Last time on Total Drama Island... The competitors were forced to conquer their deepest, darkest fears. Not all of them succeeded, but others surprised the group and faced their fears head-on. In a shocking twist, it was CIT Courtney who refused to face her fear, green jelly of all things, and let her team down. But thanks to Heather making some comments about the make over Chef gave Eva, the strong woman had to say goodbye to the island. So now the teams are even 9 members each. Which team will end up going lower? Find out today on Total. Drama. Island!"
A whistle could be heard from the boy's side of the Killer Bass cabin. Currently the only one who was there was Lincoln was putting on his deodorant. All the other guys were currently at the showers with Lincoln having already took his shower due to him just waking up earlier then everyone else.
The white head whistled a rather happy tune as he applied his hygiene product to his armpits. Once he was done, he took a quick sniff of his pits and sighed happily in satisfaction once he determined they were smelling nice and fresh. "All clean and ready for the day!" Lincoln smiled at his reflection in the broken mirror in the cabin before turning to his bed. "What about you buddy? You ready?"
On Lincoln's bed was his pet platypus Edward. The platypus has been swapping between sleeping in Lincoln's bed and Dawn's bed the past three days and the little egg laying mammal was doing pretty well with the Bass. Some liked to interact with the platypus such as DJ and Bridgette and others like Duncan and Courtney couldn't really be bothered by him and just chose to not really do anything about it. "Brbrbrbr!" The platypus let out as it jumped off the upper bunk bed with Lincoln catching him and placing him on the floor.
"Great to hear it Edward!" Lincoln said rather enthusiastically as he gave the platypus a quick scratch on the head. "Just gotta get a shirt on and I'll be ready for whatever challenge Chris has in store!"
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"Ok, so I know we lost the last two challenges…but I'm actually feeling really good about this!" Lincoln gave a determined grin to the camera while crossing his arms. "I feel like I've really been contributing to the team and I wanna do whatever I can to help us win this one! Plus I made some awesome friends! DJ is kinda feeling like the brother I never had, Harold is pretty cool to hang out with, Bridgette and I have been having a ton of fun with our surfing and drawing lessons, Edward's a pet I never knew I wanted till I got him, and then there's Dawn…" Lincoln couldn't help but let out a bit of a dreamy sigh after mentioning her. "She's just…awesome! That's the best way I can describe her. She's mysterious, I'm convinced she's magic, caring, sweet, always there to listen…really cute." Lincoln began to stare into space but once he said that last part his eyes widened as he slowly looked at the camera again. "…Did I just say that out loud?"
"AAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Lincoln jumped in surprised, dropping the shirt he was about to put on, as he heard a scream coming from the girl's side of the cabin. Lincoln was quick to leave the boys side cabin, while still shirtless, and ran towards the girl's side of the Bass cabin where he saw Bridgette recoiling away from her bed which seemed to have something on it.
"Bridgette, I heard you scream!" Lincoln ran up to the girl with a concerned expression on his face. "What's wrong?"
"Sorry…sorry." Bridgette apologized as she breathed a bit. "It's just…that is so bad."
"What is?" Lincoln looked to Bridgette pointing at the pink object on her bed. Lincoln walked up to it and picked it up…and probably cringed harder than he ever has before in his life. It seemed to be one of those containers you put change into in the shape of a heart with macaroni glued to the sides…and on the bottom of it was a picture of Geoff and DJ with DJ ripped out of the photo and replace with another photo of Bridgette making it look like a picture of Geoff and Bridgette standing next to each other…with some of DJ still remaining on Geoff's side of the photo. "Yikes…yeah that is scream worthy."
"It was just waiting for me when I came back from the bathroom." Bridgette explained as Lincoln turned it around and only cringed more. "Definitely not something I expected to say the absolute least."
"I hope you think of me every time you drop loose change into this. Geoff." Lincoln read what was inscribed on the back of the coin case with the white head hearing Bridgette gag in response. "Wow, I'll admit I'm no good at flirting but this…this is something else."
"I…really have no idea what to say about this…" Bridgette said out as she rubbed her temples a little bit. "Just, put it under the bed. I'll decide what to do with it later." Lincoln obliged as he slid Geoff's little present under Bridgette's bed.
"Well…it's the thought that counts right?" Lincoln sheepishly said as he scratched the back of his head. Bridgette blinked at him a few times with an unamused expression on her face leaving Lincoln to sigh a little bit. "Okay yeah it's just bad. I like Geoff and all but…I can't believe that's what he made in Arts N Crafts yesterday. I was even sitting next to him!"
"Let's just hope the challenge today helps us both forget about it." Bridgette said as she put her hands in her hoodie pockets with Lincoln nodding in agreement. But just then the surfer girl finally took notice of Lincoln's shirtless body and couldn't help but stare a bit. "Woah…"
"What?" Lincoln questioned before he saw Bridgette starring at his body and quickly tried to cover it with his arms. "Oh crap I'm sorry! I was about to put on a shirt but then I heard you scream and thought your safety was more important than a shirt."
"Well I…appreciate the gesture." Bridgette chuckled a bit in response getting a small embarrassed blush from Lincoln. "But maybe you should…"
"Right, right, I'll get dressed." Lincoln then quickly started heading out of the girl's side of the cabin. "See you at the challenge Bridgette!" Bridgette simply giggled again and waved bye to Lincoln.
LATER THAT DAY
It was now challenge time. All of the Killer Bass and Screaming Gophers, except weirdly enough Beth, were gathered at the beach with Chris in front of them. On the beach were a number of canoes with half of them Gopher green and the other Bass red. "Bass, Gophers, today's challenge is a true summer camp experience." Chris began explaining the challenge of the day to everyone. "A canoe trip. You'll be paddling your canoes across the lake to…Boney Island!" Chris spoke about this in a spooky tone getting many of the campers to raise an eyebrow. "When you get there, you must portage your canoes to the other side of the island, which is about a two-hour hike through treacherous, dense jungle."
"We gotta pour what?" Geoff asked, confused to what Chris told them to do with their canoe's.
"Portage." Chris corrected with Geoff still looking confused due to not knowing what that word meant. "Dude, walk with your canoe." Geoff let out an 'Oooh' as Chris further explained the details of the challenge. "When you arrive at the other end of the island, you'll build a rescue fire that will be judged by me. The first team to paddle home and return their canoes to the beach is the winner of invincibility! Move, campers, move!" The campers were about to head to the canoes on the beach only to be stopped by Chris as he explained one last detail. "Oh, wait! One more thing I should mention. Legend has it, if you take anything off the island, you'll be cursedforever!"
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"Lucy, sorry to say this, but I'm not bringing you back any cursed souvenirs." Lincoln firmly said as he knew that his goth sister would jump at the chance at taking something from Boney Island if she was here.
Suddenly thunder was heard causing nearly all the campers to flinch as Owen laughed. "Yeah, haha! A cursed island! Whoo!" However, no one seemed to share Owen's enthusiasm and simply stared silently at the big guy.
"Now, get in your canoes and let's have some fun!" Chris instructed as the campers actually headed off this time with Owen cheering again.
Just then a toilet flush was heard and suddenly Beth came into the scene and stopped in front of Chris with some toilet paper attached to her shoe. "What'd I miss?" The braces wearing girl quickly asked.
"Canoes." Chris pointed in the direction of the beach with Beth quickly taking off.
CONFESSIONAL – CODY
"Chris told us to pick a paddling partner. It was time for me to make my move." Cody explained as his mind was currently focused on impressing a certain goth girl. "If I could just get Gwen alone for five minutes, I knew I could woo her with my manly charms."
At the beach, campers were quickly pairing up such as Leshawna and Izzy and surprisingly Heather and Owen. Gwen was walking down the stairs to the beach when she stopped to see Trent looking up at her with a smile. The guitarist gestured his eyes to the canoes, silently asking the goth to share a canoe with him. Gwen smiled back and was about to head over to him, "Come on, Gwen!" Only to be stopped by Cody suddenly putting an arm around her shoulder. "You and me, open water! What do you say?" Gwen's response was to put Cody in an armlock with the geek grunting as a cracking sound was heard.
"Trent!" Gwen heard Lindsay's voice speak up and looked to see Beth and Lindsay surrounding Trent and pulling him towards a canoe. "You have to come with us!"
Gwen had to watch Trent get dragged away, with Trent mouthing a sorry to Gwen, leaving the goth to sigh and release Cody. "Fine." Gwen reluctantly said. "But I'm in charge."
"That's the way I like it!" Cody eagerly said as he followed Gwen to the canoe they'd be sharing.
CONFESSIONAL – CODY
"Yes! Yes! Yes! It is so on!" Cody cheered as he celebrated by playing air guitar.
CONFESSIONAL – GWEN
"Cody? He's like an annoying brother. A really annoying little brother." Gwen gave her opinion on Cody before sighing and slumping down. "So much for hooking up with Trent."
"Alright buddy, let's put you somewhere safe for this." Lincoln said to Edward as he proceeded to put the platypus inside his backpack. Putting on the pack, Edward proceeded to stick his head out of it with Lincoln looking back at him. "You good in there buddy."
"Brbrbrbrb." Edward made his traditional sound in response.
However, Bridgette looked at the scene with a rather uncomfortable look. "Okay as cute as Edward looks, I'm not really cool with him being crammed in a backpack." The surfer girl voiced her opinion on Edward getting a ride inside Lincoln's pack.
Before Lincoln could say anything, Dawn suddenly appeared behind both him and Bridgette making the latter jump a bit. "Oh don't worry, he actually likes it." Dawn informed the surfer girl as she patted Edward on the head. "It's comfy, and he gets carried everywhere. He's a bit of a lazybones."
"Brbrbr." Edward let out in response.
"Huh, well ok then." Bridgette simply smiled and shrugged. "I guess if he's cool with it it's fine."
Once Bridgette was gone, Lincoln turned to Dawn and smiled at her. "Hey thanks for that." Lincoln told her getting a small smile and a tiny bit of pink on Dawn's cheeks. Just then Lincoln took his turn to blush as he averted his eyes from Dawn and started scratching the back of his head. "So, um, hey I was wondering if maybe, well, if you just wanted t-to…um…"
Dawn quieted him up by putting a hand on his shoulder and nodding at him. "I'd love to share a canoe with you Lincoln." The nature lover answered Lincoln's unasked question.
"Oh! W-Well great! Awesome let's go!" Lincoln said as a rather big grin came to his face as he, Dawn, and Edward headed over to a red canoe. "Sorry bout the stuttering I just thought you maybe would rather share a canoe with Bridgette or Courtney or someone else."
"Trust me Lincoln." Dawn reassured him as she and Lincoln put on life jackets that were waiting for them in the canoe. "There's no one I'd rather be in a canoe with right now then you." Both Lincoln and Dawn found themselves blushing at this as they simply stood next to their canoe and waited for the signal to start.
CONFESSIONAL – DAWN
"I'm really proud of Lincoln. He's come a long away ever since coming to camp." Dawn happily said with some pink visibly on her cheeks. "His aura is so much brighter and vibrate since day one. He's even gotten some orange in his aura. The good kind he's not suddenly sluggish. And I'll admit, his shyness is really cute." Dawn gushed a bit before realizing what she said and slowly looking to the camera. "…Did I just say that out loud."
With Geoff, he was heading down the stairs and looked to Bridgette with a smile. The party dude had no idea how Bridgette reacted to his little…gift this morning and smiled and waved to her. He was hoping to get her to be his paddle partner and he thought that this would come true as he saw Bridgette supposedly smiling and waving back at him. "Courtney!" Geoff's eyes widened a bit as he saw that it was the CIT herself that Bridgette was waving to. "Be my partner?" Geoff face palmed as Courtney nodded and went over to Bridgette.
CONFESSIONAL – GEOFF
"Man, I thought Bridge and I were tight, but suddenly, I don't know, it's like she's fadin' on me." Geoff said with a sad tone and frown before his mood took a sudden 180. "Nah! It's all good!"
"Hey Geoff, need a partner?" Walking up to Geoff and patting him on the back was DJ who the party dude quickly gave a thumbs up to.
"Excellent!" Geoff eagerly said as he followed DJ to the canoe they'd be sharing. As they went over to their canoe, they passed by Bridgette and Courtney. Geoff looked at the surfer girl only for Bridgette to avert her eyes away from the party dude.
When DJ and Geoff reached their canoe, DJ seemed to be a bit skittish as he tapped the canoe with his foot as Geoff grabbed both the life jackets out of the aquatic vehicle. "Yo, man. Do canoes flip over a lot?" DJ quickly asked as that was something he wanted to know before getting into this thing.
"No, you're thinking kayaks." Geoff told DJ making the brick house breathe a sigh of relief as he caught the life jacket Geoff threw to him. "Unless we hit some rough water."
That quickly made DJ tense up again. "Water can get...rough?" DJ fearfully asked.
"Oh yeah." Geoff spoke as if it wasn't really a big deal as he put on his own jacket. "Sometimes it can get totally radical out there!"
CONFESSIONAL – DJ
"When I was eight, my brothers dared me to jump off the high-dive platform at the pool. I was scared, but I jumped. I wasn't gonna let them call me chicken." DJ started giving the story of why he had a fear of water. "I landed on my butt. Sounds better than a belly flop, right? Wrong. My trunks went so far up my butt, I had to go to the hospital and get them removed. They invited a new word for what I did. The wedgie flop. I've been afraid of water ever since."
DJ held onto the canoe tightly as Geoff brought it into the water. The brickhouse flinched a bit when the canoe shook as Geoff got in. "Dude, relax." Geoff reassured DJ in a calm tone as he handed his friend and oar. "We're gonna be fine."
"If this canoe's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'!" The two watched as the canoe Owen and Heather were in pass by them…only for Heather to get sick of Owen antics and smack the back of his head with an oar. "Ow that smarts!"
Soon enough, everyone was in their canoes and was in either pairs of two or three. Chris was on the beach and aiming a gun into the air. "On your marks…" Chris counted down as he put his thumb on the trigger. "Get set…"
BANG!
"Paddle!" Chris shot his gun to signal the start of the challenge as all the teams quickly started paddling their canoes in the direction Chris instructed. And as they left, a hawk fell to the ground from the air in front of Chris with the host having accidently shot the animal. "...That's gonna get me a lawsuit from every animal rights fanatic's in the country."
Meanwhile Dawn could be heard from the distance shouting. "BIRDIE NO!"
As the teams were paddling, many of them passed the time with conversation. Cody tried, and failed, to hit on Gwen which resulted in on oar to his jewels. Izzy was telling many of her rather...weird stories about her time in the RCMP to Leshawna. And with DJ and Geoff…
"Can I ask you something, dude?" Geoff asked getting the brick house's attention. "I gave Bridgette an awesome gift this morning, but she's been sending me some weird vibes."
"I thought something seemed off between you two." DJ scratched his chin a bit as he couldn't help but notice that there was an odd vibe going on between Bridgette and Geoff. "What'd you give her man?"
"I have her this awesome coin case!" Geoff explained what he thought was an awesome gift for Bridgette. "I used this pic of me and you and did a little editing and got this pic of Bridge. Got it to make it look like I had my arm around her."
DJ's eyes widened…and he quickly figured out why Bridgette was avoiding Geoff like the plague. "You're serious?"
Geoff grinned and nodded his head, feeling rather proud of it. "I made it in arts and crafts."
"No you didn't." DJ immediately said afterward, not believing that his friend could mess up so bad at gesturing. Romantic or otherwise.
"I did. But it gets better." Geoff told DJ, still not reading how DJ was feeling about his gift to Bridgette. "I etched an inscription into the back that said 'I hope you think of me whenever you drop lose change into this." DJ face palmed and sighed at this with Geoff finally taking notice of the vibes DJ was sending out and asked. "Not good?"
"Dang, dude. That is so bad, we need a new word for how bad that is." DJ told Geoff making the party dude slump down a bit. Looks like his gift wasn't as good as he thought it was. Or even half that. "See, datings' like…hmm…" DJ put a hand to his chin as he tried to think of a good example to use to help Geoff out. But just then DJ spotted something in front of them and snapped his fingers. Perfect. "Ok, so this may seem off topic but I'm gonna go somewhere with this. So it's obvious that Lincoln and Dawn got a thing for each other right?"
"Well duh." Geoff said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "I think everyone on the island can see those two making looks at each other."
"Well take a look at em now." Geoff did as DJ told him and saw Lincoln supposedly telling Dawn a joke as the nature lover was soon seen cutely giggling with a small blush on her face with Edward making his usual sound while his head was sticking out of Lincoln's backpack. "See that man? He's just being casual with her. Being friendly with her. Gettin to know her and all that stuff. He's treading slowly and working his way up the tiers into a relationship."
"How many tiers are there?" Geoff asked curiously.
"Just don't do tier 15 man." DJ immediately and firmly told Geoff.
"So what?" Geoff asked as he tried to get exactly what DJ was telling him. "I should like just try and take things slow with Bridgette before I try anything big to show I like her or something?"
"That's how it works." DJ nodded as Geoff put a hand to his chin in thought.
"So in other words…I messed up?" Geoff asked with DJ crossing his arms in response.
"You messed up dude." DJ bluntly said.
In the canoe Cody and Gwen were currently in, Cody had his head down after multiple attempts of asking Gwen out. He knew the reason why, but he still wanted to try. But since he failed, he might as well speak up about it. "I think I know why you keep shooting me down. It's because of Trent, isn't it?" Gwen's eyes widened a bit as Cody kept speaking. "Look. I'm pretty tight with Trent. And I was definitely sensing an 'I'm into Gwen' vibe from him." Gwen harshly narrowed her eyes at her paddle partner, but Cody wasn't taken back by this. "I'll put in a good word for you, you know, if you want."
"Wow." Gwen said in a pleasantly surprised tone. "That's really cool of you."
"Eh, well." Cody shrugged as he tried to play it cool.
"If you can get us in the same boat on the way home, I'll so owe you one." Gwen told Cody as she would be eager to help Cody out with something if it meant she would get some alone time with Trent.
"Interesting that you would say that." Cody began a bit nervously. "See, I'm in a bit of trouble myself."
"What do you mean?" Gwen curiously asked.
"Well, I kind of bet Owen that if I got your bra, he'd do all my dishes for the rest of the competition." This quickly got Gwen to glare at Cody and for her to hit him in the kiwis for the second time today with her oar. "Heh, right. Asking too much…"
"Hehehehe, Lincoln." Dawn giggled after hearing the joke Lincoln just told her. "I can't believe you just said that."
"Hey you're the one laughing at it." Lincoln grinned as they paddled forward. "Didn't take you for an easy laugher."
"Oh shush you." Dawn lightly poked Lincoln with her oar making them both laugh together…until Dawn suddenly gasped with her eyes widening.
"What's wrong?" Lincoln asked, noticing Dawn's change in attitude.
"That island…it's completely covered in darkness." Dawn said in a grim tone as she pointed forward. Lincoln looked forward…and gasped at what he saw. Boney Island. And it wasn't exactly a friendly sight. Eerie fog bordered the island and the rock formations in the front made the part of the island they were paddling to look like there was a giant skull looking down at them. While Lincoln couldn't sense things in the way Dawn could, he could safely say something didn't exactly feel right about this island.
"Well…not exactly an ideal vacation spot." Lincoln tried to joke as he and all the other canoes soon reached the shore of the cursed island.
"Okay. Did you see that skull?" Izzy excitedly said, the only camper not to be frightened by Boney Island one bit. "How cool is that?! It's like this place is haunted or something!"
"Uh, Dawn…" Lincoln asked the aura reader in a bit of a frightened tone. "Is this place haunted?"
"…Do you want an honest answer?" Dawn hesitantly spoke up making Lincoln's eyes widen.
Just then the sounds of some vicious creatures were heard coming from within the jungle of the island making most of the camper's flinch. "Let's just get this over with."
And so both teams quickly got to work. Everyone who shared a canoe picked up the canoe they were sharing and quickly took off into the jungle in the direction Chris pointed out to them on the map this morning. The scenery seemed to only get darker and grimmer as they ran forward. There were skulls all over the place either on the ground or staked on spears. Many trees seemed to be bitten down with the stumps having large teeth marks on them.
"I don't really like the look of this place guys." DJ said in a fearful tone with members from both teams nodding in complete agreement.
Just then, halting the progress of both the Bass and Gophers, was a large tree falling right in front of them. Everyone flinched and looked around to see what caused this and a few spotted shaking bushes and some large glowing eyes peaking out. "I think I saw something." Cody whispered as the shaking bushes got more violent.
Something finally then emerged from the bushes and everyone was treated to what looked like beavers…but were the size of bears and had tusks on them. "Monster…beavers!" Cody yelled as nearly everyone screamed in terror as the monster beavers all looked at them with rather…hungry expressions.
CONFESSIONAL – CHRIS
"A remnant of the Pleistocene Era, the woolly beaver is a day-active rodent indigenous to Boney Island." Chris explained what the deal was with those monster beavers. "Oh yeah, and they're meat eaters."
Luckily for the Bass, it seemed all the woolly beavers had their eyes on the Screaming Gophers as they all screamed and proceeded to run away as fast as they could. "That's good." Courtney whispered to her team with a smile. "With those overgrown rodents focused on the Gophers we can-"
Suddenly more growling got the Bass's attention and they all watched and flinched as more woolly beavers emerged from the bushes and surrounded the Bass. "Or…not…" The CIT squeaked out.
"Any chance someone has a giant toothpick they can munch on?" Harold fearfully gulped. As the prehistoric beavers edged closer to everyone.
"Everyone, remain calm and quiet," Dawn spoke up to everyone as she took her hands off the canoe she and Lincoln were carrying. "Let me speak to them."
Lincoln gulped, but didn't say anything to try and stop Dawn. He's known her long enough to not doubt the mysterious girl. So instead he just gave her a "Be careful."
Dawn nodded at Lincoln's words and slowly approached the beavers who seemed to go on guard as she stepped forward. "Hey, it's ok. We're not here to invade your land, honest." Everyone watched in amazement as Dawn's words actually seemed to calm the woolly beavers down a bit as they all went from looking at Dawn like food to looking at her with a curious look. "We're just trying to reach the end of the island. We're deeply sorry for disturbing such beautiful creatures like yourselves.
Everyone smiled…and then gasped as the beaver Dawn was in front of stood up on its two hind legs and showed off its full height. Everyone, especially Lincoln, was fearing that they might end up watching their teammate get eaten alive…but watched as the beaver started licking Dawn like a happy dog.
"Uuuuh, I'm not the only one seeing this right?" Sadie asked in a shocked tone as they watched as all the beavers that were previously keen on eating them were crowding around Dawn and acting like dogs that just had their owner return home.
"Hehehehe, that tickles!" Dawn laughed as multiple woolly beavers happily licked Dawn to show their affection. Meanwhile Dawn proceeded to give as much beavers as she could head scratches. "Aaaaaawww, you're all just a buncha softies aren't you~"
CONFESSIONAL – CHRIS
"Man that girl just takes the fun out of everything." The host said with a small frown on his face.
"Brbrbrbr." Edward said as he looked over Lincoln's shoulder.
"You said it bud." Lincoln said as he watched the scene with a smile.
Eventually all the woolly beavers stopped crowding around Dawn and simply sat in front of them with their large tails happily pounding down on the ground. "Thank you so much for that, it felt really nice." Dawn thanked the prehistoric beavers making them all make some happy sounding grunts. "Excuse me, if it's not too much trouble do you think you can lead us to the beach at the end of the island?"
The woolly beavers all nodded as they gestured their heads for the Bass to follow them before taking off into the jungle. "Alright everyone, let's go!" Dawn said as she rejoined Lincoln in holding their canoe.
"We're seriously gonna follow a bunch of dino-beavers?" Courtney asked in a bit of a fearful tone.
"You got any better ideas?" Duncan asked as everyone else decided to follow the beavers and not voice any complaints. Courtney looked to Bridgette who simply shrugged making the CIT sigh before they decided to follow as well.
"Have I ever told you how awesome you are?" Lincoln told Dawn with an impressed smirk on his face with Dawn blushing in response. "Because you are."
"Heheh, why thank you." Dawn said with a giggle as they continued to follow the prehistoric beavers to their destination. And thanks to the beavers, the journey was rather smooth for the Bass. Any other creatures such as bears were scared off by the woolly beavers and they hit a path that split into two directions, the beavers led them to where they said was right direction. According to Dawn their beaver to human translator.
The Gophers…didn't have it nearly as easy. Without someone like Dawn with them, they were resorted to running away from the beavers that tried to attack them. They then thought they got them to leave them alone when they walked into a small pond that had a bunch of rather large nests surrounding them…only for a bunch of prehistoric geese to start chasing them.
Luckily for them Cody was actually the one to save them as he brought a loaf of bread with him in order to make him and Gwen a romantic picnic and threw it to the prehistoric birds which got them to leave them alone. Eventually they came across the same splitting pathway the Bass passed by earlier and chose to go left.
Things seemed to be going well for them as there was nothing in their way to disturb them. At least until Trent suddenly started to lower into the ground. "Whoa. Guys, uh, don't wanna panic here, but I'm shrinking!" Trent yelled to everyone as they all looked to see where Trent ended up. A pool of quicksand.
CONFESSIONAL – TRENT
"Right. How am I supposed to know what quicksand looks like?" Trent questioned with a frown. "It looks just like sand."
CONFESSIONAL – CHRIS
"Hahahaha!Can you believe they fell for that?!" Chris started laughing hard at the fact that Trent actually ended up getting into the quicksand. "Haha, I set it up, but I didn't think anyone would walk into it! Haha, that's just great! Ahahahahaha!"
"Uh-oh…" Trent let out as everyone gasped as they watched the guitarist sink further down into the sand.
"Trent's stuck!" Lindsay screamed as she and Beth set the canoe her, Beth, and Trent were carrying as she went after Trent. "I'm coming Trent!"
"No don't!" But Trent's words were in vain as Lindsay soon found herself sinking in the quicksand right next to Trent.
"I'm stuck too!" Lindsay gasped as she looked at her sinking body. "I so didn't see that coming."
Everyone quickly looked around to see if there was anything they could do. Just then Cody spotted something as he let go of the canoe he and Gwen were carrying, with the goth setting it down on the ground as Cody ran off. Everyone watched as Cody climbed up a tree and grabbed onto a vine and used it to swing down to the quicksand pit to try and grab Trent's hand…only to miss and slam right into a tree.
Luckily the vine came back over the pit with Trent quickly grabbing it and climbing himself and Lindsay out and landing safely on solid ground. Everyone cheered as Cody, who was in a bit of a daze, walked over to the now safe Trent and Lindsay. "Whoa. Hey, thanks bro." Trent held up his hand for Cody to high five only for the still dazed Cody to miss. "You're a life saver."
Cody then shook his head to get his senses back and asked Trent. "I am?"
Lindsay then came in and gave Cody and hug. "My hero!" The dumb blond happily said before letting go of Cody. "Where did you learn to do that?"
"You know, I watch a lot of movies." Cody explained making Lindsay giggle a little bit.
"This is very touching, guys, but we've still got a challenge to win!" Gwen yelled at everyone making them all quickly scramble to pick up their canoes again and quickly run forward, while making sure to walk past the quicksand and keep a much closer eye on the ground.
KILLER BASS
The Killer Bass were all making good progress with their hike. The woolly beavers continued leading them to where they needed to go and they were able to avoid most obstacles in their path. For example, not ending up in any quicksand.
But all good things must come to an end eventually. "AAAHHHH!" Suddenly Geoff was screaming in pain as he fell to the floor. "My leg! I'm down! I'm down!" Geoff held his now numb left leg as everyone, including the beavers, stopped to check on him. "Oh, it's so unfair! Why did this have to happen now? Oh! Why? Why?!"
"Geoff!" Bridgette called out to in concern as she went to go check on him.
"Yo calm down dude!" Lincoln told Geoff as he and Dawn walked up to him. "What's wrong?"
"I can't feel my leg dude!" Geoff yelled as he tried shaking his leg around to wake it up only to be met with pain. "Never! I can feel it hurt! Hurting so much."
"Stop moving! Let me take a look at it." Dawn told Geoff as she gently took his leg. Geoff winced a bit but tried to keep still as Dawn looked over his leg. The aura reader squinted her eyes as she reached out to Geoff's legs and ended up pulling a small splinter out of it. A few deadpanned at Geoff thinking he was being over dramatic, but a raised hand by Dawn stopped them from saying anything. "Hmmmm…" The nature lover hummed before pointing at some nearby plants. "There!"
"What?" Courtney questioned. "They're just a bunch of plants."
"Specifically, Giant Hogweed." Dawn pointed out as she threw the splinter away into the Hogweeds. "It's a plant with poison sap and that thorn that was in Geoff's leg must have been coated in some of its poisonous sap."
Geoff grimly sighed before looking at Dawn. "Just give it to me straight Dawn." The party dude told the nature lover. "How long do I have?"
"Oh no, no it's not fatal." Dawn reassured him making the Killer Bass sigh in relief. "Don't worry, it was just a small thorn so it couldn't have that much sap on it. Your leg should just be numb for about half an hour. But even after that you shouldn't strain yourself for the rest of the day. Maybe a little longer just to be safe."
Geoff sighed again before shaking his head. "No, you dudes should go on without me." Geoff told them. "I'll only slow you down."
Courtney was about to take Geoff up on that offer and walk away only for a growling prehistoric beaver to stop her. "We're not leaving any man behind!" DJ said firmly. "Not on my watch!"
"Here's let me help ya man." Lincoln said as he proceeded to pick up Geoff and carrying him off to the woolly beavers. "Any of you mind helping carry him?" One of the beavers nodded as it lowered itself a bit allowing Lincoln to put Geoff on the prehistoric beavers back.
CONFESSIONAL – GEOFF
"I didn't know if I was gonna make it." Geoff said which was followed by a sharp inhale. "It was touch-and-go."
CONFESSIONAL – BRIDGETTE
"I've seen surfers get eaten by sharks before, but this?" Bridgette said with a look of horror on her face. "This was horrifying!"
CONFESSIONAL – DJ
"The man just...kept going!" DJ said with the utmost respect for Geoff. "Riding on a giant beaver or not, the dude's got heart."
When the Bass got there, they saw that the Gophers had somehow beaten them to the beach. Looks like while the path the beavers led the Bass down was the safer path, it was also the longer one. The Gophers waved to the Bass in a bit of a taunting fashion, only to gasp in horror as they saw a gang of woolly beavers with the Bass.
The beaver carrying Geoff carefully slide the party dude off of it onto the sand as Dawn proceeded to give each one a pat on the head. "Thank you all so much for your help. We really appreciate it." All the beavers responded by giving Dawn a lick before walking away into the woods.
"Alright everyone! We gotta get some wood and quick!" Lincoln was quick to take charge as everyone set down their canoes and got to hunting wood. Lincoln then took his backpack off and looked inside to see Edward curled up inside and fast asleep. "Aawww." Lincoln let out before setting his bag down next to Geoff who reclined himself on a rock. "Hey Geoff, watch after Edward for me?"
"Sure thing dude. Might as well be useful somehow." Geoff said as he took the backpack and sat it down next to him.
With Chris monitoring them from a helicopter up above, the two teams were quick to try and get a big enough fire going. On the Gophers side, Heather was rubbing two sticks together to try and get a fire going while Leshawna was banging rocks together.
But Heather ceased her actions as she looked at the Bass side of the beach in surprise as she saw that the Bass already had a fire going. "How'd they do that so quickly?" Duncan silently answered Heather's question by pulling out and igniting a lighter he had with a smirk on his face.
"No rule against carrying lighters." Chris said as the camera went over to him in his helicopter. "Edge, Killer Bass."
"Way to go Duncan!" Lincoln complimented the delinquent as he added some more sticks to the fire. "We keep this up and this challenge is in the-"
"SCREECH! SCREECH!"
Everyone from both teams flinched, especially the Gophers, as they heard a loud bird-like screech coming in from the jungle they were all just in. And it seemed to be getting closer. Nearly everyone then screamed as what seemed to be prehistoric geese flew out of the jungle and started swarming the two teams.
"I thought we got rid of these things!" Trent yelled as he and Cody ran from a bird that was chasing them.
"Everyone! Protect the fire!" Courtney yelled to her team as she got in front of the fire and tried to block the strong winds the prehistoric birds were making from hitting and putting out their fire. Harold was the first to respond to Courtney's words and got in front of the fire while pulling out his nunchucks and twirling them around a bit and got ready to fight off any birds that came closer.
"Grrr, get lost you over grown chicken!" Heather yelled as she smacked a giant goose away with an oar.
"AAAAAAAAHHH!" Suddenly Courtney shrieked as a giant goose started to charge right at her. Harold was busy fighting off his own bird to help. But before it could reach Courtney, suddenly Duncan ran out in front of the CIT and socked the prehistoric bird in the face and making it fly away.
Courtney looked to see Duncan grinning and raising his unibrow at her making her look away from the delinquent…and tried to a hide a growing blush on her face.
"Dawn!" Lincoln called out to as he tried to fend off a giant goose with a long stick. "Can't you get these things to leave us alone?!"
"I'm trying!" Dawn said as she ducked under a bird that tried to charge at him. "But these birds are proving to be more stubborn and aggressive then those nice beavers!"
"LINCOLN!" Lincoln heard Geoff call out to him. Looking to where the party dude was, the white head gasped at what he saw. A giant goose was trying to take the backpack Edward was in with Geoff hanging onto it for dear life while being dragged across the sand as the goose tried to fly away. "HE'S TRYING TO GET EDWARD! Oh no…"
Finally Geoff lost his grip on the backpack allowing the bird to start flying away…only for Lincoln to suddenly jump on its back. "OH NO YOU DON'T!" Lincoln then started to assault the bird by punching its wing. "LET GO OF MY PLATYPUS YOU OVERGROWN PULTRY!"
The bird struggled to stay air born as Lincoln got the prehistoric goose into a choke hold with one arm and punching the birds right wing with his other arm. "Grrrr, listen to me damn it!" Lincoln grunted as he pulled on the ancient Goose's neck while continuously punching its right wing and-
CRACK!
"SCREEEEECH!" After enough punches, a cracking sound was heard from the prehistoric goose making it let out a shriek of pain that got all the other gooses attention. With a sudden burst of strength, the goose managed to throw Lincoln off its back. DJ caught Lincoln before he fell to the ground with the goose, still carrying Lincoln's backpack, started to fly away back into the jungle. However, the goose wasn't able to fly very high and fast as its right wing seemed to have a limp to it.
Once that goose left, the others soon followed that goose into the jungle. Once they were gone, almost everyone from both teams breathed sighs of relief once the overgrown birds were gone. Everyone except…
"EDWARD!" Lincoln called out too as he looked at the area of the jungle the prehistoric geese flew to. Lincoln, in a panic, then ran to the rest of his team and quickly said. "Guys! Come on! We gotta go get him!"
"Seriously Lincoln?" Courtney questioned as she dusted herself off and made sure she didn't have injuries on her body. "Look, I like you and everything but he's just a platypus. We have a challenge to win."
"I'm not about to let him get eaten!" Lincoln yelled to the CIT before he started to go off into the jungle. "Fine! I'll get him by myself if I have to!"
"No dude!" Harold stopped Lincoln as the ginger ran next to the white head. "You saw what those things could do. You can't go there by yourself."
"Well we can't just let Edward get eaten by those things." Bridgette spoke up while helping Geoff move around.
"But what about the challenge?" Sadie spoke up.
"Enough!" Surprising everyone, Dawn spoke up with a rather firm and stern tone as she stood in the middle of everyone. "Everyone, I know the perfect plan to get Edward back and keep the fire going. Lincoln, me, Harold, and DJ will all go to where the geese took Edward. Courtney, Duncan, Sadie, Bridgette, and Geoff will stay here and work on the fire. Thanks to Lincoln the goose that took Edward couldn't have flown far. If we hurry, we can get him just in time. Let's go!"
Everyone was too taken aback by Dawn's sudden leader role to say anything back as the nature lover simply took the three she mentioned for the rescue mission with her. Once Dawn, Lincoln, Harold, and DJ were on their way, Duncan simply shrugged before walking to the fire. "Welp, let's burn stuff."
Some of the Gophers saw the four Bass members running back into the jungle and Owen put a smile on his face as he tried to follow him. "Don't worry buddy! We're coming for ya!" Owen saw the goose took Lincoln's backpack and heard the plan of them going to rescue the platypus in said bag and wanted to join in on the rescue mission. But Heather was having none of it and tripped Owen before he could get away. "Ow! What was that for? We gotta rescue Lincoln's platypus!"
"Oh no we don't." Heather firmly told the big guy. "With them looking for that freak of nature there are less of them working on the fire and we are gonna keep that numbers advantage do you hear me?!"
"But…the platypus…" Owen tried to speak up as he looked to the jungle again.
"FIRE!" Heather harshly yelled at Owen making the poor guy flinch violently. "NOW!" While Owen got up and reluctantly walked away from the jungle, Beth seemed to spot something in a bush that got her interest.
With the platypus rescue team, Dawn was currently leading the group with Harold close behind her looking around while holding his nunchucks and ready to unleash his mad skills when needed. Meanwhile Lincoln and DJ were in the back with Lincoln unable to take his eyes off the back of Dawn's head. "Wow…" Lincoln let out as memories of just a few minutes ago to when Dawn took charge came to his head. "Seeing Dawn play the leader like that was amazing. She just keeps surprising me."
DJ chuckled a bit as he looked down at Lincoln. "Dang dude, you got it bad." DJ said making Lincoln blush and avert his gaze. DJ then hummed a bit as an idea came to his mind.
CONFESSIONAL – DJ
"Lincoln's a good guy. And anyone with even a single eye can see that he's gotta thing for Dawn. Plus, I'm sure Dawn's also got her eye on him to." DJ explained with a smile on his face. "Figured I'd help a brother out ya know? Gotta make sure he doesn't make the same mistakes as Geoff. He's also someone I plan on helping out with the ladies." DJ then chuckled as he realized something. "Hey momma look, I'm playin cupid!"
"Ya know…" DJ leaned close to Lincoln's ear and whispered. "I think she digs you man."
"H-Huh?" Lincoln stuttered a bit as his face went red.
"Just sayin dude." DJ shrugged a bit as he patted Lincoln on the shoulder. "I bet if you ask her out, she'll say yes."
"I don't…" Lincoln was about to deny having a thing for Dawn, but something about DJ's words stuck with him and he put on a hopeful expression and asked DJ. "Ya really think so?"
"Yeah man!" DJ encouraged with a smile on his face. "You should go for it."
"Maybe…" Lincoln frowned a bit as he looked down. "But I don't really think I'm in the right mindset for a relationship yet…"
"How come?" DJ asked with a confused look.
"Well…it's just…before coming to camp my girlfriend Ronnie Anne broke up with me." Lincoln sadly told DJ something no other camper other than Dawn and Bridgette knew about.
"Aw man for real?" DJ frowned a bit as Lincoln nodded. "I'm sorry dude. That really bites."
"Yeah it…really stung." Lincoln muttered before he shook his head before he ended up making himself depressed. "Look, maybe I do like Dawn like that. I just…wanna make sure I'm not just some pathetic guy on the rebound or something. Dawn deserves better than that."
"I understand man, take your time." DJ nodded at Lincoln making a small smile come to the white heads face. "And hey, if you ever need any help just come to me."
"Thank DJ." Lincoln told the brickhouse with a grateful smile. "For everything."
DJ smiled back at Lincoln right as Harold and Dawn came to a stop in front of them. "Hey guys." Harold got their attention. "Look." The four members poked their heads out of a bush they found to hide behind and saw exactly what they were looking for.
There were currently four of the giant geese gathered together and sitting on the ground with one of them looking like it had a damaged wing and had Lincoln's backpack at its feet. "I can still see Edward's aura." Dawn whispered to the three with her. "He's ok. And it looks like most of the flock went back to their nest."
"So what's the plan?" Harold asked while gripping his nunchucks. "Are you gonna talk to them or should I unleash my mad skills?"
"Well I tried talking to them but it didn't work." Dawn explained to her fellow Bass. "Someone must have fed them bread. Bread to birds is essentially the equivalent of coffee and makes them all hyper and aggressive. Which is why you shouldn't feed wild animals' human food. So talking is out of the question."
"So then what's the plan?" Lincoln asked as he turned to the aura reader. "We gotta get Edward out of there."
"Hmmm, maybe we could somehow startle them." DJ pointed out as he put a hand to his chin. "Normal geese are drawn away by loud sudden noises. Maybe the same applies to prehistoric geese."
Everyone hummed in thought before Harold snapped his fingers as an idea came to his mind. "I got it!" Harold then reached into his pocket and pulled out a whistle in the shape of a bird. "A muskrat boy always comes prepared!"
"What is it?" Lincoln asked as him and DJ gave confused looks while Dawn happily gasped.
"It's a bird whistle!" Dawn pointed out while Harold nodded.
"Correct." Harold nodded as he showed off the whistle. "A whistle specially made to lure birds away from campsites and such to stop them from steeling food. This should scare them off!"
"But these are giant geese." DJ pointed out as he peeked at them again. "Probably gonna have to be nice and loud to scare them off so I hope you got some good lungs man."
"Maybe he doesn't need that." Lincoln said as he pulled out his phone and opened up an app. "I got a megaphone app on my phone to help get all my sisters' attention. So let a rip Harold!"
Harold nodded as he put the bird whistle into his mouth and got in front of Lincoln's phone and blew as hard as he could. "SCREECH!" All the prehistoric geese all made startled sounds as they took off. With the one with the bad wing running rather than flying…and leaving the backpack behind.
"Alright it worked!" Lincoln cheered as he ran up to the backpack and quickly picked it up. "Edward!" Looking inside the backpack Lincoln saw Edward…still asleep. "Wow you really are a lazybones. He's alright everyone! Come on let's head back!"
Harold, DJ, and Dawn all cheered as they quickly took off in the direction they came in.
And when they passed by the halfway point to the beach…
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
"What in the great earth mother is that!?" Dawn yelled as the four of them watched as a large fiery explosion could be seen coming from the beach and reaching all the way up the beach.
"BRBRBRBRBRBR!" Suddenly poking his head out of Lincoln's backpack was Edward who was frantically looking around. Looks like that boom was what it took to wake him up.
"Seriously?" Lincoln rose a brow at the platypus. "Getting abducted by the world's biggest geese doesn't wake you up but that does?"
When they reached the beach again, they all saw the Gophers in their boats, with Trent and Gwen sharing a boat and Cody with Beth and Lindsay, and the Bass simply standing in front of all of their boats. "I'm guessing the Gophers won the fire challenge?" Lincoln asked as he looked at the Gophers giant fire while also noticing Izzy being covered in soot.
"That's not even the worst of it." Courtney began as she looked down at their canoes. "We lost our oars! Those stupid birds must have taken them!"
"Guess they need rather big and sturdy nesting material." Dawn pointed out which only got Courtney to glare at her.
"But now we have no way to get back to the island." Bridgette slumped down, seeing no way they could possibly win now without their oars.
"You guys could get someone to swim behind the boats and push them." Suddenly Izzy, someone from the opposing team, spoke up to the Bass. "I did that once for this huge like, sixty-foot yacht; the whole crew had to flutter kick for like, eight days to get to shore. And like, four of us got eaten by sharks. I didn't, hehe, not me. But it was really insane. Okay, later!" Suddenly Leshawna aggressively paddled forward to shut Izzy up.
"That might work!" Geoff, now able to stand up on his own, said with a smile on his face. If someone strong enough could swim fast enough, they might just be able to barely make it in first.
"We need someone big enough to push all the canoes back." Bridgette put a hand to her chin in thought before she smiled as she looked at the Bass's brick house. "DJ, you're the only one who's strong enough."
DJ flinched a bit as Geoff spoke up. "You can't ask him to do that!" Geoff said, knowing about DJ's fear of water. "Dude can't swim!"
"I'm sorry Geoff but I don't feel like there's any other way." Lincoln spoke it up as he put a hand on DJ's shoulder. "He's the strongest man we got. It's him or bust."
"He's right." Courtney said as she grabbed Harold's arm and showed it off to the team. "Those skinny arms aren't going to cut it."
"I'll do it!" Geoff offered only for Dawn to stop him.
"Remember what I said Geoff." Dawn reminded the party dude. "You have to let your leg take it easy in order for you body to completely heal from the poison.
"I can do this." Everyone looked to DJ as he spoke in a completely serious tone. "I have to."
CONFESSIONAL – DJ
"It was all up to me." DJ said to the audience at home with a determined look on his face. "I needed to swim like a Killer Bass should and no wedgie flop was going to stand in my way."
"That is one…brave man." Geoff said while pointing at DJ. The party dude's respect for the brickhouse was at an all time high at seeing DJ willing put his fears aside to help his team once again.
As it turned out, this was probably faster then using oars. All of the Killer Bass canoes were stacked onto each other with all of the team riding on the top of the stack with DJ pushing them forward. And DJ was pushing them so fast they were easily catching up to the Screaming Gophers. In fact, they didn't just catch up. They passed them! All the Bass were cheering DJ's name.
Although DJ seemed to not know how to stop as when they reached the beach, they proceeded to fly off a rock like a ramp, fly over Chris, and crash on the other side of the beach. But hey, they were still the first team on the beach! "The Bass are the winners!" Chris announced leading to the Bass all cheering for the victory.
When the Gophers reached the beach, most were quick to glare at Izzy. The one who gave the advice to the Bass that allowed them to win. "You cost us the game!" Leshawna yelled while glaring daggers at the crazy girl. "You are dead!"
"Right." Izzy rolled her eyes and wasn't at all threatened by the girl. "Okay, you are so lucky that my license to kill is currently expired." However, Leshawna proceeded to pick up an oar as she gritted her teeth at Izzy. This intimidated the orange haired girl as she quickly ran away with Leshawna on her tail.
As the Bass were cheering, Owen came up to Lincoln from behind and poked the white head. Lincoln turned around to look at Owen with Edward in the Loud boy's arms. "Hey Lincoln!" The big guy greeted Lincoln with a smile. "I'm glad to see you got your platypus back. I'm sorry I couldn't help. I wanted to go but Heather wouldn't let me."
"Hey, it's all good big guy." Lincoln reassured Owen as he patted Owen on the shoulder. "It's the thought that counts. Thanks man." Owen then smiled and patted Edward on the head with the Platypus making some happy sounds in response. "Hey sorry you guys lost."
"Eh, what're you gonna do." Owen shrugged it off, not letting his positive attitude go away. "At least everyone came back alive. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go change my underwear."
Lincoln chuckled a bit as he watched Owen walk over to the Gopher cabin. "Hmmmm…" Suddenly, humming, Dawn was next to Lincoln with her hand on her chin. "Something doesn't seem right."
"What? What's wrong?" Lincoln asked the aura reader with a raised brow.
"It's the Gophers." Dawn explained to the white head. "I feel a dark presence around them."
"Eh, it's probably just Heather." Lincoln joked/shrugged as he turned to Dawn. "Although I think it's a safe bet that Izzy's the one going home tonight." Dawn simply hummed in response before her and Lincoln walked off.
THAT NIGHT
Night had fallen on the camp. Once again, it was time for the ever-tense bonfire ceremony where tonight the 7th camper would be leaving Total Drama Island. Forever. "And now, the always anxiety-inducing marshmallow ceremony." Chris announced while holding a plate of eight marshmallows. "When I call your name, come and get a marshmallow. Beth. Trent. Gwen." The three campers smiled and went to go get their marshmallows with Trent and Gwen pressing their marshmallows against the others as if to toast with them. "Cody. Owen. Heather. Leshawna."
And with that, there were two campers yet only one marshmallow. Izzy and Lindsay. "One last marshmallow." Chris said with a grin as he tossed the marshmallow up and down in his hand. "The person who doesn't get this marshmallow will walk off the Dock of Shame and take a ride on the Boat of Losers. Who's it gonna be?"
But before Chris could name the camper that was staying, a helicopter was heard and everyone looked up to indeed see one flying above them with a search light shining down from it and onto Izzy. "Izzy!" A voiced called out from within the helicopter. "We know you are down there! You are under arrest!"
"You mean all that trash you were talking was true?" Leshawna asked with a surprised look and tone as she remembered all of Izzy's crazy stories she told during the challenge. Including one where she was wanted by the RCNP for blowing up their kitchen.
"No. Just the RCMP part. See ya!" Izzy said before standing up and pointing up at the helicopter. "YOU'LL NEVER GET ME ALIVE!" Everyone then watched as Izzy laughed manically as she quickly ran away, the helicopter in hot pursuit of her.
"Well. That wraps that up." Chris said as everyone watched the scene with shocked looks. "Night everyone."
After that little…scene. Along with Cody finding a certain goth's bra waiting for him on his bed and Bridgette taking a liking to a certain gift she got, that was the end of yet another episode of Total. Drama. Island.