A/N: And now….for the Flower Cup!
Hey everyone I'd like to welcome you back to One-way into Marioland! I'm CirciFox81314, your MC here, once again to present the next race!
Oh, and The DK Duo and Wario and Waluigi will NOT be in this race. Two teams will be replacing them.
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Auraheart: Actually, Penelope doesn't dislike them. Like Daisy, she drops all friendships at the starting line (with the exception of her partner in Double Dash), and she was being really competitive for first. Penelope likes the both of them equally as characters, but she doesn't let that keep her from winning.
TheLegendaryBladeFalchion: I think that was done on purpose by Nintendo and who made the game. Also, I didn't think about it, but Moustafa and Mufasa are rather similar in a way by name.
And with Sho…he's fairly quiet with his quote…until the last two races, which are his last races sadly.
Here's chapter 6 and the second cup of Double Dash!
-Flower Cup-
Chapter 6: Sho's Last Race
Penelope awoke early in excitement for the next cup of the Double Dash races- which was the Flower Cup.
At their hotel, where they were currently located, Penelope couldn't go back to sleep. This resulted in her shaking Sho to death as he was asleep before he eventually punched her in the face while he was unconscious and he said in his sleep, "You're so zetta slow…"
This resulted in some violence (though this is in rare occasions, Penelope can have a short temper, which has been shown a bit- like in the Paper Mario Arc), which woke Bowser and Bowser Jr., who were in the room to the left of theirs up.
"I do not want to know what happened." Bowser mumbled. Then he noticed Bowser Jr. had left, which worried Bowser and he got up and went after his son.
So, Bowser Jr. had knocked on the door, which Penelope opened up with psychic unknowingly once again and Bowser Jr. saw Penelope and Sho ready to kill each other.
"Will you two quiet down?! People are trying to sleep! And you woke me up!" Bowser Jr. complained at them.
"Shut up, Baby Bowser! It's not my fault Kamek woke you up again. Kamek can be such an idiot!" Bowser Jr. wasn't amused.
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"Hey dad! That stupid brunette just said I was a baby!" He tattled.
A bunny noise rammed into Bowser Jr. and knocked him over.
So, after some more conflict, now with Bowser involved, they woke up all the racers plus Joshua, and man, Joshua was pissed.
And it wasn't pretty afterwards. I don't want to go into details, but Penelope and Sho were now wanting to keep away from Joshua, and Bowser had no idea how he appeared, but it was rather scary what happened.
That resulted in a bad start for the races today! Yikes.
-Flower Cup-
"Uh…hello everyone! Welcome to the first race of the Flower Cup! I'm your MC Rosalina, here with Toadsworth, and is it me or are the teams shaken up?" She asked.
The incident from earlier wasn't just scary to watch, but rather scary to listen to, as you could picture what was happening.
"I wonder why. There was some loud noise at the hotel earlier…"
Penelope yelled from her Kart (she and Sho were using the Parade Kart again.), "YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!"
All of the racers heard Joshua chuckle from the audience despite they were starting on Mushroom Bridge, and there wasn't an audience there.
In fact, he was using telepathy.
"My. Are you all afraid?"
"Mama-mia! Its-a him again!" Mario yelled. Everyone gasped.
"I SWEAR IN THE NAME OF SWEET ARCEUS, LAKITU AND THE MC'S. START THE DARNED RACE ALREADY!" Penelope yelled.
Lakitu, who didn't like to be bossed around for doing his job, went up front in annoyance. "Don't tell me how to do my job or when to do it, whoever said that." He huffed.
Penelope shook her head and was focused to start, as she was driving first.
She saw who was opposing her. Five of them were from the previous race, but Paratroopa and Koopa Troopa as well as Baby Mario and Baby Luigi were in this time.
Those two babies. Penelope was disgusted. She always HATED racing them. Sho noticed Penelope's disgust.
"Okay…3…2…1…" Everyone started up their engines.
"GO!" Everyone immediately zoomed off.
"Whoa. It appears the Racers are trying to finish the race really quickly, seeing how they just sped off at the blink of a light." Rosalina pointed out.
"I agree. I mean, look at them. Despite with all of this, all of them show the desire to win."
A big obstacle in the Mushroom Bridge course was the cars and trucks. Hit em and you're in hot water…or in eight if you fail badly enough.
One thing Penelope absolutely despised was traffic. In fact, she and Sho got in first fairly quickly was because of traffic, because she wanted to get out.
The two teams who were in now didn't exactly agree with her. In fact, Daisy and Peach were practically out to get her (mainly Daisy. Daisy doesn't like to lose.), and Mario and Luigi wanted payback from the Luigi Circuit race.
Bowser and Bowser Jr.? Well, Bowser was speeding after them, because he didn't want to lose to Penelope again. In fact, if he got his special item, a red shell or a Spiked Shell, he was going to let loose on her, especially for all the physical violence she inflicted onto him.
Then Yoshi and Birdo? They weren't getting too competitive like everyone else, but they were fairly decent at racing. They didn't want to get a low spot again.
So, like the Manta Storm from SMS, they were out to get the lead.
However, that didn't happen in this race. To make things short (as I went crazy with detail on the Luigi Circuit race), Penelope and Sho still got first, Baby Mario and Luigi were second, Paratroopa and Koopa Troopa were third, Bowser and his son kept his fourth place record and the rest weren't exactly pleased with their results.
Results?
1st- Penelope and Sho- 10
2nd- Baby Mario Bros. -8
3rd- The Koopa Duo -6
4th- Bowser and Bowser Jr.-4
5th- Mario Bros. -3
6th- Peach and Daisy -2
7th- Yoshi and Birdo -1
8th- Toad and Toadette- 0
-SECOND RACE-
"After that quick, but intense race, Mario Circuit is next! Considering this is practically THEIR course, will the Mario Bros. and their younger versions have the upper hand, or will there be some interference in their win?" Rosalina asked.
"I don't know, Rosalina, but it looks like Mario and Luigi aren't going to lose on their turf. Neither is Peach. I mean, her Castle is in the center."
Lakitu, who was taking somewhat of a long time (on purpose), finally got there with a coffee cup, and also greatly annoyed the racers.
"Where were you?!" Daisy asked.
"What, is it wrong for me to get payback for the rudeness from the previous race?"
Nobody was amused with Lakitu. "Really." Bowser Jr. said, unamused. Lakitu was practically pointing a finger at the female racer who complained at him.
When the race began, Penelope chucked a Green Shell at Lakitu (she forgot to use the item and accidentally kept it until the next race), making him spill the coffee on his cloud, who glared at him.
"Currently, in first, is the Mario Brothers, with their younger selves tagging behind and our two newcomers coming in third, keeping ahead of Peach and Daisy! Then Bowser and Bowser Jr. are lagging behind, as they somehow got in eighth shortly after the race began!"
"We know." Bowser grumbled before kicking in gear when the speed factor came in.
He managed to pass the Princesses competing with the Reapers, but as soon as Penelope saw Bowser and his son trying to sneak past, she got the triple red shell special item and bombed Bowser and Bowser Jr. as well as the two Princesses.
"There is no way in HELL I will let you two pass me. Listen. I'm gonna WIN!" By luck, she got a Golden Mushroom special item and left the two teams in the dust.
Both teams looked at each other before speeding after Penelope and Sho.
HOWEVER, the Mario Bros before them weren't letting them win them on their turf and that was true for the rest of the race, which really wasn't that interesting except that everyone was practically after them, especially because of the fact the current 4th and 5th ranked racers and the 1st and 2nd ranked racers were out to get them.
-Results-
1st- The Mario Bros. -13
2nd- The Baby Mario Bros. -16
3rd- Penelope and Sho- 16
4th- Bowser and Bowser Jr. -8
5th- Peach and Daisy- 5
6th- Toad and Toadette- 2
7th- The Koopa Duo- 7
8th- Yoshi and Birdo- 1
-THIRD RACE-
"So far, there's a tie between the Baby Mario Bros. and our newcomers! And man, Penelope doesn't seem happy by that. However, the two are in the lead, with the Baby Mario Bros. behind them and the Mario Bros. ranking in third!" Rosalina indicated.
"However, we are now entering the Daisy Cruiser course, and since this is Daisy's turf, I don't think she's gonna give up that easily, and neither is her partner."
"HECK YEAH!" Daisy yelled in agreement as these announcements sounded through the announcement thingies.
Penelope frowned at her before saying, "Look girl. I'm not losing to…COFFEE!" Lakitu poured coffee on Penelope because of her Green Shell deal last race. Luckily, she was in charge of the items.
And she also got laughed at, especially by Daisy.
Her eyes immediately went purple. Some recognized this and trembled in fear (Yes, it was Bowser and the Koopas.).
So, when Lakitu began the race, somehow, Penelope, who switched with Sho, somehow got a major speed boost before getting and first and getting far ahead enough that if someone threw a blue shell, it would still be hard to catch up.
Meaning Penelope had a good lead…until a Spiky Shell hit her car, and nobody in the race threw it at Penelope, but someone did it just to mess with her and slow her down.
And trust me, everyone, no matter where they were on the ship, heard her scream, "WHO THE HELL THREW THAT SHELL?!"
However, despite all this, Daisy and Peach used this as an advantage and got in first, with Pen and Sho coming in second, Yoshi and Birdo in third (they stepped up their game), Mario and Luigi stealing Bowser and Bowser Jr.'s spot and the rest not exactly happy with their placements.
-Results?-
1st- Daisy and Peach- 15
2nd- Penelope and Sho- 24
3rd- Yoshi and Birdo- 7
4th- The Mario Bros.- 17
5th- Bowser and Bowser Jr.- 11
6th- Toad and Toadette- 4
7th- The Koopa Duo- 8
8th- The Baby Mario Bros.- 16
-FINAL RACE-
The crowd met the Racers at Waluigi Stadium and MAN was Penelope hyped up for this race! Sho wanted this to be over.
In fact, she was humming a song in joy, which was confusing everyone, but Lakitu, though weirded out by the oddly joyful Penelope, started off the race.
And Penelope performed the rocket boost fairly well, and as they drove, she was squealing in joy, also scaring the races behind her because usually she was loud and vicious, not extremely cheerful.
Oh, and she was singing along to the background music, making Sho stare at her with insanity.
"I'm loving this course, yeah! No, you can't stop me, Daisy!" She was singing and driving, which made Sho eventually yell at her with his megaphone, "SHUT THE FACTOR UP!"
Penelope glared at Sho before continuing.
Toad and Toadette, who were currently eighth in points, with Yoshi and Birdo higher the same with while having seven, were wanting to raise their ranks, and were being effective and competitive.
However, Penelope singing wasn't bad, but it was like that Sound Horn power up from Mario Kart 8. How? Well, Sho figured out how to make their own special power up with his Megaphone and Penelope, because they'd act like the sound horn when they'd get anyone who got too close by yelling, "You're so zetta slow!" and it produced sound waves for some reason.
Also, Penelope's excitement wouldn't end (this was her favorite course ever, so no wonder), to the point where it confused Joshua. "How odd. She shouldn't be excited."
Nobody noticed as Joshua (yes it was him) sent another Spiky Shell at Penelope, who was prepared for it.
"Hold your hat, Sho! This is gonna be a bumpy dodge!" She told him.
"What's this? Yet another Spiky Shell from nowhere coming at Penelope and Sho!"
You know how it's practically impossible to dodge a Spiky Shell? Yeah? Well, they stopped it.
Penelope had Sho and her use their special attack, stopping the shell, and shocking everyone, especially Joshua.
"I KNEW IT WAS YOU, YOU ROYAL SON OF A FISH! Censoring." Penelope added, meaning to say something else to Joshua but noticed it was censored.
"Did she just…" Daisy began in shock.
"My gosh! They just stopped a Blue Shell!" Peach shouted.
Yeah, this was scary for the other racers. Who knows what else they would do?!
Not much, except that it was near impossible to take Penelope and Sho's lead.
The race ended with Penelope and Sho getting first, kind of starting a routine, Toad and Toadette actually getting second and Birdo and Yoshi getting third.
Who won? Well, it's obvious.
-Final Results-
1st- Penelope and Sho- 34
2nd- Toad and Toadette- 12
3rd- Yoshi and Birdo- 13
4th- Baby Mario Bros.- 20
5th- Mario Bros.- 20
6th- The Koopa Duo- 10
7th- Bowser and Bowser Jr.- 12
8th- Daisy and Peach- 15
-Flower Cup-
Instead of sobbing, Penelope was joyful once again and was creeping everyone out.
Until she was hit with a Spiky Shell causing her to yell, "JOSHUA, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR THAT!"
"Like you can, Penelope dear." Joshua said from the audience.
"STOP CALLING ME THAT IN PUBLIC!"
-Flower Cup-
A/N: I know the races weren't very exciting once again, but Penelope kept getting bombed…err…shelled in this chapter along with Sho.
Penelope's second partner appears in the next chapter! And she isn't pleased.
Especially considering Sho wasn't staying to be her partner.
Ah well, at least I covered the racing of this chapter. Also, as said, Penelope's personal favorite course is Waluigi Stadium.
Mine is the Mario Kart Wii Rainbow Road. Sure, it's difficult, but I love the design and the music.
So, I have a question for you all that is optional to answer!
What's your favorite Mario Kart course and why?
Anyway, next race is the Star Cup!
Please review if you like and don't flame please! Constructive criticism is appreciated!
On a side note, when I'm listening to Mario Kart music on YouTube as well as other things, I keep getting spammed by Neutrogena advertisements and I can't skip them, which is annoying me greatly.
I will see you all in the next race!
Ciao!
