YAY! 50 reviews! And we meet again at Chapter 9 of the Amazing Race. This is fun. This whole project is fun.
Responses
CronoMaster: Hoo boy...well, I'll see what I can do...mweh heh heh heh heh...aw, screw this. If this chapter doesn't make you happy, I don't know what will.
Nintendo Nut1: Obviously, I added the rapping because I got bored, and I wanted to see what the reviewers' response would be. However, I think I hit it in this chapter.
IloveRoy: Best news is, you're coming back in the end to snuggle Roy! YAY!
LegoMan727: I'll try to keep it up, okay?
superdave: Yep, you're returning for the finale in gaudy Neonopolis. (For details, see my profile.) And you might make a return visit if no one leaves an application for the Amazing Race co-hosting job.
Anters: I'll try to make Yoshi and DK appear at the finish line, okay?
I have got to give credit to my mother for helping me with this chapter's subplot. Love ya, mom, and have a happy Mother's Day for all!
Backstage...
"Hey, where's the host?" Swiveling his head to look for Nintendo Nut1, there was a 13-year-old alien who was bald, brown eyed, donning a mean-looking ray gun and wearing a black spacesuit with an overly large cape. He was looking around the studio and noticed a half-eaten chocolate bar on the floor, along with several crashed studio equipment around the building. "Oh, well. I, doubledude, will have the dubious pleasure of hosting this chapter of the Amazing Race as best as I can." With that he made his way onto the set.
"This is Pherae, the land of opportunity here in the land of Lycia." doubledude explained. "And this is the Renfro Overlook, a large hill outside Castle Pherae where the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King movie was filmed. This picturesque hill was the 7th Pit Stop in a race around Nintendo. Teams who arrived last leg of the race was given a mandatory rest period in which the teams can eat, sleep, and mingle with the other teams." doubledude finished. "The 7 remaining teams have no idea what's in store for them and must use the given clues to locate their next Pit Stop. Roy and Lilina, who arrived first at 7:21 am, will depart at 7:21 pm."
Roy and Lilina
1st to depart, 7:21 pm
Location: Renfro Overlook, Pherae
"So, where to now..." Lilina mused as she tore open the clue. "'Make your way to Durandal Ferry Station and take a ferry to Yoshi's Island...'"
"Teams must make their way to the Durandal Ferry Station and take a ferry more than 2,500 miles to Yoshi's Island and dock there." doubledude explained. "Once there, the teams must locate the Birdo Grand Library and search among shelves of books to locate the next clue. Don't ask me where the hell that is, because I have no idea."
"Oh dear..." Roy said as he flagged a nearby carriage. "Yoshi will have a ball with this one..."
Link and Zelda
2nd to depart, 7:25 pm
Location: Renfro Overlook, Pherae
"Yoshi's Island?" Link asked in an intellectual manner. "What would one find on said island...besides Yoshis, anyway?"
"Fruits...beaches...waterfalls...I heard that the denizens of Yoshi's Island are carefree and laid back." Zelda answered as they got into a carriage.
"I expect quite a bit of conflict..."
Pikachu and Pichu
3rd to depart, 7:28 pm
Location: Renfro Overlook, Pherae
"I am sleepy..." Pichu ruefully complained as he rubbed sleep out of his eyes while trying to read the clue. "Yoshi's Island? Sounds fun...zzz...zzz...zzz..."
"He fell asleep..." Pikachu said as he dragged little Pichu onto the carriage bound for the ferry station.
Yoshi and DK
4th to depart, 7:34 pm
Location: Renfro Overlook, Pherae
"YAYNESS!" Yoshi declared as he twirled around like a ballerina. "I'm going home!"
"Good for you." DK said. "I hope they have bananas there, I'm starving..."
"They grow all kinds of fruit there." Yoshi said as they boarded the carriage for the station. "I just hope they still sell those pineapple-mango smoothies I enjoy, though..."
Ness and Mewtwo
5th to depart, 7:42 pm
Location: Renfro Overlook, Pherae
"Yoshi's Island?" Ness asked. "Oh dear, I hop they don't throw fruits at us.."
"I should hope not..." Mewtwo growled under his breath as they got onto the carriage.
Durandal Ferry Station, Pherae
"Man, when's that ferry going to get here?" Lilina asked. "It always seems that the others teams catch up to us while we're waiting for something to show up..."
"Well, we could just punch them out..." Roy had already known what Lilina would announce would be unpredictable. With her, one never knew.
2 hours later
"See!" Lilina glowered and pointed eloquently at the other teams. "I told you that they would catch up!"
"All seven teams are on the same ferry to Yoshi's Island. YES!" doubledude announced. "Once they land, the teams must locate the Birdo Grand Library and locate the clue among all kinds of books at the library. How bookish can you get? Where is that place? AND WHERE THE HELL IS THE HOST?" doubledude's patience was beginning to fray. "WHAT IS HE DOING, TAKING A CRAP?"
Grand Central Station, Yoshi's Island
Ferry from Pherae
Yoshi and DK
Currently in 1st place
Location: Autumn Blaze District, Yoshi City
"If I remember correctly, the Birdo Library is in the Noble Fir District..." Yoshi mused.
"You should know where it is, you numbskull!" DK growled. "You live here!"
"Sorry..." Yoshi was glancing around to locate the road to Noble Fir. "I believe that's it." He pointed toward a columnar building and noticed Roy and Lilina running towards it. "HEY! STOP!"
"We're not stopping until we win!"
"Oh, you little..." Yoshi growled, as he shook his fist at them. "I'll show you what's what..."
Birdo Grand Library, Yoshi City
Roy and Lilina
Currently in 1st place
"Whoa...this place is huge!" Roy said as he marveled at the size of the main hall. "ECHO! Echo! echo! echo..."
"Roy!" Lilina had smacked him upside the head. "We still have to find the clue!" However, a gloved hand had grabbed her and dragged her off, a hand covering her mouth as she kicked at her assailant. "Mmph, guh...yeek!"
"Lilina...Lilina?" Roy yelled throughout the library, greeted by several yelling readers and balled-up papers thrown at them. "Where is she...that crazy girl?"
Yoshi and DK
Currently in 2nd place
Location: Birdo Grand Library
"This place is as labyrinthine as ever..." Yoshi muttered as he browsed through the books that lined the walls. The library also had several glass boxes set on tables with fragile legs containing several artifacts from the ancient Yoshi civilization. Yoshi was about to gaze upon a stone pineapple when he was bagged and dragged off by a figure of shadow. Yoshi kicked at his kidnapper, but to no avail as he was sucked into the labyrinth of books and tables.
"Yoshi?" DK had panicked and was now stumbling around the library in search of him. He ended up crashing into the clue box, however. "Hey, I found the clue! 'Travel by taxi to the Super Happy Tree in Tingaling Park...'"
"Tingaling Park?" doubledude asked. "Teams go to something called the Super Happy Tree in Tingaling Park, but what the hell is that place? Damn it, if we don't find the host soon, I'm firing my publicist!"
"Good lord..." DK muttered. "Well, Yoshi will get here soon, and we can leave..." No such luck was on DK's side, however. When he met up with the other teams several hours after waiting for Yoshi, he noticed each team was missing a member. Roy was complaining that Lilina had ditched him and had gone shopping; Link was crying that Zelda was doing the big nasty with another man; Pikachu was scolding a missing Pichu for running out on him; Mewtwo said that his powers were gone since Ness' disappearance; Sheeda whined that Marth had thought her inadequate and left; Fox had reported that Falco had gone AWOL. "What in Nintendo is going on?"
"Who carsh!" Link sobbed. "Shelda dumped meesh!"
"Who gives a fuck?" Fox yelled. "She was annoying anyway."
"You would say that!" Pikachu protested. "She did beat you first round."
"Of a certainty, this is not good..." Mewtwo replied. "Half the teams are missing, and without Ness, I don't have enough power to locate them!"
"Okay, okay, calm down!" DK used an overwhelming amount of force to keep the other teams under control more or less. Something in the corner of his eye caught his attention, however, as he noticed a familiar bronze-haired wolf girl stumbling around the intersection, drivers swerving out of her way and yelling random profanities at her. "Holy shit! Is that Nintendo Nut1?"
"It is..." Roy had grabbed Nintendo Nut1 and forcibly dragged her over to the sidewalk where everyone had congregated. "What are you doing, running around the city like this?"
Nintendo Nut1 was narrating her life's story in a slurred voice. "...yesh and he dumped meesh becaush he thought I wash too flat-chested... (hic) ...but I shmacked him and shmacked him until he shaw things my waysh... (hic) ...I knowsh that he lovesh me now, but fanshifulunicornsh shaysh differtly...I need a plash for mie head... (hic) ...and now, I am heresh, hoshting this coolsh shtory by Gamer21... (hic) ...hesh ash crazy ash I amsh..."
"What the hell?" Sheeda asked. "It sounds like she had too much chocolate. Serves her right..."
"Her breath reeks of alcohol..." Roy noted, sniffing her breath. "Russian vodka, to be exact."
"Damn!" Pikachu said. "That's not any ordinary liquor: that's 90 alcohol! What the hell is going on?"
"At this point, the only thing we can do is head over to the Super Happy Tree." Fox said in an unemotional voice as he attempted to obtain a taxi.
"Hey, Linksh!" Nintendo Nut1 chimed drunkenly. "You likesh thish?" Before they could stop her, Nintendo Nut1 had flashed her chestat Link, causing some of the teams to get a nosebleed and Link to run and hide from the insane host.
"Someone restrain her!" DK vexed. Nintendo Nut1 screamed at the top of her lungs when she was involuntarily mauled and restrained by force by Fox. He told Nintendo Nut1 to stop screaming. Showing no disposition of stopping, Fox gave her a sharp slap on the cheek, and she gasped and hiccupped into silence.
"At least that takes care of that hellish noise..." Mewtwo ruefully muttered.
"Couldn't you help us, Mewtwo?" Link vexed.
"I would help, but because Ness has gone missing, I can't use my psychic powers."
"Now what?" Link balefully asked.
"We'll go to the Super Happy Tree and continue, I guess..." DK raised his hands in defeat and led the other teams to a bus bound for the tree.
Super Happy Tree, Tingaling Park
"This is the place." Roy said. "Tingaling Park...so where's this Super Happy Tree...?"
"I say it's that one." Looking yonder, Roy followed Fox's finger to a tall tree with green leaves, and brown and red...let's say it has multicolored leaves. In the center was a smiling heart; around it in various places were fruits of all kinds, including a juicy and ripe pineapple. Next to the tree, by a cypress bench, was a familiar green box. "If I'm not mistaken, that's the clue box."
"Fine...'Detour: Food or Water...'"
"A Detour is a choice between two tasks, each with its own pros and cons. In this Detour, teams choose between Food or Water. Um...yeah...help?" doubledude was given a copy of the script and read, "In Food, teams must grab 3 fruits from the tree and give to the overseer to gain the clue. In Water, teams must pump x buckets of water and fill a 25-gallon bucket to get the clue." doubledude added, "Pretty damning choice, huh? AND WHERE'S THE HOST!"
"Wait, there's something else!" The other teams had congregated around Roy and watched as Roy pulled out a blood-stained sheet of paper. He read, "If you want to reunite with your missing comrades, I would suggest you drop out of the race."
"WHAT!" Link said. "Why should we be in last place?"
"P-uh-lease!" Fox said. "I wouldn't get too worked up over it. We still have a race to run!"
"How can you think of the race when we have missing friends and this...this death threat?" Roy finished reading the rest of the note aloud. "If you don't comply, your friends will disappear permanently from the face of Nintendo! BWAHAHAHAHA! Signed, a dark messenger of the underworld."
"Now what?" Pikachu complained. "How will we deal with this?"
"This blood..." Mewtwo said as he scrutinized the note. "It looks like Lilina's."
"What! NO!" Roy shouted. Half-formed images of horrendous torture and of what had possibly happened to Lilina formed in his mind as Roy started to panic. Their very vagueness made it worse than that of actual knowledge would have made it seem.
"So, which is easier, Food or Water?" Fox asked.
"Neithersh!" Nintendo Nut1 yelled, hiccupping after words.
"SHUT UP!"
"Fine, I'm doing Food." Fox stormed off towards the tree when a thought raced through his mind.
"Damn it! He said no one would get hurt..."
Hidden Base, Yoshi's Island
"Ugh...where am I?" A disgruntled Lilina came to inside a solitary confinement cell padded with mattresses and a bloody floor. She gingerly patted her forehead, and saw a stream of blood trickling down the side of her head. "What the hell happened to me...?"
"Hello!" Zelda's voice echoed throughout the prison. "Can anyone hear me?"
"Zelda?"
"Lilina? Is that you?"
"Hey, what's going on?" Yoshi squeaked.
"I think we're in some kind of prison..." Zelda answered, looking around. "And by the looks of it, I don't think anyone wants us to be in the race."
"You got that right." A distorted voice announced. When Lilina, Zelda and Yoshi peeked outside, they noticed a figure clad in a black robe much too big so that no one could even guess his frame. He also wore a dark mask so that no one could see his face, and they would have been wise to try and get a good look. He was now pointing a pistol eloquently at Pichu, whom he removed from his cell, and growling menacingly. "Well, our plan is in motion. Now who will we shoot first?"
Super Happy Tree, Tingaling Park
"Jeez, how many buckets of water will I need?" Roy vexed as he dumped his 7th bucket into the steel drum.
"Obviously you'll need a lot of buckets of water at this point." Mewtwo said while he was using telekinesis to pick fruits. "What I can't get is how these abductors managed to take our friends hostage without our noticing. I mean, if we didn't notice, then someone else in the library was bound to see something out of place."
"Yoshi did say there were a lot of bookshelves there," DK pointed out, eating a banana. "He also did say that it was like a labyrinth there. It would've been easy to take someone or something without anybody noticing."
"Then those people are mutton-headed flats." This comment earned several laughs from Pikachu, who dropped the bucket of water in mid-laugh. The liquid sloshed all over Fox's lap, and the troupe exploded in laughter.
"AUGH! MY PANTS!" Fox shouted, bonking Pikachu in the head with a well-tossed melon.
"Aren't they always?" Pikachu asked while pumping another bucket of water
"That was racist right there, Pikachu." Roy's temper was beginning to fray.
"Sorry." Pikachu had continued with his work.
"What if we get there and our friends are dead?" Roy asked. "And what if the abductors find us and kill us!" Everyone soon began to lose hope in the possibility that their friends were, in fact, still alive.
"Oh...we'll be shot to death..." Pikachu said ruefully.
"We'll be put in cement blocks and sink to the bottom of the ocean..." DK wailed.
"No, they'll burn us so that there's no evidence..." Sheeda chimed in.
"Man, you need to think about how we're supposed to win the race with one teammate missing, not how we'll be killed..." Fox snapped.
"You're no help, Fox..." Sheeda asserted.
"Come on, we've got to have faith..." Link said. "I mean, that's what got us this far in the race, didn't it? We still need that same faith so our friends will come through alive!"
"You're right..." Pikachu said. "That's a good way to put it."
"Well, I always was good at motivational speaking..." Link proudly declared.
"YESH! LINKSH DA BOMB! (hic) B-O-U-A-um...what's after G...?" Nintendo Nut1 slurred.
"Her breath still smells of alcohol..." Pikachu announced.
"Yes! I got the clue!" Roy announced after his 18th bucket of water.
"No fair! I wanted the clue first!" Fox protested.
"Let's see... 'Find the Diamond Dust Ski Resort...'"
"Teams will now go to the Diamond Dust Ski Resort outside the city and search for the clue." doubledude said. "I'm sorry; I can't work like this; I will be in my trailer."
"Fine, then we'll dock your pay!" the director said.
"...guh...damn..." doubledude muttered, sulking back onstage.
"Diamond Dust?" Mewtwo said. "Didn't they film the movie Avalanche there?"
"Yep." DK said in answer to Mewtwo's question. "Some of the scenes in the caves were filmed in carved-out grottos hidden by ice doors in various parts of the mountain. Wait, you don't think..."
"I do." Mewtwo responded. "Find these grottoes, we find our friends."
"Let's go then." With the other teams already receiving their clues, the troupe made their way to the Diamond Dust Ski Resort, anxiously awaiting the reunion with their missing friends. "Keep fighting, Yoshi...we'll be there."
Hidden Base, Diamond Dust Ski Resort
The figure was pacing around the room impatiently, a small white cat in his arms purring loudly. His bodyguard and another figure was standing guard beside the door, and the figure was obviously occupied because a troubling fact was on his mind. "How will we take care of this thing...?"
"If you keep going on like that, you're going to wear a hole in the linoleum..." the first bodyguard reported. "Why not shoot them?"
"Shut up! I don't want anyone to get hurt or killed!" the boss snapped, brusquely shoving the guard. "When you said your plan would work, you said no one would get hurt! But here comes Lilina, all bruised up, the delicate little thing. Damn it, that wasn't what I wanted!"
"Hey, you two were the ones that wanted to win the whole enchilada..."
"I thought the prize was $1,000,000, not an enchilada..." the boss spoke.
"Oh, shut up. Anyway, you are going to win this race at all costs." the guard finished. "And if we have to break some necks along the way, then so be it."
"You are an evil man..." the boss said.
"Hey, I'm not the one who thinks of Lilina as their lust object..." The boss was about ready to jump the guard when he said that. "We'll do what we have to to win, right?" The guard had addressed the second guard, who was considerably shorter than the first.
"Beep beep beep beep beep, beep BEEP!"
"...that doesn't help us any..." the boss continued, pacing around the room worriedly.
(Anyone who doesn't know who that is would be thought of as an ignoramus.)
Cell Block A, Diamond Dust Base
"Oh..." Zelda was worried and sitting on a flimsy board of a bed and wondered, "Do you think that anyone cares that we're gone...?"
"Of course they would...wouldn't they?" Yoshi asked.
"What if they left us here...because they hate us?" Pichu sniffled. Everyone looked horrified and turned towards him. He continued, "I always had Pikachu's nerves shot when I was around. What if they all left us here?"
"They wouldn't." The kidnapped Smashers turned as best as they could towards Lilina. "Everyone knows us and loves us, right? Why else would they have chosen us to come along with them? They could have gone with someone else, for all we know, but they allowed us to come along with them on their journey."
"We've gotten too far for us to just give up now," Marth agreed. "I am confident that they are on their way to saving us right at this minute."
"Thanks...I'm sorry we doubted them..." Yoshi said.
"It's okay, we would have given up too if there was no chance..." Following that statement, there was nothing but the gold of silence for several uneasy minutes. Then Pichu, as innocent as ever, soon broke the ice and asked, "Lilina, is it true that you have a crush on Roy?"
"Eek! Um...no, we're just friends!" Lilina stammered out.
Ness overheard and decided to poke fun at her. "My mind's eye says that you wish for him to love you and be together forever with you..."
"SHUT UP!" This caused the cell block to explode in laughter, with Lilina stammering protests all the while.
Diamond Dust Ski Resort, Yoshi's Island
"Okay, keep your eyes peeled for anything suspicious..." Mewtwo warned.
"Keep your eyes peeled? That would hurt!" Pikachu said.
"Shut it, no one need a smartass right now." Glancing around, there was a European ski chalet, some skiers, and a few snowboarders, but otherwise there was nothing out of the ordinary. Eyeing the clue box sitting on top of a snowdrift, Mewtwo had teleported over and read the clue. "'Road Block. Who's ready to fly to new heights?'"
"A Road Block is a task only one person may perform, and no one person can do more than 6 in the course of the race." doubledude explained. "In this Road Block, the person must go off of a ski jump and perform a 1080º. Once that person has successfully done that, the ski instructor will give them the next clue."
"Hoo boy..." Mewtwo spluttered. "I'm really not good with heights..."
"So?" Nintendo Nut1 said. "It (hic) doesh you no goosh (hic) if you runnsh from your problemsh... (hic)"
"That actually made sense, coming from you..."
"So, do you have any idea where our friends could be in this ski resort?" Roy asked.
"None at all."
"Maybe we can spot something airborne while we're doing the ski jump..." DK said, pointing towards the back of the ski chalet where several skiers were tossing themselves into the blue beyond. "The more height we have, the more we can see, right?"
"Ah yes, the old angle of observation theory..." Marth noted. "Different angles prove to make things appear differently. Like a cone could be a circle, a Penrose triangle, or a square depending on your point of view..." Everyone goggled at him and he merely asked, "What?"
"Man, my head hurts..." DK was massaging his forehead to help soothe the pain. "Stop using big words I can't understand..."
"If we keep wagging our tongues, we'll not be able to save our friends!" Link snapped. "Let's just go already!"
The Ski Jump
"Here goes nothing...geronimo!" Link pushed himself off and felt the rush of adrenaline take over as he flew off the jump and into the air. After quickly performing a 1080°, he quickly glanced around for anything unusual and plopped headfirst into the fresh white powder. He finally broke out of the white prison and spit out the icy stuff. "Man, that wasn't cool..."
Things weren't any better for the other people. Roy bounced off the jump and crashed into a bystander; DK was too heavy and smashed a hole through the ski jump; Pikachu fell through aforementioned hole; Sheeda glided and fell off the edge; Mewtwo tripped and flew off into the forest; and Fox had swerved off the ramp and into a tree growing beside the ramp.
"Fear comes upon me. O much I fear, some ill, unthrifty thing."
"WHEE! I HAF DA POWAAAA!" Link looked up in time to watch Nintendo Nut1 fly off the ski jump and watched her pull several 1080°s and string them together. No problem, right? Wrong! She immediately blew past the bordering fence and over the evergreens, where Mewtwo was hanging on for dear life, and continued flying out of sight.
"(hic) YEEEK! I HAF TOO MUSH POWAAAA! (hic) " Following her outburst was a large SLAM immediately with a loud noise of shattering glass.
"Oh my god! What was that?" the boss said.
"Don't tell me we've already been found!" the first guard spluttered. "What's going on here? Someone get those perpetrators!"
"BEEP BEEP BEEP!" the second guard ordered.
"What the hell...follow her! Come on!" Link yelled.
"Do I have to?" Fox retorted.
"Shut up and come on!" Running along Nintendo Nut1's flight path, they sliced their way through the evergreen forest and soon into the side of the mountain. Nintendo Nut1 was buried headfirst in the snow, and behind her was a large mouth of rock and limestone that was beckoning them to come in. Besides it was huge pieces of shiny ice that glistened in the sunlight. Link and the others stood, mouths agape at what they saw. "So, who wants to go into the creepy cave behind the giant ice sheet first?"
"Go ahead, Sheeda-you're the bravest!" Pikachu pushed Sheeda as far as his tiny frame would let him-and it wasn't very far.
"Don't push!" Sheeda yelled. "I'm going in...any time now...I will go inside..." It was a full half-hour before Sheeda finally had the guts to walk inside along with the other teams. Reaching the interior chamber, they reached a small gym, a kitchen, and finally after some walking found a prison area where their friends were being held.
"Roy!" Lilina shouted. "I knew you'd save me!"
"Damn!" Fox muttered. "This wasn't supposed to happen!" Before he realized what he said, all the people, free and in the cells, turned and looked at Fox as if he had suddenly sprouted two heads. "Why are you looking at-oh, crap..."
"Is there something you'd like to tell us?" Sheeda asked.
"He and Falco hired us to kidnap one person from each team and off them so they could win." Before they knew what was going on, streams of bullets gushed forth from a door on the other side of the room. The teams had to jump behind a steel crate as the two guards stepped out wielding Steyr TMPs. "We will make sure they will be the victors."
"I never said to off them!" the boss yelled from the other room.
"Shut your beak, Falco, or you and I are going to scrap!" the guard yelled.
"Beep beep beep beep!" the second guard yelled.
"Wait, was that Game & Watch?" Link inquired. He hardly had time to look though, as a hail of bullets rushed through the air where his head was minutes before.
"Ha-ha! Show us your moves!"
"Augh! It's Captain Falcon!" Pikachu realized. "Damn! He must have been so pissed off for losing first leg that he came back for revenge!"
"Yes, and my thirst for revengeange is here! HAHAHAHAHA!" He soon opened fire again at them. "That prize money is rightfully mine, and I'll make sure of that!"
"What the hell do we do?" No sooner than Link had said that, Fox produced a gas grenade from up his sleeve. "This knockout gas grenade is quick-acting and has no lasting side effects." He lobbed the grenade into the center of the room, and the gas permeated every inch of the prison chambers. Fox, Link, Sheeda, Mewtwo, DK, and Roy stepped out moments later to see Captain Falcon and Mr. Game & Watch slump to the floor asleep. Falco chose this moment to come out of hiding and silently and quickly opened the cell doors, releasing everyone to their teammates.
"Oh, Roy! I'm so happy you came!" Lilina choked through sobs.
"It's okay, I'm here..." Roy comforted.
"Hey, we didn't want anyone to get hurt, right?" Falco said. "We just wanted to win, and we apologize for our actions..."
"Fine, just don't do it again..." Link gasped as Zelda hugged him tightly.
"HAHA!" Suddenly, Captain Falcon and Mr. Game & Watch sprang to life, grabbed Yoshi, and picked up a spare snowmobile that was sitting there, taking up space. "You will not win!" With the engine revving, Captain Falcon and Mr. Game & Watch sped off into the bleak, snowy wastes.
"YOSHI!" DK yelled. "Now what?"
"It's our fault that all this crap happened, so we'll be the ones to get him back." Fox and Falco hopped onto a snowmobile, revved it up, grabbed their blasters, and sped off after the devious F-Zero racer. "Let's tear it up, Fox!"
"Hurry, Game & Watch! Fox and Falco are gaining!" Captain Falcon screeched as they sped down the highway. Fox and Falco were driving and gaining behind them as they drove at dangerous speeds through the wooded area near the Diamond Dust Ski Resort. They were dodging tree stumps, rocks, and the occasional deer who had the 'deer in the headlights' look on him.
"BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!" Mr. Game & Watch was frantic as they dodged another log.
Fox and Falco were currently having their own problems. "How do you speed up on this thing?" Fox asked.
"We're already at top speed!" Falco yelled. However, they caught up to Captain Falcon and Mr. Game & Watch and they were side to side with them. Captain Falcon had other plans, however, and riddled the nearby trees with bullets from the machine pistol as Fox and Falco had to duck under the hail to escape. "EEK! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"
"So, that's the way you want to play, huh? Take this!" Falco screeched over to the side, hitting the F-Zero racers' skidoo and forcing them into a log. "HAHA! Try and beat us!"
"Bloody hell..." Captain Falcon muttered. "It's not over yet!"
Falco yelled through a cold sweat, "Only one of us is gonna win, Falcon! Who will it be?"
"I'll be the one to kill you!" Captain Falcon shouted.
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! TWO CARS ARE GOING TO CRASH INTO THE RESORT!" some people screamed throughout the resort. This caught the attention of the other skiers, who began to panic.
"Yeah, right! This is for manipulating us!" Falco finished. With that, he grabbed Yoshi off of the racer's skidoo and forced the back of his skidoo into Captain Falcon's skidoo, sending it rolling over on the snow banks before flipping over the cliff and crashing upside-down in the ski chalet, scaring the crap out of several people. Shingles, glass, wood and various crap rained down on the inhabitants of the chalet. The skidoo landed unceremoniously in the fireplace, exploding and destroying a huge piece of the chalet, sending Captain Falcon and Mr. Game & Watch flying into the atmosphere.
"I'LL REMEMBER THIS!" Captain Falcon yelled as Mr. Game & Watch beeped frantically before disappearing and becoming stars.
"I knew he was all talk and no action." Fox quipped as the other teams caught up to them.
"That was nice..." Link said. "We have to continue the race, though!"
Yoshi and DK
Currently in 1st place
Location: Diamond Dust Ski Resort
"Thank you." DK said as he received the clue from the ski instructor. "'Make your way to the next Pit Stop, the Yoshi Fountain...'"
"Teams must go to the Yoshi Fountain, which is the Pit Stop for this leg of the race." doubledude said. "The last team in is eliminated, blah blah blah. Now leave me alone!"
"What about her?" Yoshi pointed to Nintendo Nut1, who was stumbling around and tripped and fell into a barrel. "Should we leave her?"
"Meh, probably not..." DK said. He hoisted Nintendo Nut1 out of said barrel and dragged her off with them.
"Hey! (hic) Let meesh go, you crashy apesh!" Nintendo Nut1 protested.
"SHUT UP!"
Yoshi Fountain, Yoshi City
"Man, where is everybody?" doubledude asked.
"Maybe they're asleep?" a pink egg-spitting creature asked while adjusting her large bow perched atop her head.
"Just askin', yeesh..." No sooner had he asked that Yoshi and DK drove up with Nintendo Nut1 in tow. They made their way to the world mat, but Nintendo Nut1 collapsed and yelled, "YAYSH! (hic) I'm the firsht to arrivesh! I winsh the millionsh!"
"Shut up!" DK was annoyed enough to smack Nintendo Nut1 upside the head. Once he did that, she stumbled around and blinked, glancing around as she began to panic.
"Hey, where am I...and why do I feel like someone was hammering my head all day..." Nintendo Nut1 held her head and realized, "Oh crap! I'm supposed to host with doubledude! I'm late! YEEK!"
"Um, I'm doubledude." doubledude introduced himself. "And the chapter is almost over, thank you very much."
"OH NO! WHAT THE HELL HAVE I BEEN DOING!" Nintendo Nut1 screamed.
"You ingested a piece of Russian chocolate and got drunk from the vodka inside it..." Yoshi explained. "Oh, hey Birdo. How's life?"
"It's good." The pink creature answered. "Here you go." Birdo gave them the Souvenir Set, with the Yoshi print design on it. "I think you want this."
"Oh, man, I'm underage!" Nintendo Nut1 protested. "That's the last time I let fancifulunicorn hand me a Russian chocolate bar!"
"You got that right, you drunken toff!" doubledude said as he grabbed Souvenir Set 7 (see ch. 8 for details.). A mother ship appeared overhead and he disappeared into the UFO, but not before shouting, "Farewell, Nintendo Nut1! We will meet again when you're not so drunk!"
"Shut up!" After that, Link and Zelda, Pikachu and Pichu, Ness and Mewtwo, Roy and Lilina, and Marth and Sheeda dropped by and left in that order, leaving Fox and Falco between the rock and a hot place.
"Fox and Falco, because of your dishonorable actions today, you are disqualified from the Amazing Race!" Nintendo Nut1 announced, shoving Souvenir Set 8 in their hands before shooing them off.
"Damn, that's what we get for pulling crap like that..." Falco muttered.
That's it for leg 8. You want to co-host; you know the drill:
Penname:
Age:
Favorite Smasher:
Description:
GENDER!
hair color
eye color
your attire
race
personality
any personality quirks
The following Souvenir Set will be awarded to the lucky person who becomes the next co-host:
The Yoshi Fountain miniature
A Birdo figurine
A golden Yoshi egg
A Guidebook to Yoshi's Island
The Guide to Yoshi's Island for Dummies book
A new weapon of your choice
the Yoshi's Island 64 video game
Farewell! Until next time!
Gamer21