Fire nation girls: Currently in First

MC mobs: currently in Second

As the two of them were exiting the pass, the Hocotatians were going inside.

"Chew or Gulp?" Olimar asked.

"Oh, so I have some autonomy now?" the President asked.

"Well, yeah, you're the President," Olimar said. "You get to make all the important decisions."

"Then what about before…?"

"Didn't count."

"Oh. Gulp, then. I don't think we should be relying on luck too much. Plus those blues would be great help."

"That's exactly what I was thinking! Good call!" Olimar replied.

Hocotatians: currently in Third

As they were leaving, the Saiyans were entering.

"Seen the Texans?" Vegeta asked them.

"No, why do you ask?" the President asked.

"GREAT! I knew those two would get lost!" Vegeta cried happily. "Now we can actually race without having to worry about bimbos at our backs. Come on, Nappa!" They went over to the clue.

"Oh, let's do…" Nappa began. "Oh, no wait, our powers are banned for both, it says."

"I could use a nice swim," Vegeta said. "Besides, we're fanservice-y enough for the task."

"Why would it matter?" Nappa asked.

"It doesn't. The whole point of them putting the task here is in hopes that the teams with attractive members will do the tasks that make them strip down. Except sometimes it messes up and the ugly teams end up doing it instead."

"Wait…so you think I'm ugly?" Nappa asked, feeling hurt.

"…Yes, Nappa, I do." Vegeta said flatly, concealing his sarcasm well.

Nappa had to stifle some tears.

"He…he…he said I was ugly! I'll show him!" Nappa angrily cried.

"I didn't want to do some boring licorice-task, but I knew that there was a chance Nappa would protest," Vegeta said. "So I thought 'What do we Saiyans pride ourselves with the most?' Aside from ability to fight and dominate, it's our good looks. Seriously, every Saiyan had a six-pack back in the day. Even the babies and old people! Planet Vegeta—the planet, not me—got destroyed by Frieza because he was jealous that his body prevented him from getting muscles like ours!" Vegeta insisted. "And of course Nappa fell for it so easily! It was like…taking candy form a baby! What an appropriate Earth expression!"

Saiyans: currently in Fourth

The teachers were next to arrive at the cluebox.

"Oh, we're definitely doing Gulp!" Mrs. Puff declared.

"No, it's Chew that we're doing," Ms. Bitters said. I know this Lord Licorice fellow, the guy who owns the place. Plus I'd rather be in a grim environment, eating bitter food, then in some obscenely happy place full of fun and cold sunshine."

"Ok…we'll flip a coin," Mrs. Puff suggested. "Heads we do what I want, tails we do what you want." It was tails.

"Chew it is!" Ms. Bitters said.

"I can't believe I had to choose between 'Chew' or 'Gulp' like that…I won't hear the end of this at the next Teacher's Association Meeting," Mrs. Puff remarked.

Teachers: currently in Fifth

"So…Peggy…are you sure we're not lost?" Luanne asked as they traveled through the Gumdrop Mountains.

"Luanne, I'm telling you, we'll be fine!" Peggy said. "It just might…take a bit longer than I thought at first."

Chris and Elise arrived at the cluebox next.

"Ok, Chew or Gulp?" Elise asked.

"A swim in the Ice Cream Sea sounds fun, but cold," Chris said. "I really should have brought a bear of swim trunks."

"The pink man-kini was cheap!" Elise insisted. "Besides, you wanted to buy it at first."

"I did, but then I got stuck on an island with Dan, remember?" Chris asked. "It suddenly occurred to me that that was not a good thing to wear."

"Oh, relax, the cameras will be focused on me, anyway," Elise reassured him. "Didn't you remember what I explained to you about the fanservice tasks?"

"Fanservice?" Chris asked.

"It's a long story. Let's just get the clue—this time—and get in the car."

Normal couple: currently in Sixth

Back at the Plum Woods Roadblock, the four remaining teams fought desperately to avoid last. But since Peach and Toadsworth had gotten there first, they naturally finished first, but just barely.

"We're off to some place called Sugary Pass!" Toadsworth told her as they left.

Meanwhile, the last 3 teams scrambled even more frantically to catch the plums, finishing all around the same time.

"Go, go, GOOOO!" Loudred cried, grabbing Sunflora with the clue in his giant mouth and getting into the car. Bender did the same, grabbing Fry and the clue and stuffing them both in his chest compartment. The Supers followed right behind them.

Mushroomites: currently in Eighth

Last 3 teams: fighting desperately to avoid last

Eventually, though, Fry and Bender, thanks to Bender's abuse of the gas in their car, accelerated ahead of the trio of cars.

"We have a chance! We really have a chance!" Fry cried as he crawled out of Bender's chest compartment.

"Candyland, prepare to be eaten!" Bender yelled. "By Fry."

"Yeah! Wait, what? I don't want to eat too much candy," Fry said.

"Oh my gosh! This isn't good! We might be out of the race for sure!" Sunflora said worriedly. "The team behind us did some pretty weird stuff at the Detour. In fact, I'd say that they're…"

"Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible?" Loudred asked. "THE INCREDIBLES?!"

"Well, yes. I suppose it was kind of obvious, wasn't it?" Sunflora replied casually. "I can't believe I didn't recognize them at first, until 'Helen' started using her stretchy powers. And we're the only ones that know. Well, us, Bender, Fry, Peach, Toadsworth, Bill, the production team, and maybe Chris and Elise."

"So it's no SECRET, then," Loudred concluded.

"We'll make it, Bob. Don't you worry," Elastigirl reassured him.

"Why would I be worried? We're Supers, we can do anything!" Mr. Incredible said with confidence.

Future Buddies: currently in Ninth

Guildmates: currently in Tenth

Supers: currently in Last

The Fire Nation girls and the MC Mobs quickly arrived at Licorice Castle. Some weird guy in a dark red and black outfit that looked incredibly goofy escorted them to his dining room.

"Now…" he said, "Enjoy…the horrible, evil, black LICORICE! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"That's racist!" Tai Lee said. Lord Licorice sighed.

"I know. But they're paying me to say it because they think it will boost ratings…and get me sued," he lamented.

Mai and Tai Lee opened up a plate to find…black licorice. Slim and Arachne found the same thing as well.

"Yuck!" Tai Lee and Slim said.

"Yum!" Mai and Arachne said.

Fire nation girls and MC mobs: currently tied for First

Back at the Gumdrop mountains, a realization finally dawned upon Luanne:

"Aunt Peggy, we're lost."

"We are not lost, Luanne, for the last freakin' time!" Peggy shouted. As she was driving they finally arrived at a dead end in the mountains.

"Ok, we're lost. I'll ask for directions," Peggy sighed. "HEY YOU!" she shrieked at a hopping gum-drop person. "Could you tell us where Sugary Pass is?" the local happily complied and gave directions, which Luanne wrote down, although she misspelled quite a few words.

"I'm a little worried that Peggy isn't smart enough for this race," Luanne said. "We might lose because of some mistake."

"That was one fluke, but you know what? I'm not going to let it defeat me," Peggy insisted. "I can just keep going."

By the time the Texans got there, they could see a team's car approaching the Sugary Pass from another direction.

"Ok, Luanne, hold on. I'm gonna make a sharp left turn into the pass and cut them off!" Peggy cried.

"Uh…Toadsworth?" Peach asked, meanwhile.

"Not now, Princess! The terrain is getting a bit uneven, and…UAAGH!" Toadsworth cried as Peggy made a sharp turn to pass him, nearly giving him another heart attack. But he managed to regain his nerves.

"The nerve of that woman, risking all of our lives like that!"Toadsworth said. "I don't care if recklessness is some local custom where she is from, that sort of behavior is inexcusable!"

"Sigh…this will not go well for the relations between our two countries," Peach said. "Although Texas isn't supposed to be an independent nation."

The two teams went into the pass together and read their clues.

"I don't wanna catch fish and make them into ice-cream!" Luanne declared. "That sounds…wrong."

"It's either that or another blind chance," Peggy said. "And who knows how long eating licorice could take."

"Maybe licorice tastes great?" Luanne suggested.

"Let's hope so. We're doing Chew!" Peggy declared.

"I think Gulp would be easier for me, but…"

"Indeed, Princess. But Chew sounds more advantageous for both of us," Toadsworth said. "And I'm far too old to be swimming in frigid waters! I could acquire hypothermia."

"But we can't just opt for easy tasks every time!" Peach protested.

"Please, Princess," Toadsworth pleaded. "I want to be of some assistance. I can be very helpful if I'm left to simply lift lids, since anyone can do that. I won't be of much help swimming around."

"All right, Chew it is," Peach said.

"I really want to help the Princess and show her that I'm not too old to not be in this race!" Toadsworth said. "Although I've heard teams consisting of an elderly couple never get much farther than 8th…and we're in 8thright now!"

Texans: currently in Seventh

Mushroomites: currently in Eighth

The Hocotatians were the first to arrive at the Ice Cream Sea, a sparkling, pink-hued ocean with a beach made of ice cream cones and dabs of vanilla everywhere.

"Mmm…the air smells so sweet and sugary!" the President declared.

"Yep, reminds me of my childhood, and all of the brainfreezes I got there," Olimar mused. "There's Princess Frostine!"

Sure enough, there a woman in a white and blue gown dress stood. "Grab some scuba masks and dive right in! Most of the fauna in the Ice Cream Sea are friendly," she explained. "But I'm here in case…well, they turn out not to be."

"Who needs scuba masks when you have…SPACE SUITS?!" Olimar cried hammily. Frostine was not impressed, but the two went underwater anyway.

"Our clue said to get 3 cone barnacles, 3 polyps—one of each flavor—and catch a cherry fish!" the President reminded him. "You're the faster swimmer, right?"

"I sure am!" Olimar said proudly. "At least, I think I am. We never had to actually swim much on the Pikmin Planet, just run on the floor of ponds a lot."

"Well, in any case, you've just elected to grab the cherry fish! I'll go grab the stuff that doesn't move!" the President said with a snicker.

"Hey, you tricked me!" Olimar cried. But his teammate was already beginning his search.

"Heheheheh…two can play at this game, Olimar! Don't forget that if it wasn't for me you'd be on the streets! Just like I was, once…"

The President dove down as deep as he could, searching for anything suspicious. Although he saw tons of exotic candy and fruit-resembling fish, he didn't find any cone barnacles until he found a large underwater boulder where some were growing. He pulled them off after a bit of a struggle and continued his search…

…Just as the Saiyans were arriving. Vegeta and Nappa immediately willed the top parts of their uniforms to explode inexplicably so that their muscular upper bodies could be fixated upon and gratuitously recorded. Vegeta ignored the cameras but Nappa posed and flexed for them.

"If we lose the race we could still make money as mod—" Nappa began.

"NO!" Vegeta cried. "I'm NEVER doing that!" The two Saiyans then dove underwater, their lungs too powerful to require scuba masks, again annoying Frostine. And she was married so she didn't care for Nappa. She was Queen Frostine, after all. Although, what the Candy King didn't know…

It didn't take long, meanwhile, for Vegeta to spot a cherry fish that Olimar was chasing and then rapidly swim as fast as he could without cheating to the fish, crushing it with his bare hands and giving Olimar the finger.

"That was…very rude of him," Olimar said later.

"That wasn't necessary, sure, but I liked doing it," Vegeta admitted. "I was mad and needed to let out some steam. Better him than Nappa."

Hocotatians: currently in Third

Saiyans: currently in Fourth

Fry and Bender made it to the Sugary Pass eventually.

"Great job losing the other two teams, Bender!" Fry congratulated.

"Yeah. Too bad it all happened off-screen!" Bender lamented.

"Well, if you hadn't bent the "currently in Last" caption all out of shape then maybe the production crew wouldn't have had to go repair it, and then if they hadn't gone to repair it then…"

"I know, I know!" Bender whined as they got out of the car to get their clue.

"Chew or Gulp? Well, if it's beer, then Gulp. If it's cigarettes then Chew."

"It's not either," Fry said. "They stopped making cigarettes with candy flavors after 2500, remember?"

"Oh, yeah. Damn anti-tobacco lobbyists!" Bender cried. "Do you know how hard it is to get a tobacco product in the year 3000?"

"Nope!"

"Oh. Anyway, I say we do Gulp!" Bender said. "I can get it done fast!"

"But it says powers banned," Fry reminded him. "And we're making some sort of ice cream sundae, not a martini."

"So? I've got one power that they can ban, and it's the fact that I'm 40% metallic! No, wait…100% metallic!" Bender cried.

"Well, ok, so long as you don't stretch your arms or anything, I think we'll be good," Fry said.

Future buddies: currently in Ninth

Back at Licorice Castle, the teams there desperately searched for the red licorice.

"No!" Tai Lee cried when she lifted a lid, munching on the black licorice with Mai. Teams were allowed to split up and work independently, but both teams had to eat one licorice stick per plate.

"Nope," Mai sighed, eating more licorice with more disdain.

"Mmm…" Arachne said as she ate even more black licorice.

"The red ones must be hard to find," Slim said. "I hope this doesn't turn into another haybale challenge."

Just then, the Teachers arrived.

"I bet it will be a long time before we…WE FOUND IT!" Ms. Bitters cried, immediately finding red licorice when she lifted the lid. All the other teams glared angrily at her as she and Mrs. Puff showed it to Lord Licorice.

"Here's your next clue!" he said, smiling sweetly at Ms. Bitters, who gave him a kiss.

"I knew we always had a thing for each other," she said.

"Don't look at me, I didn't even put the licorice there!" he insisted. "Although it's sweet that you think that."

"Who cares about lost love, I had to break up with Mr. Krabs! Come on, Bitters, time's a wastin'!" Mrs. Puff cried ecstatically. Once the two had left the castle and were back on the road, they read the clue.

"Make your way to the next Pitstop! Splendid, splendid!" Mrs. Puff read, clapping her fins in excitement.

Teams must now make their way to the Candy Castle, the Pitstop for this leg of the race and the end of the Candyland board. The last team to check in may be eliminated.

"I swear," Ms. Bitters insisted, "I had no idea. I don't have x-ray vision. I would have had to phase my head through the lid to see the red licorice, and then it would have been way to obvious and in clear violation of race rules."

"Oh, it's all right, Bitters, they can't charge us with anything!" Mrs. Puff insisted.

Teachers: currently in First

"Should we switch tasks?" Mai whispered to Tai Lee.

"Don't worry, we still have time!" she reassured her teammate. "There's one team still here, anyway, so we're guaranteed to be safe. And we were in first before, there's no way that all the other teams just so happened to do the other thing and beat us!"

"Do you think that maybe…?" Slim began.

"No, there's still plenty of black licorice left! We can eat it all and then leave none for the other teams. That way when they come here, thinking it's the easy Detour, they'll find that they can't do it since all of the licorice will be gone, and they'll take so much time switching!"

"That's actually…a valid reason to stay," Slim said. "But I still think we ought to put switching on the table. We'd be the first team to do it!"

"Why is that?" Arachne asked.

"The author thinks switching detours is somewhat unethical. You finish what you start, he says."

"He's a hypocrite, then! He never finished Titan of the Hill, and he's nowhere near being done with A1, or this fanfic, or the Sym-Bionic Titan stuff, or anything else! He's LAAAAZY!"

The author, meanwhile, typed these words and felt very, very hurt by what his characters had said to him. But there was nothing he could do but cry about it and admit how true they were.

Back at the Sugary Pass, the last two teams quickly got their clues.

"Bender and Fry went too far ahead of us!" Sunflora lamented. "We couldn't follow them, and now we're probably way behind them!"

"We'll have to fight for last," Elastigirl said sadly in agreement. The bottom two teams shook hands, agreeing to play it fair and square as best as they could. Upon reading that both Detours banned the use of powers, this made things much easier for them.

"Oh my gosh, which one do we choose?" Sunflora asked Loudred nervously.

"Do we do the SAME task, or the OPPOSITE task?" Loudred asked the two of them.

"We're probably better swimmers," Mr. Incredible whispered to Elastigirl.

"You're right, but what if they turn out to be just as good? Grass trumps water," she pointed out.

"It does?" Mr. Incredible repeated. "Well, I guess either way we're taking a gamble. Gulp it is!"

"They're doing GULP!" Loudred told Sunflora with his super-hearing.

"Then let's do Chew!" She suggested. "If it's a luck task, then surely we won't be the only team there, if other people had just as bad luck as us."

Guildmates and Supers: currently fighting to avoid Last