Total Drama Extreme
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Narutox?
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Reality show producers don't like their contestants to be well rested, because sleep-deprived people have less emotional control. Likewise, a harsh wakeup call makes people feel less rested, other things being equal. And so, a blazing horn along the sound of Chris's voice was enough to jolt the campers awake.
Not long after, the campers, some still wide-eyed and twitchy from their wakeup call, filed into the lodge for breakfast. Chris was at the door to greet his young charges, his carefully practiced bland smile concealing his glee as he looked on his handiwork and saw that it was good.
Breakfast consisted of eggs runnyside up, with delicately carbonized bacon and heavy bread toasted golden-black. The beverage options were lake water that still tasted of the disinfecting chemicals, horrifically bitter grapefruit juice and milk that was noticeably over the hill. As the teens ate, Chris called for attention, and announced that they were to assemble in front of the lodge in one hour, to begin the first challenge.
Chris paused a few moments for dramatic effect, and then dropped the other shoe. "You are about to find out why you had to sign all those waivers to be on the show. Your first challenge can be dangerous…potentially."
"It appears I made it right on time. This is going to be a fun little venture." A voice from off camera called out.
"Mr. Sheppington!?" Naruto audibly voiced his surprise, loudly acquiring the other camper's attention.
"Our trust our campers are prepped Christopher?" The man looked every bit as professional as he sounded. His hair cut down to a short fade style, his skin a deep caramel complexion and his eyes a light shade of hazel. He was in his thirties, a small scar on his left cheek, wearing a black Armani suit with black dress shoes. Around his neck he wore a chain with a jewel that had the insignia of a panther encrusted on it.
''Meet the money behind the show. Marcus Sheppington. I must say sir you're pulling off the suit quite well.''
This could not be happening.
"Aah greetings young camper, I am Marcus Sheppington, the Executive Producer of what I hope to be a long running reality/survival TV show series. I thank you all for volunteering for our show. Now I know what you're thinking, an Executive Producer, don't they sit behind desks all day, talking with investors and throwing their money at projects? Let's just say I'm one who believes in a more hands on approach. As you've all noticed the number of campers is uneven but that's going to be fixed soon. You will all be partaking in the challenge of stealing one of these.'' He took a golden bell out of his pocket. ''...from me. There will be a total of twenty bells in all. You will have over the course of 24 hours starting tomorrow at noon to retrieve the bells...'' Before he could continue Gwen cut in.
''Not to interrupt of anything, but if there are twenty bells doesn't that mean three people will be eliminated?''
''Good question but no, you see this is where things get interested. When I start the challenge I will not be wearing any weights at all. With each hour I will add some weight to give our less athletic contestants a chance until all the bells are gotten. Within the scope of an hour from when the challenge starts I will also began to start hiding bells one by one. The object is to get a bell and you're safe from elimination, but you can also take more than one bell to decrease the other chances of winning. If more than one person goes without the bell then we will go with a system of how close the person was and how long it took them to get back to the starting point of this whole game.
For those who get more than one bell, with each additional bell one hour will be taken from your time. Whoever gets there bell first and gets back with the lowest time and or most bells win. That's just part one. There will be two additional bells, Silver bells which can only be acquired by two campers. Those who get the Silver Bell will become the leader of the opposing team, pick their members, and decide their team name. But I'll explain more about part two of the test after part one is completed. The challenge will begin in one hour. If I were you all I'd take the time to stretch and prepare." Marcus Sheppington was a man who enjoyed a challenge and this was definitely going to prove to be a fun challenge.
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Naruto read the time, '10:03' off his watch as he waited patiently for Marcus to arrive to begin the first challenge. He looked around and noticed the campers were doing their own things. Gwen, the black-teal haired girl was sitting off to the side, by a tree with her eyes closed, while the geeky kid Cody was trying to chat her up. The key-word being trying, as he was fumbling over his words and the goth ignoring him.
Then there was the other geeky kid, Beth was getting along with the gorgeous albeit a bit dim blonde bombshell Lindsay. His attention then moved to typical A-Type person Courtney. The A-types were defined by obvious traits such as being smart, attractive, and physical fit person who often succeeded in whatever they tried. She, Bridgette the surfer girl, the muscular Jamaican D.J., Geoff, Justin, and Leshawana had formed their own little group.
Then there was the delinquent and the Queen Bee, the latter lashing out at the former because of the suggestive comments and innuendo he was making towards her. One by one Naruto was studying the competition.
He had already picked out the ones who wouldn't be going that far in the game far. The dressed alike girls Katie and Sadie definitely weren't going far. They were chatting nearly 50 words a minute and didn't seem to have that spark of intelligence or physical features the others had.
The butch Russian chick Eva wasn't going to go that far either. So far she had broken out into two fits of rage. Between that and her bulging biceps that most obvious conclusions would be that she was taking steroids.
It just wasn't natural for a woman to exercise to the point of being that bulky. Their bodies literally lacked the hormone needed to build up that kind of body mass.
The ones he was keeping his eyes out for was Gwen, one of the most 'balanced' members of the cast from his observation so far. Then there was also that Izzy girl. There wasn't something 'right' about her either. That was one of the things Naruto found himself enjoying since he got here. Regular people were quite easy to read, but the ones that were as spirited as Izzy were always a surprise waiting to happen. Checking his watch again he noticed it was '9:09'
With that the Asian-Canadian let out a rather unladylike groan of frustration. ''Where the hell is this guy? He's late! The challenge was supposed to begin at nine and he's ten minutes late.'' By far she was one of the more hostile campers not to mention impatient.
''He probably won't show up for another ten minutes. Fifteen if there is cheesecake involved,'' Naruto lazily answered the tense Asian-candian's exclamation took out a pocket knife and began whittling a small broken twig he found on the ground. ''I get comfortable if I were you.'' he added as his blade lopped off a large piece of the stick, causing him to look down at the piece, with a sad expression.
At that Gwen opened her eyes and began to speak. ''Uum Naruto?'' She asked as the blond examined the twig. Gwen was doing her best not to act like a crazed stereotypical fan, but it was really hard to when the main star of one of her favorite movies was right there.
''Yeah?'' He answered his focus now off the blade. "No reason to be nervous. I don't bite…unless its requested."
Gwen let out a forced laugh at the joke before finally recollecting enough of her cool to ask the next question.
''You seem to know this producer pretty well. So what's your connection?'' Normally Gwen wouldn't have struck up a conversation so casually, but Naruto was an unusual oddity to her. He didn't seem to fit into any of the high school cliques like most of the campers. He wasn't some jerk, party boy, or jock that took to hitting on every girl in sight or meathead going on about sports. He was also surprisingly pleasant if not quiet, a contrast to a lot of celebrities nowadays who seemed to make it their personal mission to act like they lost their damn minds constantly with doing something crazy to get in the news every other week. He just seemed comfortable.
''Mr. Sheppington was always something of a private backer in some of my projects. He's always hated to be involved with committees since so a lot of board members or head of companies seem out of touch of what the viewers actually want to see instead of trying to enforce their own vision in the form of overplayed clichés and stereotypes. Hence why he's so hands on or why he backs projects most people wouldn't. Its why my character in Shinobi, while he had moments of teasing with some of the female characters didn't have a love interest he instantly fell in love with. There wasn't enough time to develop a fully believable romantic relationship unlike literally every other piece of media out there that forces a romantic pairing for the sake of having one, no matter how badly it's done. If you're going to do something might as well put effort into it you know."
"Wow, sounds like a bit of a perfectionist." Bridgette took the seat next to him. She had only seen the movie because one of her friends had dragged her to see it. Mainly because she had found the main actor really hot. While Bridgette didn't like the gore she had to admit the choreography for the action was amazing and unlike most anti-hero types Naruto's character was actually likable instead of a jerkass trying way too hard to be cool.
'9:12' flashed on his watch.
"So, since you're like, a movie star have you been all over the world?" Lindsay had always wanted to be a movie star so of course she was interested in talking with the blond.
"Quite a few places. Plenty of countryside locales, Singapore, Latin, but mostly out east in many areas of Japan. It's actually pretty funny whenever I head there as I'm always accused of being a Gaijin, a term for foreigner when I'm actually of Asian descent.'' he added with a half-joking smile.
Heather snorted at this and casually spoke in Japanese,' Last I heard people of Asian descent didn't have blond hair or blue eyes.'
'I'll admit it's unusual, but so is being of Asian-Canadian...'' He spoke back surprising her.
''So you speak Japanese so what. That doesn't prove your of Asian-Descent.'' she snappily countered in response.
''Well it's a good thing your word isn't the word of God now is it?'' He snapped back as the Queen-Bee scowled at him. He shrugged it off without a care. What the hell could she do to him anyway? He checked the time again.
'9:15'
The jingle of bells filled the air. The campers immediately began looking in all directions to find the source of the noise.
"So how long are you going to be hiding in the tree?" Naruto asked as he trained his eyes on the tree that the noise came from.
From above Marcus dropped and landed on his feet in a crouching position. The executive producer had changed his outfit, wearing a t-shirt, pair of cargo pants and boots for better maneuverability.
''Aah! The lacking of patience is a poor quality. You all remember the rules. 20 Golden Bells are followed by two Silver Bells which will be for the leader of teams. Each hour a bell isn't recovered it will be hidden. Those who don't get a bell will have their positioned based on how close and time that person took to get back to this spot. Any questions?'' He asked as several hands were raise. "Yeah, Mr. Migillis?" He picked Owen out of the group.
''By 24 hours do you mean straight through because after a couple I get hungry and...'' Marcus interrupted Owen in the middle of the question already seeing this is where this was going.
''That's twenty four hours straight through. You better decide how much time you're going to spend eating or sleeping. Each second the clock ticks down. Now who has another question?'' He trailed the crowd onto his eyes set on Eva. "Aah yes Miss Garen."
''We're allowed to steal bells from the other campers' right?'' she asked with a menacing expression that unnerved several of the weaker and cowardly campers.
''Yeah sure, why not,'' Marcus replied with a shrug. This was without a doubt going to be quite entertaining.
''What if we eliminated the competition by another means?'' The Butch girl asked punching one fist into another.
''It is absolutely forbidden to use physical violence against another camper that could result in permanent or lethal injuries. For this challenge at least, but if you think you can defeat me you're welcome to try. But I can guarantee you that you won't like the results.''
'Poor Naive bastards.' Naruto could see the looks of over confidence on the faces of the campers like Duncan, Eva, and that Courtney girl. By his own words he was not a man that sat on his own ass. Naruto had let that first hand when the man showed that he took martial arts in his youth and still to this day paid instructors to keep him in top physical shape.
Since this was the bell test Naruto figured he might as well offer his help to some of the campers while trying to get one for himself. He might even figure out who he could set up to be eliminated. Naruto shook his head and decided against it. It wouldn't be honorable to do something like that.
''And with that the challenge begins!'' Several campers had immediately lunged at the dark skin man only to front flip over them with ease. The Eva girl was the first to recover and threw a brutal left hook. Marcus twisted his face to the side narrowly avoiding the punch, but it was obvious that the slowness of his movements was exaggerated. He dropped down and sweep kicked her. Flicking his hand back he whacked Duncan in the face sending the delinquent crashing into tan Justin.
''Hey watch it you thug! You almost messed up my hair!''
''Kiss my ass Pretty boy!''
The orange haired girl Izzy gave a battle cry as she did a series of flips. She landed right in front of Marcus, but instead of doing anything she turned around and promptly ran away, backwards. Both Naruto and Marcus shared a look as the same thought came to their mind; 'What the Hell?'
''The rest of you are going to get horrendous scores if you don't attempt something!'' He stated as he felt a tugging sensation.
''Victory!'' Izzy cried out from behind Marcus holding a bell. To say everyone was dumb founded was an understatement.
''H-How in the hell!'' Marcus asked, quite genuinely surprised and confused.
''I knew if I caught you completely off guard by doing something crazy I would be able to sneak up on you and snatch a bell." She explained, tossing it up in her hand with a triumph grin.
"You know, we just might have a spot for you on Shinobi Two." He had to admit the girl's actions were so out there that in some sort of odd way it made sense. It definitely was odd enough that it caused him to pause to wonder what happened. "Don't the rest of you think it'll be that easy." He said taking a smoke pellet from his pocket and tossing it on the ground.
''My eyes!''
''My face!''
''My gorgeous Hair!"
''My clothes!''
When the smoke dispersed Marcus was gone and in his place was a letter saying, ''23 Hours, 52 Minutes, and 46 seconds to go.''
Naruto shook his head in disbelief; still tripping over the fact the crazy girl had got a bell before him. 'I guess that's another person I have to watch out for.'
He thought as the other campers began scattering around the island. Before he began searching for Naruto a voice spoke up. ''Naruto was it? I believe you and I can help each other.''
Naruto turned to the speaker and was quite surprised at who made the statement.
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Well this is going to be different from not only the previous version. As I said before this version is going to be played seriously/for drama, but there will still be humor bits.
The dangerous situations will be played seriously. There will be wardrobe changes. In other words they'll be written more as real people instead of the one dimensional characters treat them ass.
So no stupid humor.
No terrible/cliché anime style traits or behavior. (Which is a majority of the fics nowadays, especially most in this crossover.)
In other words will actually see the characters have a full history develop and such. So with that said hope you guys enjoy the next chapter.
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1st Place: Izzy
Time: 5 Minutes and 32 seconds.