Have you heard that the new SSB game is called Smash Bros. Brawl? And guess what, Solid Snake is in that game! So much for those who are against 3rd party characters…
So anyway, on with the story…
Chapter 9: The 5-Lap Race! Ganondorf's Reason to Win!
A race is being held in a place called Baby Park, so a large crowd is gathered there. Unlike other courses, Baby Park is really small compared to those courses—it is only the size of a large Olympic stadium. In fact, the smallness of the course made it so that there are only 8 racers in this race. Plus, a monitor isn't required as the audiences can see the entire course from one seating place.
"What can go wrong in a small course like this?" asks Nana.
"It's still possible that someone gets hurt," says Dr. Mario.
"Right," says Mewtwo. "I foresaw something like that already."
Talko walks to the front of the racers, who are all behind the starting line, and he makes his announcement, "Due to the size of the course, the priests have agreed that this race should take 5 laps. The first racer to go five laps wins!"
"The sounds reasonable," says Fox.
"All right, when can we start?" Falco asks Talko.
"When everyone is ready," replies Talko. "Now let us introduce the racers of this race!"
Racers
Starfox Duo: Arwing Car
Kirby: Warp Star
Roy: orange motorcycle
DK: A wooden barrel car (he built a new one)
Ganondorf: Black Stallion
Bowser: Green Beast
Ness: Enhanced Bike
Pokey: Motor Tricycle MK-II
Pokey turns to Ness and taunts him, "You're dead meat this time! I'm well prepared to take you out!"
"No, I'm taking in and I eat fresh meat all the time!" says Ness in a joking manner.
"I'm dead serious! You're going to lose badly!"
"But my horoscope said I'm alive and I'm going to win badly!"
Lilina calls to Roy from the audiences, "Roy! You're my boy! You can do it!"
"I will, Lilina!" Roy calls back.
Ganondorf is looking worried; something is going on in his mind. Bowser notices his worried expression and asks him, "What's wrong, Ganon? Nervous about the race?"
"Oh, nothing big," he replies. "Sort of nervous..."
"Well, everyone is nervous in a race! I'm actually excited! I have learned that power isn't the only thing that can get me to the end! I decide I will take this race without violence!"
"Glad you learned about it…"
"Don't fail me, Kirby!" Yoshi shouts to Kirby. "If you lose, then my dreams will be shattered also!"
"Don't worry!" replies Kirby. "I won't lose for the sake of food!"
"Are you all ready?" says Talko as he holds up a gun. "On your mark, get set…" He looks up to see if there are any birds, and then he pulls the trigger. "Go!"
When the gunshot is heard, the racers speed off! Ganondorf and Roy immediately take the lead, closely followed by Starfox Duo and Kirby.
"So you wanna duel with me, Ganon?" Roy asks Ganondorf.
"Please let me win this race…" begs Ganondorf.
"Sorry, but even if we're in the same side, a race is a race. I'm still going to treat you as my enemy."
"You don't understand!"
Behind them, Starfox Duo and Kirby are clashing against each other. "After I'm done with you, I'm taking on the two ahead!" says Kirby.
"We're still gonna get first place!" says Falco. "You go ahead and get second place! I don't care, right Fox?"
"I guess so…" says Fox as if he's not interested in this race. In fact, he never was interested about the race in the first place, and he is wondering why the heck he entered it anyway.
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Bowser and DK are a bit behind them, and those two doesn't seem to be fighting each other or planning to do anything violent. "I'm gonna be nice and kind in this race unless someone treats me badly," Bowser says to himself. "Violence is not always the way to solve things!" He turns to DK and says to him, "Let's have a great time in this race, DK!"
"Let's have a great wine after this race?" asks DK. "I guess it's fine, though I'm not really a big fan of alcohol."
Ness and Pokey are just behind them, but they aren't really interested in those two ahead. They both are more interested in fighting each other. Pokey is constantly hurling random stuffs at Ness, who keeps using his mind to block them. "You're so annoying, Pokey!" says Ness, annoyed.
"All the better to make you lose badly!" replies Pokey as he continues to shower him with junks.
"If you insist on continuing, then don't blame me!"
"Why should you blame me? Take this?" Pokey throws a moldy bread at Ness, but he uses telekinesis to hurl it back and it flies straight into Pokey's mouth, and he accidentally swallows it. "UUUUGGHH! I SWALLOWED A FOUR-MONTH OLD BREAD! AHHHHH!" And while he's screaming like mad, Ness zooms ahead of him and passes Bowser and DK.
"Oh look, Ness caught up with us!" says Bowser. "Let's go after him and hope that he doesn't fight back, so I won't be forced to hit him!" So Bowser zooms ahead, followed by DK.
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Roy and Ganondorf are both in lead, and they are engaged in swordfight. Yes, a swordfight while driving motorcycles at the same time! Can you imagine how cool it is?
Roy steers towards Ganondorf and swings his sword, and Ganondorf blocks it with his own. He takes another swipe at Roy, but it is also blocked. They drive side-to-side near each other and begin throwing several fury slashes at each other, and several loud clanging sounds of swords can be heard. The audiences are amazed at how well they fight and drive at the same time.
"Look at how they fight!" says Talko from above his mini-plane. "Has there ever been a more spectacular motorcycle swordfight than this? Surely this will go down into history!"
"Please let me win first place!" begs Ganondorf. "If I don't…"
"I don't care if you don't!" says Roy. "I'm taking first place and you can take whatever place that is under me!"
Behind them, Kirby and Starfox are also engaged in a battle. They clash at each other from the sides violently, setting sparks on loose. "Calm down! Falco!" says Fox. "Someone is going to get injured!"
"That's what I'm wanting to do!" says Falco as he crashes into Kirby.
"First place is mines!" yells back Kirby as he crashes his warp star against the side of the Arwing Car. After a couple more of clashing, Kirby decides to go ahead and not waste time here. "It's a waste of time dealing with a bug like you! I'm going after Roy and Ganondorf!" So he zooms ahead.
"You're not getting away!" yells Falco. He presses a button and the Arwing Car begins firing laser beams at Kirby, who is able to dodge them by moving left to right.
"Falco! He's going to get more than burn injuries if he gets hit!" Fox tells him.
"You shut up and let me do what I want!" Falco shouts back.
"I won't let you do whatever you want!" Fox grabs the controls and tries to steal it from Falco.
"Hey! What are you doing? Let go!"
Because the two drivers inside are fighting, the movement of the Arwing Car becomes awkward and it eventually crashes off the course and tumbles along the ground.
"Oh no! The Starfox Duo has lost control of its car and crashed!" gasps Talko.
"NOOOO! FOX AND FALCO ARE IN DANGER!" scream Pichu and Pikachu.
Fortunately, the Arwing Car simply lets off a few smokes and the engine dies out. Fox and Falco crawl out from the wreck. They only have a few scratches and so are not badly injured.
"It's all your fault…" says Falco.
"You're going too far, Falco!" Fox yells at him. "Did you enter this race just to kill off others?"
And so, the Starfox Duo is out of the race.
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Meanwhile, all the other racers have successfully run one lap, so there are 4 laps more. Everything is going smoothly; Roy and Ganondorf are still in lead and fighting, Kirby is trying hard to catch up with them, Ness, Bower, and DK are driving at constant pace, and Pokey is behind.
Kirby is getting nearer and nearer to those two. "I must surpass you guys! You two will lose!"
Roy and Ganondorf turn their attention to him and give him a menacing stare. "GET OUT OF OUR BUSINESS!" They both swing their swords at Kirby and knocks him and his warp star into the sky.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" Kirby soars into the sky and falls back onto the course with a slam, and then gets run over by the other racers. "Doh…"
"Kirby has been knocked out!" says Talko. "Is he out of the race?"
Kirby gets back up and says, "I'm not out yet!"
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Ness decides he should go forward instead of hanging out with these two. When he drove off, Bowser asks him, "Would you mind if I attack you?"
"Go on if you want," replies Ness. "I wouldn't mind."
So Bowser makes the mouth of his car breathe out a stream of fire. Ness stretches his hand backwards and creates a shield that magically absorbs the fire!
"Knew you would do that… Oh well, time to move ahead!" says Bowser, and he steps on the pedal and catches up to Ness, leaving DK behind.
"I should be moving faster too," says DK, and he steps on the pedal to speed up.
"They all left me!" cries Pokey. "I must catch up with them!" And then Kirby zooms pass him. "Argh! Even Kirby got pass me! This isn't fair!"
To make a long story short, the racers successfully finished the 2nd lap. Pokey is still a bit behind as his Motor Tricycle isn't very fast. "What a lame vehicle this is!" says Pokey angrily. "I'm gonna do some upgrades to it when I get back!" And then an idea hits him. "Ah yes! I forgot I have one secret weapon." He presses a button on the controls and the exhaust pipes of his Motor Tricycle begin to rumble, and then it releases a large amount of brown gas, making the vehicle zoom forward. "YEEHAW!"
"Look at Pokey move!" says Talko. "He is going to… Wait a second… What's that smell?"
The audiences all smell something awful. "Eew…" says Dr. Mario, covering his nose. "What's that smell…?"
"Don't tell me it's the smell of that gas Pokey released from his car…" says Samus.
"Unfortunately, it is," says Mewtwo, who is safe from the smell as he enclosed himself within a safety barrier. How selfish of him…
The audiences begin to wheeze and gasp for air as the smell began to spread everywhere. "Pokey has released a powerful smell that even made the audiences suffer!" says Talko. "Luckily, I happen to have a gas mask, which I am using right now!" And it so happens that the priests have gas masks too…
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Pokey's tricycle is still releasing a large amount of smelly gas, and at the same time he is catching up with the ones ahead.
"Ugh… This smell is so horrible!" cries Roy.
"I must hold my breath and concentrate on the race!" Ganondorf tells himself, and then he takes a deep breath and tries not to breathe.
Pokey catches up next to Ness and says, "Ha! I caught up with you!"
"Stop that awful smell, Pokey!" Ness shouts at him.
"Not until I win the race! Nya nya!"
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"Need air…" groans Luigi as he wheezes. "I can't…"
"Mamamia…" says Mario one last time before he passes out from the awful smell. Pretty much everyone has pass out from the smell, but some managed to get away from here. The priests are just standing there, doing nothing, because they say they have no right to interfere with racers.
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And this went on all the way to the 3rd lap. It's amazing how the racers are able to survive this long without passing out. "Must… not… breathe…" Ganondorf reminds himself as he drives along the course.
"POKEY! STOP IT!" Ness yells at the top of his voice.
"Try and make me!" taunts Pokey.
"PSI ROCKING!" Ness fires a powerful and colorful blast at Pokey.
"Uwa! What are you doing!"
Then the Motor Tricycle's engine bursts on fire and the entire thing goes out of control. "Oh no! I lost control!" cries Pokey. "Help!"
His car moves uncontrollably towards the audience seats. "GO AWAY! DON'T COME HERE!" cry the terrified audiences.
CRASH!
The Motor Tricycle crashes off the course and Pokey flies off from his seat and falls headfirst into the hotdog vendor's box of hotdogs.
And thus, the awful smells come to an end as the Motor Tricycle's engine dies down.
"It's good to breathe fresh air again!" says Talko as he removes his gas mask. "Now that Pokey is down, there are 6 more racers to go!"
Soon, everyone recovered from the fainting. "Phew… Good thing we can breath fresh air again," says Peach.
"You're so heartless to hide in the barrier by yourself!" Pichu says to Mewtwo.
"Oh look! There's the cotton candy seller!" says Mewtwo, pointing to a random direction.
"Where?" Pichu looks in that direction but sees no one. "There's no cotton candy seller." He turns back to Mewtwo but the psychic Pokemon has already disappeared. "I fell for it…"
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Now they are all in the final lap…
Roy and Ganondorf are still in lead, and Kirby is trying hard to catch up, with the remaining three Smashers behind.
"I must win first place!" says Ganondorf. "I won't let anyone do it!" He pulls out his sword and swings at the nearby Roy, who quickly steers away just in time.
"Whoa! Why the sudden attack? Do you want to win first place so much?"
"I must! Or else I'll have to face some bad consequences!"
"Well, I don't care much about it. Since this is a race, I will fight my way to the top!"
They begin to swordfight their way to the finish line again. "Let us take a close look on who will pass the line first!" says Talko.
The two comes closer and closer to the finish line. At first, it seems that Ganondorf will win because he's a bit ahead of Roy. But when the last moment comes, Roy sticks his sword forward and it went pass the finish line first…
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"CONGRATULATIONS! Roy won first place!" exclaims Talko.
"Yes! I won!" says Roy happily.
And this is the record for the race
Winners
Roy
Ganondorf
Kirby
Runner-ups
Ness
Bowser
DK
Destroyed
Starfox Duo
Pokey
Lilina runs up to Roy and hugs him tightly. "I'm so glad you won!"
"I promised you I would!" says Roy.
"Well, 3rd place isn't all that bad," says Kirby. "At least I'm not disqualified."
"I was hoping something better from you, Kirby," Yoshi says to him. "But oh well…"
"I may not have win any place, but I'm glad I didn't lose or do anything violent," says Bowser.
"But at the same time, you should try and struggle towards a higher rank," Truk tells him. "The finals can be a bit rough and violent."
"I'll be sure to go rough when the time comes! By the way, where's Ganon?"
They see Ganondorf being scold and shout at by a man in priest attire. The man looks like in his late 20s and has blond hair. "You're terrible! Haven't you learned from your first race!" he yells at Ganondorf. "Even my little daughter can race better than you!"
"I'm so sorry, but…"
"No buts! Complaining won't get you anywhere! You performed so well during the test and I expected you to get first place! You disappointed me!"
"But at least it's one of the top 3."
"But you have enough potential to get first place!"
The priest goes on and on with scolding Ganondorf.
"What's with that guy?" asks Roy.
"That's the priest who tested Ganondord," explains Carlos. "His name is Jason, and he always wants his pupils to be the best of the best. Ganondorf did not get first place, so he is not satisfied."
"But 2nd place isn't anything bad," says Kirby.
"Right, but Jason is a huge perfectionist. He demands that you to be perfect in everything. He can talk on and on forever about how his entire family is such a good racer."
"Weirdo…"
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That night, at a grand restaurant…
Kirby and Yoshi are pigging out, as usual. Falco and Ganondorf are looking very down, and the others are enjoying their meal. "So is that why you wanted to win first place so much?" Roy asks Ganondorf.
"Yes… My priest wants everyone he tested to get first place… If I do not get it next time, he's gonna scold me again… The first time he said he knew a beggar on the street who could drive a car better than I can…" replies Ganondorf.
"Argh… I did not win…" groans Falco.
"You're a bit too rough," Fox tells him. "Do you really want to kill our own mate?"
"Yeah! You're so mean!" says Kirby.
"You shut up!"
"Now everyone don't think about that!" says Peach. "Let us enjoy this meal and have fun as usual!"
So everyone tries to forget about the race for now and eat dinner.
TO BE CONTINUED…
This race is only one chapter long. It does seem kinda rushed, as I do not wish to keep you fans waiting. If you know any ways to improve the story, then tell me, okay?