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Chapter 21 - Chapter 21: Hide and be Sneaky

"Previously on Total Drama Island..." Chris began as he checked his phone. "The campers searched for treasure and yours truly put in an impressive performance as a pirate. But this was no ordinary treasure hunt. Some campers put their lives on the line to snag their booty. While Geoff put his stomach on the line, doing something that would make most people hurl. But in the end, the campers who went the limit were rewarded with treasures that, in hindsight, probably weren't worth the effort. Hehe, well except for Lincoln who scored not just one, but two treasures. One in the case of invincibility, and two in the case of him and Dawn getting together as boyfriend and girlfriend. Bout time dude!" Chris laughed a bit before showing off his phone. "I may have lost out on fifty bucks but are you seeing these ratings? It's nuts man! And this host just loves it when things get nuts! On the side of elimination however, yours truly added in the new sudden death round to bring some more tension and drama into mix. Now the campers don't just have themselves to fear, but the very game they are playing as well. The first claimed by this rule being Geoff who receive a pirate's death sentence and was forced to walk the plank. Ha ha harr. Who will be the next unlucky camper to walk The Dock of Shame? Who will lose their cool? Who will lose their lunch? Find out on the most shocking episode yet on Total. Drama. Island!"

"Hehehe." Dawn giggled as she was led through the woods. Dawn has pretty much been in a state of complete ecstasy the last few days. Sometimes she still couldn't believe it. Lincoln Loud was her boyfriend! And she was his girlfriend! They were in a real relationship! And currently said boyfriend was leading her through the woods while covering her eyes. "Can I open my eyes now?"

"No, not yet." Lincoln told her in a playful tone. Lincoln would easily say he's the happiest he's ever been since…well…ever. When Ronnie Anne dumped him, he thought he was gonna be miserable forever. But life has a funny way and working and once he got on the island, he met someone who actually he felt closer to then Ronnie Anne despite not knowing her for nearly as long. And finally having Dawn as his girlfriend made him feel like he could do anything. "No opening your eyes…and no aura reading either."

"Alright, alright, spoil sport." Dawn teased Lincoln as she flicked his nose lightly. Once they woke up, Lincoln told the aura reader that he set up a little surprise in the woods for them. While Dawn could have used her aura reading skills to find out what it was, she didn't want her boyfriend's work to go to waste like that and played along. "But I can tell I'm gonna enjoy it~"

"Hehehe, well I sure hope so. I set it up just for you." Lincoln told her with his face going a bit red as he continued leading Dawn through the woods. He's been planning this ever since they got together and made sure everything was in order. Location, set up, atmosphere, just about everything he could think of. "Ok uncover your eyes in three…two…one!"

Dawn removed Lincoln's hand from her eyes. Looking forward, Dawn gasped with a smile on her face as she saw what Lincoln had set up. There was a stump set up like a table at a restaurant. Rocks have been moved to act as chairs on each side of it with a cloth set up over the stump. On the cloth covered stump was the candle opera Courtney got from her treasure chest last challenge that the CIT let him use as well as all the goodies Lincoln won in his invincibility basket.

A perfect set up for a date.

"Well aren't you the romantic type~" Dawn told Lincoln with a smirk, as well as rewarding him with a kiss on the cheek. "So this is that secret project Edward told me about the other day."

Lincoln sighed a bit in response at this. "I can't trust that platypus with anything." Lincoln then shook his head. At least the surprise wasn't completely ruined and Dawn seemed to be liking it so far. So that was a win! "But I'm glad you like it! I figured that since we're together now we should have a date. Since we're still on the island and everything I thought this would be good!"

Dawn giggled a bit at Lincoln before taking his hand into her own. "It's perfect Lincoln." The aura reader told her boyfriend. Her heart still thumbing a bit when that word came to her mind. "And there's nowhere for a first date I would rather be then out in Mother Nature's domain."

"Heh, yeah I guess you're right." Lincoln sheepishly admitted as he and Dawn went to go sit on their rocks and officially start their stump date. "I guess I still can't help but worry bout the smallest things. I just…really want this to work out between us you know? I…really like you. You mean a lot to me."

Dawn found herself giving Lincoln a heart-warming smile. Could this boy get any more perfect for her? Mother nature truly did a beyond amazing job by making Lincoln. There was no one else she'd rather have her very soul be bonded to. "I would love nothing more either Lincoln." Dawn leaned over the stump to kiss Lincoln on the lips. Lincoln didn't hesitate for a second and quickly pressed his lips to Dawn, the two enjoying the closeness they were feeling for as long as they were able. After about a minute, they separate with Dawn sitting back down and grabbing a bottle of Grapetastic Pop that was on her side of the stump and raised it up into the air. "To our first date!"

"To our first date!" Lincoln toasted with his own bottle of brown colored pop as he and Dawn begun their first official date.

A few hours later, the campers, Chris, and Chef were all gathered up at the Dock of Shame. Lincoln and Dawn were looking incredibly happy as their first date went off without a hitch and ended up with a rather nice make out session under a tree. But now it was time for the challenge and everyone, especially the new couple, were determined to win it. "Today's challenge is a good old fashioned game of hide-and-seek." Chris explained getting a few confused looks from the campers. Hide-and-seek? What was challenging about that? "You all get ten minutes to hide before Chef Hatchet comes looking for you. With his military background and advanced degree in man-hunting, he's uniquely qualified to make this game excruciatingly hard."

CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN

"At least he doesn't have a license to kill, heheh…" Lincoln laughed nervously before putting on a scared look. "R-Right?"

CONFESSIONAL – CHEF

"Hehehehehe." Chef grinned and chuckled evilly as he rubbed his hands together.

After Chris finished the explanation of Chef's skills, the buff cook proceeded to pull out a water gun of all things and started pumping up the pressure on it. "What's with the water gun?" Duncan asked as Chef aimed a laser pointer attached to the water gun at Duncan's forehead.

"The lifeguard chair is home base." Chris explained as he gestured his hand to the life guard chair which everyone questioned if it was always there or not. "When he finds you, Chef will try to spray you. If you escape his blast, you can try to run to home base. But if he catches you on your way, he'll douse you."

"Ooh, so we're gonna get splashed by a bit of water!" Duncan sarcastically let out while dancing around mockingly, getting a few chuckles from everyone. "Now I'm terrified!"

Chris, however, gave a bit of an evil grin to Duncan before turning to Chef. "Why don't you demonstrate, Chef?" Chef gave his own evil grin as he pumped the water gun a few more times…before aiming it at Chris. When Chef pressed the trigger, instead of just a small little stream of water shooting out, the water gun shot out water at speeds and volumes comparable to a fire hose. Everyone flinched at the power of the water gun that had knocked Chris all the way back to the cabins. "Not on me, dude!" Chris yelled with his body completely soaked.

Once Chris returned, he tried to wring out his cloths and hair the best he could as Heather asked. "So how do we win this game?" The queen bee needed to learn how to get immunity. With the sudden death rounds in play, getting invincibility was more important then ever seeing as how one mistake could lead to someone's last in this point of the game.

"You've got three options." Chris explained as he tried to dry off his hair. "One, don't get discovered in your hiding place. Two, run to home base before Chef blasts you. Three, once you've been caught, help Chef find other campers. Do any of those, and you win invincibility. All clear?"

"Uuuuh…" Lindsay let out as she didn't quite understand the rules. Maybe she could ask Chris to explain them again…

"You get ten minutes to hide." But Lindsay didn't get the chance to do this as Chris quickly started the game. "GO!" And with that, all the campers quickly ran off to try and hide from Chef and his mighty water gun. The only one who didn't leave at first was Lindsay who lagged behind the others before running away and screaming.

LINCOLN AND DAWN

Determined to win themselves immunity this week, they were off to go find a hiding spot no one could possible find. With this one, Dawn was taking the lead as she led her boyfriend through a different part of the woods that Lincoln can't remember if he's been through or not. "Are we almost there?" Lincoln asked before ducking under a branch that would have hit him in the face had he not been careful. "Because I'm pretty sure 10-minutes passed a little bit ago."

"Don't worry Linky, we're just about there." Dawn reassured her boyfriend with a confident tone. Lincoln simply nodded, completely trusting Dawn 100%, as he followed Dawn through a few bushes. Once they were past that, Dawn clapped a bit as she ran up to a medium sized rock similar to the ones they sat down on this morning. "Here it is! Let me just see if he's home."

Lincoln looked down at his girlfriend as she knocked a few times on the rock. After a few moments, the rock was suddenly lifted up from underneath. With the rock pushed outta the way, it was revealed that there was a hole underneath it. And what resided in the hole and moved the rock out of the way, a gopher. "Huh, kinda ironic." Lincoln couldn't help but chuckle a bit. Not too long ago they were competing against a team named after Gophers.

"Good after Mrs. Ashton, I hope I'm not interrupting anything." Dawn greeted the gopher in the hole. The gopher simply smiled at Dawn and waved it off with a squeak. Dawn smiled at the news that the gopher had nothing going at the moment and continued. "Well if that's the case, would you mind if me and my boyfriend took refuge in your hole for a few hours? We just need to hide out for today's challenge."

At hearing the information that Lincoln was her boyfriend, the Gopher let out a high-pitched squeak and clapped her hands together. Just then the gopher put on a sly look and squeaked something quietly to Dawn while nudging the human girl's arm with an elbow. "Mrs. Ashton…" Dawn blushed a bit with a sheepish smile on her face that soon turned red at the gopher's words. "You're embarrassing me…"

The gopher simply giggled before hopping out of the hole and gesturing Lincoln and Dawn to come inside. "She said we can hide out in here for the challenge!" Dawn told Lincoln with a wide smile on her face as she started heading into the hole. "Come on!"

"Hiding underground." Lincoln grinned as he followed Dawn into the gopher hole. "I knew you were a genius."

Dawn giggled in response to his compliment as the gopher came in after Lincoln entered the hole and quickly covered it up with the rock to hide the entrance to her home. No way was Chef gonna find em now! As they crawled through the gopher tunnels, Lincoln's face soon exploded with red as he saw what was right in front of him. Dawn's butt.

As the white head looked down at the dirt they were crawling through to avoid looking, Dawn was fully aware of what Lincoln saw and simply giggled. "Now, now, now Lincoln~" Dawn spoke with a sly grin on the nature lover's face. "Don't go enjoying yourself too much back there~"

Lincoln squeaked in response as his face completely exploded in red as Dawn and the Gopher giggled.

OWEN

Currently the big guy himself was also walking through the woods trying to find a hiding place. Seeing as how he was a bit…large, hiding places were a bit hard for him to find. But then Owen thought he found the perfect one. A cave that wasn't home to a bear looking to eat him.

But when Owen approached the cave, suddenly a pair of hands grabbed his collar and dragged him inside the cave. "Woah!" Once he was inside, Owen saw that Duncan and DJ were waiting in the cave. The former having been the one to drag Owen in with them. "Nice hiding spot. Yeah!"

However, Duncan quickly shushed Owen. Not only to get him to be quiet so he didn't give them away, but also to address a rather important matter. "Listen up boys. We're in trouble. Okay?" Duncan stated in a rather serious tone. "There are eight chicks on the island and only four dudes."

"Hehehe yeah!" Owen giggled as a blush came across his face at being on an island with so many girls. "Nice odds!"

But Owen as met with a quick slap to the head from Duncan for this. "No lard ball, bad odds." The delinquent scolded the big guy. "If I noticed it, chances are that sooner or later, they're gonna notice it too and when they do, they're gonna pick us off one by one. We've gotta do something about it."

"It's not like they're exactly getting along." DJ pointed out something that was pretty obvious. Most of the girls didn't get along with each other…at all. "Remember this morning?"

Owen shivered in fright at the memory. "I was too scared to go into the bathroom this morning." Owen pointed out as he remembered hearing a fun cat fight quickly turn into a brawl in the communal bathroom this morning. "And what about Courtney? You are her are pretty tight."

"Yeah we are~" Duncan gave a smug grin as he muttered this before getting with the point. "But the point is this. The truth about women, they're all sisters and when push comes to shove, they're gonna stick together. Haven't you ever seen a chick flick before?"

"Well…" Owen began to admit. "Yeah but-"

"Look, man, now's the time, while they don't see it coming." Duncan spoke up, interrupting Owen from his fascinating chick flick story. "While wehave the element of surprise."

"Hey what about Lincoln?" DJ asked the delinquent with a raised brow. If they were gonna form a guy's alliance then shouldn't all the guys on the island be here for it. "He's a dude too ya know."

"Oh yeah right." Duncan rolled his eyes as he heard DJ bring up the white head. "Let's trust the dude willing to cheat challenges for his girlfriend. We don't need him."

"The dude's in love. So what?" DJ gave Duncan a light glare from talking about his friend like that. Sure Lincoln did cheat that one time but it was only to protect Dawn. He wasn't the type that would quickly back stab someone on the spot. Not at all. "There's only three of us here anyway. We need every vote we can get and with him we also get Dawn's vote."

"I dunno I'm kinda with Duncan on this one." Owen admitted as he looked down at the ground. His mother told him honesty was the best policy after all. "I like Lincoln, I really do, but he'd choose Dawn over us anytime. But DJ does bring up a good point with the whole numbers thing."

"Relax boys, I got it covered. Ya just gotta know how to play the game." Duncan reassured his fellow dudes. He had everything all planned out. Of course he knew three votes weren't gonna be much. At least not yet. So he planned everything out to where things should work out. He just had to see how the dominos fell. "So, you guys in?"

Duncan put his hand out with Owen putting his hand on top of it. DJ looked at the two hands before sighing and putting his own on top, agreeing to the alliance. While he was upset that Lincoln was being left out, at this point in the game he needed some form of protection if he was gonna win this thing "Good." Duncan said once DJ agreed to the alliance. "Now that we're all agreed, guys unite and save our butts from elimination."

"Agreed." DJ and Owen said in unison.

Once they separated, Owen started to get a little giddy as he pumped his fist up and down in the air. "Aw, I am so psyched! A dude's alliance. I love it! It's so manly! Yeah! Come here!" Owen then brought DJ and Duncan close to him and proceeded to plant kisses on both of their cheeks. The two dudes quickly backed away from the big guy and gave him incredibly uncomfortable looks causing Owen to face palm.

"Ok then…" Duncan awkwardly let out before pointing his thumb at the exit of the cave. "Now that…that's over, clear out."

"What?" DJ let out as he and Owen's eyes widened at Duncan's words.

"I was here first, dude." Duncan stated as he leaned against the stone walls of the cave. "This is my hiding place."

THE BOAT HOUSE

And so the challenge had truly begun. Everyone was either hiding or trying to find a hiding place. Lindsay was having the most struggle as she had tried things such as hiding in the stall at the bathroom, hiding under Edward and waking the platypus from his nap, and just overall hiding in places that really couldn't hide her.

Leshawna hid in the water while using a reed as a snorkel, Gwen tried to camouflage with the grass, Owen and DJ had both climbed up opposite ends of the roof of the main lodge while unaware of each other's presence. And the best one was probably Izzy who was following behind Chef and mimicking his every movement while quickly hiding behind the nearest object once he looked her way.

And speaking of Chef, the camp cook thought a good place to check for his victims would be the boat house. Creaking the door open, Chef peaked his head inside and shivered a bit in fright. The boat house was still the same murder den-looking area its always been. Quickly scanning his eyes through the move, Chef saw that no campers had seemed to hide here. "Man this place is creepy." Chef grumbled before closing the door, eager to get far away from that hell-shack.

But when he left, a certain CIT proceeded to peak her head out from behind the dead shark handing from above. Courtney smirked as it seemed that climbing onto and hanging on the dead predator was a better hiding place then she thought.

LINDSAY

The dumb blond was not having the best time. All her hiding spots were quickly discovered by Chris with the host calling Chef as soon as he criticized her hiding place. This meant Lindsay was pretty much running around the island in a panic ever since the challenge started and she was quickly feeling fatigue. She needed to find a place she could remain hidden because she didn't think she could run away anymore.

When all hope seemed lost for Lindsay, she spotted something not too far away from her. The main lodge. That was perfect! It was big with plenty of places she could crawl into! So with a smile on her face for finally finding a good hiding spot, Lindsay quickly headed towards the main lodge.

Once she was there, Lindsay creaked the door open and peaked her head inside to see if Chef was in there. Once she determined that the psychotic cook was not present in the lodge, Lindsay quickly headed inside and towards the kitchen.

The kitchen was, sure enough, filled with cabinets and small spaces she could probably squeeze into and hide from Chef. But the dumb blond spot something in the corner of her eye. This something was hiding under the table and having a very familiar hair color of light black. "Hey Heather!" Lindsay's words proved true. Also hiding in the kitchen, under the table, was none other than the queen bee Heather. Heather jumped at Lindsay's sudden introduction and ended up hitting her head on the top of the table. "What a coincidence! We're just like, destined to hide together."

"What? What are you doing here?" Heather wasn't all for the idea. Like, at all. The queen bee was quick to glare at the dumb blond and get up from under the table. "Can't you find your own hiding place? This challenge is called 'hide-and-seek", not 'hide-in-groups-and-seek!"

"But…" Lindsay frowned at Heather's reaction to the whole thing. Why wouldn't she want them hiding together? They were in an alliance. Best friends even. They should want to do everything together. But Heather seemed to want the exact opposite about all that.

"Dig yourself a hole!" Heather cut Lindsay off before she could say anything else. "Disguise yourself as a canoe, I don't care! Just do it somewhere else!"

"Brbrbrb…"

Both girls' eyes ended up widening at the sound. It wasn't Chef…but it was very familiar. Looking to the window sill in the kitchen, they saw none other than Edward the platypus right there staring at the two. All three were silent as they stared at each other. Heather and Lindsay blinking at the platypus and Edward simply giving a straight face…until a wicked grin suddenly came onto the platypus' bill.

Lindsay and Heather flinched as they watched Edward lift one of his legs, exposed his ankle barb…and connected it to the window. Heather gasped and soon glared at Edward as she knew exactly what the platypus was about to do. "Oh no!" Heather quietly yelled at the egg laying mammal. "Don't you dare you little-"

SKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCCHHH!

Heather and Lindsay covered their ears as Edward did the worst possible thing for them right now. With his ankle barb against the window, Edward slowly dragged that sharp part of his body through the window and providing an awful sound not too different from nails on chalkboard. "MAKE IT STOP!" Lindsay begged as she felt like her ears were about to bleed.

"WHAT'S ALL THAT RACKOT IN THERE?!" Lindsay and Heather's expressions soon turned to ones of horror as a loud and gruff voice yelled from right outside, overpowering the sound Edward was creating. The platypus smirked and ceased his actions as the door to the kitchen was kicked opened…with Chef stepping inside.

Chef's angry expression soon turned into a sadistic grin as he flicked the light switch on and saw Heather and Lindsay standing right in front of him in his kitchen. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Chef let out an evil chuckle as Lindsay audibly gulped. "This is my kitchen! Also known as forbidden territory!"

"Take-" Heather was about to shove Lindsay into Chef to try and distract him so she could make a run for it, but Chef was a little quick to the trigger. Quite literally in his case as Heather and Lindsay screamed as Chef sprayed them both with his high-powered water gun and washed them out of the main lodge completely, leaving them both completely soaked on the grass and dirt outside.

"Hahahaha!" Chef let out a wicked cackle as he walked up to the window sill that Edward was still on. The platypus also laughed at the sight and only stopped when Chef was in front of him. "Your services are appreciated." Edward proceeded to give the buff Chef a salute in response before waddling away.

Chef then exited the kitchen and entered the main area of the lodge where the campers ate every day. Before he went to go collect his new helpers, he figured it was a good idea to look around the entire lodge for campers while he was there. He looked up the chimney and under the tables but couldn't seem to find anything. Until…

"Achoo!"

Chef's eyes widened as he heard a feminine sneeze…coming from above him. Looking up at the ceiling, he saw none other then Izzy on the ceiling, supporting herself up with the wooden beams "Oops." Izzy let out with a sheepish smile as Chef looked up in surprise, wondering how she got up there in the first place. "I guess you heard that, huh? Heheheh…ayayayaya!"

Izzy then let out a battle cry as she fell from the ceiling and landing right on top of Chef, using him as a spring board and sending him to the ground, Izzy flipped and landed on the opposite side of the lodge and turned her head to glare at Chef.

The camp cook quickly recovered from Izzy's attacked and looked at his water gun. He could spray her right here and now…but that would be too easy. So Chef proceeded to drop his water gun onto the floor. Izzy completely turned back to face Chef as she saw the challenge he was proposing to her. And the psycho hose beast was itching for a fight.

But Izzy and Chef were perfectly still at first. Glaring right into each other's eyes while waiting for the other to make the first move. Chef cracked his knuckles as Izzy cracked her neck. The tension in the air incredibly thick…as Izzy charged at Chef.

The orange haired girl let out a battle cry as she ran forward, making he first attack. But Chef had the reflexes to defend himself as with every single blow and attack Izzy sent his way, the camp cook quickly and easily blocked. Eventually Chef got the upper hand as he caught Izzy off guard and landed an attack on her that sent her back to the other side of the lodge.

Izzy managed to recover and wiped a single drop of blood that fell from her lip. Chef smirked at her, but Izzy quickly got back into a fighting position and made a 'come on' gesture with her hand. Chef quickly responded to the gesture and was the one to charge at Izzy this time. Similar to before the two traded blows and quickly blocked each other's hits. But when Chef went in for a punch, Izzy surprised him by jumping up into the air instead of blocking. Smirking at the camp cook, Izzy gave Chef a. "Bye-bye!" Before kicking him in the face and sending the buff chef falling to the floor.

With Chef down Izzy was quick to jump out the closed window, with Heather and Lindsay right next to said window as they were about to head back inside since they had to help Chef now, and started running to the dock as fast as she could. "You'll never get me alive!" Izzy screamed before letting out a war cry.

Chef was quick to burst out of the main lodge, with his trusty water gun in hand once more, and let out his own war cry as he chased after Izzy with Heather and Lindsay tailing behind him. Eventually Izzy made it to the dock, but so did Chef as well. The distance between the two only about two yards as Izzy had her eyes set on the life guard chair.

The chair was right there. As Chef aimed his gun at Izzy, the psycho hose beast went for broke and proceeded to try and baseball slide to the chair. Unfortunately for her, some water on the dock made it so she slid right off the Dock of Shame and landed into the lake, effectively caught by Chef.

BRIDGETTE

With the surfer girl, her spot was rather basic but it seemed to be working for her so far. It was behind a large rock near the camp fire pit. Things seemed pretty quiet for the light blond. While she did witness Chef, Heather, and Lindsay, chasing Izzy earlier there seemed to be no heat on her.

At least until her nose caught wind of a rather putrid scent. Gasping, Bridgette looked right behind her and saw a family of four skunks starring at her. Trying to both stay hidden and not face the stink of the skunks, Bridgette slowly started backing away from them. "Nice little skunks..." Bridgette fearfully let out as she tried to keep the skunks nice and calm.

But as she backed away, she failed to notice something. Some stray lights tangled on her leg. As she hid, Bridgette ended up getting her leg tangled up in some of the lights that fell down at the camp fire pit.

And this had consequences. As she backed away, she pulled the light attached to her leg. As she pulled the lights, this brought down the wooden beam the other end of the lights were attached to. And when the wooden beam fell, the metal barrel Chris stood in front of every elimination ceremony started rolling down down…and fell right behind the skunks.

Bridgette screamed as the metal barrel that landed right behind them was more than enough to startle the skunks and get them all to spray Bridgette, instantly causing her to smell just as bad as them. If not a little worse.

Right after being sprayed, the surfer girl felt someone tap on her shoulder. Looking back, she saw it was Chef using a long stick with a rubber glove attached to it to touch her while wearing a face mask. "Technically, I don't have to spray you, but..." Chef said as Bridgette was technically already sprayed.

"Please!" Bridgette begged for any opportunity to get this smell off her. "Spray me!" Chef went through with her request and doused her with an immense amount of water leaving Bridgette soaked in a new way. At first the smell seemed to disappear…only to reappear a second after being doused.

OWEN AND DJ

The two boys were still hanging on for dear life on the roof of the main lodge. Each dude on one side of the roof and completely unaware of the other's presence. As they were hiding a pink bird flew down to the roof and perched itself right on the middle of it and chirped happily. "Aaaaww." DJ let out at seeing the cute animal and started climbing towards it. "Come here, you."

Meanwhile on Owen's side, the big guy saw the bird fly onto the roof and suddenly heard a voice as the bird opened its beak. There was only one logical conclusion to this. "Wow. Either I've been in the sun too long or I've turned into Dawn." Yep, only one logical conclusion.

And so Owen started climbing up to the 'talking' bird at the same time as DJ. And soon enough, both guys were face to face and were completely aware of the others presences. While also seeming not too happy about it. "What are you doing in my hiding place, man?" DJ was quick to ask the big guy as they frowned at each other.

"Your hiding place?" Owen yelled irritably at DJ's claim. "It's mine! Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to get up here?"

"Look, we're tight and all, but-" DJ was saying but was quickly cut off by the roof finally giving out under him. With a loud crashing sound, DJ fell right into the lodge on the hard wooden floor.

"DJ? You ok?" Owen called out to his friend only for him to soon follow DJ down as the big guy fell through the roof. "Aww, I landed on my keys!"

DJ and Owen did manage to stand up despite the pain they went through. But when they exited the lodge, they found Heather there waiting for them. Using them to claim invincibility for herself. "You guys are so busted." Heather grinned as Lindsay stood next to her.

"Hey, I've got an idea." You heard it right here folks. Lindsay actually thought of something on her own. And the idea…actually wasn't bad. "Since there are two of them, why don't I bust one of them so we both get invincibility?"

"Hey I got an idea." Heather said as she put a finger to her chin, seemingly thinking about it, before getting right into Lindsay's face and yelling. "Find your own!" Lidnsay gasped and frowned as Heather walked up to DJ and Owen and claimed both of them for herself.

And so the game went on. Heather turned in both Owen and DJ and went off to relax, Gwen was found by Chef after he accidently stepped on her, and currently the camp cook was hunting for a certain delinquent as he found one of his green hairs on the ground. Meaning he was close. And so far Chef hasn't found any signs of Courtney, Leshawna, Lincoln or Dawn.

Chef ordered everyone to spread out around the area to look for Duncan and Gwen ended up partnering up with Owen to find the delinquent, unaware that the big guy knew exactly where Duncan was hiding. "I wonder where Duncan is hiding." The goth said as she looked for any trace of the delinquent.

"How should I know?" Owen immediately tensed up and got nervous. He wasn't good with pressure but he was determined to not let anything spill about the alliance. "It's not like the guys are forming a guys only alliance or anything." And how quickly that went off the rails as Gwen turned to Owen and rose a brow at the big guy, only making things worse for him. "Okay, they are forming one, but I'm not a part of it!"

"…" Gwen was competently silent as she narrowed her eyes at Owen. This was successful in breaking him.

"Okay, you broke me! There is an alliance and I joined it, but Lincoln wasn't allowed in it, and I'm not supposed to tell you but I did!" Owen cried out as he fell to his knees. "There, are you happy?"

"Wow." Gwen let out sarcastically with a smirk as she patted Owen's head. To think, she wasn't even digging and she found gold. "I really had to drag that out of you."

"A-Alright already!" Just then the two's attention were drawn to a rather familiar cave and voice. Looking, they saw Chef smirking as he carried Duncan out of the cave by his shirt. "You got me. Sheesh."

"Alright that leaves only four of us." DJ pointed out as so far only four of the twelve campers remained hidden. "How much times left?"

Just then the feedback from the loud speakers back at camp got everyone's attention. "Two minutes remaining!" Chris announced the remaining time left in the challenge. "Come on Chef pick up the pace!"

"Two minutes?!" Chef yelled as he quickly tried to think of places where he hasn't checked. Only two minutes and four campers weren't exactly the best odds. "But I searched everywhere!" Chef thought for a few more moments before his eyes widened as there was one place he has yet to check. "The water!"

Chef then ran as fast as he could back to the dock with all of his caught campers following him. And as they ran, the passed by a particular rock that has been seen once before this episode…

Meanwhile underground…

"Mmmm…" Lincoln shifted a bit in his sleep as he and Dawn held onto each other while still taking refuge in the gopher hole. The area they were in was surprisingly spacious and could fit both of them comfortably. And they took full advantage of this and decided to catch a few Z's together. However, some sounds from the surface disturbed Lincoln's rest a little. "Did you hear that?"

"It's ok Linky, don't worry about it." Dawn reassured him quietly as she patted him on the head. Earning herself a cute yawn from her boyfriend. "Just go back to sleep."

Chef quickly pumped his water gun. He doubt he could get all the remaining campers in the short time he had. But he was sure he could at least get one of them if they were hiding in the water if he was fast enough.

But sadly for Chef, he just didn't have the speed.

When he and his helpers arrived at the Dock of Shame, they all saw Leshawna in her swimsuit holding her reed snorkel…sitting in the life guards chair. "What took you so long, sugar?" Leshawna asked Chef with a smirk on her face.

All the campers cheered and went over to congratulate and high five Leshawna. Chef simply looked at the scene before giving a rather proud smirk to the girl with a tude and nodding at her. "All righty, campers. Game's over." Chris' voice was heard through the loud speakers. "Heather, Leshawna, Lincoln, Courtney, and Dawn all have invincibility. So other then them, pick your loser and send them home!"

GIRL'S CABIN

Once the challenge was over, Gwen had informed all the females about the information about the guy's alliance she 'pried' out of Owen. Well, all the girls except for Dawn who was still missing along with Lincoln. Once Gwen gave out the information to her fellow females, they all gathered up in their cabin. All except Bridgette who sat outside due to her smell. "Can you hear us okay out there, Bridgette?" Leshawna called out to the surfer girl.

"Yep!" Bridgette reassured everyone inside.

"Sorry we had to keep you outside Bridgette." Courtney apologized to the light blond. "You just…smell really bad. No offense."

"None taken." Bridgette sighed out a little "I understand."

"The guys are teaming up against us and as much as it makes me wanna yak up my lunch, we have to vote as a group of we want any chance of winning." Heather got down to the point of why they were gathered up in the first place. Heather pretty much hated, well, just about everyone in and outside the cabin. But she had to think about the big picture.

"Well, I say we take out Duncan!" Bridgette immediately said with a frown on her face. "Sorry Courtney, but he's mean and I'd tell him that to his face."

"Sounds good to me." Leshawna agreed with Bridgette's idea. With Heather immune and the guys, sans Lincoln, ganging up together it was probably the best option. "I don't trust that little criminal." Leshawna then looked to Courtney and said. "Uh, no offense sugar."

"Oh don't worry about it." Courtney reassured Leshawna with a strangely calm smile on her face. Two votes to eliminate her boyfriend and she didn't seem to react. "I understand."

"You do?" Lindsay asked in a confused tone as she did her nails.

"Yep, I gotta face the facts." Courtney explained to her fellow girls. "At this point in the game, you gotta do what you gotta do to win and right now we gotta find a way to take down the guys."

Heather couldn't help but narrow her eyes at Courtney. No way anyone could be that calm with voting out their partner. However, a different thought popped into the queen bee's head interrupting the current one. "Speaking of trust, I don't trust that Owen." Heather stated getting all eyes on her. "He's always happy and smiling. It's creepy and unnatural. And since Lincoln the cheater is immune, I say we lose him. Lindsay?"

"Owen. Yeah." Lindsay instantly agreed while focusing more on her nails then the current conversation.

"But Owen's, like, the nicest guy on the island." Izzy stated as she wasn't one for the idea of kicking Owen out. Honestly she kinda had a soft spot for the big guy and enjoyed being around him. "And he plays a mean game of Canasta. Have you guys ever played that? It's so fun!"

"This is an elimination game, not a dance! We have to vote someone off in order to stay in the game." Heather yelled at Izzy with an irritated tone. But an idea quickly came to Heather's head to pull Izzy to her side. The girl was so crazy she would probably do something on a dare without even thinking about it at all. "Hey, why don't you vote with us, Izzy? We'll be like BFF's!"

Izzy looked down at Heather and didn't seem to react to the offer. "Best female friends." Lindsay clarified, thinking Izzy was confused on what BFF's meant.

"…Okay!" Izzy said without really thinking about it.

"You know she'll just dump you after the vote." Leshawna informed Izzy getting Heather to quickly glare at her.

"It's true." Lindsay confirmed while continuing to polish her nails. "She will." To shut Lindsay up, Heather elbowed Lindsay off the bed…causing her to spill her nail polish. Lindsay gasped, tears even forming in her eye, as she watched her nail polish spill onto the floor.

CONFESSIONAL – LINDSAY

"Okay, that was a limited edition. I'll never be able to get that nail polish back!" Lindsay said to the camera in an incredibly upset tone before crossing her arms. "I'm starting to think that maybe Heather isn't such a nice person after all."

As Lindsay cried over spilt nail polish, Heather turned to the rest of the females and asked. "You with us?"

"No!" Bridgette yelled from outside as Gwen and Leshawna glared at Heather while Courtney comforted the dumb blond by patting her on the shoulder.

"Fine." Heather crossed her arms before walking away. "Then let the chips fall where they may."

"Fine!" Leshawna yelled back at Heather.

After comforting Lindsay, Courtney proceeded to exit the cabin. "Where're you going Courtney?" Bridgette asked as Courtney quickly covered her nose due to the smell coming from the surfer girl.

"Just gotta use the bathroom real quick." The CIT informed her friend who nodded at this. With Bridgette's attention no longer on her, Courtney sped walk over to the communal bathrooms while constantly shifting her eyes around to make sure no one was following her.

Once she made it to her destination, she did a quick scan of the area and stalls to determine she was alone. Once the coast was clear, the CIT quickly reached into her pocket and pulled out a walkie talkie. "Duncan are you there? Over." Courtney spoke into the device.

After only a few seconds later, the voice of Courtney's boyfriend could be heard coming from her walkie talkie. "I'm here babe." Duncan confirmed getting a smile out of the CIT. "So, what's the scoop? Over."

"All according to plan just like you said." Courtney confirmed with a smirk on her face. "Owen cracked just like you thought he would. And the girls quickly gathered up to try and fight back. Over."

"And how'd it go? Over." Duncan asked.

"Ok can we stop with the over thing it's getting annoying?" Courtney asked with a bit of an annoyed tone. She was all for going double agent against the rest of the girls but the way they were talking was getting on her nerves. After getting a sigh and 'fine' from her boyfriend, Courtney continued. "And too answer your question, not to well. Bridgette, Leshawna, and I'm guessing Gwen are gonna vote for you. Heather and Lindsay for Owen. And Izzy's a wild card, figuratively and literally. And if I had to take a guess I think Lincoln and Dawn would vote for either you or Lindsay."

"Hmmmm…alright, think you can get Izzy's vote?" Duncan quickly asked as he started to plan things out in his head.

"Totally!" Courtney said confidently. She knew Izzy liked Owen so if she convinced her to vote with her to protect him, that might guarantee the psycho hose beast's vote.

"Alright then. Worst scenario is that we have a tie breaker with me." Duncan stated as if Lincoln and Dawn voted for him, then that would leave five votes on him and five votes on who he was gonna get rid of. "Me and the guys agreed to vote for Bridgette."

"Bridgette?" Courtney questioned with a bit of a frown. She was hoping that Duncan would go for Gwen or Lindsay but Bridgette? Letting out a sigh, Courtney nodded her head. As much as she liked Bridgette, when she actually thought about it, it was a good idea. "Alright then."

"I know you're friends but we gotta be smart about this babe." Duncan tried to reassure his girlfriend. He knew this would upset her but they both had to think about the game so they could reach the final two. "Bridgette's a strong competitor and we gotta get rid of her now before she becomes too strong for us to deal with."

"Yeah…Yeah you're right." Courtney nodded with a deep breathe. It was just like ripping off a band aid. Better to just get it over with. "I'll get Izzy to vote for Bridgette."

"That's my girl." Duncan complimented, getting a blush out of Courtney. "Knew you'd make a good spy."

THAT NIGHT

And thus, we are brought to dramatic camp fire ceremony. Lincoln and Dawn were finally found and were with everyone, both refusing to give away their location so they could use it for…future purposes. And currently, everyone had a marshmallow except for three people. "There are only two marshmallows left on this plate." Chris told the three remaining campers. The three being Duncan, Owen, and a still putrid smelling Bridgette. "You each racked up a lot of votes. One of you is going home tonight. And cannot return. Ever. The next marshmallow goes to...Owen."

"Woohoo!" Owen cheered as he caught the marshmallow in his mouth. "Alright!"

And then there was only one marshmallow…but two campers. Duncan and Bridgette. One was staying and one was going home. "The final marshmallow of the night goes to..."

"Duncan."

Nearly all the females, as well as Lincoln, gasped. Chris tossed the marshmallow to Duncan with the delinquent eating it with maximum satisfaction. "Okay, that was a shocker." Chris fully admitted as he threw the plate over his shoulder. "Even I'm shocked and I knew the answer."

Bridgette sighed and slumped down. The votes had spoken. Nothing she could do about it now. So, gathering up her stuff, Bridgette made her way to the Dock of Shame. But not before being stopped by two people. "I'm gonna miss you Bridgette." Dawn said as she hugged the person she would easily consider her best friend on the island. "Thanks for everything."

"You're welcome, glad I could help." Bridgette returned the hug. After a moment, she separated from Dawn and looked towards a certain white head and gave him a peace sign. "Keep hanging ten Lincoln."

"And you keep drawing." Lincoln told her as the Loud boy gave the surfer girl a hug. He really wasn't bothered by the smell. Honestly, due to Lana, he's smelled much worst. "You're a fast learner ya know. And say hi to Geoff for me."

"Totally." Bridgette patted Lincoln on the back a few times before separating. "Goodbye everyone. See ya at the finale." And with that, the surfer girl boarded the boat of losers, and took her trip off of Total Drama Island.

And so with the departure of the surfer girl, the start of the guy's alliance with Courtney as their double agent, brings an end to yet another episode of Total. Drama. Island!

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