The plane ride was anything but pleasant as I felt my whole body shake in my seat. I gripped the bottom of the seat as I sat beside Izzy. Owen was scared for his life as he yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Owen, can you freak out a little quieter please." I say shutting my eyes as tightly as possible.

"Stop sweating lunchbox. Air travel is like the 15th safest mode of transportation." Noah reassures him. "Unless you're in a death trap."

Just as he says that, the crappy pieces of wood holing up the plane got sucked into the sky and open a hole in the plane.

"This one for example!" We all screamed for out lives as Leshawna seemed to be holding onto her bench for dear life.

"This is not the way Leshawna is leaving this world!" Her grip loosens on her seat and she starts to go towards the hole until Alejandro steps in and saves her.

"Such beauty will not fall from giant airplane holes on my watch."

Owen continues to scream from his spot on the plane. Suddenly his seatbelt straps break and he flies towards the hole in the plane. He then holes up the plane and we no longer feel the wind.

"I could've done that. I just prefer to leave the ladies wanting more." Harold says as his team silently laughs at him.

"Oh she wants more alright. More Alejandro."

"Ha. DJ, you know nothing about women."

"And you do?" I say as me and Izzy laugh with each other.

"You can put me down now. I-If you want to. Or not. Your choice. Because this is nice." Leshawna says hugging Alejandro. DJ gives Harold a smug look.

"Not that this isn't fascinating and all but HAHA HELP! MY BUTT IS BEING SUCKED OUT OF A PLANE!"

★○★○★○★

Chris tells us to meet in the common area and we do as he says. "Welcome to today's challenge. It's-"

"Is it a reward or elimination challenge."

"Good question Harold. And, like I'm gonna tell ya."

"Two of us got booted out last time. So today has reward written all over it." Tyler whispers to Lindsey and I.

"I could use a reward. Ha I hope it's candy! Or a whole bunch of shoes...or shoes made of candy!"

"A bed would be nice, don't you think?" I say as Tyler nods in agreement.

"And I hope you all brought your giant radioactive monster repellant cause we are about to land in Japan!" Chef appears from behind the doors in an orange costume and a sword in his mouth. I jump at his sudden appearance.

"Gosh you guys. That's totally a Chinese outfit."

"Thank you Harold. Now remember. Anyone who doesn't sing-"

"You just, you'd really think you'd work harder to get it right."

"Harold..anyone who doesn't sing is immediately disqualified."

"Your cultural insensitivity is just, gosh. I mean gosh."

"Harold, quit it." I say through my teeth. But it doesn't matter because Chef slices up the door and we all get sucked out of the plane and begin falling from the sky. As we're screaming for our lives, we hear the ding signaling a musical number and I feel my heart almost stop.

"Seriously. I mean, seriously?!"

"Sing, and I might think of saving your musical buttocks! Maybe you'll try harder this time."

ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : Before We Die

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Courtney: "We're singing as we're falling."

Heather: "Well some are cannon-balling."

Izzy: "Yeah!"

Alejandro: "Our lives begin to flash before our ey-es."

Owen and Noah: "We might just go kabluey"

Harold and Tyler: "Get smushed and become chewy

All: "'Cept there's still so much to do be we die!"

Leshawna: "Millionaires!"

Cody: "New Year's champion!"

DJ: Make it home to see my mama!"

Sierra: "Marry Cody!"

Y/n: "Go ziplining!"

Bridgette: "Catch a barrel!"

Lindsey: "Be an actress in a drama!"

Courtney: Corporate lawyer!"

Gwen: "Prom destroyer!

Harold: "Be a ninja with throwing stars."

Alejandro: "Lion tamer"

Owen: "New food namer"

Tyler: "Repairman for the parallel bars!"

Noah: "At first we must cease dropping, our goal here would be stopping"

Izzy: "Before we smash into the ground from the sky!"

DJ: "Split into little pieces"

Harold:" Heads merged with our feetsies."

Leshawna: "That would really suck and here's why!"

Bridgette: "We'd like to keep on living!"

Alejandro: "So Chris, we hope you're giving"

Sierra: "Some wings!"

Courtney: "A jetpack!"

Gwen: "A rift in time!"

Heather: "Parachute?"

Y/n: "A bouncey house!"

Noah: "Water bed."

Tyler: "A trampoline."

Izzy: "Springy shoes!"

Alejandro: "Rocket boots."

Lindsey: "Flying squirrel!"

Leshawna: "Bubble bath."

Lindsey: "Wait I change to bubbles too."

DJ: "Mama!"

Owen: "Pizza- no chips and some dip will do!"

All: "Cause there's still so much to do before we die, yeah we said it! There's still so much to do, there's so much to do, there's still so much to do before we die. Yeah!"

We finish our songs and continue falling out of the sky until we fall into what seems like a pile of rice. I groan and come up to the surface. I take a handful of rice in my hand as Bridgette coughs some out of her mouth.

"This isn't a bounce house." I say sort of bummed out.

"Oh I'm sorry, would you have rathered us all died?!" Noah says as he shakes some rice out of his hair.

"Japan! Yes! I know everything about this place!" Harold says excitingly.

"What you know just sent us free falling out of a plane!" Leshawna scolds him.

"But I went to Sensei Steve's Feudal Japanese Summer Camp."

"Oh yeah? I speak Japanese too!" Alejandro says as he says something to Leshawna that makes her confused. He then clarifies that he was complimenting her and she gets all giddy.

"What's Japanese for "you're so hot?" I say to Bridgette who laughs at me. Noah overhears and fake gags.

"You people are hopeless."

★○★○★○★

We eventually get out of the giant bowl of rice and stood with our teams while listening to Chris.

"Your first challenge is inside a Japanese game show studio. Bow down before Super Human Mega Pinball Smash!"

I gasp, and so does Tyler and Harold.

"Oh my gosh, I love love love Japanese game shows!" I say with excitement. Harold and Tyler both high five me as I ball my fists up in excitement.

"Me too!"

"OMG, which one's your favorite?"

"My favorite is Itchy My Car go-go. Where you have to throw a banana into a car window using a-"

"Giant shrimp fork!" Tyler and I say finishing his sentence. "Awesome!" Chris hits the gong and I feel my entire body vibrate in place.

"Oh look, it's my own personal gong for princess geek and her nerdy little sidekicks." I roll my eyes at Chris and then turn back around to face him. "Okay, I'm gonna need one volunteer from each team to climb into these giant hamster balls. Then your teammates are gonna beat you around the game board scoring points by bouncing you off bumpers. Most points win, and I have a special local surprise for each of you to share your little ball shaped paradise with. So team's select a ball guy, or gal. Victory?"

"We choose DJ."

"We do?"

"Coolio. Here's your pinball buddy."

"A panda..." DJ says starting to grow hesitant. "No! Remember when I crumbled that mummy puppy in Egypt?"

"That so totally did not happen." Leshawna says with her hands on her hips. "The mummy dog didn't explode, it disintegrated, remember?"

"I remember when you knocked a poor little birdie out of the sky."

"Exactly! Terrible. I think that dog thing might've cursed me." The panda soon jumps onto DJ's head and starts attacking him.

"Awwww. Cute! Team Chris is really, really, really hot?"

"I'm a- I'm allergic to panda dander." Noah quickly says. "I get hives."

"What he said." Tyler adds.

"I'll do it. For my team." Alejandro steps up. "Unless you wanted to do it?" Alejandro asks me.

"Huh? Oh, noooo go ahead. You're too perfect- I mean. You're just perfectly suited for this task. So go for it! Yeah."

"Wicked! Incoming!" Chris says as he throws the panda at Alejandro. It was prepared to maul him, but as soon as he was craddled in his arms, he dropped the hostility and allowed itself to succumb to his charm.

"Well hello handsome creature! May I scratch you ears or get you a tasty cookie?"

"Awwwww." We all say as DJ continues to get attacked.

"And Team Amazon?"

"Gwen's face could use some remodeling." Heather says while glaring at said girl.

"Right...I hate to tell you but we're on the same team! So you might wanna switch the witch switch back to off!"

"Would you girls like some leadership? I'd be glad to choose-"

"Stop bickering! I'll do it!" Cody says disrupting their arguments.

"You might wanna bring a toothbrush Cody because the beast you'll be sharing your space with is Sierra!" Sierra starts squealing and goes to tackle Cody in a hug.

★○★○★○★

"It's human pinball time!"

Chef uses the button to start the challenge and DJ, Alejandro, Sierra and Cody start the challenge. DJ was struggling, as his panda continuously got injured while Cody was too busy trying to fend off Sierra. Alejandro was doing well as his panda helped him.

Our team had to push the stoppers so they'd have a path to lead to the exit once they were done. Team Amazon came out first, and Cody passed out onto the ground.

"Ugh, if we got a point for everytime she'd kissed me.."

"We'd be millionaires!" Sierra finishes for him looking lovestruck.

DJ comes out next, carrying a wounded panda who's currently passed out in his arms. DJ comes out with scratch marks all over his body and he weeps.

Alejandro comes out last, his panda in tack as we cheer for him.

"With a score of 462,000, Team I am really, really, really , really hot takes the super human mega pinball smash! And wins a leg up in the first challenge." Chris says.

"I WANNA GO HOME!" DJ cries.

"Will we let him? Will Sing-sing the Panda make a full recovery and give DJ an unflattering mohawk? Stay tuned, there's more wacky cappy tacky teriyaki action after the break."

★○★○★○★

Chris gathered us around to watch a weird commercial of Total Drama Action. The voices were dubbed over and it showed random clips from the show.

"Um..what?" Noah says in confusion.

"That piece of cinematic gold is the Japanese promo. Total Drama is huge here!"

"Okay but that was in English. So why are they dubbing our voices?"

"Turns out the locals just don't like the sounds of yall! Sorry."

"No you're not." Courtney says while crossing her arms.

"True! Reaady for the next challenge? I hope you paid attention because, you'' be writing, direction and producing your very own Japanese commerical! There's a brand new candy hitting the Japanese market. It's Chef's Total Drama Yum-Yum Happy Go- Time Candy Fishtails. I call this the "Total Drama Yum-Yum Happy Go- Time Candy Fishtails Challenge." Of celebration fun." Chris says with a wink.

"You said we we're gonna pay a real Tokoyo ad firm." Chef says as he leans up against a wall.

"Oops. I did didn't I? As props, you'll be allowed to use anything you can find in the airplane storage area. Since Chris is Really, Really, Really, Reall Hot won the first challenge, they get to choose their props first."

"Oh yeah!" We all cheer and do a group high five. Tyler tries to high five but ends up missing and somehow manages on the floor.

Chris goes on to explain that the other two teams would choose in order based on most points. Team Amazon would go last since they scored the least.

★○★○★○★

We get to the storage area and I begin rummaging through the boxes. I pull out a big spider costume and a tiny house. I then look at Owen and a lightbulb goes off in my head.

"Here Owen, you take this." He takes the costume from me and dusts it off.

"Sir yes sir." He says while saluting. I get the tiny houses and give them to Tyler.

"Here, Tyler, you can hold these."

"I'm on it." He says as he throws one of the tiny houses in the air and attempts to catch it, but he drops it instead.

I finish rummaging through the boxes and Alejandro and Noah come stand on both sides of me. They exchange confused glances while I pull out army helmets and put them on their heads.

"Okay this should be all we need. Let's go." I say as I start walking away with the box in my arms. Izzy jumps up and down as she follows me and tries to look in the box.

"Do we not get a say in any of this?" Noah asks.

"I know what I'm doing. Relax!" I say to him without turning around. He and Alejandro shrug and follow us as we pass by Team Victory.

***confessionals***

Y/n: "I had to take the lead on this. I mean acting and stuff is so on brand for me. Plus I wasn't gonna let Alejandro be in charge again. Knowing him he'd probably tell Izzy to go inform Team Amazon what our idea is." I say crossing my arms. "I still don't know why he did that. And no one seemed to have a problem with it either. Not even Noah questioned it! It's like they're all blinded by his good looks and charm and he gets away with everything. Well I'm pretty too." I say while flipping my hair.

***confessionals end****

"Good luck honorable opponent." Alejandro says as he stops to greet Team Victory.

"I don't need your luck."

"Of course you don't. You have superior leadership skills and vision. Your team is lucky to have you." He says to Harold.

"I know right! They are!" I look over my shoulder and see Alejandro is still talking to them.

"Are you coming or what?" I say to him. He nods and walks over to me and we all walk until we find our own area to film our commercial. Owen and Izzy walked together while Tyler and Noah chatted so I was left one on one with Alejandro.

"Soooo, what was that back there with Harold?"

"Just giving them some encouragement you know? They are such a great team and shouldn't hang their heads just because they lost a teammate."

"That's sweet. Very nice of you."

"Thank you, I'm just doing what you would have done." He says. "You're very sweet and helpful. Very knowledgable too. We are lucky to have you and you talents on our team." He says putting his hand on my shoulder.

"Awww thanks. And we're lucky to have you too! Just, next time let's try to win the challenge, and not help Team Amazon. Especially because Heather's on that team and she is not worth helping." I say rolling my eyes.

"As you wish." We stop walking when we find a spot to shoot out commercial. I set the box on the ground and look at my team.

"So what exactly is your plan?" Noah questions with his hands on his hips.

"I was thinking we could have Owen be the big monster who wreaks havoc on Japan. And we're the soldiers who try to stop him on his path of destruction. We use the candy fish tails to slow him down and eventually defeat him. And there's a catchy jingle at the end we could use."

Tyler and Owen scratch their heads and look at me in confusion. "Huh?"

"Owen big monster who stomps! He eats candy and dies! Then we sing." Noah says dumbing it down for them.

"Ohhhhh. Okay."

"Super cool idea Y/n!" Izzy says as she hugs Owen. "And Big O will be the perfect monster, isn't that right big O!" She says as she scratches him tummy and he laughs.

"Super Japanese idea!" Tyler says fist pumping the air.

"I have to agree. Y/n is super smart and has graced us with her innovation." Alejandro compliments. I look over at Noah who deadpans me.

"And Noah? Is this okay with you?"

"Eh. You're obviously in your element so." He shrugs and I smile at him.

"Okay then. Let's get started."

★○★○★○★

Noah and Tyler set up the tiny houses as Owen stomps around and preps himself in the monster costume.

"Owen stomp, Owen stomp good!"

"Hold on there chubby buddy. Let us finish the tiny city first!" Noah says trying to stop Owen from stomping. I sit on one of the foldable chairs across from Alejandro with a clipboard in my hand writing out lines for everyone to say.

Alejandro eats one of the candies and immediately spits it out.

***confessionals****

Alejandro: "Like rotted fish intestine with a side order of fermented squid and...dirty hockey equipment." He gags and then eventually throws up again.

***confessionals end****

I use the clipboard to shield my eyes and grimace as Alejandro throws up on the floor. "Um...you okay there buddy?"

"Everything's fine." He says giving a thumbs up. I feel a few taps on my shoulder and turn and see Noah. He looks at Alejandro then looks back at me.

"We're finished setting up your highness. What is our next instruction your grace." He says while bowing.

"Don't call me that." I say playfully rolling my eyes. "I guess we should start recording now." I walk over to Tyler and look over the tiny city one last time. Noah looks at Alejandro who merely shrugs as he sucks his teeth at him.

★○★○★○★

Chris calls all the groups to meet and we wait for each of our videos to be shown.

"We're done shooting Owen, you can take the costume off." Tyler informs his friend.

"I got really sweaty and now it won't come off." I grimace at Owen and step away from him.

"You never fail to make me rethink my life choices." Noah comments as I nod my head in agreement.

"Um, we'll help you get it off later Owen." I say reassuringly.

"Aww thanks you guys are the best team ever." He pulls me and Noah into a bone shattering hug and then looks at Alejandro. "Hey c'mon Al, you too now. Hugs for everyone."

"No thank you." He says rejecting him. He shrugs and then eventually lets go of me and Noah. I watch Alejandro go off to talk to Team Victory and Noah notices but doesn't say anything.

"Alright now that you're done filming it's time to see if your hard work has paid off. Chef." Chef starts muttering to himself as he turns on the big screen to display our commericials.

"First up, Team Chris is Super Duper Ultra Hot with "Monster Rampage"

"It's happening our commerical." Izzy says squeezing my arm.

The screen shows the tiny houses of Japan. Then Owen starts stomping around and crushing the houses. He growls and uses his body to destroy the town.

"Grrrrr. Monster noises!"

The rest of us in army helmets look up at Owen as he causes destruction in our hometown.

"Oh no! The large Owen shaped monster!" Alejandro yells.

"We must run!" Tyler says, his acting skills were terrible. I elbow him in the side.

"Tyler..." I say so he'll do better but then get back into character. "Oh the humanity!" I put my hand on my forehead and pretend to pass out onto the ground.

"Think of the children!"

"He's so hot!" Izzy yells and we all deadpan at her.

Owen growls some more until Alejandro pulls out the candy fish tails. "Wait! We shall stop him this way!" He gets one of the candies out of the bag and then throws it at Owen. It falls into his mouth and then he eats it.

"Oh delicious!" The video ends with us singing the catchy jingle at the end. I clap at the end while everyone else cringes.

***confessionals***

Y/n: "So good right?!"

Heather: "That was the worst thing I've ever seen."

Harold: "That is nothing compared to the greatness about to be shown on screen by our team."

Y/n: "I bet everyone loved it."

***confessionals end****

★○★○★○★

Chef shows the rest of the videos and apparently Team Amazon's was better than ours.

"What?! This was fixed! Chef-"

"Woah there easy now." Noah says as he and Tyler hold me back as I start to charge at Chef.

"I just love exploding donuts." Chef says while shrugging.

"That was amazing!"

"Totally amazing!"

"Isn't he..group hug!" Sierra says hugging Cody. The rest of the team tries to hug too but she glares at them and they retreat.

"Congratulations Team Amazon! But Chef, I have to know, who's ad bit the biggest?"

"Um, those guys with that sad donkey thing." He says pointing to Team Victory. "You lose. You're sending someone home!"

"I put a panda in intensive care, choked and wrecked our ad, then we lose again?!" DJ says.

"Wait, it's not a reward?"

"Welp, I'm sure enjoying it."

★○★○★○★

We sat in loser class, again and I sat with my arms crossed as Izzy rubbed my shoulder.

"Oh c'mon it wasn't that bad. I mean, exploding donuts are pretty yummy. When they're not exploding..." Izzy says trying to comfort me. I sigh and look over and see Alejandro going over to talk to Harold once again.

**confessionals***

Y/n: "What is it with with Alejandro and Team Victory? Like I know they keep losing and all but sometimes you need to reach deep down inside and encourage yourselves!" I say with my hands in the air. "For some reason, I have a weird feeling about Alejandro. But until I'm sure, I won't say anything."

***confessionals end***

AUTHORS NOTE

sorry sorry it took me a while to write this.

updates might be slower tho bc i start school :(