acosta perez jose ramiro: We chose the animals depending on whether or not the contestants would bond with them.

Boys: Ripper

Girls: Anne Maria

Episode 25: The Aftermath IV: Stealing Jasmine's Thunder from Down Under

For the final time this season, the episode was opened by the theme of the TDA Aftermath show. The logo formed and gleamed in the artificial light, and the 'D' popped forward with its usual camera-shutter sound effect.

Clip 1

Justin had the hilt of Anne Maria's sword buried in his crotch before being pushed off. He fell with a scream until he hit one of the 'towers' on his cheek. He kept on hitting one tower after another until he hit the ground on his back in severe pain.

The 'D' came forward again and more recap footage was shown.

Clip 2

"This isn't even a real backstage pass," Jasmine told the confessional camera, the pass already around her neck. "It just looks like one." She looked down at it, and began to read. "All Access Membership, Buff and Tone Spa?"

The 'D' came forward again.

Clip 3

Sasquatchanakwa stood up and stepped forward. He stopped Topher in his tracks with a roar, but it was only for a moment.

"You want your water? Here you go!" Topher taunted, throwing his glass at the beast's eyes. As the beast roared and frantically tried to wipe the water and glass out of its face, Topher ran past and grabbed the bonsai.

"Pleasure dealing with you!" Topher told the sasquatch and took off.

The 'D' came forward one last time.

Clip 4

MK was shown frowning at the judges, then snapped her fingers in an instant. The rat, who was on her shoulder, sprung forward towards the table, snatched the cups of water on the table and sprung back onto MK's shoulder.

"Me and the rat actually have a lot in common!" MK quipped. "Snatchin' and grabbin' is how we roll!"

Chris smiled and gave them an eight, making MK grin at her opponents smugly.

(Theme Song)

The introduction rift played again and the audience cheered and applauded. Damien and Priya sat on the couch in the middle. The seats left of the hosts had Sam, Gwen, Eva, Geoff, and Scott on the top row and Rodney, Katie, Sadie, Trent, and Sky on the bottom row. The seats right of the hosts had Brick, Chase, Millie, and Izzy on the top row and Topher, MK, Jasmine, and Justin on the bottom.

"We're here live for the final aftermath of the season!" Damien announced. "My name is Damien."

"And my name is Priya," Priya introduced.

"We know you want to watch the finale, but we can't leave out the contestants that recently got eliminated," Damien said.

"And we don't want to deal with any complaining from the people we're going to interview," Priya added.

"Sounds fair. I was in last season's finale, and it had twenty-six episodes," Eva recalled.

"Twenty-seven if you count that special," Priya said.

"I don't care about that part though," Eva mentioned.

"Chris did want us to have this Aftermath be the 26th episode, but we figured that the season finale should have more stakes and action," Damien claimed.

"Surprisingly, I agree with that," Sky agreed.

"I'd rather see the finalists actually duke it out for the prize," Scott said, his arm fully healed and no longer consisting a sling. "It's more fun and exciting."

"Let's go over to the people we'll be interviewing today!" Priya announced. "Justin, Jasmine, MK, and Topher in that order!"

The audience cheered for the four, and they either waved or smiled for them.

"Not that I'm complaining, but why did you bring all of us out at once?" Topher asked.

"Yeah, don't you interview the contestants one at a time?" MK followed up.

"It's the penultimate episode," Damien answered. "We can't keep you guys waiting inside a green room this time."

"The room also needs to be cleaned because some people decided to throw a party there," Scott told everyone the truth.

"It was to celebrate the season almost being over," Geoff said, "and you were part of the party as well."

"I couldn't pass up grilled hot dogs and steak," Scott said in defense.

"Is Brick not going to get an interview this episode?" Jasmine wondered. "I'm pretty sure you didn't include him."

"He already had his time in the hot seat, so he's just going to sit tight this time like the others," Priya explained to her.

"Can we get to the interviews already?" MK grunted. "The faster we get this done, the faster we can continue partying."

"Before we get to the interviews," Damien said, "me and Priya put together some footage of everybody from the whole season. Let's roll those clips!"

The camera cut to the widescreen monitor in static before playing various clips in rapid succession as a rocking tune played. First was Izzy jumping off the plane in 'Full Metal Drama,' next was Eva and Geoff sticking their heads out from behind a cardboard cutout of a small red car in 'Monster Cash,' then a quick clip of Ripper running from beavers during the caveman challenge in 'One Million Bucks B.C.' before going to Jasmine getting a sample from Topher in 'Get a Clue,' MK in her superhero costume in 'Holy MK-oly,' and showing Anne Maria and Millie entering the hospital in 'One Flu Over the Cuckoos.'

Izzy and Justin were seen acting in 'Riot on Set,' then Chase is seen making a slam dunk in 'Million Dollar Babies.' Trent's dancing from 'Beach Blanket Bogus' is shown, then Justin and Millie's kiss from 'The Sand Witch Project.' Chris is seen looking at a drumming Chef in Rock 'n' Rule,' and Topher is shown falling into a pit in 'Top Dog.' The final note is played as the final clip, a picture of the two cast trailers, is shown.

The camera pulls back from the monitor as the audience cheers. "Total Drama Action definitely lived up to its name," Damien quipped.

"And it's all because of you guys," Priya complimented the cast. "Even without me and Damien competing, you all made things exciting."

"It's not natural," Sky said. "Chris just brings out the worst in us."

"Whether it be jealousy, anger, or deceitfulness, we still know who we are deep down," Trent added.

"You know, I didn't realize this until now," Damien started, "but we're all probably going to never see each other again when the show ends."

"We had an awesome time talking to all of you," Priya said. "I'm going to miss that."

"So am I," Eva replied dryly. "Now get on with the show so we can leave."

"Priya, are you going to keep your promise and not act like a fame-obsessed, cocky, vain word that rhymes with "itch"?" Damien double checked with Priya.

"Trust me. I've learned my lesson," Priya nodded. "And not just because I want to go through Truth or Hammer, Anvil, or Electrocution if I act out of line. I genuinely mean it."

"That's good to know," Damien smiled. "So let's get started and not keep the viewers at home waiting."

"Starting off our interviews, we have the eye candy, Justin," Priya said as the monitor started to turn on.

"Justin came into Total Drama Action with two things," Damien said over a clip of Justin moving through the lasers only to slip in the spy movie challenge.

"A strategic mind and his usual attractiveness," Priya replied as clips of Justin watching the Gaffers from a window and getting stared at by the animatronic monster played.

"He was able to combine those two in order to progress in the game," Damien said over Justin talking to Anne Maria after the fourth episode's challenge ended.

"But when his eye got hurt, he started to go downhill," Priya mentioned as clips of Justin checking his swollen eye in the mirror and failing in the superhero challenge were shown.

"He tried to rely on his brain to win, and it did him some good and bad," Damien commented while Justin was shown showing off his burrito.

"Not to mention that the girls weren't as charmed by him as before," Priya mentioned over a clip of Justin failing to get Jasmine and Millie to break his fall in the war movie challenge.

"After failing to woo Anne Maria again," Damien said over Justin being interrupted with kissing Anne Maria, "he got eliminated with some broken bones," he finished over Justin going into the limo in a body cast.

"The first guest had the face of an angel, loves tarring his body, and engaged in conversations with his brain," Priya noted. "Let's hear it for Justin!"

The eye candy went to sit on a red fancy chair next to the hosts while the audience cheered for him.

"Great to see you two and thanks for introducing me," Justin said politely.

"You're welcome," Priya said. "And for the record, I'm not going to fall for your charms."

"I'll vouch for that," Damien added. "Priya is as loyal as man's best friend."

"I wasn't even planning on it," Justin said. "My face and body needs all the time to heal from what they had to go through all season."

"You've been more vocal and manipulative this season," Priya said. "It's a step up from the silent yet gorgeous model that you were before."

"Yeah, I don't remember you talking that much while I was at the Playa des Losers with you," Topher spoke up.

"I was a man of action back then," Justin explained. "I didn't feel the need to talk when I could just do things, and my agent told me that speaking for longer than I need to could take a toll on my vocal cords."

"So why did you decide to become a master strategist this time?" Damien asked him. "I use the word "master" loosely because you didn't do as much damage as Scott and MK did."

"I wanted to prove that I could redeem myself after my performance in the first season, where I got framed for a crime that I didn't commit and didn't get to do as much," Justin answered.

"Now that I know who really broke my guitar strings, I'm sorry for how that went down," Trent said.

"No need to apologize," Justin told him. "I could've cleared my name back then."

"Some of the fans didn't like your tendency to overreact when you get injured a little bit," Priya said. "You even called yourself a circus freak just because your eye got swollen."

"I've spent years as a model," Justin explained himself. "People love my amazing looks and my dashing smile. I have to keep them intact or else I'd lose my publicity and have my name be mud everywhere I go."

"I don't understand how models live their daily lives, so I'll take your words with a grain of salt," Damien said.

"Even though the girls on your team either had boyfriends or weren't attracted to you, you still tried to smooth talk your way out of doing the challenges," Priya told him. "Did you ever consider that they could vote you off?"

"I did, but I managed to pass through thanks to either my team winning or someone being a more open target," Justin said. "I may be a pretty face, but I'm not oblivious to the things around me. Why use your brains a hundred percent of the time when you can use beauty as well?"

"Not something I'd agree with, but okay," MK muttered.

"Thanks for your time, Justin. You can rejoin the other guests," Priya told him as the monitor started to play. "Our next guest is Jasmine."

"After failing to make it to the merge last season, Jasmine got a second chance to compete," Damien said during the clips of Jasmine in her superhero costume and her lassoing Scott during the wild west challenge.

"She still maintained her authoritative attitude that made her captain of her team," Priya mentioned over Jasmine watching over the Gaffers with her binoculars.

"Not even figuring out that Brick had a deal with Chef brought her down," Damien recapped as Jasmine was seen upset at Brick's first elimination and then beating Topher at wrestling.

"When the Grips had more members than the Gaffers, Jasmine made the decision to switch over," Priya said over clips of Jasmine volunteering to swap over and then falling into the tar pit.

"She formed an alliance with the remaining Gaffer members and after a while, made up with Brick," Damien said as clips of Jasmine forming the alliance in the spy movie challenge and talking to Brick before the elimination in the rock and roll challenge played.

"But sadly, her grudge and a betrayal cut her chances of winning short," Priya finished over Jasmine's elimination.

"The second guest can't fit into a glass boot, once worked in a zoo, and prefers sleeping on trees rather than beds," Damien introduced. "Here's Jasmine!"

Jasmine tipped her hat and sat on the chair as the audience sent their support and applause towards the Outback girl.

"G'day Jasmine," Priya greeted. "Fancy seeing you here."

"Hello my former Killer Bass mates," Jasmine waved.

"So are you eager to go back home to Australia?" Damien asked.

"I am, but I know I have to stay for the final episode, and it's not like I could sneak off without somebody noticing me," Jasmine responded. "I'm no MK or anything."

"Since you're here, we're going to ask you questions," Damien said to the Aussie.

"Your elimination was rough," Priya said. "Getting booted out by people you thought you could trust? Didn't see that coming."

"I should have expected that personally," Jasmine explained. "Ripper will do anything to make it far, and what more should be said about MK that hasn't?"

"A lot," MK said to herself.

"You are a powerhouse and one of the strongest contestants of the show," Damien smiled. "You're athletic, cooperative, supportive, kind…"

"I get it," Jasmine said. "I was born and raised in Australia, and I was taught to protect myself from any and all kinds of danger."

"You've had a lot of ship tease between you and Brick in the first parts of the season," Priya said. "Even when you were mad at him, you couldn't let your feelings for him go."

"So have you two gotten into a relationship or just staying friends?" Damien asked.

"I guess I could give you all some insight," Jasmine said. "Me and Brick have talked it over and decided that we'd go out on our first date when the show is over in order to get to know each other more. You can't just jump into a relationship with someone you've spent a couple of days with." The audience clapped for this.

"Aww, that's so sweet," Izzy gushed.

"Moving on, you were able to get along with most of your teammates without any kind of difficulty," Damien claimed.

"And even though you were just a newcomer to the Gaffers, they all agreed to your alliance offer," Priya agreed. "I wish I was that socially adept."

"Most people back home are intimidated by my height and out of the ordinary talents," Jasmine explained. "Even if I wouldn't make any friends, I figured that I could still be polite and respectful towards everybody and not bully or put them down, and that has worked well on the show."

"How do you deal with the people who openly mock and make fun of you?" Damien wondered.

"I would just ignore them and block out their negative words," Jasmine responded. "Life's not worth getting all butthurt over people's hate."

"Is there anything you'd like to change about your performance?" Priya wondered.

"I'd forgive Brick earlier and focus more on myself rather than depending on people's votes," Jasmine replied. "If I had done that, I wouldn't have been blindsided."

"And with that, your time is up," Damien told the Australian woman.

"We'll talk to MK and Topher and uncover more stuff that you guys didn't even know about," Priya told the audience as the Aftermath theme started playing.

"But that'll be right after the break!" Damien finished.

(Commercial Break)

The episode returned with another flash of the Aftermath logo, and the scene cut back to the hosts and the Peanut Gallery drinking milkshakes.

"How rich are you that you're able to order us a hundred milkshakes?" Sky questioned Eva.

"I used my money to buy a gym and am saving some for college," Eva said. "I am using my money wisely and not blowing it on dumb things, but I figured that I could buy milkshakes for us all as a way of reducing our stress from being on the show."

"Respect, Eva!" Geoff gave her friend a fist bump.

"Consider this my good deed of the day," Eva grinned and glared at everybody. "But nobody better mooch off me!"

"Wasn't even thinking about it," Scott said.

"And we're back on the air," Priya told the audience after they finished their milkshakes.

"We've just talked with Justin and Jasmine, and we will do the same with MK and Topher," Damien said.

"But first, we're going to play our most painful, most gruesome season finale all-star version of 'That's Gonna Leave a Mark!'" Priya declared.

The segment's intro sequence played and the audience cheered.

The fist clip was the horse hitting Justin in the face in 'The Princess Pride'. Next was Anne Maria getting hit with golf balls in 'Masters of Disasters', followed by Scott getting shot by Chef in 'Alien Resurr-eggtion.'

Scott was shown screaming from having salt thrown in his face in 'Beach Blanket Bogus', then Sky was shown landing harshly on the horse in '3:10 To Wildtown'. After that, Millie was shown knocking MK out in the boxing match during 'Million Dollar Babies'.

After that, Izzy fell on Chase's back in 'Masters of Disasters', followed by Brick getting electrocuted by his banjo during 'Rock 'n Rule'. Izzy was hit by a monocle in 'Ocean's Eight...or Nine', then Ripper struck in-between the eyes by the birdie in 'Million Dollar Babies' and Sky getting hit by a bag while pushing her team's cart in 'The Chefshank Redemption'.

Scott was shown breaking his arm in 'Masters of Disasters', then Anne Maria was shown getting attacked by an octopus in 'Topher Punch'.

"It's a bird," Priya said as Justin was shown inching his way across the power lines in 'Holy MK-oly', "It's a plane," Chef was shown readying a bowling ball. "It's," he threw it and hit the boy in the groin, "incredibly painful!" Priya laughed and paused the footage, and the camera zoomed out and returned to the studio.

"For those of you that have been injured, just be glad that you got over your pain in just a few seconds," Damien commented.

"That's unless you're me," Scott snarked.

"I won't even bring up my eye injury from last season," Topher said.

"We can talk about pain later," Damien said. "We're going to move on to MK."

"Our techno girl, MK, was known for three things," Priya started while MK was shown working on her team's kart. "Her cynicalness, her cockiness, and more importantly, her stealthiness!" Clips of MK getting picked by Sky for her team, smiling smugly after watching her pet rat perform, and going through the lasers were shown.

"She listened in on people's confessionals, got Izzy eliminated twice through vote tampering and a majority vote, betrayed Scott, Chase, and Jasmine when she was in alliances with them, ocrastated Sky's elimination, and was generally argumentative and anti-social towards her fellow castmates," Damien recapped over all of MK's bad deeds.

"And as a result of all of this, she got all her electronics destroyed, got beat up badly by sharks, and was eliminated shortly after once she was out in the open," Priya said over the aforementioned moments before the television turned off."

"The third guest passed out on a run, has an IQ of 170, and can cook some good noodles," Damien announced. "The one and only Mary Kate, also known as MK!"

The audience let out a mixture of boos and applause for the techno girl. MK took them all in stride and went over to the chair.

"We expected that you'd get a mixed reception today," Priya smirked. "After all, you haven't been an angel at all this season."

"I knew this would happen," MK said. "They'll either admire my plots, or want me extinct for eliminating their personal favorite contestants!"

"Be thankful that they're not chucking tomatoes at you," Topher told her.

"That is so old school!" MK snickered.

"In the first season, you had the potential to be the main villain if Scott didn't take up the mantle," Priya said.

"I would've gone further, but alas, I was kicked off for not being supportive," MK said dryly.

"What made you touch up on your strategy this season?" Damien questioned. "It sure wasn't because you had a change of heart."

"I decided to tease others less and keep my strategy of listening in on confessionals," MK admitted. "If I was just like my season one self, I would've proved that I didn't learn anything and would've been an early out again."

"You lied to a lot of people just to gain their trust and backstab them just to keep yourself safe," Damien noted. "How do you feel about that?"

"I got into an alliance with Scott because he's the only one that I consider an equal," MK replied. "I had to get him eliminated so that I wouldn't be so tied down to him and I can claim the villain role of the season."

"The show would be uninteresting if I was the big bad for two seasons in a row, so I could get behind why you turned your back on me," Scott commented.

"I knew you'd understand once you were done with being mad at me," MK told him.

"It must be tough not to have your phones with you anymore," Priya teased. "And what's worse, you lost them to sharks."

"Laugh all you want, but those phones were never mine!" MK sneered. "I only hacked and touched up on them so that I could use them for my own means."

"Do you even have your own phone or not?" Damien wondered.

"I do, but my parents are too cheap to afford me the latest ones nowadays," MK grumbled. "They did send me my portable video game console, but I raised money myself to afford that."

"Speaking of, how would you judge your relationship with your own family?" Priya brought up.

"Easy. My mother is a daycare teacher, and my father works at a fast food place that I don't care enough about to name," MK answered. "They embarrass me a lot with their affection, and that's part of the reason why I'm teased by the stereotypical cool high school girls, but I'm not gonna disown them. They provide for me and make sure that I'm not living my life out on the streets."

"Do they even know about all the trouble you cause?" Priya wondered.

"They do, and even if I get grounded for weeks by them, they don't stop me from doing what I love," MK confirmed. "They support my love for my clubs at school like AV, debate, and robotics."

"Carrying on, there's something that we'd like to talk about with you," Priya told the techno girl mischievously.

"And whatever could it be?" MK asked sarcastically.

"We all know that you fudged the votes in order to make sure that Izzy left instead of you," Damien said.

"Understatement of the season," MK said. "I've heard about the theories and rumors when I got eliminated."

"Now that you've confirmed it to be true, we want to know how you were able to sabotage the voting devices," Damien followed up.

"So you know the thing I showed to Anne Maria?" MK began to tell the story.

"It was an electronic device that looked like a remote control," Izzy interjected.

"Correct you are, Izzy," MK nodded. "I put five hours total into inventing that thing directly and built the control box on my own time. I even worked out a manual override for the mechanism early on."

"So you tampered the votes by just using that thing?" Justin wondered. "You're super underhanded."

"Correct," MK answered. "I snatched a spare voting device when nobody was looking and it was stupidly easy to figure out how they all worked. Once I did, I added a way to hack into them to the remote control."

"Why don't you have that with you right now?" Sky asked.

"I broke it and flushed it down the toilet once Anne Maria found it since I knew that I was ganged up on," MK answered. "I was careful to cover my tracks with the remote control. Figuring out who would be using each device at the vote was something I had to hope was according to plan, so was getting the timing right within the devices themselves, but it was all worth it to ensure that the changed votes were there."

"How the heck were you able to do all that without anybody seeing you?" Scott asked in disbelief.

"It's simple. I kept the device under my jacket during the ceremony," MK gloated. "The controls are easy enough to operate without me coming off as suspicious. And when I didn't need it, I kept it under my blanket. I'm surprised that I only had to use it once."

"So that's why you were hiding under your blanket that time," Jasmine realized. "It was so you could touch up on that device without us seeing."

"Yep," MK nodded.

"I told you guys that MK sabotaged that ceremony, and you all didn't believe me," Scott chided everybody.

"Sorry about that," Damien apologized.

"We just didn't have enough proof to know if MK was guilty of everything," Priya said.

"I gotta say, I'm impressed with how you managed to pull that off," Izzy complimented MK.

"Uh, why are you praising her?" Topher asked. "She did all this just to eliminate you."

"I know, but I can respect anyone with a brain power nearly as high as mine," Izzy explained. "But MK, do that again and you'll want to be sleeping with one eye open," she threatened.

"That was only a one time thing, but you've made your message clear," MK shivered.

"So are we going to get to my interview or not?" Topher interrupted.

"As a matter of fact, we were just getting to you," Priya informed him as the camera panned up to the monitor.

"Topher was the season's rejoiner, but he had a lot of time to shine!" Damien said over a clip of Topher revealing himself as the bank teller.

"This is more apparent in this season since he's not in just the first two episodes," Priya quipped as clips of Topher hitting Jasmine with his big bone and him training Brick played.

"He made sure not to repeat the same mistakes from last time," Damien reminded over Topher bringing sandwiches to his team, "so he became a team player and was even revealed to be dating Anne Maria," Topher posing for the paparazzi and getting prints from Anne Maria were shown.

"He didn't let go of his egocentric and vain personality traits despite all this, and even wanted Anne Maria to vote for whoever he wanted until he saw how flawed it was," Priya said while Topher was seen holding his vintage mirror and talking to Anne Maria in the ship during the space challenge.

"He banded together with Anne Maria and Ripper to take down MK by focusing on the challenge," Damien said as scenes of Topher chasing after Spotty and taking off his belt in order to escape the pit played, "and while they were successful, Topher took the heave ho when Ripper chose him to be eliminated," Topher's makeout session with Anne Maria and him saying goodbye to her were shown.

"The fourth and final guest has a distaste of wooden crates, is friends with his own vintage mirror, and had his stench replaced with smelly cheese," Priya introduced. "Ladies and gentlemen, Topher!"

The fanboy waved and winked at the cheering audience before taking his seat in the chair.

"I didn't even know there would be an interview at first," Topher said, "but I'm not going to complain."

"There's a first in everything, I guess," Damien chuckled.

"Can we not talk about me being eliminated first last season?" Topher begged. "I know that I'm more than that now. Heck, even the rest of you know that."

"We were going to ask you about that, but we have other things we can talk with you about," Damien said.

"Where does your ambition come from?" Priya asked. "I remember you taking two samples in the mystery challenge even though you had to take one."

Topher was embarrassed to hear that, but still answered. "I did go overboard there. Not going to hide that, but I thought that I was going to get something out of it. I'm used to getting rewarded by my parents if I do things like chores and homework."

"Chris doesn't work like that, I'm afraid," Damien mentioned. "What do you think is your worst quality other than your ego?"

"I would be not telling the truth right now if I said that I didn't have flaws," Topher said, "so I'm just going to say that I can come off as a bit controlling when I'm with other people."

"See that, Priya?" Damien whispered to Priya. "We don't need to use these over-the-top methods just to get our guests to be honest."

"I know, but Topher doesn't have anything bad to talk about," Priya mentioned. "He's basically morally gray. Not evil, but not heroic."

"What you guys said about me is true, but I still want to be interviewed," Topher said.

"So why do you act controlling?" Damien questioned the fanboy. "Even towards your girlfriend."

"My parents are easy to please enough as it is," Topher shared his story. "Whether I win first place in a game of darts or get an A or B on a test, they always congratulate me for my efforts, even if I do stuff wrong like mixing the wrong pair of shoes or forgetting to groom my cat."

"What an overly privileged life you have," Eva said to herself.

"They told me that the reason they support me is because they want me to be the best person I could be," Topher went on. "I kinda let that get to my head, and I started to make decisions for people sometimes whether they wanted me to or not because I thought I was improving them."

"So you made Anne Maria vote with you all the time because you thought that was best for both of your games?" Priya wondered.

"Pretty much," Topher said. "I realized the error of my ways once Anne Maria wanted us to vote for Ripper. I did argue with her about it, but I caved in because I didn't want to lose her."

"You really like Anne Maria, right?" Damien asked. "Even if she can be temperamental."

"I know how she can be like, but she's a really healthy girlfriend to be with," Topher explained. "I only have a few friends, so hanging out with Anne Maria makes me feel like I'm surrounded with care."

"Are you proud of your gameplay throughout the season?" Priya asked the boy.

"You did help your team more, but you're not above working with people like Justin and MK just to get certain people eliminated," Damien said.

"I do disapprove of most things that are done just to progress through the season, but the show is called Total Drama," Topher said. "I voted off people that I wanted and did the challenges like I was instructed. If I was here since the start of the season, I wouldn't change my gameplay one bit. That's all you're going to get from me today."

"And with that, we are done with interviewing the guests for today," Damien faced the camera, "but that doesn't mean that the episode is over just yet!"

"We all know that we want to give Chris a taste of his own medicine, so we prepared some never-before-seen clips," Priya said.

"This will help our audience see the real Chris McLean," Damien stated.

"Here's the first bit we're going to present!" Priya announced, making the audience cheer as the camera panned up to the monitor.

The fist clip was a silhouette of Chris behind a shower curtain as he sang in a high pitch. "I stand against the wall! Waiting for you to ask me to dance! My heart is in your hands! Ooh, ooh, ooh!" A white hand opened the curtain and he covered himself with his arms and screamed in an even higher pitch.

The audience and Peanut Gallery laughed at Chris' singing.

"His singing is worse than me and Anne Maria's combined," Topher laughed.

"If you thought that was bad, here's some more embarrassing footage of our host!" Damien announced.

"Once you've seen this side of Chris, you'll never look at him the same way again!" Priya beamed and the scene went to the monitor.

Chris was seen with a sub sandwich. He took one bite and the entire bottom half of his face was shown to be covered in mustard. And after that, he was shown asleep while sucking his thumb and holding a teddy bear.

Another clip was played. In this one, Chris is shown to be bald while getting ready for filming in the confessional. A hand then sprays his bald head before putting his wig on. In the last clip, Chris comes out of his trailer in a robe and then stretches. A breeze then kicks up and his groin is unintentionally shown.

The camera cut back to the hosts as the audience laughed. "Was that comedy gold or what?" Priya asked with a smile.

"Who knew McClown was bald and had to wear a wig?" MK laughed.

"Even I don't sleep with teddy bears anymore," Izzy said.

"Hey, a little humiliation never hurts anyone," Priya quoted.

"As we wrap up our episode, we'll be delving into our finalists for this season," Damien said. "Anne Maria and Ripper."

"Ripper's been a bit of a macho jerk early on," Priya said over Ripper swinging his sledgehammer around.

"And Anne Maria's kept her self-obsessed behavior and anger problems in the beginning," Damien said over Anne Maria hitting the birdie in rapid succession shots.

"Ripper has been shown to soften up a bit and not try to make everybody his enemy," Priya claimed while clips of Ripper eating berries with the lion and kissing Izzy played.

"And Anne Maria has learned to not act so violently towards people and put her looks aside," Damien noted while clips of Anne Maria using her spray cans to hinder the Gaffers and placing the Chris head while sitting on top of Jasmine played.

"As a bonus, those two have managed to win immunity for themselves a lot," Priya confidently said as a scene of them getting electrocuted by their guitars was shown.

"Anne Maria won the superhero and fairy tale challenges, and Ripper got the superhero and animal buddy challenges," Damien recapped over those instances.

"But who's going to win?" Priya asked as the camera cut back to the hosts and the Aftermath music played. "Ripper's got strength and dirty tricks, but Anne Maria's got fighting skills and fashionable items. Either way, they cannot tie."

"When are we going to see the interview with those two?" Justin asked.

"You haven't informed us about that," Jasmine pointed out.

"It's right now actually," Damien answered. The audience cheered as the camera cut back to the monitor.

The static on the monitor cut to the two hosts and the two finalists sitting at a picnic table near the girls' trailer in the film lot.

"Thanks for meeting with us, guys," Priya said to the Final Two.

"It's no biggie," Anne Maria replied.

"So here is our first question," Damien said. "How do you feel about being the Final Two?"

"To be frank, I never really believed that I could make the finals," Anne Maria confessed.

"I had the opposite reaction," Ripper commented. "I knew I'd make it this far, but I never thought it'd be through not being targeted for eliminations."

"Good enough," Priya said. "What was your favorite challenge?"

"Do you mean the challenge itself or the theme?" Anne Maria asked.

"Both," Damien answered.

"Well, I liked the rock and roll movie for the theme," Ripper answered. "And for the actual challenge, I liked the superhero one."

"My theme would have to go to the fairy tale," Anne Maria said. "But for the challenge itself, I loved the caveman movie."

"Who was your favorite and least favorite castmate?" Priya asked.

"For me, it's obviously Topher," Anne Maria answered. "What more should I say?"

"I'll go with Jasmine," Ripper said. "Even though I voted for her, she has some good leadership skills. As for my least favorite?"

"MK," both the finalists said simultaneously.

"And the last question," Damien said. "What do you want people to remember you for?"

"My fierce and stunning looks," Anne Maria said.

"My general awesomeness and strongness," Ripper said with pride.

Priya smiled. "All right then. We're going to let you two enjoy your day off."

"Cool," Ripper said. "And this is unnatural coming from me, but it was great to see you two after a long time."

"Same here, even if we don't see eye-to-eye on things," Damien said with a smile. "Good luck in the finale, guys."

"Thanks," Anne Maria said with a smile of her own.

The screen cut to static and panned down to the hosts with the music playing in the background.

"Next episode will be the big, bad finale between Ripper and Anne Maria," Damien said.

"Stay tuned to find out the winner of Total! Drama! Action!" Priya said.

The hosts and the Peanut Gallery clapped and/or cheered while the audience members gave out loud applause.

(Roll the Credits)

(Bonus Clip)

MK was the only one left in the studio. She was sitting on the red chair and focused on flipping a coin multiple times.

"Why are you still here?" Topher wondered as he walked up to MK.

"I'm trying to increase Ripper's chances of winning against Anne Maria," MK said. "Heads is for Ripper and Tails is for Anne Maria. This coin landed on tails multiple times, so I'm trying to get heads more."

"Don't you want to come party with us?" Topher asked. "They've just brought in ten more boxes of pizza and a disco ball in the green room."

"Don't you guys hate me?" MK grew curious.

"We do, but we're not gonna leave you out," Topher said and walked away. "If you change your mind, you know where to find us."

MK looked at her coin and the direction Topher left, and after a while, she shrugged and got off the chair. "You only live once, and I've never been to a lot of parties before. Wait up guys!" she shouted and dashed to the green room.

Eva - 15th

Geoff - 15th

Izzy - RETURNED

Trent - 13th

Sky - 12th

Brick - RETURNED

Scott - 11th

Izzy - 10th

Millie - 9th

MERGE

Chase - 8th

Justin - 7th

Jasmine - 6th

Brick - 5th

MK - 4th

Topher - 3rd

Boys: Ripper

Girls: Anne Maria

Author's Note: So yeah, we moved the aftermath here to give some depth to the newly eliminated contestants and to give Priya a second chance to host the right way. Next chapter however WILL be the finale. So who are you gonna root for?