Now approaching a series of banked turns, Slash and Damien challenged each other by slowing themselves as they boarded on the slopes, almost daring one another to take the lead. When the turns cleared, Damien had taken the lead, which signaled Slash to throw a slapstick in his direction. Damien, who had now expected it, made a quick jump, just in time to clear a gap in the path and land safely on the other side.

Meanwhile, Roger was challenging Jam for third, approaching the back of Jam's board carefully as they approached the banked turns that Slash and Damien battled over. Roger sized up the area, waiting as Jam began to turn the second bank, then quickly tossed a freeze shot as he began the turn himself.

Jam, completely unaware of this, more focused on the upcoming gap, was hit square by the freeze shot, right before the gap opened up in front of him. Roger zipped by the now immobilized Jam, and leaped over the gap, while Jam, whom finally shook himself free of the icy prison he had become familiar with, met the bottom of the gap, no longer having enough room to get a good speed.

Up ahead, Nancy was finally catching up with Slash again, she caught sight of him as they approached the water paths. Slash was making good progress through the twisty currents of the stream, but Nancy was making even better, finally getting in close range of him. Nancy pulled forth a parachute, ready to nail Slash with it, when she realized an explosion come face-to-face with Slash, knocking him over, just as well, with Nancy unable to stop herself, was also forced to the ground by the power of the explosion.

Slash shook himself off, and stood back up, continuing to board after Damien. Nancy as well stood back up from the explosion, and followed after Slash again; Damien, on the other hand, had already bolted for the lift-in.

Roger had gained some ground on Nancy, and Jam had begun closing the gap on Roger as they all reached the lift-in. The next lap began, Damien was in front (For whatever reason he had here), Slash was a small distance behind him, Nancy next, then Roger and Jam.

Not long after the lap had started, "THUNK!" pans dropped quickly on everyone's heads, save for the whom deployed them, the lucky one being Jam, whom, taking the new opportunity, sped by Roger and began catching up to Nancy. Roger lost his opportunity to attempt a decent trick off of the first large jump, and in such now focused on trying to catch up again. Instead, Roger used the slope of the ground to gain speed, and at the bottom of the slope, did a simple flip off the bottom jump, and used his newly gained speed to gain on Jam.

Jam though, was already approaching Nancy; they both cleared a long turn, and after making a small jump through a tent entrance, Jam hurled a snowman shot in Nancy's direction. Nancy was prepared for the shot, but unfortunately, it cost her even further. Nancy dodged the shot, but in doing so lost her direction and ended up careening off the side of the course into a watery gap. Jam passed Nancy after her bungling, and regained his place, Roger soon followed behind him, leaving Nancy in last.

The struggle between Damien and Slash had become even more heated. As they both approached the spinning cup attraction on the course again, one wrong move would throw a careless snowboarder into a crazy direction. The two entered the area, and were threatening each other by playing chicken with the cups as they passed by them.

"Just try it, Damien. You've never been to Dizzy Land." Slash egged onto Damien.

"Guess you haven't been paying much attention…" Damien mentioned. "I've been waiting for a chance to finally get back at you, and here it is, here in Dizzy Land!"

"By beating me at Snowboarding?" Slash asked, seeming confused. "You're not going to get much satisfaction even if you do that. Like that's going to happen, though!"

They cleared the cups and headed for the next area, both of them taking the shortcut as they continued to harass one another.

"I'm not here to just beat you, Slash, I'm here to humiliate you, and I'm here to get you back for what both you, and the rest of the kids did to me before! For foiling my plans!" Damien ranted as they approached the gap again.

Damien took a glide forward across the gap; Slash took a shot towards Damien with slapstick, but missed by a hair. Slash fired again as they both crossed the gap, but this time Damien jumped over the shot. Slash fired again, and though he was about to hit Damien square, he managed to take a turn sharp enough to shake it off of him, forcing Slash out of all his slapsticks.

Meanwhile, Roger and Jam were competing for third again. They both had cleared the gap, and were now just getting onto the water streams behind Slash and Damien. Unable to get a good aim at Jam, Roger decided on a different tactic. Using the flowing water to his advantage, Roger decided to ease up on the pressure against the board, allowing the water to accelerate him. Finally passing Jam, Roger did a long nose grab to his board, then landed and headed into the lift behind the two, followed by Jam, who for some reason, decided to let Roger pass…

Tailing the two was Nancy, but she seemed to be catching up slowly.

So now the order was Damien, Slash, Roger, Jam, and Nancy.

Finally, the last lap had come. Damien and Slash were already heading down to the first jumps when everyone began it.

Also finally, the reason for Jam's silence had become clear. After Roger had turned onto the main part of the track, he suddenly realized after a small impact to the side of his board, he was now covered in snow. Jam had gotten him with a snowman shot!

"What the…?!" exclaimed Roger as he careened out of control straight into the wall, falling over and finally shaking the snow off of himself; Roger got back up to his feet and chased after Jam, now more determined than ever.

Damien and Slash were constantly at each other's throats while this was occurring. Slash was attempting to get some slapstick shots on Damien, but Damien was smart enough to dodge them. Just as well, Damien was unable to hit Slash, as he would continuously hang behind to get shots off on him. While this continuing trend was going on, the others were slowly catching up.

Both Roger and Jam had begun to catch up with the leaders near the spinning cups. As the two leaders approached, Slash finally got the break he was looking for, and shot Damien with a slapstick. Damien fell over, rolled into one of the cups, and flew off into one of the walls.

"Gah!" Damien exclaimed as he crashed. He shook his head to regain composure, and got back up, but only to have Jam shoot him with a snowman shot, sending Damien again into a cup, then again into the wall.

"Argh! You'll pay for that!!" Damien shouted, but found his threat in vain as a pan from Roger then flattened him; and everyone else save for Roger. Roger slipped by Damien, who was now flattened, as well did Nancy, who was lucky enough to have an invisible tool on her to prevent the panning. Now truly angry, Damien yelled with rage as he got up, taking out a small remote control and pushing a small button that had the phrase "Last Resort" on it. "I will win this race, and stop you Slash, I WILL!" Damien continued as he finally continued forward.

The button had activated several traps ahead on the course that Damien planted himself. Damien grinned as he saw Slash up ahead approaching one. As Slash took a small shortcut after the spinning cups, he noticed the ground begin to lift upwards, sending his board down back the way he came! Not comfortable boarding backwards, Slash quickly flipped his board and unwillingly took the other route, now placing him in third, as Jam and Roger had overtaken him by taking the other route in the first place.

Jam took the next jump easily, doing a small grab as he performed a flip, then continued down the slopes. He then realized up ahead, a few strange blinking red lights on the course. They were hidden bombs! Jam realized what they were, thankfully, and managed to weave himself around the lights. Roger though, was not as fortunate, and though he did well on the first few, was caught off guard by one on the banked turn, and it detonated, sending him and Nancy, who was close behind, up into the air, and back down into the snow.

Slash took advantage of this and regained second, while Damien, knowing where the bombs were, retook third.

Finally, the water paths yawned before the kids once more. Jam took the banks in the water to give himself some speed, while Slash merely was trying to keep himself away from the walls. Damien crept up behind Slash on his board, and as he was about to put a parachute on Slash's back, Slash quickly turned away from an oncoming wall, sending Damien into the wall instead, causing Damien to lose ground.

"I told you you'd never beat me at my own game!" Slash taunted, bending around the turns and slowly catching up with Jam. The upcoming jump after the water bends was in sight. Jam decided to take it flashy, and as he went off, performed an incredible series of front flips, cheering loudly as he performed the trick. Though it looked like he was going to end up falling, he quickly turned his board flat to the ground again, landing safely, and giving himself another cheer as he landed it.

"Yeah, no one can beat that!" Jam cheered happily as he soared into the goal, turning his board sideways and grinding to a halt.

Slash took the jump and did a simple 360 flip, landing it easily and took second. As Damien was preparing to take third, the all familiar sound, "THUNK!" rung out as pans dropped on both Roger and Damien, and Nancy took a very lucky third.

Damien hopped forward, rage in his eyes as he approached the goal line, wanting at least to take fourth, though a few feet before he was able, a strange sound emitted behind Damien, and the kids saw Roger careening down the hill, his board tilted sideways as he slipped by Damien to take fourth.

"ARGH! NO!" Damien cried out, stomping the ground with his fists, pounding his head into the snow to bury his face in defeat. As he did so, he was picked up suddenly, and propped upwards by Roger.

"Look…" Roger began, "I like a good challenge and all, but when someone cheats like you did, I tend to take it not as a challenge, but as an insult. Normally I'd be forced to punish someone like you, but this is the first time we've met, so I'll simply say, don't do it again, or you'll regret it."

Damien glared at Roger, rage still running deep within him, but to avoid tarnishing anything further, Damien turned himself around and ran off, taking his board with him.

"I can't believe Damien showed up, after all this time." Nancy said, looking in Damien's general direction. "I mean, he could have done this at any time that you raced, Slash. Why'd he want to use Dizzy Land?"

"I'm not sure myself." Slash replied, shrugging a bit. "All he told me was that he wanted to see me humiliated, no matter what it took, as well as the rest of us. I mean, the rest of us aren't exactly even here, so his plan was kind of foiled to begin with."

"I think it's that his pride was tarnished." Roger suggested.

"What pride?" Slash asked. "Oh right, you don't know Damien all that well. Well, a while back, Damien showed up and was trying to cause all sorts of trouble for us here in Snow Town. After a while, he eventually built a giant robot to attempt to take us all down, and perhaps even do something horrible to Snow Town itself. We stopped him, and thought at some point that he would turn around, but he's just been a stinker ever since."

Roger nodded a bit, taking it all in. "I see, so his goal initially was to do what he did just now even. Well, as it happened before, and now happened recently, something tells me it won't be the last we'll see of him."

"Hey!" exclaimed a rather unattended Jam. "Aren't you all at least going to congratulate me?!"

"Oh yeah!" Nancy said and smiled, offering a hand to Jam. "Congratulations on your win. You did pretty good."

Jam blinked and widened his eyes. "That's it?! After all I did to beat everyone, that's all you're gonna say?!"

Nancy shrugged a bit, a little confused. "What else do you want? You beat me and the rest of us, what else is there to say?"

"But, but…" Jam stuttered, seeming rather speechless. "I worked so hard to beat you! I waited for this for so long, and then I finally did it, and this is it?!"

"Chill, dude. You beat her, and you beat me, good race though!" Slash supported his friend, Jam. "You won't get so lucky in the next race, though!"

Jam grinned a bit and looked to Slash. "Oh yeah? Just you wait then, I'll beat you like I beat you all today!"

Nancy smiled at Jam's easy sway of competitiveness. "Alright everyone, I have to get going, anyway. I have to finish some homework anyway…" with that, Nancy took the lift, and headed for home.

"I better take off too…" Roger said, picking his board up and offering Slash a hand. "I have to hand it to you, you're one heck of a boarder. I never would have thought I'd see my match, in an amusement park, even!"

Slash laughed a bit and shook his hand. "Told you I was good. Maybe we can race again sometime, maybe on some course more your style?"

"I kind of doubt it, actually." Roger said, frowning a bit. "You see, I'm only here in town for a few months, to see my family and such. Maybe sometime though, if I'm down here again, we can do so; maybe we won't get attacked by any crazy demons, either."

Slash nodded and ended the handshake. "Well, hope to see you again then, Roger." With that, Slash and Jam headed to the lift-in and headed home.

Roger looked up the slopes of Dizzy Land again, pondering a tad, and shook his head. "This wasn't what was planned at all, they were supposed to lose to me…"

Roger looked down to the ground, tapping his foot a bit in thought, a sly grin slowly crossing his face. "No matter, they've already taken the ruse. Soon, they won't have any way to practice their boarding, and while they'll lose their edge, I always have ways of practicing on my own. They'll be out of the sport soon, and that's when Snow Town will truly be ready…"

"Ready for a change that already covers most of the world?" a familiar voice supported Roger's plotting.

"Indeed." Roger smirked, looking behind him as Damien stepped forward, bowing his head gently.

"You were right…" Roger said, looking to Damien now. "These kids are truly talented, and their skills help defend Snow Town not just by snowboarding alone, but by their willingness to work together. They banded together to beat you, but they treated me as if I were one of their own. The ruse works perfectly…"

Damien nodded, sighing a bit. "You could have at least gone lenient on me…"

"Then the plan wouldn't have been as believable, would it?" Roger corrected the demon. "The more they think I am one of them, the more they will trust me, and the more they trust me, the further they'll let their guard down. It's the perfect plan, and it will be their downfall."

Damien pondered a bit. "It's cruel, Roger. I never would have thought of it…"

"That is why you are under my command, isn't it, Damien?" Roger assured him, Roger's eyes giving a similar green glimmer to Damien's for a moment, then glinting back to their normal color. Roger then headed to the lift-in and headed upwards.

"Never would have thought of it, at all…" Damien repeated to himself, a small frown almost crossing Damien's face…

The race may be over, but problems still run amuck in Snow Town. Roger's in league with Damien? Will Slash finish his report with Linda? Jam won the race? Review what you think so far, and thank you for reading this far into this volume, but there's more to come! Stay tuned!