Chapter 4: Running Through the First Trap
Everything to matched up accordingly to Eggman's plan, as he was watching the four racers head for the first trap while he was still up on the stadium's command center. Looking down at the four through some binoculars, along with also monitoring their activities on the various security cameras laid out.
"Yes, here they come into the first trap, let's hope that genius gorilla ally of mine doesn't screw this one up!" laughed Eggman as he was watching the race.
Meanwhile, back on the course, Scratch and Grounder laid out a simple spike trip like how Grodd ordered them to do.
"Good, good" said Grodd, as Grounder nailed the spike strip into the ground, "quickly, hide behind those rocks, because here they come!"
As the four went into their hiding places, Speed was well ahead of Sonic, as he managed to use a special boost within his Marc 6 to get ahead of the blue hedgehog. Yet what he didn't know was there was a spike strip coming right up. As he raced right over the spike strip, Scratch and Grounder got out of their hiding places just to check up on if they got their target. Yet the spike strip, somehow manage to catch poor Scratch and Grounder in a knot, and the two began to stumble forward.
"This can't be happening" sighed Grodd as he shook his head.
"I'm just glad I'm not in that mess with them" added Coconuts.
Speed, then suddenly noticed that his tires were taken out, yet as he was about to press a button on the wheel of his car, Sonic managed to catch up toward Speed.
"Hey, slick way of trying to pass by me" said Sonic as Speed opened his window a bit, "but you might want to take a look back in your rear view mirror, you got two dim bolts crying for mercy."
"You know, the blue one's right on this" said Flash as he managed to also catch up with Speed, with the Flash coming up on the other side of the Marc 6.
Speed then immediately presses the button on his car, to which the tires that were taken out of the car managed to regenerate new tires, while the older warn out tires flew right off onto the course. Also, sending poor Scratch and Grounder screaming for their dear lives, which they then slammed themselves head onto a large rock.
"Say, where the heck is your black hedgehog buddy?" asked Flash to Sonic as the two raced passed ahead of Speed.
"You mean Shadow, I don't know, but I would be careful of his Chaos Control" replied Sonic, "see yea!"
The blue hedgehog then sped off away from Flash, at an even faster speed than the Flash could even comprehend. The speedy superhero then decided to pick up further steam, and was right again back on the blue hedgehog's tail.
"That so-called gorilla genius!" cried Eggman as he threw his binoculars on the floor, "I knew I couldn't trust him to get the pesky blue hedgehog or any of the other three racers!" Eggman then reached for his communicator, to contact his primate ally, "Grodd, what's going on down there?!"
"You rang?" asked Grodd.
"Listen to me, my primate compatriot, what was that, you call that a trap?!" shouted Eggman on the other line.
"It was suppose to be a simple test to see how durable these racers really are" replied Grodd, "now that we know, we'll use more extendable methods of dealing with them."
"You better!" cried Eggman as he barked back at the genius gorilla supervillain, "Because if you don't, I'll make sure I'll be making another experiment out of you, which I'm sure animal rights activists would complain about!"
"Harsh" sighed Grodd as he turned off his communicator to which he then turned to Coconuts, along with Scratch and Grounder who were quite dizzy after hitting the large rock, "let's head onto the next type of an environment for this course, I'm sure it'll give you three a good handle on the situation."
Back at the command center up above the stadium, Eggman was quite busy promoting the next extreme environment change on his course. When suddenly, he received a call by Royalton who was sitting in his cell.
"Eggman" said Royalton as Eggman picked up his communicator, "I'm very disappointed in your work trying to bring the demise of Speed Racer, and the other three racers."
"Don't blame me, blame that big ape who believes he's a better genius than me, Grodd!" cried Eggman on the other line.
"Not so loud, the guards may here your yelling on the phone" replied Royalton as he was sitting down in the cafeteria watching the race on the television, "I'm still monitoring the progress of the race through the prison's local tele, and I think I can get the warden to get me a special HDTV tele, that'll be able to be used in my personal cell. Hope you do as you're ordered to do, ta, ta."
"Bah, that Royalton really bugs me, but at least with his wealth, maybe I can still destroy a certain pesky blue hedgehog, in spite of the other three racers!" laughed Eggman as he readied the next course on the console.
Back on the course, there seemed to be only three racers visible, Speed, Flash and Sonic as the three entered the next part of the course, Sonic could feel that it was literally getting quite colder than usual here.
"Just what type of weird course is this?!" cried Sonic, "And where the heck is Shadow?"
"Why don't you ask him yourself?" replied Shadow as he came out of nowhere thanks to using his Chaos Control.
"Hey, no fair!" cried Flash as he was finally racing catching right on to Shadow.
"Thanks to my Chaos Control, I was able to gain ahead all three of you!" laughed Shadow as he sped off away from the three other racers.
Meanwhile, a few miles up ahead, Scratch, Grounder, Coconuts and Grodd had arrived on the scene, in which case they were at the end of an ice cavern.
"So what sort of a trap are we going to setup next?" asked Scratch.
"Well, since the first trap failed" replied Grodd, "I believe I have already have this trap laid out. Since the racers all have to pass through this ice cavern that's smacked in the middle of this modified winter environment, sensors have already been placed throughout the cavern, when the four racers all pass through the sensors, it'll trigger dynamite to go off, literally trapping all four of them in a frozen coffin."
"Bawahaha, that's pretty smart!" laughed Scratch.
"Yes, I know, I know, but we'll have to wait and see what will happen here to see if the racers are durable enough to face this off before I come up with more elaborate traps" replied Grodd as he gave an evil smirk to his robotic compatriots.