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Total Drama: Underdogs

Episode 1: Back in the Game

Chris stood on the beach of Pahkitew Island and waved to the camera. "Hey World, I'm back and we've got another season of Total Drama for you. Since Wawanakwa Island sunk, we moved last season to here, Pahkitew Island. Last season, fourteen new contestants were brought here to compete for a million dollars. There were idiots (Sugar), weirdoes (Leonard and Ella), psychopaths (Max and Scarlett), and a bunch of other freaks too. In the end, it was down to conspiracy nut Shawn and athletic gymnast Sky. Want to know who won, too bad I'm not telling you, go watch season six to find out. Now we know All-Stars was bad and believe me, we took care of the problem. The footage editors from All-Stars were fired and were replaced for Pahkitew Island and seasons onward. Now we have editors the producers are sure will do a better job. Anyway, I'm getting off track. Since Pahkitew Island went over well, we figured we should give the underdogs of the series a try. That's right, the earliest boots and the least competed contestants will be competing here with each other for the title of Total Drama's biggest underdog and to win one million dollars. Get ready for this epic season of Total Drama Underdogs!"

"Welcome to Total Drama Underdogs!" Chris greeted as soon as the theme song finished. "Now since you may not be familiar with contestants that haven't competed as of late or remember the early boots, we'll reintroduce them to you. And here they come now." A boat braked by the beach and a gangplank touched down on the sand. "He competed in the first two seasons, made it to the final six once, and hosted the Total Drama Aftermath in seasons two and three, Geoff!"

"Hey Chris! As dangerous as this show is, it's great to be competing again." Geoff said as he descended onto the beach.

"We'll see about that." The host smirked, making Geoff wonder if he should be concerned. Geoff took his bag and stepped off to the side. "He also competed in two seasons, was part of the Drama Brothers, and got dumped by his girlfriend in season two, Trent!"

Trent glared at Chris as he arrived. "Seriously, you had to bring that up? You couldn't have said anything else?"

"Hey, it was what led up to your elimination, dude."

"Whatever." Trent walked over and stood by Geoff.

"Hey man," Geoff greeted.

"Hey." Trent fist bumped with the party guy.

"Next, they're the best of friends, got lost in the woods in season one, and crush on the hottest guy of every season, Katie and Sadie!" Chris announced as the would-be twins stepped onto the beach.

"Yay, we get to compete again!" Katie squealed.

"I know. It's been so long since we got to compete. It was like so unfair but now we're back!" Sadie squealed as well.

Katie noticed the other two boys on the beach. "Sadie, look, it's Trent."

"Oh my gosh! Hi Trent!" Sadie exclaimed to the musician. To the musician's chagrin, the girls ran over with their bags and started hugging him.

"Ahem," Chris coughed to get the attention back. "Coming back as well is the lazy genius who befriended a human garbage disposal, an angry athlete, and a really crazy nutcase. It's Noah!"

Noah walked down and looked at the island with a flat look. "Wow, another island that will surely cause me misery. You couldn't think of someplace else?"

"Glad to hear your enthusiasm, Noah. Go join your old friends." Chris pointed to the group.

"Still ignoring the sarcasm in my voice I see." Nonetheless, he went over and joined them.

Watching Noah suffer being with these people, Chris happily turned to the camera again. "Okay, next we have- gah!" Chris jumped back a few feet when he was met with one of Total Drama's most serious looking contestants.

"Did I hear you call me an angry athlete?" Eva asked gruffly.

"Um… no?" Chris replied hesitantly.

"I better not have." With that, Eva shoved past the host and joined the group, getting Katie and Sadie to stop their gushing over Trent.

"Eva, everybody, the Killer Bass's toughest team member and part of past contestant Izzy's Team E-scope." Chris got back on track. "Okay, he's a model originally from Hawaii, he made a big comeback in his participation history in season two, and was another Drama Brother, Justin!"

"Good to be back, Chris." Justin said as he appeared. "Being on camera again will allow the agency to get more good views of my perfect body."

"I'm sure." Chris said as Justin walked past him. "She debuted late in Total Drama World Tour, got out the next episode, and is hated by the whole first generation cast especially Geoff, Blaineley!"

Geoff groaned and pulled his hat over his eyes. "You have got to be kidding me."

Blaineley walked onto the beach in her high heels and rolled her eyes. "Don't flatter yourself."

"Blaineley, how nice to see you again." Chris said to the woman.

"Chris." Blaineley responded. "You know, if I wasn't appearing on TV because of you and your show, I'd say this is all your fault. Now I can never get back onto Celebrity Manhunt and I can't break your stupid contract."

"Haven't I told everybody that's ever competed and the viewing world that these contracts are iron clad?" Chris asked cheekily, holding up a copy of said contract.

"Shut. It." Blaineley moved along.

Chris tossed the contract off to the side and continued where he left off. "Okay, one more contestant from the first generation. He got eliminated first because of his sexist comments, got eliminated first again in season three for feeding the team's reward to a crocodile, and spent the last three seasons as a feral freak, Ezekiel!"

A familiar scream was heard and a certain homeschooled boy landed face first on the beach.

The toque-wearing teen lifted his head up from the ground and groaned. "Do I really have to compete again? I'll probably just get voted off first again eh."

"Yeah probably but join your old friends and enemies anyway." Chris helped him up and pushed Ezekiel over to the group.

"And just how is he not feral crazy anymore? Last I checked, he had no hair on his head, his teeth were in horrible condition, his skin was green, and he was spitting acid." Noah noted as Ezekiel tried to make himself scarce.

Chris shrugged. "Fans kept asking us what we were going to do about Ezekiel and when he was going to be returned to his human state. When we replied that he was content in the Fun Zone on Boney Island, the fans started sending us a lot of angry emails and started rioting so we had no choice but to fix him up. It took a lot of medical treatment and radioactivity treatment but he's finally back. Unfortunately, he blacked out after he went feral so he has no recollection of his crazy feral life and doesn't know what's happened since then. He was shown the footage but he's having a hard time believing it." Ezekiel hung his head in shame and nodded.

"Any who, we need to keep moving on with the introductions and it's time to bring in the second generation. First, she was the first one eliminated from her team because she kept blabbing about her family history and lost her hair because of toxic waste, Staci!"

"Hi everyone! It's great to be here. My great-great-great uncle Tony invented second chances. Yah, before him, everybody only got one chance to do something." Staci said as she arrived, her hair back to its original appearance.

Noah rolled his eyes. "Oh joy, we have to deal with someone like her this season. Wonderful."

Chris pushed Staci to join the growing group of contestants. "Thanks for that, Staci, not really. He wets his pants because he is scared of the dark, he had an intense rivalry with Jo, and he sacrificed his team's immunity to save three of his former teammates, Brick!"

"Chris, it is an honor to be given a second chance at one million dollars." Brick stated upon appearance.

"Yeah, it's a pleasure, we need to speed up. We wasted a bit of time explaining Ezekiel's return to being human." Chris shooed the cadet away.

"Okay sir." The cadet walked away from the host.

"Next, she claims to be able to read auras and understand animals, she got played by Scott, and collected souvenirs from Wawanakwa Island to sell online, it's Dawn!"

"Oh, I can read auras and understand animals Chris."

"Gah! Don't do that!" Chris commanded after Dawn's sudden appearance startled him.

"As you wish. And it was good of you to help the poor soul of Ezekiel return to normal, it will do well for your karma." Dawn said, indicating the homeschooled teen who was trying to hide in the back of the group.

Chris scoffed. "Oh yeah, like karma's a real thing. Just go." Dawn walked to the others. "Now, they fell in love during their short stays on Revenge of the Island, both of them suffered from technology withdrawl, and are one of the weirdest couples in Total Drama, Dakota and Sam!"

"Hey!" A voice yelled off to the side. The camera shifted and revealed Dakota and Sam coming off the boat. "Sam and I aren't a weird couple." Dakota protested. Instead of being in a tall, mutant form known as Dakotazoid, Dakota was back to being human and normal size. Her eyes were once more green, she didn't have a tail, and her hair was blonde once again but the ever slightest shade of green.

"Yeah, we're just as normal as any other couple." Sam added.

"That's debatable considering one of you was a giant mutated monster." Chris quipped in response.

Dakota ran up and got in Chris's face. "Which was your fault in the first place. You're lucky my Daddy could get me treated and get me back to normal. Daddy says that if anything like that happens to me again or Sam ever, he'll sue you for all you're worth. Got it?"

"Got it." Chris said, backing away from Dakota as much as he could in the confrontation.

"Dakota, come on, we're both okay. Let's just join the others and calm down." Sam offered, resting his hand on Dakota's shoulder.

The fame-monger sighed. "You're right, Sammy. Let's go. Sorry everyone, I got cured a little while ago so I'm still prone to get angry fast." She apologized, to the others and to the viewers. Taking her hand, Sam guided Dakota over to the rest of the contestants.

Chris straightened up and made himself look professional again. "Where were we? Oh yeah, he never talks but we heard him once scream, he made crafty inventions for the challenges, and was sabotaged by Scott early on, B!"

B waved as he arrived on the beach and momentarily glared at Chris for mentioning what Scott did. He silently walked over to the other contestants and positioned himself contently next to Dawn, who greeted him with a small smile.

"One more person from season four! She fell in love with one of Mike's alternate personalities, she keeps hair spray and spray tan in her hair, and she quit because she got a diamond that was actually worthless, Anne Maria!"

"You losers better quit now because it's obvious I'm goin' to be winning this thing." Anne Maria stated proudly as she appeared.

"Sure, because the walking orange in clothes is going to win." Blaineley remarked.

"Exactly what I was thinking." Noah said.

"Walking Orange? Oh no, you did not just insult my tan, Grandma!" Anne Maria growled at Blaineley.

"Grandma?! I'll have you know that I'm in my thirties." The woman in the red dress snapped back.

"Ah *cough* baloney *cough*" Chris coughed smugly.

Brick held Anne Maria back from leaping at Blaineley while the two engaged in a loud argument.

"While it's nice to watch a catfight and all, we have one more group to introduce, the third generation. He fell head over heels for three girls on his team, landed on his nuts in his second challenge, and angered a lie-detecting chicken, Rodney!"

The farm boy descended and waved warmly at the other contestants. "Hi guys, it's nice to meet all of you, especially the girls."

"Not interested!" Eva shouted at him. Rodney deflated a little but walked over to the others anyway.

Chris chuckled. "Nice one, Eva! Okay, they're twins, one bosses the other around, and both got fired out of last season's cannon at the same time, Amy and Samey!"

"Samey! Chris introduced me! Get my bag!" A teenage girl yelled on the boat.

"I heard him introduce both of us, get it yourself Amy!" Another yelled.

The twin cheerleaders walked off the boat, arguing the whole way.

"Amy, Samey, welcome back!" Chris greeted the twins.

"Thanks for bringing me back for another chance at the money Chris but did you have to bring her back?!" Amy barked at the host.

"I was thinking the same thing about you, Amy." Then Sammy turned to Chris. "And I'm tired of going by Samey, I'm standing up for myself and I deserve to be called by my real name, Sammy."

Chris shook his head. "Sorry Samey but we've already got a Sam and his girlfriend calls him 'Sammy'. Like I said last season, you're officially Samey."

"What?" Sammy frowned. "Aw…" She groaned.

"Don't worry Samey, you won't last long enough for it to matter." Amy sneered before walking over to join the other contestants. Sammy sighed and followed.

"Wow, that was like seriously mean." Sadie said.

"Totally mean." Katie agreed. "I would never treat you like that, Sadie."

"Me neither, Katie." The BFFFLs hugged happily.

Chris held his hand up to his mouth and yawned. "Boring. Let's move onto the next contestant. He convinced his team to build an incredibly lame wizard's tower, he got Sugar to believe he was a wizard, and thought his powers really worked when it made him lose the challenge, Leonard!"

A puff of smoke appeared on the ground and blew up next to Chris. When the smoke cleared, Leonard stood there. "Huzzah, my teleportation spell worked. My fellow warriors in this game of Total Drama, would you like to see more of my magic?"

"Ew! Him again? Gross!" Amy gagged and turned around.

"He looks completely stupid." Eva remarked.

Sam whispered to Dakota. "Okay, I've seen LARPers before but never when they were the only one."

"Take that as a no, Leonard." Chris observed happily, seeing the reactions of the contestants to Leonard.

"Ah well, maybe some time later then." Leonard suggested before walking over to join them. He saw Trent and gasped. "Oh the game's minstrel, would you like to accompany me and play music to give our quests a little boost in spirit?"

Trent looked at him oddly and looked away. "Uh, sorry but I can't."

"Well that's a shame. Every good quest has some music to it."

Catching the gang off guard, some beat boxing occurred at the moment and no one had an idea where it came from. Heads looked up and searched around for the noise's source.

The host turned around and glared. "Beardo! I didn't announce you yet." Beardo stifled a laugh at his joke. "Anyway, he makes noises, he lounged around while his team built their shelter, and was the first out last season, Beardo!"

"(fanfare)" Beardo made with his mouth.

"Whoa, dude has a lot of hair." Geoff commented.

"So much hair, and he's not talking to us. What kind of people are Chris bringing into this show?" Justin asked around.

Beardo joined them and leaned back on a nearby rock, kicking his legs up.

"Okay," Chris said, "As much as I hate to bring her back, this is a gender equality show. She's a big brainiac, she teamed up with the worst villain in Total Drama history, and took control over Pahkitew Island when it was going haywire, Scarlett!"

A lot of the contestants gasped.

"Don't worry your small brains about it. That was a one-time thing and nobody would be stupid enough to try what I did a second time." Scarlett quipped as she entered the scene. Her hair was back in its bun and she had her glasses on.

"Why did you do that anyway? Why?" Sammy asked the redhead.

"Simple, Samey. The people on this island were driving me nuts. I've never had to deal with so many freaks and idiots in my life. You, Jasmine, Sky, and Dave were the only other ones on this island that had any kind of brain at all."

Brick raised his eyebrow. "Isn't that kind of harsh?"

"If you say it is but I don't really see the big deal." Scarlett finished talking and joined them.

"Two more contestants and then we have our cast people!" Chris told the current cast. "Our next contestant looks up to me, he stole my phone to try to get the producers to replace me with him, and I totally schooled him for it, Topher!"

Topher slid slickly down the gangplank and showed off. "Hello fellow contestants. I'm Topher and one day, you'll be seeing me host a reality show."

"Yeah, just not this one." Chris reminded him. "You try to take my spot again and you just might get eliminated for it. Got that, Topher?"

"Yeah, yeah I get it. But Chris, just do me a favor and let me explain a challenge one time or host an elimination ceremony or even cut to commercial. I want to show the producers I can be a good host and maybe it'll get me a hosting gig on another show, a Total Drama spin off or a whole new show entirely."

"We'll see about that, not. Right now, get over there with the rest of them." Chris pushed the aspiring host over to the cast. "Alright, we have one more contestant and then we're done with introductions. We'll get the teams formed and then you'll go onto your first challenge. She was banned from her hometown's mall, she was hated by Sugar (and me), and sang all the time which led to her elimination, Ella!"

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"Where's Ella?" Chris asked, a little peeved she didn't appear on cue.

"I'm baaaaaack!"

Chris slouched as soon as he heard that. "Oh no."

Ella appeared on the ship's deck. "I'm back to play. I'm here to make more friends along the way."

Chris glared at her. "Ella." Ella danced down the gangplank and started dancing all around the group.

"Each new friend is like a bright new star. I hope they don't go home soon, I hope they and I can go faaar."

"Ella."

"This game is starting anew. That means it's time to make more friends tooo. Each challenge might give us a scare. Don't worry friends as long as we're together there's nothing to fear. This game is like a test and as long as we help each other we'll do our best. We can do this friends, we can go to the end, I don't want to vote anybody off. I don't want my friends to leave."

"Ella!" Chris shouted.

Ella stopped her dance in front of everybody and looked at Chris. "What is it, Chris? Was that not a good song?"

Chris walked up to her. "Look, I know we made a deal that as long as you don't sing during the challenges and tame the animals that are supposed to attack you with your singing, you can sing before challenges and after elimination ceremonies but that doesn't mean the first moment you arrive, you can start singing like the little songbird you are and steal my spotlight!"

"Sorry Chris." Ella apologized, looking down in shame.

"That's better. Now please join the rest of the cast." Ella walked over without a skip or a peep. Chris then moved to stand before the group. "Welcome all of you to season seven of Total Drama."

And this is the beginning of a new fan season! Since the All-Stars had their time to shine, I decided the underdogs needed some love. I know Sam was in All-Stars but he didn't get far in either season so I count him as an Underdog. And I'm aware that All-Stars and Pahkitew Island are combined into one season but you'll understand why I consider this season seven in the next installment. Read and review! Reviews are awesome!