A lakitu with a camera flies around, waving his camera precariously from his fishing pole to get a good view of the green skies of Galaluna. After making sure to get a good shot of the palace and some other random places, he reluctantly sets the lens in front of an obese man in a wife-beater.

"I am William Fontaine "Bill" de la Tour D'Haute Rive—but you can all just call me Bill! Remember me from last season?" Bill asked his viewers desperately as he waved in front of the camera.

"Well, if ya don't, then I hope you appreciate me this season! Oh, and the racers of course. 'Cause that's what this is! Another season of the Amazing Race! Now," Bill ordered the Lakitu in what was not supposed to be aired, "Go and put the camera on the teams, you bastard!" The producers conveniently "forgot" to edit this out so it made Bill look like a jerk to his subordinates.

The first team to be focused on consisted of two short men wearing spacesuits, complete with helmets.

"This had better get us out of debt…which we got into AGAIN, according to my wife!" the President of Hocotate freight groaned.

"Trust me, Mr. President, this is much safer way of making money! Speaking of which, we should really think about going home soon, shouldn't we?"

"Well, we could have done that already if you hadn't blown up the ship!" the President complained.

"He was annoying! Don't tell me you actually WANTED to put up with him for the months it would take for us to get back to Hocotate!" Olimar countered.

"Olimar has always been a very dedicated employee, but…let's just say he's becoming more of an asset than a liability these days," the President said in his confessional. "If we lose this race he's fired, and he can stay with his precious Pikmin all he likes!"

"I hope that during the race the President will just how wonderful Pikmin are," Olimar said in his confessional. "I'm not going back home without them! And I don't see why he can't see the joys of the Pikmin Planet! He saw the last season, didn't he? Were we even in that at the pitstop? I can't remember. I'll ask one of the Pikmin when I get the chance."

The next team featured two young adult girls, one in the brightest shade of red and doing handstands on top of their car, while the other just rolled her eyes.

"Tai Lee, get down from there. You just look stupid," Mai said.

"Lighten up, this will be fun! Think of how much the Fire Nation will be proud of us if we win! Think of what Zuko will say!" she urged as she athletically jumped down from the car. Mai gave a naughty grin but said nothing.

"Yeah…for the 'Fire Nation'…" she snickered.

"But seriously," Mai added in her confessional. "We're doing this for people. We've got a huge war debt to pay and a million dollars would help—not sure how much that is, but whatever."

"This race is going to be soooo fun!" Tai Lee cried. "I can't wait to see what sort of places we'll go and the things we'll do. Maybe I can even get Mai to lighten up!"

"I just wish that I could have gotten Zuko or Azula to go with me instead of…her," Mai muttered. "But Zu-zu's got leadership duties, and Azula is…she hasn't checked out of that psych-ward yet. Maybe some of the money can be diverted to treat her."

The next team consisted of a two naïve Texan women ready for adventure. One wore glasses and had brown hair, and the other had blonde hair and a bare midriff.

"Aunt Peggy, how do we start this car?" Luanne asked.

"This is probably the first task of the race or something!" Peggy insisted as she crawled under it with a flashlight to examine it. "Oh, look, the keys! Wonder who put them there?"

"I'll bet a lot of sexist viewers are thinking that two girls can't win a race like this!" Luanne said in her confessional.

"Well, all-female have won before," Peggy reminded her. "Besides, I have enough manliness for the both of us. Plus Bill will probably just rig it so that we win anyway."

"Why would Mr. Dautrive do that?" Luanne asked. "Does he want us to get rich?"

"No, Luanne," Peggy sighed, "He's just crazy and in love. Did you notice that we're the only team that didn't have to audition?"

In a car not far away, a red-headed young man chuckled at his robot friend while glancing at Peggy and Luanne's car.

"So where'd you put their keys?"

"Got'em right here!" Bender replied, opening up his chest compartment. The keys of all the teams' cars were inside.

"You stole all of them?" Fry shook his head with amusement. "Why can't you steal anything useful, like the million dollars? Or a million cans of slurm? Or a ring for Leela? Then we wouldn't be doing this crazy thing."

"Oh, yeah, good point. Well, we didn't do of those more logical things, so we're on this race!" Bender said, propping his metal feet on the dashboard.

"Make sure you hide your beer, there's no drinking on the race except for in tasks," Fry warned. Bender's eye panels comically widened with panic. "Haha, just kidding!" Fry added.

"Why, you rotten jerk! You meatbags are all alike!" Bender complained.

"Then why am I the only one that would go on the race with you?" Fry countered.

"Because Hermes is too busy, Amy is too whiny, Leela's not supposed to know we're here, and the Professor's too old!"

"And what about Zoidberg?"

"Who?" The two laughed at their joke. As much as they would have liked to, Zoidberg wasn't easily forgotten.

"All those humans and other non-robotic losers can bite my shiny metal ass!" Bender declared in his confessional. "We'll be going so fast through the race that they'll be forced to bite on Fry's skinny human ass!"

"I still have that tattoo of you on it," Fry reminded him. "Maybe we could use to cheat?"

"And miss watching everyone else get all miserable when we beat them so hard they run crying to their mommies? No way!" Bender insisted.

The next team consisted of two Pokemon, one that looked like a humanoid sunflower and one that didn't look like much of anything except for a big-mouthed monster.

"Oh my gosh! We're on the Amazing Race at last! We'll be the fastest Pokemon without even having to use Agility!" Sunflora cried excitedly.

"We have to be CAREFUL, though," Loudred reminded her. "ONE slip-up and we're THROUGH! So don't MESS UP!"

"You don't mess up, either!" Sunflora snapped back.

"I hope that Loudred and I can bond more easily after this race," Sunflora said in her confessional. "Wigglytuff insisted it would be a good way for us guildmates to learn how to get along. After the incident with the Haunter and Spring Cave, I've had hope that it's certainly possible."

"Sunflora's TOUGH, and very DETERMINED," Loudred said. "But I don't know if we both have the GUTS needed to win this race and help the guild get back on its FEET, financially speaking."

The next team featured a tall, black creature with purple eyes and a giant spider, both apparently female, but you wouldn't really know from looking at them.

"Now, given our…height differences, I'm driving," Slim told Arachne, who rolled all 8 of her eyes.

"Oh, don't worry about offending me! Stop stepping around when you talk to me like some kind of ballerina! Just because your legs are all petite doesn't make you some fancy…eh, forget it. Just don't make me regret taking you instead of Klack!" Arachne said. "At least we can picture the way his jaw will literally drop when he sees us do awesome!"

"I promise, I'll be the best teammate I can be!" Slim said. "And you…"

"What? Tell me!" Arachne asked.

"…Be the best teammate you can be." Arachne laughed.

"Puyo and you would have been an even worse combo!"

"I think Arachne and I can get along," Slim said. "It's just a matter of me knowing that she's not serious when she says what she says. It's just a psychological defense mechanism. I don't blame her for it at all."

"I'll bet Slim is in her confessional right now, talking about 'psychological defense mechanisms' or something! You really think any Enderman is going to fall head over heels for that kind of attitude?! Speaking of which, I've never actually seen an Enderman fall head over heels. Or an Enderwoman, for that matter. Time to test it out…hehehehe…"

The next team consisted of two muscular men, except you couldn't see that because of their weird-looking suits they wore. One had long hair that inexplicably stuck up straight like someone from KISS, and the other was bald.

"Vegeta, this'll be a piece of cake! You only need one Saiyan to beat down all these shrimpy little non-Saiyans!" Nappa insisted.

"Well, I guess that's true, but it was either you or the wife. And if you've ever watched this show you know that married couples just bitch and whine and divorce during the race!"

"How do they divorce during the race?" Nappa asked. Vegeta facepalmed.

"Ugh, I didn't mean it like that. I was speaking facetiously!"

"…That's a big word there, Vegeta."

"Yes, Nappa, it IS a big word. Now learn it!"

"Are you sure you're using it right?"

"…Just get in the damn facetious car."

"Were you using it right, then?"

"Godammit, Nappa, just shut up!"

"Let me correct myself—it was either my wife or Kakerot, and it was a pretty close call. But then he joined the production crew, so I had to take Nappa."

"I'm here to make sure Vegeta doesn't do anything bad! If he cheats by flying around or killing the other teams then I'll just kill him!" Goku said in his confessional despite not actually being on any of the teams.

"Once we win the race, we'll buy the dragon balls and then bring Freiza back to life so we can beat him up again!" Nappa cried with delight.

"Nappa, why would we need to BUY the dragon balls? Do you really think someone is just going to be able to SELL them? Especially when we can just take them?"

"But stealing is wrong!"

"And so is killing."

"It is?!"

"…Only under certain circumstances." Vegeta then proceeded to explain abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide to Nappa, but this was deemed too controversial and so was edited out.

The next team consisted of a snake-like woman and a fish-like woman. Neither were human, but both were teachers.

"We need to get out of here, quickly. I can't let the cops get to me!" Mrs. Puff said frantically.

"Relax, Puff. We'll be halfway across this galaxy in a few hours. I can sense it," Ms. Bitters said, sticking out her thin tongue to smell the air. "Monsters and machines once roamed this planet," she mused.

"Who cares? As long as I can get that million dollars, I can bribe the Bikini Bottom Police Department to get off my tailfin!" Mrs. Puff insisted.

"We met at a teacher's conference," Mrs. Puff explained in her confessional. "I needed some financial assistance and she quickly provided from Neptune-knows-where. I'm just hoping that with her on my team I can get that money and do something about SpongeBob and the police."

"I don't bother to judge Puff for her motives," Ms. Bitters said. "I have my own reasons for entering this race. I don't care to share them here, so this interview is over."

The next team consisted of a CGI-animated couple; namely, a large man and his thin, flexible wife.

"Who did we get to babysit the kids again?" "Bob" asked his wife "Helen".

"I thought Edna could do it. It won't be too tough for her, Jack-jack is almost getting too old for a babysitter," "Helen" replied.

"Ok, if you say so. Also…what are we going to do about…you know?" "Bob" asked.

"Don't worry, I heard this season has some rules about that," "Helen" reassured him.

"Oh, good, rules. I love rules." "Bob" said sarcastically.

The Parrs declined a confessional interview. Sure, they violated reality TV law, but you can get away with that pretty easily.

The next team was yet another married couple, featuring another woman the cameraman would probably be ogling and her average-looking husband.

"Hey, the team next to us is another married couple!" Chris told Elise.

"Really?" she asked with surprise. "Oh, so she's a gold-digger. And he's a playboy."

"No, no, the other team!" Chris clarified. Elise looked across to see the Parrs. "Their names are Bob and Helen," her husband added. Elise froze in shock.

"Bob…and Helen? Are you sure those are their names?" she asked. "And they don't know who I am?" She quickly gave a friendly wave when she saw Helen looking at her.

"No, why would they?" Chris asked.

"I dunno, might have run into them at a couples retreat or something by accident," Elise suggested.

"I think we would have remembered them being CGI," Chris reminded her.

Elise said nothing.

"I'm so glad to be doing this with my wife…and not Dan," Chris said in his confessional. "This is probably just going to be wonderful for our marriage."

"Chris was a complete idiot, making me go with him on this thing," Elise said. "But it was either me or Dan. I told him that married couples always end up looking bad on the show, but he wouldn't believe me. Not that it matters. I'd have ended up going here anyway."

The last team consisted of a princess in an absurdly frilly pink dress and her old, mushroom-headed guardian.

"Princess, are you sure that I'm even fit for this race?" Toadsworth asked.

"I'm sure you'll do fine!" Peach replied in an obscenely high-pitched voice. "We have to win for the Mushroom Kingdom!"

"I thought we were doing this as a publicity stunt to draw tourism," Toadsworth protested.

"Yeah…I lied. If we had done that then we would have just had the race hold a leg in our kingdom."

"Young lady, what have I told you about dishonesty?!"

"For 20 years I've raised the princess, but sometimes I worry if she understands what it means to truly govern a kingdom. She's away so often because of Bowser that I've had to rule in her place! And I'm getting older every year! Mario can't be the king since he's not royalty! I am the only one stopping the kingdom from falling into crisis! Well, Mario too, I suppose," Toadsworth rambled in his confessional.

"Toadsworth is so worried all the time! He should really learn to relax!" Peach insisted. "Hopefully I can prove to him that I'm not just a pretty face during the race. My last attempt at proving my worth…didn't go over well in sales."

After the teams had all gotten a good test-drive of their cars, they got out of them and left their bags behind, as per instructions. Bill was waiting for them, with a giant ramp off to his right that seemed to be leading off to nowhere.

"Welcome to the 2nd season of the Amazing Race! I hope you all watched last season, so you all know what to do! Be respectful to all of those filthy foreigners, and travel safely! Your bags and cars are behind you, the clue box is behind me. You'll have to get past me in order to get it…Peggy."

"Ugh, Bill, I'm married and will never love you. Could we just start the freakin' race already!?" Peggy cried. She was met with applause and hearty agreement. "Wow", she remarked with a blush, "This is the first time I've been cheered for doing something instead of booed! Well, aside from winning substitute teacher of the year awa—"

"GO!" Bill cried, deliberately finishing her thought and causing all of the teams to stampede past him to get to the clue box.

"Get…" Fry read.

"Back…" Elise read.

"In…" Tai Lee read.

"Your…" Mrs. Puff read.

"Oh, great, they put us on the kiddie course!" Arachne cried as she crawled across Nappa's back to climb over him.

"And…" Vegeta read.

"Drive…" Luanne read.

"Up…" Peach read.

"The…" "Bob" read.

"Ramp. How absurdly simplistic!" Ms. Bitters read as she slithered between Chris' ankles as he ran and making him shudder.

"Just…" The President read.

"Drive…" Toadsworth read.

"Off…" Sunflora read.

"And…" Mai read.

"Take…" Peggy read.

"A…" Nappa read.

"Leap…" Slim read.

"Of…" "Helen" read.

"Faith," Chris read. Slim, Loudred, Olimar didn't get to read anything since they were trying to drive. As for Bender, he tossed out all the car keys from his chest compartment once he and Fry were in the car.

"Wherever we're goin', here we come! WHOOOOOO!" Bender cried, leaving all of the other teams in the dust scrambling to get their keys. Vegeta's hand glowed, but Goku, who was eyeing him angrily as his cameraman, discouraged him from counter-cheating.

The racers all scrambled to their cars and accelerated as fast as they could, catching up to Fry and Bender as they all made their way onto the great ramp. It was wide enough for a bunch of teams to all race on pass each other on, and everyone had their cars going at extremely dangerous speeds.

After several dice throws of the author, the Hocotatians (Olimar and the President) managed to take the lead, unexpectedly. As they flew off the edge of the ramp, with Olimar getting a crazy, wild look in his eye and the President's eyes desperately bulging out and indicating his need for eye surgery, a giant purple wormhole appeared, sucking their car right in.

"We're off to a great start, wouldn't you say, Mr. President?" Olimar asked. He was too terrified to answer as their car went through some crazy vortex.

And here's who followed them:

Olimar and the President

Mai and Tai Lee

Mrs. Puff and Ms. Bitters

Chris and Elise

Arachne and Slim

Peggy and Luanne

Vegeta and Nappa

Peach and Toadsworth

Sunflora and Loudred

Fry and Bender

"Bob" and "Helen"

"That was awesome!" Tai Lee cried to Mai. "You really know how to drive these things!"

"Thanks," Mai said, giving a very vague hint of a smile.

"Splendid, Ms. Bitters!" I wonder where we'll be going?" Mrs. Puff asked.

"Somewhere far away," Ms. Bitters replied. "And smelling of…sugar."

"Honey…" Chris squeaked.

"Not now, trying to get through a portal here," Elise snapped.

"Sorry."

"It's ok."

"Eh, this position's good. Not in the later legs, though. Still, you're not as dainty as I thought!" Arachne complimented Slim.

"I'm not even going to ask why you assume that about me."

"Well, we're right in the middle! I guess that's a good thing, right Peggy?"

"Only if we can do something with it, Luanne!" Peggy cried. "Still, thank God we got away from Bill. This is going to be one tough race for us, but I think I know how we can use the host to our advantage. But I hope I don't have to."

"SEVENTH?! How the Hell are we in SEVENTH?! We're supposed to be some of the most powerful beings in the galaxy!" Vegeta protested.

"Looks like there are 12 others more powerful than us," Nappa mused.

"Nappa, don't be ridi—wait…you're right. For the purposes of the race, we'll just have to assume that. Those scouters lie with power levels, certainly, but I'm sensing something at the other end of that wormhole that could be a big challenge for us."

"Oh, that's probably Goku. He's following us."

"WHAT?!"

"Hi, Vegeta!" said Goku from the backseat.

"Zip it, Kakerot! I don't want any smart-alecky remarks about how we're not in a huge lead!"

"Why would I?"

"That was some disastrous driving, Princess! We're in the back of the pack and you nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"Don't worry, Toadsworth! Everyone in the production crew is a trained paramedic!" Peach reassured him.

"Somehow, I don't think that's going to help us with the race."

"FASTER! FASTER!" Loudred cried.

"I can't, without any friction to slow us down—I just can't, ok?" Sunflora told him.

"One of us REALLY should have learned Agility."

"I know. But at least you can Howl out the car window."

"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL!"

"Hehehehe, yeah, like that!" Sunflora giggled.

"Nice going, Bender, we're almost in last because of your stupid antics!" Fry groaned.

"How was I supposed to know they'd all pass us like that?" Bender protested. "All of my omniscience was lost after that one episode!"

"What episode?"

"We're in a show, remember?"

"We WERE in a show. Speaking of shows, did you watch the Hunger Games?" Fry asked. "It was really good this year."

"Oh, yeah, I saw that! Dorea was great, wasn't she? Real looker, too," Bender remarked.

"Oh, she didn't win. It was Steele, remember?"

"What?"

"Did you not watch the finale?"

"I thought Dorea dying was a publicity stunt, like with Lidda!"

"No, it was all real! Steele killed her!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DOOOOOOOOREEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Why do you care so much?" Fry asked.

"I don't judge you for your taste in women!" Bender countered.

"Hey, since we're in this mess, what do you think about us revealing who we are?" "Bob" asked. "Helen" opened the glove compartment and got out some superhero masks that fit around their eyes and put them in their team's fanny pack.

"Not quite yet. But I think we'll have our chance soon," "Helen" said as a giant candy cane loomed in on the skyline of the world they were entering.

AN: Hey, y'all! I'm back! Sort of…not indefinitely, though. I still probably have tons of other "original" stuff to right. But frankly this was more fun.

Anyway, this is the second season of the Amazing Race! So go read the first one unless you're lazy. And my greetings to Platrium, who is probably the only one that's going to be reading this for a while XD

Here's a quick run-down on the teams so that you (plural you, maybe it's better as a y'all) know a minimum of information about them.

Olimar and the President: Of Hocotate Freight. Not the US or any other country. From the Pikmin series. In Pikmin 1, Olimar crash-landed on an unknown planet that was clearly Earth and used Pikmin, these colorful and adorable creatures with leaves on their heads that can give you hell if you're about the size of a US quarter, helped him repair his ship and got him home. In Pimin 2, Olimar went with another employee of Hocotate freight, Louie, and went back to not-Earth to get a bunch of treasure to pay off a debt that accumulated in Olimar's absence. After you pay off the debt in the game the President of Hocotate replaces Louie, who...gets left behind. And we probably won't be seeing him during the race, unless…I decide to put him in there. I picked these two because it was either them or Donkey and Diddy Kong, who I thought I wouldn't be able to portray well, and they're here because their company is once again in debt and Olimar refuses to go home to Hocotate. Plus the characters in Pikmin 3 have all the Pikmin…well, MOST of the Pikmin ;)

Mai and Tai Lee: From Avatar: the Last Airbender. If you don't know about this show…sigh. You missed out. I suppose you missed out on the Legend of Korra, too, didn't you? That's fine, actually. Anyway, these two were Azula's minions that she used to try and kill the Avatar. Although neither of them are benders (and technically, neither is Bender), they were both badass in their own right, with Mai using these weird ninja knife-thingies that could temporary block a bender's chi and Tai Lee using her supreme, circus freak athleticism to weaken her opponents by tapping them at random, probably made-up pressure points. I picked them because their personalities contrast, as you can see, and plus the Fire Nation has a war debt to pay off. No, not all the teams are doing this for the money.

Peggy Hill and Luanne Platter: Two characters from King of the Hill, and aunt and niece, respectively. As you all know, the aunt-niece bond is the strongest familial bond. In King of the Hill, Peggy was a bit of a know-it-all airhead—she was so overconfident with her own abilities and assumed that she was smarter than she really was. So all the fans hated her for being an idiot and getting away with things. But you know what? Screw those so-called "fans!" I like her! She doesn't deserve all the hate. So she's going to do the best she can here. And even though she's married to Hank, Bill has a crush on her, both in canon and here. And he's the host of the show. So I think it's pretty obvious to infer that these two were forced on the show. Why didn't Peggy take her husband? You'll find out later once I think of a reason. As for Luanne, she's also quite naïve, but intentionally written that way. Basically a dumb blonde who loved boys that really should have been beneath. But she was raised as trailer trash, so she probably didn't know that. In the early seasons, her dream was to go to beauty school to be a hairstylist, but then as the show went on the creators left and un-developed her character so that she ended up marrying her boyfriend Lucky out of wedlock—voiced by Tom Petty, BTW. Regardless, by the end of the show she's happy and has a baby named Gracie. So being an undeveloped, fanservice-y, dumb blonde, trailer-trash character worked out well for her after all. I guess. I'll do my best with her here, though.

Fry and Bender: From yet another show that ended, Futurama, Fry is just your average 1999 man who got sent to the year 3000, and Bender is the robot buddy he ran into. Fry fell in love with Leela, the purple haired, one-eyed mutant woman that worked at the Planet Express, an intergalactic delivery company run by a kooky professor and Fry's million-times great nephew, Hubert Farnsworth. Hermes, Amy and Zoidberg, you ask? Who cares, I say! As for Bender, he's a robot who loves booze, smoking and fem-bots, but apparently that's perfectly acceptable for him. He was a jerk in the show, and yet there was something about him that made you not hate him that much even if the characters did. Don't ask how they did it. And if you do, you can bite his shiny metal ass! Notice how these last 3 teams were all from shows that ended? I swear it was unintentional! Fry and Bender are here because Fry wants to use the money to buy Leela a nice wedding ring, and Bender wants to buy stuff that fans of the show would expect him to buy…even though he could just steal it without feeling bad. But then if he did that, then this team wouldn't get to be on here!

Sunflora and Loudred: the two from the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series. They were guildmates in Wigglytuff's exploration guild, and now they're teammates off to win money for their guild. Sunflora is a bit jumpy and nervous, but very smart and good at what she does—namely fighting and navigating. Loudred is a bit impulsive and brash, as you would expect from a loudmouth, but in one side-quest thingy in the game you have to use both of them to defeat some outlaw Haunters in Spring Cave, so they've worked together before. Can they be a great team again? We'll find out!

Arachne and Slim: No way you'd know them unless you read Monster Story, since they're OCs from there in the Minecraft Universe (no relation to the Youtuber who took that name). Slim is somewhat kind and overly-motherly, and Arachne took her on this race so that she'd let loose a bit. Arachne herself is a bit "snarky" and care-free, but due to my poor writing she'll probably come across as annoying and douche-y. Due to the circumstances, they couldn't be as easygoing with each other in Monster Story, but to get a better view of them you'd have to read that, since the events here are basically in a separate canon. FYI, these two were also briefly seen in the last season in one of the legs, along with Fry and Bender. In fact, most of the teams I've elaborated upon so far are from a universe that was seen in a previous leg! Ok, you can call that lazy casting.

Vegeta and Nappa: Two powerful Saiyans from the Dragon Ball Z universe, where everybody is muscular, yells and shoots powerful beams at each other. And something about dragon balls, lol. I was hesitant to put these two here since they're a bit overpowered (they are going to be the alpha males of this season) and I don't think I'd be the best at writing them, but oh well. This is the Amazing Race, so I cast who I want! Vegeta and Nappa are a combination of their actual personalities and their "DBZ abridged" personalities as I see fit. Thank goodness, too, the "real" Vegeta wouldn't let himself get restrained by this! Or even be on the race for that matter. They're here for the adventure, not the money, as are most of the subsequent teams.

Mrs. Puff and Ms. Bitters: Actual teachers, but not from the same universe. Mrs. Puff is from SpongeBob and Ms. Bitters is from Invader Zim. Funny, both Zim and SpongeBob were in the last season! :D Anyway, Mrs. Puff is easily stressed, but who can blame her after having to be in car wrecks where SpongeBob keeps failing to get license and from all the episodes where she's gone to jail? She doesn't want to do that again, so that's why she's here. As for Ms. Bitters, well, just watch Invader Zim. She's one teacher you would either love or hate, depending on your medium awareness, as the tropers say.

"Bob" and "Helen": Ok, dropping the fake names. They're actually Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible from The Incredibles, which I hope was obvious, but they can't reveal their super identities just yet! Mr. Incredible as super-strength, and Elastigirl has…super-stretchy abilities. Make of it what you will. Their kids…will not be in this race! They're too young to drive! Well, Dash is, and he wouldn't need a car.

Chris and Elise: Not going to blame you for not knowing these two. They're from Dan Vs., a great cartoon about an angry little man who wanted to get revenge on anything and everything that bothered him (Dan, of course), and he ended up dragging his best friend Chris and Chris' wife Elise along with him in his crazy schemes. Chris tolerates Dan, and Elise outright hates him. Wouldn't you hate someone that was making your spouse commit acts of hilarious terror? How did this show get cancelled, you may ask? Bronies. Thanks a lot, Mr. Enter. Chris is just your average, passive man, and Elise is his wife…who also has a secret identity as "Dancing Shadow" working for a "shadowy, quasi-government agency". Hmm, wonder why she's here with some undercover superheroes, even though she doesn't want to be here? ;) (Hopefully this sub-plot will go somewhere).

Princess Peach and Toadsworth: You should know these two—a princess and her old guardian, and inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom. I pretty much have freedom with their personalities here since they don't really have any, like Mario and Luigi. Let's hope that Peach and Toadsworth learn to get along!

There are a few things I'd like to say regarding this race:

Expect some cameos and plot twists. Like I said, there will be sub-plots planned out.

Expect some new race concepts. You'll think they're interesting, trust me!

Due to the fact that some teams here have powers and some don't, each clue related to a task will say "Powers banned", or "Powers permitted" at the end. Since not all teams have powers, tasks where no one is allowed to use them will put them all on an even playing field—but at detours teams with powers could falsely assume that a challenge will be easier if it allows powers versus another one that doesn't. Isn't it great how there's room for everyone to mess up? ;) "Powers" include natural abilities or even just signature weapons. The racers with powers are: Olimar, Mai, Tai Lee, Bender, Sunflora, Loudred, Vegeta, Nappa, Elastigirl, Mr. Incredible, Ms. Bitters, Slim, Arachne, and Peach. So that's 4 teams that have one member with powers, 5 teams where both members have powers, and 2 teams where neither member has powers. Don't worry, it's not going to be unfair for them, trust me. My rule for this is to prevent the craziness of last season, so now you can only use powers on certain tasks, and only when permitted.

I sure hope everyone who reads this enjoys this Amazing Race! Not holding my breath, though.