"Welcome back folks" E-08 tuned in. "We are live in the National Indoor Stadium, where the gymnasium course shall be played."
"In case you missed out on yesterday, Team Mario is currently in the lead" said Gary. "Can Team Sonic prevail? Only one way to find out!"
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First up was Trampoline event. Here participants will bounce on a sturdy trampoline, and when their bounces reach seven feet they will be required to perform flips and tricks in order to win. Waluigi and Amy are this events participants.
Waluigi was prepared to go, but something pink held him back.
"Uh uh! Ladies first" Amy said.
Pushing the female hedgehog to the floor, Waluigi replied "well, since there's only a hedgehog here I guess I'll go next! Ehehe!"
The purple-clad person stood on the trampoline. He jumped up in the air, and when he went down the trampoline sent him up again. After the fourth bounce, Waluigi had enough air time to his moves.
The Goomba announcer shouted "look at him go! He keeps twisting and turning like a pasta noodle! Seriously, how does he do it? He's now at the final bounce!"
With one last dazzling spin, Waluigi landed on the trampoline. "Ta da!" he shouted, but the audience gasped instead of applauded. Wondering what everyone was so mortified about, he looked down and saw his arms and legs were tangled up, pretzel-style!
"Ouch, that's gotta hurt" spoke Gary Goomba. "While our friend is getting taken away by the paramedics, let's see what he scored. A six point five?! Wow, if injuring yourself doesn't give you the judges mercy I don't know what will."
"Next is Amy Rose" beeped Reportertron.
Watching at the sidelines, Wario grumbled "my brother was completely useless! Now how are we going to win?"
"Don't worry, I modified the trampoline earlier this morning" Bowser chuckled. "Pretty soon Waluigi will have a buddy to come along with on the way to the hospital."
Now the hedgehog girl was on the trampoline. Taking a deep breath, Amy jumped and…went back down. Curious as to why she didn't bounce up in the air, Amy tried again… and the results were the same as before. Some critters in the crowd booed. Flustered at the stubborn trampoline, she jumped nonstop in order to get it to react.
Back with Bowser, he was holding a remote control, smiling as the hedgehog's fruitless attempts. "You want to go up missy?" the Koopa said quietly, "then I'll help you go up!" He a dial on the remote from 'stiff' to 'HOLY FLUBBER!'
An with one last jump, Amy was powerfully sprung up in the air. She helpless waved her arms and screamed as she went up and down. It didn't take long for her to collide into the ceiling, in which Bowser decided to change the trampoline's settings to 'normal'. When Amy fell down, she stayed down this time.
Gary spoke "that was very thrilling performance! For a second there it looked like she was actually in trouble! What do the judges have to say about it, Reportertron?"
The robot analyzed "Amy has scored a nine."
"WHAT?!" shouted Bowser and Wario.
The Goomba announced "there ya have it, folks! Amy wins!"
Rubbing the bump on her head, Amy said "huh? I won? Woohoo!"
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Now it was time for the Vault. With three attempts, participants need to perform moves after jumping over a vaulting horse and successfully land in order to get a good vote. Wario and Shadow were the ones now playing.
"You're related to that one team-mate of yours, aren't you?" Shadow asked Wario.
The fat guy replied "yeah I am. So what?"
"Oh nothing, I just wonder if failure runs in your family?"
"Grrr! I'll make you regret those words!"
Shadow went first. With the boost of his rocket skates the black hedgehog charged forward, pressing his feet on a springboard and vaulting over the horse. He spin-kicked in the air, again using his skates to make the move more dazzling. When he landed upright, the judges gave him a three.
"Was that the best you could do?!" Wario taunted.
Upset over his low score and his opponent's dissing, the ultimate life form decided to try something more complex. This time he added punches and vertical spins to his moves, and the judges now gave him a seven point two. For the grand finale, Shadow would use Chaos energy to please the audience. He sparkled with lights as he used the harmless types of Chaos moves. Just then, something hit Shadow on the side of his head, and with his concentration interrupted the hedgehog's landing was far from good. Disappointed with the results, the judges gave Shadow a four.
Picking himself off the matt, Shadow saw what hit him. It was an empty can, and on the outside was a label saying 'Sarasaland-styled baked beans with onions.'
Wiping the barbeque sauce from him lips, Wario went for his turn. After getting past the vaulting horse, the pseudo-Mario let loose some foul gas that originated from his rear end. The judges gave the performance a four, in which an unhappy hedgehog pondered why this awful first attempt over scored his own. Now Wario's next trick was flexing his muscles and landing in a handstand-position, earning a score of seven. For the last attempt, the plump baddie was ready to bring the judges to their knees. Reminding you all he was doing them while still in the air for a few seconds, Wario played a tuba, painted a picture, and successfully did brain surgery all at the same time!
The tub of lard then got hit by a can he swore he threw at Shadow a minute ago. Wario soon fell right on his face, and immediately was squashed by the stuff he brought with him. This act was giving a one, mainly because the person Wario did brain surgery one was only a bag of flour.
"The results are in; Shadow has won!" Reportertron stated.
"And that's the end of the gymnasium course!" Gary Goomba shouts. "With both events won by Team Sonic, that makes that team the overall winner of this course! But don't leave just yet, folks, because this day is just getting started!"
While the audience got out of their seats to do whatever they wanted, the ultimate life form walked by a lifted the pile of junk on the floor. There he saw Wario, upset and slightly injured.
"How pathetic" Shadow comments, in which he drops the cluttered right back on top of the mustachioed man.
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While the preparations for the next course was in motion, Sonic decided to take a stroll in the Olympic halls with his pals, Tails and Knuckles, and Dr. Eggman.
"Oh ho! I feel good winning today's events!" Robotnik said to his… erm… friends.
Knuckles adds in "I know. I can't wait to pummel them into submission in the next course today!"
"I don't know about you guys, but I could care less if we win or not" Sonic says.
"Huh?" spoke Knuckles. "But they're our opponents, Sonic!"
"I know that, Knuckle-head, but I kinda have respect for them. Who knows, I might try to make friends out of them if they want to."
Tails looked ahead of the group, and suddenly stopped everybody. Wondering what their foxy friend was doing, the others turned their heads forward and noticed somebody.
It was a ninja, as you plainly see as he wore completely black ninja clothes. He silently stood in the middle of the hallway, not moving an inch.
"Uh… can we help you?" the blue hedgehog asked the stranger.
Taking out a notepad and a pen, the ninja says "yes, you can. I'm with the local newspaper, and I would like to write your thoughts on the current progress in the Olympic events for my article."
"Oh, really? Okay then, I think we have some excellent competition on our hands. My team is quite talented, and anyone who can beat us is definitely gifted as well."
"Very good. How about you three?"
"I have my doubts about us winning" said Tails.
"The other team will be seeing more losses" said Knuckles.
"No comment" commented Eggman.
"Nice. Niiice" the ninja said as he wrote down their words.
Curious, Sonic asks "hey, what is your article about anyways?"
Fiendishly smiling under his mask, the ninja responds "nothing, much. The same stuff you usually see in the OBITUARIES!"
Sonic dodged out of the way as the ninja attempted to stab the hedgehog's connected eyes with the pen. Sonic got kicked in the legs, and when the ninja tried to come for the kill, the man in black was stunned with a tail and punched by a spiked fist.
Behind them the Sonic Heroes heard a scream. Eggman was being held at dagger-point by two other ninjas! The hedgehog did a homing attack on the two ninjas, and the captive thanked him by the crawling behind a trash can. All three ninjas quickly got up, circling the three furries with their weapons ready.
Whoosh! A throwing dagger was impaled on the first ninja's notepad. Nobody had the chance to think what just happened when all the ninjas we getting beaten up by some mysterious force. Unable to see who was attacking them, the ninjas dropped smoke bombs and ran off. When the smoke cleared, Sonic and friends saw a purple chameleon change back from his camouflage.
Sonic patted his savior on the back and said "thanks for the support."
"You're welcome" Espio replied. "I always wondered what it would be like fighting real ninjas."
"Why were they trying to assassinate us?" Tails wondered.
Knuckles spoke "I bet they were hired, I have an idea who they work for. Eggman was right about how they would do serious harm to win, those dirty little punks from Team Mar-"
The doctor got out of his hiding spot and covered the red echidna's mouth, whispering to Knuckles "don't them that! We need to keep a low profile on anything relating to us cheating!" Eggman turned to the others and said "what Knuckle is trying to say is that perhaps this should be reported to the Olympic Committee. We wouldn't want killer ninjas lurking in the stadium, now do we?"
"Roger that" nodded Espio, running off ninja-style.
The hedgehog just noticed something on the ground and picked it up. It was a torn off bit of paper, probably from that one ninja's notepad. There was some words on it, but it was written in Chinese.
"Hey Tails" the hedgehog said to his friend. "You learned some Chinese on our way here, right? How about translating it, it might be a clue."
Taking the torn piece from Sonic's hand, Tails viewed the writing and replied "sorry Sonic, it's barely anything to help us find out who attempted to kill us. All it contains is one word, possibly a name of someone or something."
"And that name is…?"
"…Waku…"