Kingdom Hearts: Race For Your Life
Chapter 3: An Unfortunate Mishap
While true the novelty of suddenly having a super fast bike that could quickly traverse the desert and who knows how many more places and locations was very exciting for Sora and his pals,eventually that novelty started to slowly but surely wear off it's welcome because it had soon been a full 10 minutes since they started following the tracks as Sora groaned out of sheer boredom "Ughhhh,how long is this desert?!" to which Goofy replied with a yawn "How long do you think we've been out here? These tracks sure go on for a long time."
"Hey do any of you think we should take turns driving? I've been driving this thing all day." Sora turned around and asked the two in the hopes of one of them swapping seats with him,unaware that he accidently let go of the steering handles as Donald frantically yelled "Sora! The wheel!" to which Sora gasped and instantly tried to regain control of the bike as it was now swerving out of control.
"Don't worry guys I got this!" Sora yelled in a nervous panic as he tried to control where they was going,but it was no use as the bike was now spazzing all over the place and diverting them far away from the tracks they were following to which Donald exclaimed "I think I'm gonna be sick again!"
Soon it seemed that the bike was now driving all by itself and Sora could not get it to stop no matter what he did as the bike quickly took them away from the desert with a super jump and into a sudden nearby patch of woods as the trio held on as tightly as they could.
"Huh? Are we in the woods now? What's going on with this thing?" Sora questioned the sudden change in their environment and the actions of the bike before it started to send them up a very steep hill and towards a tall dead tree,violently throw them right through it causing it to shatter into many pieces,and that caused them to finally let go of the bike and land into a nearby roaring river. Sora,Donald and Goofy were now soaking wet from top to bottom due to the raging river rapids and were constantly being submerged under the water only for them to quickly rise back up over and over again as they were violently carried by the riber currents and screamed in terror.
"We need to get outta here!" Sora yelled in an absolute panic before he swiftly crashed into a rock with a loud smack,only for him to immediately slide off it and back into the river's current due to how slippery it was as he screamed in pain.
Donald tried to use his staff to cast a blizzard spell that could freeze the water and let them climb up onto some form of land,but it was absolutely no use as the river was far too strong and broke the ice almost immediately after to which Goofy suggested "Try to grab onto the bike,we can use it as a raft!" when he noticed that the bike was also in the river with them and slowly about to drift past them.
"Good idea Goofy!" Donald enthusiastically replied before he told Sora "Sora grab onto the bike!" to which Sora nodded his head as the trio tried to grab ahold of the bike and use it as a makeshift raft,but it seemed that the bike was already on its last legs as before they could even get near it,it suddenly let out a small spark and exploded into a million other Gummi blocks as the force of the explosion launched the trio as well as a massive barrage of water and Gummi blocks up at least 50 feet in the air.
"Oh come on!" Sora yelled less out of fear and more out of frustration and anger as they soon started to plummet down into the water below to which Donald and Goofy both yelled "Look down below!" before they all crashed down into the river with a massive splash that caused a mini tidal wave. They must have been under the water for at least 20 seconds as the glugging of water could be heard and tiny bubbles could be seen rising from their landing spots before they quickly rose out of the water and gasped for air.
"Never let me...drive a bike...again." Sora stated nearly out of breath as Donald instantly agreed to do so "You got it Sora." to which Goofy added "Hey at least you're alright with the Gummi Ship."
"Yeah you're right,I'm done with bikes." Sora replied with a slight chuckle before he noticed that the water was less strong this time and remarked out of confusion "Hey,the water's not as strong here. Let's see if we can find some land." to which Goofy instantly pointed behind Sora and replied ecstatically "Over there!"
Sora turned around behind him to see that there was indeed a dry spot of land for them to wash up on as he sighed and remarked "Well that's convenient." before the trio swam over to the shore and used aero to dry themselves off under a tree,they were still pretty damp from the river but they were far less soaked than before. They were also now in a much more foresty like enviroment compared to the desert or even the small patch of woods they went through,there were now tall snowy mountains spread around the land,and there were countless pinetrees that surrounded them and the trio of meddlers.
"Well that was…..something." Sora stated as he tried to lighten up the mood of their detour before Donald groaned as he and Goofy ringed out their hats "Yeah,but we lost the bike,and the tracks." to which Goofy somberly added "And we don't even know where we are. Who knows where that boy could be now?"
"Ughh what a mess. Now what do we do?" Sora facepalmed at the disaster that had unfolded in the past 5 minutes as Goofy started to examine their surroundings for a few moments.
"Hey fellers,I see a concrete road over there." Goofy remarked when he saw a grey concrete road with a yellow line going down it over in the distance to which Sora turned around to see it as well as he replied enthusiastically "Hey,maybe that will lead us somewhere where we can get some help." and headed over to the road with Goofy.
"Anywhere that's not the wilderness." Donald angrily pouted as he put his hat back on and followed the other two to the cemented road.
Once they all made it over to the road,the soft and oddly comforting feeling of the raw soil and dirt was now replaced by a hard cement like feeling as Goofy scratched his head and remarked "It seems that we're on some part of a highway,I think Uncle Scrooge said something about wanting to build a highway system to travel to worlds."
"Sounds like it would have been a mess if you ask me." Sora replied and showed skepticism on such an idea before Donald called out to him "Hey Sora,I see a town over there in the distance." to which Sora diverted his attention up to the north to see a group of very small buildings in the distance under one of the many mountains,as well as a red wooden sign in front of it that had something written on it in white paint. However they unfortunately couldn't see what was written on the sign due to them being very far away from the supposed town as Sora groaned and suggested "I can't see very good from here,let's check this place out." to which Goofy agreed out of curiosoty "Who knows,maybe that's where that boy was heading. There was nothing else for miles back there in the desert."
Sora stayed almost completely silent at Goofy's words for a few moments before he shrugged his arms and replied "Maybe you're right Goofy. Although….I do wonder why a town that small would be out here in the middle of nowhere like this. I don't get it-"
Sora's confused wondering would however be interrupted when he heard the faint ringing of the Gummi Phone come from his pocket as he surprisingly stated "Oh,I forgot to check the phone. At least it wasn't destroyed due to the water."
"I'm surprised you even know about that stuff Sora." Donald lamented Sora's sudden knowledge about technology to which he retorted a little more sternly "Well I've been studying it while we've been out and about. Like it's photo storage and…...you can't put in water…...and….and-"
"You got a long way to go Sora." Donald hung his head and sighed before Sora brushed his insult aside and answered the phone to reveal that it was Chip and Dale once again as the former greeted him "Hiya Sora." and the latter greeted him as well "Howdy fellers."
"Oh,hi there. What's up?" Sora greeted the two chipmunks in a surprised tone of voice as the former replied "We just found out that we lost the signal for the Gummi Bike. Did you guys mess it up." to which Sora's face got red and he nervously stammered "Well you see it just started to drive all on it's own and we couldn't control it,and I guess it shorted out and blew up while we down in the river."
"I guess the prototype could have used some more tuning up before we shipped it out to y'all. Oh well,we'll get right to work on a new updated model and send it to you guys as fast as we can." Chip enthusiastically stated before Dale added even more ecstatic "Just wait till you guys see what we're cooking up back here,it's got some mighty cool features."
"Happy travels!" The two shouted in unison before Sora replied "Bye! And thanks for the bike!" and put away the phone as he told Donald and Goofy "Chip and Dale said they're working on a new bike,and that they'll send it to us when it's-"
However Sora stopped his update when he turned around to see that Donald and Goofy were already heading to the town and were 10 feet away from him as he angrily yelled "Hey! Wait up!" before he ran after them.