"Last time on Total Drama Island…" Chris began as the camera turned on to show the host standing on the dock. "Things really got cooking between the campers. Heather pushed Leshawna too far in the cook-off challenge and ended up one chilly mama. Owen had a hard day. Lincoln put an end to all of Duncan's pranks and even broke apart his gang. Geoff led the Killer Bass to victory. And the Screaming Gophers got to the bottom of their losing streak. It was buh-bye, Beth. Have the Gophers broken the curse? And just how much trust do they have in one another? Find out this week on Total. Drama. Island!"
At the mess hall, both teams were either enjoying or getting their breakfast. Breakfast being whatever was left over from the cooking challenge. Some were silently enjoying their breakfast, DJ was feeding some of his breakfast to Bunny, Lincoln and Dawn were having breakfast together while Edward was catching a few extra Z's.
And currently at the coffee table, Heather had a blanket wrapped around her and was still a bit sick due to being locked in the freezer for so long. "Need a little echinacea?" Speaking to Heather with a smirk was Gwen as she sat down next to Leshawna with both girls giving amused looks to Heather. Both proud of themselves for putting the queen bee through this.
"Ha, you're so funny." Heather sarcastically said with a stuffy nose. "You think that you can just lock me up in a freezer and get away with it? I am gonna make you sorry that you ever met me."
"Too late." Gwen 'whispered' to Leshawna. The goth knew full well that Heather heard her.
"You are such a…a…a…achoo!" Heather's insult to Gwen was interrupted due to need for her to sneeze. "Ugh! I hate this place!"
Over with Duncan, the delinquent was currently at the coffee machine and was getting some coffee into his mug. But as he was doing this, Duncan stealthily grabbed another mug that was on the shelf and pit pocketed it. Right as he was about to walk away, Courtney got in front of him with glaring eyes. "I saw that!" The CIT loudly whispered to the delinquent having been the only one to witness Duncan stealing the mug. "How can you just steal a mug?"
"Cause it's cool looking and I don't have one." Duncan whispered to Courtney before smirking. "Hm. Didn't have one, that is."
"But you might get kicked off!" Courtney harshly said to Duncan and tried to persuade the delinquent to put the stolen mug back.
"Awww, and here I thought you didn't care about me." Duncan said to Courtney with an amused smirk. Honestly it was hard to believe how much she was into him. And the more she denied it, the more obvious it was.
"Look, we're on a big numbers advantage here and I don't wanna lose that lead." Courtney tried to justify her reasons as she compared the small number of Gophers to the large number of Bass. "Especially if it's because you feel like going all criminal on us."
"Pfft whatever." Duncan rolled his eyes at Courtney's excuse. "You dig me."
"UGH!" Courtney groaned out in frustration as she stormed off. All the while her face sported an undeniable blush. "Why do I even bother?!"
As Courtney sat down at the Bass table, just planted her face down on the table in frustration as a voice spoke up. "You know you don't have to keep denying your feelings." Courtney's eye twitched violently as she looked to see Dawn had spoke to her with her and Lincoln's eyes on the CIT. "I can see it in your aura that you like him. Why deny it?"
"…AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Courtney suddenly released a loud and frustrated scream as she started pulling on her hair.
The camera then suddenly shifted to another location on the island with Chris walking in front of it with a frown on his face. "Hi. Chris, here." Chris introduced himself in a seemingly saddened tone. "Sometimes teams just don't get along. So the producers and I thought the best way to work through the group friction would be…to exploit it for laughs!" Chris' face suddenly broke out in a grin as the host rubbed his hands together. "This is gonna be awesome!"
About an hour after breakfast, the nine Bass and 6 Gophers could be seen gathered up at the dock with Chris in front of them. "So, last week's challenge exposed a few Gopher issues." Chris pointed out which got Gwen and Leshawna to glare at Heather with the queen bee glaring back. "And I'm sensing a little something funky floating in the Bass pond, too." Duncan smirked and lightly nudged Courtney with his shoulder which resulted in the CIT pushing Duncan down to the wood they were all standing on.
"So, this week's challenge is going to be centered around building trust." Chris explained as Duncan stood up and straightened out his cloths. Luckily he removed the mug from inside his shirt earlier or that fall really would have been painful. "Because all good things begin with a little trust."
CONFESSFIONAL – GWEN
"I trusted Trent once." Gwen said to the audience at home. "He almost left me buried alive on the beach."
"There will be seven major challenges that will have to be completed by two or more members of your team." Chris further explained the details of the challenge today. "Normally, we like to have the campers choose their partners, but not this time! More fun for me!"
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"Oh boy." Lincoln let out in a worried tone.
A little later, the teams and Chris were gathered up in front of a cliff side. Thankfully one that wasn't even close to being as big as the main 1000 foot tall one. "Okay! So for the first challenge, you'll be doing an extreme freehand rock climbing adventure!" Chris explained the first challenge of the day as he pointed to the wall the campers would be climbing. "DJ and Duncan will play for the Bass. Heather and Gwen for the Gophers."
Duncan and DJ were ok with being partnered up and voice no complains about it. But Heather and Gwen quickly glared at each other with the latter groaning. Chris then pulled out two items that everyone would need to use for the challenge. "Here's your belay and harness." Chris then threw the items to the campers with Duncan catching his and DJ's gear and Gwen catching her and Heather's only for the queen bee to harshly take them from Gwen.
"Hey!" Gwen yelled at Heather after she had taken the climbing gear from the goth. "What's your damage?"
"If you think I'm letting you hold me up, you're nuts!" Heather told Gwen, leaving no room for arguments. Not that Heather would give into any arguments the goth made anyway.
"You won't be holding her up exactly." Chris informed the four participates of the challenge as the host gave the exact instructions of how the challenge would go and how to use the gear. "One camper pulls the slack through the belay as their partner climbs. If the climber falls, the belay will stop them from crashing. The catch? Both the side and the base of the mountain are rigged with a few minor distractions like…rusty nails...slippery oil slicks...mild explosives and…a few other surprises."
"Wicked!" Harold said as he and everyone else looked to see all the obstacles Chris had pointed out.
"The person on belay must also harness their partner up. It's all about trust, people." The host of the show reminded everyone. "And remember, never let go of the rope. Your partner's life depends on it."
"Excuse me, can we trade partners?" Gwen asked as she raised her hand while glaring at Heather. "I really don't feel like being dropped on my head today."
"Please. As much as I love your company," Heather sarcastically said with an eyeroll. "I'm not gonna throw a challenge just to kill you. Yet. Now spread 'em."
"Never tried this before." DJ told Duncan as the delinquent was putting the harness on the brick house. "Have you?"
"Oh yeah." Duncan confirmed. The delinquent had climbed quite a few walls before and after going to juvie. Heck, his audition tape was him trying to escape from juvie by climbing over the wall. "They teach you how to climb walls in prison all the time."
Just then Bunny's head popped up from DJ's pocket leading to the brick house taking the little lagomorph out. "Aw, sorry little buddy. You can't come up with me." DJ told his pet before going over to Geoff and holding the rabbit out to him. "You can trust Geoff. He's my buddy. Yo Geoff. Hold Bunny while I'm on the rock. Thanks, G."
"Sure man." Geoff told DJ before looking at the little furry creature in his hands. "Little furry dude. What's up?"
"You think Geoff knows what he's doing?" Lincoln whispered to Dawn so that no one else would hear them. "I mean I like Geoff and all but he isn't exactly the…responsible type."
"Don't worry Lincoln, everything will be fine." Dawn reassured the Loud boy. The aura reader was perfectly calm and sure that things would be ok with Bunny. "Here, why don't we let Edward keep an eye on them just to help you feel more at ease."
"Hey yeah that's a great idea." Lincoln said before kneeling down to talk to his platypus who was standing next to Lincoln's feet. "Hey Edward, mind keeping an eye on Geoff and Bunny for us."
"Bbrbrbrbr." Edward said to Lincoln.
"Awesome! Thanks bud." Lincoln said as he patted the egg laying mammal's head. "That's extra dessert for you tonight." Edward let out a happy sound as he waddled over to a bush and stealthily started watching over Geoff. "That's my little buddy."
"There, you're all hooked up." Over by the Gophers, Heather had just finished putting on Gwen's belay and harness…with a second rope attached that Gwen eyed suspiciously.
"What's the second rope for?" Gwen narrowed her eyes at Heather as she asked this.
"It's a back up line." Heather simply told Gwen with a smile on her face.
Once Gwen saw that smile, the goth knew something was up. "What are you smiling about?"
"Nothing." Heather innocently shrugged with a smile still on her face. "I'm just really happy we got on this challenge together."
CONFESSIONAL – HEATHER
"It's all her fault for messing with me." Heather claimed with a ticked off look on her face. "I have got a doctorate in revenge and humiliation."
Despite Gwen's suspicions of Heather, the goth didn't really have time to question further as Chris announced it was time to start the challenge. So both the goth Gopher and the brick house Bass were quick to start climbing the cliff side. Both did their best to avoid the obstacles set out with DJ gaining the lead thanks to his superior strength.
Just then Gwen seemed to have gained the lead as she quickly started climbing up in an attempt to pass DJ. And she managed that…until some explosives went off and blew the goth right off the wall. Gwen screamed as she started falling but thankfully stopped not long after she started. "Don't worry!" Heather yelled to Gwen as the mean girl held onto the rope keeping Gwen up. "I got you!"
"I promised surprises." Chris was suddenly in front of the camera and held up a squirt gun. But it wasn't filled with water. "Habanero pepper sauce, anyone?"
Chris then aimed the squirt gun at Heather and proceeded to douse the mean girl in spicy sauce. "AH!" Heather screamed as she was completely covered in pepper sauce and quickly started rubbing it out of her eyes…letting go of the harness. "What the heck, Chris?!"
"OW!" Heather's eyes widened as she heard Gwen scream which was followed by a thud due to Gwen falling to the ground.
"Muy Caliente." Chris said in satisfaction as he revealed his shining, literally, teeth to the camera.
Chris then aimed the pepper sauce gun at Duncan and sprayed the delinquent…only for Duncan to be unaffected by it due to wearing sunglasses for protection and even started catching the sauce sprayed at him in his mouth. "Ah…" Duncan let out a satisfied sigh after swallowing some of the sauce Chris sprayed right into his mouth. "Is that the best you can do?"
"Is that the best we can do?" Chris asked in a hush voice to the man behind the camera.
A few minutes had passed and Gwen was once again pulling ahead of DJ with both being pretty high up…high up enough for Heather to go through with her plan. "Come on, Gwen." Heather called out to the goth as she gripped the second rope she set up with a grin. "You don't wanna fall behind."
Everyone would quickly learn that Heather was making a pun as she pulled on hard to the second rope…that was connected to Gwen's skirt. What resulted was Heather ripping off Gwen's skirt and revealing Gwen's dark purple panties for everyone to see. Both on the island and those watching at home.
Well…almost everyone. Dawn sensed what was about to happen and quickly covered Lincoln's eyes before he accidently got a peak of Gwen's underwear. "Hey! I can't see!" Lincoln said as Dawn kept her hands firmly over his eyes. "What's happening?"
"NOTHING!" Dawn shouted to Lincoln making him wince a bit. "Just keep your eyes closed!"
Gwen let out a scream as her skirt ending up falling on DJ's face. "Well…" Duncan let out with a grin as he took off his sunglasses in order to admire the 'view' better. "You don't see that every day."
"No, you don't, my man." Chris said as he also looked up at the scene with his usual grin on his face. "No you don't." All the while Courtney looked to see Duncan looking at Gwen's panties and found herself quietly growling a bit with a weird feeling coming to her stomach.
DJ removed the skirt from his face…and got a point-blank view of the goth's butt and underwear. This shock led to DJ letting go of the wall, with Gwen quickly grabbing her skirt from the air, which was quickly followed up by the brick house falling.
Duncan pulled the rope to try and keep DJ from falling…only for the delinquent's foot to suddenly be tangled up in the harness leading to Duncan getting sent up in the air. In the end, Duncan and DJ both found themselves suspended in midair hanging upside down. "This bites." Duncan grunted out.
"Ugh, big time." DJ agreed as the two guys would only wait for someone to help them down.
Despite her situation, Gwen was still hanging onto the wall and was trying to find a way to cover herself back up. But it was a fruitless effort as Gwen's skirt was torn up and trying to put ruined clothing back on while hanging from a cliff side wasn't exactly the best place to do said task. "Ah screw it!" Gwen yelled out as she held her ruined skirt with her mouth and quickly started climbing up the cliff.
The goth climbed up as quickly as she could and soon found herself at the top of the cliff and raised her hands up. "Yeah!" Gwen cheered as she scored the first point for her team…before remembering her panties were exposed for all to see and quickly covered them. "Crap!"
THE MAIN LODGE
Part two of the challenge took place in the main lodge. On one half were Bridgette and Geoff for the Killer Bass. On the other half were Lindsay and Trent for the Screaming Gophers. Spot lights shined down on both teams as someone came flipping from the Bass side of the lodge and landing behind a podium with Chris himself coming up from under it and making it look like he was the one to preform the stunt. "And now, round two!" Chris said as he grinned to the camera. "The extreme. Cooking. Challenge!" However Chris couldn't be taken seriously as the stunt double proceeded to crawl away with everyone putting their eyes on him as he left the lodge. "Each team must choose who cooks and who eats."
"I was head chef last time." Geoff told Bridgette as Bunny was hanging on his shoulder. Meanwhile, hiding from everyone, hidden underneath one of the tables was Edward with the platypus keeping an eye on Geoff and Bunny. "You better cook."
"Ooh, Todd!" Lindsay said excitedly to Trent, getting his name wrong in the process. The dumb blond happily clapped her hands and said. "I'll be the cook!"
CONFESSIONAL – TRENT
"Okay. She's no Steven Hawking, but hey, it's cooking." Trent said with a calm and cool tone. "How bad could she screw it up?"
"Today you'll be preparing Fugu sashimi, the traditional Japanese poisonous blowfish." Chris explained to the four campers as Chef brought in a fish tank containing two blow fish. One for each duo. A gong was heard as Chris grabbed a pointing baton and pointed it at a screen that showed all the organs of the blowfish. "The Fugu Blowfish contains enough lethal toxins to kill thirty people."
Chef grinned as he tapped the tank containing the blowfish making them puff up and release their spikes. "Fishes!" Chef began as he grabbed the blowfish by the tail and tossed one to each team on a cutting board. "Meet your maker!"
"They must be sliced very carefully to cut around the poisonous organs." Chris instructed as he pointed to the organs the presentation had labeled deadly and toxic. "The poison paralyzes the nerves and there is no antidote. So no worries."
Trent was indeed worrying, panicking really, as he grabbed Lindsay's shoulders and looked right at the dumb blond. "You have taken biology, right?" To Trent's relief, Lindsay nodded allowing the guitarist to breath a sigh of relief.
"Begin!" Chris announced as both of the girls on each team started to prepare the rather deadly fish.
After about 45 minutes, both teams were told to stop preparing their sushi. With Bridgette, the surfer girl had made a rather beautiful display with her sushi that looked like it was made by a professional chef. With Lindsay…the dumb blond had practically mashed the organs of the fish together and made a smiley face on it with ketchup.
The first to try the fish was Geoff. Bridgette pushed the plate over to him and the party dude hardly hesitated to pick up a piece of the sushi and insert it into his mouth. After chewing it to get a taste for the blowfish and swallowing it, Geoff smiled as no effects of the blowfish's toxins seemed to come over him. And it was delicious to boot! "Excellent!" Geoff complimented Bridgette with a double thumbs up.
Chris and Chef nodded in approval before looking over to the two Gophers as Lindsay presented her rather…ugly dish to Trent. Trent winced as he looked over the dish, especially when he compared it to Bridgettes, and hesitantly picked up a fork and scooped some of the probably underdone fish in it. Inserting it into his mouth, Trent quickly chewed and swallowed the blowfish in order to get it over with.
"…" Trent was silent as everyone looked to see what the guitarist reactions would be…until he suddenly started punching himself and screaming. After that, it seemed everything was fine but soon enough a loud gurgling sound came from Trent's stomach as the guitarist found himself falling to the floor. Geoff quickly covered Bunny's ideas as Trent's skin started turning blue as he tried to stand and look at Lindsay and said to her in a slurring voice. "I thought you said you passed biology!"
"I said I took biology." Lindsay corrected him as Trent fell to the floor again. Everyone quickly started wincing in disgust as barf started leaking out of Trent's mouth.
"It's cool." Chris reassured everyone as they all went to go check up on Trent. "Give him twenty-four hours and he'll be up walking and breathing, good as new."
"Uh, is anyone gonna help this guy?" Geoff asked as Chris began to walk away. Just then Chef came up to Trent dressed in a nurse's outfit. Bridgette, Geoff, and Lindsay were quick to look away from the scene and heard Trent's raspy screams.
As the third challenge of the day was being prepared, Geoff and Bridgette took the time to chill out as both were in their swimsuits and running down the dock. "Last one in's a rotten blowfish!" Geoff said as he and Bridgette raced to the end of the dock. "Whoops! Woah!" Geoff suddenly came to a stop leading to Bridgette stopping and watched as the party dude pulled out Bunny. "Gotta put Bunny in a safe spot first."
Bridgette smiled as she watched Geoff place Bunny on the life guard chair. "You were so brave to eat that fish." Bridgette told Geoff, pretty touched that the party dude didn't even hesitate to try her dish. Just look at what happened to Trent when he tried Lindsay's dish. That could have easily happened to Geoff yet he still did it.
"No biggie. I knew I could trust you. You're cool." Geoff complimented Bridgette making the surfer girl blush. Geoff was making improvements on his flirting skills thanks to DJ. As well as glancing at the antics of Lincoln and Dawn to see how they do things. So now Geoff was taking things nice and easy with Bridgette and not making any sort of bizarre moves and doing his best not to say anything stupid. "You're cool. Know what else is cool?" Bridgette then watched as Geoff cheered and preformed a cannon ball in the water with the surfer girl soon laughing.
As the two were playing in the water, Bunny's nose twitched as a smell entered the rabbit's nose. Looking around, Bunny saw more of his kind dragging some carrots around. The lagomorphs stomach rumbled and the rabbit was quick to jump off the life guard chair and go hop after the rest of his kind. While Bunny had no intent on leaving DJ, the little guy quite enjoying being with the brickhouse, but his stomach called and it really wanted Bunny to put carrots into it.
As Bunny hoped away, Edward was watching from the water in a similar matter to a hippo. Upon seeing Bunny hop away, the platypus went out of the water to get a clearer view. Edward knew that he wouldn't be able to catch up to Bunny as rabbits usually beat platypuses in speed. With Geoff and Bridgette preoccupied, the platypus figured that it would be wise to get someone else's help with this and started waddling to where the rest of the Killer Bass were.
"Ok campers, here's the last challenge of the first half of today." Chris announced to everyone with all members of both teams present with the exception of Trent. Bridgette and Geoff were now in dry cloths and were present as well. But both looked unnerved. When they were down swimming, they found that Bunny was gone and couldn't find the lagomorph anywhere. Luckily DJ hasn't asked Geoff for Bunny back so they had some time to try and find the rabbit...if he was still alive.
"This one is also gonna be a climbing challenge, but with a bit of a twist." Chris began to explain the challenge as behind Chris were four climbing walls. They were in pairs in two and were facing each other with only a bit of space in between the two. "You're not gonna be given any gear for this…and you can't use your hands!"
Everyone gasped in response at this information. If they couldn't use their hands then how the heck were they supposed to climb up the walls? And how could this challenge involve two of them? So many questions and luckily Chris was about to answer them. "Here's how the challenge works. Two members from each team will have to plant their feet firmly on each wall. Their backs will be together and their arms interlocked and need to work together to essentially walk up the walls. First one to the top wins."
"I'm getting a strange sense of déjà vu from this." Owen commented as he's sworn he has seen this kinda thing in a movie before.
"Ok, for this challenge the campers that hoisted their teammates in the first challenge will be two of the participates." Chris informed everyone making Duncan and Heather's eyes widened. "Heather, Duncan, you two are up again."
"Hey, I'm game." Duncan shrugged as he stepped forward.
"Why do I have to participate again?" Heather wasn't so happy with this and voice complaints. She's already worked on the challenge today why does she have to do it again?
"Because I said so." Chris said in a firm tone. "Plus you Gophers are already down a man. Sorry to say but Trent won't be competition ready until tomorrow at the earliest. So unless you wanna forfeit…"
"Ugh! Fine!" Heather finally gave in and stomped up to one of the sets of climbing walls.
"That's the spirit!" Chris gave a grin at Heather that only pissed her off. Just as the host had planned. "And for your partners, from the Screaming Gophers…Leshawan!"
"Oh heck no!" Leshawna quickly denied working with Heather with the queen bee giving a glare to the girl with a tude. "There ain't no way I'm getting back to back with that girl!"
"Back to back? More like I'll end up getting stuck between those two airbags attached to your legs!" Heather yelled as she pointed to Leshawna's butt making Leshawna's face go red with anger.
"Oh you'll end up stuck in somethin alright!" Leshawna yelled as she was about to attack Heather only for a few of her teammates to stop her.
"This is gonna be fun." Chris rubbed his hand together before turning to Duncan. "And now for you Duncan, your partner will be…Lincoln!"
"Aaaah dang it." Lincoln let out with a lowered head with Dawn patting his back.
"You gotta kidding me." Duncan wasn't too happy about the situation either and voiced his complaints to Chris. Ever since the cooking challenge Duncan has been trying to get his revenge on Lincoln by pranking him. But all of his attempts ended in one of two ways. Either Lincoln would somehow catch onto him and either avoid or counter the prank or Dawn would put a stop to it herself. And everyone that was on the island knew that hiding something from Dawn was completely impossible. So not only was Lincoln not exactly Duncan's favorite person to say the least, but none of his revenge schemes have gone well at all. "I ain't putting by back to him!"
Lincoln sighed in response as he walked up to Duncan. Lincoln didn't like the delinquent much either. But he knew they had to put this aside for the sake of the challenge. "Ok Duncan, look." Lincoln began as he stopped in front of the delinquent. "You don't like me and I don't like you. Right?"
"That would be a correct assumption yeah." Duncan stated while cracking his knuckles.
"But we also both wanna win the challenge right?" Lincoln went on.
"Just get to the point Loud." Duncan said with an impatient tone as he crossed his arms.
"Ok, I honestly believe we have a decent chance at beating…that." Lincoln pointed behind him and Duncan couldn't help but smirk at the sight of an intense cat fight going on between Leshawna and Heather. "So, for just this challenge let's just forget we even know each other and just work together to climb the well. Then the second it's over I can go back to avoiding you and you can continue planning my death."
"…..Ugh. Fine!" Duncan relented but still glared at the Loud boy. "But only for a few minutes."
Soon enough, both teams were in position. Heather and Leshawna were very reluctantly back to back and were glaring at each other with their feet against the opposite rock wall. However the girls weren't in the best stance due to attitude towards each other and their legs were shaky as they kept them planted on the walls and tried not to fall.
Duncan and Lincoln were in a similar stance but were at least able to put their opinions of one another aside for this and were much more stable. "Ok, remember." Lincoln reminded the delinquent. "We're doing right foot first."
"Uh, who's right grandpa?" Duncan asked while not being able to help mocking Lincoln just a little bit.
"I don't care." Lincoln immediately said. "My right."
"Well why yours?" Duncan said in a bit of an irritated tone.
"Ok your right!" Lincoln didn't want to start an argument and just did what he thought would appease Duncan. "We start on your right." The delinquent seemed satisfied with this and looked up. At the very top was a platform and per Chris's instructions the first one on the platform wins.
"Just try not to screw this up for us." Heather rudely told Leshawna. "Make sure those thunder thighs don't get stuck."
"Well make sure those chicken legs can keep up!" Leshawna yelled back to Heather making the queen bee growl.
"Alright campers." Chris said while standing in between the two sets of rock walls. "On your mark…get set…climb!"
"Alright Duncan!" Lincoln grunted as he and Duncan started to walk up the two walls one step at a time. "Right! Left! Right! Left! Right! Left!"
It wasn't as smooth sailing for Leshawna and Heather as two girls ended up lifted the their left and right foots respectively which resulted in them sliding down a little instead of being able to go up. "We we're supposed to go left first!" Leshawna yelled as the two girls tried to get back into position.
"Um, no!" Heather immediately yelled at Leshawna as the two girls arguing only made things worse for them. "The plan is you follow my lead! Got it! I'm the one that's leading this!"
"This is a teamwork challenge!" Leshawna yelled, only costing her and Heather more precious time as Lincoln and Duncan already hit the half way point. "No one's in charge! So stop your (BLEEP)ing and climb!"
"Left! Right! Left!" Lincoln continued as he and Duncan got closer and closer to the finish.
CONFESSIONAL – OWEN
"Is it just me or is there a severe lack of team work on our side." Owen pointed out with a bit of a worried tone.
Things really didn't get much better for Heather and Leshawna as the two's argument only got more heated and they didn't make any progress and stayed at the bottom of the rock walls. "And finish!" Chris announced making Heather and Leshawna gasp. "The winners of round three is the Killer Bass."
Leshawna and Heather were more than happy to separate as the walked away from the two walls and saw Duncan and Lincoln had reached the platform at the top.
Soon enough Leshawna and Heather continued to argue with each other about losing the challenge. With Duncan and Lincoln, the two quickly made their way down from the platform thanks to a ladder provided by Chef. Once they were down, Lincoln quickly made his way over to Dawn with Duncan rolling his eyes at the sight. "When are those two just gonna make out already?" Duncan muttered as it was obvious to literally everyone on the island that those two were into each other.
Just then Duncan found something pulling on his leg and looked down to see Edward by his leg. Seeing Lincoln wanted to go spend some time with Dawn, the platypus thought it was best that he let the two of them go enjoy themselves. "What? What do you want?" Duncan asked in a bit of an irritated tone. Edward proceeded to point his tail to DJ and Geoff with the former asking the latter something that made the party dude nervously walk away. "Let me guess, he lost the rabbit?" Edward nodded his head in response. "Figures, alright where'd he go?" Edward then waddled off with Duncan following him.
All the while Courtney saw this and raised a confused eyebrow.
A little later, Chris had gathered up the contestants in a different part of the woods and announced what the next group of challenges would be. "Good news. The fourth round involves four more challenges. It's the four blind challenges." Most gave a confused look in response as Chris further explained. "It begins with the blind William Tell, followed by the blind trapeze, and then the blind minefield, and culminating in the treacherous blind toboggan."
"Like legendary marksman William Tell, you'll be knocking crab apples off your partner's head with arrows!" Chris revealed making a few of the camper's gasp in worry at this. "Relax, we obviously can't use real arrows. You'll be shooting plunger arrows." Chris then held up an arrow with a big suction cup attached to the end putting the worried campers at ease. "And as the name of this and the other challenge's say, the shooter will be blindfolded! The person who knocked off the apple first wins!"
"Now then, for the Gopher team…Leshawna and Owen!" Chris announced making Leshawna breath a sigh of relief. Now Owen was someone she could work with. And she didn't think he would mind if she was the shooter. "And for the Bass…Courtney and Sadie!"
"Ooh, let me shoot!" Sadie quickly asked Courtney the second after Chris announced she and Courtney would be the ones working on this challenge. "I'm a good shot!"
Courtney sighed and decided to just let Sadie have her way. "You better be." The CIT groaned out as she honestly wasn't feeling too confident about this.
A few minutes later the two teams were ready to start shooting. Owen and Courtney had apples placed on their heads as well as wearing goggles for added protection while Leshawna and Sadie were blind folded and had bow's in their hands and quivers full of plunger arrows.
"Okay!" Chris quickly started the first blind challenge. "Let's rock and roll!"
The two girls quickly started shooting plunger arrows at their partners. Leshawna kept shooting Owen's large body with the plunger arrows sticking to him. Meanwhile Courtney grunted a bit as each arrow hit her and didn't stick due to her much smaller body type. Thankfully the arrows didn't hurt too much but it still wasn't a pleasant experience.
Three minutes had passed and Owen's entire body was covered in plunger arrows, and even one of his cheeks, while Courtney had all the arrows that were shot at her at her feet. Finally the challenge came to an end when Leshawna was the one to hit Owen's apple with her arrow. The big guy laughed which sparked Leshawna's attention. "Ooh! Did I get a bullseye?" She asked as she took her blindfold off and smiled when she saw the apple had been knocked off Owen's head.
However, while the rest of the Gophers cheered, Sadie seemed unaware to this and readied another arrow. "I've got her this time!" The black-haired white girl said confidently.
"Leshawna won already!" Chris informed Sadie but the girl kept going still.
"Hey moron, it's ov-" Courtney was quickly cut off by Sadie hitting the one part of her body the plunger arrow could stick to. Her face. "MMMMMHHH!"
And Sadie kept firing arrow after arrow. This led to many people from both teams to dodge as well as the animal bystanders getting hit from a nearby bear, to birds in the trees, and even what seemed like a yeti hanging out in a cave watching TV.
This finally came to an end when Chris took Sadie's bow and yelled to her. "Sadie!" Sadie took off her blindfold in response to Chris' words. "It's over, man! Let it go!"
"Oopsie." Sadie winced a bit as she watched Courtney try to remove the plunger arrow off her face but to no avail. "Sorry."
"MMMMMMMMMHHHHH!" Luckily whatever Courtney yelled was muffled by the plunger. If it wasn't, then there would probably be a lot of censors in this episode.
"And now, the blind trapeze!" While Courtney was directed to the infirmary to get the arrow removed from her face, Chris was quick to lead the Bass and Gophers that weren't seeking medical attention to the next challenge. This one took place over a pond where a trapeze was set up. "To avoid serious injury, the trapeze has been set up over this pond…which is full of jellyfish."
Everyone gasped as they looked down in the water and saw many jelly fish in habiting it. Chris then threw blindfolds to Dawn and Heather and continued with his instructions. "You two will stand blindfolded on the platform until your partners tell you when to jump."
"And then?" Heather inquired.
"Then hopefully they'll catch you." Chris said making the queen bee flinch a bit. "Or that's gonna be one heck of a painful swim."
As Chris gave a few further details of the challenge as well as choosing Heather and Dawn's partners, Lindsay and Harold respectively, DJ walked up to Geoff with a bit of a worried expression. "So yo, where's Bunny at?" DJ asked as the last time he asked Geoff this, the party dude said he'd go get Bunny only to return later Bunnyless.
"Uh… I-I forgot I-I put him, um…there was a…" Geoff struggled to think of an excuse. It only got worse when the party dude saw DJ's face tear up. "He might have, um, hopped away…but I'm sure he'll be back. Sorry, dude."
"Nah. It's not your fault, man…" DJ said sadly as he recounted the times he's spent with Bunny. "My little Bunny…we were such good friends." DJ then fell to his knees and screamed into the sky. "Bunny! Why'd you do me like this?!"
And unaware to most of the team, a certain platypus and delinquent were working together to find DJ's precious Lagomorph.
But for now, it was challenge time. It was the Bass' turn first and Harold was currently swinging on the trapeze by his legs with his arms out and ready to catch Dawn. "You ready Dawn?" Harold asked with the aura reader nodding, no ounce of fear in her. "Jump!"
Dawn didn't hesitate to do as Harold said and thankfully the ginger grabbed the nature lover's hand leading them both to swing safely above the jellyfish pond.
Lincoln especially breathed a sigh of relief as he wiped some sweat off his forehead. "Thanks Harold." The Loud boy muttered as he wasn't sure how'd he would react if Dawn fell into the pond of jellyfish. While she could talk to animals, considering jellyfish lacked brains he wasn't 100% sure if even she could bring them to be peaceful.
CONFESSIONAL – HAROLD
"No way could I just let Lincoln's girl fall like that." Harold said as he pounded his fist against his heart. "It's against the bro code!"
CONFESSIONAL – DAWN
"I knew I had nothing to worry about. I knew that Harold was trust worthy and even if he wasn't, I knew where he was positioned the whole time." Dawn revealed to the audience in her usual calm down. "I don't need my eyes to see someone's aura. Even when blindfolded, I knew where everyone was positioned at all times."
"Okay, Gophers. Your turn!" Chris announced through a megaphone as Dawn and Harold returned to the ground and rejoined the rest of their team.
"Okay," Lindsay counted down as she was in the same position Harold was in earlier and was prepared to catch Heather. "One! Two! Three! J-Jump!" But Lindsay may have ended up making a slight miscalculation and ended up in a position that would end up with her missing Heather. "No, oh, no, not yet!"
But Heather didn't hear that last part…and ended up jumping right into a jellyfish infested pond. Everyone winced as Heather screamed from the many stings she was experiencing. But after a few moments Gwen and Lincoln looked at each other and grinned as they shared a high five.
CONFESSIONAL – GWEN
"Ahh. Sometimes the universe just gives you a freebie." Gwen said in a bit of happy tone as she looked up and gave the universe a double thumbs up.
INFIRMARY
At the camp infirmary tent, there was currently three occupants. One was Trent who was laying down on a medical bed on life support with foam coming out of his mouth. One was Courtney who still had the plunger arrow on her face. And third was the nurse himself Chef. The muscular cook grabbed a crowbar from a tool box and proceeded to put it in between Courtney's face and the plunger arrow attached to it.
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" Courtney's scream of pain was heard as Chef pushed the crowbar with all his might. Despite the pain, it seemed to work as the plunger arrow was quickly removed from the CIT's face with a loud popping sound.
"AH!" Courtney let out another yell before breathing a sigh of relief and touching her face. The CIT winced a bit as she knew on her face was a giant hickey, but it beat having a giant plunger attached to her face. "Finally. Thanks."
Chef silently nodded his head as the CIT got up and was about to walk out of the tent…until she snickered loudly at the next person to walk into the tent. Heather with a big ole jellyfish on her head. "Nice hat." Courtney mocked making the queen bee glare at her.
"Bite me." Heather grumbled before another shock came to her from the Jellyfish on her head. Courtney snickered again as Heather asked Chef for anything regarding jellyfish removal…but when the CIT heard some rustling in the woods, she could have sworn she ended up seeing Duncan with Edward. The former holding a carrot and leading a very familiar Lagomorph somewhere.
"Alright everyone, this is probably the challenge I've been looking forward to the most!" Chris rubbed his hands together excitedly and making all the contestants nervous. They were all located at an opened area with two small wooden towers set up that would give someone a clear view of the field around them. And in front of two towers were two paths…with many lumps in the ground surrounding the clear pathways that had many turns. "This is the blind mine field. As you can see, mines have been buried all over the field with the lumps in the ground revealing them to the campers that will be set up in the towers. There will be two blind walkers that will have to walk through the minefield. Don't worry the explosives are mild and are just meant to daze. It's up to the walker's teammates that are stationed in the towers to shout them directions to navigate on the safe mine-free path."
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"Huh, he's going easy on us." Lincoln said with a deadpanned tone. "Normally the mine field would be on fire and infested with rabid beavers or something."
"Ok, the watchers are going to be…Gwen and Courtney." Chris revealed as the two girls nodded and went their way to the wooden towers with one having a Gopher flag on it and the other having a Bass flag. Once Gwen and Courtney climbed up their respective towers and grabbed the megaphones that were waiting for them, Chris pulled out two blindfolds and turned to the rest of the teams. "And for the walkers…Lindsay and DJ!"
Both walkers gasped as Chris tossed them their blindfolds. For Lindsay, this was pretty much living through her second worst fear. And she was blind folded to boot! And as for DJ, he just lost the best pet in the world and now he was expected to walk through a mine field blind folded?! This was officially the worst day ever!
"Alright! Everybody ready?" Chris called out to as everyone was in their position. Courtney and Gwen had their megaphones ready in their towers and were able to see from the start of the path to the end of it. And Lindsay and DJ were blind folded and were shaking in fright. Especially DJ. "Start!"
"Ok Lindsey!" Gwen called out to the dumb blond with her megaphone. "Just go slow and walk straight."
"O-Ok…" Lindsay stuttered as she went forward. Despite her fear, she was willing to go through with this. Plus she knew Heather would kill her if she lost another part of the challenge.
"Same with you DJ." The CIT ordered the brick house who was shaking like a chihuahua in the artic. "Go straight! But make sure your faster than her!"
"W-W-What?!" DJ stuttered violently as he took a step back instead of going forward. "You want me to run into a minefield?!" DJ already wasn't in the right mindset due to losing Bunny. And this was only making it worse. "What if I blow up!?"
"You won't blow up so long as you do what I say!" Courtney yelled quite meanly to the brick house, even increasing the volume on her megaphone. "So stop standing there and get a move on already!"
"Ok Lindsay you're doing great so far!" Gwen reassured her teammate and was ironically being kinder to Lindsay then Courtney was to DJ. "Now just slow down a bit and make a sharp right!"
"Alright!" Lindsay yelled back as she turned and-
BOOM!
"I said go right!" Gwen yelled as an explosion went off fromwhere Lindsay stepped. When the smoke cleared Lindsay seemed to be fine but still ended up covered in soot. "That was left!"
"R-R-Right!" Lindsay stuttered a bit while feeling greatly dazed from the explosion. "Sorry!"
CONFESSIONAL – GWEN
"Ok, I knew Lindsay wasn't exactly the brightest tool in the shed." Gwen said with an expression of disbelief on her face. "But she doesn't even know left from right?!"
As Gwen continued to try and guide Lindsay, with Lindsay continuing to blow herself up, Courtney tried to actually get DJ STARTED on the race. "DJ! COME ON ALREADY!" Courtney snapped which only made DJ shake even more. "JUST MOVE! NOW!"
"You have to be gentle!" Dawn called out to Courtney with a worried frown on her face. Currently Courtney's and DJ's auras weren't looking too good right now.
"I am being gentle!" Courtney snapped at Dawn.
"I keep hearing explosion!" DJ yelled in fright as he heard Lindsay blow herself up again. "It's freaking me out man!"
"BLOWING YOURSELF UP IS GONNA BE THE LEAST OF YOUR PROBLEMS IF YOU DON'T START MOVING!" Courtney yelled with an incredibly pissed off tone to DJ. "NOW GET OUT THERE BEFORE I COME DOWN THERE AND THROW YOU OUT THERE!"
"GAHAHAHAHA!" Finally DJ couldn't take it anymore and fell to the ground in fetal position and start bawling his eyes out.
"Ok everyone! That's enough!" Chris announced as he came onto the scene and got everyones attention. "The Gophers win this one!"
"What? Why?!" Courtney demanded to know as she put her megaphone down and glared at Chris. "Lindsay hasn't even crossed the finish line yet!"
"Because, according to the rules a challenge is decided by one of these three factors." Chris explained as he pulled out a book and read from it. The book being a rule book. "One, a team is able to successfully complete a challenge and follow all rules. Two, a player is unable to compete due to sickness or injury resulting in the opposite team's victory. And three, a member of one of the teams starts crying like a little baby."
All the Gophers cheered at their victory due to Courtney causing DJ to break down as Gwen called out to Lindsay. "You can take off the blindfold now Lindsay." The Goth called out to the dumb blond who has suffered one to many explosions. "We won."
"Yaaaaay…" Lindsay let out as she wobbled a bit and raised her arms in victory…before falling down and passing out.
"Way to go Courtney…" Lincoln glared at the CIT as he and Dawn went to go comfort DJ.
"What? He needed to get his head in the game." Courtney tried to defend herself which only resulted in receiving a few glares.
"And now, the final leg." After Lindsay was taken to the infirmary and DJ calmed down, Chris led everyone to the area where the seventh and final challenge of the day would take place. The scores were tied three to three. This would be for the win. "The blind toboggan race."
"The say what?" Leshawna questioned with a bit of a worried frown.
"Each team will have a driver and a navigator." Chris began to tell the rules of the tie breaking challenge. "The driver steers while the navigator show directions. Oh yeah. And the driver will be blindfolded!" This caused a few members of the team to gasp making Chris chuckle. "Not many of you left, huh? Keep losing you guys. Hehe, oh well. Alright the Gopher team will be…Gwen as the navigator and Leshawna as the driver." Both girls looked to each other and shared a high five, more than happy to work together. "And for the Bass…Geoff will be the navigator and the driver will be DJ."
"Aw come on!" DJ yelled out in frustration and sadness. Today was just not a good day for him. "Why me again?!"
"Because I said so, that's why." Chris said with a satisfied grin on his face. "So, better get up the hill. Your toboggans await!"
One hill climb later and both teams were waiting for Chef to hand them their toboggans…with the muscular cook putting grease on the bottom of them to increase their speed. As he was doing this, Geoff spoke up to DJ who was slumping and facing away from him. "DJ, dude. I know you're sad about your pet bunny, but we've gotta focus here." Geoff tried to encourage his friend so they wouldn't have a repeat of the last challenge. "This could be life or seriously heinous injury, bro!"
"Bunny deserted me." DJ said sadly. "Why should I trust you?"
"Because I don't wanna get hurt either!" Geoff said right as Chef finished preparing the toboggans and handed on to each team. "Come on dude, please."
DJ just sighed a put his blindfold on as both teams got ready to slide down. With DJ and Leshawna in the front of their respective toboggans and Geoff and Gwen holding onto their teammates, they all waited for Chris to give the signal. "On your marks. Get set…" Chris then blew an air horn with Chris and Chef each pushing a teams toboggan down the hill. And thanks to the grease Chef put on, they were quickly gaining speed with a little help from gravity.
For the first part of it, it seems that the Gophers had the advantage as Gwen was easily able to direct Leshawna to avoid any obstacles in their way. Meanwhile with DJ and Geoff, DJ was having a tough time putting his heart to it leading to some very close calls and losing the lead.
Just then the two gophers ended up sliding on a rock that acted like a makeshift ramp and sent them up into the air. "Ooh, girl! We are flying now!" Leshawna cheered as Gwen held onto her for dear life.
"Uh-oh!" Gwen screamed as the two girls proceeded to land in a river. On the bright side, the toboggan floated. On the down side, they were quickly drifted towards a waterfall. "Ahh! I'm not ready to die yet!" Thankfully when they fell there was a big branch waiting down below that the two Gophers landed on and proceeded to catapult them forward.
"DJ! We really need you to steer, dude!" Back with DJ and Geoff, things were still looking rough for the two Bass as DJ was now really struggling to do much on the toboggan as the close calls just got closer and Geoff felt like the next obstacle would be their last. "Bunny would want you to live!"
"Hey DJ!" From the bottom of the hill, a familiar voice made himself known. Finally returning to his team was Duncan, with Edward by his side, with something cupped in his hands. "Look who I found!" Duncan then lifted his hands up and showed off something that was bound to motivate DJ.
Bunny.
"DJ!" Geoff called out to his friend as a big grin came to the party dudes face at seeing how Duncan somehow recovered the lost animal. "Duncan found bunny."
DJ gasped as he put his hands to his blindfold. "Don't tease me man." DJ then lifted up his blindfold a little bit and a giant smile came to the brickhouse's face as he saw that indeed in Duncan's hands was his little Bunny. "Bunny! You came back!" And just like that, DJ was back in the game as he put on a determined look and put his blindfold back on. "A'ight, let's do this!"
And so Geoff and DJ were making up for all the time they lost. If Geoff pointed out a direction, DJ would quickly turn in that direction. "Go Dj go!" Geoff cheered his friend on as Gwen and Leshawna suddenly appeared next to them out of nowhere.
The race was getting close and intense. Especially when Chris started setting off some left-over explosives he had set up on the hill. It seemed like the Gophers had this until an explosion went off right under DJ and Geoff's toboggan…and launched them right onto the finish line.
All the Bass cheered as they went over to the two, but DJ was quick to removed his blindfold and separate from everyone and headed over to Duncan who was still holding his rabbit. The delinquent happily handed Bunny over to the brick house. DJ sniffled a bit as he cuddled Bunny close to his face. "Thanks, Duncan." DJ said as he vowed never to let Bunny out of his sight again. "You're the best."
"Whatever, man. It's just a stupid rabbit." Duncan shrugged like it wasn't a big deal. He then looked down to see Edward somehow grinning at him with his bill leading to Duncan glaring at the Australian mammal. "Not one word about this you freak of nature."
Edward rolled his eyes and headed over to Lincoln and Dawn who were quick to start giving the platypus lots of pets. "Way to go buddy." Lincoln whispered to Edward as he watched Courtney approached Duncan.
"I can't believe you found DJ's rabbit." Courtney smiled at the delinquent and actually spoke to him with a civil tone. "You're a good guy."
"What, no I'm not." Duncan quickly denied as he looked away from Courtney with crossed arms.
"You are!" Courtney said with a grin on her face as she got closer to Duncan. "You're actually nice."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Duncan continued to deny Courtney's claim.
"Hah, I saw you do it, Duncan." Courtney stated making Duncan's eyes snap open. Courtney remembered it clearly. When she left the infirmary, she saw Duncan teaming up with Edward to get Bunny back.
"Whatever! He wouldn't leave me alone, weird rabbit!" Courtney simply crossed her arms and quirked a brow at Duncan silently. This seemed do it as Duncan finally said. "Okay, fine, I did it. Are you happy now? Listen, don't tell anybody, okay? I don't want 'em to think I'm soft or anything."
"You're secrets safe with me." Courtney reassured the delinquent. "And hopefully Dawn as well considering…" Duncan proceeded to face palm at this. Just great. He forgot all about hippie girl and her ability to learn everything there is to know about a person just by glancing at them.
CONFESSIONAL – DUNCAN
"I'm not nice, okay?" Duncan said firmly to the camera with a threatening look on his face. "Just to set the record straight."
Once Courtney left him alone, Duncan proceeded to walk right up to the Bass' aura reader Dawn. And thankfully it was one of the rare moments Dawn wasn't with Lincoln. "Hey." Duncan said to get her attention. "Just making sure you know-"
"Don't worry." Dawn reassured Duncan while also cutting him off. "I won't tell anyone you wanted to find DJ's rabbit because your dog Petey ran away when you were six." Duncan immediately went silent and gave Dawn a bit of a creeped out look before slowly backing away.
"And the Bass are the winners of the toboggan race!" Chris announced causing all the Bass to cheer…until Chris pointed something else out. "Unfortunately, I said that these were blind challenges. By taking off the blindfold for a moment, you broke the number one rule, which makes the Gophers today's big winners!"
The Bass were quick to slump down as the Gophers proceeded to cheer. Finally after three challenges they were able to pull out a win. And now…the Bass would be forced to vote someone off tonight…
THAT NIGHT
It was now time for nine Bass to turn into eight. The fire burned hot as all the Bass were gathered up at the campfire with Chris holding up a plate of eight marshmallows. "Who wants a treat?" Chris asked as he showed off the plate of marshmallows. "A tasty goodie that represents exemption, security, peace of mind. I'll remind you all since it's been a bit since you were here. If you don't get a marshmallow, you have to walk the Dock of Shame and you can never come back. Ever."
"Let's see…" Chris said as he picked up three marshmallows. "One for Lincoln, one for Dawn, one for Bridgette." Chris threw the marshmallows towards to the names he just called out with the campers happily taking them. Chris then picked up four more marshmallows as Lincoln fed his to Edward. "Duncan, DJ, Geoff and Harold, well done my brotha's."
That left only one marshmallow. And either Courtney or Sadie would be going home tonight. Both girls quickly grew nervous as Chris spoke up. "Sadie, you're on the chopping block for your terrible shooting skills, and for continuing to shoot after the challenge was won causing many innocent bystanders, animals included, to suffer the mighty plunger."
Sadie slumped down a bit as Courtney looked a little more confident.
CONFESSIONAL – COURTNEY
"Thankfully, the shooting of animals got Dawn on my side for the vote." Courtney said with a relieved smile on her face. "And where Dawn goes, Lincoln follows."
"Courtney." Chris then listed why the CIT could possibly be going home. "You're on the chopping block for yelling at DJ and causing him to start crying for his momma. Not cool." Courtney gulped a bit as Chris picked up the eighth and final marshmallow. "And the final marshmallow goes to…..Courtney."
The CIT happily caught her marshmallow as Sadie gasped before looking at her ex-team with an angry frown. "You know what?" Sadie began as he stood up. "That's fine with me, you…marshmallow eating freaks!" Sadie then covered her face and started crying as she ran over to the Dock of Shame, not giving anyone a second glance.
"The rest of you are safe." Chris said to the remaining Bass. "For now."
Despite Sadie's sadness over losing, when she reached the end of the dock, waiting for her on the Boat of Losers was none other then her best friend Katie. Joy quickly came over Sadie as she eagerly went onto the boat and hugged her best friend. The two girls clung onto each other and squealed as the boat took them away from Total Drama Island.
And with best friends reunited came the end of another episode of Total. Drama. Island!