"Last time on Total Drama Island…" The camera turned on as Chris went over what happened last episode. "A talent contest brought out the worst, with one exception, in our campers. It was awesome! The Killer Bass struggled to find any talent on their team, and Bridgette's clumsiness pretty much knocked out their best prospect, Courtney. Luckily some surprise uber art skills from Lincoln made up for that. Gwen stood up to Heather, so Heather swore to make Gwen's life miserable by stealing her diary. Then she read it in front of the entire viewing world, revealing that Gwen has a secret crush on someone at camp. Then, Heather managed to save her butt by convincing the rest of the team to vote off Justin McGorgeousness. Who will be the next one to walk off this crappy dock? Will the Screaming Gophers finally manage to break their pathetic losing streak? Find out tonight in the most dramatic marshmallow ceremony ever! On Total. Drama. Island!"
"Ok Dawn, almost done…" Currently on the beach of Camp Wawanakwa, both Lincoln and Dawn could be seen together. Dawn was on the sand meditating with a starfish in her hand with Lincoln a little away from her painting. But not just any painting mind you, he was painting Dawn in the position she was in. Lincoln made good on his promise to paint Dawn and said paint was now-
"Done!" Dawn's eyes shot up as she smiled. Gently setting the star fish back on the beach, Dawn ran up to Lincoln as he showed her the painting. Dawn was taken aback by how good the painting was. Heck, the details of everything from her, to the sand, to the lake, made it more look like a photo then a painting.
"Lincoln, it's beautiful!" Dawn complimented causing Lincoln to blush. "You really put your very soul into your art. Like you left a piece of your aura on it."
"Aw shucks come on." Lincoln modestly said with a red face while scratching the back of his head. "I'm just passionate about it. Took a lot of years of practice."
"Well it shows. You're very…wait a second? Do you hear that?" Lincoln rose an eyebrow, his blush disappearing, as Dawn put a hand around her ear and looked around. A concerned expression soon appeared on her face as she ran towards the lake. "Oh no! Someone's in trouble!"
"What?! Where?!" Lincoln asked as he followed Dawn to the beach and looked around the lake in front of him to see if he could spot this someone in trouble. "Where? I can't see anyone."
"Over there!" Dawn put a hand to Lincolns chin and turned his head towards the source. Narrowing his eyes, a bit, Lincoln saw something flailing and splashing in the water. It even looked like it had something attached to it. "That poor creature is stuck in a trash bag! We have to do something! He's crying out for help!"
"Leave this to me! I got this!" Lincoln then bolted towards the dock of shame and ran towards the end of it at full speed. Once he was at the end of the dock, Lincoln jumped as far as he could and dived into the water. Once in the water, Lincoln kept his eye on the creature struggling in the water. He couldn't make it out even as he got close due to the trash bag covering it. But based on the tail, Lincoln guessed it was a beaver.
So taking the trash bag covered creature in one hand, Lincoln started swimming back to shore with Dawn watching in concern as Lincoln took the creature back to dry land. "Oh thank goodness! You're both ok." Dawn said in relief as Lincoln, with the creature in hand, finally came back to shore. "Quick! We must free him before any damage is done!"
"Right, right, give me a sec." Lincoln said as he caught his breath and gently set the trash bag trapped creature on the sand. Slowly a carefully ripping apart of the garbage bag, Dawn and Lincoln finally managed to free the creature and-
"Brbrbrbrbrbr!" What they found in a trash bag was a creature that had a beaver-like tail, duck-like feet and bill, and with an otter-like body.
"What the…" Lincoln rose a brow in confusion as Dawn sighed in relief and patted the creature on the head. "Ok I could be wrong…but whats a platypus doing in Canada?"
CONFESSIONAL – CHRIS
"So I imported a few animals onto the island. So what?" Chris simply shrugged and held up a few papers. "Got all the rights here. It'd be kinda boring if the island only had NATIVE animals. Besides I only got same gender species so they'd be no mating and such. Suck it PETA!"
"Oh its ok little one. Don't be scared." Dawn lightly rubbed the Platypus's head with a sweet tone and soft expression. "You're safe now. Lincoln here rescued you."
"Yeah, that's right. Hey there little guy." Lincoln quietly spoke to the creature. He slowly reached a hand out and petted the Australian mammal. "You're good now. No more trash bags."
The platypus looked up at the white haired Loud and waddled towards him a little bit. "Brbrbrbr." The platypus made a motor-boat like sound at the Loud boy.
"Aaaawww." Dawn gushed as she looked over to Lincoln. "He said thank you for rescuing him."
"Hehe, no problem little guy." Lincoln patted the Platypus's head before standing up. "I should probably dry off before the challenge starts. See ya later buddy, stay away from trash bags now ya hear?"
"May our souls cross once again." Dawn bid her farewells to the mammal before following Lincoln to the cabins.
All the while the Platypus never took its eyes off the two.
LATER
"Campers, today's challenge will test your outdoor survival skills." Now both teams could be seen gathered up at the campfire site as Chris gave them instructions about today's challenge. "I'm not gonna lie to you. Some of you may not come back alive." Many of the campers gasped only for Chris to laugh. "All you have to do is spend one night in the woods. Everything you need is at your team's campsite in the forest. You just have to find it. Oh, and watch out for bears. Lost a couple of interns in pre-production. First team back for breakfast wins invincibility!" Chris then blew an airhorn and pointed over to the woods. He had also handed a map and compass to each team. "Well, off you go!"
"Did he say there are bears up in here?" Leshawna asked in a scared tone. The last thing she wanted to deal with was a big grizzly bear. Afterall, Heather was already pain enough she didn't need to add bears to the list of things to look out for.
"Who needs to worry about bears when we have an Eva?" Duncan said as he pointed a thumb at Eva who proceeded to pick up a rock and smash it to pebbles over her head.
"I had a little encounter with a bear once." Owen bragged confidently as all of his teammate's eyes were now on him. "Let's just say his head looks real nice up on my mantle."
Dawn proceeded to gasp in response and glared harshly at Owen. "You monster!"
"Ooh! This one time, I saw a bear eating our garbage!" Izzy told a story of her own bear encounter to Lindsay as Owen flinched at Dawn's scolding. "He had old spaghetti noodles hanging from his big, huge teeth! It looked like blood and guts! It was so gross. And we thought he was eating the neighbor's cat Simba, but it turns out he was just lost for a week…uh, you didn't eat spaghetti, did you?" Lindsay, feeling sick to her stomach, shook her head with Izzy smiling again in response. "Good! Let's go!"
Lindsay simply gulped as she reluctantly followed her team into the woods.
SCREAMING GOPHERS
As the Screaming Gophers walked through their assign path towards the campsite, Gwen was in the front walking as far away from everyone as possible without outright separating from them. She was slumped down and looking at the ground as Trent walked up to her. "Hey, Gwen, wait up! Can I walk with you?" The guitarist asked nicely.
"No…" Gwen groaned as she embarrassedly looked away from Trent.
"Hey, if this is about that whole diary thing…" Gwen's only response to Trent was to speed up and walk away from Trent.
Trent sighed and looked down in response. He really didn't mind the whole diary thing. In fact, if Gwen did in fact have a crush on him, which seemed pretty likely, then he would be incredibly stoked about that. Gwen was a really cool girl. Mysterious, cool, attractive, pretty much the full package. And he thought he was actually making some progress with her only for-
"Ugh!" Grunting as she moved forward while repeatedly scratching her body. Heather. She was the reason why things started to drift apart between them. Because Heather read Gwen's diary to the entire viewing world he and Gwen started to drift apart due to Gwen's embarrassment. Thankfully Gwen did manage to get back at Heather a little, but there was only so much revenge could cure.
"She is so the one going home next." Heather growled as she glared at the back of Gwen's head while scratching her body.
"Who?" Trent questioned while giving Heather a light glare.
"Who do you think?" Heather yelled back as she pointed to the goth walking ahead of everyone. "She dumped Harold's red ant farm into my bed!" That was the reason Heather was so itchy. Ever since the talent show, red ants that Gwen got from Killer Bass Harold had infested Heathers bed and have been biting the girl in her sleep. No matter what Heather did to try and get rid of them, there was always more.
"Yeah." Trent rolled his eyes in response. "But you did read her diary out to the entire world."
At this, Heather turned around and glared harshly at Trent making him and the rest of the team stop. "So?" Heather growled out as she put her hands on her hips.
"So…that was pretty harsh." Trent said, not at all intimidated by Heather.
"She is going down!" Heather yelled at everyone before going forward.
KILLER BASS
As the Killer Bass headed towards their campsite, Katie and Sadie's attention was brought to a blueberry bush that everyone else passed by. "Sadie, look." Katie gasped as she excitedly pointed to the bush of fruit. "Blueberries!"
Sadie gasped in response and excitedly said. "I love, love, love blueberries!"
"Oh my gosh!" Katie happily said as she and Sadie joined hands. "Me too!" And so the two decided to feast on blueberries…getting separated from their team in the process.
CONFESSIONAL – KATIE & SADIE
"Sadie and I are BFFFL's." Katie informed everyone with Sadie right next to her.
"Best Female Friends for Life." Sadie said what the acronym Katie used meant.
"We even got the chickenpox together!" Katie happily recalled that memory.
"Oh my gosh, that was so fun." Sadie happily said.
"It was so fun to have someone to scratch all your little scabs!" Katie said with Sadie nodding in agreement.
"You excited for this man." DJ asked Lincoln who seemed to have a permanent smile on his face. "You can't stop smiling."
"Really? Haven't noticed." Lincoln shrugged, his smile still not leaving his face. "I guess I've always been a fan of camping. Specifically, survival camping. Ever since I was 11 when me and my best friend Clyde ended up getting lost in the woods."
"Woah that really happened to you?" Geoff asked as he turned towards Lincoln, eager to hear about this story.
"Yeah! One day me and my best friend Clyde went camping in the woods. One thing led to another and we sorta ended up lost." Lincoln sheepishly chuckled at this as everyone was now listening to the Loud boy's story. "So we had to make our way out of the woods. We had to face mooses, poison ivy, rock climbs, heck we even encountered a bear ourselves. Now we sorta make it a tradition every year to go camping."
"Woooooah." Harold let out in an impressed tone. "You guys went through that when you were only 11?"
"You better believe it." Lincoln couldn't help but smirk and puff out his chest in pride a bit. "Pro tip, if we do in fact encounter a bear just play dead. It'll go away eventually so long as you pretend you're a corpse."
"Or it'll look at us and think it's an all you can eat buffet." Courtney said, not quite believing either Lincoln's story or his tip about avoiding a bear attack. "Let's just try and not encounter a bear at all please."
"Aaaaw, what's wrong princess?" Duncan asked Courtney with a smirk. "Afraid of a little bear?"
"No!" Courtney immediately denied as she snapped her head towards Duncan and glared at him. "I just don't want anything to break our winning streak is all. Ok? We can't have anything slowing us down."
"Just chill would ya." Duncan said, and as usual not threatened in the slightest by Courtney's glare. "If any bears coming along I might just project ya~"
"Ugh!" Courtney grunted out, completely disgusted by Duncan's words. "Can we just hurry it up now?"
Duncan silently snickered as Geoff high fived him. Meanwhile Lincoln just watched and rolled his eyes a bit. And as the Killer Bass walked, they were completely unaware of two things. One was that Katie and Sadie were no longer with them. Two was that something was rustling in the bushes…following them.
SCREAMING GOPHERS
After their hike was complete, the screaming Gophers were now in a mostly open area of the woods where different supplies were waiting for them such as a tent and sleeping bags. Owen put his hands to his hips. "Uh…" The big guy let out nervously. "There's no food here."
"This is a survival task." Trent informed Owen as he looked over a piece of paper that was previously attached the supplies they had. "Look at the instructions."
"I wonder if there are any bears around today." Owen asked as he walked up to Izzy with a smile on his face. "Wouldn't it be funny if we made some bear sounds and then they came?"
"Ha! That would be so funny." Izzy laughed and agreed with Owen.
"ROOOOOOOOAR!" Owen let out in a deeper voice. "I'm a bear!"
"Would you please shut up? I'm trying to read here!" Heather rudely yelled at Owen making him flinch as the mean girl looked over the instructions she took from Trent. "It says we're supposed to find our own food." Heather scoffed and looked around the campsite and still saw a complete lack of food. "I still don't see it."
"I think they mean in the woods." Trent pointed out as he pointed towards the woods around them. If this was a survival challenge it would mean they would have to, well, survive off of the things they can find around them baring the tent and sleeping bags.
"I'll go!" Owen offered as he started walking into the woods. "I'm good at finding food!"
"Well, at least this will be a good week for my diet." Heather sighed out as it looked like she would have no choice but to accept whatever food Owen could find in the woods.
SADIE AND KATIE
Hours later, and the two best friends were still lost. No sign of their team or anything that wasn't…well…the woods.
"You don't know where we are, do you?" Sadie asked her best friend who had taken the lead in finding their team.
"Yes…okay no." Katie admitted as she looked around before lowering her head. "It's so not my fault. Have you ever noticed that all trees look the same?"
"Ooh, I knew I should have known better than to listen to you." Sadie groaned out as her feet were aching pretty bad now.
"What?" Katie quickly glared at her best friend as she put her hands on her hips. "You don't think I'm smart enough to find them?"
"You're not exactly the best with like, directions." Sadie told her best friend as she shook out some dirt and pebbles that had gotten inside of her shoes.
"Yuh-huh, I am!" Katie yelled at her best friend.
"Nuh-uh! Apparently, you're not!" Sadie yelled back as she started walking ahead of her best friend. "Cause we're L-O-S-T. Lost!" Katie simply blew a raspberry at Sadie before walking behind her.
KILLER BASS
Once they reached their campsite, and read the instructions, the Killer Bass were quick to start making camp. Currently Geoff and Bridgette were setting up the tent, with Geoff trying and failing hard to flirt with Bridgette. Duncan and Eva were at work building a fire pit while Harold was out gathering up wood for said pit. DJ and Lincoln had both went out for food. Sadie and Katie were both gone with everyone still not noticing. Courtney was essentially supervising everyone and making sure everything was going well. And Dawn-
"Um, Dawn." Courtney asked the mysterious girl with a confused look. Dawn had gathered up various materials from branches, vines, leaves, and other natural materials that had fallen off its original source. Dawn wasn't about to rip the branches and leaves off of poor trees. "What are you doing?"
"I'm making a tarp for our tent." Dawn answered as she continued building her tarp. "It's going to rain tonight so we'll need it."
"It's not going to rain." Courtney stated as she looked up past the trees and saw a perfectly clear and sunny sky. "There's not a single cloud in the sky. There's no way its going to rain." Dawn didn't listen to Courtney and simply continued to make her 100% natural tarp. "Ugh, fine whatever. We're good on everything else anyway."
SCREAMING GOPHERS
Currently at the Screaming Gophers campsite, all the Gophers were simply sitting around the campfire they built. All except for Owen who was still out finding food. And speaking of food, that was something the Gophers really needed right now as most of them were groaning with growling stomachs. "Ugh, I'm so hungry…" Heather let out as her stomach practically roared.
"I think my stomach ate my stomach…" Izzy painfully groaned out.
"Yo!" Suddenly a new voice popped up and everyone looked to see a guy carrying pizza. "Who ordered the pepperoni, extra cheese?!"
"It's for the camera crew." The man working the camera said as his hand was seen waving in front of the camera. "Over here!"
Heather gasped and glared in response. "No way." The mean girl said. If they couldn't get the luxury of that kind of food, then neither should the camera crew.
Just then the bush nearby started shaking and the Screaming Gophers saw something that would fix all their food problems. "I am man!" It was none other than their teammate Owen carrying a bunch of decently sized fish tied together on a rope. "I bring fish!"
"Are you kidding me?" Heather let out in completely disbelief. How could a fat oaf like Owen manage to catch that many fish? It should have been impossible.
Meanwhile the rest of the Gophers walked up to Owen and voiced their compliments to him getting them a good amount of food with Izzy quickly taking one. "Oh, I love fish! I love fish!" Izzy then sank her teeth into the raw fish making everyone watching gasp and cringe in disgust. Izzy quickly realized this and took her teeth off the fish. "I… I guess we should cook it first."
"How do you know how to fish?" Heather demanded to know how Owen was able to catch that mighty haul of aquatic creatures.
"My grandpa taught me." Owen told everyone before turning around and bending. "I caught a shark once; it bit me in the butt. Check it out."
Owen then pulled down his pants to reveal said scar making most of the Gophers back away in disgust. All expect Izzy who stared right at it. "That is so awesome!"
THAT NIGHT
"Well, at least I know how to drive, you…you have-to-walk girl." Night had fallen on the island. Despite literal hours of searching, Katie and Sadie were still unable to find their team and the two had continued to argue over trivial matters. "Now who's smarter?"
"Trip to the beach last year ring a bell?" Sadie brought up to Katie.
"Oh, I can't believe you're bringing that up." Katie rolled her eyes in response. She couldn't begin to count the times Sadie had brought that incident up. It seemed Katie would never be allowed to live that down. "I did have a totally fetch bikini on that day, though. Ha."
"You drove my mom's car into a snack shack!" Sadie glared right into the taller girls' eyes.
"It was totally in my blind spot!" Katie crossed her arms and looked away from Sadie. "Whatever! If it wasn't for me, you'd be riding the bus to the mall!"
"Well, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't be able to find your way to the mall!" Sadie yelled back at Katie.
"Oh, I know my way to the mall!" Katie claimed as she got right into Sadie's face.
"You lean on me!" Sadie stated as she wasn't pushed back by Katie at all and kept up the argument. "If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't even be on this show!"
Katie gasped before growling at Sadie. "You're just saying that because I'm prettier than you are!"
It was Sadie's turned to gasp as a couple of squirrels started laughing at the two. "I knew you thought that!"
"It's true." Katie simply said with closed eyes and crossed arms. "Everybody thinks so."
CONFESSIONAL – KATIE AND SADIE
"Sadie's like the prettiest girl I know." Katie claimed as she pointed at Sadie next to her.
"Aww, well you're the prettiest girl I know." Sadie said back to her best friend.
"We are really pretty, aren't we?" Katie smiled as she and Sadie giggled.
"Don't you love that we can say that to each other and not feel totally conceited?" Sadie eagerly asked her best friend.
"I love that about us!" Katie happily said.
"Me too!" Sadie let out an excited gasp.
"That's it!" Sadie angrily yelled as she started walking away from Katie. "When we get back to camp, we are so splitting up as BFFFLs!"
"Fine!" Katie yelled back as she started walking forward.
"DOUBLE FINE!" Sadie yelled in retaliation.
KILLER BASS
"Dude, what did you say to her again?" Duncan asked Geoff with an amused grin as Geoff sighed a bit in embarrassment. Currently the Killer Bass were now sitting around the camp fire waiting for DJ and Lincoln to return with food. Geoff and Duncan were sitting a bit away from everyone so the two could talk with Dawn meditating, and also have set up her completed tarp over the tent, and Courtney trying to calm down a freaked out looking Bridgette. Meanwhile Eva deciding to simply use a log as a dumbbell to work out and Harold was looking over the tent and making sure to was staked down properly.
"I said…wow you pitch a tent like a guy…" And currently Geoff was explaining to Duncan how hard he failed to flirt with Bridgette earlier. This caused Duncan to use every once of willpower he had to not burst out laughing and alert every one of their conversation. "Is it that bad?"
"Dude, I don't think any guy has struck out harder than that before." Duncan shook his head at Geoff who simply slumped down in response. "You really need to sharpen up on your lady skills my friend." Just then Duncan and Geoff's stomachs growled reminding them of their hunger. "But ya can't do that on an empty stomach. Hey woman!" Duncan got the attention of Courtney who proceeded to quickly glare at him. "What's for dinner? I'm starving over here."
"I hope you don't expect me to dignify that with a response." Courtney said to the delinquent right as the bush nearby rustled a bit, making Bridgette flinch in fright a little bit.
"Hey guys." Luckily the one coming out of the bush made the surfer girl calm down as the Bass all saw it was the gentle giant DJ coming back to camp while holding a rabbit. "Look what I found." DJ then gently patted the rabbit's back making It cough.
"Well, I've never had rabbit stew before, but what the heck?" Duncan said as he and a few others walked up to DJ, expecting the rabbit to be their dinner for the night. "I'm game."
Dawn gasped in worry, but luckily DJ pulled the rabbit away from everyone. "This is my new pet!" DJ told everyone as he held the rabbit closer to him. "I'm callin' him Bunny!"
"You mean you couldn't find any food?" DJ shook his head in response to Courtney's question making the CIT sigh. "What about Lincoln? Where's he?"
"Don't know said we should split up." DJ explained as Dawn closed her eyes and seemingly focused on the area around them without using her eyes. "Cover more ground that way."
"Wait…he's approaching. I sense him." Dawn informed everyone as they all turned to Dawn who had raised her hand. Just then Dawn's eyes snapped open as she smiled and pointed south west. "That way!"
Everyone was silent and looked where Dawn pointed. After a moment or two of complete silence, everyone was beginning to think that Dawn was wrong…until. "Hey guys sorry I'm late." Everyones head snapped back to where Dawn was pointing and saw none other then Lincoln coming back to camp. "Just making sure that everyone has enough to eat."
When Lincoln fully came into view, everyone gasped as they saw that he had with him. In one of Lincoln's hands was a sack containing many different kinds of berries, cherries, and some other fruits. And in Lincoln's other hand, similar to what Owen had for the Gophers, was a whole bunch of fish. "Oh wow!" Geoff let out as everyone ran to Lincoln. "Dude that's freakin awesome! How'd you get this much stuff man?"
"It was pretty easy actually." Lincoln explained as he set the sack of fruit down allowing everyone to take and munch on them. "All I needed to do was find a river. After that it was a simple matter of tracking down various berry bushes and some trees that prefer to be near an aquatic environment. And river also means fish and there were a ton there today."
"Huh, not bad there snowball." Duncan said as he took a fish. "Looks like tonight we feast like kings."
"Well at least someone is useful." Courtney have a light glare to Duncan before popping a few blueberries into her mouth. "How'd you learn how to do all this Lincoln?"
"Like I told you. I watched a lot of survival shows. Also read a lot of survival stuff. I own all of Rip Hardcores books and read them cover to cover." Lincoln told everyone as Duncan and Geoff began to set up something over the fire to roast the fish on. "I was always into that stuff even before me and Clyde's experience. Never know when you gonna need these skills after all."
"Nice work dude!" DJ complimented as he slapped Lincoln on the back. He slapped a little too hard causing Lincoln to tumble forward and knock some of the wind out of him. "Now come on, lets eat. Bunny's hungry."
Lincoln couldn't help but smile as everyone enjoyed the fruits, literally in Dawn and Bridgette's case as they only ate the fruits he gathered, of his labor.
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"Huh, didn't realize how much my skills would actually come in handy for the team." Lincoln scratched the back of his head with a small smile on his face. "It was kinda nice to actually show off a little and get food for everyone. Maybe coming here was a good idea after all I've actually been feeling kinda…good lately."
"Hmmmm, these berries are simply delicious." Dawn complimented as she and Lincoln sit next to each other with Dawn tossing a few raspberries into her mouth. "Mother nature's candies and nourishment. It doesn't get much better than this."
"Glad you like them!" Lincoln said, not noticing his cheeks turning pink at Dawn's compliment. "Just hoped I gathered enough for everyone."
"It's fine Lincoln." Dawn reassured the white-haired boy. Dawn then looked to the fire and frowned a bit at seeing some of the fish roasting above it with Duncan and Geoff already chowing down on some. "Those poor fish though…"
Lincoln flinched a bit at hearing Dawn's tone about the fish he caught being roasted and eaten. "S-S-S-Sorry Dawn…" Lincoln apologized as he slumped down a bit. "I…know you're against the whole eating animals thing, sorry if I-"
"No! No! No! Lincoln, its…it's fine, really." Dawn quickly apologized, upset that she had accidently hurt Lincoln's feelings a bit and quickly wanted to reverse that. "I realize that some people prefer to eat…meat. Its ok. In a way its just nature. Animals eat animals all the time."
"Are you sure?" Lincoln asked as Dawn quickly put a hand to his shoulder.
"Yes Lincoln, its fine." The mysterious girl reassured Lincoln before grabbing some more fruit. "Lets just enjoy the food and get some rest."
"Yeah…sounds good." Lincoln smiled back at Dawn and everything seemed ok again as Lincoln asked. "What's with the tarp by the way?"
"I built that." Dawn explained to Lincoln. "It's going to rain soon tonight."
"Hmmmm…" Lincoln hummed and looked up at the night sky. Despite the hours that have passed, hardly a cloud in sight. But Lincoln simply chose to shrug and say. "Well I'll take your word for it." Dawn smiled at Lincoln's trust in her as Duncan pointed something out.
"Has anyone seen Tweedledumb and Tweedleidiot?"
KATIE AND SADIE
"Katie, look. It's the tree with the fork in it." Sadie pointed out with a smile as she looked at a fork that was currently stabbed into a tree. "That's good, right?!"
"No. It's not good." Katie said with a frown as she's remembered seeing that tree before. "It's the same tree we saw two hours ago! we just walked in a gigantic circle!"
"HOOT! HOOT!"
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Both Katie and Sadie screamed in absolute terror at hearing the sound of an owl hooting. The two girls ended up running into a cave and hugged each other for comfort.
"We'll be safe here until morning." Katie said as she and Sadie shook violently.
However, a bat screeching made them doubt that as they clung onto each other tighter. "We're going to die here. We're going to die here."
SCREAMING GOPHERS
"Okay. Fire's hot. Fish are grilling. Tent is tenting." Owen listed off the things going on in their campsite with all the Gophers looking pretty relaxed right now. All except Izzy who wasn't even with the group right now.
"Nice goin', man." Trent complimented the big guy. "Fish looks awesome."
"Thanks, man. I owe it all to grandpa." Owen said as he recounted all the times he and his grandpa went camping, fishing, or hunting together.
"So, you and your grandpa actually fought a bear once?" Trent asked pretty curious about that story.
"Heck yes, it was the scariest day of my life." Owen said as he proceeded to tell his teammates the story. "We were out in the woods when we came upon the great beast. I tell you; he was ten feet high if he was a foot! And then he roared his terrible roar! [imitates roar] We grabbed our shotgun. We knew it was either him or us. It was nothing personal, just the law of the wild. And then, bam! One shot was all it took to fell the great beast. We took his blood and marked ourselves to honor him. It was a good death."
"Yeah right." Heather rolled her eyes, not believing Owen for even a second. "There's no way you took down a ten-foot bear." Heather then looked around and noticed a distinct lack of a certain orange haired girl. "Hey, has anyone seen crazy girl?"
"I think she had to pee." Lindsay said as she remembered Izzy saying she had to use the bathroom…quite a while ago.
"That was over an hour ago!" Trent immediately stood up with a concerned expression as he called out to their missing teammate. "Izzy! Izzy?!"
"Izzy the Gopher, where are you?!" Owen called out loudly to the orange haired girl. Just then a bush started shaking causing everyone to relax. "Hehe, good. We thought we lost you there for a minute-" But everyone gasped in fear as they all saw what emerged from the bush. It certainly wasn't there missing teammate but a big brown growling bear. "Great Pyramid of Giza!" Owen started running around in a panic as the rest of the Gophers backed away in fear with Cody even peeing his pants. "We're all going to die! We're gonna get eaten alive by a bear! Oh, the horror! Somebody help us! I want my mommy!"
At this point Heather got annoyed by Owen's screaming and tripped the big guy before pointing at the tall tree nearby. "The trees! Climb into the trees!" All the Gophers were quick to do so before the bear got to them.
KILLER BASS
Currently, with bellies full of fish and berries, the Killer Bass were simply passing the time by sitting around the fire.
"HOOT! HOOT!"
Bridgette flinched and breathed heavily for a bit in response to the owl. DJ, with Bunny in his arms, was quick to reassure the girl and calm her down. "Be cool." DJ said to the surfer girl in a calm tone. "It's just an owl."
"Sorry." Bridgette apologized as she rubbed her arm. "I just get really freaked out in the forest."
"This reminds me of this really scary story I heard once." Duncan said, getting everyones attention.
"Awesome." Geoff said, already wanting to hear this story. "Tell it man."
"Are you sure?" Duncan asked with a bit of a smirk. "Because the story I'm thinking of is pretty hardcore."
"Ooh, we're so scared." Courtney sarcastically said with the roll of her eyes.
"Alright." Duncan simply shrugged. "But don't say I didn't warn you. One night, a lot like this one…" And so Duncan got to telling his story. And what a story it was as soon enough a majority of the Bass team was shaking in their boots with the only exception being Dawn who remained calm like always.
"So suddenly…they-they heard this tap-tap-tapping on the side of the car." Duncan continued to tell his story, enjoying the looks of fear on most of his teams faces. "The girl started to freak out, and by this time, even the guy was getting a bit scared. So he turned the car on and he stepped on it. When they got back to the girl's house, she opened the door and screamed! Because there, hanging from the door handle…was the bloody hook. They say that this killer is still alive, wandering these very woods. He could be just about anywhere, really. Maybe even right here!" Duncan then suddenly pulled out a meat hook attached to his hand causing everyone, sans Dawn, to scream loudly with a majority of the team hiding behind DJ.
All exception Lincoln who ended up jumping into the arms of the person next to him. "There, there, everything's all right." Lincoln slowly looked to see he was in Dawn's arms with the light blond girl lightly patting his head and rocking him a bit. "Don't be afraid." Lincoln's face exploded in red, not noticing Harold and DJ sending him thumbs up, as he slowly got off Dawn and simply sat next to her. All the while Dawn blushed a bit herself and silently giggled.
"Muahahahahaha!" Duncan laughed evilly as he put a hand to his head in response to everyones fearful reactions.
"Duncan!" Courtney yelled as she walked up to the delinquent. "That was so not funny!"
"Oh, yes it was! I just wish it was all on camera!" Duncan laughed before pointing to the camera recording them. "Oh wait, it is!"
"You are so vile." Courtney glared hard at the delinquent. "Do your parents even like you?"
"I don't know, Jumpy McChicken." Duncan answered with a smirk. "I haven't asked them lately." Just then a wolf howling could be heard making Courtney flinch in fear and end up leaning into Duncan who took the frightened girl into his arms. Duncan smirked and looked to Geoff who gave him a thumbs up.
SCREAMING GOPHERS
It was safe to say that the Bass were doing better then the Gophers. At worst, the Bass had to deal with Duncan's scary stories. But currently the Gophers were dealing with an actual bear as it ended up chasing the whole team up a tree. "So what do we do now?" Trent asked while sharing a branch with Gwen and Heather.
"Don't look at me." Heather told Trent.
"It was your idea to climb the trees." Gwen stated as it was Heathers fault they were in the position they were in now.
"Well, why don't you ask the bear hunting expert?" Heather yelled as she looked up to the person who claimed to have killed a bear far bigger than the one terrorizing them right now. "Hey Owen, what now?"
"How should I know?!" Owen yelled while clinging onto the tree for dear life.
"Dude, you said you killed a bear!" Leshawna pointed out Owens story of him and his grandpa killing a bear once.
"I was being theatrical!" Owen stated.
"This is all your fault!" Heather yelled harshly at Owen while glaring at the big guy. "If you hadn't been growling like that, we never would've attracted him to our site!"
"Excuse me for living!" Owen cried as he started to bang his head against the tree.
"Hey, hey, hey. Ease up on the guy." Trent tried to get everyone to both calm down and stop yelling at Owen. "He did bring us all that fish."
As if one que, the bear invading their campsite started sniffing at the cooking fish. "Hey! Lay off our fish!" Heather yelled at the bear that was still eyeing her teams' fish.
"It's probably already eaten, Izzy!" Lindsay cried out as she held on tight to the tree.
"Then it shouldn't be hungry anymore!" Heather claimed causing everyone in her team to gasp and look at her in shock. "What? This is survival of the fittest. She should've just peed in her pants like Cody."
As Cody looked down in shame, the branch Leshawna was on suddenly snapped causing her to scream as she fell to the ground…where the bear was. The bear growled as it inched closer to Leshawna with the girl backing away slowly as her teammates gasped. "Dear Abby, she's going to die!" Owen yelled as they watched Leshawna be backed into the tree, completely cornered.
"Eh, nice bear." Leshawna squeaked out fearfully as the bear stood up and growled viciously. Leshawna then proceeded to scream loudly. "Somebody help me!"
As her teammates told her various things to do in order to avoid the bear…the bear proceeded to smile and. "Hehe, hey are you ok?"
All of the Screaming Gophers went silent. All their fear replaced with confusion as Leshawna pointed out. "Uh, did that bear just ask me a question?" The Gophers looked down in confusion…until a few gasped as they recognized the voice the 'bear' just spoke with.
Everyone watched in surprised as the 'bear' reached for its head…and pulled it off. It turned out, the bear was simply Izzy herself in a bear costume.
"Oh my goodness, I did not see that coming!" Owen laughed as he slid down the tree. He's never been happier to see Izzy before.
"Okay, I'm so confused right now." Lindsay said as she and everyone else made their way out of the tree.
"What are you some kind of freak?" Gwen asked as she glared at Izzy.
"I thought it would be funny!" Izzy laughed.
CONFESSIONAL – IZZY
"Okay, okay, that was so funny." Izzy stated while still wearing her bear suit. "Like 'Oh, it's a bear! Oh no!' and like 'We're all gonna die now! Help! Help!' Hahahaha! And I'm like 'Rah! I'm gonna eat you!' Ahahahaha! Like I could actually do that! There's no way, okay?"
KILLER BASS
A little after Duncan's scary story, the Killer Bass were all now huddled into the tent. However, many of them were having difficulty falling asleep. The only ones who actually seemed to have no issues with the current conditions they were in were Lincoln, Dawn, and Duncan who had their eyes shut and breathed calmly in their sleep.
Bridgette however was far from having a good time as she constantly fidgeted in her sleep. "What's wrong?" DJ asked the surfer girl as he felt her constantly shifting around. "Gotta go pee?"
"Like crazy." Bridgette nodded as she looked out at the tent to the dark of the night. Dawn had been the one to put the fire out and took the proper precautions to where no forest fires could happen. "But I'm too scared to leave the tent."
"Yeah, me too." DJ said as he held up a jar containing his own pee.
Now…not exactly wanting to resort to that option, Bridgette womaned up and headed outside the tent. She was nervous…but she really needed to go. Narrowing her eyes to see better, the surfer girl looked and saw a bush only a few feet away. So gathering up all the courage she could, Bridgette carefully stepped towards the bush. But when she got there…
Rustle!
Bridgette flinched and fell to her butt. The bush in front of her shook rather violent. And the rustling only continued causing Bridgette to back up and, "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Everyone was quick to run out of the tent as they saw Bridgette backing away from a violently shaking bush. "IT'S A BEAR! IT'S A BEAR! IT'S A BEAR!"
Nearly everyone flinched as the creature in the bush got closer and closer as shown by the rustling intensifying. Everyone got ready to either run for their lives or fight the bear when-
"Brbrbrbrbrbr!" A motorboat sound caught everyone off guard as they all looked to the bush and saw…a platypus coming out.
"Uuuuum, is it just me or is that a platypus?" Courtney asked as Lincoln and Dawn's eyes widened as they looked to see the creature for themselves.
"Wait a minute…" Everyone watched as the Platypus waddled past Bridgette and over to Lincoln with it putting one of its feet on Lincoln's shoe. Lincoln chuckled a bit as he crouched down and petted the mammals head. "Hey there little buddy, I remember you what are you doing out here?"
"You know this freak of nature?" Duncan asked with a raised brow. "Didn't know you liked to hang around toxic waste exposed animals."
Lincoln and Dawn gave Duncan a brief glare as Harold spoke up. "It's not mutated Duncan, it's a platypus." The ginger pointed out as Lincoln and Dawn leaned down to the semi-aquatic mammal. "Platypi have adapted and developed traits similar to multiple animals in order to survive in the harsh environment of Australia. They're also one of few mammals to lay eggs."
"Then whats the little dude doin out here?" Geoff asked with a confused look.
"We don't know. But we have encountered this beautiful little creature before." Dawn cooed as she scratched under the platypus's bill. "We saw the poor thing trapped in a trash bag on the lake so Lincoln saved him."
"Well couldn't just let the little guy drown out there." Lincoln told everyone as he continued petting the Platypus. "But what are you doing here bud? Wouldn't you rather be at the lake."
"Brbrbrbrbrbr." The platypus said in response.
"Aaaaaaaawwww." Dawn gushed. "That is just precious."
"What?" DJ asked in a confused tone. "What'd he say?"
"He said he wanted to meet up with Lincoln again." Dawn told everyone making all eyes go to the Loud boy. "He was so grateful for you saving him and wants to hang out with you more."
"Huh, is that right buddy?" Lincoln asked as he scratched the Platypus's head causing it to make a strange purring-like sound. While Lincoln couldn't understand animals like Dawn could, he felt like he knew what response the platypus made. "Well alright then." Lincoln then proceeded to pick up the Platypus and headed towards the tent. "Make room everyone, we're sleeping with a platypus tonight."
"We're seriously gonna let that thing sleep with us?" Courtney asked as everyone else headed to the tent. But no one really responded to Courtney as they headed to the tent, except for Bridgette who still had to pee, leaving Courtney to sigh. "Fine." And with that, Courtney headed to the tent to hopefully get some shut eye.
But before she got there…
Drip.
Courtney stopped as she felt a drop of water hit her head and looked up…right when a downpour started. All the Killer Bass looked out at the rain in surprise as Courtney quickly headed back into the tent. "But-there was-how did-rain…" Courtney then looked to Dawn who had her usual calm smile on her face. She…predicted the rain.
"Dawn." Lincoln said with the Platypus on his lap. "You are awesome." Dawn blushed a little at the compliment. And it didn't hurt that her tarp was successfully keeping the tent dry.
CONFESSFIONAL - DAWN
"I owe it all to the tea leaves." Dawn said as she held up a tea leaf for the camera. "I read them every morning and they inform me of future events that I should be aware about. It was actually due to them that I learned about this show."
"Aaaaaah…" Lincoln sighed in content as he and Dawn laid down next to each other with the Platypus on Lincoln's chest. "Wonder how the Gophers are doing right now."
SCREAMING GOPHERS
To answer Lincoln's question…not good.
After Izzy's like joke the Gophers proceeded to start eating their fish…only for a real bear to show up. One thing led to another, Owen ended up ripping a bit of the bears fur off, and now the Gophers were once again up in a tree with rain pouring down on them, and a big ol bear waiting down below.
MORNING
Courtney was sleeping soundly in the tent. She actually had a pretty good sleep overall. Especially thanks to the rather comfortable pillow she was laying on. "Morning, sunshine." Courtney's eyes snapped opened as she looked and saw that the 'pillow' she was laying on was Duncan's chest.
"Oh my gosh! Ew!" Courtney let out as she stood up in the tent with her and Duncan being the only ones in there. "You were cuddling me!"
"I was calmly lying on my back and trying to catch a few Z's." Duncan stated with a smirk on his face as he left the tent and saw the rest of his team cleaning up the area and taking down their campsite. "You were snuggling up to me."
"You are such an ogre." Courtney insulted the delinquent as she left the town.
"I've been called worse." Duncan shrugged making Courtney growl.
CONFESSIONAL – COURTNEY
"Okay, I just wanna say for the record, that I was totally asleep and therefore, unconscious at the time of the "alleged cuddling" with said Neanderthal." Courtney quickly denied her cuddling with Duncan. "So essentially, it's like it never happened."
SCREAMING GOPHERS
With the Screaming Gophers, they were in better shape then they could have been. Due to the bear, which was gone thankfully, they all ended up sleeping in the tree they were using to escape the bear and that left them with aching backs. "Oh! I think it's safe, guys. The bear's gone." Trent told everyone after cracking his back.
"And the map." Gwen said as she held up a completely soaked map.
"Kay, I don't know how raccoons sleep in trees, because I'm so stiff." Izzy, still wearing her bear costume, said while cracking her back.
"They must be really limber." Owen guessed as he stretched out as much as he could.
"You know what, crazy girl? I don't wanna hear another word from you or the bear hunter here." Heather yelled as she glared at both Izzy and Owen. "If you two hadn't been acting like bear bait all night, we could have actually slept in our tent!"
Just then a bird flew by them tweeting leading to Owen, Izzy, and Heather all yelling. "SHUT UP!" At the poor bird.
And so once the campers on both team took down their sites, the race was on. Both the Killer Bass and Screaming Gophers headed back to Wawanakwa as fast they could so they could be the first ones and win the challenge. With Lincoln having the Platypus riding on top of his head.
Chris was seen putting wood into the fire pit for the elimination ceremony that would be taking place that night. Just then the host heard some voices and looked to see none other then the Killer Bass coming to him first with the addition of a Platypus…and the subtraction of Katie and Sadie. "We're the first ones back!" Courtney cheered as Lincoln smiled widely as he took the Platypus on his head into his hands.
Just then the Screaming Gophers appeared and gasped when they saw the Bass already there. "Oh no! They beat us here!" Heather raged at losing four times in a row! She then turned to glare at Owen and pushed him down. "This is all your fault!"
"Uh uh uh uh. Not so fast, Gopherinos!" Chris spoke up causing everyone to look at him with a confused look. "It seems that the Killer Bass are missing a few fish. And you can't just replace them with a Platypus Lincoln."
"Brbrbrbr." The platypus let out in response.
"Oh, you mean Katie and Sadie?" Courtney asked as she looked around and, sure enough, the best friends still weren't with them. "I'm pretty sure they got eaten by wolves last night."
"Darn shame." Duncan shook his head, not really upset about them being lost one bit.
But then everyone heard two more sets of foot steps coming towards them and looked to see the best friends themselves Katie and Sadie coming into camp. "We made it!" Katie said with massive amounts of relief.
"We're safe!" Sadie smiled as she and her best friend narrowly avoiding a bear with torn out fur on its head as it turned out the cave they were sheltered in was its cave. Sadie then looked to the Killer Bass and started explaining what exactly happened to them. "Oh my gosh, guys! We got totally lost and then got in this massive fight!"
"And there was this huge bear, and he was all 'Rahhhh! You're in my crib, so get out!" Katie continued.
"And we had to run, and it was like, so scary!" Sadie finished the story as Katie turned to her best friend.
"Oh, Sadie, I'm so sorry I said I was prettier than you." Katie sincerely apologized to her best friend.
"And I'm so sorry I brought up the snack shack." Sadie also gave her own apology.
"And I'm sorry I said your butt was too big to fit in the bus seats." Katie gave another apology with Sadie becoming confused with this one.
"You did?" Sadie asked as she didn't recall Katie saying that last night.
"Um…well…not to your face." Katie sheepish admitted.
"Oh who cares." Sadie shrugged it off and she and Katie hugged. "And you're my best friend and I love you!"
"Oh, I love you too!" Katie and Sadie hugged harder as a sound of a throat loudly clearing got their attention.
"You two finished your little love-fest?" Courtney asked, being the one to get the girls attention. Sadie and Katie nodded their heads. "Good…because thanks to you, we just lost the challenge!" The best friends flinched as Courtney glared and yelled at them.
"All right, Killer Bass. One of your fishy butts is going home." Chris declared the Killer Bass the losers of the challenge before pointing to the Gophers. "Gophers, congrats on breaking your losing streak. And to celebrate, you're going on an all-expense paid trip to…the Tuck Shop!"
All the Screaming Gophers proceeded to cheer in response as all the Killer Bass started to glare at Katie and Sadie. Eva was about to stomp over to them only for DJ and Geoff to hold her back.
"Brbrbrbrbr!" The Platypus let out towards Katie and Sadie.
"Yeah." Courtney narrowed her eyes at the two girls. "What the Platypus said."
THAT NIGHT
And so began the fifth dramatic elimination ceremony. The Killer Bass's first one since the very first one. The winning streak was nice while it lasted. "You've all cast your votes." Chris said as he held up a plate containing only 10 marshmallows with there being 11 Killer Bass. "The camper who does not recieve a marshmallow must immediately hit The Dock of Shame, grab the Boat of Losers, and get the heck outta here. And you can't come back. Ever. Now. I can see you're all tired, so tonight, I'll just throw them to you. Savvy?" Everyone was rather relived to not have to get up as Chris started tossing Marshmallows. "Lincoln, Courtney, Duncan, Bridgette." Chris threw the first four marshmallows with Courtney glaring at Duncan as he showed off his marshmallow to her. "DJ, Eva, Harold, Dawn, Geoff."
That left one marshmallow and two contestants. Katie and Sadie. The best friends hugged each other. Only one of them would get to stay. They would be forced to separate. "Sadie." And so Chris threw the last marshmallow to Sadie with the girl not catching it and continued to cling onto Katie, who would be leaving for home.
"No! Why Katie? Why her?!" Sadie yelled out as tears started to build up in her eyes.
"It's so unfair!" Katie sadly yelled, not wanting to be separated from Sadie.
"I so can't do this!" Sadie shook her head as she wished there was some way to avoid this. "I've never been anywhere without Katie! We have to be together or I'll totally die!"
"Sadie, listen to me." Katie said as she grabbed Sadie's face and looked her best friend in the eye. "You can do this. You are strong and beautiful, and like, maybe even smarter than me. And plus, you're like, the funnest girl I know. You have to do it for both of us!"
Sadie cried a bit, but nodded as she took her best friends' hand and was ready to take her friend over to the Boat of Losers. And after that, Sadie would be left to fend for herself on Total Drama Island. "I know they cost us the challenge and all, but I can't help but feel bad for them." Lincoln said as he couldn't help but think about how Clyde was doing back home. There was no signal out here so he couldn't call or text his friends and family and could only wonder what they were up to back home.
"Brbrbrbrbr."
"What the…" Lincoln looked next to the stump and saw that the Platypus had once again followed him despite Lincoln putting back in the lake earlier that day. "Hehe, what the heck dude. Don't you have nature to go back to or something?"
"Brbrbrbr." The Platypus let out as it jumped onto Lincoln's lap.
"Aaaawww, that's just adorable." Dawn gushed as she sent the two a sweet smile. "He wants to stay with you!"
"Huh, really?" Lincoln asked as he watched the Platypus settle down on his lap. "Heheh, well if you wanna stay with me that bad, then alright bud. Hmmm, now if you're gonna be staying with me what should I call you?"
"Brbrb." The platypus told Lincoln.
"He says his name is Edward." Dawn said as she moved over to Lincoln and Edward and starting petting the latter.
"Well if that's the case…" Lincoln began saying as he put a soft hand on Edwards back. "Welcome to the Killer Bass Edward the Platypus."
And with that, another episode of Total Drama Island came to an end.