Total Drama Miraculous Island (Miraculous Ladybug & Total Drama Crossover)

Chapter Six-Be a Champion or Be a Chicken (Phobia Factor)

Marinette had a wonderful time at the Tuck Shop with her friends on the Screaming Gophers team. Even though she, Amanda, and Lucy were busy chatting in the communal bathrooms, with their usual nightly routine, the Screaming Gophers' cabin had to air out before they could head back in there with the rest of the Gophers for the night. So Marinette then suggested they offer the Killer Bass some of the gelatin they brought back from the Tuck Shop along with the homemade macaroons she and Lucy made earlier. Most of the Screaming Gophers all agreed with the idea. When they headed over to the Killer Bass, who were all at the campsite, Courtney asked them what they wanted. "Come by to rub it in?" she asked, causing Amanda to glare at her, asking in a deadly tone, "Want another lecture?" "Never mind." Courtney gulped. Trent then changes the topic before Courtney can cross the line even further. "We got some extra dessert after our Tuck-Shop party, thought you might want some." "So what? You're just being nice?" Courtney asked, still trying hard not to cross Amanda's line. "Okay," Gwen said, giving in. "Owen stank up our cabin, while Amanda, Lucy, and Marinette were sharing skin care tips in the communal bathrooms, and we need some time to air out." "That, and we still thought you guys might like some," Marinette added as Beth held out the gelatin to Courtney, causing her to yelp out a no while flinching. "I mean, no, thanks. I'm good," she said calmly. "What? Are you on a diet or something?" Duncan asked. "No! I just don't like green jelly, okay?" Marinette, Amanda, and Lucy then walk over to Geoff and Bridgette, offering them some macaroons. "Thanks," "Man, Nette. Your macaroons rock." "Thank you," Marinette says with a giggle. That was until their attention was drawn to D.J. when he screamed out the word snake. They turned to see Cody picking up something in the gelatin. "Chill, dude," he said. "It's just a gummy worm." "Sorry for tripping," D.J. said. "Snakes just freak me out." "I feel you," Tyler said, understanding how D.J. feels. "Chickens give me the creeps, dude." "You're afraid of chickens?" Gwen asked while Duncan chuckled. "Wow, that's–that's really lame, man." Amanda then elbows him in the gut, causing him to wince and let out an ow. "Keep your words to yourself, Juvie," she growled.

CONFESSIONAL: GWEN

"So suddenly, everyone's having this big share-fest by the fire. Like Beth went on and on about how her mortal fear's being covered by bugs, Marinette admitted that used to be her fear too since school from a terrible prank by a mean jock in her said school until her maternal uncle helped her conquer it. Harold's afraid of ninjas. Even Heather admitted she's afraid of sumo wrestlers."

After a bit of telling their fears, Gwen was next. "I guess, being buried alive." "Walking through a minefield...in heels." "Flying, man. That's some crazy stuff." "I would never go up in a plane. Never." "I'm scared of hail. It's small but deadly, dude." "Being left alone in the woods." "Bad haircuts." "Oh, okay. I change mine. That's so much scarier than a minefield." "Having to defuse a time bomb under pressure." "I'm not really afraid of anything." "Baloney! Ow! Enough with the elbow!" Amanda glares at Duncan while crossing her arms, looking at him in the same way a mother would at a misbehaving child. "Alright, Juvie. What about you? What exactly is your phobia?" Courtney silently laughs when she and Amanda see the look on Duncan's face after Amanda asks him that question, along with everyone looking at him with full curiosity. Duncan then sighs in defeat and admits it, saying, "Uh, Ce–Celine Dion music-store standees." "Ex-squeeze me? I didn't quite get that," said Cody. "Dude, did you say "Celine Dion music-store standees?"" Trent asked. "Oh, I love Celine Dion," Lindsay said with Lucy nodding in agreement. "My favorite song from her is My Heart Will Go On." Lucy added. Lindsay nods and then turns to ask, "What's a standee?" "You know, that cardboard-cutout thing that stands in the music store." "Don't say it, dude." "Kind of like a life-size, but flat, Celine." "So if we had a cardboard standee right now–" "Shut it!" Amanda laughs, seeing Duncan feeling so humiliated. "Okay, all laughing aside, what about you guys?" she asked. "Okay, well, I hate mimes, like, a lot. All right, Courtney. You're afraid of something. Spit it out." "Nope–nothing." "That's not what she said last night." Duncan said, pointing to Amanda "Juvie, please. Did you ever consider that maybe I was just humoring you after your lame smartmouth roast?" "Sure, sure, princess. Whatever floats your boat." "Just be lucky I'm not in the mood to brutality you." "Brutality?" Harold asked, while he and the rest of the campers, sans Duncan, looked confused. "Oh, it's just slang of mine from back home. It's kind of another way of saying "to beat someone up into a pulp"." "Oh." Owen said as he and everyone else now understood. "Well, what about you? You, Lucy, and Marinette hadn't said anything aside from the bug-prank debacle." Courtney said curiously. "Well...as much as I don't want to admit it..." Marinette starts to panic slightly at first, not wanting the others to know her worst fears when she was Ladybug, but then thinks of something that can convince them. "I'm...actually afraid of getting Akumatized," "I'm sorry, what-a-tized?" "What's that?" Owen asks. "Well..." Marinette goes on and on about Hawkmoth and the akumatizations that had been going on in Paris. "And ever since then, I was really scared of getting attacked by one or two who get re-akumatized from time to time. I sometimes even worry for my friends, family, and everyone else from home, even if they ever encounter one." "Oh, yeah, she's right. Check it out." Amanda said, holding her phone up for others to see all of the articles about Hawkmoth and the akumatizations in Paris. "This last one was also around when we were all doing the talent show challenge. Well, aside from the three of us being slightly absent because of a phone call, but still. You know what I mean." Seeing the proof and knowing the "problems" from Paris, made the campers believe her and Marinette, including understanding Marinette's worst "fear". "So, you're scared about getting akumatized?" "Exactly." Lucy then tries to think what her fear is, but since she's been spending more time with her friends whenever at their favorite shopping mall-shopping district, and spends her other times at home, she seems to not have one. Everyone even understood since they all know that she comes from an electronic-technology-free-family and household. So instead, it was now Amanda's turn to tell what her phobia is. "Me...well..." Amanda started. But she then sighs and murmurs, "It's the mascot Slappy." "Who?" Heather asked. Amanda sighs again. "You guys probably never heard of him. He's a mascot somewhere in the early-50s and became a little too popular in the mid-60s to the late-80s. Not to mention he always makes special appearances for kids in the popular children's clothing store, Kids Choice Clothing. Along with a "Special Guest", his girl Susie. And who can forget his Ultimate Playhouse and his Fun Food Shack? That mascot was the talk of the town. From Willamette, Oregon, to Los Perdidos, California. I was never born at the time nor in any of those locations, but I do remember seeing him when I was shopping with one of my friends Marjorine this one time, and when she stopped and turned to see something, I did the same and saw something that I wished I never wanted to see. The real-life human-sized mascot is Slappy himself. And I tell you, that guy was so terrifying that I felt like I was going to faint from both shock and fear. And if that wasn't bad enough, that psychopathic mascot was not a good guy either. Slappy had water guns in both hands. But the water guns really didn't have water. Instead, they had gasoline that made them look like flamethrowers in the shape of water guns. And back then, it used to be the "Toy of the Month" until Slappy used them as deadly weapons." Everyone was shocked as they listened to what Amanda witnessed. "So, you guys actually encountered a real-life psychopathic mascot?" "No, he was shown in an old, yet very popular action-cult film about a zombie apocalypse from the 90s. I believe it was one of the original films of the Death Arise trilogy before it had more franchises than ever. From books, comics, arcade and video games, to its soundtracks in CDs, anything, you name it, the trilogy has it all. Anyway, because of the psychopathic mascot scene from the film, it made Slappy's fame go all downhill." "Oh, yeah. It was our favorite video game, we both said back from the Awake-a-thon." Gwen says, remembering, "Who knew that it was actually that popular." Amanda nods in agreement, and then sighs, "All rise and fall of Slappy's fame and the trilogy being popular to this day aside, every time I see old merchandise and see sudden cartoons of him when I hang out with my friends at our favorite hang out spots, I always keep getting horrified by the thought of seeing the psychopathic version of him in person. That's something I don't want to deal with. And I may be a fanatic on my choices of things that scream action, horror, and thriller, but even I have limits on what I like and dislike." "So, how did Slappy become a psychopath anyway?" Harold asked since he and the others were curious. "Well, from what I can remember from the film, apparently, Slappy lost his sanity when the zombies took the life of Susie. Right before those two can go on their date. Those were Slappy's words, by the way." "Yikes." "Yeah, I guess love can make a mascot like him do crazy things." "Better him than that psycho celebrity from the documentary," said Duncan. "Shut it. But, yeah, that part's actually kinda true." Amanda admits, agreeing with Duncan. "What documentary?" Sadie asked. "I can explain it." Lucy says, with Amanda nodding in approval. With that, Lucy tells Sadie and the Screaming Gophers about the documentary Amanda watched with her friends from home.