Rating: K+
Words: 644
Author's Note: I was inspired to write this one after playing a lot of MarioKart with my brother and his wife and I thought it would be something fun for the turtles to do together and want to kill each other over. *My brother usually is like Raph, my sister-in-law is like Mikey, and I… am Leo in this case.* Enjoy!
"I call Mario!" Mikey cried as he maneuvered his controller toward the character icon.
"Aw, come on! You always play Mario!" Leo complained, his fingers hovering over the buttons on his own remote.
"But Mario comes with the Zip Zip Cycle!" Mikey pouted with a large puppy-dog pout. Leo rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Luigi does too…"
"But nobody likes Luigi!" Mikey whined petulantly.
"Will you two pick your characters already!" Raph grumped as he equipped Bowser, while Donnie chose Toad. Glowering, Leo considered his little brother's big sad eyes and sighed resignedly.
"Fine."
He begrudgingly selected Yoshi from the menu. Mikey grinned triumphantly as Mario cheered when he was picked.
"The Red Team is gonna wipe the floor with you two!" he taunted, joining Donnie on the Red Team. Growling irritably, Raph glared at Mikey.
"Keep it up, and you'll be playing with three players," he threatened as the avatars were arranged on the track. Mikey's lip stuck out farther at his brother's half hearted threat.
"Aw, come on, Raph! You promised!"
The countdown began and the whistle blew, starting the race. All of the avatars sped off onto the track, bumping and careening in all directions. Each of them hit numerous prize boxes right off the bat, throwing banana peels, green shells and red shells liberally.
The race starting getting intense as they rounded the finish line into the second lap. Mikey was riding comfortably in second place, Donnie in third, Raph in fourth, and Leo, who had been hit with every green shell on the course, was struggling to keep his place in tenth.
"Here we go!" Mikey crowed as he slid past Peach into first place on the Final Lap. Mario's bike skidded gracefully around the corner and he was off like a shot.
"No, no, no!" Donnie cried in dismay when his car was knocked over by a red shell, dropping him into sixth place. Having been the one who the the shell in the first place, Raph smirked wickedly when his avatar sped past a flailing Toad.
"Come on…," Leo urged fervently, "Come on, you stupid dinosaur." He groaned with exasperation when he skidded off a cliff, dropping him down to twelfth place. There was no way he was going to have a chance of winning now.
Raph maneuvered expertly around Peach's car, moving into second place. He quickly gained ground on Mikey, ready to knock him out of the way with his much heavier car. There was no way that the Zip Zip cycle could stand up to it. The race was as good as his.
Mikey swerved to hit a prize box on the last ramp. When he saw his prize, a huge grin spread across his face. It was a turtle-eat-turtle kind of game. He just hoped that Raph would find it in his heart to forgive him. Someday. Hitting the up arrow in the controller, he released the blue shell.
"Raph! Watch out!" Leo warned, though he knew that there was nothing he could do. Blue shells were evil and never missed.
"Fuck!"
Raph threw his remote down as the blue shell blew up the car just in front of the finish line. Mikey cheered as Mario zipped past the finish line, victorious.
"And the Mikester takes the championship!"
Donnie's car pulled in at third place, then Leo at eleventh before the game was declared over.
"Just call me the King of MarioKart!" Mikey boasted, puffing out his chest importantly. Raph's eyes were blazing as he turned his attention on Mikey.
"I'm gonna pound you, Mikey!"
Screaming shrilly, Mikey flew from the room, Raph right on his heels. Leo turned to Donnie and shrugged.
"This should take a while. Want to switch to two player?"
Donnie smiled as he hit the menu button on his controller.
"I'll even let you play Mario."