-Outer Space-
Lea & Glace: Twin Athletes
"Here we go," said Glace as the four flying saucers were about to approach the ice planet.
Iris & Napoleon: Engaged Literati
"I'm excited for this leg," said Iris.
Ben & Romana: Models
"We're ready to win a leg," said Romana.
Nick & Lester: Band Mates
"It's time to play half-dirty," said Lester.
-Cryothon-
The planet is completely made out of ice. The planet is extremely cold, but weirdly, the cold is not lethal. There's ice here, ice there, ice everywhere. There's an ice cave at a certain part of the planet. Near that cave is where four flying saucers landed.
Ben & Romana: Models
"Here we are," said Romana as she and Ben prepare for the weather condition.
"This is gonna be a cold ride," said Ben.
Iris & Napoleon: Engaged Literati
"I'm gonna love this leg," said Iris. "This will be a chilly leg to race on."
"I know!" said Napoleon. "I'm excited too my lovely librarian."
Lea & Glace: Twin Athletes
"Let's slow down a little bit," said Glace. "Let's get out once Ben & Romana open theirs."
"Alright," said Lea.
Nick & Lester: Band Mates
"Let's leave our passports behind, and pretend that we forgot about it," said Nick.
"Great idea!" said Lester.
The two hi-fived. Not long after, the four flying saucers' doors opened up and the teams started running.
Iris & Napoleon: Engaged Literati
"This leg is gonna be great!" said Napoleon as he and Iris are in the lead.
The four teams went inside the nearby cave.
Nick & Lester: Band Mates
"Holy guacamole! Where did you leave our passports!?" said Nick.
"I dunno you! You're the one responsible for it!" said Lester.
The two ran back to their flying saucer.
Lea & Glace: Twin Athletes
Lea & Glace saw the two teams going further inside the cave. They slowed down until they couldn't see them, and that was the time they went back to their flying saucer too.
"They will kill us if they survive, but we're too strong to get the kill," said Glace.
"I agree sis," said Lea.
The two teams in the alliance met with each other. Glace gave them a thumbs up and then they all went inside their respective flying saucers.
"Hurry hurry hurry," said Lea.
"Let's get out before they find out," said Lester.
Iris & Napoleon: Engaged Literati
"Wait a minute," said Iris as she held the clue. "This is not the Nintendo Universe is it?"
"What?" reacted Napoleon.
"Look here."
"That pesky allaince fooled us."
"Let's get outta here."
"Right."
Ben & Romana: Models
"Why are you running back?" asked Ben to Iris & Napoleon since he saw them running to the opposite direction.
"The Scizor and the Eeveelutions fooled us," said Napoleon.
"What!?" said the baffled Romana.
"This is not the right cave, the right planet, or the right universe," said Iris.
"***king s**t!" cursed Romana.
"Ma! This is a family show!" said Ben.
The two teams ran out of the cave quickly.
Lea & Glace: Twin Athletes
"We're ready to go," said Glace.
Nick & Lester: Band Mates
"All set," said Lester.
The two flying saucers were already hovering. When the two spaceships left, the other two teams saw the two saucers leaving.
Iris & Napoleon: Engaged Literati
"Hurry, let's catch up!" said Napoleon.
Ben & Romana: Models
"I'm gonna kill you," said Romana. "How did you not realize that?"
"You also didn't," said Ben frankly.
"SHUT UP!" shouted Romana.
The scene showed the two other flying saucers leaving Cryothon.
-Outer Space-
Carol & Giselle: Comrades
Carol has already built some defense with her bag and the spacesuit provided inside the spaceship. Giselle took out another toy dagger from her bag.
Carol said, "How did you get that!?"
"YAH!" shouted Giselle as she threw the dagger like a throwing knife, which hit the spacesuit.
"Come on! That's our only spacesuit."
"We don't need to use maps!"
Carol took out a big mango pudding from her bag. She threw it to the "battlefield."
Giselle said, "My pudding! So it was with you all along!"
Carol did not react and stayed low. Giselle opened the seal of the pudding. She ate the pudding like a wild animal. During this time, Carol tiptoed to the side. Giselle focused on her pudding and wasn't able to notice Carol. Carol was able to take some more undeadly weapons from Giselle's bag, then she went back to her base. Giselle finished her pudding a few moments after.
Giselle said, "I'm surprise you didn't hit me with anything."
Carol took out a big lychee pudding from her bag once again.
"Oh yum! Another one," said Giselle.
Giselle finished the lychee pudding after a few minutes. Carol was able to make a dispenser type of machine during the given time.
"Give me some more food!" demanded Giselle.
"You're gonna have to catch it!" said Carol.
"Fine!" said Giselle.
Carol threw a small unsealed raspberry pudding. Giselle caught it with her mouth. Carol threw an orange pudding this time. Giselle got it with her mouth once again. Carol turned on the pudding dispenser. Giselle caught every single pudding thrown to her. She was so focused with the pudding that Carol was able to sneak out from her base once again. She brought a rope with her this time. While Giselle was catching all the pudding, Carol caught her legs and took the rope to tie her up.
"Hey! I'm eatin'!" yelled Giselle.
Carol said, "I'm sorry, Gis. I don't really wanna do this, but it's going too far if you really do not want a map."
"Let me go!"
"Not now!"
Carol successfully tied her up. Giselle kept shouting nonsense. Carol stopped the pudding dispenser. She took duct tape from her bag.
"NO WAY! THERE'S COMPLETELY NO WAY YOU'RE FEEDING ME WITH TAPE!" said Giselle.
"Oh I'm not, I'm just gonna..." said Carol.
"NEVER!" said Giselle as she broke off the rope.
Carol was left stunned for a while, although she shouldn't be.
"YOU ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE YOU TRAITOR!" said Giselle.
"AAH!" shouted Carol.
Giselle chased Carol around the flying saucer.
Lilly & Kelly: Housemaids
"That planet looks like a good one," said Kelly as she and Lilly saw the yellow planet made out of cake.
"Let's try it then," said Lily.
Lea & Glace: Twin Athletes
"There it is!" said Glace.
Nick & Lester: Band Mates
"Finally!" said Lester.
The two flying saucers entered the wormhole that will take them to the Nintendo Universe.
Harl & Natt: Best Buddies
"That planet full of pink," pointed out Harl.
"Looks good," said Natt.
-Cakeliton-
The surroundings are very yellow. The ground is made of yellow chiffon cake. There are a lot of yellow cakes at the surroundings.
Lilly & Kelly: Housemaids
"Computer station," said Lilly.
"Good job, Lil!" said Kelly.
The two hi-fived.
-Merosas-
The planet is all pink, different shades of pink. The planet is mostly fuchsia, from the skies and the clouds to the city and the seas. The planet is mostly watery. Cities are mostly built under the sea.
Harl & Natt: Best Buddies
"Have we landed? This is taking a while," said Natt.
"I landed this thing a few minutes ago," said Harl.
"Are you sure? How come we're slowing landing?" said Natt.
Harl took a look outside.
"Ouf! We're underwater," replied Harl.
"What!?" said Natt. "How am I suppose to get out of here?"
"You can wear the spacesuit."
"But you?"
"I can swim."
"Hello? The surface is high above. You won't be able to get some air on time."
"Um... in that case..."
"We should go to another planet, or find land instead of sea here in this planet."
"Okay."
Harl tried to get the flying saucer out of the water, but it only kept sinking.
"What's happening?" asked Natt.
"Our saucer is sinking," replied Harl.
"What!?"
"I can't get it out too."
"Shoot! We're in big trouble."
-Cakeliton – Chiff's Internet Café-
Lilly & Kelly: Housemaids
"This one here," said Kelly. "The wormhole is near this light blue planet."
Lilly said, "Okay, that sounds really unclear. I don't know where to find the light blue planet."
"Let's look it up," suggested Kelly.
-Outer Space-
Iris & Napoleon: Engaged Literati
"Now we're lost," said Napoleon.
"Great I guess," said Iris sarcastically.
"We can only blame ourselves for trusting an untrustable team. We have put ourselves at risk by following them."
"Oh well, we still have to look for an alternative."
"I know, so let's go."
Ben & Romana: Models
"You are such an idiot!" complained Romana. "I wanna p**s on you!"
"Shush please," said Ben.
"Why the hell did you let us get tricked by those eeveelutions? Are you out of your mind? Or are you just a stereotypical idiotic ex-boyfriend."
"Shut up, please."
"You are an idiot. You don't say please when you tell someone to shut up!"
"It's my way! I don't care."
"Get us to that Nintendo Universe, or I'll have you fried when I get home."
"I'm more than fried, and you don't want me?"
"WHAT THE ***K! JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH OR I'LL P**S ON IT!"
"Yes Mother."
Cara & Janelle: Best Friends
Harv & Clairene: Dating
After waiting for hours that felt like days, Harv & Clairene finally saw Cara & Janelle's spaceship returning. Harv & Clairene followed Cara & Janelle's spaceship.
"This can't be hard. I don't think they'll get us lost," said Clairene.
"You can do this, sugar!" cheered Harv.
Carol & Giselle: Comrades
Giselle was seen taking control of the flying saucer. Carol was already knocked out. She was too exhausted to fight Giselle.
"That's what you get when you don't listen to mah opinion," said Giselle aggressively.
-Cakeliton-
Lilly & Kelly: Housemaids
The two were seen exiting the computer shop. Kelly was shown holding a map on her hands.
"We have an idea where we're going now," said Kelly to the camera.
The two entered their flying saucer then left the planet.
-Merosas-
Harl & Natt: Best Buddies
"We're screwed!" said Harl.
"Have you called one?" asked Natt to the cameramon, talking about a replacement spaceship.
The cameramon nodded.
"If a team's vehicle breaks down with no fault of the team, a replacement vehicle will be provided; however, no time credit will be given for this unlucky situation."
"We just have to wait," said Natt.
The cameramon whispered something into Natt's ear.
"I mean we need to get back to the surface," corrected Natt.
"What!? How!?" said Harl,
"That I don't know," said Natt.
-Nintendo Universe-
Lea & Glace: Twin Athletes
"Oh we made it!" said Lea.
"I have a feeling we're gonna win another leg," said Glace.
"We can give it to Nick & Lester," said Lea.
Glace looked at Lea strangely in a way.
"What?" reacted Lea.
"Don't you want the record? I wanna get a three-in-a-row win," said Glace.
Nick & Lester: Band Mates
"I'm ready!" said Nick determinedly.
The two flying saucers flew to Pop Star, the planet where Kirby lives. They arrived at the area of Great Cave Offensive not long after finding the planet.
-Great Cave Offensive Entrance-
The place is very green. It is a bright morning in that side of Pop Star. There is a vast meadow on one side, and some small trees on the other. It is at the edge of the woods. There are a few creatures in the surroundings. Between the woods and the meadows is a hole. The hole looks like a pitfall trap. Inches from that hole is a post and a pole. The post has many different wooden arrows pointing at different directions. One of the arrows points downwards. On that arrow, the words "Great Cave Offensive" is written. On top of the pole is a flag, most likely the flag of Great Cave Offensive. The two flying saucers landed on the meadows. Lea & Glace and Nick & Lester hurriedly run out of their respective saucers. Lea & Glace made it to the cluebox first.
Lea & Glace; Currently in 1st
Lea ripped open the clue envelope. Glace read the clue.
Glace read, "Make your way to the Sub-tree Cultural Center where a Junior Poppy Brother will hand you your next clue."
The twins went inside the cave while the musicians took a clue from the cluebox.
Nick & Lester; Currently in 2nd
"Make your way to the Sub-tree Cultural Center," read Lester.
The two followed making their way inside the cave.
Lea & Glace: Twin Athletes
The cave's entrance was like an infinite abyss. The other end of the tunnel can't be seen due to darkness. Regardless of the cave's appearance, the twins jumped inside the dark tunnel like there's no tomorrow.
"WEEEEE!" shouted Lea.
Glace shouted out of fun as well.
Nick & Lester: Band Mates
"This is gonna be awesome!" said Nick.
"Nick! Wait..." said Lester.
Nick jumped into the hole first, Lester followed seconds after. The three eeveelutions' voices echoed throughout the tunnel.
-Sub-tree-
The place is an underground forest. Culture looks rich from the looks of the surroundings. Even though the forest is under the ground, light still exists. On some rocks on the floors and ceilings are special rocks which are glowing orange. The underground forest is not too dark, yet not too bright. The three eeveelutions and Lester searched around the underground forest. After some time, they finally found the cultural center. They saw a bunch of happy-faced living things wearing cultural clothings. They saw the Junior Poppy Brothers preparing at the outside area of the cultural center. The brothers started their bamboo dance as soon as they saw the two teams. Some of them were in charge of the bamboo sticks, while the others danced back and forth and around the bamboo sticks. There were also a few others playing flutes made out of bamboo.
Post-leg confessional:
Lea & Glace
"The dance was really nice," said Lea. "Even I can't dance that fast."
Glace said, "The dance was pretty fast. I enjoyed it very much. The music given out by the bamboo flute sounds so cultural! I just love it!"
Post-leg confessional:
Nick & Lester
"The beat from the bamboo sticks were awesome!" said Lester. "The music was simple yet cultural."
"The sound of the bamboos are stuck in my head until now," said Nick.
Back to the race...
After a minute or two of dancing with the bamboo beat, the head Junior Poppy Brother handed the teams their next clues.
Lea & Glace; Currently in 1st / 2nd
Nick & Lester; Currently in 1st / 2nd
"Fast forward!" said Nick.
"We don't need it," said Glace to Lea.
"Are you sure you wanna do this now?" said Lester. "I'd rather collaborate with our allies than beating them through a risky shortcut."
"Yes! It's our only chance to winning," replied Nick.
"No it's not!" said Lester. "We can have a footrace with our allies."
"What!? You're forgetting that they're Pokélympians," said Nick.
Lea smiled to Nick. He winked to her. Lester noticed and looked back to the direction of the other team. Nick and Lea both pretended like nothing happened.
"Nick, the fast forward is no good idea right now," convinced Lester.
"It'll work, trust me," said Nick. "We'll have a leg on our belt by then."
Lea read, "Make your way to Sub-tree Underground Lake to get your next clue."
"Are you coming with us?" asked Glace to Lester.
"We're not," replied Nick.
"Okay," said Glace.
"W-wait!" said Lester.
The eeveelutions left the area, and Lester reluctantly read the fast forward clue. Nick and Lea were smiling and winking to each other. Glace and Lester noticed this, but both of them just ignored them as both teams were going in different directions anyway.
"Fast forward," read Lester.
"In order to attempt this fast forward, teams must make their way to this ice cream shop, Sub-tree Ice Cream Wonderland."
"Let's go," said Lester reluctantly.
The two left the area.
-Sub-tree Ice Cream Wonderland-
The place has dark walls, floors, and ceilings. It is so cold inside that people or other living creatures must wear some sweaters and / or jackets at the lobby. Inside the place are tables and chairs for the customers, the counter, work area, a small quarter for the employees, the bathroom, and six huge square trays lying on the floor. The place is a bit dark and very cold. A Waddle Doo wearing fancy clothes waits at a special fancy-looking table.
Nick & Lester: Band Mates
Lester took a clue from the cluebox. He read it after tearing off the envelope.
"The Sub-tree Ice Cream Wonderland owns more than five hundred different flavors of ice cream. In order to complete this fast forward, one team must stack ice cream scoops into a twenty-by-twenty base pyramid. While teams attempt to complete this fast forward, teams do not know that a group of two customers will challenge the team in completing this pyramid faster. If the customers finish their pyramid faster, the team will have to wait for fifteen minutes in order to attempt the fast forward all over again. If the team finishes the pyramid before the customers do, they will win the fast forward award and can go straight to the pit stop."
"Looks good to me," said Nick.
"Something doesn't sound right," replied Lester.
Nick ignored that sentence and the music duo went on to attempt the fast forward.
Nick & Lester – attempting fast forward
After wearing the store's uniform provided for them, they began their task by scooping ice creams from one of the fridges.
"So many fridges in this fridgin' cold place!" said Lester.
Nick was scooping some mango ice cream on one fridge, while Lester was scooping some durian flavored ice cream on another.
"It's a good thing I have muscles!" said Nick.
"My metallic pincirs can't take on the chill!" said Lester.
Nick was shown transferring three scoops to the tray. He tried to place them properly using his paws. Weirdly, his warm paws didn't melt any of the ice cream scoops.
"This is pain to my arms," said Lester to the camera.
-Sub-tree Underground Lake-
The place is very dark. There is a boardwalk going from one door to the other. There is a little light on the lake. The light probably came from one of Crystal Area's abundant minerals, the jewelamp. (More on the jewelamp later.)
Lea & Glace: Twin Athletes
"It's so eerie," said Lea.
The two looked at the far side of the lake. They noticed something appearing from the center of the lake. Waves started to form. The waves from the middle of the lake kept coming. Every wave gets higher and stronger, but the waves' heights and strengths can barely reach the cave's ceiling. After some time, a whale wearing a sailor's uniform, excluding a hat, came up to the boardwalk side of the lake.
He said in a majestic voice, "Greetings young lassies! Here in my mouth is your next clue!"
He opens his big mouth and a mini Kirby statue was found on his tongue.
"Eww..." commented Lea.
Glace took it and noticed that it looks similar to a gnome.
"Fatty Whale, at your service. Your next clue is below the Travelokirby Roaming Gnome," said Fatty Whale.
Glace looked at the gnome's bottom part. She read the clue.
Lea & Glace; Currently in 1st
Glace read, "Make your way by mine cart to Crystal Area. Once there, look for the lake and defeat Computer Virus to receive your next clue."
"A computer virus!? How do we defeat that?" reacted Lea.
"We'll see when we get there," replied Glace.
"Good luck lassies!" said Fatty Whale before he dove down.
"Thanks a bunch!" replied Glace.
The twins left the area. They knew all along that they were leading, but they didn't know where exactly their other fellow contestants were in outer space. Speaking of their fellow contestants, let's take a look at their progresses.
-Outer Space-
Iris & Napoleon: Engaged Literati
One of them is operating the saucer while the other one is sitting down beside the operator.
"This is hard," said Napoleon. "We have to find this place before we get in big trouble."
"I can imagine already how our elimination will go," added Iris.
"How?"
"Once we land, Ryder will tell us we're done."
"I think it's not gonna be that fast. Ben & Romana are also in the same boat as we are."
"I forgot about them, but you'll never know if they found a way or not."
"Yeah still."
"We should continue trying and stop speculating."
"Uh huh."
Ben & Romana: Models
Romana was shown attacking Ben.
"***K YOU!" said Romana.
"I'm telling you right now that there's one nearby. If you won't listen to me again, I'm pretty sure I'm not the one at loss," said Ben. "You want your money. I came here by accident."
"SHUT THE ***K UP, BENJIBOY!"
"No Mother curses to their child like that."
"I DON'T CARE! AT LEAST I'M THE FIRST TO DO SO!"
"Oucheez."
Cara & Janelle: Best Friends
Cara is still operating the saucer. Not very far behind is their allies' saucer operated by Clairene.
"Holy crap!" said Janelle.
"What happened?" said Cara.
"The map that we got... there's a space storm on the map."
"It was just printed right?"
"Yeah, it's the most recent map. Worse of all, the space storm is on our route."
"Holy crap now. Holy crap! Please find us a detour."
"Stop this first."
Harv & Clairene: Dating
"Why are they stopping?" asked Clairene.
"I think they drove us to the wrong direction," said Harv.
The two watched the saucer in front of them. They noticed it move forward.
"I thought they'd make a U-turn," said Harv.
"Guess we're in the right track," said Clairene.
Cara & Janelle: Best Friends
Cara is still operating the saucer.
Janelle said to the camera, "We're going to just do the long way, by going around it and by not going near it. We can't think of a better one, but this long way won't hurt us I think."
Carol & Giselle: Comrades
Giselle operated the spaceship in a serious manner. Carol was at the back, tied up like a smart kid being kidnapped.
Carol said, "We'll never get there like this."
"Shut up! My instincts are better than the maps," said Giselle.
"You're wrong!"
"I don't care! I know I'm better than the stupid maps."
"You are not listening to me!"
"Of course I'm not. Who am I, your daughter?"
"Ugh."
Carol was too exhausted to break herself free from the rope. She knew how to do so of course, but she was giving herself a break before breaking free.
Lilly & Kelly: Housemaids
"This can't be hard to find," said Kelly.
"I don't know if you're going the right way," said Lilly. "Please tell me we're not going to the opposite direction."
Kelly checked the map that they got. She facepalmed herself.
"I knew it!" said Lilly. "Thanks for screwing us up."
"No prob, Lil," Kelly replied. "I'll fix this."
Kelly went back to operating the spaceship.
-Merosas-
Harl & Natt: Best Buddies
They're still stranded under the sea inside their initial flying saucer.
"I feel sorry for ourselves," said Natt. "We can't get outta here, and I still want first place."
"I feel so sorry for all of us, including our camera crew," said Harl.
"Yeah."
"So what's the plan?"
"I'm thinkin' about swimmin' out. That's all I got for now."
"This is sad for us."
"But we're not finishing our fight here. We have to keep moving."
"Yeah, but how?"
"Good question. I can't give a good answer to that unfortunately."
"Oh well."
They both sigh in desperation.