Reality Collides: The Ezekiel Chronicles

by CaioCoia

A devoted Cartoon Network fan finds himself inexplicably transported into Total Drama world, assuming the role of the misunderstood character Ezekiel. With real-world knowledge and a burning desire for redemption, he must navigate challenges, alliances, and drama to rewrite Ezekiel's fate. Can he change his own destiny and make his Total Drama dreams come true? An Ezekiel S.I

58. The Birthday Party - Final Day of Rest

Author's Note: And here we are, after so much time. I can't believe that the whole preparation of the arc finally came to an end, and all the preparations and setups are ready for the next year. Will I make a new bonus chapter? Who knows? I don't promise anything. I need to focus on my studies and on my course. But I'm so glad to write it down the final day... As the same way the great writers of Total Drama around, Donde Todo Comezo finally reached the end of the season of Revenge of the Island. Please read both in English and Spanish Version, the writer deserves all the prize and compliment. As the same way the writer of Total Drama Loud and Total Loud Action, he went on Hiatus but still one of the best creations and preparation for Total Drama Crossovers.

I did my part, and I'm so glad that I managed to get that far. But still I hope you guys like this new chapter. And get more excited for the next season. Still. Have fun reading the new chapter.

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Replying reviews:

CodeTalker69:And the time of wait has finally over… Get ready dude.

Eccentric Guest:To answer your question… Actions has consequences, and Leshawna will learns on the hard way on how she messed up so badly that nobody knows if they are even be able to forgive him. Some may never do it. Trent went far… but Leshawna would open a Pandora Box, and once opened… All the shitstorm would happen around… And don't worry, you will see how Ezekiel will be portrait on the future. Stay Tune.

Hyper LOL Guest:Thank you for the review, I hope you like the next chapter dude.

Odd guest:Thank you for the review, I hope you like the next chapter dude.

Ghostly Guest : You have no idea, Courage the Cowardly Dog really saved his family HAHAHAHAHAHA, to the point that slight changes will make a more happy family for him, even as psychotic and crazy she is or she will ever be, at least he knows that his family can be happy now.

Mad Guest: Well, let's see if your guess is right, have fun reading the chapter.

Guest99 : Well, Niagara Falls will be way more interesting on the World Tour Now hahahahaha, imagine Courtney finding out that she was on the starting scene of them going directly on the fall. Especially with Duncan there as well. You can imagine how things will go from there. Hahahahaha.

Le Quack : Nobody knows about what happened on Duncan's mom case, but to the point of making her very angry to being a detective… it must be something related to corruption which affected a high power and she couldn't do anything… And she quit it because she lost faith on the Justice System and tried to help the community in another way. Banana's and Cheese really meant something way more important to her than people would imagine. And Diana fucked up for telling something bad of it. If you see Duncan's mom angry, then you knew you fucked up and should be afraid.

Sleepy Guest : When it comes Christmass, there will only be tears, shouts and admiration for Simon Petrikov, from the Ice King being annoying, he will becomes a lovable character everyone will laughs and have patience with him.

Just a wee guest:I'm glad that you liked the chapter, however being honest with you I had nothing in mind when it comes about reacting scenes, so I needed to move on, I don't want to stall time, and pretend to make each scene a reaction. When it comes inspiration I would do it, but sadly it didn't came, but also. All the reaction of people knowing they are going to be a sibling, that's the normal reaction. Specially when Dawn could ask Mother Nature and the nature itself refuses to tell the secret, it would be funny. Also I hope you enjoy this chapter. XD

Just Guest : You will see, prepare yourself for this chapter and behold on all the plans and setups I prepared for this chapter. XD

Guesthouse : I wouldn't say Duncan is reccomended for that, and since Ezekiel is a writer, his publishers or his lawyer could find someone to actually make toys of it. It doesn't need to be complex, it's how business were. But let's focus on what he could do at least once for time, he isn't a machine, so everything needs to be done with patience.

Mr. E Guest: Nobody is safe, since many people are now focusing into having a better life and enjoying all the backstories that never showed on canon before. So let's have some fun exploring more of it. XD

HeavenlyMark : I'm so glad that you liked the Lu Lu World, I wanted to try to make something similar and I used some references XD.

Guest : I don't think so pal, I don't pretend to do any of these ideas. I hope you like this chapter thought and have fun reading it.

KenWil2001 : Well, actions and consequences, nobody knows how things will go sour if not from the consequences of our own actions.

djinn : I cannot tell the things are going to happen on the future, since I wanted to focus this important chapter into only one thing. I hope you like this chapter and have fun reading it.

Benny Farr : I'm just surprised that you didn't catch the reference, but that's fine. At least this will be add on Duncan's bucket list into doing so. XD. Have fun reading the chapter.

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Gwen had mixed feelings about her birthday. On any other day, she would have loved waking up to the warmth of the sun, but not today. She glanced at the small slivers of sunlight sneaking through her blinds and groaned, pulling her blanket over her head. Birthdays just weren't her thing—especially because everyone assumed she loved Halloween-themed parties.

It didn't help that her mom always tried to pull off a non-Halloween celebration, only for guests to show up in costumes anyway. Gwen could remember the time her mom got frustrated enough to try enforcing the rule; still, her uncle had shown up in a zombie outfit. Gwen had laughed, though, especially when her mom, in her irritation, pelted him with eggshells from the kitchen. Despite her mom's over-the-top love for her, Gwen sometimes found it exhausting—especially since her mom had a similar doting streak for her younger brother, Cody, though neither of them would ever admit it to each other.

Today, though, there was more on her mind than the typical dread of a themed birthday. She was excited to see her friends again, the ones she'd made on Total Drama, and her old friends from school, who'd all be coming over. But she couldn't shake the heavy feeling in her stomach; this party marked the last day of freedom before she would be dragged back into the chaos of Total Drama for another season. She still couldn't believe Ezekiel had thrown away the million-dollar suitcase—now they were all stuck in this mess again.

As the room grew brighter with the morning light, Gwen sighed and threw back her covers. Today would be bittersweet, and she knew it. But for now, she just had to get through the party—and try to enjoy the time with her friends before everything went crazy again.

Gwen trudged down the stairs, her eyes barely open, when a familiar whine drifted from the kitchen. She stopped, eyebrows raised, and crept closer, peeking around the corner. There was her little brother, Cody, gazing at a plate of freshly baked treats on the counter with wide, pleading eyes.

"Please, just a little piece!" he begged, hands outstretched in desperation.

But just as he was about to swipe a crumb, a loud smack echoed through the kitchen. Cody yelped, clutching his hand, as DJ's momma loomed over him, arms crossed and eyes sharp.

"In dis house, food is only for da party, yuh hear me?" she scolded in her thick Jamaican accent, not backing down an inch. "Nobody touches a thing 'til da first guest arrives, not a crumb!"

DJ, standing beside Cody, gave him a sympathetic pat on the shoulder. "It's okay, Cody. We just gotta wait a bit—"

But DJ's gaze drifted longingly toward a warm loaf of bread cooling on the counter, his hand reaching out instinctively. Just as his fingers brushed the edge, *smack!* DJ recoiled, rubbing his hand with a grimace as his mom glared at him, spatula in hand.

"Nope!" DJ's momma snapped. "You wait, too, DJ. Ain't no special treatment!"

"Ouch..." DJ mumbled, cradling his hand.

Gwen finally entered the kitchen, still groggy, her hair a mess and her eyes half-closed as she shuffled to the cabinet for a glass of water.

"Morning, Cody…morning, DJ…morning, DJ's momma…" she mumbled, oblivious to the trio watching her in amused silence. She filled her glass and drank, eyes still droopy, until it suddenly hit her. She blinked, her eyes widening in surprise. "Wait a minute, DJ, you're already here?"

"Happy birthday, Gwen!" DJ boomed, sweeping her up in a bear hug before she could protest. Her bones creaked under the pressure as she tried to catch her breath.

"DJ—back—pain…" she gasped, and he quickly released her, laughing sheepishly.

"Oops, my bad," he said, scratching his head with a grin.

"Happy birthday, Gwen!" Cody chimed in, raising his fist for a bump. Gwen rolled her eyes but obliged, only for him to pull her into a hug right after, squeezing her with all the excitement he could muster.

"Thanks, Cody…" Gwen said with a small smile, noticing how DJ's momma seemed to have taken full control of the kitchen. "Why are you two here so early?"

"We came as soon as we could and started gettin' everythin' ready," DJ explained, as his mom nodded in agreement.

"Allison went to get ice for the party," Momma added in her thick Jamaican accent. "We gotta make sure the drinks stay nice and cold for all your friends." She glanced at DJ, just as his hand crept toward a crumb on the counter. *Smack!* Her palm was faster than he was, and DJ yelped, pulling his hand back.

"When I say no one, I mean no one, you hear me?" she warned, her sharp gaze locking onto him.

"Yeesh…" Gwen muttered, feeling a twinge of sympathy as she realized breakfast was out of the question. It looked like she, DJ, and Cody would have to wait until one of the guests arrived before they could eat anything.

"I'm going to take a shower," Gwen announced, stifling a yawn. "I don't want people seeing me with morning hair."

"Hey, they already saw you like that on TV—" Cody began, but his comment was cut short by a quick slap on the mouth from DJ's momma.

"None of that sass to the birthday girl, not today!" she scolded, her eyes narrowing as she glanced at DJ, too. "And that goes for you as well, Devon Joseph."

"Yes, Momma," the boys mumbled in unison, looking like scolded schoolchildren.

Gwen smirked, savoring the brief moment of peace and enjoying the minor victory as she made her way upstairs. So far, things were going smoothly—just as long as her friends could keep their hands off the food.

"There it is, my sweet girl," Allison said as she hugged the birthday girl, who clearly didn't like being treated in such a way. "Happy birthday Gwen."

"Thanks mom," Gwen said as she was now fully dressed with her usual clothing, she started using the black lassed dress, silver bracelets, and the new fabric with the collar depicting the saint, which now she knew that she was ready for the whole day being special for her.

At the time she went downstairs again, and could have a better look at DJ, he was wearing a black shirt but on the sleeves, there were the colors of yellow, and green, which she couldn't help but muse that it was a unique way to dress a shirt of Jamaica, but mostly of the shirt was black, which Gwen couldn't help but look at surprise that even DJ's momma was wearing a full elegant clothing and purse, but all fitting in a black color as well.

Cody also was wearing his traditional black shirt and a black cap to show his support, which the goth girl couldn't help but be happy that her mom actually asked everyone to be dressed in black, as long it would be a shirt or a whole set of clothing, she was feeling fine since it wasn't a costume, but more fitting of her birthday, but still, the sleeve was big enough to hide the tattoo DJ made on the mall, as the same way Gwen was happy that her dress did the same thing.

And by seeing Allison, her mother didn't also wasted the time, she was also wearing a black dress, to try to make sure her daughter would have the best party she could before leaving for the season 2.

"Well I got a text from Geoff, he said he will be here in a few minutes." DJ commented as he could see the boy already salivating from the food in front of him, but they couldn't do much since the momma was now keep vigilating around the food, and anyone trying to touch the food until the guests appear would receive a pain on the hands.

"Thank God, I'm almost eating the cushion here," Cody said which immediately Gwen to roll her eyes, but she felt more content seeing that her friends were coming.

And from the ring bell, immediately made not just the goth, but also DJ and Cody who were now finding a good excuse to attack the food. Gwen slowly walked past the main room just to hear a clapping and a humming outside. Gwen raised her eyebrows as she then opened the door, revealing Geoff wearing a black polo shirt and jeans, and to her surprise Ezekiel who was now wearing a black marching band jacket that looked similar to Welcome to the black parade, while behind them, Bridgette was wearing a black long-sleeve shirt.

But then what made Gwen being caught of surprise was actually Geoff and Ezekiel clapping their hands. And before she could ask what they were doing, they simply decided to sing.

Today's gonna be a-ok

Cause we're celebratin' your birthday

Happy birthday, Gwen

Celebratin' your birthday!

Today's gonna be a-ok

Cause we're celebratin' your birthday

Happy birthday, Gwen

Celebratin' your birthday!

Gwen blinked, but she couldn't help but chuckle, since it was the first time she could hear someone singing a birthday song that actually isn't the boring standard version of it. It was kinda silly and yet refreshing.

"Thanks guys, welcome. Come in." Gwen said as Geoff hugged her, followed by Ezekiel and then Bridgette who imediatelly smiled at seeing the goth in the new clothing she bought. "Since when they prepared the song?"

"On the same day, they discovered you were going to have a birthday on Halloween. Ezekiel and Geoff kept singing that as their way to make the song stick around." Bridgette replied as she chuckled to see the boys walking to greet the others inside of the house. "Well gotta to admit it was catchy."

"Yeah, in a good way." Gwen commented as she was happy to see the group already.

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"Wow, so this is your house?" Ezekiel commented as he looked around and found it was indeed cozy and yet in the big contrast of everything that he learned about Gwen, but since it was strange meeting Gwen's family, he wasn't going to lie that he was also feeling excited from the experience. "DJ how are you man?"

"I'm doing fine, how is it going guys?" DJ greeted as he gave a high five to the homeschooled boy, and the party boy already did the same as he approached the young brother of the birthday girl.

"So you must be the Cody, Gwen's younger brother, she talked about you, specially on the events of the video message from home." Geoff commented as he gave a fist bump on the boy who immediately was digging a few pastries for breakfast, since DJ's momma finally gave the green light for them to eat.

"That's me," Cody said with his mouth full since he was feeling starving. "Nice to meet ya."

"Wow, you look starving dude," Ezekiel commented as he looked at the boy who was just an inch taller than him. "Are you okay?"

"It's just my breakfast, so you are Ezekiel, I have read your book and I became a big fan of it. Still got shit scared from some stories." Cody commented as the boy simply chuckled.

"Well, I'm glad to meet a fan, but you know that a family to a friend of mine is a friend to me," Ezekiel commented as he saw DJ taking a plate with him and already grabbing something to eat for breakfast. "You both didn't have breakfast?"

"Not with Momma as security guard," Gwen said as she then turned around to see there was only the group alone, and both mothers aren't even there anymore. "DJ do you know where you mom went?"

"Don't know, don't care, we have food now, better to eat before she comes back," DJ said as he quickly took the opportunity to eat the sandwiches, making Ezekiel and Geof tilt their heads at him, and the gentle giant noticed their gaze on him. "Don't judge me, I have been helping momma for hours and I couldn't eat breakfast as well."

"Nobody is judging you DJ, we are just surprised." Geoff said, as Bridgette came nearby the group, which imediatelly Gwen crossed her arms with a smirk on her face.

"I'm mostly surprised that you two just got inside of my house and didn't start making out already." Gwen said as she already had prepared the water spray, just ready in case of something would go out of control, and seeing both of them deadpanning at her, made her smile.

"Har, har, har," Geoff said as he rolled his eyes, and Ezekiel was already munching one of the muffins. "Just for your case, we had a good talk and we planned to have a little break from all the kissing, we aren't going to do it on your birthday."

"Yeah, after we watched ourselves at Playa Del Losers and on the final episode, we agreed that maybe we went a little overboard on the kissing," Bridgette said the comment, which made DJ, Ezekiel, and Gwen… even Cody who was eating too slowly turn their heads at them and raise their eyebrows. "Fine, we kissed ourselves a lot, don't judge us."

"Fine," The group said as they resumed to their eating, and Gwen smirked as she was liking the day so far.

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"Thanks for signing my book." Cody said as Ezekiel was happy to sign for another fan. But he still chuckled from hearing the story coming from the Gwen's brother.

"And thank you for telling me your experience with the black puddle queen, now I can imagine that your cousin had no idea why are you so mad at her," Ezekiel said as he continued to drink the punch, seeing that little by little are coming on the visit.

Tyler was the one who came half hour later, as he was wearing a black sleeveless shirt, and was kinda weird to see him without his usual red jumpsuit.

Eva came next as she was now wearing a black top, and white yoga pants, but still the tattoos could give a better way to hide some of the scars around her abdomen.

"It's kinda strange to see you outside of your sport jacket Tyler," Gwen said as she was surprised into even seeing the boy actually had muscles, since most of the time it was always covered with the jacket.

"It's fine, my mom was cleaning them up for the time we go to the show tomorrow, so I'm using one of the last black shirts I have," The jock explained, seeing the group staring at him in surprise. "I mean, I like wearing my jacket, but I'm just making an exception today, also I didn't know that you do yoga, Eva."

"I do," The bodybuilder said as was enjoying her drink and adding more food on the plate. "A good stretch to help on the working out, it's a good way to not be sore after the exercises."

"I want a rematch on the arm wrestling," Tyler said as Eva simply raised her eyebrows and shrugged she couldn't say no.

The poor jock couldn't even make her move her arm backward. The strength of the ironwoman was too much for him and made him on the floor on the first minute.

"Gweeeeeen, guess who just came to participate in the party?" Then Allison sang as at the time she opened the door, revealed the trio of goths, Reaper, Marilyn, and Pixie Corpse, appeared in their usual clothes, as the trio of goths looked a bit annoyed from how cheerful her friend's mom was.

Gwen also had the urge to groan annoyed, but she decided to ignore that feeling and saw the group who gave her a few black boxes, probably being gifts for the goth birthday girl.

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"So you created Marceline just like that? She isn't an actual vampire, but she is a half-demon and half-human but just got bitten by a vampire?" Pixie Corpse asked in realization as she never imagined one of the characters of the book was that complex.

"Yep, and sorry for Gwen not warning you about the last chapter," Ezekiel said as he scratched a bit of his head… It had been very strange for him to meet new people, and thankfully Gwen was there to give him some help, especially the trio of goths who asked for him to sign their books.

"To be honest I'm not very fond of books, but Pixie forced me to read her book, just for the final chapter," Reaper said as he could see the glare coming from his friend. "Hey, it's not my fault that I don't like all that silly and weird stuff.

"Well, to be honest, I was planning to make Adventure Time go into a very dark turn on the next volume, or the one after that," Ezekiel said which immediately Gwen raised her eyebrow in surprise.

"Really?" Gwen asked as immediately Bridgette heard the word of a book she liked to hear. "So you are already planning to write the next volume?"

"Not at all," Ezekiel waved his hand, as he could see Gwen and Bridgette approaching him. "I have one idea for a one-shot volume project, and I think it's going to be your favorite. Also, this book would be mind-blowing when someone discovers the theory behind this book."

"Oh do tell?" Marillyn asked curious, which Ezekiel decided to smile mysteriously.

"I think while we will be on season 2, it's going to be very interesting if I have my work done and ready to be published quickly, but still there are a lot of things to be done until there," Ezekiel explained as suddenly the knock of the door was enough to make Gwen stares and since her mom wasn't there, she went ahead, leaving the homeschooled boy and the surfer girl, talking about the book.

At the time Gwen opened the door, she was greeted to see Harold was wearing a black jacket and a black bennie.

"Harold?" Gwen asked in surprise, as she had to blink 3 times just to realize the nerd was one of her friends, and he was looking different from the actual blue hamburger shirt.

"Yeah, that had been our reaction." Then another voice came from behind, and Gwen couldn't help but smile to see Courtney and Duncan too, as the duo also had been using the clothes they bought from the goth store. Courtney smiled as she hugged Gwen and wished happy birthday to her. While Duncan nodded his head. "If wasn't for the fact that we had known him for so long I would have thought he was a boy trying to impress a girl."

"Ha, ha, ha," Harold rolled his eyes, and both smirked as the duo gave a fist bump. "Ready to party before we go to the show tomorrow?"

"Of course," Gwen smiled as she let the group in. Knowing that soon all the group of her friends would be there, she wondered how things would go from that point, and before she could even close the door, she heard someone calling her name.

"Gwen, wait up." The girl was about to close the door when she just saw a strong hand pushing the door which made her go down. "Woah… ops… sorry,"

Gwen didn't even realized the girl who just pushed the door, but it was almost enough to be a truck getting over her, but as soon her dizziness stopped, she could see it was just Sadie who was wearing a black blouse and a black pants. And around that blouse there was a slight mark of pink line crossing the entire silhouette.

"Oh my God, Gwen are you okay?" Then the goth girl could see another person that she could imagine appearing, since it was the chubby twin appeared, then her best friend or sister of another mother, the tan twin appeared as she was wearing the same style of clothing, but instead of being black pants, it was a tiny black shorts and a long black stocking. And on her side, there was Cody, wearing a black T-shirt, and a black cap that looked similar to her brother.

"Ughhh…" It was Gwen's only response, when the duo girls got her to get up and slowly each of them gave a hug. And Cody gave her a tap on her back and a hug wishing her happy birthday.

And with that, the team was reunited once again...

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"So they said it was fine for us to get our coffee since we are friends with the local celebrity," Marilyn commented as Gwen placed both her hands over her face and the group chuckled from seeing her embarrassed by her popularity.

"Really, you had to tell them about that?" Gwen said as she was feeling annoyed by her friends.

To say all the friends she made got along just fine was perfectly reasonable since Ezekiel, Duncan, and Harold all dragged the group together to talk about their experience of being celebrities, usually, things had been crazy for each of them.

"What's the problem of being popular?" Harold asked as the group looked at him. "I went into the comic store I usually go to, and they even let me have some products for free. All I had to do was take some pictures."

"Yeah, but you shouldn't let that get up over your head Harold, I mean it." Ezekiel said as he even nodded to Eva who cracked her knuckles.

"Oh come on what's so bad about it?" Harold said as he thought being popular was awesome and even wanted to show some pride of it, but Ezekiel immediately rolled his eyes. Which thankfully Bridgette was there to give some help.

"Because as much it would be good to be popular, you must be aware that nothing is forever, and you must act cautiously about what you are going to do in the future," Bridgette commented as the group stared at her in confusion, but Courtney was there to continue.

"She is right, as many people would be famous for just a few weeks or months, you must remember that you must be remembered for the good things, and not be the kind of people who would try to be in scandals all the time." Courtney finished which immediately Ezekiel nodded his head.

"Exactly, and to be honest. You should use your fame for things even better than acting as a celebrity." Ezekiel said as the group turned their eyes on him. Seeing the homeschooled boy pointed out in one of his books. "For example, I managed to launch a book by using my popularity which created a success. All you can do is find a way to make use of your celebrity in a job that you would be interested in doing. Like Eva, what do you plan to do when the show is over?"

The group turned their heads to see the bodybuilder nodding her head in understanding.

"I'm training to be a MMA fighter, and going against everyone on UFC to get some belts," Eva commented as the group had their eyes wide open in surprise. Making Ezekiel nod his head in pride.

"Exactly, we are now a bit famous, but that doesn't mean that we should shove on the faces of others, we need to use that as a tool to make us have a more stable life by having the 3 concept rules that would make the life perfect," Ezekiel said as the others blinked at him.

"And what would that rule be?" Both Codys said at the same time, which the group stared at them in surprise. But it wasn't Ezekiel who said that. And from all people it was Tyler who took the word.

"My mom always said that we should find a job we like to work, a person we would love to marry and have a family, and find a good place where you could enjoy your rest and have a good life." The jock being the one explaining the 3 rules surprised everyone.

"Exactly, these were the rules my Ma and Pa gave to me since working too much would give you health issues, you need to find a great place that you would like to rest, and working into a job you hate is something awful to anyone… And creating a good family to cherish everything you did, sometimes is the concept of what we truly seek for ourselves, happiness… away from the loneliness." Ezekiel commented that he knew that most of the people of Total Drama Island just for the sake of comedy failed a lot of things in life which turned out to be another example of trying to participate in the next season of the show.

"Huh, I never thought about it," Harold commented as he didn't realize that he needed to rethink more about life. "I mean, I was thinking of moving into the attic of my mom with my girlfriend."

"…" The group of friends remained in silence, but immediately Gwen's brother was the person who decided to break the silence.

"Maybe you should have another plan dude, I don't think a girl would like to live in the attic of a house." Gwen's brother was the one who explained the situation, especially the girls looking weird at the nerd who just raised his hands.

"Oh come on, it was just an idea." Harold said which immediately the boys chuckled from the nerd's weirdness.

"Well… the boss of Katie's mom actually liked me and said he would recommend me to a video game company to start to work on there." Cody decided to break the ice and with that good bomb made everyone stare at him in surprise.

"Woah, so now are you going to make video games?" Gwen's brother said as he raised his arm to give a high five, and the boyfriend of the tan twin did it, which made the group stare at the Codies with amused glances.

"Well, I just need to finish school, and read some books of videogame, I think my parents can pay some tutors, but still I think I just would be working as an assistant, which I'm not sure that even if I would be able to create a game with all the great story," Cody said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Who said you need to create a videogame with a good story," Harold said which the group stared at the nerd… "Classics like Tetris, Pong, and Pacman didn't need lore and they were great success of the past."

"Yeah, but with a lot of people who want to create video games around the world, what kind of game I could even create?" Cody asked, which immediately Ezekiel had a good idea on his mind.

"There is an impostor… Among Us…" Ezekiel said which immediately caught the attention of his friends. A game that became so popular in pop culture, a game that created a lot of funny moments, YouTubers who he loved to see around playing on his past life. And with the possibility that such video games would never exist in this world? Why not make someone bring one of the best OG investigative impostor games around the world to exist? "Among us…"

"What are you talking about?" The group looked at him, as Ezekiel decided to share his idea.

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"Okay, I have to admit, it sounds simple, and yet something I would play, it sounds fun," Courtney commented as Duncan nodded his head.

"Yeah, it's about how good you would be at finding out the culprit, or in case you are the impostor, how good you are in bluffing," Duncan said as Cody had to write down the idea.

"So about those classes… I like the idea of Jester, being someone good enough to make the others think it was you who did it. And creating the paranoia around to see who you could trust or not." Cody said as he could see himself working around with the plan. "But it would be difficult to make a good server that would make everyone have a microphone to talk over each round when the body is discovered."

"Well, online games always let the chance of using the microphones and talk, WoW was one of the games which people talked online." Harold gave the explanation which immediately Ezekiel smiled. "It's possible, and it doesn't seem to be that complicated for computers."

"Yeah, a game like that would be possible, but you would need to think ahead and study to make it work Cody," Ezekiel said as he smiled after drinking another punch. "I mean, I gave the idea, but all the hard work is up to you."

"Okay, okay. So in case I did it, I want to be sure if would work, so I would call you all to give a try at the time I get accepted into working at a videogame company." Cody said as he sighed, which immediately the Killer Bass team nodded their heads happily with the plan.

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"I'm so glad that everyone seems to be having fun," Allyson said as she was helping to place the drinks over the table, while DJ's momma also left the good food for people to enjoy, by making sandwiches, muffins or even some good bakes for case people want to give a try before the cake being cut.

"Yes, It's been a while since I saw DJ being so happy around and even talking with friends at the same place. When he was with his siblings in Jamaica the last party he was, he didn't take it well."Momma explained as the mother of 2 kids raised her eyebrows in surprise. "It was a pool party and he got with his shorts stuck like a wedgie, it was very hard to see DJ willing to go at the pool again."

"Well, after the jump on the cliff of the show, I'm not surprised that he forgot that fear so quickly," Allyson said which immediately the Jamaican mom nodded her head. With now both moms looked worried. "Do you think the new seasons will be as dangerous as the other?"

"It's possible, and I'm hoping that my boy wouldn't be caught like that and get hurt in such a drastic way," Momma commented as the duo looked at how the group of friends continued talking and chuckling loudly.

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"Wait, wait, hold on. You want to start a coffee farm?" Gwen asked Ezekiel who nodded his head.

"Yep," Ezekiel said as he even smiled a little. "The sales of my books skyrocketed and I gotta say there were some who exported directly to the United States, which means that I have a chance to one of my books appear in New York Times as best seller, and having a good chance against Harry Potter or even Percy Jackson books."

"Holyshit, for real?" Reaper said in surprise and the boy nodded his head.

"Yeah, but I have no idea which one they said to go against them, my publisher said one of my books, so I'm kinda curious on which one is going to go against the 2 best seller book franchises," Ezekiel said as he nodded his head. "I got a big check thought, and with a few more. I could be able to finally make my own coffee farm."

"Oh that's great, but you must think about the environment, and where would be the place you would try to make a farm of it," Gwen commented that both she and Bridgette had a great value and view of the place on where farmers should actually work, especially on how cruel the farms would kill the slight animals just for the sake to make the plants and produce vegetables.

"Well…I have some places to think on where I should be doing my coffee farm, but still it's too early and I need to hold a good money and find the good products to help me to have some good edge." Ezekiel commented which immediately Harold raised his hand.

"If you don't mind I'm quite aware of some good coffee knowledge, I recommend some around Cana-" Harold was about suggest something but Ezekiel already interrupted.

"Thanks for the suggestion Harold, but I'm already in mind the right place on where I should be studying about coffee." Ezekiel said as he had some kind of good smile on his face. "After this season is over, I'm planning to take a trip to Minas Gerais, Brazil and Cusco, Peru."

"Those 2 countries from South America?" Bridgette and Courtney asked as they raised their eyebrows in surprise.

"2 of the top 5 best coffee countries around the world," Ezekiel said as he didn't want to talk badly of some of the other countries like Cuba, Colombia, or another from Latin America, but he needed to make sure to say they were the top 5 because they deserved the championship titles of the best coffees of the world from 2022 to 2024.

"Wow, and here I thought you were going to be a bit on the other state." Harold said as he was actually fascinated, "Isn't that a bit risky? I mean, you don't even speak their language."

"Ah don't worry about it." Ezekiel shrugged as he gave a small smile. "I will find a way, but the good thing is that I was willing to go into an international trip since I could translate my books if the show of Total Drama becomes international, so that means we could have countries supporting us."

"Wait, you mean we have a chance of Total Drama and the whole world knows about us?" Tyler said as he was sweating nearvous.

"Oh? Do tell?" Eva smirked as she could actually use the potential international trips to go to other countries, Tayland to give a try on the Muay Thai or Brazil to study Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu.

"Yep, I got an email from my lawyer, who somehow managed to get a scan of the contract, and I'm so hyped because if our success on the episodes still growing, we can be known not only in the United States but can be watched from countries like Italy, France, Germany, Russia, etc. So like I said, the opportunity is ours to give a try to everything in our hands." Ezekiel said as immediately most of the guys were in shock, except for Courtney and Duncan.

"This time we are prepared." Duncan said as he got the looks of everyone. "My parents got a call from Courtney's mom who send the contract online, and Courtney passed a few hours studying at the time we return from the mall."

"So you two knew?" Bridgette asked in curious as the C.I.T. nodded her head.

"Yeah, from the whole concept of the contract it seems this time we are going to be inside of an abandoned movie studio on Ontario," Courtney explained as the group had their eyes wide open in surprise.

"Which means it probably will be about movies, and if we play our cards right, there is a chance of people becoming actors in the future," Ezekiel said as immediately Katie and Sadie got hyped.

"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Can you imagine us being movie stars?" Katie said as she was jumping excitedly with the idea. "I could do our figurines."

"And I would love to make some romantic scenes, or dramatic scenes." Sadie said as she was even happier since Cody gave a knowing look to Katie who nodded her head.

"Aww yeah, I can use my mad skills," Harold said as he now felt a good chance to show more of his techniques and even knowledge around everything.

And Ezekiel smiled, because it seems that while things will go chaotic, at least now that they know what they will be working now, it will create more ways for them get optimistic about their future on the show, and who knows? Everyone is going to have a better life in the future.

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"Yeah, I'm fine." Cody insisted as Courtney and Duncan asked about how he was feeling. "I have to thank Mr. Martin to help closing the missing report, I can imagine my parents would be worried if that would get online or worse on television."

"Sierra got us by surprise from the missing report Cody, that wasn't a joke," Ezekiel said as he didn't imagine the crazy stalker would go in point to cross the line go beyond the internet, and immediately go at the local police for report Cody disappearing.

"Yeah, dear. We kinda acted careless," Katie admitted that maybe they could have called for his neighbors to explain where he went.

"Well at least it wasn't an actual kidnap, or things would have gone out of control," Bridgette commented as Geoff nodded his head.

"You are lucky that we knew Katie's phone number, or it would make my relatives go behind your ass, and they are quite persistent," Duncan said he had a long knowledge of how his family would work as detectives, but still he was glad that nothing happened with the string bean.

"Yeah Cody, at least you got us covered, and to surprisingly, who know what she would have done at the time you were alone at home?" Geoff commented which imediatelly everyone on the room shivered.

"I usually would have liked a babe being after me, but if I was you. I would have gone to police." Gwen's brother said as the goth herself couldn't help but be surprised. "I mean, I would be flirty with the girls, but a stalker like that? I think I would get paranoiac with her."

"Yeah, that was what I was thinking." Cody said to the boy who looked almost like him, which the group stared at the duo, and then stared at Gwen.

"I know, I know. It's kinda creepy that I find these two almost similar, but in comparison than the show, it's not the worst thing I ever saw." Gwen said as both Codies would be almost twins, if wasn't for the fact one is almost the same age as Gwen, and the other is 1 or 2 years younger than her.

"Well, I think she got lucky, because if she would try something to attack you. I know Katie and Sadie would beat the crap of her." Tyler commented as DJ nodded his head. Which Eva nodded with pride.

"You have done well on training. But still, you need to learn how to throw a punch. In the future, I will teach you." Eva said to now paled twin who just started sweating.

"Ohhh… good… more exercises from Eva," Sadie said as Ezekiel immediately knew what the chubby strong girl was thinking. She didn't even have that much rest, and now Eva is going to take her ass to have another hellish training.

Reaper and Marilyn looked at Gwen with their eyebrows raised.

"They are always like this?" Reaper asked, and Gwen nodded her head.

"Every time," Gwen said, as the group could see DJ having a good time talking with Pixie Corpse.

"And that's how we usually do a fried chicken," DJ said as immediately the goth girl with pink hair nodded her head.

"Is that so? Hmm, never thought about that." The last member of the goth trio nodded her head, as the more the group eat and talked, it seems the time had been passing more and more. "And how about this sandwich, what your mom does to make this tasty?"

"Oh, it's a secret recipe." DJ said as he was happy to talk about food with the group, specially everyone who was enjoying a good food that he and his momma worked together to eat.

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"Oh, Courtney, how was the trip to Niagara Falls?" Katie said as Courtney blushed, and Duncan chuckled, which he gave a secret thumbs up.

"It was quite romantic actually," Courtney said as she gave a small smile, which Duncan chuckled.

"Yeah, there were a lot of good couples passing their ceremony and even doing a proposal of marriage on there. It was a good way to kiss the girlfriend." Duncan said as he didn't want to say the word excuse to kiss because it would look bad for Courtney, and Martin gave a tip on how to word it better and some ways to not make the girl annoyed at him. But then Duncan even chuckled a bit. "Oh yeah, there was also that incident."

Courtney remembered as she facepalmed from what her boyfriend was saying.

"I don't know who was the brilliant idea of going on the Niagara Falls in a barrel," Courtney said, which Duncan raised his eyebrow.

"Ah, don't tell that you didn't cheer up like us at the moment the barrel went down the Niagara Falls, I saw you cheering like everyone," Duncan said as Courtney remained quiet, and the group looked at them. "At the moment the barrel went down all of us went AEHHHHHHHHHHHHH,"

"It's because it's a tradition you and your family or whatever the people who work on the Niagara Falls said," Courtney said as she blushed a bit of shame, which the group had surprise looking at her. "I don't know why the yellow raincoat thought."

Ezekiel blinked, a few times.

"Wasn't that a woody woodpecker episode? Nah… it's probably a coincidence." Ezekiel thought as he remembered one of the most classic Cartoons that appeared on television, one that was loved and known in the entire Brazilian Country.

"Oh, is that after the 28 security guards of Niagara Falls went down by barrel? I remember my Grand Uncle was the leader of the security guards but had to retire after an annoying person tormented him and accidentally made him fall the Niagara Falls 4 times in the same day." Tyler said immediately the group stares at the jock as he was telling the weirdest thing in the world.

"See? I told you that it was safe." Duncan said as a good example which proved the man survived Niagara Falls 4 times.

"Oh don't even start Duncan, Tyler's family probably has the potential clumsiness and unluckiness to the point that it could be weird if wasn't contagious. But still I'm surprised on how your family are still alive Tyler." Courtney said as Duncan scoffed angrily for not being able to convince his girlfriend to go at the Niagara Falls in a barrel.

"Well, as a way to pay back for his retirement, they allowed him to go to Vegas, and he just got a huge jackpot on the roulette, I think he lives in Miami now," Tyler said as the group looked at Tyler in such a weird way.

"I don't know, your family is always lucky and unlucky at the same time," Harold pointed out that it was really weird how his friends operate with such life.

"Ohhhh Gweeeen, guess who came?" Then a voice of Allyson made the goth stares at behind and see the girl dressed in a black princess dress, just for the sake to participate on the birthday party of her cousin. Ella.

"Hello, Gwen." Ella sang as the goths sighed annoyed, while the other members of the group raised their eyebrows in surprise. "Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday for you too, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday the sky is blue, And happy birthday for you…"

"Thanks Ella," Gwen said as she gave a small hug to the girl wearing a dress. And Cody her counsin got out from his seat. "Why don't you seat nearby DJ?"

"Sure thing cousin." Ella said as Courtney, Duncan and Ezekiel stared at the goth, who just smirked at them, and making them realize what she just did. "Hello Devon, how are you?"

"Hey Ella, it's nice to see you too. You want me to take something for you to eat?" DJ asked as the group stared at the girl smiling kindly at him.

"Why thank you, DJ," Ella said as Katie passed a few seconds slapping the chest of her boyfriend and making him wince in pain.

"Ouch ouch ouch ouch, ouch." Cody said as the tan twin and even Sadie were giggling at seeing something that they hadn't seen before.

"Well guys, meet Ella, my cousin from Toronto," Gwen said as the girl bowed like a princess which made Duncan raises his eyebrows. Even as she was wearing a black dress, it still had the same white colors and make up like she was a franchise movie princess. "Ah, and don't let her look fool you guys, when we were kids she was far more hardcore than I ever was…"

Ezekiel had to give to Gwen, as he remembered from Dramarama at the time he was alive, and he recalled Ella being actually a dragon, which probably in accord to Total Drama it would be absurd, but seeing radioactive mutants, and even Saskwatchanakwa, yeah, a dragon wouldn't be that extreme.

"Oh please Gwen, don't spread lies like that," Ella said as she giggled, while Cody her cousin rolled his eyes.

"It wasn't a lie, my 7 years old birthday party is a proof of it." The goth's brother said as he crossed his arms, which made Ella pout at him.

"I said I was sorry, why are you so mean?" Ella said as she pouted to him, which Gwen simply rolled her eyes.

"My family everyone." Gwen said sarcastically as the Killer Bass give a small and quick clap of sarcasm from seeing the little play.

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"Thank you so much for signing my books." Ella smiled as she got the autograph of Ezekiel on her books, but Courtney was also surprised at the time she was asked to sign the book of Steven Universe.

"I'm surprised for you to ask me, I mean, it's Ezekiel's book in the first place." Courtney said as she wasn't sure on how to respond to the girl who asked her to sign the Steven Universe book.

"I heard you singing on the episode of Total Drama and I love musicals, it was amazing how you sang on the challenge, especially playing violin at the same time," Ella said as Courtney recalled the talent show challenge, which she smiled sheepishly. "I loved the lyrics on the book, but now I kinda wanted to hear you singing then since your voice is so great."

"Please, I'm not that good." Courtney said as she felt flustered from the compliment. But Ezekiel had to tell the truth.

"Actually Courtney, you have a great voice, you could sing all the songs you find potential and you could be a new popstar or an music artists." Ezekiel explained as he could see since Courtney was the best singer of World Tour, followed by Bridgette as well. "Actually you too Bridgette, on our way back on the Aquarium, your voice was also nice."

"Oh come on, coming from you. You actually were the writer of the songs, and you sing well too." Bridgette said as she also messed with the boy's hair which made him chuckle.

"To be honest. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future Chris would be using my songs as a way to raise the popularity of the show…" Ezekiel mused as everyone stared at him in surprise. "Maybe I should recommend to everyone to have singing classes."

"Oh hell no, no fucking way I'm going to sing." Duncan crossed his arms, which immediately Ezekiel shrugged but chuckled at his mind.

"Fair enough, but that would be a good option for us," Ezekiel said as he decided to give another bomb to the group. "If we play our cards right, the sky would be the limit. I mean, at the time the popularity of the show stops, what would be your ideas of using the popularity?"

"Oh oh oh, I could make some of my ice cream and sell them as to make people interested into eating it?" Sadie raises her hand, which Ezekiel pondered but nodded his head.

"It's a good start, maybe Izzy could give you some tips on how to make a food company? Since from what I read on the forum of Total Drama, she was already preparing for the first commercial being aired on the 5 th episode of the show." Ezekiel said as Cody nodded his head and also have a suggestion.

"How about we could open an internet cafe?" Cody said as Katie and Sadie stared at him. "You could use the bakery while there would be people interested in playing games on the computers, or people interested in using the computer to do their homework, and you could be using your ice cream and your baked food to make people interested in eating and enjoying the internet at the same time?"

"Well there is a high chance that could work, since until now a lot of kids and teenagers are playing games of FPS these days, so having a good place to reunite the nerds and gamers could be a good start." Harold nodded his head, seeing the potential of the idea.

"I mean, it could work, but I don't know much about the internet. And Katie had other plans." Sadie commented as the tan twin nodded her head.

"Yeah, I think I'm starting to sew more and develop a few clothing designs, and find someone who could give me some training." Katie said sheepishly, which immediately Courtney and Tyler raised their hands. "Yes?"

"My mom knows a friend who is a stylist, so in case she needs a new assistant, I could ask her to see if you could have the job since you want to learn how to be a stylist." Courtney gave the option as Tyler followed suit.

"I think I heard Lindsay's mom is a supermodel or a popstar singing, but she said there was a stylist who needed apprentices. Maybe if you do a lot of good work with her, I could give a talk with Lindsay and suggest she talk with her mom?" Tyler suggested which immediately Katie never thought she would be overwhelmed with such good possibilities.

"Would you guys do that for me?" Katie said as she was feeling a bit emotional, and the group couldn't help but smile with the idea. "But also that would tune down the idea of internet cafe wouldn't work for Sadie, since Cody probably would enjoy working into a videogame company. And don't lie to me Codybear, you told me a lot of videogames since the day you returned with my mom on the day of work…"

"...guilty as charged." Cody raised his finger just to drop immediately.

"Well, a bakery could be a good start, Sadie. If you find people interested in working for you, you could start your own recipes and be a local place for people to buy a lot of food." DJ said as he returned with the food since he was listening to the ideas, and he couldn't help but also follow suit. "My momma and I got a lot of good reviews and people asking for us to open a restaurant, and even a bank decided to give us some investment in money for us. So that means that we are planning to start the restaurant next year."

"Just please be aware of everything we said on that day," Ezekiel begged as he knew that DJ didn't deserved the backlash of the World Tour, but seeing the Jamaican with good heart waving at him, really eased his stress.

"Don't worry, Courtney's mom actually is covering up for everything. Thank you Courts, your mom really is helping my momma to reach her dreams." DJ said as he hugged the C.I.T. while she felt a bit of loss of air from the strong hug the giant had, but she tapped his back while smiling happily for him.

"It's fine, just remember to have a good nutritionist to have your back as well." Courtney warned as now more and more people had interests into what going to do at the future.

"I was thinking that in case I lose the show this season, I will be training for the surfing championship. There is a good proportion of money is going to be for the charity, so I think doing that for the ONG I was part of a few years ago would be a good way to help nature." Bridgette said as Geoff smiled and gave his thumbs up.

"Awesome, and I was thinking that since I could be partying all the time, maybe I could take some awesome pictures around as well. Being a party planner or just going across the world to take some awesome pictures while seeing the views." Geoff said as the guys couldn't help but give high five for the party boy.

"So how about you miss C.I.T. Are you going to be ready to be a lawyer after the second season is over?" Gwen decided to ask to Courtney who just froze… And a moment of silence, immediately made the group see the hesitation.

"Well… I don't know. Maybe?" Courtney said unsure, Ezekiel blinked in surprise to never see the girl hesitating in something. "I mean, I always thought of the idea of becoming a lawyer and being going to the jugular of the others on court… however, after a long time thinking. I am still not sure what I should be doing."

"Oh oh, you could be singing, be a famous singer for our country." Ella suggested as Ezekiel actually was thinking into actually help her with that.

"If you want to be part of my audio books, I could let you be any character you want, specially the ones from Steven Universe if you are interested to sing." Ezekiel suggested as he could even bring some songs that he remembered and he missed. He could give some edge to help Courtney continues famous if she wants.

"Well that's nice guys, but I still don't know what to say. I mean… it's nice at all, but I think I will find my way until the end of season 2." Courtney commented as she felt the strong hands of her boyfriend, and gave a patient look to her, as she smiled at him.

"I know how it feels, I mean, at the moment the show is over I will be finishing my community service, and then I also will have to think about my plans for the future." Duncan was very sincere as he could see his friends even raising their hands. "And no guys, I'm not interested in getting help. I know that I will find my way, maybe I will make a bicycle shop, and sell some good stuff for the kids around wanting some customized bikes."

"Well, your bike was awesome on the last season," Geoff said as DJ also nodded his head.

"Agreed, I actually would love to have one customized for me." Reaper said as he was very interested in a skull bike like Duncan did on the episode. "How much was for it?"

"100 bucks more or less." Duncan said as he shrugged. "But since you are the first client I will be doing a discount for you."

The goth smirked, as it seemed the party continued getting more and more interesting.

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"What do you mean no?" Gwen raised an eyebrow, narrowing her eyes at Ezekiel, who was lounging casually in his seat with an uninterested look on his face.

"Come on, Gwen... Vlog?" Ezekiel said, his tone a mix of disbelief and mild amusement. He glanced at her like she'd just suggested something completely absurd. "What would you even be vlogging about?"

"Well, I could talk about my experience on the show, and the p—" Gwen began, about to offer a solid reason, but Ezekiel interrupted her with a loud fart noise from his lips.

"Gwen, you're not the gossip type of girl," Ezekiel said with a dismissive wave of his hand, clearly not impressed. "And honestly, this kind of content on the internet? It's a bad way to leave a mark on your fame. You're way better than that." He looked around the room at his friends, desperate for backup. "Come on, guys, back me up on this one."

The others exchanged glances, unsure of how to get involved, but DJ was the first to speak up.

"Eh, I mean, Zeke's got a point," DJ said, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly. "I know you'd probably do a good job, Gwen, but… do you really want to put yourself out there like that?"

"Yeah, you're not about that drama life," Her brother chimed in with a shrug. "I think you're better off doing something that fits your vibe, you know?"

Gwen bit her lip, resisting the urge to roll her eyes. It wasn't like she hadn't thought of that herself. She had always preferred to keep things low-key, but something was appealing about being able to express herself in a way she never had before.

"Okay, so what would you guys suggest?" Gwen said as the group thought about it.

"So why not try something related to art?" Cody said as the goth looked at her friend for a meaning. "Well, you could do some kind of art to sell online or have a personal request for you to do online."

"Or even better," Ezekiel liked the suggestion and decided to give something extra. "I once saw a video of a person coloring on the television about how to make perfect painting inside of the lines, and I have no idea on why, but it was a very satisfying, why not try to make something similar?"

"You mean coloring between lines for each art I do?" Gwen blinked as she was trying to understand the concept of the idea.

"I mean, making satisfying videos about art." Ezekiel scratched his head, and he looked for Harold who seemed to be picking up the idea.

"Oh, you mean the appeal of oddly satisfying videos is thought to lie in the human preference for symmetry, patterns, and repetition, the interest of exploring the behavior of materials, or hand movements? It may be related to the autonomous sensory meridian response, a pleasant tingling sensation in the neck and scalp." Harold mused as he described the details of how it would work, but seeing everyone staring at him, Harold facepalmed. "Oh come on, my sister owns psychology books, I sometimes read them okay?"

"Yeah but I had no idea on what you just said." Duncan said as he rolled his eyes. Which Harold simply resumed in a few words.

"Videos that portray repetitive events or actions that viewers find pleasing. Like domino shows, slime, pressure washing cleaning up everything, soap cutting. They are some sort of escapism." Harold resumed in fewer words which made the whole group mouth in understanding.

"Ohhhh," Everyone found the explanation more simple and yet very curious.

"Soap Cuting can be satisfying? I never thought before, I always use wood." Duncan commented as the group shrugged.

"There are rumors that using a hydraulic press to smash objects slowly can be oddly satisfying," Ezekiel commented as all the boys had their eyes lighting up. "It was from a neighbor farmer who said that. I wasn't there to prove."

"Man, a hydraulic press? That would be awesome. That would be a very good money to invest." Duncan said as he was now eager to see how kind of good destruction a beauty like that would do.

"So basically I would be doing these kind of videos?" Gwen said as while she felt tempted to actually give a try, she was more curious about a good purpose into doing that. "I mean, the idea is good. But does it really work?"

"Who knows? It can help people to relax, you never know how a good video like that could help. Also, it's your chance to even try to do some satisfying videos using art with it. Like Ezekiel said, we can test around on the show." Harold answered the question as the goth thought for a second, and then nodded her head. It was a good idea to have some difference on the show, and maybe she could use the popularity to go ahead and help her to go to college.

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"So then I helped that little turtle to cross the other side of the sand," Ella commented as both DJ and Bridgette listened to the story of the cousin of the goth, the princess dressed girl told her story about the way she helped to flip the turtle who had the shell stuck on the sand. The group went to separate ways as they could enjoy talking over themselves. The trio went to eat more of the food. "After that, I had a terrible day scolding the birds, but I managed to feed them with a few french fries."

"So you can speak with the animals?" Bridgette asked in surprise while DJ also felt surprised from the way the princess helped the animal.

"Oh no, they actually understand me, but I always think that by acting with kindness with the animals, they would be calmer and be willing to help me," Ella said as she wasn't the one who could listen to the animals, but she was glad that her animal friends could listen and likes her.

"That's great, that's why bunny felt so happy to be nearby you." DJ said as Ella smiled kindly at him. And Bridgette was eating a good vegetarian food, courtesy of DJ's momma, since she was happy to make every food, and seems the hours had been passing like a flash.

As on the other side of the place, on the sofa, both Codies and Harold was staring on the television, talking about the movies.

"So you think we have a chance to do Star Wars?" Cody asked as the goth's brother had a surprised look, and Harold was with his mind thinking about it.

"It could be possible, if is a movie theme, maybe we could use my lightsabers. But I don't think we should give high hopes. You know how it went on the last season." Harold commented as he probably imagined the budget of the next season wouldn't be the same as the island show, but how much different would be? Who knows?

"Do you think we have a chance for archaeologist type of movie as well?" Cody asked which made Harold and the brother of the goth pause and stare at the geek. "Yeah, because we need to find a way to save Indiana Jones."

"Oh come on, don't worry. The next movie of Indiana Jones will be aired next year. So it probably would be the best movie of the year." Harold said in optimism.

"Yeah, who knows? Maybe the director of the movie discovered the rumor of Lindsay finding a plot hole, but who cares? The next movie will be awesome." Gwen's brother said in a good hype, which Cody smiled as well and the trio gave high fives… Not noticing Ezekiel who had been a few spaces away from them and shaking his head.

"Poor, poor, little souls… their hearts will be crushed," Ezekiel mumbled as he walked around, not wanting to share how cruel the future would be for the Indiana Jones franchise since it would be downhill from there. And Lindsay just showed good proof of how a good movie franchise could be destroyed by some fact. "Thank God they don't know about the new trilogy of Star Wars… maybe I should convince them to never watch it."

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"So that's how you got arrested?" Pixie Corpse asked as she whistled at seeing Duncan shrugging with a smirk on his face. "Wow, you knew how to throw a party."

"To the point I had to escape from Juvie, that's also how I got my audition tape. I had to send it to my Parole officer, Frank." Duncan explained as he couldn't help but nod his head. "I have to buy something nice for him later since he sent the audition tape for the show."

"Well, I'm glad that at least you are grateful to him," Courtney commented as she crossed her eyebrows and had her arms crossed. "Isn't he friend of your family?"

"Yep, he had been since I was 8," Duncan shrugged, knowing that his girlfriend wanted a better explanation than that. "Well, he was there when me and my brothers broke the bicycles of the kids of the school. He and my parents forced me and my brothers to fix everything… Although Frank taught us how to use some tools. Nice guy,"

"Wow, I don't know what even to say," Marilyn commented as Courtney simply rolled her eyes.

"Trust me, around Duncan's family or even all the friends we made around the show, we just had to accept and move on, it's not worth the headache." Courtney commented as the boyfriend simply rolled his eyes.

"It's just weird that you and your brothers are from a family of police force, and yet you all decided to go being rebel about it." Reaper said as he had to respect Duncan for going delinquent and even going against the whole system, which Duncan looked proud of it.

"Yeah, I kinda wanted to be more like my uncle, but my parents and even my aunts said one Martin was too much, so I decided to try other things, who knows how the future will tell?" Duncan said as he hugged the goth C.I.T. who simply rolled her eyes, but both started making out.

"Guys really? Don't make me bring the anti-horny spray." Gwen who was bringing the drinks for her friends just saw 2 of the Pillars actually making out at her house.

That immediately caused the results, making the couple apart and staring at Gwen who smirked happily.

"Thank you." Gwen said happily as she gave each of her friends a good drink. To continue the party as the way she wanted.

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"Huh, Capoeira?" Eva asked as she raised her eyebrows and the boy shrugged. "Never thought you would be interested in such Martial Art."

"Well you said hypothetically, and being honest, it's a good martial art, since it's unpredictable, a martial art that could use the dance to create a good force around exploring the unorthodox style of being unpredictable, and possibly making the body a spring. It doesn't matter how much you would make the person down, he would know how to fall well, and get up like nothing just happened." Ezekiel said as he recalled so many good Capoeiristas, from movies, video games, and even on real-life experiences. "And if I had a second option, I would choose Boxing."

"Really?" Eva had her eyes open wide in surprise. "You like boxing?"

"Yep, it's treated the sports of the Kings," Ezekiel said as he couldn't help but have an inner fanboy from some great boxers across the world, movies, video games, and even animations that would show the basics on how to throw a great punch.

"Heh, you know. I never knew that you would be interested into Martial Arts Ezekiel." Eva said as she smirked, at the point that even Harold was surprised into seeing Ezekiel interested into other styles of martial arts.

"I really would have recommended Kung Fu or Karate, since they are great for all the beginners." Harold said as he wanted to instructed the homeschooled boy, but both Eva and Ezekiel rolled his eyes. Which made Harold scoff but shrug. "But well, suit yourself. And what about Taekwondo?"

"They are nice, but I don't think I would have time to learn everything so quickly, and to be honest, it would be on my list in case I was able to do it. But still, I already said my favorites." Ezekiel replied as he could see Eva smirking at him. "So why did you ask?"

"Well… tomorrow you are going to add more half of your weight again." Eva said with a smirk on her face.

"Fuck." Ezekiel immediately replied as he knew Eva wasn't going to only make Sadie suffer from the training. "I should have expected that."

"Yes, you should. But I'm glad that you are aware that you want to train on how to fight. I don't know much about the Brazillian Martial art, but I think I can help you to how to throw a good punch." Eva explained as he could see the nerd paling as she was looking at him. "Also you are interested Harold?"

"Oh look at that, it seems Katie is calling me, see you later." Harold imediatelly left Ezekiel with the bodybuilder, which both rolled their eyes. Specially since Harold always were afraid into some sort of confliction or hellish training when it comes from the iron woman.

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"So that's what happened," Ezekiel commented as he knew Bridgette, Gwen, Duncan, Courtney, and Geoff would demand some answers about what happened on the day they returned from the mall since it was a night that he needed to stay near the mall and didn't want to disturb the surfer who was sleeping on that time.

"That's very irresponsible of you Ezekiel, you should have thought ahead about the possibility of not having a place to eat for the night, and going to eat with strangers? It could be a kidnapper." Courtney said as she pinched between her noses.

"Well it was lucky to see that in some sort of coincidence the girls who invited him to eat pizza were the same girls who took you for a ride to the mall." Duncan said as a way to defend the boy who nodded his head. "And look at him, he is 16, you need to stop acting like his mom, we are on the same age and we know how to handle ourselves, specially after the show."

"Yeah, and to be honest. I'm also surprised for you to meet Dawn," Bridgette said as she was happy to know that Dawn was the first on the line to appear at the book signing and how Ezekiel had met her before.

"Still, it's kinda crazy to meet someone who can read your thoughts," Gwen on the other hand felt uncomfortable with the idea.

"I mean, it's not wrong thought, like he just met a girl who wants to be in the Olympics and then another girl who is a nature lover. Isn't that sound familiar?" Geoff asked in confusion, which made both Ezekiel and Duncan had his eyes wide open, and the latter had a smirk on his face.

"Oh yeah, I remember," Duncan said as something crossed his mind, and Ezekiel rolled his eyes.

"Oh come on, really? Right now? I just met the girls." Ezekiel said as immediately Gwen, Bridgette, and Courtney tilted their heads in confusion.

"But they are your type right?" Duncan teased as immediately the girls remembered about the pact. "Athletic, in tune with the nature, free of spirit."

"But isn't he with Izzy thought?" Gwen asked which made the group look at the homeschooled boy who was a bit uncomfortable.

"I don't know… I mean, Izzy is awesome, but sometimes I don't know if she likes me, especially after how heartbroken she was after what Owen did to her. And I don't want to push our friendship to something stressful like that, especially on the next season of Total Drama." Ezekiel said immediately he could see Courtney's eyes twitching. "Courtney, are you okay?"

"I'm fine…" The C.I.T. girl forced a smile while she was screaming internally since she saw proof of a girl giving a nude photograph to her friend, and yet he didn't see it as a sign. She wanted to expose everything, but she didn't want to make her friends mad at her. "But at least you could give a talk to her… you know, give it a try?"

"Yeah, Courtney is right, I mean there is 3 girls that could be a type, why not call them and make a party?" Geoff just said the word, which immediately the group stared at the party boy weirdly. "What?"

"Bad idea, bro," Duncan said as he pointed out the problem. "You never should invite 3 girls that is your time at the same party, because that always tends to cause a lot of fight,"

"Especially with Izzy… I mean, I know that her parents are a special case, but do you really think that Izzy wouldn't be the jealous type? After all the military money that she could give to make your life a hell?" Gwen explained as the group nodded her head, but Ezekiel decided to step up.

"Hey, hey, hey. I know that Izzy may be a military special agent, and she always tends to act like crazy to fool everyone with her intelligence, or how the fact that she can always be unpredictable whenever she has a chance, but come on. At the time you meet who she is, you wouldn't want a better friend than her," Ezekiel decided to defend his friend, and since he saw Cody walking around bringing another plate of food. Ezekiel had an idea. "Cody, come here and back me up."

"Hmmm, hey guys what's up?" Cody said as he tilted his head in confusion.

"Tell us how you view Izzy as the time she showed her true self to you?" Ezekiel said as he watched the episode, knowing the duo actually had a very interesting friendship around the show, especially when he was on the Playa Del Losers with them.

"Oh she is awesome, I mean, taking out the way she acted like crazy aside, she even helped me to fix my keyboard and the computer…" Cody said as suddenly he remembered one interesting thing. "Oh yeah, it was her who found out who was stalking me all the time, she knew it was Sierra, and she also helped me to have a good anti-virus to find a way to track Sierra in case she would contact me or my relatives."

"Rest my case judge." Ezekiel crossed his arms and looked cocky at the group of his friends who had their eyebrows raised at him.

"So who do you think would be more suitable for Ezekiel?" Bridgette asked as the group turned their backs to him and decided to talk. "I mean, I have Dawn's number, I may find a way to call them to take you to a beach to surf?"

"I can bring my party kit in beach occasions, maybe Brody could help me with the drinks." Geoff said as Ezekiel tilted his head.

"Hey, guys…"

"I have both Sky's sister's number. Maybe after the show I could contact her to see if Sky could go into the movies with Ezekiel since he likes to watch movies and television." Courtney said as immediately Duncan nodded his head.

"That's not a bad idea, especially since there are a lot of good films next year." Duncan nodded his head.

"That's not funny guys," Ezekiel said but once again was ignored.

"Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean, you girls are trying to set up with 2 girls," Gwen said as she crossed her arms. Which Courtney and Bridgette simply shrugged.

"Well, he has options, we could talk and to see how things will goes from there." Courtney commented as she then thought for a few seconds. "Who is going to talk to Izzy to try to set up a date with him for her?"

"I can give a text call to her, and she could bring him to an archery field to train." Cody said, as imediatelly Ezekiel looked betrayed at him.

"Et Tu Cody?" Ezekiel said as he was shaking the boy who simply shrugged.

"Sorry, but Katie and I need to have something to focus on during the whole season 2, and since Sadie and Justin had a thing, we could use our energies to also focus on you," Cody said as he smiled sheepishly at the boy, who facepalmed.

"Really guys… really?" Ezekiel said as he deadpanned at the whole group of 6 who were simply too focused on trying to set up the boy with one of the girls, while he simply groaned and walked away. "Ugh… that's what I get for opening my mouth… Why share the time you passed the mall, Ezekiel? Don't you ever learn?"

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"So I was going too fast?" Harold asked as Ezekiel, Courtney, Duncan, and Gwen nodded their heads to him. After the event of the last episode, they learned a lot of things that they should be talking about Harold. "I mean, I could give it a try. But it's…"

"Leshawna, we know. The girl who took your virginity, but yeah, maybe it was all the sensation of the moment." Duncan said as he could see Harold glaring at him. "I'm being honest, you don't need to jump ahead dude. Just slow down a bit."

"Yeah, in a relationship there are 15 degrees on where you should go. And you already went on the tier 15. I don't know how it all started, but you need to return to Tier 1 and go from there again." Ezekiel said as he explained by pointing on his finger, and even took a little paper on the degrees of tiers Harold went.

"Okay, okay, okay. I understand." Harold sighed, as Courtney gave a tap on his back.

"There you go, and don't worry about it. You are a nice guy Harold." Courtney smiled, as Gwen even nodded her head.

"Yeah, you just need to tone down your pride and how much you talk. Then I'm sure that Leshawna will like you the way you are." Gwen said as Duncan nodded his head.

"Also, if she doesn't like it, it's her loss, I'm sure that there will be some kind of awesome nerd girl who would like you," Duncan said immediately making Ezekiel cough. "Oh, I mean, some hot girl, depending on the type of girl you like."

"That's better." Courtney commented as she remembered on how her boyfriend sometimes could be so straightforward that he doesn't know that he stereotyping everyone.

"Thanks guys… and now, what did I heard about Ezekiel finding his type." Harold smirked as he saw Ezekiel starting to drink punch.

"OH COME ON." Ezekiel was mid-drinking his punch when he spat out screaming in outrage.

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"Wait, what? What the fuck you just said?" Duncan said as he slowly had his face paled.

"Oh, I made a special invitation for Bananas and Cheese to play a song for my dear Gwen," Allyson said as Gwen approached Duncan with her arms crossed.

"They're coming to do a show… here… Today…" Gwen said as Duncan immediately felt his eyes twitching.

"Today, today, today, today, today, today, today." Duncan could heard the same word repeating, as his sweat crossed his entire face, his eyebrows twitching and he was feeling a lot of panic inside. As the words kept repeating from Gwen was on his side repeating the same word over and over again. Enjoying to see him having a breakdown. "Today, today, today…"

"AHHHHHHHHHH, NO NO NO, NO THEM, NOT THEM," Duncan shouted as he immediately ran directly at the wall, breaking it with his own silhouette.

Gwen had her arms crossed in satisfaction, while Courtney whistled in surprise, and Ezekiel blinked as he recalled one of his favorite scenes of the child version of themselves.

"Does anyone is going to tell him that we know that his parents are Bananas and Cheese?" Ezekiel asked loudly, but the whole group of people remained quiet. "No one? Okay, fine. Just asking."

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"Wait, all the sports equipment of your school had been replaced by the sponsors recommended by Lindsay's parents?" DJ asked in surprise while looking at the jock who nodded his head.

"Yeah, my parents even gave a thank you letter for them, since with their help, we exchanged all the equipment and were even be able to rebuild the football field." Tyler commented as the group looked in shock from what the boy had just said.

"So that means you already fulfilled the objective you wanted the 100 thousand dollars then." Courtney said as she was happy for the good luck the boy had managed to catch on his life, but then she noticed there was something different on his look. "What's wrong?"

"Well, you see… my dad still wants me to win the money prize, and I'm not going to lie, even I want to win the whole show, but… after all the work we just did around, and I have been listening all of you have plans for what to do after the show, I'm actually thinking on what I should do in case I couldn't win the money prize, or what I could do with the money in case I do…" Tyler said as he was feeling a bit intrigued, and from listening to his friends talking about future jobs, and plans for the future, he kinda felt left out, not sure on he could do.

"Well you could try to invest yourself into practicing some sport." Ella suggested, but imediatelly the whole group of Killer Bass grimaced with the suggestion. Which she looked at her goth cousin, "What's wrong?"

"Tyler isn't very much stable when it comes about sports, he is clumsy in point that it could hurt anyone, mostly himself." Gwen whispered as immediately the princess wannabe hummed in sympathy.

"How about opening a gym?" Harold said loudly which made the whole group stares at him. "I mean, he could buy the equipment and check everyone using them, as long he wouldn't try to use the equipment without supervision and on the right weight, he couldn't hurt himself so much because of his unluck."

"Well, that's not a bad idea," Eva commented as it caught the attention of everyone around. "My parents had been thinking about opening a stable gym, and they said it would require place and equipment. It would be between 300 thousand to 1 million dollars worth, so they would need a business partner around… Maybe if I call my parents and ask them to talk to you. Maybe they will help you to be the owner of the gym while they could be the CEO while they will focus on my training for the championships."

"That would be nice actually." Tyler commented as once again the more the group talked, the more connections and dreams would be formed for the future. But still everyone would need to survive for the future.

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"I hate all of you," Duncan said as he was with his pack of ice over his head, to treat the bump on his head after dealing with himself crashing through the wall.

"Well, it was your fault that you crashed the wall, there is a front door." The two Cody said at the same time, which immediately both looked at each other in surprise. "JINX,"

Gwen rolled her eyes, while Ezekiel couldn't help but smirk.

"Well, when I heard you say Cody was like your younger brother, I thought you said metaphorically, not literally, are you sure your Cody isn't cloned?" Ezekiel joked, which he laughed harder when Gwen showed the middle finger.

"At least he now has Katie as girlfriend and he doesn't have a crush on me anymore. You have no idea how much relief that gave to me." Gwen said that the homeschooled boy couldn't help but remember all the versions of Cody, from canon to even fanfics, to even the unexpected one who appeared in his dream once…

"Yeah, I can imagine," Ezekiel said as he reflected on how Gwen would deal with the future now Duncan and Courtney had such a stable and healthy relationship. And he cares about them, but still, he has no idea how the future of Gwen would hold on… But he promised himself that he would take care of his friends, and make all of them happy to the end. "But don't worry, you will always have us Gwen, Killer Bass until the end."

"Yeah, yeah… Until the end." Gwen said as she smiled at the boy.

She will be okay, that's what he promised.

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"Okay, hold on, tell me again what did you just said?" Ella said as she had her eyebrows raised at the homeschooled boy.

"I like Shrek 3, is one of my favorites." The whole group of teenagers looked at the boy as he was saying some nonsense. "Hold on, let me cook, let me cook."

"Let you cook?" Duncan said as he crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows. "Is that a farm slang?"

"Yeah, kinda," Ezekiel said as he gave a half-lie, deciding to accept the term he almost forgot to explain. "It's for, let me continue and see how it will go. But hear me out okay?"

"Ezekiel, you better have some good explanation about why you liked the movie of the perfect loser Arthur being the center and King of the Every After." Harold being the one who made that comment, clearly made everyone surprised, even Courtney and Duncan.

Even Harold treats Arthur as a loser? Wow, that means Ezekiel must work a lot to explain.

"Well, hear me out. Arthur may be the irrelevant character, but that's not the reason why I liked the third movie. But the concept behind the conclusion of the conflict." Ezekiel said as he could see his friends in silence. "For me, I always thought that maybe some of the villains of the fairy tales got the bad ending while the good guys always had the things they always strive for… But the scene I liked much was how Arthur just came to ask the villains about what would be their dreams, not something too big, but something that would make him even the small dream they think for themselves, the fact of the headless man always wanted to play flute, or the evil queen from Snow White wanted to open as spa in France… that's what usually would be a good way to deal with the villains, sometimes everyone just want to be happy, and just give up from all the fight, and do the things they would like. Simple like that."

"So you like more of the movie because of the message passing behind of the villains, than the actual plot of Arthur going to the throne and the Charming trying to kill Shrek?" Gwen asked as she raised her eyebrows, to which Ezekiel nodded his head.

"Yeah, pretty much. I like to think that scene is one of my favorites from the trilogy, and ignoring most of the plot of the movie, I say the order of my favorites is Shrek 2, 1 and then 3, but still my trio is favorite in some parts." Ezekiel said as he shrugged, which immediately the people around debating about the movies, simply nodded their heads and moved on.

"Well, okay, now let's talk about Top Gun, that movie rocks." Cody said as he was ready to talk about one of his favorite movies of all time.

"Oh, I never liked that movie." And Ezekiel decided to give his opinion.

"WOAH WOAH WOAH."

"Come on guys, hear me out, let me cook."

And once again Ezekiel had to explain the reasons why he is controversial of one of the best action movies related to military jets of all time, since he always loved the Ace Combat story mode in the videogames, a Tom Cruise movie wouldn't be in comparison to the classic story of Ace Combat Zero or Ace Combat 7, it was a good movie he had to give to them, but he would pay good money to see if Maveric would be good enough to go against the Demon Lord of Round Table: Cypher or the Three Fucking Stikes: Trigger and neither of those 2 legendary pilots had to deal with volleyball game covered in oil for sex appeal. But sometimes he cursed for his future knowledge since he never could explain it to his friends. But yeah, that's the weight of going from another dimension.

When Ezekiel talks about being genre savy, sometimes people wouldn't understand the deep knowledge he had of good movies he watched on both lives. Not that he cared anyway.

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"Are you sure that's good to use your camera Geoff?" Cody said as he was holding tight on the group of friends of Killer Bass, each of them where showing their tattoos.

"Yeah, just focus a good picture and see if the light is good." Geoff explained as he was already doing a good pose. Which the geek boy give a thumbs up.

"Alright, on 3… 3." Cody said as he pressed the camera creating a flash, which imediatelly on the next second the camera revealed the picture, of the friends of Killer Bass, all together with the pose of showing their tattoos. "Looks awesome."

"Yeah, I'm sure this will be perfect for the future," Geoff said, as the group really enjoyed the good time talking with the friends. Pictures were taken. Gwen cutting the cake, Duncan and 2 Cody trying to do a drinking contest to see who could drink most.

The goths doing a pose, with Ezekiel, Courtney, Duncan and Gwen, since they were almost fit for the theme.

Ella and DJ having a good time feeding one little bird appearing on the house. While DJ blushed when she kissed on his cheek. The next picture was of all the guys trying to wake up DJ from the floor who just fainted. While Ella was freaking out as the other girls were laughing over the situation.

Cody and Katie kissed as Sadie made Tyler fall down on the floor after doing an arm wrestling.

The next picture was everyone eating the cake while on the clock showed nothing more than 4 p.m, which had been a good time for everyone trying to enjoy the much as they could, since hours later… It was the time for them to say goodbye.

Each picture was taken as Gwen was happy to hug each of her friends. As slowly Gwen closed the album photography that she got from her mom at her birthday.

Sighing… Gwen couldn't help but stare at the moonlight. Knowing the next day her day of stress would return… But smiling weakly, she couldn't help but be grateful, it was one of the best days of her life. And she never thought she would be popular and yet having so many good friends around. A good family, and a good objective in the future.

She smiled at the window. As she could imagine that all her friends was staring at the ceiling of their bedrooms, waiting for their time to sleep. Slowly taking the time that on the next day, it will be their next challenge.

"Whatever you have for tomorrow Chris. We are ready… Bring it on." Gwen said as she smiled, knowing that she now is more than ready for the season 2.

And it was only the beginning.