7/01 Well, here it is! Sorry for the late post, but I had some things to do yesterday and had to post this on July 1st.

As said in the summary, I've completely re-edited this story. Along with fixing spelling and grammar mistakes, I also fixed some choppy sentences and made changes to the storyline, minor and major. I'll probably re-edit my other stories too, so check out the "Future Stories" section in my profile for updates on new stories! Finally, to those of you who read this story before and liked it... well, you're in for a surprise! Here is Mario Kart: The Ultimate Champion like you've never seen it before!

Mario Kart: The Ultimate Champion

Toad sat on his couch, eating a box of sugar mushrooms, with nothing to do. It was a warm November afternoon, and the Mario Kart season was going to end in just a few days. He switched to the news channel, and was about to turn off the TV when suddenly, he saw Toadsworth appear on-screen.

"Attention all Mario Kart racers!" Toadsworth announced. "As I'm sure you all know, this Saturday is the Mario Kart minor-league championship race, where the top 8 minor-league racers in the world will compete to win it all. For those of you new to Mario Kart, this is the biggest race of the minor-league season, and the winner of the race wins 500,000 coins!

However, this year, the prizes will be different. Instead of choosing to win 500,000 coins, the Mario Kart committee has decided that the winner of this race will move up to the major-leagues! If the winner chooses to move up, the runner-up will win the coins. Here is a report from one of the committee members who made this decision. 'This racing season has shown tremendous skill and talent from our minor-leaguers. Our experts have reported that they have seen the greatest dispersal of talent in over 30 years. It is our honor to welcome the winner of this race to compete with all the rest of the talented racers in the major-leagues.'

Well, folks, it looks like we're gonna have a heated race tomorrow! That is all for now, and good luck to all minor-leaguers on Saturday!" Toadsworth disappeared, while the news continued its regular reports. Toad smiled to himself.

"This is my chance!" said Toad, as he already knew that he was in the race. The good news was that he placed second overall in the race. However, his partner was Bowser.

When first asked to choose his racing partner, Toad didn't care who it was, and he let the Mario Kart committee pick for him. When he found out Bowser was participating in the minor-leagues, he immediately tried to choose someone, but it was too late. Before he could tell the Mario Kart committee that he wanted to choose a partner, they had already chosen Bowser as Toad's partner.

But if Toad won the race on Saturday, he would be free of Bowser; he would be able to pick a new partner for the major-leagues.

Toad then realized he had been sitting on his couch for over 3 hours, not preparing for the race. Over the past week, he had been preparing for the big race by training with Bowser every night for 3 hours. Toad jumped off the couch, and got ready to head over to the training track to train with Bowser.

At the track, he met with a grumpy Bowser, who was angry at Toad's constant late arrival. "Can't you ever arrive on time? How are we ever going to win the race with you, polka-dot boy?" Toad ignored him and walked to the garage. "Come on, let's get this done," he said, jumping into the driver's seat of the small, blue Mushroom go-kart.

"No way!" Bowser said, backing away from the kart. "If anything, I should get the driver's seat! And anyway, how do you drive that thing? I thought we raced in real go-karts, not cheap little toy cars! How am I supposed to fit in there?"

Toad thought about saying "Well maybe you shouldn't be my partner" or something, but there was no time for arguing. With reluctance, Bowser eventually squeezed himself into the rear of the go-kart, and the two racers trained for the night.

Going to bed that night, Toad didn't feel fully prepared, but he was confident enough in his racing abilities that he could win this one.