The castle of friendship, where usually all the ponies cross around Ponyville to witness one of the most known places around the neighborhood. A castle formed from a tree made of Crystal was an iconic place for everypony could witness the princess of Friendship: Twilight Sparkle, talking and debating her projects with the idea of developing The School of Friendship. But on some occasions at night, especially on Thursdays, there was just one reason why it would be so special at night.
“OHOOOOOO, GUYS NIGHT.” Discord used his own magic to explode himself and create a lot of fireworks in the middle of the room of the friendship. As a Lord of the Chaos, he always found good amusement in going into his own imaginary and magical adventures when it comes about two of his best friends. Big Mac and Spike, the trio who would always make some amazing challenges while using his own magic to try to make sure the dice would be in their favor, or misfortune for their own future internal jokes. As he dressed himself to his iconic hunter attire, he was ready to make everything…
And then something was wrong… Instead of seeing his own friends always laughing and cheering for his supreme presence, there was only the darkness and emptiness around the friendship castle.
"Where the heck is everybody?" Discord said as he floated around the main room, knowing that he would be disappointed since nobody was around, that was absurd. "There is no way they forgot. I'm even checking on my schedule."
Discord said as he looked at the calendar from his ear, showing that it was marked on Thursday, and even had a note writing Guys night in bold letters. Discord was almost on the verge of shouting in anger until he heard some hummings crossing around the hall, and immediately Spike appeared holding one of his iconic Power Ponies comics with him.
"Let's see, I think I have some emerald dip in chocolate in the kitchen..." Spike was flying without looking at the lord of chaos in the same room as him... Spike was so happy that he was ready to read another great work... until he stopped in mid-air, and blinking slowly he turned his head towards his friend who was staring at him with his arms crossed. "Discord, that's nice to see you, what is the occasion today?"
Discord snorted, as he was deeply hurt that his friend forgot one of the most sacred days to ever exist in the whole Equestria's history. The night guys.
"Oh nothing much, just a bit shocked that my friends forgot that today was supposed to be the guy's night and they are not ready with the campaign and the snacks on the table," Discord said as he immediately looked with his chimera face covered in the red color of anger...
Spike blinked, as he tilted his head...
"But today Big Mac is visiting Sugar Belle's hometown to spend a whole month with her on Hearth's and Hooves Day. We tried to tell you that we would put the campaign on hiatus since he wanted to pass the time with his special pony. But you aren't around. So we told Fluttershy about it and she told us that she gave the message to you." Spike commented as he didn't understand how the chaotic lord forgot about such a sudden message. "Did she forget to tell you?'
Discord raised his hand to try to argue, but no words came to his mouth... He quickly took a scroll from his pocket, and with a snap turned himself to his secretary. And with the files and files of papers, he examined that it was one of the days he was having a tea party with Fluttershy, and she told him about Big Mac leaving the town for a few weeks... Discord was too distracted, as he was playing golf and using birds as balls and bats.
"Oh...ohhhhhhhh." Discord remembered, and with a quick facepalm, he never felt so much disappointment to forget about such a silly thing. "Hmm, well, I could teleport him to make the campaign work, but from the last Heart and Hooves day guy's night, that roleplay was a bust when he isn't focused on the game. How great."
"Oh don't be like that Discord," Spike gave a smile to his friend, as he gave one of his comics to the lord of chaos to start reading it. "Why don't you join me for a comic reading night? I'm going to read all my collection of Power Ponies and I'm going to enjoy a very nice me time."
"You are alone? What happened to Twilight and Starlight? Shouldn't they be around here?" Discord asked as he floated around Spike who was still in the direction of the kitchen.
"Oh, they are here," Spike said as he opened the kitchen and gave a glass of chocolate milk to his friend, who gladly drank it. "Twilight is preparing herself for the summer vacation at the school of friendship. Since Twilight is always excited to make personal studies and even pass around our family. And Starlight is planning a trip with Sunburst and Trixie for a new time around somewhere."
"Oh do tell. So in the end this summer would be just vacations around the school of friendship? Time to visit the family? Have some adventures." Discord said as he turned his own clothing to make himself presentable for vacations from school. "I have to say the first year of school of friendship was very chaotic, and I'm so proud of you all."
"Yeah, yeah. I understand. Cozy Glow really made chaos and now she is prisioned on Tartarus. I got it." Spike said as he rolled his eyes and even started chewing an emerald. "So what would be your plans for this summer time?"
"Well, since you asked nicely. I plan to invite Fluttershy to my lovely home to watch something you may have heard before. It's called television." Discord commented that the baby dragon nodded his head to him.
"Oh yeah, I remember seeing some in the human world. That was a nice feature to watch some shows... Oh yeah, maybe I should visit my sister Sunset Shimmer in the future. Just to see how she is holding on to the human world." Spike said in amusement, and Discord scoffed to himself.
"Spike my dear friend, what I'm going to do it's beyond that. I'm going to show my dear Fluttershy, the television of the chaotic world, where the most chaotic shows happen and even the best entertainment would be chaotic." Discord said as he even showed a paper showing a few humans on it. "I have a friend in one universe who says that he is going to host a new show, which will be a group of teenagers inside of an island where they would have to learn to survive in the camp while doing any crazy challenge for them to remain in the group and the winner of the reality show would win 100 thousand bits... Which would practically be 250 thousand bits."
"250 THOUSAND BITS?" Spike shouted in alarm and in surprise and whistled in admiration. "Wow, to have such a quantity of money, anypony oh, I mean any human would be interested in participating in the challenge. Later can you show me the best scenes?"
"Sure, but hey, what about you? What are you going to do around the vacation? Since Twilight is preparing to see the family and plans the future class of the school of friendship I think you would be preparing to do something similar to do around Equestria?" Discord asked while he was wearing a Hawaiian shirt as he could see his friend going around Canterlot and visiting his...
"Not at all. I'm planning to stay at the castle this summer." And just like that the cheerful mode from the Lord of Chaos just popped from existence. And like a deflating balloon, he then stares at his friend who shrugs on that. "I mean, I made the perfect execution, and until yesterday I managed to take a trip to Cristal Empire, see Shining Armor, Cadance, and Flurry Heart, spent 2 days with them, and immediately went to Canterlot to see both my families, firstly vising the castle of Canterlot to see mom and aunty Loona, passed a week with them, and the next week I passed with my adoptive parents Twilight Velvet and Night Light. It was a whole month running around, and Twilight was so distracted that she forgot to visit them. So I have immunity against the scolding of the family, and they are aware of my plans."
Discord had his mouth dropped, as his mind was like a pinball machine until the brain showed the light sparkling letters. TILT in red... And immediately shaking off the pinball marbles from his head. And then with a good arm, he crossed around the baby dragon's neck.
"Spike, my great friend and pal, I have to say, while I love learning about your chaotic family tree, which by the way is amazing and I'm proud of knowing that you are royalty in three degrees." Discord gave a chef kiss on his claws, even knowing the little dragon rolled his eyes at him. But then Discord gave a disappointed sigh on him. "But I have to say, staying in the castle around the whole summer break? I expected better from you. Without guys' night? We could have made a whole month with campaigns... But knowing Big Mac would be out a lot. This is going to be a boring experience."
Spike was munching his gems when he could see his friend was disappointed with his plans... And glancing at his comic he couldn't help but sigh.
"I know Discord, but I worked a lot around helping Twilight and the others for the whole time. And even went around to meet my family and even went on adventures together, however, what I wanted was just a little time for me." Spike knew he needed to be honest with his friend since everyone seemed to be happy to get time for themselves, he just wanted to relax and have time just for him. "And I admit that while I will be alone over here, you don't need to be worried about me, I have a lot of books to look at and even some recipes that I would also try, and even plan future campaigns for the Guys night when the month is over. But I think it will be a good time for me."
"Are you sure?" Discord for the first time on that day showed a bit of concern because the plans of the baby dragon showed a flaw that he hated most. "Because your plans sounded so boring... Are you sure that you don't want to watch television with me and Fluttershy?"
"Nah. I know that you want to have a good time alone with Fluttershy, so I don't want to intrude on that." Spike dismissed the thought, knowing that Hearts and Hooves Day would also be important for Discord to have a very lovely time with the shy mare. And he never would be that kind of friend to make himself to stop the couple from the shy and the chaos would have their time alone. "And also, from the chaotic shows you would have, I don't think it would fit me."
"What do you mean by that?" Discord said as he raised his eyebrows. "From what I remember, from all your adventures around Equestria, since the time you became a hero... Oh, I mean the great and Glorious, and even became dragon lord just for a few seconds, but also a diplomat for many nations of Equestria. But when it comes to watching television, you said that my taste of shows would be it wouldn't fit you?"
"Oh come on Discord, don't be like that. I mean, you are just telling about a show of humans who would try to win 250 thousand bits, and only grandma's Faust would know what they would have to do still being in the game." Spike shrugged as he was reading his comic book already, making the Lord of Chaos raise his eyebrows to him. "I think I wouldn't have the courage to even go inside of a show like that."
And with that comment, a light bulb appeared above Discord's head, and then smiled, both proudly like a good Samaritan, but also evil because he wanted to see the outcome.
"Oh do tell... You know what? I think my friend would love to hear that." The lord of the Chaos commented and with that Spike's eyes went wide open.
"No, I know what are you thinking. No. I'm not going to do that." Spike placed his comic book on the stand and could see the smile from the Draconiques who had a very chaotic idea on his mind.
"Come on Spike, anything would be better than expending your time alone in the castle. Why not think of that on your friendship mission?" Discord said as he could see his dragon friend with his eyes twitching. "Also, this could be a great idea for you to learn more adaptability and even try to hook up with someone on Heart's and Hooves Day."
"Pff, now I can see where are you going." Spike rolled his eyes, since he appreciated his friend to want him to go on into whatever Discord was planning, he had everything he wanted. Well, almost. "I know that Rarity having a coltfriend now messes up a few my plans, but we became very good friends, and I'm fine with being alone into Hearts and Hooves Day. If I wanted I could go to Dragon Empire to see Ember or even go to Changeling Hives to see Thorax, they would be happy to see me."
"But my dear Spike, Ember is going to pass her time with Thorax and Phanrix since they plan to even go to Las Pegasus to have a very romantic time there..." Discord pointed out, which made Spike freeze and then facepalm.
"Oh yeah, I forgot they told me about their plans. But hey, another reason to stay inside of the castle." Spike said happy with himself, but then he saw Discord glaring at him. "Oh come on, what do you want from me?"
"How about a bet?" Discord said as he took a letter with him, and gave it to Spike. "You are going to this show, and have a chance to win 100 thousand dollars, and if you win the show. You can have a wish, you can ask anything you want from me, no questions asked. And I would snap my fingers and it would be done."
Spike raised his eyebrow but looked at his friend. While he has a very good amount of bits since he likes to receive allowance from both his mom Princess Celestia, and even as his salary of personal assistant for his adoptive sister Twilight Sparkle, he already has 250 thousand bits. But having the double quickly like that would help him to buy even a cosplay of a modified version of Power Ponies. But what brought attention most... was Discord's wishes, one thing the Lord of Chaos always knew, is that whenever you ask favors, he would see if there was something funny to do to twist the snap of the fingers and make the chaos around... But when Discord makes a wish, he does it without any second intentions, and anything crossing from the chaotic imagination of ponies and dragons would happen as the will of Discord. It was a very tempting offer...
But everything good also has something bad behind it.
"So what happens if I lose?" Spike knew that every bet should have something he would need to pay for Discord, and seeing the genuine smile coming from the Lord of Chaos, he knew a good thing wasn't.
"Oh, my dear Spike, if you somehow lose the game, or even desire to quit it. Then you must accompany me as one of my chaotic plans and act as my sidekick just for one day. Which means, if I get caught, you would receive the blame for it." Discord chuckled evilly, and Spike could see the potential disaster of that.
"Are you bucking seriously? If you play a prank on my mom or even the other princesses, you know that she would ground me in a way that I would need to be wearing the most uncomfortable suit for the whole month." Spike said glaring at his friend who gasped fakely.
"Whoa, that lovely suit which makes you itchy?" Discord said as he then showed a picture of Spike having a terrible time on Hearth's Warming which was hilarious to see at that moment. "Well then, you better not lose the show if you want to take the bet."
Spike grumbled as he was annoyed to see his friend wanting so much for him to participate... But he couldn't help but admit, it was a tempting challenge, but it would also be a good time to return to the human world... Wait a second.
"So if I go into the human world, wouldn't I become a dog which would be a terrible idea?" Spike asked but then he felt his mouth zipped from the magic of chaos, and Discord felt happy to see his friend already getting interested in the game.
"Oh, don't worry about it. If you accept the bet, you will be there as a human, but you also would have your iconic dragon magic since I cannot change that... However, there would have a lot of restrictions I would use to make sure that you would fit in on that universe, to make sure that they wouldn't know about us." Discord said as he removed his head, and launched like an explosive which created a chalkboard in front of Spike with a lot of notations around it. "Pay attention now Spike, well, to make sure that you would fit in, your internal dictionary would need to change as well, since in that world, just like from the world of your sister, humans don't say everypony, or places like Manehattan and Ponyville. Thankfully your sister's human world is known as Canterlot, so that means that you can say the name of your born... it would be confusing, yes, but it would make people interested in the city you live."
Spike tilted his head, but even unable to talk back, he immediately was pointed at the pictures he had with his friends, photos of Twilight as Princess and owner of School of Friendship, and even pictures of Shining Armor and Princess Cadance... Suddenly were changed into human forms as Discord would explain.
"Also, I would change the words around the professions and how your family is, to fit the description of your story. This also means, that everything you would say about their professions and pictures you would show in case you want, would be changed to fit the description of the way it looks similar, so don't be alarmed when you describe it would look differently than you would want to say." Discord explained, which made Spike even more confused and made the draconequus roll his eyes. "You will understand that later. But now, I also want you to enjoy it... it's going to be chaotic? Yeah, but since you have been friends with me, you need someone to buck as well. I think you deserve time for yourself, but never alone... I have been on that statue for a thousand years... So I think I know that it's never good to be alone, so I want you to win... I'm cheering for you."
Discord snapped his fingers, and Spike saw all the luggage with everything he had in his bedroom, and an odd collection of clothes... but he had never seen these kinds before, but from the ticket... it came from Carousel boutique, which means Rarity did that... So he glanced at Discord who rolled his eyes.
"Come on, you know that Sunset also has a Rarity, and she had good clothing which I think would be good for you. Also, I already sent your Audition tape which was a humanized version of your application on the show. And from the way I'm receiving a lot of messages from my horn... it seems Chris laughed so hard that he is ready to make you sign the contract to participate in the show..." Discord said so quickly that it took a few seconds for to Spike process the words, and then taking out the zip from his mouth, Spike glared at Discord who gave a piece of paper him... "Also I recommend you to read it before signing."
"I didn't say I was in yet," Spike said angrily, but the unamused glance from the Lord of Chaos, made him grumble something while he took the contract from his hands. And having a few minutes reading the contract, and doing another double of minutes just to read the fine print, he then gave a glance to the Lord of Chaos. "Wait, it says that if something happens and if there isn't a winner in the season, we would be obliged to participate the season 2. Discord, this summer break would end on the whole month. And it says here it would be 8 weeks. There is no way I could participate."
"Time distortion Spike, one of the best rules of chaotic relativity," Discord said as he also looked impatient at his friend. Which made the baby dragon blink, but also accept the explanation. "In case you would need to be in the whole season 1 or 2, I can make it so that your whole adventure would turn at the entire month since I know me and Fluttershy are going to enjoy you and cheer for your victory. In case it would need season 2, then it means the bet would treat you as a winner. And give you another chance for you to win the double or nothing in season 2. So it would be a win-win situation for you in case you win."
Spike remained quiet, and with the explanation of his friend, he knew Fluttershy would be disappointed with him in case Discord cheated his victory... So accepting with a nod, he decided to sign the contract with his feather. And Discord was happy with the outcome...
"But I want you to explain to Twilight and everyone who is going to look for me, that I'm still going to have my vacations, and you are the one who had to deal with the situation in case my relatives want to give a message to me, you are going to explain to them that I'm going to be out for the whole month okay?" Spike knew that he may have made a terrible decision, but also a little part of him got a bit excited with the idea of a whole new adventure. "Well, when I should go? Let me guess... now?"
"Oh, you know me so well..." Discord said as he snapped his fingers... And with that, a gulf of fire ball of magic, made Spike feel filled with power and immediately teleport from the dimension he was in... to somewhere unknown... A place where only he will find out when he wakes up. "Well, I'm an awesome friend."
Discord smiled as he checked the messages from Chris Maclain. Ready for season 1 of his new show... And Discord was excited, to see how his friend would deal with a chaotic dimension, where challenges would wait for him, friendships, fights, and even love, he was getting excited since he knew he and Fluttershy would have a great time watching Spike.
He smelled the chaos and the remains of his friend...
The chaos was a good way to start a new story.
(The Total Drama Island)
At the dock, a man in his mid-thirty smiled at the camera with a grin, "Yo! We´re coming at you life from Camp Wawankwa! I'm your host, Chris McLean." He paused to let it sink in before speak up, "Dropping season one of the hottest new reality show on television, right now!"
Chris walks down the dock as if he was on a stroll, "Here's a deal, 22 campers have signed up to spend eight weeks right here at this crummy old summer camp." He halts his stroll in front of the camp sign, "They'll compete in challengers against each other then have to face the judgments of their fellow campers." Chris paused for a bit, "Every three days, one team will either win a reward or watch of their team member walk down the dock of shame and take a ride on the loser ship, never coming back...Ever!" He grinned, gesturing the dock.
(Campfire site)
"Their fate will be decided here at the dramatic campfire ceremonies," Chris thumbed at the campfire site, "Where all but one camper will receive a marshmallow." He grabbed a stick with a marshmallow and take a bite before tosses away, "In the end, only one will be left standing and will be rewarded with a cheesy tabloid fame and a small fortune," Chris pulls a treasure crest out of nowhere before whispered to the camera with a light chuckle, "Let's face it, they will blow it off in a week or so."
(Dock)
Chris returned to the dock, "Every moment will be caught on one of hundreds of cameras situated all over the camp. Who will crumble under the pressure? Find out here right now…" He takes a deep breath as he pointed at the camera with a grin, "TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND!"
(After the theme song)
"Welcome back to Total Drama Island." Chris beamed, "All right, it's time to meet our vic...*cough* eh, I mean campers. We told them they's all be staying at a five star resort," Chris chuckled, "So if they seem to be pissed off, that's probably why." As if it was on cue, the first ship was pulled up and Chris turn to face the first camper with his infamous grin, coming out from the boat with a luggage was a rather short girl with brown hair in a side pony tail. She had braces and thick glasses which Chris recognized which camper was the first."What's up, Beth!"
The farmer girl suddenly squealed as she tackled Chris in sequel, causing him to give her a weird look.
"It's so incredulous to meet you!" Beth then blinked as she noticed something about the host of the show. "Wow, you are much short in real life."
"Uh… Thanks?" Chris muttered with his raised eyebrow, not liking the commented made by the first contestant. But then he glanced to see a giant bulky looking dude wearing a white cap, a dark green shirt with white highlights on the neck, sleeve, waisline with the shirt having an orange D on the center of it as well as short jeans and sandals. The Jamaican walking up to him with a duffle bags and greeted him, "DJ."
"Yo, Chris McLean. How's it going?" DJ gave a Chris a high five before glancing at the scene, "Hey, you sure you got the right place here? Where's the hot tub at?" DJ asked the host, only to hear him confirming that it was the right place, "Hmm...Look a lot different on form…"He muttered, carrying his bags to other side of the dock while glancing around.
Another boat came up to the dock and from this one was a goth girl, she wore a black shirt that exposed a small bit of her belly as well as lacking the neck area with blue and green sleeves. She wore a black and midnight blue skirt with a long black boots and dark gray stockings that went all the way up of her head. She had black eyes, teal lipstick and black hair with teal streaks.
"Hey, Gwen." The host greeted the goth girl receiving a sigh in response.
"You mean we're staying here?" Gwen jerked her head at the rundown cabins.
Chris chuckled, "Oh, yeah! By the way, my crib is this trailer with A.C."
"I didn't sign up for that!" She growled.
"Actually, you did." Chris smirked, proudly showing the contracts before Gwen grabbed it and tored itself apart, "...Good thing about lawyer is… that they make a lot of copies." Chris gave a victorius smile as he watched Gwen growling again before picking up her bags.
"I'm not staying here!" She narrowed her eyes, but that didn't phase the host since he likes to always have the final word.
"You sure? That mean you have to swim back since your boat just left." Chris pointed towards the boat who honked as it left the island. Leaving the poor goth girl unable to leave.
"Great…" Gwen murmured with sarcasm as the next boat pull over with a boy wearing a pink vest that showed off his chest, showing he had an eight pack, along with a cowboy hat with some blond hair coming out of it, a bead neck, short blue jeans, and sandals. When the boat reached the dock, the teen jumped off the boat with his suitcase being thrown on the dock.
"Wassup, Chris. It´s an honor to meet you, man!" The party boy greeted the host with fistbump.
"Geoff-ster! Welcome to the island, man!" Chris smiled as he gave the contestant a fistbump which it was already a great sign of him liking the camper on the show.
"Thank, man!" Geoff grinned, smiling in optimist of the new show he is going to participate.
Gwen was getting sickened of seeing both party boy and sneaky host talking together.
"If they say 'man' one more time, I'm gonna puke." Gwen whispered to DJ and Beth, earning some concern looks from them.
"Everyone, that is Lindsay." Chris looks at the dock again before introducing the new camper to other campers. The fifth boat showed a beautiful looking girl with a super model-like body. She is a blonde bombshell with a bandana around her head. She wore a red top under a brown sleeveless shirt with some of her belly exposed, a short orange skirt and brown feel boots with stars on them. Walking towards them and waving to everyone with a smile. Chris took the opportunity to whisper nearby the camera. "Not too shabby, eh?"
Lindsay walked towards at the host and then have something to point out.
"You look so familiar." The blond girl pointed as the host grinned at her.
"I'm Chris McLean." Chris proudly said his name, but then he noticed that the newest camper just blinked and stared at him with a confuse expression on her face. Which made him try another approach. "… the host of this show?"
"Oh, that's where I know you from." Lindsay pointed as she was now feeling excited which made the host looks dumbfounded at her.
"Um… Yeah…" Chris blinked as he was having an understanding that maybe all the applications of some of the people who wants to participate was in fact true, so he would need to find a way to deal with this kind of difficulty for the sake of the viewers.
Lindsay walk towards the group while some before murmured about her not being the bright light on the bulb.
The next participant was a girl with long light black hair, gray eyes. Wearing a dull red shoulder less top with straps around her neck, short-shorts and black open toed high tops.
"Heather." Chris greeted as he could see Heather walking forward, with a scowl on her face as Beth walked up to her.
"Hi!" Beth greeted, a little bit of spit coming towards to Heather making her recoil and snarl in disgust. "Looks like we're your new friends, for the rest of the next 8 weeks!"
Before any words could be said, a punk rock music was heard over the next boat coming towards them. And at the moment the next camper came, it was shown a boy wearing black low-cut hair with the top of his head being in the style of a mohawk that was dyed greed. He had a unibrow and piercings on his face, nose and ears. He had a small black beard and wore a spike collar, a black shirt with a skull on the center and bone white sleeves and highlight around the waist. He also had blue jeans and red and white sneakers.
"Duncan! Dude." Chris introduced the punk as Duncan who approached the host with anger on his eyes and raising a fist.
"I don't like, surprises." Duncan said to Chris threatened with a scowl, palmed his fist.
"Yeah, your parole officer warned me about that, man." Chris chuckle completely unfazed by his actions. "He also told me to give him a holler anytime and have you send back to juvie."
Duncan took a long breath through his nose before simply accepting the fact he was there.
"Okay, then." Duncan then took his bag and walked towards the end of the dock which he meet the group and eyed Heather for a bit. "Meet you by the campfire, gorgeous."
"Drop dead, you skeez." Heather told Duncan in a rude manner. Heather was already feeling the desire to kill someone on that point. She walked towards Chris. "I'm calling my parents. You cannot make me stay here!"
Chris response was simply grinning towards her and show the contract with was enough to make Heather angry. Meaning that she can't leave any time until it was the time she was eliminated.
The next boat approached with a honk which made everyone turns their heads watching the newest camper not coming from the boat, but actually riding it, by using water ski. He was using a red track suit, a red and white headband, brown hair and eyes, and basketball shoes.
"Ladies and gentleman! Tyler!" Chris introduced the sportist guy who waved but then ended up causing him to lose his grip on the handle of the rope and for him to flip throught the water at high speeds, hiting the dock and crash right into the pile of luggage with one bag splashing the lake.
Everyone winced at Tylers wipeout with Heather being the only one to get splashed by the water causing her to look down at her footwear.
"UGH, MY SHOES!" Heather yelled as water dripped off her body.
"Wicked wipeout. Man!" Chris yelled to Tyler who fist rose up from the luggage pile and gave a thumbs up seeing that he was fine. DJ and Geoff grinned at each other and also giving thumbs up… Gwen rolled her eyes as she was already feeling tired to be there. And that was the first day.
Chris chuckled a little before he heard a loud breathing behind him. The host turned around to see the next camper behind him. A skinny ginger with a few beard hairs and glasses over green eyes. He wore a blue shirt that had a picture of a burger on it and a bright green highlights on the sleeves and neck area. He also seemed to have a light red long sleeved shirt underneat. He had dark green pants and white shoes with blue and green strips and he was carrying a keyboard and a suitcase.
"Welcome to camp, Harold." Chris greeted the skinny teen. Harold didn't respond since he was looking around the area to make sure if he got the right idea. But his silence was doing enough to start creeping out the others.
"What's he looking at?" Beth asked to the other campers, only to get shrugs as response and a few shivers.
"You mean this show is at this crappy summer camp and not on some big stage?" Harold asked which Chris already knowing what the nerd was going to say next, so he nodded at him. "YES! That's more favorable to my mad skills."
Chris shuddered a bit as Harold walked towards his fellow campers before another boat coming towards them. Which was the conestant number 10. A boy carrying a guitar case and wearing a backpack. He had a black hair and green eyes and wore a light green shirt with a black hand print in the middle with came sleeves. He also had a black pants and green shoes with dark green stripes.
"Contestant number ten is Trent." Chris enunciated as Trent came towards him with a fist bump.
"Hey, good to meet you man." Trent replied as he gave a sequel of fist bump two times. "Saw you on that figure skating show. Nice work, man."
"Hey, thanks man." Chris said to Trent as he went to go meet up the fellow campers. Chris was proud in one of those works. "I knew I rocked that show!"
"I saw that." Beth said as she understood which show they were talking about. "One of the guys dropped his partner on her head. So they got an immunity that week."
"Lucccckyy." Harold said as he looked at Beth. "I hope I get dropped on my head."
"Me too!" Lindsay said as she also planned to use anything to have an opportunity of immunity, while the other looked weirdly at the nerd and the blonde staring at them if they are a crazy bunch of mad people or just stupid.
"So, this is it…" Trent said as he looked around over the other 9 camps, and smiled as he counted the quantity of the campers excluding himself from being the number 10. And seeing clearly each contestant specially Harold sticking his finger in his nose he got weirded out. "Aaaaaalll righty, then."
Trent then stood himself next to Gwen and gave her a grin. Gwen scowled and looked away at first, but when Trent looked forward, the goth girl found herself smiling and peaking at the boy next to her. Actually enjoying his company.
And then the next boat passed by, and with this one appeared a girl with light blond hair tied up in a long point tail and green eyes. She wore a light blue hoodie that showed off a small bit of her stomach and jeans that went halfway down her was also carrying a very big surfboard.
The boat left her on the dock which she grabbed her bag but without taking out her own surfboard nearby her.
"Hey, whats up?" She asked the host with a calm smile on her face.
"All right, our surfer chick, Bridgette, is here." Chris introduced the surfer girl in front of him, with Geoff in particular smiling quite a bit at her arrival.
Duncan looked at the surfboard and snorted, he looked at Bridgette and said in sarcasm. "Nice board. This ain't Malibu, honey."
"I thought we were gonna be on a beach." Bridgette explained her reasoning as she brought the surfboard with her.
"We are!" Chris gestured his hand to the surrounding beach. Everyone looked to see the beach of the camp was littered with trash as a seagull caught in trash as dragged away by the tide of wave.
Bridgette sighed at the poor quality of the beach. "Great." She said sarcastically as she noticed that she didn't like the outcome.
"All right! That makes-" Chris was in the middle of the sentence until he got hit on the head by Bridgette's surfboard as the light blond walked over to the other ten campers. "Owww, darn it! That hurts!"
"Hey guys." Bridgette greeted her fellow campers.
"Hey!" Geoff grinned as he quickly introduced himself to her. "I'm Geoff!"
"What's up." Bridgette asked as she turned to Geoff causing the few campers nearby her ducking to avoid getting hit by the board like Chris a few seconds ago.
"Dang!" Harold said as he narrowly avoided the board. "Watch the board, man."
"Hi! I'm Beth!" And by sheer ignorance of not knowing the outcome of presenting herself towards someone with a surfboard on her hands. She introduced herself to the surfer girl.
"Hey." Bridgette said to Beth while turning to the shorter farmer girl causing everyone to duck again to avoid get hit by the surfboard.
"Okay, we've all met surfer girl." Heather had enough to activity of avoiding being hit by the blond surfer, so she rolled her eyes and made a point, as she finished wringing out her hair. "Can we get on with the show, please?"
"Looks like someone missed their double cappuccino macchiato this morning," Duncan smirked as he saw the type of girl Heather was. So he knew how to provoke then in the easiest way as possible.
"Get bent." Heather glared at the delinquent which was exactly the response he was expecting from her.
"Our next camper is Noah." Chris said with a toothy smile, as he saw the kid stepping onto the dock.
The kid was a skinny boy with slightly dark skin, brown hair, and brown eyes. He wore a red sweater vest over a collared short-sleeved shirt with a white long-sleeved shirt underneath. He had olive green jeans and shoes with darker green and white strips.
"You got my memo about my life-threatening allergies?"Noah asked as he walked forward.
"I'm sure someone did." Chris told Noah while pointing two fingers at him. Totally implying that he didn't care about the contestant healthy problems.
"Good. Is this where we're staying?" Noah asked while pointing to the crappy campsite, his tone was very sarcastic.
"No, it's your mother's house." Duncan told Noah while cracking his fist, already eager to have a brawl with the nerd who seemed to be snarky. "And we're throwing a party."
"Cute. Nice piercings original." Noah said sarcastically, not at all threatened by Duncan. "Do them yourself?"
"Yeah!" Duncan then harshly grabbed Noah's lip and pulled out a needle. "You want one?"
"Uh no thanks. Can I have my lip back please?" Noah asked, still not threatened by Duncan. Which the delinquent rolled his eyes and let go Noah's lip with the camper's expression unchanged. "Thanks."
"What's up, ya'll?" A loud voice got everyones attention as they looked to the next boat and saw the next camper coming at them. As they all saw a black girl with a beige shirt with a kumquat pattern across the chest area. Her black hair was in a thick and big ponytail and she had hoop earrings, jeans, and brown flats. Harold gasped as he admired her. "Leshawna's in the house."
The newest camper stepped on the dock and came directly at the host just to give a high five.
"How's it going? Feel free to quit now, save yourself the trouble cause I came to win." Leshawna said confidently before walking up to DJ and give a high five him as well. "Oh, what's up my brother, give me some sugar, baby!"
Harold then popped up next to Leshawna and looked her over a bit. "I've never seen a girl like you in real life before."
This caused a reaction that mostly people with a good sense would see it coming.
"Excuse me?" Leshawna asked with her hands on her hips.
And without thinking twice to rethink his words. Harold dug even further his own grave.
"You're real big," Harold said while spreading his arms apart from each other for emphasis. "And loud."
"What did you say to me? Oh, no you didn't!" Leshawna then stomped up to Harold while she glared at him with hatred of 1 thousand suns, ready to tear apart the stupid boy who didn't think the right words to say the girl who just assumed that he called her fat. "You have not see anything yet! I'll show you big, baby!"
DJ, Bridgette quickly went to hold Leshawna back as Harold dind't think he was being challenged by the black girl.
"Oh yeah, you want some of this? Well, come on then!" Harold full of confidence made a Kung Fu pose as he was ready to fight for his life.
"All right, campers! Settle down." Chris scolded the teens causing them to back up and stop their fighting. Leshawna finally let up and stopped trying to attack Harold, which the boy smiled sheepishly at the girl who was still peeved over him.
Once the conflict was over, another boat came up to the dock and dropped off not one but two girls. They were boht dressed the same black and white stripped tops, pink short-shorts, pink shoes, and even had the same style with their black hair being in both even had black eyes and wore the same pink lipstick. But despite the same cloths, their body types were completely different. The girl to the right was white and rather pudgy in all areas of her body while the other girl on the right was skinny and tan.
"Ladies! Sadie, Katie." Chris introduced the group the duo of sisters. "Welcome to your new home for eight weeks."
"Oh my gosh, Sadie look!" Katie said in an excited an peppy tone as she looked around the area. "It's a summer camp."
"Okay! I always wanted to go to a summer camp." Sadie said with the exact same excitement and peppy tone as her sister. "Eeeh!"
The next boat dropped what would be the next camper which was a boy with brown hair, blue eyes, and had a bit of a chipped tooth. He had a beige shirt with darker sleeves, waist, and neck with a red and blue horizontal strip around the center and also had a blue jeans and green shoes with cream colored bottoms.
"Cody! The coaster, the Code Meister!" Chris hyped up this camper as he and Cody shared a high five.
"Dude psyched to be here, man." Cody said before strutting over to his fellow campers, specifically the female campers. "I see the ladies have already arrived. All right;" Codyd then walked past a few of the girls and then went back to them, specifically Leshawna, and was about to say something before Leshawna put a finger over his lips.
"Save it short stuff." Leshawna told Cody with a smirk promising that he would feel pain if he mess up, so he quickly backed away from her.
Next up, landing on the dock with a loud thud, was a rather bulky girl with a mole on her face, hazel eyes, and her black hair in pony tail. She wore a blue sleeveless top with dark blue gym shorts along with gym socks with two horizontal strips near the top with one blue and other dark blue and dark blue sneakers with white bottoms.
"Eva, Nice." Chris called, as receiving in response a permanent scowl on her face, she remained quiet but walked towards her fellow campers. "Glad you can make it."
As she approached the campers, Cody held his hand out for a high five only for Eva drop her bag on his feet.
"Ow!" Cody yelped, holding his aching foot while hopping on the other. "What's in there? Dumbbells?"
"Yes." Was the only answer the body builder said which made the whole group of campers shut their mouths and looked at themselves.
Most of campers looked nervously at Eva, and surprisingly both Duncan looked at DJ.
"She's all yours, man." Duncan said it, making the gentle giant uncomfortable. Making him feel even more weirded out from the bulky girl who was ready to crush some bones.
"WOOOOOOHOOOOO!" A loud cheer was enough to make the nervous giant have a sigh of relief as everyone drop their attention to the next boat, which they would arrieve a rather large boy with black eyes and blond hair wearing a white T-shirt with a blue maple leaf on it, moss green jeans, and white and yellow shoes. "Chris! What's happening? Hahahahaha! This is awesome! Wooooohooooo!"
"Owen!" Chris revealed the name of the larger camper, who was very hyped over the competition and sharing the good enthusiasm. "Welcome!"
Owen quickly took Chris into a large bear hug, a cracking sound could even be heard from there, with the host of the show now wincing in response of such strength.
"Awesome to be here, man!" Owen said, as his hype didn't lower not even for one percent. "Yeah! Man, this is just so…"
"Awesome?" Gwen finished for Owen with her arms crossed but knowing that the hiped man wouldn't detect her sarcasm.
"Yes! Awesome! WOOOOOOOO!" Owen cheered before looking at Gwen. "Are you going to be on my team?"
"Oh I sure hope so." Gwen said sarcastically while twirling a finger around.
"WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!" Owen once again cheered loudly, and even the other campers couldn't help but also feel hyped from the enthusiasm from the large boy.
"Are you guys finished?" Chris grabbed the attention once again, wanting to continue the show at that moment.
Owen noticed that and decided to let go of the host. "Sorry dude. I'm just so psyched!"
Owen said as his smile never left his face.
"Cool." Chris said after straightening up his clothes. The host then directed his attention towards the next boat coming. "And here comes Courtney."
Now arriving was a girl with light brown skin with rown hair that went a little over her neck, she has black eyes. Wearing a gray top over a beige shirt along with skin tight green pnts and dark brown open toed shoes.
Chris took Courtney's hand and helped her off the boat.
"Thank you." Courtney said to the host before walking over the campers on the other side of the dock. "Hi, you must be the other contestants. It's really nice to meet you all."
Then at the next boat, Courtney was in a mid sentence when she was interrupted by being awestruck. The boat showed a boy that could only be described with one word. Handsome. His tan skin making a good combination with short hair, a well fit and maintained body, flawless dark hair, and blue eyes. Wearing a dark green shirt and worn out jeans and dark green sandals.
"This is justin." Chris introduced the handsome teen as he stepped onto the dock. The host shared a fist bump with Justin as he said. "Welcome to Total Drama Island."
"Thanks, Chris." Justin smiled before looking around the area he was at. "This is great."
"Just so you know, we picked you based entirely on your looks." Chris informed Justin as he walked over to meet the other campers.
"I can deal with that." Justin shrugged, not offended by the statement. Since he already guessed it was the reason.
Owen smiled at the new camper as he still looked awestruck. "I like your pants."
"Thanks man." Justin smiled at the compliment, but kept walking towards the other campers who remained looking at him in admiration.
"Cause they look like they're all worn out." Owen chuckled nervously, as he kept staring at the teenager walking, he seemed to be in showing a side that he didn't know he had. "Did you buy them like that?"
"Uh, no." Justin shook his head in response. "Just had them for a while."
And with that, Justin left Owen who complimented, not before slapping himself on the head for being stupid.
Chris still trying to ignore the akward interaction, he decided to go for the next camper.
"Hey everyone!" Chris got the attention of all the other campers as he introduced the next camper on the island. "Izzy."
Everyone watched another boat came by with the girl standing on it having orange hair, orange lip and geen eyes. She had a grass green top that completely exposed her belly as well as bracelet on the right wrist. She had gren shorts with light green skirt tied around her waist.
"Hi, Chris!" Izzy waved towards the host as she walked forward. "Hiiiiii! Whoa!"
Izzy walked but by mistake, Izzy ended up tripping right off the boat and ended up hitting the bottom half of her jaw against the dock.
"Oooooohhh." Tyler winced as he kept opening and closing his jaw as he imagined how it must felt on that moment. He concluded with one sentence. "That was bad."
"Guys! She can be serious hurt.!" Courtney ran towards to the other end of the dock to take Izzy out of the water. By grabbing Izzy's hand she helped the orange girl to get onto the dock. Izzy used that moment to shake all the water off them like an animal.
"That felt sooo...good!" Izzy was back on her feet quickly and didn't seem affected by the pain she just felt before, she was hyped since she was using her hyperactive voice. "Except for hitting my chin. This is a summer camp? That is so cool. Do you have paper Mache here? Are we eating lunch soon?"
"That is a good call!" Owen agreed with what the orange haired girl had just said, which made Courtney looks confused at the duo.
(In the boat)
"We are almost there." A profound voice coming from the boat captain called the boy who was just admiring the whole ocean around, as the traveling came towards to the end of his time on the water, and finally the first day of his newest journey would happen… And at the time he looked at the island. It was far bigger than he ever expected than ever he ever thought in his life.
The nervousness crawled inside of his body, but at the same time, the excitement to meet to meet new people, and seeing that finally it was to see someone, it has been a few hours that he was still looking at his new skin… Diferently than the scales he usually would use it most of the time… And learning from Sunset his sister, and Rarity from the human world… He needed to be well dressed for the occasion…
For the sake of the bet… he looks in the sky and have one simple question…
“Why in Tartarus I decided to accept such a bet like that?” Spike said as he already missed some company… having only the captain of the boat… it didn’t showed many interesting things to learn around… Heck, even his cousin Blueblood would have been more intersting than interactin with the whole captain again. But now, there isn’t anything more he could do… It was his time to appear on the show, and he would be watched by Discord, and possibly by Fluttershy, or even by hundreds or even thousands of humans that he never meet before… “Oh crap… well, there is nothing else I could do there… It’s now or never.
(The dock)
“Okay campers, before the last guy arrives, I should mention a little something about him.” Chris informed everyone who were staring at the host of the show. “He is a bit of special case.”
“What do you mean? Does he have a third eye or is a crocodile or something?”Duncan asked while he rolled his eyes.
Which Chris was about to open his mouth and say what would be the condition of the camper, but he felt it would to be good for them learn by themselves.
“...No.” Chris decided to shake his head as he was about to explain to the others about the newest camper. “As I was saying, he’s a bit of a special case. Since this show is obviously in Canada along with all of you originating from this country, the producers liked the idea of we have an open spot for an international contestant… Coming from our neighbor country in down south. Coming from Canterlot, from United States, Spike!”
Everyone watched the final boat of the day came by. And then the group just saw something they weren’t expecting too… Spike finally appearing in front of the campers in his human form, retaining his youthful energy and endearing charm. His hair, a vibrant blend of emerald green and royal purple, falls in soft waves, framing his face with a playful yet sophisticated flair. The green hues shimmer like the scales of a dragon, while the purple adds depth and richness to his overall appearance.
For clothing, Spike embraces a style that mirrors his eclectic personality. Drawing inspiration from the fashionable creations of Carousel Boutique, he dons a fitted green jacket with purple accents, reminiscent of his dragon scales. Underneath, he wears a comfortable yet stylish purple shirt, adorned with subtle patterns reminiscent of Twilight Sparkle's magical aura.
His lower half is clad in dark jeans, perfectly tailored to his form, with intricate stitching that adds a touch of elegance. Completing the ensemble are a pair of sleek green sneakers, providing both style and comfort, as he finally came to participate and look in surprise to every unique person he just met for the first time… Since every single one of them must have their own unique personalities… He couldn’t help but feel nervous.
Seeing that he had to bring all the luggage he had from the trip, he saw the grinning from the person whom Spike could see clearly who was the host of the show.
“Chris Mclean?” Spike asked just to be sure, and seeing him nodding at him, he decided to be polite but also show good sportsmanship. Giving a very good handshake, but then seeing the host raising his hand to give a high five, the former baby dragon couldn’t help but also give it one for the host of the show. “Thank you again for accepting me on this show.”
“That’s fine. Welcome to Canada. I have to say, I laughed so hard about your application video. Discord knows how to edit a good video.” Chris commented, which made Spike gulps and narrow his eyes.
“I’m even scared to know what he edited on that video,” Spike replied, which saw the host finally happy to see everyone around. The green and purple-haired boy walked around to see everyone from the group staring at him with their looks in surprise and even some giving a good examination on him. “Err… hello everyone, nice to meet you all.”
Spike noticed that the usual word he would say was everypony, however, somehow his tongue changed the word immediately for the better therm at that moment.
"Nice choice of colors," Duncan commented as he himself had his green mohawk, showing that even people who is delinquent know what would be a good color.
"Thanks," Spike commented as he had a first impression of the delinquent, since seeing every single human, and now not needing to act like a dog anymore, it felt so much different, than the time he was around with Twilight on the human world to try to find her crown.
"Welcome to Canada. Nice to meet you buddy." Owen gave a powerful hug to Spike who immediately felt part of his bones shaping. And seeing that he was tapping the chubby camper, he immediately released the poor boy which was face planted on the dorks. "Ops, sorry."
"It's fine..." Spike said as he felt a good part of his bones getting back to his body. "It wasn't the strongest hug I got, but it was a very enthusiastic one."
Spike smiled as he used the opportunity to give high fives and even handshakes to some contestants, Bridgette, Tyler, Harold, Trent, Cody, DJ and Geoff, some were interested about his background as foreigner like Duncan, Gwen and Courtney, while Justin, Lindsay and even Heather have glanced at the style of well made clothing he was holding. Justin himself also enjoyed the good t-shirt under the jacket the duo colored hair boy was using.
"Nice clothing, did you buy in your country?" Justin asked as he asked a similar question from Owen when it comes about learning of the clothing, and received a surprising shook from his head.
"Nah, it's a gift made by a friend, her name is Rarity, and she always knows how to make the right design in clothing." Spike said proudly, as he always imagined the white mare who always focused into being generous as a good element on her. "She always has been generous, so she made it as a gift."
"Woa, really?" Lindsay said as she was happy to learn a good friend actually had so much style and talent to make such a good clothing, and gave it as a good way to show generosity. "She is really incredible."
"The pinacle of generosity." Spike smiled, as he sounded a bit pained but also with nostalgia. Which he was lucky that nobody recognized the change of his tone.
"Alright everyone. First thing, we need a group photo for the promos. Everyone on the end of the dock!" Chris gave a call which made the group started gathering away. He went nearby towards the front of the group since he was the smallest of them all. Chris smiled as he took the camera and aimed at the campers who were smiling towards him to take the photo.
"Okay! One, two, three...Oops! Okay, forgot the lens cap." Chris then removed the lens cap off the camera, and aimed it at the campers once again. "Okay, hold that pose. One, tw- oh wait, cards full. Hang on!"
"Come on, man." Leshawna rolled her eyes at Chris. "My face is starting to freeze."
"Got it, okay!" Chris once again imed his camera at the group of campers and this time ready to that the photo. "Everyone say Wawanakwa!"
"WAWANKWAAAAAAAA!" The time everyone was saying the name of the island, the dock under them collapsed as Chris took the picture of everyone falling into the water.
"Okay guys." Chris smiled towards the wet campers. "Dry off and meet at the campifire pit in 10."
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(Campfire)
"That is Camp Wawanakwa, your home for the next eight weeks." Chris waved at the scene, "The campers sitting around ou will be your cabin mates, competition, and maybe even your friends." The campers glanced at each other. "You dig? The camper who manages to stay on Total Drama Island the longest without getting vote off will win 100,000 bucks."
"Excuse me," Duncan smirked, as he pointed his thumb towards Heather. "What will the sleeping arrangements will be, because I'd like to request a bunk under her."
Heather looked in disgust as she gasped. "They're not co-ed, are they?"
"No." Chris shook his head, making multiple girls as Heather relieved to not share their dorms with the boys. "Girls get one side of each cabin and dudes get the other."
"Excuse me, Kyle." Lindsay spoke up, calling Chris the wrong name. "Can I have a cabin with the lake view since I'm the prettiest?"
"Okay, you are." Chris said causing Lindsay to smile to someone agreeing with her. But Chris narrowed his eyes towards her. "But that's not really how it works here and it's Chris."
Spike watched the group in amusement, since it sounded like any ordinary camp... But the idea all of them are going to participate for the sake of having 100 thousand dollars? Which would be 250 thousand bits? It was something he must be always aware of... who would be his friends, and what he could learn from this experience in this universe.
"This cannot be happening." Gwen complained which Spike turned his head, and see the mysterious goth girl who showed no desire to participate on the camp...
"Awww come on guys!" The optmistic Owen, the first winner of season 1 of Total Drama showed the good point of view into appreciating the good things, even from the misfortunes of the show. "It'll be fun, it's like a big sleepover!"
"At least you don't have to sleep next to him." Tyler whispered to Gwen as he pointed at Duncan who was currently and harshlt nogging a dear.
"Alright, here is the deal." Chris called everyones attention towards him. "We're gonna split you into two teams if I call your name out go stand over there. Gwen, Trent, Heather, Cody, Beth, Lindsay, Katie, Owen, Leshawna, Spike, and Noah."
All people called by Chris moved to where he has pointed. Once they were in place, Chris picked up a green banner and launched towards them. "From this moment on, you are officially known as, the Screaming Gophers."
At the moment they unfolded and revealed of a logo of a gopher fiercely screaming on it.
"Yeah!" Owen cheered as he looked at the banner he was helping carry. "I'm a gopher!Wooooo!"
"Oh, I think Fluttershy would be the one who could understand why the gopher was screaming." Spike commented, as it didn't passed some hours, but he knew Fluttershy would probably watch him with Discord... And imagining if he had to deal with wild animals, he would need to think about it in a way to not make Fluttershy angry at him... Since she likes all the wild animals and respects their style of life...
"Fluttershy?" Gwen raised her eyebrows as she saw Spike commenting about one of his friends.
"A good friend of mine, she is an animal care taker, and she has an animal sanctuary for many animals who would love to pass the time being protected and cared by her." Spike commented which immediately Gwen had her eyes wide open in surprise.
"Really? She has a nature preservation spot?" Gwen, even as goth she can be, she always had a good interest of the preservation of the nature and wild animals, and seeing that someone has an actual animal sanctuary, it made her has a bit of hope for the humanity.
"Yep, Harry is a grizzly bear but he is one who always loves to be spoiled on there. But I think that's story for another time." Spike commented as he could see Katie looking in fear.
"Wait, what about Sadie?" Katie asked, not wanting to be on a different team without her best friend and sister.
"The rest of you over here." Chris directed the remaining 11 campers. "Geoff, Bridgette, Tyler, DJ, Sadie, Izzy, Courtney, Justin, Duncan, Eva, and Harold. Move, move, move!"
"But Katie's a gopher," Sadie yelled as she was the only one who wasn't starting to move to where Chris instructed. "I have to be a gopher!"
And with the girls shouting and even starting to cry, Spike cringed at seeing the sigh of the duo of girls acting like that... A tanned-skinned girl and a Asian chubby girl were crying and screaming since they couldn't be in the same team.
Once the remaining 11 campers were in the place, Chris pulled out a red banner and tossed it over the other team. "You guys will officially be known as... the Killer Bass!" Harold caught the banner and opened it up with the show logo of a fierce-looking bass.
"Awesome" Harold commented as he looked at the logo and smiled. "It's like... amazing."
"All right, campers, you and your team will be on camera in all public areas during this competition," Chris informed everyone of that particular detail. Since they are on a reality show, they should be expected to be watched pretty much 24 hours every day.
(Confession)
Confessional - Chris
"You will also be able to share your innermost thoughts on tape with video diaries anytime you want." Chris explained as he sat down in an outhouse with a camera attached to the door with flies buzzing around. "Let the audience at home know what you're really thinking. Or just get something off your chest."
Confessional - Gwen
"Um, okay..." Gwen began before looking right into the camera. "So far this stinks."
Confessional - Spike.
"Well, I want to be here, just to see how the camera works... My first impressions, it could have been a lot worse, but I'm glad I'm holding this far..." Spike commented as he glanced around and even had a melancholic face. "These 8 weeks are going to be very long. I just hope what Chris said is true, that I would make good friends on this show."
Confessional - Lindsay
"Um, I don't get it." Lindsay said while turning around and standing up, her butt right in front of the camera. "Where's the camera guy?"
Confessional - Loon
A loon could be seen inside the confessional putting on lipstick before it let out a quack as it saw the camera attached to the door.
Confessional - Owen
"Hey everyone. Check this out." Owen said with a serious tone and face. "I have something very important to say."
Owen was silent for a moment before farting and starting to laugh.
(Outside)
"All right. Any questions?" Chris asked the campers only for them to remain quiet. "Cool. Let's find your cabins. Gophers, you're in the east cabin, Bass, you're in the west."
The two teams quickly headed to their assigned cabins with the boys heading into one half and girls in the other.
At the Gopher cabin, Heather was the first girl of the Gophers to reach the girls had, after examining everything she decided to ask.
"Bunk Beds?" Heather quickly complained as she knows how much annoying the entire show will be. "Isn't that a little… summer camp?"
"That's the idea genius." Gwen rolled her eyes at Heather before passing by her.
"Shut up, weird goth girl!" Heather gçared at Gwen which the goth already dropped her stuffs and started unpacking.
Without noticing there was a boy who came nearby her.
"You're so smart." Cody complimented, which made Gwen scoffs and rolls her eyes. "I feel that."
"Shouldn't you be on the boy's side?" Gwen sighed before harshly ask, which made the boy smile sheepishly, a second before gets launched himself outside of the cabin passing by Leshawna who was happily walking on the cabin, but cringed at the results of his land over the grass.
Trent was happily walking until Cody got to eat grass in front of him. But after a second he resumed his happy walk towards the cabin.
Chris simply walked but was enjoying every single moment of their interactions. Before Lindsay stepped outside of the cabin and looked at Chris.
"Where are the outlets?" Lindsay asked at the host. Since she knew that she would need them for one important reason. "I have to plug in my straightening iron."
"There are some in the communal bathrooms," Chris informed her by also gesturing his head towards the bathroom area. "Just across the way."
"Communal bathrooms?" Lindsay asked trying to repeat the words the host had just said, but then she tilted her head. "But I'm not Catholic."
"Not Communion, Communal." Chris corrected the teenage model. Whic she still didn't understand what was the difference.
"It means we shower together. Idiot" Gwen explained to Lindsay as she sat down on the steps to the cabin.
Lindsay's eyes got wet and her lips trembled, until she let it out her outburst.
"AW NO COME ON!" Lindsay shouted her complaints which made Gwen cover her ears as the boys nearby her cabin came to watch Lindsay freak out.
"I'm glad we're in our own cabin with just guys. Know what I mean?" Owen laughed but only he realized his mistake after hearing just the silence between his roomates. He realized the double meaning of his own words, and now he quickly tried to correct himself. "I mean no! I didn't mean it like that! I love chicks. Hehe, I just don't wanna sleep near them. Atata-uh I mean…"
Spike ignored Owen having problems to find the right words and went straightly to his cabin. To drop all the lugage that he had brought from another dimension.
"Excuse me, Chris?" Geoff called out the host. Since he was helping Bridgette to get on her own cabin. "Is there, uh, a chaperone of any kind in this facility here?"
"You're all 16 years old, as old as a counselor in training at a regular summer camp." Chris told all the teenager's around him. "So other than myself. You'll be unsupervised. You've got half an hour to unpack and meet me back at the main lodge, starting… now."
"Cool." The party boy smiled, until a shout loud enough to make all the campers stares at the gopher's cabin in surprise of the panic shout.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" The group came to the door until they found it was Lindsay who shouted. Being above a stool, and refusing to even touch the floor.
"Man that white girl can scream." Leshawna commented somewhat impressed.
Spike also appeared on the door to see what was about. And had to agreed with Leshawna since at the time they appeared on the show, it didn't was neighter the first day, but he heard a lot of screams in just a few hours.
Lindsay shouted and pointed in the direction of what would be a cockroach who was having a good morning activities.
"WHAT IS IT?" She asked in a disgusted and horrified tone. "KILL IT, KILL IT."
DJ looked down and when he saw the cockroach walking on the floor, his panic mode activated and he highly jumped towards one of the nearby beds… breaking it at the same moment.
"That…was my bed." Gwen lamented in a disappointed tone, as she could see DJ still shaking in fear above her now broken bed.
Many of the campers screamed as they tried to either climb up the beds or even try to kill the little insect who was too fast for them, the cockroach was about to leave the floor, until from the right side Duncan came by lifting the axe before Duncan and proceed to do overkill.
The results of the overkill were made when campers saw what would be the remains of the insect. A half cockroach which in the above part was with its tiny legs twitching.
"That's a new way to kill a cockroach." Gwen had to admit, she was impressed. As Tyler came to see what happened from the other side of the door.
"Awesoooome." Harold loved a good overkill, even made by the delinquent who just dropped his guard.
Tyler approached Lindsay who was above DJ and both of them had the same fear of the same insect who tormented them.
"If one of them appears once again, you can call me. Okay? Because…" Tyler offered his help until he paused and with a long sniff of his nose. Until he confidently answered. "Listen. I also know how to do that."
Lindsay smiled, as she felt like love for the first time on the day, as she smiled at him, Tyler also felt the same feelings that the little blond shared with him. Both smiled and stared at each other.
Spike watched that scene in surprise, since he never thought he would see someone showing signs of a crush... like he had at the first time he meet Rarity... The love in the air, was what made Spike smiles warmily until he heard a scoff which made him listen carefully and even debates with himself.
Duncan scoffed and rolled his eyes.
"Of course they always fall for the jocks." Duncan replied which made Spike look at him, and then after reflecting a bit, he couldn't help but imagine the delinquent was telling the truth.
Since the incident was over, the boys of the killer bass team finally left the East side, and went back to resume their activities. Leaving the Equestrian human now looking on how happy the blonde girl was from the sportist guy who didn't help to take care of the insect... But did he also do something when it comes about that? He isn't sure if he could fire breath like his life on Equestria, or even use magic like Twilight or Starlight to help to repel the insects...
Maybe he should learn more about how to help his team...
Spike looked at the girl's cabin one last time, before going directly to his own cabin to meet the boys.
At the Gopher's cabin, Spike and the other boys got inside the cabin, and they saw sets of bunk beds set up. There was also a wood-burning stove, a carper, some drawers, and a few lanterns.
"Wow." The dragon whispered as he got inside for the cabin, since he never had the oportunity to camp with bunk beds before. Most of the time Twilight and the other girls would actually bring tents with them, and together would be camping in the most simple way. It was the first time to see a different type of camp, and even with a bunk bed before. He usually never slept in one, since he was used to sleeping in a basket near his adoptive sister. Spike couldn't help but feel thrilled. "Awesome."
"It's your first time camping?" A voice asked him, and Spike turned his face to see someone bringing a guitar with him and made some accommodations. "You still may be confused into knowing the name of everyone since you came last, name's Trent."
Spike saw the gentle and kind smile of the guitarist, offering his hand, since was a genuine greeting, Spike immediately gave his hand for a handshake.
"Spike. So did I miss much when I came here?" Spike asked, seeing Owen already preparing his stuff and choosing the bunker bad on the below.
"Not at all. Just Chris showing this awesome place and the group who looks awesome." Owen said happily, which Trent shrugged, not wanting to destroy the optimism of the happiest person in the camp.
"Make sense, hey. Do you mind if I take the top of the bunker?" Spike asked Trent who seemed to be cool with the idea and nodded his head to the dragon. "Thanks, never had a chance to go in one. Usually my siblings and I we have a bed for each of us, so we didn't experience it before."
"How many?" Then the duo of boys looked around, just to see the tanned boy who was immediately reading one of his books, which Spike titled his head, and then recognized one book that looked really familiar. A Brief History of Time. Spike remembered Sunset Shimmer had to do a school project related to that book, and Twilight was way far to happy to help, which means that both of them had to read and debate theories which took 2 whole weeks to finally get out of the castle's library to enjoy outside. "Hello, earth to Spike."
"Ops, sorry. I have 3, one sister, one adoptive sister, and one adoptive brother." Spike explained which made Trent and Owen look at him in surprise.
"Adoptive sister and brother?" Both of them asked, which Noah scoffed, but had his ear opened to hear the explanation.
"It's a bit complicated, but in summary, I have 2 families and we are united together, it's confusing but it would take maybe an hour to explain that. So why the question?" Spike knew that at the moment he would have to tell about his life of being both the adoptive son of Princess Celestia and also adopted by the Sparkle family, it would take a bit long to explain... Tartarus, it was even confusing to explain that to Thorax. It took it 5 hours to explain that Cadence and Shining Armor weren't making incest, and Apple Jack's laughter with Rainbow Dash made it even worse.
The group raised their eyebrows but nodded their heads to agree to let it drop.
"Welp, you are lucky at least. Try to live with 8 siblings." Noah explained in sarcasm, which the dragon boy and even the other boys around the tanned boy who was still reading the book. "Yeah I know, they have television but they didn't care anyway."
Spike tilted his head, not knowing what one thing is related to having more siblings, but then Trent decided to change the subject.
"Well never mind that, let's enjoy the day and meet around the camp," Trent said, since Spike looked like a chill little dude, and was already happy to see someone neat on his team. It seems the guys around his team looked very nice. Knowing that sooner or later the game would already start, he would at least have more time to talk with the boys. "It seems that this show is going to be interesting and awesome, and everyone here seems chill and nice."
"Plahhh." Cody then got inside the cabinet, which made the trio of boys, see Cody cleaning his arms and face from the dust he had eaten minutes ago. "Man, the girls around here are strong. And that's what I like in a girl."
Trent smiled kindly, shaking his head and sighing while Spike tilted his head in confusion. It seems that he needs to learn more about his teammates, and hopefully, the first day won't be so bad.
(Main Lodge)
Once the groups were finished and half an hour had passed, everyone was lined up in the mess hall waiting to be served their food. The one serving the cook was a very strong and bulked-up man, a man who seemed to have served the army a few years before taking the job as the chef from the show. The man who named himself Chef Hatchet.
"Listen up, I serve it three times a day," The chef called the attention with his gruff and harsh tone, as he was moving his bow with a tray and having somewhat the food of what would the campers look weirdly of what kind of crappy food they would be served on that moment. "I serve it three times a day and you'll eat it three times a day! Grab a tray, get your food, and sit your butts down NOW!"
Beth and Harold approached Chef as they started staring at the yellow goo he was serving to them, as the same thing which sembled as minced meat on their breads.
"Excuse me." Beth said as she looked at the rather… questionable food in front of her. "But will we be getting all the major food groups?"
Harold decided to agree with Beth since he wanted to give a good point since he thought Chef would be a reasonable person who would actually care of the campers.
"Yeah, 'cause I get hypoglycemic real bad if I don't get enough sugar." Harold decided to try to reach the pity from the former military, but instead, he gave him more reason to be pissed off.
"YOU'LL GET A WHOLE LOT OF SHUT THE HECK UP!" Chef yelled right into Harold's face which made him regret to even speaking his mind at that minute. And he decided to follow the Chef's order.
"Have a cow." Owen joked to Noah who smirked, but that wasn't unnoticed by the Chef.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Chef yelled as he glared harshly at the two boys. Both of the boys flinched in response. "Come closer fat boy! I didn't hear you!"
"Oh, I didn't really say anything important," Owen said quickly, this time shutting himself to not make the chef even madder from being there.
"I'm sure you didn't!" Chef commented by letting Owen go, this time… He then looked at Noah. "You! Scrawny kid, give me your plate."
Chef wanted to give the little boy more punishment for giving him even more of the food he prepared. Since Noah silently gave the plate to him, Chef threw down some extra minced meat on his burger, but in the next second the food seemed to have anti-gravity and went back on the scooper, just only for Chef to throw it back on Noah's plate.
Leshawna looked at Eva who was silently waiting for her turn. "Yo, what's up girl?"
Eva simply stared at her but didn't respond to anything, she just took her food and went away. Which caused Leshawna to glare at her.
"Oh, it's gonna be like that, is it?" Leshawna noticed the other girl was giving her the treatment of silence, and she hated it because people would just ignore her because they thought they were better than her.
"NEXT!" Chef yelled which made Leshawna flinch as she was dragged back to reality.
Lindsay and Gwen were the next in the line, and since the blonde bombshell looked at the food, she tried to use a good excuse to not eat the food.
"Excuse me my nutritionist says I shouldn't eat any white sugar, white flour, or dairy," Lindsay said as Chef stared at her unimpressed as he took a fly in the air and crushed it like like nothing. His patience was almost at his limit.
"I don't think that's gonna be a problem," Gwen told Lindsay while looking at her food in disgust. Even then she noticed that her burger started to twitch.
"Cool." Lindsay lamented, as she took her try away, with the other members of her team.
Gwen knew that it would be a bad idea, but she still had to do it.
"Ok, I hate to be predictable and complain on the first day but I think mine just moved." Gwen regretted saying that since Chef took a hammer and splattered the meat of her burger on his face, and some on her face. Gwen forced a smile. "Right! Okay, then."
Spike watched Duncan complaining about the food actually almost looked exactly like the juvenile, not having any idea what juvenile would be, he would learn a bit more of it from someone in the future, or maybe find a dictionary Noah would have, he just hopes it the tanned boy would have the same quirks as his princess sister, but now it was the time his turn was next.
Just at that moment the little boy stared at the giant bulk looking angrily at him, and he was staring at his own tray, he couldn't help but say.
"Thanks for the food." Spike's gentle voice, and trying to act like respect, made the mad-mannered man pause... and seeing that the kid was being honest, he still released the grease food of red and slimy yellow on his tray.
Spike took the tray and turned his back to the chef, who seemed to ruff in response and go back to serving food.
The entire group of campers were looking or even trying to eat their food, but then Spike was the first person to take the food and slowly took the spoon, and gave the first bite... Spike blinked... and by shrugging his shoulders, he kept eating the food which made the whole Screaming Gopher's team stare at him like he was crazy.
"Dude, how you are able to eat this?" Cody was the first to ask, which Spike just shrugged his head...
"It's not that bad... in comparison to the times my sister Twilight Sparkle went to the kitchen without me supervising her and she tried to make Lunch and Breakfast by herself... It was a disaster." Spike commented which made the group stare at him crazily. "This food is at least edible, while my sis food made me knocked for 3 hours."
The group looked at the boy in a fearful tone, even knowing the dragon boy said so casually made them understand that his family must be crazy.
"Who the hell names her daughter Twilight Sparkle?" Heather asked as she scoffed in disbelief, thinking about the stupid name a person would have in life.
"From my adoptive parents, Twilight Velvet and Night Light." Spike didn't notice her sarcasm and replied which made not just Screaming Gopher's table, but also the opposite team the Killer Bass table stare at the boy weirdly. "That's how the names in Canterlot are, you just roll with it."
"Wait, so that means your name isn't a common name, but your name is related to spikes?" Trent asked curiously, and he couldn't believe his eyes when the boy in front of him nodded his head to him.
"Yep, Spike Solaris Dragon," Spike replied like it was normal nature, and he could see Heather almost having an aneurism, but even Leshawna gave a whistle.
"Woah boy, that's an awesome name." Leshawna had to confess, and Owen raised both his fist in the air.
"Wooohhhh, that's awesome. Man, a guy has a dragon as a name? That must be cool." Owen said that he was excited to talk more with his new friend, and Spike was actually happy to interact and even learn more about his future friends.
Sadie was staring sadly at the table of the Killer Bass, since it was the only way to keep eye contact with her bff.
At the moment it passed and they remained eating. Chris walked with his iconic smile.
"Welcome to main lodge." Chris smirked, placing his arms behind his back.
"Yo, my man." Geoff looked up from his tray, "Can we order a pizza?"
The party boy then regretted since a cleaver flew past Geoff's head and cut into the doorway above Chris's head.
"WHOA! It's cool, G!" The party boy tried to make amends which Chef growled, making most of campers cower.
But most of them nodded agreeing with Geoff.
"Your next challenge begins in one hour." Chris smiled, chuckling at what he is seeing. He then proceeded to walk outside, leaving the campers with what would be for the challenge.
"What do you think they'll make us do?" Katie asked DJ in a nervous tone.
"It's our first challenge, how hard can it be?" DJ shrugged with a calm tone and expression, not worried for one fraction.
"And you just Jinxed it." Spike said loudly, which made the whole group of campers stare at him... "Trust me, I hate when someone just says those words..."
ONE HOUR LATER
Soon enough, all 22 campers found themselves in their swimsuits, standing near the edge of the island's 100-foot-high cliff.
"OH (BLEEP)!" DJ shouted regretting every single word he said.
"Told yah." Spike said as he facepalmed in sadness... Now the first day is going to be a headache... And now the only thing he can do is pray for Twilight or his moms not to watch the episode of the show because he knows that they would try to kill Discord if that happens. But seeing that he was now inside of the show, he still asks to himself, why he decided to accept the stupid bet in the first place...
Well, that's how his chaotic adventure would start.