The story starts with James and his business partner and best friend, Carl, on their yacht. They are playing a round of pool with drinks in their hand when Carl mentions how he failed to prank James earlier today. He asked the captain to fake a crash and act like the ship was going down but the captain was against it and didn’t agree to it. The two have a chuckle over how outrageous the idea was. However, mid laugh the ship thuds and starts to lean. The engine of the ship explodes at the rear of the ship. The two friends gain their balance and run out to the deck. As they make it out they get launched off the boat. James quickly falls unconscious but not before he could climb onto some debris.
James wakes up when it is daytime and he is laying on shore of a beach on what appears to be a fairly large, yet remote island. He stands up and looks around and quickly spots Carl also unconscious nearby also washed up. He goes over and wakes him up and explains how bold and incredible a prank that was. Carl insists it wasn’t the prank he had was going to do but James doesn’t believe him. The two are known for their dumb shenanigans so James thinks this is all still a prank. Carl is starting to panic as he knows they are screwed as they have no survival skills. Carl insists that they start doing the basic survival tasks like finding shelter and food but James refuses to do anything until Carl admits to his prank. Carl being fed up walks into the tree line by the beach and as he finds a berry bush starts exclaiming what he found. As he is picking them a jungle cat latches onto Carl and with a tight grip pulls him in to the jungle. James hears screaming and roaring but just ignores it as he knows it is a prank. James sits on the beach playing a game on his phone with the little battery he has left on it. As the phone dies it is starting to turn dark and he figures he should go check and see what is taking Carl so long. He walks into the area where Carl was attacked and finds a blood trail. He follows it and finds a ripped apart carcass of his friend. James exclaims that Carl is very good and he is going through all of the cards to pull this prank off. He got fake blood and a realistic fake skeleton to pull this off.
James heads back to the beach and using the little debris that has washed up makes a little tent structure and he sleeps the night away. He wakes up due to lots of commotion as his tent falls down on top of him. He is surrounded by 8 strange people (natives). He gets up startled at first but he soon realizes this is all part of the prank. James confidently walks around them all flicking at their weapons exclaiming that they craftsmanship of the spears are not very good. The natives are very wearing and taken aback at how confident this man is after being surrounded by their best warriors. James puts his hand into his pocket to pull out his dead phone and as the islanders see him reach into his pocket and take it out they dash of running as they fear he had a weapon. James thinks to himself “whatever, that was a really bad prank they weren’t convincing at all” and he decides to enjoy his island life and take a swim. He is in the ocean relaxing for hours until he gets hungry. James waddles out of the water, sunbathes, and starts to eat the berries Carl found earlier near by. He pus his tent back up and decides to take a nap as he waits for Carl to give up on the gag. Right as he drifts asleep he gets grabbed by the islanders he met earlier. They all restrain him and quickly tie him up. James remains calm cool and collected and just lets them take him away. He is tied up being carried off for roughly a one hour trek deep into the jungle.
James is taken to the village where he thinks he will be untied and the prank will be over. However, the warriors trade positions with the village tribesman and he is now being carried deep into another part of the jungle. They eventually make it all the way to the top of the islands central mountain. However, as they reach the peak James realizes that this is not a mountain, it is a volcano. He still is not worried until another random person he does not know is thrown into the volcano and it burned alive by the lava. It is now at this point where he starts to realize maybe he is in actual danger. The only thing he can think to do is with his hands pressed up against his waist to reach into his pocket and pull out is phone like he did before. The priests who surround him are shocked and back up as he pulls it out. They priests look curious and try to stare into the magical brick he holds. They see their reflection in the screen and believe that James is a god and possesses a magical item. They quickly release him and bring him back to the village where they shower him in affection, food, and gifts.
Everything is going great for him now until while showing off his magic device to the islanders he accidently drops it and the screen shatters. The islanders see this as bad fortune as he has destroyed their image on the phone and he must be killed now. James makes a run for it as he realizes what happens. He has a small lead so he hides in one of their empty huts. He sees packs from other people who have washed up on to this island and he puts it on his back and starts to run again as they are getting close. James is chased by the islanders all through the jungle until he finally makes it back to the beach he originally washed up to. With no where to go he climbs up a tree and hides for the night.
During his night in the tree he digs through the pack he picked up and goes through the contents. Surprisingly he finds a portable charger with a cable so he plugs his phone in. He is only able to get 10 percent charge but it is enough for him to work with. Surprisingly, he does have cellular service so he pings the find my Iphone.
The next morning James’s assistant back at the office walks by his desk and realizes there is an alert on the laptop. It is the find my Iphone alert. The assistant puts two and two together after knowing that his yacht crashed at sea and she calls the police for help and rescue.
When the coast is clear James makes his way down from the tree and walks onto the beach. He thinks he is safe until he hears yelling off in the distance and realizes they will be closing in on him soon. His only option is to take some of the debris left of the beach and use it like a paddle board to get distance off in the ocean. He wades deep in the ocean to keep distance but the islanders start to swim out to him. Just as they are getting near a search and rescue boat is seen off in the distance. The boat pulls up to him and pulls him on board while the islanders start throwing their spears at the boat. One of the spears hits James in the leg. However, they are able to make it out and they are headed back to civilization.
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