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Author's Notes: Hey guys, you might wonder why this is called Total Drama Prequel? All will be explained by the end of the story.

Author's Notes (2): My main language is not English so I apologize in advance for any weird and incorrect sentences.

Author's Notes (3): This story was originally completed on fanfiction.net. I was supposed to release it here as well, but my invitation was still being approved, so it's divided into five parts there, but as a whole here.

Chapter 1

"Lights! Camera! ACTION!"

A clapboard sounded off in the distance. Inside a dim room, a spotlight shines down on the stage where a man in his mid-40s, wearing a blue shirt and cargo pants, is standing. With his smile, he greeted the audience with a single sentence:

"Welcome Total Drama fans!"

It was none other than Chris McLean.

"It's me, your favorite reality host, Chris McLean! And I'm coming to you live here on the Total Drama Aftermath stage for the 1 Hour Special of Total Drama Reunion! "

The crowd cheers and applauded.

"It's been a while since Total Drama was off the air and was placed by that awful spin-off, what was its name again? It doesn't matter because we are back for this exclusive get-together of past contestants! Ladies and Gentlemen! May I present to you, all 3 Generations of Total Drama competitors!"

The room lit up to show the cast members were sitting in the Peanut Gallery in the dark, waiting for their cue from Chris. He walks up towards them and greets them.

"Hello there past contestants, excited to be back on TV!?"

…..They were not. All of them were frowning and angry towards Chris.

"… Well… Not even a hello back? Aren't you guys happy to be here?"

A goth girl stood up and speak out her frustration "Happy? You kidnapped us to be here!"

"Gwen! Wha… whatever do you mean?" Chris said while averting her gaze.

"You know exactly what she means, McLean!" This time said by a man with a green mohawk who was wearing an orange jumpsuit with handcuffs on his wrist and a police officer near him.

"Duncan, calm down. She's not thinki-"

"Oh cut the crap Chris!" This one was said by a tan-skinned woman with freckles on her face.

"Courtney, please just let me-"

The whole peanut gallery started to complain at Chris, who was started to get irritated at them.

"I wanna go home to momma!"

"I was having a peaceful day!"

"Should I even be here?"

"What's his name again? Charles? Cole?"

"Ooh! Bleacher gum!"

Chris had enough from their fussing and shouted "OKAY ENOUGH!"

The whole room went silent.

"Thanks for making me strain my voice! Now let me explain to all of you why you guys are here. You guys remember the good old contract you've signed when you came to the show?"

"Yeah, so?" said a man with orange spiky hair, wearing a white tank top.

"Soooooo, if any of you read the fine print, you would see that you are still with the studios for as until your contract expires, meaning that you must present yourselves when they called you for an important event."

"I've read the contract," said a small and frail little man wearing a red hoodie. "It said that we're under the studio's tenure for 6 years"

"And…..how long has it been?"

"….still under 6 years." said a tall girl with an Australian accent.

"Correctomundo Jasmine! All of you are still under contract with us."

"Yeah, but that still didn't give you right to take us away from what we were doing in our lives!" this was coming from a girl with black hair with a red crop top.

"Well, Heather…. If all of you didn't decline the letter the studio sent you, I wouldn't have force you guys to be here."

"Letter? What letter?" asked a man with a buzzcut.

"Beats me. I never got one." Replied by a man with a thin frame, tan skin, and a gap tooth.

"Besides, isn't it fun to be back with all your fellow campers for this special episode?"

"I wouldn't say all…" A blonde girl wearing a blue hoodie spoke up. "Geoff isn't here."

"That's becaus-"

"Yeah" a man in a red jumpsuit interjected, "So is Noah and Owen…"

"Yeah, cau-"

"And so is the wizard guy, he ain't here" said by a blonde girl who spoke with a southern accent.

"Don't care about that one. Listen, Geoff, Noah, and Owen…."

"And the wizard!"

"…and Leonard… are not here with us as of now, since they are harder to get than most of you. But not to worry, that's all being taken care of."

The scene cuts towards Chef, wearing a ninja outfit, and was about to enter a door that said "Studio 2." He took a deep breath and said, "This is for a pay raise Hatchet, all for a pay raise." He then enters the studio.

The scene cuts back to the Aftermath stage.

"They'll be here sooner than later, you can count on that."

"Why are they harder to get than us? Where's your boyfriend, Bridge? " asked a black woman with a mole on her face.

"I remember him saying that he and Brody had to attend-"

"ANYWAYS!" She was cut off by Chris. "Why don't we all start the episode! Who should we start with? Hmmm…. How about our first reject of the series, Eva!"

"WHAT?!" Eva stands and shouts. "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! I WASN'T THE FIRST BOOT! EZEKIEL WAS!"

"Trueeee…. But our poor friend Zeke is still-"

Chris snaps his fingers and a bunch of interns pulls out a cage with a still feral Ezekiel standing on his two feet.

"-A bit wild."

Ezekiel was growling and moving the cage back and forth. The audience and the contestants were leaning back away from him.

"You see, we're still trying to figure out how to get him back to his normal self. His parents are suing a lot of money if we don't figure out how to….Cameron, would you like to help us with this situation later? We'll pay."

"Me?" Cameron asked. He then looks at Ezekiel while the latter was frowning at him. "May…maybe not. Why not someone smarter? Like her!"

Cameron pointed towards a woman with red hair strapped to a trolley wearing a straitjacket and a muzzle on her face. As Chris looks at her, he took a huge gulp and took only a few steps towards her.

"Sca-Scarlett can't because she's still under probation from the RCMP after what she almost pulled back at Pahkitew, isn't that right Scarlett?"

"Correct Chris," she spoke, "As long as I am deemed with good behavior, and participate in community service, I will be released from house arrest and be free from their custody."

"House arrest?" Duncan asked. "You're only given an ankle shocker when you're on house arrest. Why do you look like you came from an asylum?"

Scarlett then glares at Chris, which was met with a small silence till he spoke.

"…..Okay. She scares me."

"HAHAHAHAHA!" a huge laugh came from a giant girl with orange skin and green spiky hair. "Chris scared of small girl!"

''Dakotaaaa… Still see you're a giant freak."

"Hey!" an overweight man spoke and stands up "Even though she is huge, I don't appreciate you calling my girl a freak! She's still the perfect girl for me, Dakotazoid or just Dakota!"

The audience and a few members of the cast were awed at what he said.

"Besides, she's taking rehab! Her dad's pouring his resources to make her back to at least 8 ft. tall!"

"Cute Sam, reaaal cute. Now back to the topic at hand, shall we? Okay, now let's-"

He's suddenly got cut-off by a ring from the Peanut Gallery. A small pale blonde girl picked her ringing phone and answered.

"Hello... Oh hello, John. Where am I? Back in Canada. I know, one moment we were recording then the next moment, I got abducted by my old host and…"

Chris stared at the small girl intensely.

"…..I'll call you back." She hang-up the phone.

"Had a nice talk with John, Dawn?"

"Well, my director was curious about where I am. After all, you did suddenly took me away from filming our documentary."

"Yeah, whatever. Back to the-"

"A documentary?" Asked by a girl with blonde hair and was wearing a cheerleading outfit.

"Well, it's about the African Penguin and how it's being driven to extinction."

The audience and a few members of the cast were awed by sadness at what she said.

"Awwww! That sounds so sad!"

"Pulease Samey!" A girl who looked identical to her spoke, except this one had a mole on her face. "She's just fabricating that story! There is now way the studio went all that way to Africa just to get a single girl!"

"Actually Amy," said Jasmine, "I was in Australia visiting my family, where I was abducted."

"And I was in Hawaii for my modeling gig," said a man with tan skin and blue eyes. "This smile doesn't last forever you know."

"And I was in New Jersey partying with ma' gurl!" said a very tanned girl with enormous poofy hair.

"Chris must be really desperate if he went all that trouble getting all of us in one place, huh?" said a small chubby girl with glasses.

"I wonder if he only brought us here to make himself look good to get himself a new job, he ain't getting younger either," DJ said.

One of the cast members gave out a *Whomp Whomp* sound effect and the whole cast and audience started to laugh. Chris had finally had enough and broke and shouted.

WILL YOU ALL STOP INTERRUPTING ME!? I'm trying to host a show! We only got an hour for this special and no one has time for any of your shenanigans! SO SHUT UP AND ANSWER MY QUESTIONS OR SO HELP ME I WILL CALL CHEF AND HAVE HIM BUSTS THROUGH THIS WALL TO CALM ALL YOUR BUTTS THIS INSTANT!"

*CRASH*

And as on cue, Chef burst through the middle wall creating a hole connecting with their studio and the other studio he was in. The whole studio was left in silence with what just transpired. A blonde obese man came out of the rubble and started patting away the debris off of him.

"Whew! Thank goodness we're alive, right Noah?" He said. "….Noah? Geoff?"

"Big O!" called by an orange colored hair wearing a green two-piece and a green towel.

"Izzy?"

2 heads pop out of the rubble.

"Geoff? Noah?"

"Geoff?" Bridgette asked in shock.

"Babe?" Geoff answered.

"Chris?" said Chef.

"Chef?"

"Chris McLean? " This voice came from the hole itself, revealing a man with a pronounced chin and a cow licked hair.

"Don?"

"Chris?" This one came from a man wearing a wizard outfit who came out of the same hole.

"Wizard!"

Suddenly, the whole middle wall collapse to reveal another group of people with another group of audience parallel to the Total Drama cast. This group of people was in fact contestants from the Ridonculous Race.

"What is going on here!?" Gwen shouted in confusion.

Then every camera and every head from both studios suddenly turned their heads towards Chris.

"…Uhhhh….We'll be right back."

Chapter 2

5 minutes ago….

"Okay," Chef is talking to himself "Grab the skinny one, the fat one, and the loud one all at the same time."

Chef was seemingly blending in with the shadows on the catwalk of the Studio he is currently in right now. Below him were TV host, Don, and all 36 contestants from the previous season. While Don was riling up the audience for the show, Chef drops down a rope that has a hook on it and stuck it first at Noah.

"What the-"Before Noah finished his sentence, Chef pulled the rope toward him, where he caught him in midair, where Noah looked super surprised to see him.

"Chef? What are yo-"

"Quiet skinny boy, stay put" as he puts down Noah next to him, he then drops the rope at Geoff and pulled him up quickly before he let out a squeal.

"Yoo! That was super sudden!" Geoff then noticed Chef. "Chef dude! What's hap-"

"SHHHHHHH"

Chef puts him next to Noah and then drops the rope at Owen's collar. "You boys gonna help me with tubby or am I gonna do this myself?" He asked towards both boys.

"What's going dude?" Geoff asked Noah.

"I have no clue." Noah answered. "But knowing Chef, he'll chew us up if we don't help him."

Noah and Geoff moved right behind Chef Hatchet, and grab the end of the rope. Meanwhile, Don was done talking with the audience and turned towards the cast.

"And now, let's start the show starting wi-" Don noticed something was off. "Hang on…12345678…There are only 34 of you, where's Noah and Geoff?"

The cast suddenly turned heads where they were, only leaving spaces next to Owen, and Brody. One of the cast members, Mickey, looked at Owen, and noticed a rope behind him.

"Hey, Owen? What's that rope doing behind you?" He asked.

"On the count of 3," Chef said.

"Huh? I don't remember wearing this." Owen said.

"1"

"Wait…" Junior said. "Up there."

"2"

"Is that…" Don said.

"PULL!"

All three of them pulled to get Owen airborne.

"WOahAHhAHAHA!" Owen screamed while on the air. "Sweet Crust on an Apple Pie! HELP!"

As Owen was in the air, he started swaying from side to side in panic, flaying his arms and screaming on the top of his lung. The audience and the cast members were just looking at Owen flying, turning their heads from left to right.

"OWEN! STOP!" Noah shouted. "I can only hold so much weight before I break any of my arms!"

Owen swinged himself to the upstage center and hit himself hard on its wall and made a giant crack from the impact. The audience and the cast gave an "Owwww" when they heard his head collided with it.

"Okay! I had enough of this!" Don shouted "SECURITY!"

As 9 huge security men came and corner the three of them, the catwalk started to let out a creaking sound and started shaking.

"Uhm, Noah dude?" Geoff asked. "Can this floor hold like 12 people?"

"It's a catwalk Geoff." Noah answered. "And yes, it can….."

"Phew" Geoff said in relief.

"…IF ALL 12 PEOPLE WERE THE SAME SIZE AS I AM!"

"Wait….What?"

The catwalk's support suddenly broke and all 12 men start falling from the air and crashed on stage but not before the cast members jumped away from the falling structure. A huge smoke formed from the crash, then Chef, while coughing, swayed away the smoke from his face and got up next to Geoff, Noah, and Owen. The security team suddenly cornered him behind the cracked wall. He grabs Noah and Geoff and tossed them onto his shoulders, and grabbed Owen from his collar and short, and pointed his head towards the wall.

"Uhhh…Chef? What are you doing?" Asked Owen as his voice was trembling.

"Everything just for a pay raise!"

Chef then charged toward the wall while screaming the words "FOR MY PAY RAISE!" All three of them were screaming from their lungs as Chef was about to hit the wall…

Present….

"Chris!" Shouted Gwen, "What the [Bleep] is going on here?!"

"Yeah Brah!" Geoff protested toward Chef. "We were just chillin' back and was about to have our show when Chef grabbed us by the neck!"

"Show? What show?" asked Heather.

"Of course! Now I remember" shouted Bridgette. "Geoff told me about the Ridonculous Race having a reunion special and how he was invited!"

"Whaaaaat? They're having a reunion at the same time as us?"

"Wait a sec" Sky interject. "Is that what you mean by 'harder to get by'? Because they're currently in a different studio?"

"Uhhhhh….yes! That's right! Because somebody stole 3 of my most popular contestants from the show's history on the same day we're shooting our reunion special."

"But we didn't know there was gonna be a reunion for Total Drama," said Noah.

"Yeah, and if we did, we would have gone for this one before Ridonculous Race." said Owen.

"Uhhhh…Uhhh… The-then you should haveeee… answered the invitations I've sent you! Yeah, that's it! The invitations!"

Then suddenly the whole cast started to look at each other and wonder what Chris is talking about.

"Uh Chris," Harold raised his hand. "I never got an invitation. And if I did, I would have said yes to it."

"I never got one either," said Sadie.

"OMG! I never got one as well!" said Katie.

The whole studio suddenly started to ramble and talk on, eyes were wandering, mouths were moving, and heads were scratching until Scarlett called for everyone's attention.

"Excuse me, but I believe I have a theory, or an accurate answer if you will."

Everyone looked on as she was about to explain the current situation they are in. Scarlett motioned to one of the cast members to push her towards Chris. Rodney stood up and pushes her. While being pushed, she said "Please refrain from asking or interrupting me while I'm explaining, I rest assure that I have 99.9 % of your answers"

Rodney stops near Chris and puts her near him.

"You see, I believe Chris was jealous because of the ratings Ridonculous Race got while he was off the air, and how the producers of the company were in favor of Don being a quote-on-quote better host. When word got out that they'll be hosting a reunion episode, he went bonkers and got desperate. He needed and wanted to be the face of reality TV again so that he won't be overshadowed by a younger-looking star. So when he got the time and date of the episode, he hired a bunch of people to grab all of us around the globe and bring them in the exact time and the exact date, thus explaining why we weren't aware of the current event and the reason why we never received an invitation to show up here. Why it had to be today? He wants this special to outshine the Ridonculous Race reunion special with a group of people the viewers came to know well and loved, because Chris 'ego can't handle someone like Don, a fresh face for a fresh new generation, and wanted the reunion special to flop due to viewer rating plummeted, and think that the reason why the episode didn't work is that no one was interested in him, thus the producers would return to the one and only Chris McLean to host more shows, because this reunion episode has more views than Don's reunion episode, thus ending my theory."

The room was filling with a short void of silence before everyone from both studios met with applause to her explanation.

"Well congrats… you figured me out…" Chris said with the least enthusiasm.

"Chris" Don called to him, "you do realize we host two different types of shows right?"

"Yeah, so?"

"So you don't need to be jealous, I mean I may be more handsome than you but-"

"No one is better looking than Chris McLean!"

"So all of this was all just an elaborate scheme just to beat Don at being a better host?" Cody asked.

"It's not even a good one either!" said Alejandro.

All of them suddenly started laughing. Chris was about to pop a nerve. He walked off stage and started to talk to himself grumbling. Don then walks where Chris was originally standing and greeted the audience of the 1st studio.

"Well now that's out of the way, shall we give the audience from both shows give what they want?"

The audience cheered.

"Welcome to the Reunion Special of both Total Drama and Ridonculous Race!"

Offstage, Chris was still grumbling and was talking to himself. "Ungrateful bunch of people…gave them fame and fortune… They wouldn't be here without me…"

"Today we celebrate the return of all of these past contestants from both shows."

"I mean for what good reason should I care anymore! He's running this shindig now! There must be some way I can get my crown back."

"In their short time being together, they formed bonds of friendship, rivalries, and romance. Not to mention, put their bodies on the line against all odd, poured their blood, sweat, and tears, and joined the show for one reason, and one reason only."

"There has to be some way….but what?"

"And that reason was the huge cash prize of 1….Million….Dollars!"

Chris heard this off stage and had the biggest idea ever, something big enough to entice the contestants. He hastily grabbed something from his backpack (without even looking) that was wrapped in a black cloth and wrote something on paper. He then passed both towards a random intern and said "Take this and bring it to this location!"

"So why don't we start with the show with the first person eliminated from the show…Eva!"

"WHAT?!" Eva protested again. "Why me again?! I came back for the merge of the first season! Why not that fat girl who lies a lot, or that beatbox guy?"

"HOLD UP! STOP THE INTERVIEW!" Chris marched back on stage with a phone on hand.

"What now?!" Don asked.

"I just talked with the producers with something huge!"

"Is it about your butt?" Izzy said, making some of the cast chuckles.

"My butt is in perfect shape! Now if no one would interrupt me, thank you!"

Everything was pointing towards Chris; eyes, heads, cameras, everything.

"The producers wanted me to announce that this Reunion Episode will be an amazing one! Because they told me that a cash prize will be given at the end of the show!"

"And how much will the cash prize be? Cause there is no way it will be big enough to persuade me to participate." Courtney said.

"Yeah! I earned enough bruises for 1 M!" Trent added.

"Oh no! It won't be just a million" Chris said. "The cash prize will be a whopping….5…..MILLION…..…DOLLARS!"

Everyone suddenly gasped at Chris' announcement. They were shocked to hear such a large amount of money is being put on the line for a single episode.

"You're kidding?! There's no way!" Jo said.

"5 Mil!? There's no way the producers agreed to that?!" Don said.

"Oh! But they did! You see, there's this thing called 'experience and trust,' something you've yet to earn, DON!"

"Lightnin' can buy 2 Football fields with that kind of money! And Lightnin's bad with numbers!" Lighting shouted.

"I can use that money to completely take over the whole country!" Max said.

"You better believe it dudes and dudettes! One of you will get the chance to go home with the huge ton of cash and we're doing Chris McLean style! All you need to do is bring me my pristine Gemmy Award hidden somewhere inside Casa Loma, here in Toronto, and bring it back to me."

"And where will you be?" asked Zoey.

"Nowhere specific, because I'll be roaming around the city as well, so the first person to find me and give me my Gemmy will be rewarded 5….MILLION…..DOLLAARRRRRSSS!"

Everyone on stage got excited and started jumping for joy, knowing that they'll be able to win big. Everyone, including the Ridonculous Race cast members.

"Hear that Ryan!?" Stephanie proclaimed to her gigantic boyfriend. "We'll be rich if we win!"

"Huphuphup!" Chris interjected on them. "Sorry! But this is only exclusive to the Total Drama crew!"

"What?!" Emma shouted "That's ridiculous! We're literally part of Total Drama!"

"Totally!" Kitty added. "We're part of the show's spin-off! It literally said 'Total Drama Presents:' on the title card!"

''Truueeeee! But you're not under my supervision during your time as a contestant. So sucks to be part of Don's group huh?"

The Ridonculous Race started to voice out their frustrations on not being able to participate in the trophy hunt, everyone, except of course Crimson, Ennui, Spud, and Taylor.

"Well sucks to be them, 'cause I don't need that prize money. Daddy can give me that much money, and I got better things to do." Taylor said.

As Taylor was walking offstage, Heather found the perfect moment to antagonize the uninterested woman.

"Ohhhh surreeee, leave now. I'm sure your Daddy can afford a paper bag for him to put over his head knowing that her daughter is a quitter on national television!"

Taylor stops midway and angrily turns her head towards Heather.

"What did you say?"

"Well, it's just that I thought the only reason you're quitting is that the best thing you can do is not keep up with us and disappoint your own father!" She then points at Lindsay. "I mean this idiot right here can last 4 seasons of this show, but you can only manage…how many episodes were you in? I guess it doesn't matter, you're completely forgettable anyways!"

Taylor was fuming from what Heather said. Kelly noticed that her daughter was enraged and ran towards her to calm her down.

"Now now sweetie! I'm sure your father will be alright with you leaving, I mean he does love you, dear-"

"OH IT IS ON!" Taylor ignored everything her mother was trying to say and marched right towards Chris.

"You! Host Man! I want IN on the money!" She demanded.

"Did you not hear me? I said Total Drama contestants only!"

Chris was then grabbed by the collar and came face to face with Taylor and her beaming eyes.

"Then make me one! Right now!"

Chris was surprised by this demand, but he showed a little smirk at the end of his lips.

"Are you sure about that?"

"YES! ANYTHING JUST TO SHOW THIS [Bleep] HER PLACE AND BEAT HER AT HER OWN GAME!"

Chris snapped his finger and an intern handed him a bunch of paper. She reached one on Taylor's face and said "Just sign here please."

As Taylor grabs and signs the contract, she shoved it back onto Chris' chest, much to his pleasure knowing that he has a new contestant in the instant.

"Congrats Taylor! You are now OFFICIALLY a member of Total Drama!" He then looks at the other RR cast. "Anyone else wants to get that dough?"

Suddenly everyone from RR shuffled to get a contract and sign it to be able to participate.

"Congratulations! Now all of you have a chance to win the money!"

"Chris!" Don walked towards him, "This is insane! Good for ratings, but insane!"

"What's wrong, jealous that all of your contestants went towards me? Anyways!" He looked towards everyone, "If all of you are ready! The race for the 5 Million is about to start right…."

They crouched to their knees and took a running stance. There are others smiling at each other, others were glaring, and some were just excited to win.

"NOW!"

As soon as Chris spoke, everyone on stage ran towards the exit and started shoving each other just to get ahead of one another. When they were about to reach the exit, Dakota was stomping towards the exit, breaking the exit wall creating a giant-sized hole, making it easier for all the contestants to leave the studio. Everyone was racing for the trophy, everyone except for Chris, Chef, Don, Scarlett, Ezekiel, and Duncan.

Chris looked at both Scarlett and Duncan and asked "Why aren't you racing for the money?"

"You know, we could be on the run for the money….IF WE WEREN'T SHACKLED DOWN!" Duncan screamed.

"Riiiiiggghhtt… forgot about both of your situations."

"Chris, do you even have the money for the winner?" Chef asked.

"Oh, that! That was just a hoax!"

Don, Chef, Duncan, Scarlett, the audience, the camera crew, the backstage crew, the WHOLE studio, gasped and in unison said "WHAT?!"

"You duped those people into finding your award and bring it to you, only to be met with NOTHIN'?"

"Relax Chef, They're not gonna be able to find my Gemmy because the thing I gave my intern was Mr. Coconut. Time will pass, they'll get tired and give up before they figure out it was all a lie! See Don? This is how you host properly! You need to learn how to lie to your contestants!"

"Well the only thing I'm learning right now is to avoid a target behind my back," Don interjected.

It was met with an "Ohhhh" from the audience.

"Trust me, it's all worth it just to be on top! I mean, it's one of the reasons I got my Gemmy! Here I'll show you, and even let you touch it so that you know what greatness feels like."

Chris closes his eyes and snaps his finger and an intern gave him his backpack. He rustles the back while his eyes are still closed, and pulls out what he thinks is his Gemmy. He then pulls the cloth covering it.

"See? Bask in my greatness and be blinded by its glorious glimmer."

The audience gasped.

"Uhhh, Chris…." Chef called for his attention.

Chris opened his eyes, and what he thought was his Gemmy on the palm of his hand…was actually.

"Mr. Coconut?! But that means…..Uh Oh!" Chris then realized the thing he gave his intern was his actual Gemmy.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! NICE MOVE MCLEAN! YOU SCREWED UP BIG TIME! HAHAHAHAHA!" said Duncan while he was out of breath.

"Why does he even carry his Gemmy everywhere he go?" asked Scarlett.

"He likes to showboat" Chef answered while he's pinching his bridge.

Chris was panicking; he grabbed Chef by his collar and screamed "We have to find it before anyone does!"

"Well good luck with that Chris! You're gonna get it!" Duncan said.

"He'll either get a huge lawsuit or an artificial jaw when they find out it was all fake… My bet's on the jaw." Scarlett said.

Chris noticed the two who were in shackles laughing at his expense. He then had an idea.

"You two! Help me out! Get me that Gemmy before any of the contestants does!"

"Why should we? What do we get in return?" Duncan asked.

"Anything!"

Chris was getting desperate to be asking help from two people who he considered dangerous. Both Scarlett and Duncan looked at each other and both knew what they want.

"We want you to bail us out of the arrest," Scarlett interjected.

"And a monthly commission of 50k!"

"FINE! FINE! I'll get you out of jail and give you money every month!"

"Damn! I should have asked for more!"

Chris unlocked the shackles and releases Scarlett from her jacket.

"Well partner, shall we get ol' Chris here his money back?"

"Indeed my scheming companion!"

Both Scarlett and Duncan shook on it. It was the beginning of a beautiful temporary partnership.

Chapter 3

The hunt for the Gemmy was on! All 82 contestants are racing towards Casa Loma; some of them were taking transportation to get there, while others were racing on foot. Some were unorthodox on moving through the city, like Izzy jumping from building to building.

"AW WHAT?!" Lightning was shocked to see Izzy's nimbleness. "Crazy girl's going crazy up there! Lightnin' can do that!" He then started to climb from a dumpster and jump onto a ladder. Sky, Amy, Sammy, Shawn, and Jasmine saw him going up.

"That seems like a bad idea." Jasmine said.

"It's kinda smart," Sky interjected. "Besides, it might be faster for the rest of us! Come on!"

"Sky's right! Being up high can keep us away from a huge crowd or even a horde of zombies!" said Shawn while climbing up the ladder.

"…. I love him, but sometimes I think the zombie thing is getting a bit tiresome." Jasmine followed them up.

The twins stare at each other for a short time, until Amy opened her mouth. "Well…?"

"Well what?" Sammy asked.

"Aren't you gonna throw me up there!? There's no way I'm touching that filthy ladder!"

Sammy frowned for a bit, but had an idea.

"Alright, I'll help you out." She put out her hands and Amy puts her foot on them. As Amy was up the air, she barely was able to catch the corner of the roof, and Sammy opened the dumpster for her to fall inside of. Sammy shuts the dumpster, drops a box full of trash on top of the lip, and starts climbing the ladder, but not before taunting her sibling. "Sorry, but I'm not gonna let you ruin our chances of winning the money."

"SAMEY! COME BACK HERE!" Amy screamed as she struggled to open up the dumpster.

Meanwhile, Ryan, Stephanie, Trent, Gwen, Leshawna, Harold, Mickey, Jay, Crimson, and Ennui were on the sidewalk, running and pushing people to the side. Ryan and Stephanie were in the front.

"Come on Ryan! I do not want to lose this time!" Stephanie shouted at Ryan, who was carrying her on his shoulder.

"I'm running as fast as I can babe!"

"Well it doesn't seem like it!"

"They seemed like a healthy couple," Trent said sarcastically to the rest who were behind.

"They were like that during the whole race," Mickey said.

"They're kinda a weird couple," Jay added.

"Well, at least these two are calmer than those intense lovebirds." Gwen pointed towards Crimson and Ennui.

"Calm is what we need to be." Ennui said.

"Showing emotion is the least of our concerns," Crimson added.

"….Do some of your friends act like them?" Leshawna asked Gwen.

"They're what others call extremist in the Goth Community, they usually take the idea of emotions as a hindrance and non-existent." Harold stated.

"Wow Harold, didn't know you know something about our group." said Gwen.

"OUT OF THE WAY!"

Suddenly, Jo, Scott, Brick, Eva, Josee, and Jacques came out of nowhere and ran past the others while pushing Jay and Mickey down.

"COMING THROUGH! FUTURE MILLIONAIRE RUNNING HERE!" Jo said.

"Slow down Cadet! You'll bump into something hard!" Brick shouted.

"HA! LIKE I'M GONNA FALL FOR-" She suddenly cut off when she hit an electric pole.

"HAH!" Scott laughed as he ran past her. "Watch where you're going next time gorilla gi-" He got cut-off when he hit a fire hydrant on the groin. A single tear fell down his eye.

"What a bunch of imbeciles!" Josee said. "This race for the trophy looks easy, Nothing's gonna stop me and-"

"WATCH OUT!" Jacques pulled her away from the sidewalk, and out of the blue, a tree came out flying from the sky and crashed where Josee was standing originally. It was thrown by none other than Eva, who ran past the Ice Dancers.

"If anyone's gonna win, It's gonna be me. I won't be called and seen as the first one eliminated anymore!"

While the Ice Dancers were shocked by the pure strength of Eva, A police car was heard and zoomed across the other competitors. The person driving was none other than MacArthur, with Sanders in the front seat, and from the side of the police vehicle, Geoff and Brody were shouting and having fun, while the car was zooming through a lot of red lights with their bodies popping out the windows. Bridgette was in the middle of the 2 party boys holding onto her seat.

"COME ON BABE! DO THIS WITH US! IT'S FUN! WHOOOOO HOOOOOO!"

"I'll think I'll stay put here, Geoff. You go ahead and have fun!"

"Won't we get in trouble for this?" Sanders asked MacArthur.

"OH, WE WILL! BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER CAUSE WE'RE GONNA GET THAT DOUGH BABY!" MacArthur said.

Somewhere near Casa Loma, Lindsay, Beth, Tyler, Emma, Kitty, Noah, Owen, Jen, and Tom were nearing the castle.

"We're almost there!" Noah said. "Just a little further, we just need to pass this shopping mall!"

"Can we stop for water?" Owen asked. "My throat's getting really itchy!"

"We have no time for that Owen!" Emma said. "You'll get all the water in the world if we win that money!"

Suddenly Lindsay, who was in front of the others stopped, causing the other contestants to bump into one another.

"Lindsay? Why did you stop?" Beth asked.

"THEY'VE GOT A 50% OFF SALE ON DESIGNER CLOTHES!" Lindsay squealed while pointing at the store that had a sale.

"Lindsay! We don't have time for it!" Tyler said to his girlfriend.

"Honey, trust me when I say this," Tom said while touching Lindsay by the shoulder, "that 50% sale won't do anything when we share the money to buy all designer clothes you want, sale or not."

"Really?"

"Uh Huh," Jen added, "plus those clothes in that store don't look as fab as-" as she was about to finish her sentence, she gasped for air and grabbed Tom by the jaw and pointed at the display shown through the glass. "TOM! LOOK! IT'S THE LIMITED EDITION 2010 MARCO FRANCESCO HALTER TOP SPRING COLLECTION!"

"*Gasp* THEY ONLY MADE 600 OF THOSE! I WONDER WHAT ELSE IS IN THERE! I TAKE IT BACK! LET'S SHOP FOR SOME TOP!"

All 3 of them went inside, leaving only the others to stare in disbelief. While Beth, Tyler, Noah, and Emma looked on, Owen heard and saw something he shouldn't be near… an ice cream truck passing by, going towards the opposite direction of Casa Loma.

"ICE CREAM? ICE CREAM!"

"Owen, don't you dare!" Kitty tried stopping Owen by stepping in front of him, but it was useless as Owen just ran at her, and got her hanging by his shoulder. As she screams, the others who were in complete trance snapped out of it to notice Owen starting to chase the truck.

"Kitty! Owen!" shouted Emma.

"DOWN OWEN! DON'T ME HIT YOU WITH THE NEWSPAPER AGAIN!" shouted Noah.

As they all ran after the two, a bus moved past the store driving towards Casa Loma. Inside, all of the passengers were the contestants on the hunt as well. The passengers were Chet, Lorenzo, Ellody, Mary, Beardo, Dave, Staci, Sugar, Courtney, Justin, Katie, Sadie, Miles, Laurie, Leonard, Tammy, DJ, Dwayne, Junior, Taylor, Gerry, and Pete.

"And so that's how my great-great-great aunt made the wheels for the bus, but she had this huge fight with my great-great-great-great grandmother because she believed that there should only be 6 wheels for a bus…" Staci kept on talking and talking to Chet, Lorenzo, Ellody, Mary, Beardo, and Sugar. All of them we're bored out of their minds out on what she's rambling about, except for the latter, who was hooked, line, and sinker with her lies.

"How much longer of this are we gonna take?" Ellody asked Mary.

"About an estimate of 16 minutes provided all traffic lights are green."

In the middle of the bus, Justin was looking at a mirror, admiring himself, with Katie and Sadie were dreamily staring at him.

"No matter how long it's been, Justin is still a dreamboat," Sadie said to Katie.

"Totally! Like if I were to have his babies, they'll be born, like, super handsome!"

"Nuh-uh! If I had his babies, our children will look super-duper handsome!"

"That's a lie and you know it, Sadie!"

"How about both of you shut up!" Courtney, who was sitting behind them shouted. Courtney and Dave were sitting next to each other arms crossed and angry. Without looking at each other, they chatted with little interaction.

"What are you in here for?" asked Dave.

"Need to pay my lawyers and entrance exam money. You?"

"Just making sure she doesn't get the money."

"…Harsh."

Near the back of the bus, Laurie and Miles were conversing with Leonard and Tammy, albeit the latter duo were the one doing all the talking.

"And so, Tammy and I came across the Gigantic Kraken of Muldostro. We battled it with me casting Lv. 15 freezing spells, while Tammy, the barbarian she is, slew the beast with the mighty sword, Calister!"

Laurie and Miles were just smiling at Leonard as he tells his story. Laurie leaned at Miles and whispered, "Why are talking to them again?"

"It's either them or the chatterbox up front, besides, they're not so bad. Strange, but not bad."

At the back of the bus, the older contestants were talking about their lives as young adults to Junior and DJ.

"And that's how I got my first divorce!" Gerry said laughing.

"No wonder she left you! You were a terrible husband to her!" Pete said with a smile on his face.

"If I was a terrible husband, then you're a terrible father after that milk incident with your kids!" Both of them started to laugh at their own misfortunes. DJ and Junior were looking at each other, hoping for a miracle or something to stop them from talking about their terrible life.

"You know," Dwayne talked to Pete, "It never really is easy raising kids, you'll eventually do make hiccups in their life. But that is what makes your bond with them strong."

Junior facepalmed himself due to embarrassment. He then looks up to DJ and apologizes to him. "Sorry that you're stuck with us, being behind back at the studio."

"It's cool my dude! I'm used to being with older people; momma raised me to be respectful and kind to them."

"Uhh speaking of kids, where's yours? I was hoping she would be with you?" Dwayne asked Taylor.

"Oh you know her, she's out there to prove herself. All this is happening just because some girl provoked my daughter!"

"Then why'd you still sign the contract?"

"I'm just looking out for my daughter, that's all! Who knows where she is and what dangers she's facing right now!"

"Well, you know how kids are! A free-spirited bunch!"

"Yeah!" Pete chuckled. "But never truly focused in life! That's why us veterans are gonna win this, and there is no way these young folks are gonna win this!"

"Who said we're not gonna win this!? We definitely can!" Chet heard from the back of the bus.

"Yeah! You old geezers can't possibly beat us on a foot race to the castle!" Lorenzo added. The fuel to the fire has ignited and tensions were about to rise.

"Listen here kiddos!" Gerry stood and came face to face with the younger ones. "You may have the hipbone and the cardio, but us 'old geezers' have the experience. So I say bring it on you little ankle bitters!"

With what Gerry said, the rest of the contestants were eyeing their group, and when DJ tried to push him back to his seat, the bus driver announced that they were nearing Casa Loma.

"Oh yeah!? Can you race with those knees of yours up the castle?!" Chet challenged Gerry.

"Oh, I'll even outrun you with these knees!"

*CRASH*

The contestants went flying to the sides as the bus made a sudden twist to the right. It stopped right in its tail, and the reason for it was a police car crashing onto it. It was the same police car MacArthur was driving. They all got out of their airbags and fell down onto the pavement.

"MacArtHuR….NevEeR abUSSse YoUr BaDGee AggGaIN…" Sanders said with a dizzy voice.

"Duuuuddeeee! What a ride!" Brody right before falling down to the ground and faint.

Everyone from the bus to the police car stopped in their tracks as they're still feeling the effects of the crash.

At the entrance of Casa Loma, Mike, Zoey, Dakotazoid, Sam, B, Cameron, and Dawn just arrived at the castle; they huddled up and think of a strategy to find the trophy as fast they can.

"Alright gang, we need to find that Gemmy if we want to get that prize!" Zoey exclaimed.

"So, what the plan? Any suggestions?" Mike asked the group.

"Do you guys have any hat we can put on Mike?" Cameron suggested.

"Cam, you know all my personalities are gone."

"Oh yeah…"

"Dakota smash?" asked Dakotazoid with a clenching fist.

"Pretty sure we'll get arrested if we do that." Sam puts down Dakota's fist away. "…Dawn, you can talk to animals right?"

"I can… Why?" asked Dawn with a curious face.

"Can you find a rat inside the building and asked them if they found any strange-looking award?"

"It's not that simple Sam, I can only talk to them if they talk to me. And knowing that building, I would say there are 0 chances will find a single one of them."

"Bummer."

While the others were thinking of a plan, B then had an idea. He took a stick and wrote down a formula on the ground, and when he was finished, he whistled the group to come near him. He pointed at the formula, only for Cameron to understand what it is.

"OF COURSE! IT WAS SO EASY! WE CAN BUILD A METAL DETECTOR!" Cameron then looked toward the group. "All we need is to find the right components, build it as fast as we can, and then use our handmade detector to-"

"Or we can buy that metal detector at that store over there." Zoey pointed out the convenience store across the street selling a metal detector for 200 Dollars.

"Works for us! Come on!" Mike leads the group towards the store, as they were running towards it, a new group appeared and entered the castle. The group was comprised of Rock, Spud, Cody, Sierra, Rodney, and Ella.

"Alright people, you know what needs to be done! Split up into 3 and start looking under tables." Cody said to his group.

"OH OH! I WANNA BE WITH CODY!" Sierra excitedly jumps towards him.

"Uhhhhh, maybe I should I go with Ella instead, she gonna need some help after all."

A slight eye twitch came from her, and while smiling, said "Okay…No problem."

"I should go with Spud. You know how he is…a bit slow with stuff." Rock said while grabbing his buddy by the arm. "We'll take the first floor."

"Ella and I will take the second floor, which only leaves Rodney and Sierra on the third floor. Alright everyone, break!"

They started to move away from each other to go to their respective floor.

"Where shall we look first, Prince Cody?"

Sierra's eyes widen when she heard her call Cody a Prince. "Prince?"

"Uhm…. Maybe the bedroom, Chris loves to hide things in the least expected."

"Bedroom?! I should be the one going with him to the bedroom?! If that girl thinks he'll come between me and my Codykins, she is dead wrong!" She then started to rage, which caught the eye of Rodney, who obviously, started to fall in love with her.

"I..we..maybe…I me prince…" Rodney tried to finish a sentence, but fumbles over the words as Sierra grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out of the room.

As they all split up, a new group arrived onto the scene, comprised of Heather, Alejandro, Carrie, Devin, Max, Anne Maria, and Topher. As they exited towards the garden, Heather looked at their group and said "All right, remember, if anyone of you finds the trophy, bring it to me, and maybe I'll split the money with all of you."

"Devin? Why are we with them again?" Carrie asked Devin.

"Because those two we're the finalist of World Tour, so they gotta be the strongest… also she kinda scares me."

"Sure, as lon' as I go with hot stuff here!" Anne Maria moved closer to Alejandro.

"Back off tan in a can! He's mine!" Heather then came face to face with Anne Maria, but Alejandro was able to relieve the two women before there were any hair-pulling.

"Ladies, ladies, please! There's plenty of me to go around, but alas, I am already taken by her my darling Anne Maria."

"Ugh…This is why I don't do romance. It gets in the way of my evil scheming." Max said to the couple watching afar.

"Pfft! Fine, guess I'll go for handsome no. 2. Yo! Toopic, come here to mama!" She gestures to Topher.

"Uhhh.. maybe later. Right now, that trophy must be here in the garden. If I know Chris, he's sure to put it somewhere extravagant."

Just then out of nowhere, by pure coincidence, by pure surprise, a familiar face walks out of the castle into the garden with a bunch of camera crew with her.

"And as you can see, the exterior doesn't disappoint as well, as the garden mix and match with the-"

She stopped in her words to see the surprising contestants looking at her in shock.

"HEATHER?!"

"BLAINELEY? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"What else do you think? I'm recording an episode for 'Interior Inferior.' this week's topic, Casa Loma! What are all of you doing here?"

"None of your bees-" She was cut off by Max.

"Trying to find a Gemmy Award Chris hid here in the castle so that I could get 5 MILLION DOLLARS AND BECOME THE RIGHTFUL RULER OF EARTH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Heather hit him on the head and said "Shut it, you dunce!"

"Really?!" Blaineley turned to her cameraman, "Michael, change of plans! This is much more exciting!"

"Oh no, you don't! You just want to get a good view of us hurting each other!"

"Exactly! That will bring the ratings on the show to skyrocket! I'll get a raise and finally get that 3rd beach house I needed"

While the two were arguing, Devin caught something glimmering to his side. He looked where it was coming from and what he saw made his eyes open wide. "Uh guys, I think I found the trophy!"

They all turned their heads to where Devin was pointing to see Chris' Gemmy award flying high in the sky thanks to the water fountain's jet. Heather saw the opportunity to push both Max and Anne Maria out of the way and started to run towards the golden trophy.

"That money will be mine!"

"Don't you mean ours, sweetie?" Alejandro added.

"Yeah, sure whatever!"

As Heather was closing in on the award, she smiled hugely, until she heard an unnerving voice.

"I don't think so, you washout!"

A rope came flying through the air, and was tightly secured onto the trophy and was pulled from the fountain onto a hand. The hand was owned by none other than Taylor.

"You!"

"Looks like I won't be disappointing anyone, except for you, loser!"

The two glared at each other for a short while until Heather loses it and declared to Taylor, "OH IT IS ON!"

It was indeed on, as for the fight for the award has BEGUN!

Chapter 4

The fight for the trophy has begun. Taylor was the first contestant to grab a hold of the trophy. She and Heather were at a standstill, eye to eye, face to face. They're about to start the chase until Blaineley stepped between the two and introduced herself to Taylor.

"Hi, Blaineley O'Halloran, former host and contestant of Total Drama, mind if I make commentary while we're recording?"

"Sure, why not? More angles of her being humiliated by yours truly!" Taylor gave them her approval.

"Here we are, folks! A Total Drama Showdown! The chance to win 5 Million Dollars is at stake here for Heather, as her hopes and dreams are being held by a new competitor to the show! What is your name Miss?" Blaineley moves her mic to Taylor's face, which seemed to be caught off guard of the interview, but went with it anyway.

"Oh, I'm Taylor, totally hot and totally available to all the single men out there! *Wink*"

"Anything else to say to the viewers watching?"

"Only to one person! Hi Daddy! Look! I got my first trophy! Well, technically it's not my trophy bu-"

She was interrupted and pushed down by Heather, causing the trophy to fly upwards and Heather was able to catch it perfectly.

"Rule no. 1 rookie, never let Lameley here distract you!"

"Hey!"

Taylor jumped towards Heather, making them roll around the ground numerous times until they stood up and were pulling the award back and forth!

"Will someone HELP ME HERE!" Heather called

"We got it!" Topher gestured towards Carrie and Devin to help and ran towards the two gals. But with all the back and forth pulling, there were flying elbows coming from both sides. Carrie and Devin were able to dodge them, but Topher was the unlucky one, getting hit by Heather right in the face and groin, falling down in agony. Carrie held onto Heather, and Devin held onto Taylor, where they both tried to separate them from each other, but this caused the award to fly from their hands. The Gemmy, however, safely lands on Anne Maria's hairdo, and as she pulled it out she, jumped for joy.

"Woohoo! I got the 5 mils right here! Imma rent out the 'hole Malibu beach for one huge party with this cash!" However, Alejandro tapped on her shoulders and turned on his Hispanic charm.

"Excuse me señorita, but I believe that trophy would be safer in my hands, I do not wish to have your hands get filthy holding such a dirty item."

Anne Maria, flattered by his words effortlessly gave the award to him. "Oh, whatever you say you super-hot salsa dancer!"

"Woah, he's good!" Devin exclaimed.

Alejandro now has the award in his left hand and Anne Maria on his right, he seemed to be the dominant competitor, but all that went downhill when Max tugged on his shirt.

"Yes, little one?"

"I know where McLean is right now. Here, let me whisper it to you!"

"Really? That is intriguing."

As he leans down to Max's height, one ear on his face, he was met with nothing but a huge backstab.

"HE'S AT YOUR HOUSE EAT ALL THE CAKE YOUR MOTHER HAS!" Max shouted onto Alejandro's ear, causing him to flinch out. He curses in Spanish while his eardrums was ringing, but he had no time to recover, as Max then kicks Alejandro by the shin, making him drop the award onto Max's hand. Max then started to run away the group laughing maniacally, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! FEEL THE WRATH OF BETRAYAL FOR EVIL SHALL PREVAIL!"

Everyone in the garden was in shock at what transpired. "No, that guy was good!" Carrie said.

"WHAT A TWIST! THE TABLES HAVE TURNED FOR THE WEAKEST ONE OF THE GROUP AS HE'S RUNNING AWAY WITH THE AWARD! " Blaineley excitedly said.

"Not if I have to say anything about it! Get that rascal!" The whole group plus Taylor started to run to catch him before he disappears, but they'll be surprised that he won't be going so far.

"HAHAHAHAHA! WORLD DOMINATION IS MINE!" Max was laughing while running away from his ex-teammates, he looked back for a single sec, and he slipped and fell thanks to a carpet. He let go of the award, and it started to roll away from him. "Curse you shag carpeting! I will add you to the list of first things to destroy!" The others ran past Max and started to chase after the runaway trophy.

The Gemmy stopped rolling on near below Spud, who was just listening to music and jamming out to it. Rock started to walk towards Spud, tired and exhausted, where he almost got a loose plank of wood attached to the flooring hit him as he step at its end. "Whoa! Close one! It's no use man, the Gemmy isn't here."

"Uhhh, what's a Gemmy?"

"The trophy we're looking for."

Spud just blinked. Rock needed to give a description for Spud to find out what it looks like.

"….You know, gold, yay tall, a trophy?"

Spud still blinks. Rock raised an eyebrow and sighs; he had to dumb it down a little.

"…. It's shiny."

"Ohhhhh, you mean that thing?!" Spud just pointed at the award.

"WOAH! IT'S BEEN HERE THIS WHOLE TIME?!" Rock grabbed the award and started to pull Spud towards the stair "WE GOT TO TELL THE OTHERS!"

"Not so fast amigo!" Alejandro stops the Rockers by blocking their way, then came the others. "Give us the trophy and nobody gets hurt!"

"Oh yeah, tough guy? Bring it!" Rock challenged Alejandro off to fight for the trophy. Spud who was watching slowly backed away, when he heard a squeak coming from the wooden floor. He looked and saw that Rock and the others were standing on the same giant plank of wood. He had an idea.

"Rock! I have an idea!"

Rock who wasn't paying attention only kept staring down his foes, "That's cool Spud, we can talk about your ide-" He realized what Spud said, he turned to his partner, "…idea? Spud has an idea?"

"Spud has an AWESOME idea!" Spud ran towards them and jumped high enough only for Rock to realize his plan was.

"WAIT SPUD DON- AHHHHHHH!" It was too late, as soon as he landed on the floor, everyone except Spud went flying up in the air.

Meanwhile, on the second floor inside a bedroom, Cody and Ella were peaking underneath all the furniture and pillows in search of the Gemmy.

"No good Ella, the trophy isn't here."

"Oh, I am so sorry Prince Cody, it seems like that I couldn't help you in your endeavors in finding it. I would have asked for help over this Tiger here, but alas, he is but a rug."

"Aw don't worry Ella. I'm sure it will turn up eventually."

*CRASH*

As if on cue, The Gemmy appeared from the floor with Rock's arm popping out while holding it.

"The Gemmy!" But that's not the only thing Cody noticed. "…and a bunch of limbs,… and Alejandro?!"

"Mamá, ¿dónde están mis calzoncillos? " Alejandro dizzily said.

"Cody? Brother, is that you?"

"Rock? What's going on?"

"No time! Quick pull me out of here!"

Cody puts his hands on the Gemmy and Rocks arm, and Ella puts her hands on Cody's waist and they both started to pull Rock up.

Meanwhile, outside the bedroom, Rodney and Sierra snuck up towards the door, and Sierra puts her ear on it.

"Sierra, what are we doing here? Shouldn't we be up on the third, you just us searching for the trophy up there…I mean, I don't mind if it's just us but… if you're comfortable being with me! Hehehehehe!"

"Shhhhhhhh! Quiet, I'm trying to find out what's going on!"

As Sierra leans back to the door, she had misheard what is happening inside the room.

"Almost…*grunts* out!" Cody said panting.

"I can feel it loosening!" Ella said as well.

Sierra's eyes widen and were in shock at the misinterpretation she got from the other side of the door, "OMG! That [Bleep] stealing my Cody!"

She kicks the door hard, it flew and somehow, the wooden door was able to break down and cause a hole in the brick wall. Ella notices Sierra but was unaware of the rage that was boiling in her blood.

"Oh! Sierra, would you help us pu-AHHHH!" Sierra pounced on Ella and started to roll her around.

"STAY AWAY FROM HER YOU LITTLE CODY STEALER!" Sierra said as she pulls Ella's hair.

"Sierra! Stop! what are you do-Huh?" Out of nowhere, a fishing hook came from the hole and snagged the Gemmy from Rock's hands. While the Gemmy is being dragged away, Cody is chased after it, but he was stopped by an arm that grabbed him by the ankle. The arm that grabbed him was no other than Topher."Hang on I think I got something!"

Cody couldn't get away from his grip, so he called to the only teammate who wasn't preoccupied, "Rodney! Quick, grab it before it's gone!"

Rodney starts to stomp and chase after the trophy, he jumps for it before it leaves the room "I got it!" Rodney was now outdoors and in the air and almost got the Gemmy, but missed by a pinky "I don't got it!" Rodney then fell down to the ground while the trophy was being pulled up towards a hot air balloon. It's then revealed that the ones riding the air balloon were Scarlett and Duncan.

"Look out, falling giant!" Duncan shouted. "Whooo! Bail money here we come!" he and Scarlett then high-fived each other.

And Rodney lands on the ground, Blaineley ran outside and started to narrate the events that transpired.

"And in a shocking turn of events, it looks like Duncan flew up high and became the top player to beat. But will he fly too high and burn his wings?! We'll you all better still be tuning in cause it's only gonna get crazier in here!"

Outside of Casa Loma and inside the Convenient Store…

"I don't get it, how are we a dollar short?" Mike asked the others.

"That's all the money we have from our pockets," Cameron said.

"I would've liked to contribute, but my wallet is in Africa." Dawn said.

"And Dakota's not wearing her money shorts. She got tranquilized during her wrestling match." Sam added.

A knock on the glass was heard and it came from the outside. Dakota was signaling the others to come out, which all of them hurriedly ran.

"What's wrong Dakota?"Zoey asked.

"Green-haired man has trophy!" Dakota pointed at the hot air balloon as Duncan was pumping the Gemmy up and down.

"Is that…Duncan and Scarlett? How did they get a hot air balloon?!"

"No time to ask! They're leaving with the trophy!" Mike exclaimed.

"How are we gonna get up there!? There has to be some type of leverage to get up there!" Cameron started to panic as the balloon is moving further and further from them.

B was thinking critically about how suddenly Dakota moved and blocked B of sunlight, where he noticed the giant woman, and then it hit him.

Up in the air, Duncan started to chill down a little and relaxed, but Scarlett was having none of it.

"Duncan, if you would please, take this seriously?"

"Relax, we're not gonna get caught by any of those losers down there. We're up here, they're down there, what could possibly happen?"

Out of nowhere, B appeared on the air balloon as if he jumped high enough to reach them.

"….That…That could happen." Scarlett said sarcastically.

"Wha? How'd you?"

Mike was the next one to appear, then Zoey, which both of them landed on B's shoulder.

Duncan looked behind him and saw that it was Dakota giving them a push by throwing them up. Her next human Javelin was Dawn, and as she flew up the air, she lands perfectly on Mike and Zoey's shoulders.

"Hi Duncan!" Zoey greeted her former teammate. "We'd like our trophy thank you!"

"Fat chance Zoey! You want it? Then you'd better pry it from our cold hands!" Duncan passed the trophy to Scarlett to prep himself for a fistfight, and when she caught it, B kicked it up in the air and it landed on top of the burners, causing it to start heating up.

"INCOOOMIIIIINGGGGGG!"

Cameron was nearing towards the air balloon, but due to his light weight, he was soaring faster than the others were and smacked his face onto the burners and fell inside the basket, making the Gemmy fall onto Dawn's hands. But once she grabbed a hold on it, she yelped and quickly threw it at Duncan due to the fire from the burners bringing it up to boiling heat. Duncan then yelped as well and passed it to Zoey, then Zoey to Mike, then Mike to B, then B to Scarlett and finally Scarlett to Cameron, but Cameron was unprepared and got the worst of it all. As she threw the trophy onto Cameron, he got up, and the Gemmy stuck to his face, making him scream in agony from the heat. He pulled it out of his face, but he got burnt even more, and finally, out of desperation, threw it up in the air, shredding a hole on the balloon.

"That can't be good." Mike said before they were about to be taken by the air and be flown across the city.

On the ground, Dakota was about to throw Sam onto the air balloon.

"Okay, babe! Let's go!" Sam excitedly said. As he flew into the air, the air balloon began to change its direction, moving around with the wind current, causing him to miss the air balloon and kept on flying farther and farther!

"SAM!" Dakota ran after his airborne boyfriend, stomping the ground creating a span of short quakes, but her stomping woke up the other competitors how got knockout from the crash. Blaineley on the other hand, enjoying everything that is transpiring in the city, is still commenting.

"Up in the air, is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's 8 losers flying away as a malfunction to their vehicle cost them their gold! And speaking of gold, Here it comes falling down!"

Ellody, Courtney, DJ, and Sugar were the first ones to wake up from the commotion and exited the bus.

"What happened?" Ellody asked the others.

"One moment we were almost near Casa Loma, then the next we've blacked out" Courtney answered.

"Look!" DJ pointed at the side of the bus to show the collision and dent of the bus "That's why! That police car crashed onto us!"

Courtney scanned the crash to discover two familiar faces "Is that…Geoff and Bridgette? Are they still alive?"

"It looks like they're still breathing, just out cold like the rest of the contestants inside the bus," Ellody remarked as she looked at their current situation. "And judging by the crash, I'd say we're stuck here until the bus driver wakes up!"

"We have to get this bus moving or else I won't be getting that money."

"Well, you can't expect miracles to fall from the sky! That's scientifically-" The trophy that was up in the fell perfectly onto Ellody's hand. "-impossible…"

"A TROPHY! I'LL TAKE THAT GLASSES GIRL!" Sugar swiped the trophy away from Ellody and started to hug it profusely. "AWWW! I knew the people up there know when to appreciate beauty like mine!"

Courtney effortlessly yoinked it from Sugar's tight grasp. "I'll think I'll be taking that, after all, I have bills to pay."

DJ, however, picked up the trophy by the top with his two fingers and said, "Sorry Courtney, but this one's for my momma and her dream house!"

All four of them stared at each other, before scuttling for the award. Sugar slaps the award from DJ's hand and it went flying into the air. Just then, Katie and Sadie were the next two people coming out from the bus.

"Hey, what's going on?" Katie asked.

Unbeknownst to Katie, the award went flying towards her, but she eventually caught it after it bopped her in the forehead. The four contestants pounced at Katie, but she threw the award out of fear before she was dogpiled by the others.

"Don't worry Katie I'll save you! Get off of her!" Sadie started to pull them apart from one another to get to Katie.

The trophy went flying and hit Sander on the head, waking her up. "Huh? What? What the?!" She was shocked to see the broken police car and the bodies laid out in the open "MacArthur! Wake up!"

MacArthur didn't move a muscle for quite a while, until she raised her head and told her partner, "5 more minutes!" then went back to sleep. Sanders, being angry at MacArthur for hijacking, and crashing the police car, slaps her hard enough to raise her up.

"OW! What was that for?! I told you 5 mor- HOLY SMOKES! WHAT HAPPENED HERE?"

Parallel to them was Geoff waking up, and raising Bridgette up in his arm to breathe.

"Bridgette? Babe? Can you hear me?"

"Huh…Wha? Geoff…Did I miss something?"

While he was resuscitating her girlfriend, his partner in crime Brody was revealed to be the first one to wake up from all the commotion. He was then caught attention by the trophy glimmering from the sidelines and went to it to pick it up.

"Oh, thank goodness you're okay! I swear I put you in any danger anymore!" Geoff said to Bridgette.

"DUDE, LOOK WHAT I'VE GOT!" Brody raised the trophy up in the air.

"Alright, Brody!" Geoff got too excited and accidentally dropped Bridgette from his arms. "Whoops."

While the others near the bus were still scrambling, Junior opened up his bus window, to puke from being dizzied out. As soon as he's finished, he saw Brody holding the trophy, and called the attention of those outside the bus. "Look! They've got the trophy!"

All of them stopped pushing each other, and turned their heads on Brody, and started to run towards him.

"AHHH! CATCH DUDE!" Brody threw the Gemmy like a football and it started spinning up, and after he threw it, he was tackled down by Sugar.

"I got it!" As the Gemmy went flying, Geoff jumped and raised his arms hoping to grab it, but it flew straight from him. "Oop, No I don't." The award kept on spinning towards the shopping mall until it landed inside an open unattended shopping bag, owned by Jen, who was waiting for Tom and Lindsay to finish.

"What's taking them so long? Ugh! I might as well post my new clothes on the blog." Jen turned to her shopping bags and started rustling them to grab the newly bought items for photographs, but she felt something cold and metallic inside one of the bags. She pulled the mysterious items out, "Huh? Isn't this…? *Gasp* Tom! Lindsay! I have it! I have the Gemmy!"

She tried calling the others inside the store, but she was called by MacArthur. "Oh no you don't! Police! Hand over that trophy!" Jen then got terrified it would get caught if she entered the building, so she ran towards the opposite direction MacArthur was standing.

As the police cadet and the fashionista started their chase, Tom poked his head out the door, oblivious to what was transpiring outside the clothing store. "Jen? Did you say something?"

"Tan! Look at this skirt I found!" Lindsay called her newfound friend back inside.

"Oooooh! That will look great on those shoes you've got on!"

As Jen trying her best to outrun her pursuer, an ice cream truck drove near her and it was revealed that it was hijacked by her group. Noah reached out his hand and called her. "JEN! JUMP ON!"

She grabbed onto his hand was pulled inside. The truck, being driven by Beth, accelerated until it was out of reach for MacArthur. "Danggit!" the police cadet said in frustration.

Blaineley pulls up in front of MacArthur and started to commentate again, "Oooh! Such a cold reception on that one! Looks like their opportunity to get the cold hard cash's driving off to the distance, leaving them behind to stare in devastation!" She then talked to her driver and pointed at the truck. "QUICK, FOLLOW THAT TRUCK!"

Back at the bus, the contestants from Casa Loma, being bruised and beaten from their conflict, as well as Tom and Lindsay, came near the vehicle unaware of what happened and transpired.

"Hi guys! Gosh, you all look terrible!" Lindsay said unknown to the fights the others had.

MacArthur came running at everyone and started to talk to everyone outside the bus. "GUYS! THEY'RE GETTING AWAY IN THAT ICE CREAM TRUCK!"

The bus driver came out, looking as terrible as the rest of the competitors. MacArthur pointed towards him, and asked, "Sir! Is the bus still in good condition?!"

"It has a giant bump on it," the bus driver said as he moves towards and opens the engine compartment "but the engine seems to be intact."

"GOOD! BECAUSE I'M COMMANDEERING THIS VEHICLE! "

"WHAT?! MacArthur, you can't just commandeer a-" Sanders starts to scold her partner, but she wasn't able to finish because MacArthur was too focused on getting back the trophy.

"QUICK! EVERYONE INSIDE THE BUS!" MacArthur gestured to everyone outside.

Chapter 5

Inside the ice cream truck, Noah was holding onto the award, devising a plan to get them all away from the horde of people they're running away from. "Okay, here's how it goes, we stop near the studio, where Chris might be at right now, and start to go there by foot, making Beth drive away as the whole cast starts chasing after us. But little did they know we don't have the trophy, as it will be hidden here inside the freezer. While we're in the studio, we grab Chris and carry him outside with Beth waiting for us at the parking lot, giving him the Gemmy and get that 5 million. Everyone clear on that?"

"That sounded like a great plan little buddy," Owen said to his best friend. "I just hope we don't get sidetrack into something insane, Hehehehe!"

"Alright, we're almost at the studio," Emma proclaimed, "we just need to get past Riverdale and-"

The truck suddenly started to swerve left and right making everyone inside it loses their balance.

"Beth! What's going on!?" asked Tyler.

"They're rolling wheels spinning towards us! Someone's trying to hit us!" Beth said while steering back and forth from left to right.

As the truck gets out of balance, Noah tripped from all the swerving and let go of the award, where it perfectly landed inside the mouth of Owen.

"I got it!" Kitty then pulled the trophy out of his mouth, hitting his sibling Emma with it in the process. "Sorry abo-" She couldn't finish her sentence, as she screamed to the top of her lungs what she saw at the driver's window…a fallen tree in the middle of the road.

Beth hit the brakes as she was nearing the tree, but the sudden stop causes Kitty to lose her grip and had the Gemmy flew across the track, hitting Tyler on the head, making him dizzy and fell towards the floor. The Gemmy then starts to roll away outside the truck, where the truck stopped in front of a huge school located somewhere in Riverdale.

This school was so massive, that the field of the entrance to the school would be considered as a small park. Its exteriors looked as if they were crafted in the mid-19th Century, coated in blue and white paint, with numerous buildings were towering one another.

The Gemmy stopped somewhere on the field, open for the taking, and it was soon taken by Jo, "I'll be taking that! Jo wins again!"

As she was showboating the trophy to herself, Scott was running towards her and said, "I don't think so!", then pounced onto her. They were both struggling to grab ahold of it, as both members were rolling around and pushing each other away from the Gemmy. As Jo was on top and Scott, she forcibly took it away from his hands, and rose above her head, making sure he couldn't reach it as he was laying on the grass on his back, but it was a huge mistake as Jacques jumped above Jo and snatched if from her.

"Great job Scotty!" Jo blamed her foe.

"Me? You're the one who couldn't get a good grip on it!" As Scott stated the obvious, she punched him in the jaw, making Scott retaliate by grabbing her by the jacket and made them start to roll around again.

Meanwhile, Jacques ran back to his partner with a huge grin on his face. "Josee! Look what I've got!"

"YES! Finally, 1st Place! We're no. 1! We're no. 1! "

As he was nearing toward her, another tree went flying up in the air and blocked Jacques in his tracks. The person who was throwing all the random items at the contestants was revealed to be Eva. She jumps and landed in front of Jaques, grabbed him by the collar, looked him dead and the eyes, and threatens him. "What's it gonna be, the trophy, or your lives?"

Scared for his life, he hastily gave the Gemmy to Eva. As she grabs the award, Eva threw Jacques as hard as she could towards his partner and starts running away, but then he was halted by Brick.

"I'm afraid I have to stop you right there Ma'am! That was very un-sportsmanship like and I suggest yo- *Bonk*", Eva hits brick with the trophy and made him woozy and fell to the ground, not before him spitting nonsense, "Ima Preatey BaLLrENiA!"

Eva smiled that there is no one else to stop her, but she thought wrong.

"HEY, SISTER STEROIDS!"

She looks behind her and saw that she was taunted by Leshawna, with her group behind her.

"I think you have something that belongs to us!"

Eva started to get infuriated as she had to face off another group of people, and out of anger and desperation, she bent the Gemmy and threw it at the others. She turned the trophy into a boomerang.

Harold and Trent stepped in front of the others.

"Don't worry guys! Harold and I totally got this!"

"I'll get it for you Leshaw-", but he got cut off as the trophy hits him and Trent.

"Harold! Oh, that is it!"

As Leshawna charges at Eva, the "trophy-rang" was still spinning. The others were able to avoid being hit; Gwen was able to duck, Crimson and Ennui stepped to the side, and Mickey and Jay bumped into each other making them fall down and miss the weapon.

Stephanie and Ryan on the other hand got caught with it, first hitting Ryan, because he was too big, then Stephanie because it was roaming back toward Eva.

When Leshawna started to lock hands with Eva, she ducked right on time before being hit by the returning trophy. Eva catches it, as swung it at Leshawna, who dodges the hit and grabbed the trophy, causing another back and forth stalemate.

Meanwhile, on top of a building, Izzy was climbing up a Telecommunication antenna, with Lighting following her. Lightning was starting to worry about how far they've climbed.

"Yo, crazy girl! Isn't this a bit too high?"

"Nonsense! We'll have the perfect view finding the trophy right here!"

Below the two of them were the others that followed Lightning up.

"Should we follow them up there?" Sammy asked.

"If we can get a better view, then I guess we could?" Sky questioningly.

"I don't know about that but I can see things perfectly fine right here." "In fact, I can see two chicks fighting it out at that school down here!"

And true enough, it was revealed that they were directly below the school, a street away to be exact.

"Fighting?" Jasmine squinted her eyes and saw something glimmering between them. "*Gasp* they've got the Gemmy! Come on!"

The rest of the group started to climb back down the building, leaving Lightning and Izzy on the antenna.

Back down, Eva was pulling the Gemmy away from Leshawna with all her strength, which was working as her foe's fingers started to loosen up one by one. Leshawna doesn't want to lose, so in desperation, she kicked the trophy out of both of their hands and it went flying, but Gwen was watching them fight the whole time, saw the opportunity, and quickly grabbed the trophy.

"I got it!" Gwen raised it to celebrate her perfect catch, but it was short-lived as a van was nearing her. She jumped out of the way letting go of the trophy, and then when the van stopped at where Gwen was, the van hit the trophy got bounced up again. The culprits inside were Blaineley and her camera crew.

"Quick, keep rolling! We need all the action we can get!"

As the Gemmy was up in the air for the gazillionth time, Eva tried to go after it, but Leshawna jumps at her and pins her to the ground. But eventually, the person who caught the Gemmy was Sky, who was able to drop down as fast as she can to catch the award. When all four of them came down from the building, they were met with Jacques and Josee.

"Give us the trophy! I won't be humiliated again!" Josee said in a fit of rage.

As both of them ran towards the Sky, she looked behind them and called for one of her teammates' attention, "Jasmine catch!"

As Jasmine catches the Gemmy, the Ice Dancers quickly turned foot and charges at her. She called for her boyfriend's attention and threw the before being pushed down by the two trophy chasers. "Shawn!"

Shawn effortlessly ran up to it and catches, but once he caught it, he came face to face with the Goths, and had them mistaken for the one thing he fears the most, "Zombies! AHHHHHHHHHHH! Sammy!"

He throws the trophy out of fear, and as Sammy was about to catch it, she heard not only a familiar voice, but also one identical to hers.

"SAMEY!"

"Amy?"

Her twin sister, who is currently covered in filth, was furious she left her by the dumpster and tackles her away from the falling Gemmy. As it lands on the ground once more, Mickey and Jay, who were hiding behind a bush tried to grab it, but suddenly, the hot air balloon that was flying all around Toronto came crashing on to them, pushing all of them at a tree, making all the contestants hanging from it.

"Whoa, cool place." Mike commented on the school ground they landed on.

Back at the top of the building, Izzy and Lightning we're almost at the top of the antenna.

"Look! We're almost at the top!"

"You know, Lightning starting to think this was a bad idea!"

Izzy turned down to Lightning. "There's gonna be Lightning?"

As Izzy turned away for a second, the top of the antenna vigorously rocked for a few seconds. They both turned to see Sam with his trousers stuck on the tip.

"Oh, hey guys!" Sam said.

All of a sudden, the ground started to rumble. They turned and find Dakota running toward them and her boyfriend. She jumps up and tried to land on the antenna, but due to her weight and size when she clung to it, she accidentally pushed it towards the school. Lightning and Izzy let go of the antenna before it started falling, but they started to free fall to the ground after. Dakota grabbed Sam before they impacted the school, having the antenna breaking a chunk of the building down. As Dakota fell butt first on the antenna, her arm formed into a slide, giving Lightning and Izzy a perfect opportunity to slide onto it and do a somersault. Lightning went first and did a perfect somersault.

"Lightning Sha-Scores!" He then notices the trophy that was between his feet. He picked it up and celebrated again. "Oh yeah! Double Lightning score! Sha-boo-"

Izzy then lands on top of Lightning with a somersault of her own, tossing the trophy up and it landed safely onto Izzy's hand.

"Izzy's got the gold! Touchdown!"

Izzy threw the trophy onto the ground and it bounced around the grass and landed near the debris of the school. When Dakota got up from the impact, the antenna moved slightly upwards, where a giant piece of stone fall down and hit the trophy, causing the trophy to break into 43 tiny pieces after all it went through.

"…..Whoops. Shouldn't have done that I guess."

The bus full of the contestants arrived a bit late, and every single contestant went near the broken trophy. Blaineley came walking towards them with a mic on her hand, and was about to finish her commentary.

"In a shocking turn of events, and after all the destruction and chaos that they've left behind, it came to this! All of their hopes and dreams shattered! They're now questioning if all that trouble was worth it!"

"…..What now?" Asked Mary.

A few seconds later, a helicopter went flying down landed onto the field, and outcomes Chris and Don.

"I told you that Chef was a good pilot," Chris said confidently.

"Yeah, and you told me that he's also unlicensed so that obviously didn't scare me." Don said sarcastically.

Once they both turn around, they were shocked by what they saw.

"What just happened?" Don asked.

"AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY TROPHY!?" Chris ignores all the debris around them and focused on his now shattered Gemmy.

"CHRIS!" Blaineley started to run towards the two of them. "I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THE FOOTAGE YOU GAVE ME! THIS GONNA BE TV GO-" She stopped her sentence and took notice of Don being next to him. Her smile faded away and started to glare at the said host. "Hello, Don…."

Don did the same as well and glared back at her. "Hello, Mildred…."

Chris ignoring both of them started to walk towards all of the contestants. "You people are insane! How could you have destroyed the one thing that is important in my life? I can take all the insults and beatings, but I will NOT stand you all breaking anything dear to me!"

"Aw come on Chris," Owen said. "I'm sure we can fix it with some glue and some tape."

"Sure, maybe, but the image of it in pieces will be imprinted in my head forever!"

"Oh stop being a drama queen Chris!" Heather said.

Chris turned his back on the contestants and started to ramble, "I can see the headlines now, 'Chris McLean's Inaugural Gemmy Award for Best Host, shattered here in Rosedale by ungrateful contestants!'"

"Kinda long to be a headline dude." Tyler stating the obvious.

"WHAT IN 'GREAT COPERNICUS' HAPPENED TO THE SCHOOL?!"

The raspy feminine voice came from the entrance of the school, where a woman in her late 50's, brown hair tied to a top bun with numerous white streaks all over, wrinkles on her face, pure red lipstick covering both lips, and reading glasses in front of her blue eyes. Every single clothes she had was pure black; a black blouse, a black blazer, a long black skirt dropping down to her ankles, and black stiletto heels. She walked towards the bulk of people crowding the trophy itself.

"EXPLAIN YOURSELVES ON WHY YOU ALL ARE LOITERING IN FRONT OF THE BROKEN BUILDING!"

As she scans the crowd, a familiar face stood against all of the people in the crowd. "Christian McLean! I never expect to see you here in my grounds!"

"Wait…..Ms. Fincher?! What are you doing here?!" Chris turns his head towards the school's sign near the entrance. He figured out instantly why she is here.

"It is now Headmistress Fincher if you will! Now explain! Why are you herein, and who are these hooligans with you?!"

"Uhhh…why don't we talk inside the school? The rest of you, go back to the studio, I'll deal with the rest of you later."

The scene cuts inside a school office, with Ms. Fincher on the phone talking to someone while Chris, Chef, Don, and Blaineley were waiting for her to finish. "Uh-huh, I see….yes sir. I will inform them this instant."

She puts down the phone and glared at all four of them on the news she just received. "Well I just talked to the mayor of the city, and let's just say that someone wants you to pay for the irreparable damage your so-called 'contestants' did to the city, not to mention the damage you caused to the school with that giant freak bringing down an antenna!"

"You see about that….."Chris sheepishly tried to answer.

"I mean you can pay me half of the 5 Million dollars directly to the school, and the other half to the municipal, but unfortunately, there is no cash prize, all because of your ego of being the better host took control."

"….Uhhhhh…."

"I mean honestly, what were you trying to accomplish with that stunt? This is something you would do back when I was teaching you manners and Trigonometry!"

Chris cannot say anything due to the overwhelming aura of her old teacher until Chef came in and spoke for him.

"Excuse me Headmistress Fincher, but I would like to apologize on behalf of his actions towards you, the school, and the city."

"An apology won't be enough to build the foundations back up."

"You hear that Blaineley?" Don said while tapping her with his elbow to grab his attention. "Apologies don't fix problems certain people made."

"What? You're accusing me?" Blaineley said in surprise. "It was clearly you who-"

"QUIET!" Fincher stopped their bickering before it escalated and turned back the attention to Chris. "Now Mr. McLean, obviously what happened wasn't your doing, but you clearly stated this so the mayor is also putting the blame on you. He also stated that if you can't pay for the damage you've caused, you and those responsible will be locked up in federal prison for the rest of your lives."

Chris was in shock at the ultimatum given to him, "JAIL? I can't go to jail….again….plus I don't have enough money, I used all of it to buy all of my mansions!"

"Why can't you sell some of your mansions to get the money?" asked Chef, stating the obvious answer to the problem at hand.

"You kidding? No way am I selling one of those bad boys! You know how hard it is to get those lots?"

"Well if you're not gonna sell them, what can you do?"

Chris started to think of a way to avoid jail. Being Chris, he always tries to find a way to benefit and satisfy both himself and others. He looked behind the seated teacher to see the school's motto on a golden plaque. The motto was written in Latin and said "aedificationem competitive paragones" which translates to "building competitive paragons." What caught Chris' attention was the word competitive, making him smile and had another idea. "Chef, called the producers, I have a solution."

An hour has passed, and all of the contestants were waiting for Chris and the others to return back to the studio, then a few seconds later, they came walking with a TV behind them, and Headmistress Fincher trailing behind.

"Hello contestants, do I have news for you?" Chris greeting the contestants back.

"You're getting fired?" Noah jokingly said.

"You wish! No! I have good news and bad news! Let's start off with the bad news first. Now as you know, I can't give one of you the 5 Million Dollars, because none of you gave me my Gemmy back as it was shattered back at the school. However, here comes the good news, generous as I am, I'll be giving you guys another chance for the money!"

They all started to cheer as they heard the good news, but before it went on into a full-blown celebration, Chris cuts them off.

"But here's the problem, there are currently 82 contestants here, which is extremely difficult to handle, so some of you won't be able to participate."

As soon as they all hear this, they all started to grumble on the possibility that they might not be a participant.

"Wait, so who gets to compete?" Cody asked.

"Good question, we tried to figure out how to cut down the competition to at least half of 82, but that won't be fair and unbiased to all of you, so I had the idea on the people who came close to getting the 5 Million."

"But that doesn't make any sense," Beth said. "You weren't near us for the whole race."

"True, but thanks to Blaineley capturing everything with her camera crew, we came to a consensus that those who made contact with the award will earn that chance. Blaineley, if you will."

Blaineley opened up the TV and showed snippets of the whole recording, and revealed who the contestants were.

"Congrats to the following: Taylor, Heather, Anne Maria, Alejandro, Max, Rock, Cody, Duncan, Scarlett, Dawn, Zoey, Mike, B, Cameron, Ellody, Sugar, Courtney, DJ, Katie, Brody, Jen, Noah, Kitty, Jo, Scott, Jacques, Eva, Leshawna, Gwen, Sky, Jasmine, Shawn, Lightning, and Izzy!"

Those who were called upon were ecstatic, but the others were not.

"But wait! There's more! Due to technicality: Sanders, Owen, Emma, Tyler, Brick, Trent, Harold, Ryan, and finally, Stephanie. Congratulations to all of those who were called, because you all get a chance to win 5 Million Dollars!"

The rest that was called suddenly lit up and joined the others to celebrate qualifying for the money. Once it toned down a bit, they all started to speculate on how the money is going to be won.

"So what do we do? Do we fight it out in one huge stage like a battle royale?" Cody speculated.

"Maybe we'll play it out like a game show!" Harold said.

Chris interrupted all the chatter, "Or maybe you'll all be going back…..TO SCHOOL!"

And in unison, everyone in the Peanut Gallery went "Huh?"

"Let me explain." Chris then started to lie. "Due to your excessive behavior getting the trophy, you've caused property damage to Toronto. The mayor wants us to pay for the damage to everything broken in the city, but the price they're asking is 10 million dollars! Obviously, the producers and I had to give away the original 5 million to pay off half the debt."

"So we're all basically fighting for nothing?" Leshawna asked.

"Not exactly. You see, I had the brilliant idea of getting your money and the money you own to the city."

"And that would be?" Sky asked.

"One word: Sponsorship. If we can grab a hold of numerous sponsors, we'll be able to dig up the 10 million needed, and by doing that, is by producing a new season of Total Drama!"

"I'm starting to understand the whole plan of yours, but why do we need 'to go back to school'?" Ellody said while trying to piece all the clues together.

"You see the woman behind me?" Chris turns and points to his old teacher, "That is Headmistress Fincher. Back when I was a kid, she was my teacher in mathematics. She now runs my alma mater, Crestheart, the school you dropped an antenna on. She would have liked to press charges, but with our history and all, and her being a fan of Total Drama, she decided not to do so at all. As long as we get the money needed for the repairs for the school, she decided to keep a close eye on us while filming by offering my old school as the next location for the new season to take place in."

"You mean we'll spend the whole season in a school within the city?" Noah asked angrily.

"Oh no! The one you've damaged was Crestheart Elementary, I didn't go there and she was only here because of a monthly visitation," Chris then clicked on to the next slide to show a gigantic school in the middle of the forest near a lakeside. "The school you'll be staying in and the school she's looking after is Crestheart Boarding School in Quebec, Canada. For the past 4 years of my life, I stayed and conquered the hardship thrown at me, and now, it will be your time to survive the dangers of going back to the best time of your lives."

Chris then looks at the camera. "To all loyal viewers watching, mark your calendars, because in 5 days, you'll get to watch all these contestants battle it out in challenges, rivalries, and detention, so that only one will stand to win the whopping prize of 5….Million….DOLLARS! So be ready, and tune in on TOTAL….DRAMA….DROPOUT!"

Author's Notes: AAAANNNDDD THERE YOU HAVE IT, FOLKS! This has been the prequel to my upcoming fanfiction, Total Drama Dropout. The reason why I've separated the prologue and the main story is because (1), I wanted to give this the same vibe Total Drama did for Action and World Tour, giving the suspense of who's competing and who won't, and (2) The main story won't be out until December to January 2022, I have a lot on my plate right now and I want to release the chapters in a consecutive day, and that be on Saturdays (UCT), but don't fret because, by the time I'm going to release it, I have plenty of ammo (finished chapters) to release even without the other chapters completed or finished yet. If you're interested when it's gonna be released, just give this story a follow and I'll post a new chapter that will announce the same day of release.

Thank you for all the follows and favorites that this story got, and I hope you guys tune in for the upcoming story that is...Total Drama Dropout!

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