It started as a harmless pastime.
After giving into peer pressure from her friends and the entirety of her class, Frisk decided to buy a Wii and give Mario Kart a try. At first, it was mindless gameplay. Trying to figure out the basic controls of the game: secure the Wii Wheel onto the remote, getting used to motion control, which buttons to press, how to drift, use items correctly and learn the basic rules of the game.
Frisk completed her first Grand Prix on 50cc, the lowest difficulty in the game. The roster was pretty small and she soon figured out that she would have to play the game a lot and to progress in order to unlock new characters, and vehicles. For the time being, she stuck with playing as Luigi. She got the hang of the controls fairly quick and after reading some tips online, she was breezing through the cups at a rapid pace. She soon unlocked all the cups on 50cc, as well as earned star rankings on each of them.
Moving on, Frisk went for 100cc. Same thing, only the races were at a slightly faster pace but otherwise the same situation. She noticed the appearance of more aggressive items like the bob-omb, more red shells and the dreaded blue shells. Even with those literally thrown at her, Frisk completed all the cups with star rankings. She even unlocked new characters, and one stuck out to her the most.
Princess Daisy.
Upon further research, Frisk found out that Daisy is a tomboy princess, which makes her even more awesome! She chose Daisy to complete 150cc, the highest difficulty in the game. It had even more of a faster pace than 100cc and many more aggressive items were present and frequent which made things slightly more difficult. But with determination burning inside of her, Frisk got the job done in no time.
What surprised her was that she unlocked another difficulty: Mirror Mode. Frisk realized that the courses were simply flipped, but that actually proved that it was in fact very challenging. She thought it was fine at first, but actually took several attempts before finishing all the cups with one golden star ranking. By that point, most of the roster was unlocked, with the exception of a few because she has yet to play Time Trials, but she'd get to that later.
But that was not what Mario Kart was about.
Mario Kart is dubbed one of the many games that will ruin friendships. So that's exactly what she wanted to experiment on. Curious about that, she invited a few of her friends over to test the claim out.
"You guys ready?" Frisk asked as she handed her friend a remote for the three of them. Frisk and Jess settled on the floor while her two other friends, Sam and Addie, landed on the couch with a bounce.
"I dunno, I've never played Mario Kart before," Addie said timidly. In fact, she looked quite intimidated by the game as Frisk switched it on. The music started playing and Addie looked a little frightened.
"Don't worry, it's easy." Frisk went to the Multiplayer option and selected 4 players. After their remotes were connected, she selected Versus Mode, and a classic Free-for-all match. "You just push down a few buttons, tilt the remote to steer and try to get first place on all the courses to accumulate the most points."
"Sounds simple enough!" Sam said with confidence. She gathered her long red hair into a ponytail. When she ties her hair up, that usually means that she's serious and means business. "Let's do this!"
Frisk chose Daisy, Jess went for Yoshi, Addie went for Peach, and Sam decided on Waluigi. Frisk chose DK Summit and they waited for the screen to load.
"Is the game fun?" Addie questioned.
"Sure is!" Sam chirped. "It's the first Wii game that I played."
"Really?"
"Yup!"
"Nice," Jess said. "Frisk, is this your first Wii game too."
"Yeah." Frisk pointed to a pile of unopened games on her shelf. "But I'm going to try the other Wii games and see if I'll like them." Feeling curious, Sam quickly scooped up the pile of games and rushed back to sit down before the game could start, inspecting the games.
"These are all good games," she said, and specifically pointed to one where Mario looked like he was flying in space. "Especially this one. Super Mario Galaxy is the best Wii game, in my opinion. You're gonna have tons of fun with that game, Frisk. It's so good."
"Super Mario Galaxy? Is he in space, then?"
"Yeah, it's so cool, right?"
"Sounds awesome." Frisk looked at the cover. Since it looked like the main setting was in space, she decided that Sans would be intrigued by it. He was always interested in astronomy. He would love this game.
The screen loaded and everyone held their remotes, ready for Lakitu to start them off with the countdown. The race started and everyone started playing. Frisk got a boost of speed from the starting line, so did Sam. Addie's engine burned out and it delayed herself, so she dropped to 10th place and Jess started normally, trying to catch up and move up the ranks.
The 4 of them progressed through the race. Frisk and Sam knew what to do to increase their chance of victory: usage of items and doing tricks. Jess was doing her best to catch up to them. She knew the basics of the game but she was very unsteady with the controls. Poor Addie wass getting absolutely destroyed. She kept running into walls or items that were already discarded by the other racers. Frisk, Sam, and Jess were on their last lap while Addie was barely finished with the second lap. By the time the trio finished the race, Addie was still a lap behind them. Final results of that race: Frisk, Sam, Jess, and then Addie.
For the other 3 races, the results were the same. Frisk dominated, Sam almost always managed to pass her, Jess was doing okay, and Addie was struggling. By the time they finished all the races, Frisk ended up taking the golden trophy.
Addie slumped further into the couch, looking very dejected. "Ugh, oh my god. That was awful! I suck at this game." She let out a small sigh, grabbed the nearest pillow and sunk her face into it. Jess looked exhausted, and she too slumped into the couch.
"Um, guys… I'm done." She lightly threw the Wii remote beside her and also grabbed a pillow, but hugged it to her chest.
"I challenge you to a duel, Frisk!" Sam declared, grinning mischievously.
"Ha, okay then! Let's do this!"
Frisk was never one to back down from a challenge.
For the next 30 minutes, chaos ensued. It was filled with laughter, and ungodly screeching. Frisk and Sam came up with the brilliant (but not so brilliant) idea of setting the rules to extreme conditions. It was set up on 150 cc, hard CPUs, and aggressive items were turned on.
The first few races were already a chaos, and the race hardly started. Frisk and Sam were both pummeled by red shells, green shells, bombs, and POW blocks. It was truly a distaer. Frisk and especially Sam were yelling and screaming at each other and at the computer characters for forsaking them.
"WHAT THE HELL! HOW DID THAT EVEN HIT ME? I HAD A BANANA BEHIND ME! THAT'S CHEATING!"
"Oh no! A blue shell…!" The blue shell flew past thra racers before encircling Daisy and exploding upon hitting the ground. "NOOOOOOOOO!" Frisk watched as she dropped from 1st to 7th in a blink of an eye. "HOW DID I DROP THAT FAR?!"
"GET OUTTA WAY, MARIO!" Sam bellowed as she rammed into his car with Walugi's bike.
Addie and Jess were watching the chaos from behind.
"Why did we let them do this?" Addie asked in a hushed whisper. Jess shrugged, smirking.
"It's kinda hilarious to watch."
"... You sadist." Another shrug from Jess.
With all the screaming Frisk and Sam were doing, it attracted some attention. Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, and Alphys made their way towards the living room, intrigued by the scene unfolding before them. Curious, they sat on the floor and huddled together as they watched Frisk and Sam duel it out on the racetrack.
It was an intense match between Daisy and Waluigi. They hurled items at each other, rammed their vehicles against the other, while Frisk and Sam exchanged screams and mild insults. It was rather intense to witness. Even the Monsters looked a little frightened that Frisk was all riled up. She was usually so calm, quiet, and pleasant. They had never seen her looked so stressed, and they never heard her raise her voice.
It was the final race. Rainbow Road, 150 cc, aggressive items, with hard CPUs. This was going to be chaos, on top of all the chaos that had already occurred. The race commenced, and everyone in the room was already scared as Frisk and Sam started yelling at each other. Items were tossed about, screams from the characters rang out from the tv. It was like a battlefield.
They finished 2 laps and were moving on to the 3rd. For once, Sam was in the lead. Daisy was trailing behind. They both neared the final section of the course. They did the tricks over the tricky rainbow bridge and were approaching the finish line.
"YES! Ha ha, I'm going to win!" Sam exclaimed excitedly. Frisk looked nervous. She gripped the steering wheel until her knuckles turned white and she was already sweating profusely. She refused to lose but was losing hope when the saw the finish line, and Sam looked like she was about to cross it when they both heard something quickly approach them, the air whizzing.
Sam blanched. "Oh no… OH NO WAIT-" She went on reverse. Waluigi started backing up towards Daisy. The blue shell was already encircling her. She came to a stop. "IF I GET HIT WITH THE BLUE SHELL, YOU'RE GETTING HIT WITH ME, FRISK!"
Frisk had anticipated that Sam was about to do that. Lucky for her, Sam had stopped a little too early and as the blue shell had exploded, Daisy passed Waluigi and crossed the finish line. Frisk started laughing hysterically, Sam raged and let out an ungodly screech while Jess and Addie looked at Frisk in bewilderment.
"OH MY FREAKING GOD HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?! THAT RACE WAS MINE IN THE BAG!"
"Holy shit, Frisk. That was the best comeback ever," Undyne told her.
"Wow, Thanks Undyne."
She turned to Alphys in excitement. "Babe, can you believe that? That's amazing."
"That was very shocking, actually. I still can't believe that happened."
"I've never felt this excited in my life1" Papyrus exclaimed. He was giddy and hyper. "Wowie!"
"Great job, kid." Sans didn't look like he really minded, or cared. He looked a little surprised, but it wasn't that excited to actually rile him up like the others. Though he did shoot Sam an amused grin as he attempted to stifle a laugh.
"That's actual garbage!" Sam had sort of calmed down but still looked incredibly shook.
Miracles do exist after all, Frisk thought.
