Well, somehow, Rudolph and Luigi survived the first night. It wasn't that easy, since the Abominable kept chasing after Rudolph's nose, but they managed. The next day, however, they encountered someone a tad odd...

As the 'dynamic' duo of Rudolph and Luigi continued their trek across the snowy mountains of the North Pole, they began to hear something approaching. Afraid that it might be the Abominable again, they did the first thing they could think of: Try to hide in the side of a snow wall. It wasn't particularly convincing, but they had dived in head-first, so they wouldn't know.

Fortunately, it wasn't the Abominable at all. Instead, it was a rather heavy looking fellow with a crazy mustache. He was riding on a dog sled, but instead of dogs, it was pulled by weird, little, yellow creatures!

"Mush! Mush!" the rider yelled, cracking a whip to encourage them, "Come on, you stupid fronks, don'tcha know what the word 'mush' means?"

Glancing around, he noticed an odd sight: two pairs of feet sticking out of the side of a wall! Getting his sled-fronks to stop (which was much easier than getting them to go), he climbed off his sled and pulled Rudolph and Luigi out of the snow.

"Hey, what's up with you two, eh?" He grunted, "What, do you want to get frostbite or somethin'?"

"Who are you?" Rudolph asked.

"Who am I?" the man replied, "My name is Wario Cornellus, the greatest prospector in the north! You know what's up here, don'tcha?"

Both Rudolph and Luigi shook their heads 'no'.

"GOLD!" Wario answered with a booming voice that was almost enough to start an avalanche, "And silver! Gold and silver! Silver and gold! Yahoo!"

Wario tossed a pick-ax into the air in excitement, only to have it bounce off his head and get stuck in the ground. Undaunted, he immediately pulled it out and closely inspected it, sniffed it, and even sucked on it like a lollipop.

"Eh... Nuthin'..." Wario shrugged.

Heh, heh... Silver and gold, huh? Sounds like someone has his priorities out of order. There are things more important than material wealth, you know... Other than that, though, Wario didn't sound like that bad of a guy. He even seemed willing enough to give Rudolph and Luigi a ride...

"Well, at any rate..." Wario began, "I was heading back to camp to restock on supplies. You know, gunpowder, bacon, climbing rope, bacon, new DS games that might have come out while I was gone, bacon... You get the idea. You guys need a lift?"

"Sure, why not?" Luigi responded, "We need some supplies too, right, Rudolph?"

"Yeah..." Rudolph agreed, a little embarrassed, "We kinda left without packing anything..."

"Try using some common sense next time..." Wario mumbled under his breath, "I mean, uh... Well, then, climb aboard!"

Rudolph and Luigi sat in the front of the sled, on top of Wario's remaining supplies, while Wario attempted to get the fronks to start moving again.

"Mush! Darn it, mush! Grr... MUSH!"

The fronks didn't even flinch.

"Oh, for the love of... Like this!" Wario moaned as he got off the sled, grabbed the ropes the fronks were supposed to pull, and pulled the sled himself. The fronks then climbed onto the sled with the misfits.

Suddenly, an all too familiar roar could be heard, and the Abominable came out from behind a mountain!

"Great galloping goombas!" Wario cried, "It's the Abomb... Aboob... Abomy... Aw, screw it! I can never pronounce his stupid name correctly! That thing is coming after us!"

"It's my nose..." Rudolph lamented, "He keeps following us because of it..."

"Tell me when it's over..." Luigi whimpered as he dug his head underneath the supplies.

"Oh, you two cry-babies, knock it off!" Wario demanded, "He's just an overgrown monkey! We're humans!... Well, not you, Rudy, but still... The point is we have more brain power than that thing! We can outsmart it!"

"How?" Rudolph asked.

"Simple... RUN LIKE HECK!" Wario screamed at the top of his lungs.

Wario proceeded to do just that. He pulled the sled as fast as his pudgy little legs could carry it, with the Abominable in hot pursuit. In a pitiful attempt to lighten the mood, Wario debated on what more pronounceable name the Abominable should be called.

"Hmm... Let's see... He's a big ol' monkey, right?" Wario began.

"Um... I guess so..." Rudolph, who really wasn't that interested in the conversation as he was in the quickly gaining monster, replied.

"So we could call him 'Kong', or something to that effect... And he's really stupid, correct?"

"Uh... Sure... Whatever you say..."

"So let's see... What could represent 'stupid'?... I know! Donkeys are stupid! Let's call him Donkey Kong! Or DK for short! That's much easier to pronounce than Abo... His old name!"

"That really doesn't make much sense..."

"So? Who cares? Whatever works, right?"

"WHY ARE WE EVEN DEBATING THIS?" Luigi yelled, "WE'RE ALMOST GOING TO BE EATEN BY A MONSTER, AND YOU'RE TRYING TO COME UP WITH A NICKNAME FOR HIM?"

"Oh, shut up, elf-boy," Wario grunted, "He's not gonna catch up..."

Suddenly, Wario looked ahead, and came to a screeching hault. The trio found themselves on a small section of ice sticking out over the sea. They were trapped!

"... Or maybe he will..." Wario mumbled.

"Now what?" Rudolph sputtered.

"Wait a second... Of course!" Wario declared, "I know how to keep him away!"

Drawing his pick-ax, Wario began to chip away at the ice surrounding the group. With one final strike, the section of ice they were on began to float away from the Abominable!

"How do you like that, eh?" Wario commented, "Homemade icebergs!"

As the ice island slipped away, the Abominable walked right up to the edge of the water.

"Hey, guys, check it out! Observe DK's one weakness. Grab your cameras, folks, this is a good photo-op."

The Abominable, looking nervously out at the sea, stuck his big toe in the water. Immediately, he began shaking from the cold, turned, and left.

"See, the big guy hates ice-cold water! Pretty convenient, huh?"

Wario, in celebration, tossed his pick-ax into the air again. When it dug itself into the ground, he went through his little 'pick-ax test' for a second time.

"Eh... Nuthin'..."

"We got rid of the Abominable... Now what?" Rudolph questioned.

"Well, now that DK is gone," Wario began, trying to enforce his new name for the monster on the rest of the group, "You guys can come with me! We can go strike it rich looking for silver! SILVER, I tell ya!"

"Wait a sec... I thought you wanted gold," Luigi corrected.

"Gold... Silver... It's rare, it's expensive, it's the same thing."

Rudolph and Luigi just looked at each other. This was going to be an interesting trip, to say the least...