White Elephant

White Elephant  Prologue
Chris McLean stood in an abandoned parking lot, looking directly at the camera. “Hello, and welcome to the newest season of Total Drama!” He gave a large grin. “This season will be held in this abandoned city, where our victims, uh, contestants, will compete in deadly challenges based on colors.” He paused to give the camera another smile. “With a whole new cast, who knows what could happen! Stay tuned to see the most dangerous, most exciting, and, most of all, most dramatic season of Total Drama Tumblr yet! This is Total. Drama. Colors!!!”

White Elephant  Part 1
'''Twenty colorfT|ul contestants arrive to the abandoned city in order to compete for another million dollars. They are divided into four teams, where they learn all about the competition that awaits them. Unfortunately for the lot of them, a surprise twenty-first contestant arrives and completely screws up Chris' plans. With a flick of the wrist and a massive headache, the host announces where they all are staying and where to go for their first challenge: racing sleds.'''

Plot
The camera came back to find Chris in the same spot, his trademark white grin on his face. “As you know, the challenges this season are themed off of colors. So, we picked quite the colorful cast to compete. This might be our wackiest cast yet!” As he spoke, an unmarked bus pulled up behind him in the parking lot. “Speaking of which, here they are now!” He gave the bus one look before turning back to the camera.

“We’ve got some exciting things planned for these teens, so let’s get started!”

The bus’ door opened with a woosh, Chef sitting in the driver’s seat muttering about how he had to do everything on this show and they didn’t pay him enough for this. Chris ignored him. The contestants began stepping off of the bus, one at a time.

The first contestant off of the bus was a rather tall girl with light brown hair that fell all the way to the middle of her back. Her pale blue eyes blinked at the sudden light, and she shielded them with a hand as she walked over to Chris. She wore a sharp looking white blazer with a black tie.

“Jillian, welcome!” Chris greeted her.

The girl’s face turned a little red at someone talking to her. “Ha, yep, that's me, Jillian, Jill… I mean, umm, hello.” The girl walked off to the side a little, muttering to herself, “Stupid Jill, this was your first impression for the whole show.” She frowned as she got to her place.

A slight clacking sound came from the bus as the next contestant exited. Her brown hair was pulled into a ponytail, and her bangs partially covered one eye. She wore a blue shirt and green-grey shorts. But what was most shocking about her were her eyes. They were such a light blue that they were almost white, and they looked milky. The tapping sound came from a cane that the girl was using as she held the railing to get down the stairs.

“Umm, Arizona, do you need a hand?” Chris called to her.

“No thanks, I’m fine.” Arizona stepped off of the bus and stood facing the side of the parking lot. “Hello, my name is Arizona. As you can probably tell-”

“Arizona? You’re facing the wrong way.” Chris walked over to the girl and turned her to the right direction.

A slight flush filled Arizona’s cheeks, but she didn’t let it bother her. “As you can probably tell, I’m blind, but I’m still in it to win it! I can do anything anyone else can do!” She waved her cane a little and walked off to the side like Jillian had. It ended up being in the opposite direction, but who was really counting?

A boy sauntered off the bus with a wide grin on his face. He had brown eyes and black hair in a bowl haircut. He wore a straw hat on his head, agreen hoodie, and faded blue jeans. He walked straight over to Chris, his black flip flops slapping on the asphalt. “Thanks for lettin me on the season, Chris. Ya won’t regret it!”

“I’m.. sure I won’t, Dennis.”

Dennis flashed an even wider grin and went to stand next to Jillian. As he walked, a fake spider fell out of his pocket. He swooped down to pick it up and stood next to Jillian, who moved a step away.

Another boy stepped off the bus, raking back his brown bangs back with a hand. He wore a light blue shirt under a darker blue overshirt with grey shorts. He quickly took in his surroundings with his brown eyes and then made his way over to the other contestants.

“Great to be here, Chris,” he smiled.

“Thanks, Matt. How’s Kelsey doing?”

“She’s good, she-”

“I mean, getting so far and then losing out on a million dollars as the runner up? Gotta hurt.”

Matt gave a nervous laugh. “Uh, yeah. We’ve really been fine though.” He joined the other contestants, standing near Dennis, who was trying to keep various small objects in his pocket. A few more spiders fell out, which he quickly retrieved. Matt moved until he was next to Arizona, who reached forward to touch his shoulder before smiling at him and giving a wave.

“Just making sure where you were,” she explained, motioning to her eyes.

Back at the bus, a girl was stepping off. She had brown eyes and light blue hair that was fell partially down her back, with part in a ponytail high on her head. She wore a yellow and black shirt with grey jean shorts and grey boots. She stepped quickly off the bus, heading for Chris.

“Alice, nice to see you!”

“Thanks, Chris.” She gracefully stepped over to the other contestants, electing to stand next to Arizona.

“Hello!” Arizona said, waving in Alice’s general direction. Alice gave the girl a wave back. A confused expression covered Arizona’s face. “Hello? Are you there?”

Matt nudged Alice. “She’s blind,” he whispered in her ear.

“Oh!” Alice turned back to Arizona. “Hello!” She said. Arizona looked relieved and smiled.

A girl stepped off the bus with crimped blond hair and green eyes. She wore a hot pink crop top with high waisted green shorts, a purple, pink, and blue windbreaker with a block pattern, and pink jelly sandals, with a blue wire choker around her neck. She wore a purple scrunchie around her wrist and was just beaming as she got off the bus. She ran over to Chris and waved brightly.

“Hey, Chris!!! Hey, other contestants! I’m Gaile!” She spoke with a New York accent. “It’s great to be here, this season is going to be coolio!”

The other contestants just kind of stared at the girl, with the exception of Arizona.

“Riiiiiight… cool…io…” Chris replied.

Gaile bounced over to Jillian, who by this point had moved far away from Dennis. “Hi, I’m Gaile, what’s

your name?”

Jillian flushed again. “I’m Jillian-uh, Jill.”

“Well Jill, it’s totally wicked cool to meet you!!” Gaile wound her scrunchie around her wrist and bounced

on her heels a bit as she looked around, taking everything in.

Another girl stepped off of the bus, tripping a bit on the last step but righting herself before she fell. She had a long ponytail of black hair swept off of her face, and wore a lavender tank top with the outline of a purple eye, dark blue skinny jeans, and black combat boots. The attention of the group was drawn to the tattoos that covered both of her arms. Her left arm had a blue eye on her wrist with a viper crawling up from it. As it went up her arm, the viper shed it’s skin until it was only a skeleton. She had another blue eye near her shoulder. On her right arm, flames seemed to shoot up her wrist to her elbow, where a green snake coiled up to her shoulder, appearing to be about to eat a green eye. She half ran over to Chris, still flailing after her almost fall.

“Hey there, Chris!! Hey, everyone else! I’m Mallory, ‘sup?” she said, smiling widely.

Most of the the cast were still staring at her tattoos, and Chris looked a bit unprepared to answer the question, so the girl nodded a little and stepped over to join the others, tripping again over something non-existent on the ground. She righted herself and stood next to Gaile, who looked away from her tattoos to give her a wave and a smile.

As the cast continued to stare at Mallory, a small boy stepped off of the bus. He had brown hair and eyes,

and wore an oversized hoodie and pants. He had a backpack on his back. He looked around with wide

eyes, then quietly slipped a camera out of his bag. He focused it at the group, and took a picture, a smile on his face.

At the click and flash, the cast and Chris turned around, looking shocked at the fact that he was standing

right there. The boy slipped his camera back into his bag and walked over to Chris.

“Hello, Dakota,” Chris regarded him.

“Hello, Chris!” Dakota said, smiling up at him. He really was quite small. Dakota walked over to the rest of the contestants, standing next to Jillian, who was a good deal taller than him and looked down at him as she waved hello. He waved back, the sleeve of his hoodie falling over his hand.

The clank of large boots startled everyone away from Dakota and back to the bus. A girl emerged, walking tall. The cast blinked a bit, not quite knowing what to make of her.

To put it simply, she looked like a pirate. Her eyes were an almond brown, and her shoulder length curly black hair was covered by a deep purple do-rag. She wore a long, dull purple trench coat with golden highlights, with a plain white shirt underneath. Long, baggy purple pants extended from her shirt to her large, black boots. She wore an antique-looking compass around her neck and had a gold earring in her left ear. She put a hand above her eyes to shield them as she looked out, then spotted the others and began walking to them.

“Ahoy there, Chris!” She called, waving her hand around.

Chris lifted his hand in reply. “Ahoy…” He paused to consult a note card he held in his hand. “…The Baroness?”

“Arrrr, that’s me name!” The Baroness said, reaching the group. She gave the rest of the cast a look. “Are these the other landlubbers? Which ones are on me crew?”

Chris gave a little nervous sounding laugh. “We haven’t said the teams yet… The Baroness?” He still said her name rather awkwardly, wording it as a question.

“Yep, that’s me name.” The Baroness replied again, her back turned to Chris as she looked at the other contestants. “So, I guess this means ye’re all me crew for now… or does it mean ye’re all me enemies?” She squinted her eyes suspiciously and walked over to the group, standing at the far edge past Jillian.

A large yawn alerted the group back to the bus, where a boy with black hair and deep brown eyes stood. He wore a lime green collared shirt beneath a pale orange sweater, with slightly baggy mint green pants. His large shoes were light blue, and he wore a pair of dark sunglasses on top of his head. There were dark circles under his eyes. He kind of shuffled over to Chris, covering his eyes against the bright light.

“Welcome, Benny!” Chris exclaimed.

Benny yawned again and looked at the host. “Yeah…” He trailed off and his eyes drooped. A few seconds later, he shook himself and looked a bit perkier. “Thanks, Chris!” He shuffled off and stood between Dakota and The Baroness, not even noticing her pirate outfit. He slipped his sunglasses over his eyes and just stood there, not saying anything.

Another boy walked out of the bus next, his hair black but dyed a bright red underneath and covered by a red beanie with feathers sticking out. He had blue eyes, one of which was hidden under his hair and hard to see, and wore a dark hoodie and white jeans with red sneakers. He wore a pendant around his neck. He walked over to Chris and raised a hand.

“Hey there, Ry.” Chris said, nodding at him.

Ry nodded back. “Hey,” he replied and walked over to the other contestants, choosing the first available space, which happened to be next to Dennis, who was standing all alone in the exact middle of the other contestants, everyone having gradually moved away from him until he had a wide berth. Ry gave an easy smile at the boy, seemingly unfazed by him. Dennis gave a wide grin in response, which was quickly becoming his usual expression.

Another girl stepped off of the bus, drawing the cast’s attention. She had eyes that were such a dark brown that they appeared black, and scruffy auburn hair with a black chunk. The auburn hair was obviously dyed, and the roots were beginning to come back in black. She wore a backwards baseball cap, a short black tank top, deep green cargo shorts, and dirty red converse. She had three visible ear piercings and wore a studded bracelet and two black threads around her wrist. She had a few scars, mostly on her knees. She scruffed up her hair and walked over to Chris.

“Hey, Chris,” she said, nodding at him with a cocky smile on her face. She spoke with a London accent. “Hell of a day to start the season, it’s ****in’ boiling out here.” The word was bleeped out due to censoring.

“Hello, Mika,” Chris replied. “The other contestants are standing over there.” He indicated the rest of the cast. Dakota gave a tiny wave and a smile.

Mika hesitated for a few seconds, seemingly solely because someone in authority had told her to, then finally gave up and joined the others, standing next to Ry. He nodded at her and lifted his hand. She inclined her head back at him, taking off her hat and scruffing up her hair a bit more.

A semi small person stepped off of the bus, sliding their hands along the metal bar on the side of the steps. They had short blond hair and bright blue eyes, and freckles scattered across their face. They wore dark grey pants and black flats. Their most distinguishing feature was a large hoodie that they wore. It was black and oversized, the sleeves covering the person’s hands. It had two ears on top, and two marks that represented closed eyes. They quietly approached the group, the others watching curiously.

“Hello, T,” Chris said, but in a quieter voice than he had used with the other contestants. T had a very peaceful, calm aura that seemed to subdue the whole group a bit.

“Hello, Chris,” T replied with a small smile, then turned to the group of contestants. “It’s a pleasure to meet you all,” they said, then walked over to the group, standing next to Matt. They gave a smile and small wave up to the older boy, then turned their attention back to the bus.

A girl bounded off of the bus, running over to the other contestants before they even realized that she was there. She had high, spiky, red pigtails and pale green eyes that darted around excitedly, taking everything in. She wore a long sleeved shirt and simple shorts. One of her sleeves was torn off, while the other one was so long it flopped over her hand. She had no shoes.

“Hey, Chris!” she said cheerfully, her eyes taking quick looks at each of the other contestants. She was missing an upper tooth.

“GAHH!!” Chris leaped backwards, surprised at the girl’s sudden entrance. He quickly recovered, clearing his throat. “I mean, hello, Selene,” he replied, backing several steps away from the girl. “You can just, go over there now,” he said, pointing to the other contestants.

Selene happily bounded away, taking another look at the other contestants before her eyes landed on Benny, who was still standing completely still. She approached him curiously, walking fully around him and waving her hand in front of his eyes. When he still didn’t react, she looked to the Baroness, who was standing next to him.

“What do you think’s wrong with him?” she questioned.

The Baroness simply shrugged. “Ye got me there, lassie. Maybe he just be the quiet type.”

Selene, thinking, backed a few steps away from him, then ran at full speed towards Benny and jumped on him, making a strange, wolfy growl. Benny gave the highest pitched scream anyone in the group had ever heard, and turned to face Selene, his glasses falling off his head. Selene lifted her head from where she had currently been biting the collar on Benny’s shirt, and grinned.

“Whew, you’re alive!” She chirped with relief. “You weren’t moving, and I thought you were dead! But you’re ok now!”

Benny, his eyes still wide with shock, backed several steps away from Selene, who was now chewing on the floppy sleeve of her shirt. She smiled at him again, and he took another step, his wide eyes watching the girl.

Another girl emerged from the bus, walking with a bit of a flounce to her step as she sauntered off the bus. She was very short, with magenta eyes and brown hair that she pulled into a high ponytail. She wore a light grey, patched jacket over a cerulean bandeau, with magenta pants and grey, tall boots with cerulean laces.

“Yo, Chris!” She called as she walked over to him. As she got closer and closer, she seemed to become shorter and shorter, until when she finally came up to the group, she was at least a head shorter than most of the contestants.

“Good to see you here, Kiki,” Chris replied in a sweet tone, looking down on the girl.

Kiki looked agitated, and scowled at the host. “Just ‘cause I’m short don’t mean you gotta talk to me like I’m a kid!”

Chris cleared his throat a little, trying to cover the smile that was spreading onto his face. “Of course not, Kiki. You can just go and join the other contestants now.” As she walked away he muttered, “Run along,” under his breath, followed by a slight snicker. Luckily, Kiki seemed not to have heard him and walked to the available spot, which was on the other side of Dennis. He grinned his freaky smile at her and she popped the gum she was chewing in the direction of his face. His smile was broken only for a moment, and both turned back to face the bus.

A very beautiful girl emerged from the bus, and all eyes went to her. She had wavy brown hair with red highlights and warm brown eyes. She wore a black t-shirt, red shorts and black sneakers. She walked over to the group, giving a slight wave. She smiled, showing off pearly white teeth. Many of the boys and a few of the girls stared as if struck by her beauty. She neared Chris after her rather slow walk, making sure the cameras got a good look at her.

“Lavender, I’m so glad you could make it,” Chris said, giving a slight nervous-sounding chuckle. “The other contestants are, umm, they’re over there.”

“I noticed,” Lavender replied. “Thanks, Chris.” She blew him a kiss before walking over to the group, wedging herself between T and Matt.

“Hey, I’m Lavender,” she said to the boy.

“I’m, umm, I’m, Matt, hey,” Matt replied. Was he blushing?

“It’s great to meet you, Matt.” Lavender smiled again.

“Oh, yeah, it’s, umm, it’s great to meet you too,” he muttered quickly in reply, scratching the back of his neck. Lavender gave a little laugh and turned to face the bus.

The cast stared at the door of the bus, waiting for another contestant to emerge, but no one did. They began to talk amongst themselves, Gaile showing Jillian and Mallory her purple scrunchie and Lavender continuing to flirt with Matt. Suddenly a shout came from the top of the bus.

“LOOK OUT BELOW!” A girl shouted, somehow having climbed on top of the bus, before proceeding to dramatically jump off, flailing her arms a bit before landing in a tumble on the ground. Several contestants rushed forward to help the girl, but she straightened up on her own, shaking the strands that had fallen out of her dark brown ponytail out of her face. Her eyes were a rich blue, and she wore a black leather jacket over a white shirt with dark blue jeans and black tennis shoes. “How was that?” She called over to the group. “Pretty cool, right?” She ran over to the group enthusiastically.

“It sure was… something, Bailey.” Chris replied. “Welcome to the show.”

“Thanks, Chris! It’s really great to be here! This is gonna be one heck of a competition, right guys?”

Most of the cast responded rather unenthusiastically, but Gaile jumped up, pumping her fist in the air. “Yeah, man! It’s gonna be the bomb!”

Mallory leaped up after hearing Gaile. “Yeah, bombs!” she shouted loudly before looking around and putting her arm back down awkwardly.

Bailey ran to stand next to Mallory, and gave her a high five. The cast began to talk amongst themselves again, getting caught up in at least a little of the excitement of Bailey’s arrival.

A girl stepped into view on the stairs of the bus, but was ignored by the talking competitors. The smirking smile on her face quickly melted into a scowl, and she cleared her throat loudly. The cast finally quieted, looking up at the girl. She looked rather angry, and had a force that sent an uneasy ripple throughout the crowd. Upon seeing that she had everyone’s attention, the smirk reappeared on her face and she sauntered down the steps and over to the group.

“Hello, Ashley,” Chris said. He smiled, but it appeared a little fake.

“Hello, Chris,” Ashley replied. Her smile was at least as fake as his. “This looks like it’ll be a great season!” Her tone implied that she didn’t really think it would be that great.

“The rest of the cast is standing over there-”

“I noticed.” Ashley was really taking her time standing near Chris. It was like they were engaged in a kind of stare-off or battle of wills. She gave him that same flashing smile, and abruptly whipped her head around to look at the rest of the cast. After surveying them for a moment, she walked briskly to the spot between Jillian and Gaile.

Gaile gave the girl a wide smile, seeming to be mostly unnerved by the girl. “Hey, dude! I’m Gaile!” she said excitedly. Jillian gave a meek wave. Ashley smiled at the two, a bit deviously, and turned back towards the bus, motioning to the others that they should turn too. Everyone was still hushed from Ashley’s presence, and waited anxiously for a new contestant to arrive.

A boy walked cooly off the bus, wearing a pair of dark sunglasses. He had black hair, and wore a plain white shirt, blue jeans, and black converse. He walked over to the group and headed straight over to Ry.

“Hey, Chris, I’m Todd, it’s great to meet you!” he greeted who he thought was the host.

Ry backed away a few steps uncomfortably. “Uh, yeah, it’s cool to meet you too, pleasegetoutofmyface,” he responded.

“What? You don’t sound like-” Todd ripped the glasses off of his face, revealing green eyes. “Can’t see anything in these,” he muttered, before looking up at last. “Oh, ohhhh, you’re not Chris, he’s-” Todd realized his mistake and ran over to the actual host.

“Todd! Was kinda wondering when you’d figure that out, dude,” Chris snickered.

“Yeah, hey. ‘Sup?” Todd asked, not-so-subtly throwing his glasses far behind him into the parking lot.

“Oh, you know, not much, just getting ready to host a season over here,” Chris replied.

“Oh, yeah, that’s cool. I’m-” Chris cleared his throat loudly. “Oh, you wanted me to like, go over there? With the other contestants?” Chris’ look gave him an answer.

Todd hurried over to the group, standing next to Arizona on the far side. “Hey, I like your… hair?” The end came out as a question, as he had just started giving a compliment without really looking at the girl first!

“Huh? Oh! You were talking to me?” Arizona turned to the boy and gave him a wave. “Hey, I’m Arizona.” Her eyes startled the boy for a moment, but he just waved back, before realizing that she couldn’t see his hand.

“Hey, I’m Todd,” he introduced himself.

“Good to meet you!” The blind girl replied. They stood in silence for a few moments. “I think the next contestant’s going to come out soon,“ she said politely, and the two turned back to the bus.

A boy hopped excitedly out of the bus, gripping tightly to a navy blue messenger bag he had slung over his shoulder. He pushed his glasses up on his nose and ran to Chris. His eyes were teal and he wore a purple tanktop over a lighter purple t-shirt, dark skinny jeans, and black sneakers. He bounced over to Chris, bringing out a notebook and clutching it tightly.

“Hey Chris!!!” The boy bubbled slightly before attempting to regain some composure. “It’s a real pleasure to be here!” He said and extended his hand that wasn’t holding the notebook to Chris to shake, his refined tone not concealing his excitement. Chris ignored the boy’s request for a handshake, and Derby’s face dropped as his arm followed suit.

“Derby, it’s enchanting and mesmerising to have you on the cast.” Chris couldn’t conceal the mild smirk on his face, and he covered it up with a cough.

Derby didn’t recognize the sarcasm, and looked thrilled by his introduction. “Thank you greatly, Chris! It’s delightful to be on a program with such a refined host.” Derby’s newly reformed grin hung in the air for a few seconds, then dropped when Chris didn’t reply but was rather looking at him expectantly. “What do you desire, Mr. McLean?” Derby asked, and everyone standing behind him rolled their eyes a little.

“Not much, just on kind of a time limit here.” Chris said, and he and the other contestants waited for Derby to figure out what he was supposed to be doing, which took several more seconds. Finally, the boy turned around and saw the other contestants.

“Oh!” He let out a gasp of recognition. “You want me to go stand over there, sorry!!” The male lost a little of his fake refined manner as he scurried over to the other contestants, opting to stand next to The Baroness. Taking a long look at her, he flipped open the cover of his notebook and started scribbling something down, making the girl slightly anxious about what he was up to.

Chris quickly counted up all of the contestants. “And… that’s everyone! Congratulations to all of you for making it onto the newest season of Total Drama Tumblr! I promise it’ll be something you’ll never forget, one way or another!” He snickered at this.

“Now onto the teams! Like previous seasons, there will be four teams of five members each. Now, when I call your name, go and stand with your teammates.” Many cast members looked both anxious and excited, waiting to see who was going to be on their team.

“Our first team will be… the Paisley Polar Bears!” A logo appeared on the screen of a polar bear in front of a paisley background. The logo was done up entirely in green.

“And on this team will be…” Chris paused to consult a list he held. “Arizona… Matt… Alice… Mika… and… Mallory!”

The five members grouped together, clustering near Arizona since they didn’t really trust her to be able to find them if they went anywhere else. A few members looked disappointed to be on the same team as the blind girl, but luckily Arizona couldn’t see them. Mallory, for one, looked thrilled to be placed on a team already, and leaped in the air. “Wooo, polar bears!!!”

Arizona raised her cane and cheered too, and soon the entire team was letting out a cheer, grinning and caught up in the excitement of finally going to compete.

“Our next team will be… the Pin-stripe Parrots!” A logo appeared on the screen of a parrot in front of a pin-striped background. The logo was done up entirely in red.

“On this team will be… Ashley… Gaile…. Jillian… Dakota… and… Todd!”

The team was mostly standing together already, but Todd moved over to join the group, swaggering a little as he walked. A grin came onto Ashley’s face when she learned that Jillian and Gaile would both be on her team, and you could see the girl internally cheering as she was put on a team of what she thought would be total pushovers.

“Our next team is… the Plaid Pandas!” A logo appeared on the screen of a panda in front of a plaid background. The logo was done up entirely in yellow.

“On this team will be… Kiki… Lavender… T… Dennis…and Ry!” Chris said, still reading off of the sheet.

The team centered around Dennis, Ry, and Kiki. Lavender added a little flounce to her step as she walked over. “Hello, Pandas!” she said brightly as she neared the group, probably celebrating her good luck. T lifted their hand in a slight wave, Ry nodded and Dennis appeared to be involved in messing with something in his bursting pocket. Kiki looked at the girl, and whistled under her breath. Lavender’s smile fell a bit.

“And our last leam is… the Polka-dot Penguins!” A logo appeared on the screen of a penguin in front of a polka-dotted background. The logo was done up entirely in blue.

“On this team will be… Benny… Selene… Bailey… Derby… and the Baroness?” He still hadn’t quite gotten the name yet.

Right away, Selene started cheering. “Yeah, penguins!!!!” she shouted at the top of her lungs, and jumped on top of the nearest person to her, which was unfortunately Benny. His face revealed that he was less than enthusiastic about the team arrangements. The Baroness, Bailey, and Derby joined the two.

“Arr, this team is gonna be better than chocolate gold coins, I can tell already.” The Baroness grinned, pleased with the team she had been placed on.

Derby glanced at his teammates and scribbled something in his notebook. Bailey smiled, enjoying the rather quirky team.

“Alright, now I’m going to explain how the season will work, so listen up,” Chris began. “This season the challenges will-”

Chris was cut off as some faint music began to come from the bus. The cast quieted, confused, and turned to the vehicle. Suddenly, the door to the bus slammed open. Smoke poured out of the open door, and the fanfare increased in volume. Two spotlights, one red and one blue, swirled in the smoke. A silhouette appeared amidst the chaos, and a girl stepped forward. She had wavy black hair that reached to her waist and straight bangs, deep blue eyes, and slightly over-the-top makeup. She wore a plain white shirt, black legging-style capris, and black high heels. Most distinctively, she wore a long black magician’s cape with white stars on it. She beamed out at the crowd of contestants and waved the wand she held in her hand around, releasing a shower of sparks. She spoke in a loud, theatrical voice.

“The Amazing Alexandria has arrived!”

Alexandria walked over to the group, continuing to wave her wand. She approached Chris, who was glaring at her. “Hello all! The Amazing Alexandria is here to grace your tiny show with her presence!”

Chris groaned. “Alexandria-”

“The Amazing Alexandria.”

“Whatever. Didn’t you get my letter?”

“The Amazing Alexandria did receive your letter, but she didn’t need to open it. She knew she’d been accepted!”

Chris face-palmed. “It was a rejection letter.” He muttered through gritted teeth.

Either Alexandria didn’t hear him, or she was purposefully ignoring the host. “Now, which team will The Amazing Alexandria be the leader of?”

Chris tried to protest a bit more, but the girl refused to listen to him. He eventually gave up. “Fine. You can join… the Polka-dot Penguins.” He indicated the team.

“Excellent!” Alexandria walked over to her new team. The other teams began to protest, saying that it wasn't fair that the blue team had an extra member and that they’d have the advantage in challenges.

This whole unexpected development looked like it was giving Chris a headache. He rubbed his head. “You know what, whatever. She’s on the Penguins now. Just, get over it.” The teams gradually quieted and Chris looked up again. “Okay, now that that’s all done with, I’m going to explain how the season is working. Like I was saying, each challenge is based on a different color. To get everyone into the spirit of the season, everyone will wear these.”

At the cue, Chef emerged from the bus, carrying a large stack of all white clothes. Chris gave him a glare about the Alexandria incident, which he returned with a shrug, giving Chris a there-was-nothing-I-could-do look. Chris tossed the outfits, which consisted of a plain white shirt and white khaki shorts, to each contestant. From a bag, he pulled out pairs of socks in the colors of the teams and tossed them to each team respectively. “As you can see, the socks represent your team color, and the shirt and shorts represent the color of the challenge. Every day, they’ll start out white, and we’ll regroup here. When everyone is here, I’ll use this-” Chris whipped something that looked like a remote with a color wheel out of his pocket. “To change the colors of the clothing to the color of the challenge.” To demonstrate, he slid his finger along the color wheel on the remote. The shirts and shorts cycled between colors, causing a few contestants to drop them in surprise. Chris snickered. “Pretty cool, right? Anyway, contestants this season will each have their own rooms in the hotel right across the street. Once you are eliminated, you will leave the city entirely and go to the city from the previous season, Total Drama City, where you can interact with other eliminated contestants and contestants from previous seasons. Like every season, you can spill your guts out to our confessional, which will be located in the port-o-potty right here!” He indicated a bright blue port-o-potty on the edge of the parking lot. "Eliminations will be held in an amphitheater a few blocks away, which you’ll all be seeing after the challenge. So, any questions?”

A flurry of questions came out all at once of contestants asking if, with the uniform, they’d be able to keep their beanie, do-rag, scrunchie, bag, cape, cane, and other accessories. Chris groaned. “Fine. You can all keep your accessories. You have to wear the clothes, though.” The contestants with accessories looked happy that they didn’t have to get rid of their items.

“Any other questions?”

Ashley opened her mouth. “Yeah, are we going to-”

“Alrighty! No more questions, great!” Chris said loudly, cutting the girl off. Ashley looked peeved and glared at the host, but he paid no attention to her. “Now, everyone go get changed, and meet me at Mount McLean for the first challenge!” Most of the contestants rolled their eyes at the name, and Jillian, Dakota, Arizona, and T raised their hands.

Not bothering to raise her hand, Kiki blurted out the question that all of them were going to ask anyway. “Yo, Chris, Where’s this ‘Mount McLean’ at?”

“I’m glad you asked,” Chris replied, still talking down to the short girl. “Mount McLean is just outside of the city in that direction.” He pointed west down the nearest street. Some of the cast members glanced at each other, wondering how there could be a mountain here in the summertime, but no one said anything. “Now, everyone go into the hotel to get changed, and I’ll meet you all at Mount McLean! GOOOO!”

The contestants ran off and Chris turned to face the camera again. “Well, that was quite the cast! We’ll see you back here soon for the first challenge! Who will be the one who forgets to get changed and gets chewed out by me? Who will be the first to make it to the mountain top? And who will be the first to reveal their true colors? Discover all of this and more on the next part of Total! Drama! Colors!!!!!!” The screen faded out to black, with the premise of only more exciting things to come.

Staff

 * Chris McLean
 * Chef

Contestants

 * 'The Amazing' Alexandria
 * Alice
 * Arizona
 * Ashley
 * Bailey
 * Benny
 * Dakota
 * Dennis
 * Derby
 * Gaile
 * Jillian
 * Kiki
 * Lavender
 * Mallory
 * Matt
 * Mika
 * Ry
 * Selene
 * T
 * 'The Baroness'
 * Todd

White Elephant  Part 2
'''The four teams face off in the very first challenge of the season; building sleds from scavengeable materials they find in a pile of junk atop Mount  McLean. Although all the teams faught valiently, some teams had a much easier time than others when completing the challenge. In the end, One Team secures a relative easy victory, while, thanks to one contestant's tamporing, another finds themselves on the chopping block.'''

Plot
The show faded back in to reveal all 4 teams dressed in their new stark white shirts. They were all standing at the top of Mount McLean, and were subsequently all shivering in their inadequate short sleeves. Chris drove onto the scene in his snowmobile, dressed in a fluffy blue parka.

“Hello again, and welcome to Mount McLean!” Chris exclaimed with greater enthusiasm than the situation probably called for. “Now, if you look around, you’ll see-”

“Chris, we can’t focus on anything because we’re freezing to death up here.” Ashley remarked, shooting the host a death glare through her shivers. Gaile, Jillian, Dakota all looked anxiously at one another, their faces revealing their worry over her outburst.

Thankfully for the red team, Chris simply cleared his throat and moved on. “Ahem. As I was saying, if you look around, you’ll see a large collection of spare parts.” The teams glanced around as he spoke. The mountain top was coated in random junk, including everything from pieces of wood to broken toasters and dead batteries. “Your challenge for today is… a bobsled race!” Chris exclaimed dramatically, almost as though he was expecting praise for this brilliant challenge idea. Only Derby and Selene reacted, Derby clapping his hands together excitedly and Selene pelting over towards the bushes because she just saw a rabbit hop by, which technically didn’t count. Chris cleared his throat again, staring down the contestants. “I said, today, you’re doing a bobsled race! Aren’t you excited?” At this point, everyone realized how they were supposed to react and let out a half hearted cheer. “That’s better. To build your bobsled, you will need to assemble it from the junk- I mean, from the supplies that are spread around the top of Mount McLean. The first team to the bottom wins! Oh, and watch out for some obstacles that have been thrown about the path at random.” Chris chuckled, implying the true nasty nature of the obstacles that were on the bobsled paths. “Okay, on your marks! Get set!” Chris drew out the moment before he said go for a long as was humanly possible. Some contestants looked ready to burst with anticipation, while others had long since become bored with the dramatic nature of Chris. “GOOO!!!” Chris exclaimed as he hopped back into his snowmobile. “I always love this part.” Chris noted to Chef, who was sitting beside him, behind the wheel. The part Chris loved, of course, was the sudden frenzy the teams were thrown into as they attempted to regroup and get the best things available before they were snatched up.

The green team was the first to get organized, all running off to one side together. Once they got there, however, it was revealed that only three members had actually made it. “Dang it! Where’d the other two go?” Matt questioned, and he, Alice, and Mallory all glanced around to see who they were missing.

Arizona, one missing member, was standing in the middle of all the chaos, staying as still as she could so as to not get knocked over. “Hello? Polar Bears? Where are you guys??” The girl called out frantically, her lack of vision already beginning to impair her performance.

Alice sighed and headed over to lead the girl to the rest of her team. “Arizona, you’re going to have to remind us that you need help, okay?”

Arizona jerked her arm out of the other girl’s grip, her face sullen. “I don’t need your help! I’m just as capable as anyone else on this team, and I’m going to prove it!” Of course, directly after this inspirational phrase, Arizona tripped over a rock lying in the snow in front of her, resulting in her taking quite a tumble. Alice sighed and helped the girl to her feet, dragging her over to the rest of the team.

“Okay, that’s four of us now. Who are we missing?” Mallory asked the group, and everyone glanced at the feet of the other contestants, seeing an absence of any green color. Suddenly, Mika walked up to the green team from behind, leaning casually against a tree.

“Damn, it’s cold as hell up here!” The exceptionally late teen exclaimed, and the rest of her team (minus Arizona) whirled around to face her.

“Mika, where have you been?? We need you for this challenge!” Matt yelled angrily, looking pretty irked at Mika’s attitude.

“I don’t like ta show up too early. Makes ya look like a do-gooder.” Mika said with a smirk, causing the rest of her team to let out a groan.

“Okay, guys, just go find whatever you can and we’ll regroup here. Mika, we’re building bobsleds, so try and find stuff that’s slippery.” Matt’s independent streak was already causing him to try and take charge of his team, and Alice, Mallory, and Mika all headed off to find whatever they could. Matt was just about to head off himself, when he realized that Arizona was still standing there, looking slightly peeved.

“What should I look for, Matt? Should I use my incredible eyesight to go figure out where the objects are?” Arizona attempted to cross her arms and ‘glare’ at Matt, but she was actually turned to face a tree. Matt groaned and moved to stand in front of her, scooping up the first thing on the ground and forcing it into her hands.

“Why don’t you get some of these?” Matt said as nicely as he could, watching Arizona grab onto the empty toilet paper roll he’d just given her. “Feel around for as many as we can, and then I’ll come find you in a few minutes.” With that, Matt raced off to follow the others, leaving Arizona behind to start poking around on the ground with her cane.

Meanwhile, the red team was finding their organization in a much less friendly manner.

“Get over here now!” Ashley demanded, pointing to the ground next to her. Gaile and Jillian immediately complied, Dakota took a picture of the angry girl before coming to stand near the group, and Todd took his sweet time sauntering over, trying to look cool but unfortunately stumbled over his feet in the process. Ashley smirked in satisfaction, evidentially pleased that everyone was following her orders already.

“Yo guys, I was thinking we could make a wicked cool '90s sled, with big plane-style wings and lots of bright colors and maybe some inflatable seating and a disco ball or something!!” Gaile exclaimed excitedly, glancing around for approval. Jillian and Dakota nodded excitedly, though it seemed like they would agree to any idea presented with so much enthusiasm.

Todd, however, frowned, looking unsure.“I dunno. No offense, but the '90s aren’t very… cool, so to speak. Maybe we could do something more exciting, like a slick sled with flames up and down the sides! And then it could have-” Todd was cut off as Ashley’s voice spoke up once again.

“It’s a nice thought guys, but, unfortunately,” Ashley’s lip curled up when she said this, making it sound like she didn’t think it was very unfortunate at all, “we’re kind of limited on supplies. We should just go get the best stuff before anyone else takes it, then I’ll work on how to put the sled together. Now, let’s move it!” Ashley clapped her hands together and walked away, leaving little choice in the matter.

As Dakota scurried off, he snapped a quick picture of the yellow team, who were standing together in a very loose cluster. Lavender blinked her eyelashes at the members of her team, trying to look beautiful. “Alright yellow,” she said with an abnormally false smile, “you know what you need to do, right? I’ll just stand here and wait for you to get our stuff together.” Kiki and T looked willing to do what she said, Kiki because Lavender’s false eyelashes were working their charm and T because they didn’t want to cause any conflict. Dennis and Ry, on the other hand, were proving less easy to convince.

“Hey Princess, who said you got ta be the leader of the team?” Dennis asked as he lobbed a snowball at Arizona, who shrieked and whirled around, unable to see who had thrown it.

“Well, Dennis.” Lavender hissed the boy’s name out through narrowed teeth. “Someone needs to take charge so we don’t lose this challenge, and I don’t see you having any bright ideas.”

“I’ve got lotsa great ideas!” Dennis was currently packing together another extra large snowball, which exploded as he threw it at Jillian’s back. “Sabotage the other teams, then steal their bobsleds when they’re done. Or, we could take all the supplies and throw them down the mountain!”

“Dennis, then we wouldn’t have a sled for ourselves! Ry, you agree with me, right?” Lavender turned around and fixed her charm full force on the other boy, who was currently leaning against a pine tree.

“I dunno, I guess we could just do whatever.” Ry said with a shrug, not seeming to care about the challenge as a whole. “I mean, if it was me who was in charge, which it isn’t, I would’ve already began getting supplies together because, as you can see, the other teams are already getting started.”

Upon glancing around, Lavender could see that Ry was correct. “Fine then! Ry, T, Kiki, you guys go get some stuff together! I’ll help too, so we can go faster, and Dennis, you can just do whatever! Just hurry up!” The girl exclaimed, apparently not realizing that she had been contributing to the slowness of her team.

The blue team, unlike all the others, had very little organization going on. Benny was standing and rocking slightly in the same place as before, evidentially asleep. Selene had never really returned from her rabbit hunt, and the Baroness was sticking random pieces of the junk into her pockets for later. Derby was sitting on his own and scribbling in his notebook, and Alexandria was delighting in an almost mint condition box with a hidden compartment she’d found among all the other junk. Bailey was the only member of the team who was really focused on the challenge, and she reached this conclusion when Selene bolted past her, following a squirrel. “Blue team, over here!!!” Bailey yelled as loudly as she could, jerking her team to attention. Selene skidded over instantly, squirrel forgotten, and the Baroness stuck a spoon covered in gold foil into her pocket before rejoining the group. Benny fell over into the snow as he abruptly woke up, making him yelp before he realized that Bailey was the cause of his awakening. Derby bounded over, tucking his pen behind his ear for safekeeping, and Alexandria strutted over with a wave of her cape.

“That’s better.” Bailey smiled, happy that her team could be organized when they needed to be. “Now, we need to get started on the actual challenge. The other teams have a leg up on us already, but I think we can still make it. Everyone knows what to do, right?”

“I could use a refresher on what we’re actually doing.” Benny said with a guilty smile, having been asleep during the whole explanation from Chris.

Selene was crouched on the ground and reached up to scratch her ear with her foot. “The challenge has started. I did not notice. There was a rabbit.” She giggled a little, seeming just a tiny bit nutty.

“We be buildin’ sleds, right me mateys?” The Baroness began speaking before Bailey could even get a word in. “Arr, I remember havin’ ta fix me boat with just a pile of junk no bigger than what we have here now. Just grabbed some planks and a few nails and me girl was as good as new!”

Bailey decided to cut in now before this story got too long. “Yeah, like the Baroness said, we’re building sleds. Just find whatever you can from this junk and then we can regroup.”

“The Amazing Alexandria insists that before you all run off to find your planks of wood or whatnot, you stay to watch her put on a fabulous show with this magic box she just found! She promises that it will be quite spectacular!!” Alexandria grinned and produced the magic box from her pocket, unfortunately not generating quite as much enthusiasm as she would’ve liked. “You there, easily excitable boy! Would you like to see the immense capabilities of the Amazing Alexandria’s magical box?” Alexandria pointed at Derby as she spoke, and he looked excited to be noticed.

“Certainly! You know, I once wrote a really fantastic story about a witch similar to you!” Derby was just taking his first step over to Alexandria, eager to share his story with the girl, when he was held back as Bailey grabbed his shoulder.

“Sorry Derby, but we need you to help us look for stuff for the sled. And Alexandria-”

“The Amazing Alexandria, if you please.”

“Fine. The Amazing Alexandria, would you please just help us put together the sled and stop talking about your magic show? Maybe we’ll watch it when we actually make it down the mountain.” Bailey was ready for her team to come together, and she didn’t want Alexandria to hinder this already.

“If you all have no appreciation for the Amazing Alexandria’s magic, then she will simply go join another team. Good day to you all.” Alexandria sniffed and walked away, causing Bailey to bury her head in her hands.

“Just forget her and go find whatever you can. We can do this, guys!!” The blue team raced off, motivated by Bailey’s words, or maybe just because Selene saw a chipmunk.

The next few minutes contained a flurry of activity among all the teams. Arizona was picking up all the toilet paper rolls she found, while the rest of her team did the best they could to find supplies that were more useful. Ashley was acting for the most part as a supervisor, and Dakota was taking pictures of others as they ran by. Lavender was forced to get her hands dirty, Kiki was doing the heavy hauling for the yellow team, and Dennis threw snowballs at everyone he could see, regardless of if they were on his team or not. The blue team was shaping up pretty well, with everyone relatively focused except for Alexandria, who was standing alone and attempting to charm people from other teams into joining her by throwing glitter all over them. Gradually, the teams began to regroup, some quicker than others.

The green team had decided to just hold their stuff as they ran around looking for more, and they dropped their objects into a big pile when they rejoined forces. Arizona had made a big stack of toilet paper rolls to entertain herself, and when Matt took her back to join the team again, the stack of rolls was left behind. Most of the team inspected their new pile of items, which included some baking pans, empty chip bags, and an assortment of metal squares. Mallory had picked up some interesting things, including cardboard rolls, string, sugar packets, lighter fluid, and some less identifiable powders, but for the most part, the green team had a collection of items that were pretty good for building sleds.

“So, guys, would anyone like to tell me what we got?” Arizona questioned, feeling kind of spiteful that her toilet paper rolls had just been left behind.

“We’ve got a ton of metal stuff, and then whatever the hell Mall’ got.” Mika turned to face Mallory, who had a wild grin on her face. “Seriously though, what is this ****?”

“Bomb making materials, of course!” Mallory exclaimed with more enthusiasm than most people would have upon saying that sentence.

“Why would we need bomb supplies? We’re building a bobsled, not a fighter plane.” Alice looked over at Mallory with an eyebrow raised. Mallory simply laughed.

“Sabotage, of course! I throw the bomb, and the other teams get a face full o’ smoke! Then we win!!”  Though her plan seemed like it might result in chaos, the rest of the green team decided to let Mallory just do her thing.

“Mallory, you build the bombs or whatever. Alice and Mika, help me build the actual sled. And Arizona, you can just,” Matt suddenly found himself at a loss for what the blind member of the team should do, “why don’t you just sit over there?” Matt gestured over to a rock before he realized that Arizona couldn’t see what he was pointing to. “Over there by that tree. Five paces to your left, then three steps back.” Matt could already tell that having Arizona on the team was going to be difficult.

“No. I want to help, and I want to do more than stacking toilet paper rolls.” Arizona was quite determined in proving her usefulness to the team, feeling frustrated that no one would take her seriously.

Alice decided that now would be a good time to step in. “Arizona, you can come help me if you want! Matt just doesn’t want you to get hurt. Isn’t that right, Matthew?” Alice leaned up to whisper in Matt’s ear. “We need Arizona to feel like she’s a valuable member of this team so she doesn’t get all spiteful and turn on us. Just go along with me, okay?” Finished with her whispered mild threat, Alice grabbed Arizona’s arm and led her over to the metal for the sled.

On the red front, Ashley had led an organized sorting of the objects as the team delivered them, and was currently waiting for her team to show up again. The red team had gathered mostly plastic objects, which had been organized from the more flimsy thin sheets, to Tupperware containers and even hard Plexiglass. Gradually the rest of the team filtered back into the group, dropping their last items onto the stack.

“Dude, this is so fly!!!” Gaile exclaimed excitedly, scooping up a plastic cup from the Tupperware stack which had The Powerpuff Girls on it. “Can I keep this? It would look totally sweet in my room!!!” Gaile’s excitement was quelled as Ashley snatched the cup back and set it back in its pile.

“We aren’t here to find things for ourselves, we’re here to build a sled and win the challenge. Did anyone find anything which we could actually use to tie this stuff together?” Ashley looked quite exasperated over this, despite the fact that she hadn’t done any of the searching herself.

“I don’t know if this counts, but I found this. It still has some gas in it.” Jillian meekly offered up a lighter she’d found on the ground to Ashley’s waiting hands.

“Oh yes, this will do perfectly.” Ashley nodded, pleased that her group had gotten easily meltable plastic now. “Todd,” Ashley whirled around on the boy, who stumbled backwards a little because of the flame being waved in his face, “you’re going to use the lighter, unless you’re too big of a baby to handle it. It’s not too much responsibility for you is it?” Ashley’s mocking tone set the boy off, and he grabbed the lighter, slightly scorching his fingers in the process.

“I can use a lighter just fine!” Todd sniffed indignantly, angry at his capabilities being insulted.

Dakota, meanwhile, was feeling kind of useless. “Ashley, what should the rest of us do?” He questioned the girl, automatically accepting her leadership.

Ashley turned to face Dakota, feigning a look of surprise upon seeing him as though she’d forgotten he was there. “Uhh, Nevada, you and Jillian and Gaile can start piecing together the sled. Just lay out the framework so Todd can weld it together.”

“Actually, my name is Dakota, not Nevada.” Dakota noted, assuming Ashley had made an honest mistake.

“Whoops, sorry. You’re just so small, I forgot all about you!” Ashley enjoyed a brief laugh at the boy before remembering that she was supposed to be mildly supportive of her teammates, and she attempted to change it to a more cutesy, happy giggle. Dakota seemed okay with it, and smiled along with her, though he didn’t seem to know why the laughter had begun. Ashley coughed and continued with her instructions. “Okay Dakota, just start laying out the plastic. I’ll be here to check on how you guys are doing.” Dakota, Jillian and Gaile hopped to their task, still kind of unaware that Ashley was already exerting power over them.

The yellow team wasn’t quite as organized as the red or green teams had been. The efficiency of the team was relatively debatable, seeing as T had weak muscles from their small body frame, Lavender didn’t like heavy lifting, Dennis was too busy throwing snow at others to help much, and Ry had been pretty much just leaning against a tree for the whole time. Only Kiki was really doing any work, but thankfully her time in the 'hood’ had given her quite the strong arm muscles, even though she was really short. Gradually, the team regrouped, Kiki tossing a few more supplies into the messy pile she had created. Lavender stomped up last, and some members of the team could barely conceal a giggle. Her hair was a mess, frizzing around her and covered in ice and dirt. The expression on the girl’s face was a look which could melt steel. “YOU!!!” She shrieked, pointing an accusatory finger at Dennis. “YOU DID THIS TO ME, AND YOU’RE GOING TO PAY!!!!”

Dennis simply blinked at the girl, eyes wide open in innocence. “Who, me? I swear, it was an accident!!"

The scene was quickly interrupted to a flashback from the chaos. Dennis sat alone, packing together a particularly dense clump of ice and rolling it in the dirt and mud just below the snow. ”Where are you, Lavender?“ He questioned in a sing song voice before spotting the girl and lobbing the snowball right into her perfect hair with a maniacal grin. The scene flashed back to real time, Lavender still spitting mad.

"I don’t believe you, Dennis. You’re disgusting.”

“Now, now, break it up.” Kiki stepped between Lavender and Dennis, holding her arms out to keep the two away from one another. “The only one allowed to fight ‘round here is me. You guys need ta stay focused on the challenge.”

Lavender still wasn’t ready to let the whole hair thing go, but she knew she’d have to  shape up, for the good of the team. “Fine, I’ll work on the challenge, but only if I don’t have to even look at Dennis.” Lavender pronounced the name with so much malice that it made T cringe, despite the fact that no one was talking to them. Ry stepped over from the tree where he’d been waiting for the last several minutes, adding absolutely nothing productive to the group.

“If I was one of the team leaders, which I’m still not, I would say we need to get started because, as you can see, the green and red teams are already going at it. I don’t really have a plan or anything, but I would prefer it if we weren’t the first team at elimination.” Ry stated in his usual disinterested tone, and the other members of the team could see that he was right.

“Kiki, would you mind giving us a bit of a plan to work with, and we’ll follow your lead? You seem to be the most knowledgeable person here in terms of working with wood.” T spoke up in their clear voice, and the rest of the team listened. T brought a certain calm to the group which everyone needed, and they were pleased they had so much of an impact on their team.

“Alright, ya slackers! Let me get ya started on buildin’ this sled.” Kiki rubbed her hands together, excited to be getting started on the building.

Things on the blue team were, as could be expected, disorganized. Bailey was attempting to get her group together, but without much success. There were multiple piles littering the ground, which blue team members had created, and Selene and Alexandria hadn’t made any headway at all. Finally, most of the group formed together as Bailey scooted their piles into one giant stack. The supplies the blue team had pulled together were more mixed than what the other teams had found, and the stack was a mess with wood, metal, and plastic. Bailey decided that the team should get started now, even though they were technically still missing two members. “Alright team! Are you guys ready to put this sled together?”

“Arrr, me be readier than anyone else on this here team. Me knowledge with boats’ll certainly help us out in this ‘ere challenge!” The Baroness looked pretty pumped to get started, her pockets jingling as she jumped up and down excitedly, causing the rest of her team to stare at her strangely. The Baroness stopped hopping and sheepishly rubbed her arm a little.

“Baroness, what do you even have in there?” Benny questioned, fighting his urges to fall asleep.

“Just some swag for me room.” The Baroness had, in fact, put more stuff in her pockets than she’d put in her pile, but it was all perfect stuff necessary for her collection of treasures.

“Swag?” Benny asked, thinking he’d heard wrong and that the sleep deprivation was getting to him again.

“It means ‘stolen property.’” Derby cut in, joining the conversation cheerfully. “Or loot, one might say.”

“Aye, it does!” The Baroness confirmed happily.

At this moment, Selene decided to arrive, dropping a dead squirrel onto the ground. “Caught a squirrel!” She exclaimed, and everyone else jerked backwards in disgust.

“Selene, that creature is hardly sanitary.” Derby took off his glasses and rubbed them on his shirt, trying to make himself feel cleaner.

“Squirrels are yummy!” Selene was just picking up the squirrel to tear into it when the screen switched to a black background and an instrumental version of the theme song played in replacement of the actual audio.

“Gotta keep this PG.” Chris’ voice remarked, and it was another few seconds before the contestants came back into view, all looking slightly sickened. Selene’s face was covered with a red liquid that, for the purpose of the PG rating, we’ll call cranberry juice. Benny was staring at the girl with wide eyes, looking more awake than he had been all episode.

“Al…alrighty then.” Bailey clapped her hands together and the team snapped back into action. “Baroness, since you seem to know so much about building, would you like to lead us in making the sled?”

“It’d be my pleasure! This sled’ll be the finest sled that ever sled the seven snows!” The Baroness reached down, snatching up a plank of wood, and the rest of the team prepared to follow suit.

Alexandria was standing alone, waving her wand aimlessly. She’d run out of glitter a few minutes ago, but she was still clinging to her belief that her talents would cause her to get picked up by a better team. Eventually, after watching her for a few minutes on the camera, Chris’ voice blared out, making Alexandria jump in surprise.

“Alexandria-”

“The Amazing Alexandria.” Even in her confused state, Alexandria was still quite persistent.

“Fine. The ‘Amazing’ Alexandria, you need to go join your team.”

“The Amazing Alexandria doesn’t need her team anymore. They were quite disrespectful towards her.” Alexandria sniffed haughtily, still looking around for where Chris’ voice was coming from.

“Look down,” Chris said with a chuckle, and Alexandria gave a gasp as she noticed a spot of swirling colors right on her shirt collar. “Speakers in the shirt,” he explained, and as he spoke the colors grew brighter.

“Well, despite how magical these shirts are, the Amazing Alexandria is perfectly content staying right here.”

Chris let loose a sigh of frustration. “Fine, stay here. See if I care. I hope you’ll like being eliminated first.” With that, the colors on Alexandria’s shirt turned back into white, and Chris was gone. Alexandria scoffed at his request. She would much prefer to stay right here, where, at the very least, she could appreciate her own good company.

A frantic montage played of all the teams building their sleds, significantly shortened due to time constraints. Once all of the sleds were as complete as they were going to get, the action stopped to focus on each one individually. The green team’s sled was a long, flat creation, made by bolting the metal pieces together and flattening them out. The red team’s sled was slightly more sophisticated, a fused together mis-matched creation of multi-colored plastic. This sled, because the plastic was more easy to morph, had sides which curved upwards and a front section which was tapered to a point. On the yellow team, Kiki had nailed the wood pieces together to form a sled which was rounded into a circular shape. The blue team, despite being the most unorganized, had perhaps created the fanciest sled of all. Using a mixture of all three materials, the blue team’s sled was a crazy creation resembling a small pirate ship. The name the Baroness had painted onto the front read The S.S. Annabelle. Finally, with all of the teams ready, contestants began hopping on and pushing off.

The green team, having completed their sled first, were the first to leave. The team piled onto the sled quickly with Matt sitting in the front, then Arizona, then Alice, Mika, and finally Mallory. Mallory hadn’t helped with the creation of the sled at all, and was instead clutching a tubular object. No one particularly wanted to ask her what she’d been working on, but her frequent maniacal chuckles were enough for everyone to know that it was a bomb. Once everyone was seated, Matt scooted the sled over to the edge of the mountain and the green team was off.

The red team had piled onto their sled by Ashley’s command, herself first, Jillian second, Gaile third, Dakota fourth, and Todd bringing up the rear, which he didn’t seem too pleased with.

“Why can’t I sit in the front?” Todd whined, pouting from his seat in the back, and Ashley looked backwards, tilting her head in mock confusion.

“What was that?” She questioned, face set into a smirk. “I can’t hear you from all the way back there!” With a laugh, Ashley pushed the sled forward and the Parrots began their descent.

The yellow team loaded onto their sled in a random order, with the result being Lavender in front (having pushed herself in front of Dennis), Dennis sitting behind her sullenly, Kiki forcing herself into third, T sitting politely in fourth, and Ry parking himself in the back, which suited him just fine. As Lavender began to push off, she felt a few cold pieces of ice slide down her back and suddenly started to regret her decision to sit in front of the prankster.

The blue team was standing, admiring their completed and gorgeous sled, when they heard the crunch of footsteps in the snow approaching behind them. Turning around, the team realized that it was Alexandria, who was sidling up to the sled, a gleam lighting up her eyes.

“The Amazing Alexandria sees that you’ve done a fine job on her sled! She-”

“Wait a second, her sled?” Bailey hadn’t done all the work on this sled just so this arrogant girl could swoop in and claim it.

“Yes, her sled. So, the Amazing Alexandria thanks you, and she will be on her way now.” Before the rest of her team could blink an eye, Alexandria was off, jetting away on The S.S. Annabelle. Once she had registered what had just happened, a growl rose in the Baroness’ throat.

“No one takes me ship and gets away with it!!” The pirate snarled and ran off after Alexandria, though it was a lost cause. Alexandria had both the time and speed advantage, and soon the sled had vanished from sight. Finding themselves alone and sledless on the top of Mt. McClean, the blue team was at a loss.

“Well, what do we do now??” Derby threw his hands into the air in frustration, losing a bit of his mature edge as he did so.

Selene’s eyes were bright, and she hopped up and down excitedly. “Ride Benny!”

“No!!!” Benny backed away quickly, not too thrilled at the idea of being the new sled.

“We can’t ride Benny.” Bailey dismissed the idea immediately, knowing that a few people on the team might actually be seriously considering this. “We just need to find some new supplies, and fast.”

The blue team split up to scour the mountain, but it seemed to have been picked clean by the other teams. Suddenly, the Baroness hit jackpot.

“Over ‘ere, me mateys!!” She cried, waving her team over to her newly found stack of toilet paper rolls. Producing a roll of duct tape from her pocket, the Baroness grinned. “I just might ‘ave an idea.”

Down the mountain, the other teams were in high pursuit of one another, ducking and weaving through the trees. Matt wasn’t doing so hot on steering the green team, and he bumped into stuff until everyone on the sled was sufficiently shaken up.

“Matt, why in the hell do we keep gettin’ hit? Are you aimin’ for the trees or somethin’??” Mika finally burst out after yet another branch hit her square in the face.

Matt snarled, trying to steer and talk at once. “I’m doing the best I can, okay?? Damn it!!!” Matt cursed as the sled bounced off of yet another rock. Suddenly, he felt a hand on his shoulder.

“Let me steer.” Arizona said, her voice almost swept away by the wind.

“Let you steer?? Sorry ‘Zona, but I don’t have a death wish.”

“Just trust me on this, okay? I promise that if it goes badly, I won’t try and help again, but I just want to show you that I can actually do something to help the team.” Arizona had grown quite frustrated with Matt over the course of the challenge, and this was just the icing on the cake for her.

Hearing their argument from behind, Alice called up to the front of the sled, “Just let her steer, Matt.”

Matt was a little skeptic, but he trusted Alice’s judgement by this point. “Fine. Arizona, go ahead and steer. And when we all fall out of the sled and break a few bones, you can’t say I didn’t warn you guys.” With that, Matt took his hands off the sled, leaned back, and let Arizona take control. The girl grasped the sides of the sled in her hands and, suddenly, the bumps stopped. The rest of the team stared in amazement as they avoided literally every obstacle in their path, Arizona doing a much better job at not bumping into stuff than Matt had done.

“How the **** are you doing that???” Mika blurted out in amazement, and Arizona just smiled.

“I can hear the wind,” she explained, gesturing to her ears. “When the wind is loud, that means there are no obstacles. But when the wind gets quiet or goes away, I know something’s there.” Needless to say, the whole team was sufficiently impressed. Even Matt couldn’t deny that Arizona’s hearing capabilities were pretty cool.

Suddenly, a white blur caught Mallory’s eye. She turned to see the red team speeding by on their plastic creation, Ashley steering. With a maniacal grin, Mallory pulled out a box of matches, striking one on the outside of the box. She lit the string fuse on her creation and tossed it over to the other team, where it landed in Todd’s lap. The confused boy stared down at the contraption. “Bye bye, red team!” Mallory cackled as a cloud of smoke shrouded the Parrots. The team coughed, and unable to see through the smoke, the sled began to swerve. “Nice going, Todd!” Ashley sneered back at him through the smoke.

“I didn’t do anything, Ashley!” Todd shouted defensively. “I was just sitting here, in the back, minding my own business, when that freaky girl-”

“Yeah, okay Todd, whatever. Just try and do better next time.” Ashley clearly didn’t care about what Todd had to say, so he just huffed a little and leaned forward to whisper to Dakota.

“Can you believe this girl??” The boy hissed, and Dakota looked confused.

“Ashley? I don’t really think she’s so bad, she just wants us to do well! Here, hold that pose.” With that, Dakota whipped out his camera and snapped a picture of Todd’s glowering face. “Thanks, Todd! You’re a good friend.” Smiling, Dakota turned back around to face the front, and Todd was left sitting in stunned silence.

Abruptly, a ball of ice and dirt hit the boy smack on the back of his head, and he fell forward, groaning. The yellow team zipped by, Dennis giggling like a little kid. As the yellow team pulled to the front, they just managed to catch hearing a shout of, “Keep your head up, Todd!” from Ashley before they were off. Lavender was doing her best at steering, made increasingly more difficult by the fact that every time she let her guard down, Dennis trickled ice, or snow, or dirt down her back. Or a mix of all three, as he had just done. Lavender could hear those unnaturally loud chuckles as if the boy was blaring them from a loudspeaker right in her ear. Finally, the girl had had enough, and she whipped around, face set in a snarl.

“Dennis, if you touch me or pour that disgusting crap down my back one more time, I’m going to…” Lavender found herself at a loss for words at precisely the wrong time. “I’ll do something really horrible,” she concluded rather weakly.

Just as Dennis was about to reply with some undeniably witty retort, the sled bounced off a rock, giving all the riders a jolt, and Kiki leaned into the scene.

“Dennis, leave ‘er alone. And Lav, focus on the sled n’ not Dennis. I’ll take care of ‘im, but as is, we gon crash.”

“Fine.” Lavender sniffed and turned back to face forward, smacking Dennis’ wrist backwards when she felt his cold fingertips tickling her shoulder blades.

In the back of the sled, things were significantly calmer. Ry was dragging a stick behind him and drawing lines in the snow as the sled moved, and T was sitting with their knees pulled to their chest.

“You don’t talk much, do you?” Ry commented after they had sat in silence for a while, and T shook their head.

“I talk when I have something to say,” they remarked softly, voice drifting off into the wind.

Ry nodded in agreement, and the two sledded on in silence, ignoring yet another shriek from Lavender as Dennis dropped a fake spider down her shirt. A sudden blur zipped past the yellow team, and everyone glanced over in shock. Alexandria was jetting along on The S.S. Annabelle, moving exceedingly fast due to the lack of weight on the sled and from the blue team’s superior building skills. The girl laughed maniacally as she surpassed all the other teams, with mild damage to her own sled due to her questionable steering skills.

“See you at the finish line!” Alexandria cackled as she raced along. As her ship-sled reached a break at the end of the forest, the girl could see a checkered flag at the bottom of the mountain, made abrupt by a sudden absence of snow as the mountain turned back into the normal flat land.

“The Amazing Alexandria knew she would be first!!!!!!” The girl cheered as she reached the finish line, sending up a huge flurry of snow as her sled tipped over in her eagerness to stop. Popping up from a snowbank mildly wet and grinning, Alexandria zipped over to Chris, who was standing and looking amused.”So, now that the Amazing Alexandria has left the other teams in the dust, or snow as the case may be, she desires her reward for winning!!” The girl beamed a stage-worthy smile at the host, unaware in the slightest that she might be in the wrong.

“Actually, Alexandria-:

“The Amazing Alexandria, please!”

Chris ran a head across his forehead in annoyance “Fine. The Stupendous and Totally Perfect with No Flaws Amazing Alexandria, I said that you had to finish with your whole team. And as much as you’d like to think that you can just be your own team, you belong to the Polka Dot Penguins, and they’re nowhere in sight.”

Alexandria, who had been basking in her self-created glory and feeling overly confident about her win, suddenly had her bubble burst. “WHAT???” The girl exclaimed with an overly dramatic expression of anger and shock on her face, and the camera suddenly flipped to show the blue team, who were just beginning their descent down the mountain. The Baroness had yet again pulled through for the team, and they were now riding on a toilet paper raft, held together by long strips of duct tape. Since the sled was relatively square shaped, the team piled onto the sled kind of haphazardly, with Benny snoozing in the back and Selene perched beside him, Derby sitting alone in the middle, and the Baroness and Bailey together in the front. Both girls and Derby were carrying long branches which had been stripped of their leaves to use as steering paddles. Benny and Selene hadn’t quite been considered trustworthy, seeing as Benny was currently snoring and Selene still had a little cranberry juice staining her white clothing.

The Baroness, being the one who had built the sled, had the honor of pushing off the group so they could begin their descent. ”Godspeed!” The pirate cried as the blue team finally began the actual race, several minutes behind everyone else.

Back on the bottom of the mountain, Alexandria was still throwing a hissy fit, and no one was paying her the slightest attention. Instead, the cameras were turned to face the other sleds who were just starting to come out of the trees, and only vague chunks of Alexandria’s rant could be heard. “The Amazing Alexandria deserves her victory!! Was she not the first contestant to reach the finish line? Did she not-”

“And the actual teams are nearing the finish line!” Chris’ voice came in, cutting over Alexandria’s voice by standing closer to the camera’s microphone. “Though Alexandria-”

“The Amazing Alexandria!” The girl’s indignant voice rose up from a significant distance away as if she was being pushed away from the camera by Chef, which was in fact what was actually happening. “And she did not ruin things for her team, she-”

“The Oh-So-Amazing Alexandria seems to have ruined the chances of a win for the blue team, but which other team will come out on top?” Chris interrupted the girl yet again, seeming to hold absolutely zero regard for her feelings on the matter. The camera suddenly swapped to one showing the teams more close up. The green team was sliding along as smoothly as they had been before, when out of nowhere the red team’s sled went crashing into them, sending the metal sled veering sharply to the left.

“What the hell was that for?!?!” Mika burst out angrily, and Ashley feigned a look of surprise at having having hit them.

“Sorry! You really should watch where you’re going! Oh wait, I forgot! You can’t!!” Ashley let out a sharp laugh as she pushed the red sled forward, bumping the green sled one more time before gaining a lead on them.

Arizona ground her teeth in frustration, trying both to get the sled on a straight path again and to get herself back into the ‘zone’. She’d had to deal with far more comments about her blindness today than she would’ve hoped for, and it was more than a little upsetting to know that despite how well she was doing, people still didn’t trust that she could handle things in her own way. A shout from behind suddenly pulled Arizona from her thoughts, and she tuned her ears to listen.

“Don’t listen to her, Arizona!” Alice called forward, and the whole team joined in, shouting out encouragement.

“Don’t let that ***** get ya down, you’re doin’ a really rockin’ job!!”

“Your steering really blows me away!!”

“Yeah, I have to say that you’re doing even better than I was!”

Arizona couldn’t see the smiling faces of her teammates, but she could hear the positivity in their words. The girl swiped away the tears that were just beginning to pool in the corners of her eyes, and leaned to the side to get the sled straightened out again. Letting out a beaming smile which she’d never be able to see, Arizona began steering with new hope. “Let’s do this, guys!” The girl cried out, and the whole team cheered.

The red team, however, wasn’t cheering. They were instead sledding to the finish in a rather uncomfortable silence, most people not feeling very happy about their encounter with the green team but no one wanting to say anything. Finally, Gaile decided to speak up. “Ash, that kinda wasn’t cool.”

“Well, excuse me for trying to get our team ahead. If you guys want to just benice and lose every challenge, then we shouldn’t have even bothered building the sled in the first place.” Ashley hardly bothered glancing behind her as she said this, not particularly caring how the members of her team felt about the matter. “And Abigaile, if you want to be called by your prefered name, then it’ll be necessary for you to call me by mine. I’m not a big fan of nicknames.”

Ashley was content to sled in silence for a few moments, before the weight of the quiet hit her like a ton of bricks and she realized that she had probably just screwed up the ‘getting-the-team-to-like-her’ thing. Grinding her teeth as she did so, Ashley attempted to inject a little friendliness into her approach. “I mean, whatever you want, Gaile. You know, this is a team effort and stuff.”

“So she says.” Todd mumbled from the back, just loud enough for Ashley to hear him.

“What was that, Todd? If you have a problem, then we should discuss it with the whole group.”

“Oh no, there’s no problem, Ashlyn.” Todd called forwards, faking a perkiness in his tone.

“Well, Thomas, that’s just great to hear. I was worried we might have an issue.”

“Come on, guys, let’s not fight.” Jillian cut in, most of the team having forgotten she even existed.

Deciding that now would be an excellent time to chime in, Dakota piped in with, “Yeah, we’re a team, aren’t we?”. Gaile nodded her head in agreement.

“See, they understand, Todd. We’re a team.” Ashley said pointedly, turning around to give Todd a cutting look of pure malice that quickly changed to a perky smile when she realized that some of the other team members were looking at her. “Well, team, ready to win the challenge?” Ashley asked, with that all-too-happy smile still painted on her face.

“Yeah!” The team cheered in reply, though it ultimately just fell flat and sounded a little sad. Ashley cleared her throat and turned back to continue her steering job.

The camera chose now to be an excellent time to focus in on the yellow team. As expected, the state of the team was about the same as they’d been before. Lavender had deteriorated into an eye-twitching, frazzled condition, and the next time Dennis reached forward, she pushed backwards a  lot too hard and almost knocked him off the sled. “Just gotta make it to the end.” Lavender chanted to herself under her breath. “Just a little more, and then we can stop and I can break his neck.”

Dennis, being seated right behind Lavender, naturally heard everything she was saying. “Come on Lav, you don’t mean that! You need me here to be a valuable team member.” With that same grin on his face, Dennis reached forward and pulled Lavender into a huge, very much unwanted hug.

Lavender threw the boy off of her and turned around to look him right in the eyes. “Listen up, Dennis. I am sick and tired of you, and if we lose this challenge, you’re so going home. But I assume you don’t want that to happen, so I suggest you keep your mouth shut and just sit still like a good little boy.”

In response to Lavender’s rather emotional outburst, Dennis just chuckled. “Hey Lav, you don’t look so good,” he said with a giggle, gesturing at Lavender’s disheveled hair and slightly bloodshot eyes.

The girl found herself at a loss for words. After everything Dennis had done to her, the unending pranks and his inability to care about anyone besides himself, this was more than she could take. Thankfully, Kiki stepped in to help her out.

“Dennis, if ya don’t shut the hell up and leave Lav alone, I don’t care if you’re on our team or not, I’ll beat ya up until ya see stars.”

“Touchy, touchy.” Dennis clucked his tongue and rolled his eyes, putting little value on Kiki’s threat.

“Please, Pandas, let’s keep it peaceful. We’re all teammates, and we need to act like it.” T piped up from the back of the sled. Everyone quieted down immediately, the team having an unspoken agreement to respect T, who seemed to have their head in the right place.

Of course, the yellow team wasn’t destined for happiness, and the peace was broken in a couple of seconds. “Yeah guys, if you’d just shut up for like 5 minutes, then everything would be way better.” Ry totally thought that he was just parroting T, but his intentions came off very differently.

Lavender tightened her hands into fists, 1000% done with at least 2 people on her team. She was just about to deliver a scathing remark to Ry, who had doubly insulted her in both his mannerisms and in the fact that he was yet another male who hadn’t shown the slightest interest in her, when the wooden sled apparently became aware that no one was currently steering it, and decided to crash right into a large rock resting deep in the middle of a snowbank. The yellow team suddenly found themselves thrown head over heels to roll down the mountain in a miniature avalanche, which some of them found quite amusing albeit painful, and some only found to be the latter.

By now, all 3 teams were just a short distance from the bottom, and all were relatively evenly matched. Arizona was steering the green team to victory, but Ashley was right beside her, hindering the Polar Bears progress by knocking into them whenever she had a chance. The yellow team was sliding along, gradually picking up speed, but also picking up a healthy dose of bruises. Finally, the 3 teams whipped past the finish line, green and red sliding to a stop, though Arizona did try and steer for a minute when they’d already cleared the finish line, until Alice reached up and tapped her on the shoulder. The yellow team all flopped around until they hit solid ground and emitted a painful sounding series of groans. Lavender was the first to recover, probably because she’d already been pushed to her breaking point in her opinion, so things couldn’t really get much worse. “McLean, if we didn’t win this challenge after all the pain and Dennis I had to suffer through, I’m so going to sue.” Lavender pulled herself to her feet in an attempt to seem more imposing, but soon just crumpled into a sitting position as the bruises on her legs started throbbing.

“Nuh uh, Lavender. Remember, you signed a contract!” Chris held up a large stack of paper with Lavender’s signature right on the front. Lavender weakly lunged for it, but Chris locked it back into a briefcase that had magically appeared next to him. “Confidential stuff. Gotta keep it super secure.” Chris laughed a little as he said this, and Lavender just groaned.

“The Amazing Alexandria wishes to inform you that you, in fact, could not have won, because she was the winner!” The green, red, and yellow teams suddenly realized that Alexandria was located somewhere nearby, and after a quick glance around, they found her being held by a few interns several feet away. “The Amazing Alexandria beat all of these peasants, and she wishes to claim her rightful reward! She-”

“Alexandria is currently waiting for her team to arrive.” Chris explained to the Polar Bears, Parrots, and Pandas, turning their attention back to him.

“Her name is the Amazing Alexandria, and she demands that you unhand her!” Alexandria consistently had to shout because she was standing pretty far from the cameras and that, combined with her over dramatic flair, made for a pretty comedic scene. Several contestants mildly snickered and tried to cover it up with coughs. Ashley and Dennis both laughed openly, though the intentions of one were significantly crueler than that of the other. Alexandria paid them no mind, and she was just opening her mouth to make yet another comment about her unfair detainment when she was cut off by Arizona of all people (though to be fair, Arizona wasn’t aware that Alexandria was about to speak at all).

“Excuse me, Chris, but who actually won?”

“I dunno.” Chris replied with his classic chuckle, and everyone groaned. “Buuuuuut, we could watch the instant replay and find out.” At this, a television rolled rolled into view as if it had been waiting for its cue. The screen flickered on to show the three teams on their sleds, moving at a very slow speed. The sleds crawled up to the finish line frame by frame, and everyone looked on in suspense. By a very, very close finish, it was the green team who won by a nose, then red, and finally Dennis’ arm counting as yellow. Lavender wanted to scream, and she actually did so, burying her face in the snow.

The green team, however, was thrilled and started whooping it up. Matt scooped up Arizona in a hug, and the girl gave a shaky smile. “Did we win?” she questioned, feeling just a little left out of the loop, and the green team all came over to give her a squeeze on the shoulder as Matt placed her back down.

“Yeah, Arizona, we did it!” Mallory smiled, feeling as though the bomb she had made might have given them the boost they needed to win the challenge. Arizona upon finally hearing the news, led the team in yet another cheer, and they all grinned.

The red team seemed to be debating whether they should celebrate or not. At first, ⅘ of the team had let out pleased shouts at having been super close to first place, but upon seeing Ashley’s stone cold face, everyone had switched to a more internal cheer. Ashley wasn’t exactly the type of person to be pleased with getting second place, which to her was the equivalent of getting last. Only winners got the real rewards, everyone else just got a pat on the back, a flimsy ribbon delivered with a fake smile, and a ‘You tried’. Still, Ashley knew that the team was looking to her for how they should react, - with the exception of Todd, who was taking a celebration selfie and looking pretty pleased with himself - and she couldn’t let them think that she hated them all for being so incompetent and slow. “Good effort, guys,” she said, forcing that same harsh grin on her face, and the other team members hesitantly began to smile again.

“Come here, guys!” Gaile tugged the team members into a hug, Jillian squeaking a little in surprise. Todd reached forward and snapped a picture of them all using the phone he already had out. Dakota leaned over instantly to ask Todd if he would send him the photo when they got a signal back, and Todd nodded, looking over to Ashley with a glance that just screamed, “See, he likes me better than you!”. Ashley rolled her eyes and pulled herself from Gaile’s grip, not very convinced that Dakota was asking out of friendliness towards Todd as much as it was his fascination with photos.

The yellow team - minus Dennis - were currently consoling Lavender, who was still throwing a fit in the snow.

“Lavender, we’re gonna be fine. We didn’t lose, did we?” Kiki was trying in vain to lift Lavender’s spirits, but it was to no avail.

“It’s not fair!!!” The beautiful girl shrieked, feeling pretty cold from lying in the snowbank but not willing to get up.

“Lavender, please just grow up. You’re making our whole team look childish.” Ry rolled his eyes and stayed stationary in his nonchalant pose, not feeling like it was worth his time to kneel down and help Lavender up like Kiki and T were trying to do.

“Things are going to be okay. Don’t worry too much, Lavender, we did very well. Now, just sit up and we can go back to the hotel in a couple of minutes to get you all freshened up.” T was working their weird calming magic and, with a sniffle, Lavender pulled herself up to a sitting position.

“Thanks, T. You’re a really good fr- AUGH!!!” Lavender was startled from her sole moment of happiness as a bucket of ice cold water unexpectedly deposited its contents right onto her. The girl felt a chill run through her entire body as she was soaked right to the bone. When she finally got over the shock, Lavender heard a wild chuckling erupt from a pine tree above her.

“Oh man, Lav, I sure got ya good!” As everyone in the whole world already knew, Dennis was the one in the tree laughing his head off at the miserable girl below him.

Kiki, who had also gotten a little splashed, was fuming. “Dennis, when ya get down ‘ere, I’m gonna beat yo *** to a pulp!!” The girl yelled up to Dennis, who was clinging to a branch more by force of will than by any form of safety harness.

“I hate to interrupt this little party,” Chris said, cutting into the yellow team’s fight that was by no means any sort of party, “but it looks like the blue team is finally nearing the finish line!” At that, all attention diverted over to the toilet paper sled just emerging from the trees, with the green team giving Arizona a blow-by-blow on what was happening. The cameras quickly switched to a close up of the blue team, to show things from their point of view. Though it was difficult to see from a distance, the bottom of the sled was, in fact, disintegrating as the cardboard rolls became saturated with water and started flaking apart. The blue team, however, didn’t notice this, and were focusing all their attention on making it down the mountain.

“Full speed ahead!” The Baroness called, acting as a lookout for the rest of the team. “Finish line, ho!”

Benny jerked awake at the Baroness’ outburst, his gasp of surprise upon realizing how fast they were moving reinforcing his team’s decision not to trust him to steer.”What’s going on? What did I miss?” Benny swiped his eyes from side to side and fell backwards in shock as Selene’s face popped up to his left.

“Scaring Benny fun!” She grinned, and Benny tried to calm his rapidly pounding heart.

“Selene, that is hardly appropriate behavior for this situation.” Derby was focused on talking and steering at the same time, but his vocabulary hardly faltered.

“Let’s keep it focused, team! We’re almost there!” Bailey, though she didn’t say so, was enjoying this chaotic ride more than she should have been. Extreme sports were kind of her thing, and nothing said ‘extreme’ like zipping down a mountain at unreasonable speeds in an unreliable sled.

With a jolt, the sled ride suddenly became bumpier, and everyone jumped in shock, trying to figure out what the problem was. The Baroness was the first to notice large holes beginning to appear throughout the cardboard surface. “Me ship is sunk!” she yelped, and everyone else was thrown into a panic. Well, almost everyone.

“Selene helps!” Selene cried out, and she scooted to the back of the sled. Using her incredibly strong arm muscles, which came from the frequent climbing of trees, Selene began pushing the sled forward even faster, hardly noticing that her palms were getting scratched up from when her hands landed on rocks instead of the soft snow. The sled shot forwards, now extremely close to the bottom. The Baroness was yelling out directions, and Bailey and Derby were doing their best to keep up with her demands. Benny was sitting in the middle and looking extremely confused. Once he realized what was going on, the boy scooted to help Selene in the back, his sleepy arms hardly helping in anything but spirit. Still, Selene seemed to appreciate it, and Benny’s companionship made her push even harder. Finally, just as the sled vanished out from under them, the blue team was sent spinning across the finish line, all thoroughly exhausted. The green and some of the red team applauded them as they lay in the snow, completely wiped out.

Alexandria, however, was not in the mood for a happy reunion. Having finally been released upon the arrival of her team, the girl strutted over, cape flying out behind her. “The Amazing Alexandria has been waiting for you!” She called in a demanding tone as she reached the main group. The blue team, who were all a little dazed, blinked up at her. “She has been subjected to all numbers of indignities, and she demands to know what took you so long! Did you not know that all members of the team had to be present for victory?” Alexandria haughtily glared down at the Penguins, evidently not realizing that she was the one who had caused all of the problems in the first place.

Bailey, being fed up with the girl, opened her mouth to say just that. “But it was your-”

“Ah ah ah.” Alexandria interrupted Bailey, cutting her off with a wave of her hand. “The Amazing Alexandria forgives you, however, she desires you to be less incompetent in the future.”

The rest of the blue team was at a loss for words, and sat still with their mouths gaping open and indignant expressions on their faces.

“What a happy reunion!” Chris had just found his way over, and he gave Alexandria a pat on the back which was really more of a shove that knocked her forwards. “Alexandria’s been waiting for a very long time.”

“The Amazing Alexandria.” Alexandria mumbled, glaring at Chris.

“But enough about her.” Chris dismissed Alexandria, having had far more than enough time alone with the girl. “Now that you guys are finally here, we can get started! It’s no big surprise but, Penguins, you lost so hard that it was almost a little sad. However, that means you get to be the first people to experience an elimination ceremony! Aren’t you special?”

The grumbles of the blue team implied that no, they weren’t feeling all that special, but Chris chose to ignore that. “Okay, here’s how this is gonna work. One by one, you guys will go into the confessional and write down the name of the player you want eliminated onto a slip of paper. You will then place your paper into this locked box,” Chris paused to hold up a rather unattractive wooden box with an abnormally large lock on it, “which will remain locked throughout the voting process. Anyone who tampers with the votes will receive an automatic elimination… if I feel like it. Depends on what I’m in the mood for.” Chris chuckled, and all the contestants groaned. “When you’re done, meet me in the amphitheatre. The loser will go stand by the wall of shame for a special ‘surprise’, before being sent to a hotel in the real, populated city from season 2, where they’ll live until the season is over. Everyone got that?”

The only people who probably did ‘get that’ were Bailey, the Baroness, and Derby, seeing as the other three members of the blue team were sleeping, climbing trees, or more concerned with fixing their cape than listening to instructions. “Well, good!” Chris proclaimed, disregarding the fact that half of the group he was talking to hadn’t heard a word of what he’d just said. “Now, go vote! And as for the rest of you…” All of the other teams glanced up in surprise upon being mentioned. “Meet the Penguins in the amphitheater! You all get to watch the elimination of the season’s biggest loser, and the Polar Bears get a special reward for being today’s winners! Okay, contestants, let’s move it!” Chris clapped his hands and the teams mostly leaped into action. The last thing visible on screen was Dennis falling out of his tree with a shriek as the branch he had been clinging to cracked, and Alexandria’s restarted complaints.

“It’s unfair that the Amazing Alexandria must go vote! She was the first contestant to reach the bottom! She…” With that, the camera faded out to black.

Staff

 * Chris McLean
 * Chef

Contestants

 * 'The Amazing' Alexandria
 * Alice
 * Arizona
 * Ashley
 * Bailey
 * Benny
 * Dakota
 * Dennis
 * Derby
 * Gaile
 * Jillian
 * Kiki
 * Lavender
 * Mallory
 * Matt
 * Mika
 * Ry
 * Selene
 * T
 * 'The Baroness
 * Todd

Final Trick: White Elephant  Part 3
'''Finding themselves awaiting at the ampitheater, one team bitterly awaits the results of who they voted out. One contestant's arrogance, stubborness, and stupidity leaves her kicking and screaming as she's emboddied onto the wall of shame, being the first eliminated from the city.'''

Plot
The camera rolled on to reveal Chris McLean standing in front of the Total Drama Colors voting area with a smug smirk. He stood proudly in front of the white paint splattered mess on the Wall of the Shame that represented Alexandria’s elimination.

“Last time on Total Drama Colors!” he cried out enthusiastically

The screen then changed to a series of flashbacks from the previous episode. The first one showed the new cast exiting the bus and greeting their new teammates.

“Twenty-one new and hopeful contestants were sent to an old abandoned city in hopes of showing off their skills, surviving harrowing challenges, and, of course, winning a million dollars! After being split into four different teams, I then sent them off to Mt. McLean for their first challenge. Contestants were asked to build their own sleds and then race them down the mountain. Of course I couldn’t make it too easy..” he says ending with an evil snicker as a flashback showed the The Polkadot Penguins building their sled from cardboard. It then showed the sled beginning to disintegrate from the snow.

“Of course, I did have some help when The Amazing Alexandria decided to fly solo and stole her team’s sled, arriving first at the finish line and leaving them behind and confused,” he went on.

The screen flashbacked to Ashley snatching the cup from Gaile, and yelling at Todd. “Ashley took charge of her team, The Pinstripe Parrots, which brought about some tension between her and her teammates. Especially Todd.”

“Dennis nearly drove Lavender off the deep end and Arizona shocked everyone when she blindly took the reigns of the Paisley Polar Bears’ sled. Despite Ashley’s jeering, the blind girl claimed victory for her team! Ashley and Lavender were justthrilled.” His statement was confirmed as they showed flashbacks of both girls obviously annoyed with their teams after the challenge.

“When the rest of the Polka Dot Penguins got to the finish line last, it was Alexandria who was soaked with white paint and sent packing.The poor girl even voted for herself. That’s what happens when you get selfish, Alexandria! ” Chris cried out victoriously as the scene replayed the moment of Alexandria’s elimination, and her holding up her own vote against herself.

“Twenty contestants still remain, but who will get splashed next? Stay tuned to find out on today’s episode of…. TOTAL. DRAMA. COLORS!!” he finished with his arms up excitedly.

Staff

 * Chris McLean
 * Chef

Contestants

 * 'The Amazing' Alexandria (Final Apperance as a Contestant)
 * Alice
 * Arizona
 * Ashley
 * Bailey
 * Benny
 * Dakota
 * Dennis
 * Derby
 * Gaile
 * Jillian
 * Kiki
 * Lavender
 * Mallory
 * Matt
 * Mika
 * Ry
 * Selene
 * T
 * 'The Baroness'
 * Todd

General

 * The order the contestants arrived in is: Jillian, Arizona, Dennis, Matt, Alice, Gaile, Mallory, Dakota, The Baroness, Benny, Ry, Mika, T, Selene, Kiki, Lavender, Bailey, Ashley, Todd, Derby, and The Amazing Alexandria.

Continuity

 * Todd throwing away his sunglasses in this episode references how he is eliminated because of a pair of sunglasses in the next episode.
 * This Episode marks the first time a contestant is eliminated this season.
 * This is the first three-part episode of the season.
 * This Episode marks Alexandria's first and only episode the Amazing Alexandria is a contestant in.
 * This Episode marks the first set of bracelets each contestant gets.