Slash, Jam, Linda, Tommy, and Wendy were all looking among each
other, Linda finally realized that someone was missing. "Hey, where's
Nancy?" asked Linda, looking to the other kids. Tommy heard this, and
immediately started bawling; it took the rest of the kids a good 5 to 10
minutes to finally calm him down, but then he began to talk.
"Nancy's still not here, she was with me, and ended up falling into a large lake of icy water, I didn't see her since." Tommy said as he calmed down. Linda's face went white hearing this, "Nancy's what?!" she said in an upset tone. Before she could speak further, a strange sound was heard.
A faint banging could be heard on the other side of one of the doors, as if someone was knocking or something. "It's coming from the door Tommy came out of." Wendy said, studying where the banging was coming from. Tommy ran over to the door, and pulled tight at it, the door finally opened, and sure enough, on the other side, was a very cold, yet very relieved Nancy!
"NANCY!" the kids yelled as they went over to help her in, she was shivering from cold at this point, quite literally frostbitten, she was carrying her snowboard in her arm, and she was quite tired. "Nancy, Nancy, I was so worried, I thought you died!" Tommy said, crying again, still a bit overworked from the previous scenario. "I'm fine Tommy, really, just a little chilled, that's all, so you all made it in one piece...?"
"Yeah." Replied Slash, looking everyone else, as he began to speak, a large booming voice interrupted them, "IT IS TIME." The voice roared; the large door with the viper above it finally opened, revealing what seemed to be an extremely difficult Snowboarding course! It seemed almost as if it were a Snowboard course inside of a pyramid, there were inscriptions and strange items laying in the course. "You have 9 laps to get into first place, those that are weak of strength or spirit, give up now and accept your defeat, those who wish to truly go for the prize, step forward now.
Of course, no one was willing to give up at this point, as everyone was already too far into this to quit now. All 6 of the kids got their boards and approached the room, the doors rolled shut behind them, and a very ancient lift-in began to turn, obviously for the multiple laps that were to be done in this course. A large plaque above them, set in golden plating, read to them a strange phrase.
"Here on this course, we give our blood, we yearn to escape the coming flood, we yearn to hold that which we covet dear, so we glide down this course and set aside our fear. Like vipers we are, we do not run, we slide our way by, we slide so smoothly, like the rays of the sun. We strike when ready, and ready we are now, so let us race, we go, now..."
The kids thought on the plaque's lesson for a moment, they then gave determined looks to each other. They realized two things during this entire thing, they realized that though they may all be friends, they would need to compete again, like they usually do. In this race though, it would be for far higher stakes, but what was really important, is that they at least remember that they stay friends.
And so a gong was rung, signifying the start of the race, everyone was a part in this one...
Wendy took an early lead, getting a perfect leaping start, the rest of the kids started normally, except for Tommy, who was unprepared for a gong to sound, so used to Mr. Dog's pop gun, that he stumbled and fell over. Tommy grunted, not exactly happy about the rough start, and got back in the race quickly.
As they approached the first jump, they noticed item and shot boxes that looked very old and unused on the course, unfortunately, none of them had any gold to take anything from the boxes, so they quickly passed them by, doing tricks off the jump instead of taking the boxes.
Big mistake, the jump itself was a trap, as they performed their tricks, they realized the jump was actually a small one. Hidden by the complexity of the room, many of the kids fumbled and fell over, but Jam and Nancy were lucky enough to get their tricks done in time, and maintained their momentum, putting the two tricksters in the lead.
Jam quickly zipped near the left wall to grab a shot box, but again, a trap was hidden, as he grabbed the box, it instead blew up like a bomb! Jam shook his head as he recovered from the blast. "Aww man, this place is full of surprises, I gotta be more careful!" he said to himself, quickly jumping back on his board and continuing the race.
Nancy felt a bit better being alone in first, she looked carefully behind her and in front of her, knowing sooner or later someone would approach her for her lack of speed. Sure enough, Linda was slowly approaching her. Nancy looked around for any boxes nearby, luckily, a shot box was coming up, she grabbed at it, and sure enough it was safe, but what she got was quite odd. The item she got from the shot box looked like it was a light bulb filled with white powder. She looked at it, then tossed it behind her, smacking Linda square in the eyes with it. The powder erupted into Linda's eyes, blinding her, she attempted to steer her board to keep balance, but quickly crashed square into the right wall as a turn came up.
Following Linda, and now passing her to get to Nancy, was Wendy, Wendy held an odd slapstick in her hand that had a money sign on it. She threw it at Nancy, but unlike other slapsticks, this one was oddly slow, though it seemed to be following Nancy very accurately. The slapstick finally caught up to Nancy before she could react, and as she fell, she noticed half her money had been spilt on the ground! Wendy quickly scooped up a good amount of it and dashed into the lift-in, with the others close behind.
Just 4 seconds after Wendy jumped off the lift-in, BOOM! A bomb careened right into her, she grumbled quietly to herself as she recovered, just catching a glimpse of Jam sliding on around the next turn, followed closely by Slash and Tommy. Linda then zipped past Wendy, followed by Tommy. Wendy slid over to a nearby blue box, was lucky enough to get some strange-looking pans, she threw them, and instead of turning into pans, they turned into 3 pans apiece! One, after another, after another, the three pans dropped onto each kids but Wendy, who then finally grabbed a healthy lead.
Needless to say, the rest of the kids did not take very kindly to this, especially Linda, who had finally gotten into her old "Red in the Face" mood, she dashed into a red box, and got something very odd, it was a blue sphere that said "Special" on it. She looked at the sphere a moment, then decided to try using it. Linda carefully aimed at a nearby Slash, and threw it. As she threw it, a big bag of money seemed to erupt from the sphere, and slammed into Slash! Slash fell over obviously, and as the bag opened up on him, it dropped a large amount of gold-colored rocks! As Slash tried to get up and around the rocks, he constantly stumbled on some of the rocks, tripping and falling once again. Tommy was finally coming up, and panicked a bit as he too had trouble getting through the group of golden rocks. Though he only tripped once, it was enough for Linda to pull away to get closer to Wendy and Jam.
Jam, on the other hand, was already getting neck and neck with Wendy at the last leg of the second lap; Jam reached for a blue box, and got, a bucket of ice water? Jam gave a puzzled look at this, then realized what it could be used for. Jam shoved Wendy over, to get a tad in front of her, and then dumped the ice water behind him, causing Wendy to lose control of her board and crash heavily into the upcoming wall instead of the lift-in! Jam quickly got in the lift-in, and took the opportune lead that he had been given.
Three more laps past, and no true place-changes really took place, Linda competed with Slash for third, but Slash would find some witty way to get Linda angry, and then smack her with a shot item to slow her or make her fall.
As the fifth lap came up though, and all the kids got off the lift, something odd occurred. A strange figure jumped forth from the entrance, it looked to be another Snowboarder, but the transparency of his body suggested otherwise, suggested him being a ghost! That was indeed what he was. The figure had two yellow-glowing eyes, wore a suit that looked very much like Jam's, but wore nothing on his head but the long bangs that made up his hair. The board he rode on though was a board that was unlike any that the kids had ever seen before, it was colored almost like the dragon board, but it had green scales instead of yellow. Two fangs jutted from its front end, and a small swinging end made up the back of the board. It was none other than the Viper Board, the board the kids had so long come to find.
The ghostly boarder quickly approached Tommy, ramming into Tommy's back with the board, entangling Tommy's board and knocking it over. Tommy grunted as he fell very uncomfortably, he also noticed his board now had many odd scratches on it, the board also had some strange adhesive smeared on it, that would quite obviously slow down Tommy's board.
As the ghost approached Linda, Linda got an idea, she ran her board across the nearby left wall to slow down, letting the ghost pass and approach Slash. She then sped up behind the ghost, and let the ghost hook Slash the same way he hooked Tommy, but unlike Tommy, the adhesive did not coat Slash's board, merely making Slash only fall over. Linda then grinned as she saw her plan work, she quickly threw a freeze shot at the ghost, freezing the ghost, and speeding by it without much effort.
The ghost quickly shook out of the icy cube that Linda trapped him in, springing back to his feet. The ghost rushed into a blue box, and got an item that looked like a scroll with a twirl symbol on it. He held it up, and the entire area went bright white!
For 5 seconds, all that could be heard in the light was a strange whirring noise, after the time passed, the area went back to normal, but everyone's places were switched around! Here is how the order went now.
1st: Tommy 2nd: Slash 3rd: Linda 4th: Mysterious Boarder 5th: Nancy 6th: Wendy 7th: Jam
Jam grumbled at being thrown from first to last. But of course, Tommy was quite happy to have been given the lead. Tommy took advantage of this by using a fan he had gotten while in last place, to dash ahead of the pack even further. Tommy now had a very nice lead, but that lead was soon taken by Slash, who had already thrown a slapstick to knock poor Tommy face first into the ground. Slash cheered as he careened to the lift-in again, now happy that he was in front.
The strange boarder quickly overtook Tommy for his fall; sliding right by him, and tossing a quick freeze shot at him as he zipped into the lift in right before Tommy. Linda was not far behind, but was unable to get by Tommy before he grabbed the lift-in first, luckily, Linda glided alongside the wall to slow down, and it saved her the trouble of crashing into the wall, she gently got into the lift-in, and quickly started heading up.
Linda jumped out of the lift-in and quickly grabbed a nearby blue box, getting a strange-looking rocket. She looked at it, then turned it on, she noticed a duel-rocket pack come out of the back of her board and ignite, having her fly at an uncontrollable speed forward for a good 5 seconds. It gained her placement over the strange boarder, and she got right behind Slash too. She rammed the side of her board into Slash to push him towards the wall, she was partially successful, getting Slash to slow down, and giving her the lead, but he didn't fall.
The strange boarder quickly slammed into Slash again, attempting to ensnare his board again, but unfortunately he was unsuccessful, he missed completely, and instead headed straight for a rock that had been planted in the ground, he quickly tripped, and then crashed skull first into a nearby wall.
Two more laps passed, and the positions changed thusly...
1st: Linda 2nd: Jam 3rd: Mysterious Boarder 4th: Slash 5th: Nancy 6th: Wendy 7th: Tommy
The seventh lap began, and when everyone had finally gotten onto it, something, very, very difficult was about to happen...
The ground began to shake, the sound of roaring and rolling fire began to erupt all around the course, but not on the course itself. Fire and brimstone began to get kicked up into the air, causing debris and fiery rubble to fall all over the course. Most of the rubble seemed to have a bomb-like effect, blowing up on the course whenever the pieces actually hit the ground, they would erupt as soon as they hit. The kids began to get a little worried, but Slash and Jam were not at all surprised, they already had gone through the fiery path that had made up part of the course, thus the fire didn't seem to phase them as much.
Linda, on the other hand, was not at all aware of how fire and Snowboarding mix, she began to lose control of her board as the rubble continued to fall. She finally was hit directly with a chunk of rubble, and went flying into the air, flopping right onto her rear. As she got up, she watched hopelessly as Jam took the lead.
Jam grinned as he swerved back and forth between the falling debris chunks. It was as if boarding through this was a second nature to him. Jam then got an idea, he took his board and made a jump, as a debris chunk came in, he deflected it back up the course line. He had expected the mysterious boarder to be hit, but somehow the boarder's reflexes allowed him to dodge the oncoming debris, it instead burrowed right into Slash!
Nancy took this opportunity to perform a little combination tactic of her own, she jumped over Slash as she passed him, she took up two freeze shots in her hand, and threw them simultaneously. One missed the strange boarder completely, but the other hit dead on, she quickly grabbed a nearby red box and aimed carefully at the boarder again, throwing a parachute at him, again hitting him square and delaying him further. Nancy cheered to herself as she sped up, approaching Jam.
Jam gave a troubled look to Nancy, then spoke while still racing, "Well, guess this race goes to the "trick-stars," huh Nancy?" Jam said with a witty tone, Nancy smiled and nodded, but still stayed focused on what she was doing.
"Not so fast..." the strange boarder spoke, rushing up quickly behind the group, as he approached them both, he gored both of their boards with the fangs of the Viper Board, knocking them both over, and the adhesive splashed itself on Jam's board! Jam got up quickly, throwing a parachute as he got up, much to his luck, he hit the strange boarder directly and continued forward, keeping his lead, and jumping into the lift-in rather quickly.
Finally, the final lap approached, and the race order was thusly...
1st: Jam 2nd: Nancy 3rd: Mysterious Boarder 4th: Linda 5th: Slash 6th: Tommy 7th: Wendy
Wendy was getting rather upset at the fact that she was in last; she quickly jumped for a red box, and got a rocket. She turned it on and approached Tommy as fast as she could, attempting to hit him with a bomb, unfortunately, she got too close for comfort with it, and ended up getting herself as well as Tommy in the bomb fire. It was apparent these two would not win, but they now had a different view, which of them would beat the other?
Linda and Slash were still competing for placements, though Linda had now found a way to keep Slash at bay behind her. She began to throw bombs backwards at Slash, who's Blaze Board would not take in bombs from the front, this allowed her to hit Slash and not worry about him darting forward with the board's special ability. Now not having to worry about Slash as much, Linda began competing with the Mysterious Boarder, she threw a bomb at him, but he deflected the bomb with his board, narrowly missing Linda! The next shot she made though hit dead on, and Linda quickly whizzed past the boarder, as well did Slash.
The home stretch came up, and as the course opened up towards the end, the ground rumbled once again. The ground began to separate right in front of the kids, splitting into what seemed to be an enormous jump, but from the angle of it, it seemed like it would be impossible to make such a jump!
The kids as well as the boarder all braced themselves as they attempted this brutal-looking jump, all at the same time did the 5 leaders do this, but that asks you a question, who will win, Nancy, Jam, Linda, Slash, or the mysterious boarder...?
"Nancy's still not here, she was with me, and ended up falling into a large lake of icy water, I didn't see her since." Tommy said as he calmed down. Linda's face went white hearing this, "Nancy's what?!" she said in an upset tone. Before she could speak further, a strange sound was heard.
A faint banging could be heard on the other side of one of the doors, as if someone was knocking or something. "It's coming from the door Tommy came out of." Wendy said, studying where the banging was coming from. Tommy ran over to the door, and pulled tight at it, the door finally opened, and sure enough, on the other side, was a very cold, yet very relieved Nancy!
"NANCY!" the kids yelled as they went over to help her in, she was shivering from cold at this point, quite literally frostbitten, she was carrying her snowboard in her arm, and she was quite tired. "Nancy, Nancy, I was so worried, I thought you died!" Tommy said, crying again, still a bit overworked from the previous scenario. "I'm fine Tommy, really, just a little chilled, that's all, so you all made it in one piece...?"
"Yeah." Replied Slash, looking everyone else, as he began to speak, a large booming voice interrupted them, "IT IS TIME." The voice roared; the large door with the viper above it finally opened, revealing what seemed to be an extremely difficult Snowboarding course! It seemed almost as if it were a Snowboard course inside of a pyramid, there were inscriptions and strange items laying in the course. "You have 9 laps to get into first place, those that are weak of strength or spirit, give up now and accept your defeat, those who wish to truly go for the prize, step forward now.
Of course, no one was willing to give up at this point, as everyone was already too far into this to quit now. All 6 of the kids got their boards and approached the room, the doors rolled shut behind them, and a very ancient lift-in began to turn, obviously for the multiple laps that were to be done in this course. A large plaque above them, set in golden plating, read to them a strange phrase.
"Here on this course, we give our blood, we yearn to escape the coming flood, we yearn to hold that which we covet dear, so we glide down this course and set aside our fear. Like vipers we are, we do not run, we slide our way by, we slide so smoothly, like the rays of the sun. We strike when ready, and ready we are now, so let us race, we go, now..."
The kids thought on the plaque's lesson for a moment, they then gave determined looks to each other. They realized two things during this entire thing, they realized that though they may all be friends, they would need to compete again, like they usually do. In this race though, it would be for far higher stakes, but what was really important, is that they at least remember that they stay friends.
And so a gong was rung, signifying the start of the race, everyone was a part in this one...
Wendy took an early lead, getting a perfect leaping start, the rest of the kids started normally, except for Tommy, who was unprepared for a gong to sound, so used to Mr. Dog's pop gun, that he stumbled and fell over. Tommy grunted, not exactly happy about the rough start, and got back in the race quickly.
As they approached the first jump, they noticed item and shot boxes that looked very old and unused on the course, unfortunately, none of them had any gold to take anything from the boxes, so they quickly passed them by, doing tricks off the jump instead of taking the boxes.
Big mistake, the jump itself was a trap, as they performed their tricks, they realized the jump was actually a small one. Hidden by the complexity of the room, many of the kids fumbled and fell over, but Jam and Nancy were lucky enough to get their tricks done in time, and maintained their momentum, putting the two tricksters in the lead.
Jam quickly zipped near the left wall to grab a shot box, but again, a trap was hidden, as he grabbed the box, it instead blew up like a bomb! Jam shook his head as he recovered from the blast. "Aww man, this place is full of surprises, I gotta be more careful!" he said to himself, quickly jumping back on his board and continuing the race.
Nancy felt a bit better being alone in first, she looked carefully behind her and in front of her, knowing sooner or later someone would approach her for her lack of speed. Sure enough, Linda was slowly approaching her. Nancy looked around for any boxes nearby, luckily, a shot box was coming up, she grabbed at it, and sure enough it was safe, but what she got was quite odd. The item she got from the shot box looked like it was a light bulb filled with white powder. She looked at it, then tossed it behind her, smacking Linda square in the eyes with it. The powder erupted into Linda's eyes, blinding her, she attempted to steer her board to keep balance, but quickly crashed square into the right wall as a turn came up.
Following Linda, and now passing her to get to Nancy, was Wendy, Wendy held an odd slapstick in her hand that had a money sign on it. She threw it at Nancy, but unlike other slapsticks, this one was oddly slow, though it seemed to be following Nancy very accurately. The slapstick finally caught up to Nancy before she could react, and as she fell, she noticed half her money had been spilt on the ground! Wendy quickly scooped up a good amount of it and dashed into the lift-in, with the others close behind.
Just 4 seconds after Wendy jumped off the lift-in, BOOM! A bomb careened right into her, she grumbled quietly to herself as she recovered, just catching a glimpse of Jam sliding on around the next turn, followed closely by Slash and Tommy. Linda then zipped past Wendy, followed by Tommy. Wendy slid over to a nearby blue box, was lucky enough to get some strange-looking pans, she threw them, and instead of turning into pans, they turned into 3 pans apiece! One, after another, after another, the three pans dropped onto each kids but Wendy, who then finally grabbed a healthy lead.
Needless to say, the rest of the kids did not take very kindly to this, especially Linda, who had finally gotten into her old "Red in the Face" mood, she dashed into a red box, and got something very odd, it was a blue sphere that said "Special" on it. She looked at the sphere a moment, then decided to try using it. Linda carefully aimed at a nearby Slash, and threw it. As she threw it, a big bag of money seemed to erupt from the sphere, and slammed into Slash! Slash fell over obviously, and as the bag opened up on him, it dropped a large amount of gold-colored rocks! As Slash tried to get up and around the rocks, he constantly stumbled on some of the rocks, tripping and falling once again. Tommy was finally coming up, and panicked a bit as he too had trouble getting through the group of golden rocks. Though he only tripped once, it was enough for Linda to pull away to get closer to Wendy and Jam.
Jam, on the other hand, was already getting neck and neck with Wendy at the last leg of the second lap; Jam reached for a blue box, and got, a bucket of ice water? Jam gave a puzzled look at this, then realized what it could be used for. Jam shoved Wendy over, to get a tad in front of her, and then dumped the ice water behind him, causing Wendy to lose control of her board and crash heavily into the upcoming wall instead of the lift-in! Jam quickly got in the lift-in, and took the opportune lead that he had been given.
Three more laps past, and no true place-changes really took place, Linda competed with Slash for third, but Slash would find some witty way to get Linda angry, and then smack her with a shot item to slow her or make her fall.
As the fifth lap came up though, and all the kids got off the lift, something odd occurred. A strange figure jumped forth from the entrance, it looked to be another Snowboarder, but the transparency of his body suggested otherwise, suggested him being a ghost! That was indeed what he was. The figure had two yellow-glowing eyes, wore a suit that looked very much like Jam's, but wore nothing on his head but the long bangs that made up his hair. The board he rode on though was a board that was unlike any that the kids had ever seen before, it was colored almost like the dragon board, but it had green scales instead of yellow. Two fangs jutted from its front end, and a small swinging end made up the back of the board. It was none other than the Viper Board, the board the kids had so long come to find.
The ghostly boarder quickly approached Tommy, ramming into Tommy's back with the board, entangling Tommy's board and knocking it over. Tommy grunted as he fell very uncomfortably, he also noticed his board now had many odd scratches on it, the board also had some strange adhesive smeared on it, that would quite obviously slow down Tommy's board.
As the ghost approached Linda, Linda got an idea, she ran her board across the nearby left wall to slow down, letting the ghost pass and approach Slash. She then sped up behind the ghost, and let the ghost hook Slash the same way he hooked Tommy, but unlike Tommy, the adhesive did not coat Slash's board, merely making Slash only fall over. Linda then grinned as she saw her plan work, she quickly threw a freeze shot at the ghost, freezing the ghost, and speeding by it without much effort.
The ghost quickly shook out of the icy cube that Linda trapped him in, springing back to his feet. The ghost rushed into a blue box, and got an item that looked like a scroll with a twirl symbol on it. He held it up, and the entire area went bright white!
For 5 seconds, all that could be heard in the light was a strange whirring noise, after the time passed, the area went back to normal, but everyone's places were switched around! Here is how the order went now.
1st: Tommy 2nd: Slash 3rd: Linda 4th: Mysterious Boarder 5th: Nancy 6th: Wendy 7th: Jam
Jam grumbled at being thrown from first to last. But of course, Tommy was quite happy to have been given the lead. Tommy took advantage of this by using a fan he had gotten while in last place, to dash ahead of the pack even further. Tommy now had a very nice lead, but that lead was soon taken by Slash, who had already thrown a slapstick to knock poor Tommy face first into the ground. Slash cheered as he careened to the lift-in again, now happy that he was in front.
The strange boarder quickly overtook Tommy for his fall; sliding right by him, and tossing a quick freeze shot at him as he zipped into the lift in right before Tommy. Linda was not far behind, but was unable to get by Tommy before he grabbed the lift-in first, luckily, Linda glided alongside the wall to slow down, and it saved her the trouble of crashing into the wall, she gently got into the lift-in, and quickly started heading up.
Linda jumped out of the lift-in and quickly grabbed a nearby blue box, getting a strange-looking rocket. She looked at it, then turned it on, she noticed a duel-rocket pack come out of the back of her board and ignite, having her fly at an uncontrollable speed forward for a good 5 seconds. It gained her placement over the strange boarder, and she got right behind Slash too. She rammed the side of her board into Slash to push him towards the wall, she was partially successful, getting Slash to slow down, and giving her the lead, but he didn't fall.
The strange boarder quickly slammed into Slash again, attempting to ensnare his board again, but unfortunately he was unsuccessful, he missed completely, and instead headed straight for a rock that had been planted in the ground, he quickly tripped, and then crashed skull first into a nearby wall.
Two more laps passed, and the positions changed thusly...
1st: Linda 2nd: Jam 3rd: Mysterious Boarder 4th: Slash 5th: Nancy 6th: Wendy 7th: Tommy
The seventh lap began, and when everyone had finally gotten onto it, something, very, very difficult was about to happen...
The ground began to shake, the sound of roaring and rolling fire began to erupt all around the course, but not on the course itself. Fire and brimstone began to get kicked up into the air, causing debris and fiery rubble to fall all over the course. Most of the rubble seemed to have a bomb-like effect, blowing up on the course whenever the pieces actually hit the ground, they would erupt as soon as they hit. The kids began to get a little worried, but Slash and Jam were not at all surprised, they already had gone through the fiery path that had made up part of the course, thus the fire didn't seem to phase them as much.
Linda, on the other hand, was not at all aware of how fire and Snowboarding mix, she began to lose control of her board as the rubble continued to fall. She finally was hit directly with a chunk of rubble, and went flying into the air, flopping right onto her rear. As she got up, she watched hopelessly as Jam took the lead.
Jam grinned as he swerved back and forth between the falling debris chunks. It was as if boarding through this was a second nature to him. Jam then got an idea, he took his board and made a jump, as a debris chunk came in, he deflected it back up the course line. He had expected the mysterious boarder to be hit, but somehow the boarder's reflexes allowed him to dodge the oncoming debris, it instead burrowed right into Slash!
Nancy took this opportunity to perform a little combination tactic of her own, she jumped over Slash as she passed him, she took up two freeze shots in her hand, and threw them simultaneously. One missed the strange boarder completely, but the other hit dead on, she quickly grabbed a nearby red box and aimed carefully at the boarder again, throwing a parachute at him, again hitting him square and delaying him further. Nancy cheered to herself as she sped up, approaching Jam.
Jam gave a troubled look to Nancy, then spoke while still racing, "Well, guess this race goes to the "trick-stars," huh Nancy?" Jam said with a witty tone, Nancy smiled and nodded, but still stayed focused on what she was doing.
"Not so fast..." the strange boarder spoke, rushing up quickly behind the group, as he approached them both, he gored both of their boards with the fangs of the Viper Board, knocking them both over, and the adhesive splashed itself on Jam's board! Jam got up quickly, throwing a parachute as he got up, much to his luck, he hit the strange boarder directly and continued forward, keeping his lead, and jumping into the lift-in rather quickly.
Finally, the final lap approached, and the race order was thusly...
1st: Jam 2nd: Nancy 3rd: Mysterious Boarder 4th: Linda 5th: Slash 6th: Tommy 7th: Wendy
Wendy was getting rather upset at the fact that she was in last; she quickly jumped for a red box, and got a rocket. She turned it on and approached Tommy as fast as she could, attempting to hit him with a bomb, unfortunately, she got too close for comfort with it, and ended up getting herself as well as Tommy in the bomb fire. It was apparent these two would not win, but they now had a different view, which of them would beat the other?
Linda and Slash were still competing for placements, though Linda had now found a way to keep Slash at bay behind her. She began to throw bombs backwards at Slash, who's Blaze Board would not take in bombs from the front, this allowed her to hit Slash and not worry about him darting forward with the board's special ability. Now not having to worry about Slash as much, Linda began competing with the Mysterious Boarder, she threw a bomb at him, but he deflected the bomb with his board, narrowly missing Linda! The next shot she made though hit dead on, and Linda quickly whizzed past the boarder, as well did Slash.
The home stretch came up, and as the course opened up towards the end, the ground rumbled once again. The ground began to separate right in front of the kids, splitting into what seemed to be an enormous jump, but from the angle of it, it seemed like it would be impossible to make such a jump!
The kids as well as the boarder all braced themselves as they attempted this brutal-looking jump, all at the same time did the 5 leaders do this, but that asks you a question, who will win, Nancy, Jam, Linda, Slash, or the mysterious boarder...?