Upon arrival, the twins looked around in awe at the racetrack called Baby Park. It was an amusement park. Smack dab in the middle of it, in some sort of raised track with some metal over it, probably to shield out the sun or something.
The entire track was a long oval. The twins' faces broke into big grins when they saw the simplicity of this track, just like their old one from TurboTime. This one was just longer, and had much more interesting scenery. Pictures of what looked like Baby Mario and Baby Luigi were hung above the track, probably indicating ownership of the track to the two babies.
"Well, here we are!" Toad announces, holding his arms out, gesturing to the entire track. "Took forever but we made it!"
The twins, still admiring the beautiful track, took notice of a green shell looking kart, built for two people, and saw two Koopa Troopas standing around it. One had a red shell and red shoes with his shell having wings on it.
"Those are the Koopa Troopa brothers. The first. The ones that the kids who own our Gamecube can choose to play as. They're quite talented racers, so don't underestimate them." Toad started to drive a bit closer to them, and yelling in his voice that hurt the twin's ears every time he yelled above the proper voice level, "HEY KOOPA BROTHERS! I BROUGHT YOU SOME ARCADE-DWELLERS WHO LIKE OUR GAME!"
The twins had to fight to not cover their ears and cringe. The two turtles replied back with a loud repose, in a language they couldn't understand. Koopa Troopa language, which they had heard before from the arcade game Super Mario Brothers. They still didn't quite get it, and relied on the expressions the Koopa Troopas had to even vaguely understand their emotion.
Deciding to follow Toad and approach the bipedal turtles, Teddy put his foot down on the gas pedal and drove forward, both him and Ted still giddy over having a kart again.
Toad seemed to understand the turtles, and nodded as the green one raised an eyebrow and gestured to the twins and then at their kart, speaking his language.
"Oh yeah, I know they look retro. They say they're from a game from the 80's. …And yes that's the test kart they have. Might as well let them have it, it works just fine."
The Paratroopa nods slowly, then says something to Toad, and points a thumb at their own kart and gestures to the entire track while he asks Toad something.
"-Oh, yes. They want to race. And euuhhh… I took them here because they mentioned to me that their old course was a simple oval. This is the simplest course we have, and they wanted to start simple before they go crazy like at Rainbow Road. Only the professionals win Rainbow Road, let alone stay on the track…"
The twins shudder. They haven't even seen Rainbow Road yet, and Toad made it sound like the hardest racetrack ever. Ted got a bit nervous thinking about "falling off the track". And Teddy just thought of how many times they could be spammed by power ups and get half-killed.
The brothers nod, and smile. Then they step into their shell kart, the green one behind the wheel while the red one gets on the back, flexing his wings. They both make a short noise and point to the ground next to them, a gesture that they're ready to race.
Toad understands the gesture and does a small doughnut spin, then backs up into place behind the starting line. The twins, getting the hint, do the same, but Teddy turns around carefully, not wanting to toss Ted off the kart by doing a doughnut.
Toad announces to everyone, "Okay you all, Koopa brothers, try to go easy on these two. They're newbies at this game, and haven't raced in a long time. Twins, be careful. There's a lot of power up boxes on this track-"
In mid sentence, Rows of floating power up boxes appear on the track, glowing cyan with a question mark in each of them.
"- as you can see, and everyone is an easy target. Especially me because I don't have Toadette with me right now."
The twins nod, and Teddy grips the steering wheel with anticipation. Ted nervously shuffles his feet on the back platform, holding onto the handlebar for dear life, and the race hasn't even started yet.
Toad fills in for Lakitu's role and starts counting down.
"Three.. Two.. One… Go!"
As soon as Toad yells go, the turtle brothers take off and Toad soon follows. Teddy hesitates, but slams his foot on the gas pedal when he feels Ted's shock and anticipation that Teddy had not shot forward at the right time.
"YyyyAAHHH-" Ted yelps, nearly losing his footing when Teddy propels the kart forward. Neither of the two racers were used to having one man on the back of the kart, standing up.
Teddy makes the first sharp turn, Toad and the Koopa brothers still far ahead of them, but Teddy hesitates once again, sensing his twin's fear when the car leans and Ted has to use all his strength to stay standing up while not touching the tires. That was one problem about their kart, the back wheels did not have any covering, and the man in the back was completely exposed to them. This made Ted incredibly nervous and Teddy could tell without looking back. Their twin bond made it obvious how Ted felt to Teddy and he tried to be careful.
"Come on, guys! I know you can race better than that!" Toad calls back, driving through a power up box, and a red shell materializes in his hand. He struggles to keep his driving under control with only one arm, but is obviously straining to do so. He tosses the shell at the Koopa brothers in front of him and regains his full control as the Koopa brothers get striked by the shell and spin out in midair, looking dazed.
Teddy grits his teeth and hopes Ted gets the hint, and speeds up a bit. Ted does, and holds on tighter, trying his best not to yelp at every turn.
Teddy and Ted brace themselves as they start to quickly approach their first power up box. Teddy flinches as he drives right through it without slowing down, and looking down, on the left side of his steering wheel is something he never noticed, two slots like in a slot machine, and the one on the left is spinning rapidly as if a slot machine was about to land on the icons and the player had to hope to get all of the same one in a row. The one on the right does nothing. But here there was two, the one on the right does nothing, and the one on the right smaller than the other.
The slot on the left lands on the icon of a red shell, and a good sized brilliant scarlet turtle shell materializes in Ted's hand. Ted starts to panic, because he's only holding on with one hand, and holding onto a shell with the other.
Teddy realizes that he had been given a power up, and quickly looks back and yells, "THROW IT! THROW IT, TED!"
Ted is taken by surprise at his brother's yelling, whom is determined to not get third place, and quickly throws it forward as hard as he can. In stead of just clanking on the ground uselessly, as soon as it hit's the ground it gracefully glides and starts to follow the Koopa brothers, who had fallen behind after they had been hit by Toad, who was in the lead.
Teddy grins, thinking he's home free, but all of a sudden, the brothers switch positions. Paratroopa takes the wheel, and Koopa Troopa stands on the back easily, and he drops a large banana peel behind him, and the red shell headed for them hits that instead, and breaks apart and vanishes as well as the banana, uselessly.
"Ah-wha… Hey!" Teddy yells, "That's cheating!"
"No it's not," Toad yells, on the other side of the track, "That's allowed, remember?"
Huffing, Teddy looks back at Ted, who looks pretty terrified of being up there. He yells back at his brother while still keeping his eyes on the road, "Want to switch?"
"Switch?" Ted echos, a bit surprised at his request, then becomes horrified. "SWITCH? We're in a moving car, Teddy! How do you expect us to do that without CRASHING?"
"Those turtle bros did it! Just trust me on this one! On the count of three, you heave yourself into the driver's seat and I get up and weasel my way back to that platform! You have to be fast to keep the steering wheel straight!"
"Aauuhh… Okay, bro.. but I'm scared… what if we crash? We wont regenerate!"
"We have helmets for a reason, Ted! Now, on three.. One.. Two…"
Ted braces himself, stepping as far right as he can without touching the rapidly spinning tire, and holds his right hand out so he can swing himself into the driver's seat with his left.
"Three!"
Ted yells as he flings himself airborne off of the safe platform, and he manages to twist his arm painfully, but he heaves himself into the driver's seat as his brother got out of it and jumped over the handlebar and onto the platform, almost landing on the wheel which would have sent him flying.
Grabbing at the steering wheel and stabilizing it, Ted feels much safer and relaxes. Teddy smiles, and grabs at the next power up box his brother drives through. The slot spins, and lands on an icon of a blue, spiny shell with wings. A bigger than the other shells, blue, and with sharp spines and powerful white wings materializes in Teddy's left hand as he holds on with his right.
"HahahahaHAHAHAHA! Ted, look! We got a blue shell!" Teddy exclaims, obviously excited to hold the magnificent weapon in his hand for the first time. He hurls it into the air in front of him, and it takes off with incredible speed with strong beats of its snow white wings.
"Oh, no…" Toad mumbles, and braces himself as the Blue shell goes around the entire course just to get to him, as Toad was far enough ahead to be behind the twins.
Theres a small explosion, Teddy looks back and starts laughing at Toad as he flips a few times in midair due to a blue mushroom style explosion the shell caused. And Toad just grimaces, shaking off the pain and keeps going. The Koopa brothers pass him and he spits out some curses and keeps going.
After seven laps, Teddy and Ted stop their karts, having earned second place, beaten by the Koopa brothers, but managed to shell Toad until they passed him on the last lap, making him angry and grumble under his breath comments about his kart not being his original.
"Well, good job I guess, you boys." Toad mumbles as the Koopa Troopa brothers salute the twins and Toad as they drive off.
"That was fantastic! Did you see that? The way I threw that blue shell at you? Oh it was great!" Teddy excitedly rambles, looking like he could start jumping around with glee at any moment.
Ted just laughs along with his brother, but he's rubbing his left arm, as it's still sore after that hard twist in the switch he and Teddy made.
"Yeah… It was pretty awesome." Ted half-heartedly adds, squeezing the area of pain on his arm to try and ease the pain.
"You okay, Ted?" Teddy asks, taking notice of him fidgeting with his arm and lack of enthusiasm.
"Yeah, I'm fine… Just a twist. I don't think I should jerk this arm around much anymore."
"Okay, then…" Teddy mumbles, feeling his own left arm, and he can just barely feel the pain his brother feels, but its faint.
"Well, then. Now its been awhile, we'd better be getting you two back to the arcade before our players come home from school-"
Before Toad can finish, a loudspeaker like voice announces to the game,
"Power button pressed. Power button pressed. Game console starting. Everyone prepare for racing."
"-… Oh no." Toad says, and the twins just exchange worried glances.
The boys were home.
Hey guys! it's the mod Qwer here. I'd like some feedback on this. More than just comments, but I want to get better! ;v; Would you mind critiquing my writing? That is all. Now be patient for the next chapter, I've been having writers block lately. Hehehheheheh.