"Wow! This is amazing!" Toadette shouted as Toad's brand new kart raced around the training track. The Mario Kart season was going to begin in a week, and Toad and Toadette were preparing for their first major-league race.
"See? I told you! We're gonna win this first race!"
"It even goes faster than our first kart!"
As Toad and Toadette left the training track that evening, they both felt a lot more confident about the upcoming race, and Toad couldn't stop thinking about it. His dream had almost come true. All that there was left to it was to win it all this year.
June 1st had arrived once again. It was time for the first Mario Kart race of the year. Toad and Toadette entered Wario Coliseum, ready for their first major-league race. Toad kept smiling the whole way in.
"What is it, Toad?"
"This is it. We're finally major-leaguers. We have a brand new kart, and I'm sure we can win!" Toadette smiled as she had always done before.
Then, as Toad walked into Wario Coliseum, he saw a sight he would never forget. Fans. Thousands and thousands of fans, piled high everywhere in the stadium. Toad had never raced with this many fans all around him.
"Everyone, get in your karts!" the Lakitu said. The crowd was still cheering, excited for the first major-league race of the year.
But this time, there was a different lakitu. This one had an orange body, a black cloud below it, and a red shell on its back. The Lakitu flashed a traffic light. It started to flash. "Ready, set... GO!" And everyone flew off, except for Toad and Toadette, who didn't get as fast of a start.
Later on, Toad and Toadette were able to catch up. They stayed in fourth place for most of the race, but weren't ever able to catch up to first place. The racers bullied Toad and Toadette, purposely going after them with items because they were newcomers. Despite struggling against the experienced racers, Toad and Toadette still remained in fourth place. Before Toad and Toadette could catch up to third place, it was already Lap 2, the final lap in Wario Coliseum.
Toadette started finding new items, ones she had never seen before. She found a hammer, a sword, a stick, and a red light sa- uh, beam sword. She tried to make good use of them, but didn't know how to use them, and so they remained in 4th place. Toad stepped a little harder on the gas pedal, trying to move up to third before the race ended.
Then, Toad saw the racers taking shortcuts that were never before found, and doing impossible tricks over rails to save time. Toad and Toadette weren't far from the finish line, and they had dropped to sixth place now. Luckily, Toadette found two red shells from an item box. She threw them at the two karts ahead of her. They raced past those karts, and just before crossing the finish line, Toad managed to drive past the third place kart to finish in third place.
Toad wasn't too happy with the rank. He got out of his kart, and started thinking of ways that he and Toadette could get better, ways that he and Toadette could finish the year in first place. They did better than Toad had first expected, but there seemed to be something wrong with the kart. It had gone at top speed the entire time, and seemed to work fine, but the other karts were a lot faster. The kart still had a few speed-related parts missing from it.
"I guess the kart wasn't finished after all," Toad realized.
Toad rode home in his kart that night, checking for problems with it. But there were none. The other karts were simply better than his. He knew that if he wanted to win the major-leagues, he would first have to do something about his kart.