real task," Van exclaimed in response to Beatrice's accusation.
"Suuure." Beatrice hopped back onto the boat, leaving Van to sigh and continue to look for reception.
On the other side of the ship, Paige was seen scraping barnacles off the ship. Digging at the grime with a scraper, "Oh my lord."
"You doing okay down there Paige?" Kaito asked as he looked down at his ally as she hung from a swing.
Paige looked back up at Kaito and called out, "I'm okay, just watch out for the pirate!"
"I will, luckily I have a task here." Kaito then goes off to do that task.
Paige then gagged as she scraped a huge chunk of mushy barnacles. "Oh my god, Hack really needs to take better care of this vessel."
Will, meanwhile, made it to the back of the ship where he found Kodi working on his second task. "Hey Will, do you know how to do this task?" Kodi was at a CD-playing sound system, "I'm supposed to rewind a tape."
"Ah, don't worry Kodester. Your brave knight's got this." Will patted Kodi's head, making the lavender-headed boy blush under his helmet. "Just have to-" Will pressed a button which didn't work. Then he pressed more buttons, which did nothing. Then he smacked the system around, "Okay... I've never seen this task before."
Kodi slumped down and looked at the floor, "Awww. Well, thanks for trying."
"Sorry about that... I'd love to help more but I gotta go to my first task," Will then head on out as Kodi was left to figure out the system. As Kodi was figuring that out, an unseen figure came up behind Kodi and stabbed him with a foam knife.
Kodi wheezed before falling to the floor in feigned death. Will heard the noise come from the room and rushed back to see what was up.
"Huh, what happened-" Will gasped as he came back and saw a white pair of diving suit legs slipping into the vent... which the yacht had for some reason. "NO, KODI!" Will cried before he pressed the report button on his communicator.
Beatrice slammed her fist on the table as the contestants all gathered back around the table, "Where?"
"Someone killed Kodi!" Will cried as the others gasped as Flora gave her condolences.
"Ok but where?" Beatrice asked again.
"Who would wanna take out Kodi?" Brandon questioned before everyone turned to King, who just looked around at the other contestants.
King scoffed and shook his head, "What useless evidence could you have that suggests perfection would steep so low?"
"Well, you have been giving Kodi the stink eye since the last challenge." Will noted, "So there's a motive to target Kodi first." King rolled his eyes as Will stated the evidence against King.
Sasha chimed in, "Plus, only you would take the powerful role the pirate has."
The Prince kid snickered, "If you truly believe that, then you're some other type of moron." King voted for himself as the others cast their votes.
Votes:
King - Beatrice, Brandon, Flora, Kaito, King, Paige, Sasha, Van, Will
"King, since it's unanimous, you have to walk the plank," Pamela states as she and Drew watched on. "But first turn in your slip."
King nodded as he gives Pamela her slip, "Here you are Ms. Pamela." He politely told her before marching down the plank and hopping into the water.
Sasha perked up, "Was he just-"
Pamela interrupted "I know, I'm still adjusting." She then opened up King's folded slip of paper, "Anyway, if King's innocent then he'll have a happy face emoji. If he's guilty, then a devil face emoji. King was..." The others eagerly waited for the answer...
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... "Not the pirate." She showed the kids the paper with a happy face emoji.
The others groaned at their failure to catch the correct contestant. Will scratched the top of his helmet, "But I swore it was him, I saw his legs in the vent!"
Sasha then gasped, "Wait... the mutineer role!"
Brandon crossed his arms, "What do you mean?"
"Huh?" Beatrice asked.
"I bet the mutineer has a copy of everyone's outfits, to mimic other sailors!" Sasha explained as some contestants gasped at the revelation.
Van tilted her head and shrugged, "I don't know, sounds too thought out... How do we know that you're not the pirate and you're making excuses to throw us off?"
Drew chuckled as he dropped into the room, "Nope, she's right. The pirate has accepted to the mutineer role, and that's precisely what it does."
"Then that means their vote is the only one that will count tonight." Beatrice pointed out the risk of what would happen if they were to lose the challenge.
Van clicked her tongue and snapped her fingers, "But if we find out then they're out of the game."
"Alright guys, let's get back to our tasks." Brandon told them, "But trust... no one."
The group then split up again, with Van and Paige going to a hallway with a room on each side, a 'reactor', and a security room. They nodded before dispersing as Sasha went by, carrying a bucket of coal towards an engine.
Flora then ran into a library just as the doors locked shut behind her, momentarily startling her before she looked around, "My word, how big is this ship?" She then checked her task card, "Okay, organize the mess of books." Flora then saw a pile of books just thrown all over the floor, Flora sighed before going to clean up the mess.
Confessional: Flora
"People have no respect for literature." Flora shook her head with disapproval.
Confessional Over
Meanwhile, Brandon was hooking up a tablet into the ship's computer "Alright, now to upload this data and-" Just then the ship's siren blared as a dead body was reported. "Oh come on!"
Everyone was back at the meeting table, "Van's dead!" Paige suddenly yelled out as she slammed her hands on the table.
Beatrice leaned against the table, "Where?"
"What?!" Kaito exclaimed while gripping the top of his head.
Paige suddenly pointed to one of the sailors, "It was Sasha!"
"What!?" Sasha exclaimed while stumbling backward, "Why do you assume it's me?"
"Well, you ran past the room Van was in, which was across from me, and when I checked in, she was killed," Paige explained while crossing her arms.
Sasha held her finger up, "Wait! If she was across from you, then wouldn't that mean you could have a path to do it?"
Paige scoffed while shaking her head, "Then why would I report the body instead of running away? Especially if I was alone with her? Seems like you're avoiding something major here!"
"Good enough for me." Will shrugged as he got ready to vote.
"I did see her leave from where Van was when I went by there for a task," Kaito mentioned before he pointed to Sasha as well.
Brandon held his arms out, "But it might have been the mutineer disguised as Sasha!"
"What if... she wanted to mutineer as Van after taking her out?" Flora guessed.
Sasha scoffed as she shook her head repeatedly, "Why would I do that when Paige was too close to Van? She'd discover the body before I could do anything of importance!"
"I don't know but best not to chance it," Kaito voted as everyone but Brandon and Beatrice pointed at Sasha.
Votes:
Sasha - Flora, Kaito, Paige, Will
Paige - Beatrice, Brandon, Sasha
"Morons." Sasha leaped off the plank and swam to the coast where the losers were watching the game.
Kodi greeted Sasha, "Hi Sasha, want a cookie? Hack gave me some since we might be here for a while!"
"Sure I'll take one." Sasha sighed as she grabbed a cookie.
Drew then told the players, "Alright malihinis... Sasha was... not the pirate!" Drew held up Sasha's slip showing a happy emoji.
"Dang it." The group groaned, another chance to catch the pirate was wasted on assumptions.
Paige groaned, "Alright, I guess I should use this chance to get any suspicions off of me, but I'm the scientist! And I can see whenever someone dies with this little device!" Paige revealed her role as the other contestants gasped, "So I promise you all, I'll find the pirate!" The contestants cheered as they were now allowed to leave the table.
Paige was then followed by Kaito, Flora, and Beatrice, thinking that protecting her would keep them safe so she could find the pirate. She then got to her next task as everyone watched her shoot targets from one of the cannons.
"Dude, Brandon and Will didn't go with us." Beatrice noticed the absence of the two male contestants.
"Don't worry, with Paige's vitals, should one of them go down, we'll know who the imposter is," Kaito said as he kept an eye on Paige.
Paige pat the device in her pocket and laughed, "Yep, doing my scientist duties."
Meanwhile, Will was seen in the kitchen "Okay, wash the dishes." Will saw a pile of dishes in the sink and slumped. Will then grabbed a plate and a sponge before he filled one sink with soap water, he then scrips a plate furiously.
Confessional: Will
Will groaned, "How did Hack rack up that many dishes?"
Confessional Over
Flora, meanwhile, was back at the card swipe, "Okay, back at this again. Just a nice... simple." Flora's swipe got a bad read. Flora took in a deep breath before she swiped again, and again, and again.
Meanwhile, inside the vent system. Brandon was seen crawling through, "Woah, these vents are huge." His voice echoed as he crawled through before popping out of a vent. Which happened to be in electrical, where the group was doing tasks. Everyone gasped as Brandon realized where he ended up, "Uh, I can explain!"
Kaito ran off and pressed the emergency button, "Emergency meeting!" A siren blared through the ship.
"Uh oh." Drew giggled at Pamela as she facepalmed, "Looks like the engineer is going to the depths!" Drew laughed as he and Pamela made their way to the meeting room.
The group was now at the meeting table yet again, "Well, guys. As the scientist I promised you a pirate," Paige proclaimed as she presented Brandon "And as promised, I caught one." Paige pointed at Brandon accusingly.
"No, you guys got it all wrong." Brandon waved his arms nervously.
Flora put her hand over the bottom of her helmet, "Oh, really? I don't mean to be a conflict starter but it does seem like you're it."
"No, I'm actually the engineer." Brandon quickly explained, "Which means I can use vents, like a pirate!" Brandon looked over to Will, "Will, you know this game! Back me up!"
The group all looked over to Will, who suddenly spoke up. "He's right, the engineer is a role that allows a crewmate to use the vents, even though it's not available to the other sailors."
Flora put her hand over her chest and lightly bowed, "Apologies for my accusation Brandon. But I suppose until we figure out who the real pirate is, we should skip."
"Good idea." Brandon sighed in relief as he and Will cast their votes, as did Beatrice, Kaito, and Paige.
Votes:
Skip - Beatrice, Brandon, Flora, Kaito, Paige, Will
"I think I have an idea, since there's six of us left. Perhaps we should move in groups of three." Flora suggested while the other contestants looked at eachother.
"Three?" Kaito titled his head at the suggestion.
Flora explained her reasoning, "That way if the pirate kills a sailor, then the other person will quickly report it."
Kaito shook his head, "But then we're left with a she-said, he-said scenario, one even harder to figure out than the ones we already have."
"That, and we're still less than halfway done with our tasks," Paige responded, "And not all our tasks co-exist with each other's, maybe we move in groups of two." Paige reasoned, "It would give me an idea as to who's an imposter."
Confessional: Paige
Paige pointed at her device, "Because if a sailor dies, then it will show on vitals and whoever was with the person is voted off at the next meeting."
Confessional Over
Beatrice shrugged, "Well... all in favor of groups of two, say I."
"I." the group minus Flora said
Flora sighed, believing it to be too risky, "I suppose majority rules. Will, you can go with me." Flora went off with Will.
Brandon gestured to Beatrice, "Let's go Beatrice."
Kaito stepped forward and looked at Paige, "Just leaves you and me Paige."
"Uh-huh." Paige nodded as she separated from the other two groups with Kaito.
Watching this Sasha hummed in thought, "Odd, they've been at this for a while now. How come they haven't made any progress with their tasks?" Sasha wondered out loud as she stroked her chin.
"Well, this is the first time we're seeing this ship. I'm not surprised they can't find where they need to go for their tasks in a place they haven't seen." Van shrugged while looking at her phone, where all the tasks she had to finish were available digitally.
"So we know who the engineer and scientist roles are, and the mutineer is bound to be the imposter." Kodi noted, "So who's the guardian angel?" Kodi looked around at the other losers.
Van shrugged, "Beats me, I wish I knew who it was."
Back on the boat, Flora and Will were in the hallway. With Flora downloading some data, "Just a few more minutes." Flora said as the loading bar slowly filled, and loading... and loading... and loading.
"Okay, Imma quickly head over to the medical room to check the test tubes," Will said as he ran right over to the medical room, which was just around the corner. Where Brandon was shown at a body scan, "Ah, Brandon. Hey, aren't you with Beatrice?"
"Oh, yeah. She's doing wires down a nearby hallway." Brandon stated casually while Will looked around for his task.
"Same here, Flora's waiting on a data download," Will replied, "I didn't wanna split up, but it was taking too long."
Brandon groaned, "Oof, those things take forever."
Will chuckled and shook his head, "Tell me about it."
"So you got a task in here too?" Brandon asked as the scan was almost finished.
Will nodded as he overlooked five tubes. four with blue liquid, the other pink, "Yep, put in a few test tubes and I gotta see which one's defective."
"Alrighty then," Brandon replied before a report siren blared out. "Oh come on! Can't I get one task done without a meeting being called!" He exclaimed while they all headed back to the meeting table.
At the meeting table, the contestants minus Beatrice were all gathered around.
"Someone got Beatrice!" Flora stressed while gripping her head, "I found her while looking for the medical room!"
Paige cracked her neck and slowly turned it to glare at Brandon, "Oh my, and Brandon was partners with her."
"But I wait, I saw Brandon do a scan." Will responds, "Impo-pirates can't do scans!"
Flora looked over at Paige, "Paige, why are you targeting Brandon so much? It's... a little odd."
"Are you even a scientist?" Will questioned.
Paige scoffed, "What? Of course I am."
"This game is tearing us apart." Kaito sighed, "Perhaps we should skip, we're down to only a few people and we have so many tasks to do. Besides, me and Paige have been together this whole time, there's no way she could've gotten the kill without me seeing her."
Brandon shook his head, "I don't trust her! She's been on me for way too long, there's no way it's her!" Brandon accused as he cast his vote, "I think it's more than fair to assume she has some involvement with this!"
"but there's no way, she would've taken me out when we were alone!" Kaito deflected the accusation.
The others looked at Paige and Brandon before casting their votes...
Votes:
Paige - Brandon, Flora, Will
Skip - Kaito, Paige
"Augh..." Paige groaned as she was tossed into the water.
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Confessional: Kaito
Kaito took off his helmet and rubbed his chin, "This challenge is more stressful than I imagined, any one of them could be the mutineer."
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Confessional: Will
"Brandon's scan confirmed to me that he's not the pirate, if he was then the scan would have shown his true form." Will noted, "It's gotta be one of the others..."
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Confessional: Flora
"My brain is hurting from all this conflict. Is this what normally happens in reality shows?" Flora rubbed her head.
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Confessional: Brandon
"This is coming down to the wire, only five players left. Who could it be?" Brandon was thinking about the other contestants.
Confessional Over
The remaining five were in separate parts of the ship, nobody trusting anyone else enough to pair up. Brandon was on the docks, Flora on the lower deck, Kaito in the yacht's kitchen, and Will in the storage room.
The sailors worked hard on their tasks slowly doing more and more as time went on. Brandon then looked at his task card. "Okay, down to my last task. Oh, but it's on the other side of the boat." Brandon then found a vent and used his engineer role to hop right in. "What the?" Brandon noticed someone in the vents with him, "Wait, you're the-" Just then he was taken down off-screen by the pirate.
Will and Kaito passed by each other in the hall, with Will keeping his distance as Kaito ducked him. The Parker twin got back to the medical room to finish his beaker task.
Flora ran down through the storage room as Kaito made it to the cafeteria, the eliminated players all shouted encouragement and pleas for victory. Except for King, who said nothing as he held an RC remote before tossing it in the ocean, "They don't deserve it." King mumbled.
Flora then made it to the plant room and grabbed a watering can. Flora then started watering the plants, "Okay, just gotta finish my wires task, clean out the vents, and then the card swipe." Flora told herself as she watered the plants, but as she started watering she noticed Will walk by without noticing her, "Huh?" Flora followed Will and watched him make his way to a room labeled 'Mutineer Only'.
"Will..." Flora watched as Kaito exited the room, "Or... Kaito?" Kaito walking out caused her to realize that she either witnessed the mutineer changing back to themselves or that they had just changed into another sailor. Flora ran off before making her way to the table and calling an emergency meeting.
Kodi gripped a railing while watching the contestants go to their last meeting, "Oh dear."
"I can't look!" Van turned away.
Kaito and Will were now at the meeting table, "What's going on?" They both asked.
"I JUST WILL TURN INTO KAITO!" Flora cried and pointed at Kaito as Will turned to him. Flora looked around for Brandon, "AND BRANDON'S OUT TOO!?"
Kaito gasped in shock, "I figured! It had to be Will this whole time!"
"No! That's such an obvious lie and there's no way I would do that!" Will deflected Kaito's accusation.
Flora panted while looking at the two with suspiciously, "I... don't... know who it is."
Confessional: Kodi
"Come on... get it right..." Kodi prayed.
Confessional Over
Confessional: Van
"Kae Kae is smart, he'll figure this out." Van crossed her arms and grinned.
Confessional Over
Confessional: Sasha
Sasha groaned, "Oh crap I'm so done for."
Confessional Over
Will then told Flora, "But Flora, you know it's not me." Flora pressed her palms against her forehead as all this stress was tearing her apart.
Kaito then glared at Will, "Hold on, you went away from Flora right as Beatrice's body was found. You've taken the longest to do your tasks, and you weren't there when we were watching Paige the scientist!" Kaito flung shade at Will.
"That's because after a brief stint of Among Us videos, I knew that the scientist was at the bottom line, totally useless!" Will exclaimed, Flora groaned as she looked between Will and Kaito. Both of them gave off good points, her mind was racing as she kept looking from Kaito to Will and back again.
"Come on Flora!" Kodi cheered on from down below.
"Use your head!" Sasha called, "Find the contradictions!"
Kaito then groaned, "Just vote Will Flora, you saw it with your own eyes!" Kaito pointed an accusatory finger at Will.
Will responded with a finger of his own, "Oh yeah, well it could be you as well!" Will then made one final plea to his friend. "Please Flroa, we've traveled together! We played Chambers of Beasts together, we're a party! The three Amigos!" Flora had tears at his desperate plea, "Do you really think I'm a pirate?"
"You're gonna emotionally manipulate her to win!?" Kaito stepped back, "What's wrong with you?"
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Flora had to make a choice, both boys voted the other. Her vote will determine the fate of who goes home, the others were watching on with bated breath. Drew and Pam were also on edge as the seconds ticked by as Flora contemplated her final vote. She finally decided, "I... can't trust my eyes..." Flora rested her hands on the table, the boys, the hosts, the losers. All had their eyes on her...
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Everyone gasped, Van and Paige winced. Kaito was stunned, Will was flabbergasted.
"Woah!" Kaito was then tossed off the plank into the water.
Drew then approached the last two players on the ship, "Alright you two, I have in my hand Kaito's slip. If Kaito had a happy face, then whoever's the pirate will win and choose who goes home. But if he has the devil face, then Kaito loses and he's out of the game." Drew told them, "You two ready for the last reveal of this challenge?"
Flora and Will looked to each other, with hopeful looks on their faces as they nodded before facing Drew. "We're ready."
"Alright, Kaito Kiyora... was..." Drew unfolded Kaito's paper, the world slowing down as Flora and Will sweated as they watched the host move a flap...
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Flora and Will dropped their jaws, Kaito sighed as he popped out of the water.
"Let's explain for a bit." Drew coughed as a camera played footage of what happened...
Kaito went up to Drew and Pamela to accept the role, "Alright, just head into the captain's quarters." Kaito went into the 'Mutineer Only' room and found extras of the other sailors' suits and accessories. He then dressed like King and took out Kodi.
Kaito was then shown in the confessional, "Normally I wouldn't need to take such a risk, but this would be the only chance to take out the most powerful player in the game. Immunity from the votes won't be enough, this might be our only guarantee." At the previous meeting, "-so let's totes skip."
He then popped into the reactor where Van was, she smiled at him before she turned around and offered herself "Go ahead." Kaito shook his head and playfully stabbed her with the fake knife.
All of Paige's accusing of Brandon, she was trying to steer suspicion away from Kaito.
He then put on a copy of Will's suit, not knowing he'd soon off Brandon in the vents...
Flora and Will slowly faced each other, they both tiredly smiled before they high-fived and hugged. "We did it." Will laughed as they earned their victories for the night.
"Yeah, I guess we did," Flora replied before Kodi ran onto the deck and hugged them both.
Kodi crushed Flora with a hug, "I knew you could do it Flora!"
Kaito pulled himself onto the dock as the others went onto the boat, with Van and Paige sitting beside him. "We're sorry Kae Kae, we did all we could to save you." Van patted Kaito on the back as he sighed and took off his helmet.
"I really thought I could make this play and take Sasha out." Kaito mumbled as he buried his head into his knees, "I should've just let it go to votes. I was an idiot."
Paige patted Kaito on the back, "It's alright buddy, we would've done the same."
"I can't believe I lost the chance to win a million dollars... again." Kaito moaned as the girls dropped their heads, "But hey, it's not a complete loss." They looked up to him again, "I mean, I gained more than I ever imagined from a season I didn't want to even be in. I gained people I'm willing to call friends, I'm happier, I'm less tired, and I met the best lady in the world." He locked Van's hand with his.
"Kae Kae." Van blushed as she took her helmet off.
Kaito softly smiled, "I mean it, you're why I stayed this time. Thanks for everything." Kaito pulled Van into a tight hug. Van pulled back and gave Kaito a quick peck on the cheek and teared up as it came time for him to take the floater, "My time has come..."
"Goodbye Kae-Kae!" Van cried as Paige hugged her to cheer her up.
Drew groaned as he gave Pamela twenty bucks, "Can't believe I lost another bet..." Drew mumbled.
"We didn't even need King the guardian angel!" Pamela cockily stated while crossing her arms as Kaito jumped into the elimination floater and was taken away.
"Well, there goes Kaito... again! How will Van react to this tragic elimination? What will she and Paige do without their main strategist, and does Sasha now have full control over the game? Find out next time on...
Total...
Drama...
Sakamannano Island!
FreshmEn: Again not really much of an AN to add here, but a little question I have is 'Did you notice the small hint that Kaito was the imposter?' it was a pretty subtle moment but it was him giving a signal to Van and Paige.
Zoryan El Muerto: RED'S SUS!
Reasoning For Elimination: Kaito going again so early in the merge isn't what we originally wanted for him, but we figured that it was gonna have to happen just for the other plotlines we had in mind. But we at least got to show him as a decent competitor this time round rather than someone who quits.
Current Merge Cast: Beatrice, Brandon, Flora, King, Kodi, Paige, Sasha, Vanessa, 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)
13th ~ Wane - The Natural Disaster (DaringDF1827 [Formerly Grape Escape's oc])
12th ~ Timothy Francis Hale - The Tattletale (DaringDF1827)
11th ~ Melissa Arroyo - The Athletic Nerd (Thunderstrike16)
10th ~ Kaito Kiyora - The Passionate Astrophile (Epifanio Therion) [Merge Elimination]
Idol Status:
Immunity Idol: Found and used by Sasha
Vote Steal Idol: Not found
Second Chance Idol: Found and used by King