I recently saw the new 6th opening for One Piece (the original, of course), and wow! It's a very cool opening animation! If this story were an anime or cartoon, then I would definitely give it a cool opening song and several neat animations also! Too bad that'll never happen…
Chapter 15: Furious Battle on the Racing Track! The Struggle For First Place!
"We are now continuing the race that has begun in the previous chapter," says Repeata. "I, Repeata, the younger brother of Talko, who was the announcer for the preliminaries, am announcing this race that is held here in Wild Flower Meadow. Let us continue watching this race that is held here in Wild Flower Meadow!"
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"Pointless Flaming!" shouts Flamer as he hurls another fireball at Banjo and Kazooie.
"Take this!" says Kazooie as she spits out an ice egg. When the fireball and the ice egg hit together, they explode into an explosion of steam. "I knew this would do the trick! Using something cold to counter against something hot!"
"What's your plan?" Banjo asks her.
"If you want to have an relaxing race, then let's get rid of this guy first!"
"Then tell me what to do."
"You just keep on driving, and I'll handle the rest!" Kazooie turns to Flamer and taunts him. "Hey, hot-head! Flame me more if you want to!"
"You're asking for it! Get your flame shield ready! You're gonna get flamed! Pointless Flaming!" shouts Flamer, and he hurls several fireballs at her.
"Ice Eggs!" Kazooie shoots out several freezing, cold, white eggs at the incoming fireballs. When the eggs and fireballs come in contact, they explode into a large cloud of steam, totally blotting the view.
"What was that explosion I heard?" asks Banjo, still looking forward (you can't look back while driving, do you?).
"You drive ahead! I know what I'm doing!" Kazooie tell him, and then she hops off the back of the car and into the steam cloud.
The steam cloud is very massive and rather thick and Flamer cannot see very clearly in front of him. "Argh! That bird will pay!" says Flamer angrily. "I'm gonna flame her if I get my hands on her!"
Suddenly, Kazooie pops out of the steam in front of him by surprise and begins pecking him rapidly in the forehead.
PECK PECK PECK PECK PECK PECK PECK PECK PECK!
"ARRRRGHHHH! IT HURTS!" screams Flamer. "TAKE THIS! FLAME PUNCH!" He swings a fiery fist at Kazooie, but she is able to hop back to Banjo's car just in time.
"Phew, that was close…" she says.
"What were you doing just now?" Banjo asks her.
Flamer zooms out of the steam cloud and yells at the top of voice, "I HAVE ENOUGH OF THIS! YOU REALLY CROSSED MY PATH! TAKE THIS FLAMING! ABSOLUTE POINTLESS FLAMING!" He raises both his arms and fireballs shoot out in every direction.
"Ah! He's breaking all out on us!" cries Kazooie. "I'm scared!"
"We must do something!" says Banjo. "If this keeps going, we're gonna get flamed to death!"
"I'm out of ideas!"
Banjo keeps driving left to right while relying on the rear view mirror to see where the fires are coming from. "Ugh! I can't keep it up at this rate! I must stop him!"
"What are you doing?" Kazooie asks him. Banjo takes out his backpack and slows down the car and drives next to Flamer.
"What are you doing?" Kazooie asks him.
"I'm gonna whack him good with my trademark backpack attack!"
"GET READY TO BE FLAMED!" screams Flamer. "Ultimate Flaming!" He raises his hand and creates a ball of fire that keeps on growing very big.
At the same time, Banjo uses one hand to swing his backpack around in circles as fast as he can. "Get read for it!"
The ball of fire on Flamer's hand continues to grow even larger, until it's the size of a truck wheel! "AHHHH! WE'RE DONE FOR!" screams Kazooie!"
"GET FLAMED!" shouts Flamer. "ULTIMATE…"
"BACKPACK WHACK!" Banjo swings his backpack down on top of Flamer head, hitting him with a force like that of steel hammer.
WHACK!
This attack immediately made the large ball of fire disappear and Flamer, with a bloody head and a couple of broken tooth, slowly sinks back against the driver's seat. "Gaaa… aaaa…"
"Watch out, Banjo! There's a sharp turn!" Kazooie warns Banjo.
Banjo gets back to driving and made it in time to turn the sharp curve, but Flamer kept on going and crashes.
BANG!
Banjo and Kazooie gives each other a high five. "YEAH! WE DID IT!" they both exclaim.
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Wario is still holding onto the branch. "What am I gonna do…?" And because of his weight, the branch begins to bend and crack. "Oh no! Don't break! I'm not ready to die yet! HELP ME!" The branch rips off from the side of the cliff and Wario begins to fall down! "NOOOOOO!" Suddenly, someone grabs Wario by his hand, and he looks up to look at his savior—Mario!
"Hold-a on tight, Wario!" says Mario, who is reaching down to hold him (Luigi is holding onto Mario's legs). "I'll pull you up!"
After much struggling, the Mario Bros. is able to pull Wario up. "Hmph! Rescued by my eternal rival! That's not like me at all!" says Wario.
"Don't-a say that! You should be thankful!" Mario tells him.
"Fine! For once, thanks for saving my butt! Now I must get my hands on that cursing Waluigi for betraying me!"
"Hop-a on our car and we'll take you there!"
"Are you sure, Mario?" Luigi asks his older brother.
"Friends should help-a each other!"
"I never see you as a friend in the first place!" says Wario. "Fine! Let's get on the road!"
"Let's-a catch up with them! Luigi, use da mushroom!"
"Yes sir!"
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Mr. 3 pair and Waluigi are driving very fast. They can see two figures ahead of them duking it out. "If I catch up with them, then 1st place shall be mines!" says Mr. 3.
"There's someone approaching from behind," says Ms. Goldenweek.
The Red Fire is slowly catching up with the Wax Car. "There they are!" says Wario. "Faster! We must not let them escape!"
"Use more mushroom!" instructs Mario.
"Aye, aye, sir!" Luigi stuffs another mushroom into the exhaust pipe, giving the go-kart a speed boost, and they successfully catch up next to the Wax Car.
"So you Smashers manage to catch up with me, eh?" says Mr. 3. "But this is as far as you go!"
"You villain! What have you done to Waluigi?" Wario asks him angrily.
"I painted the black color of betrayal onto him," explains Ms. GW.
"I get-a eet!" says Mario. "Her paintings can hypnotize people! Waluigi must've fallen under her color trap-a!"
"Drive towards my car, Mario!" says Wario. "I'm gonna slap him to his senses!" So Mario steers towards the Wario Car, and when near enough, Wario hops off the Red Fire and onto his own car. Waluigi, who is driving the car, turns around to face him, but Wario punches him in the head before he was the chance. When hit, Waluigi's hat flies off his head, along with the black paint that is on top, and thus Waluigi snaps back to his senses.
"Ow… Why did you hit me?" asks Waluigi.
"That's for what you did to me earlier!"
"What did I do?"
"You don't remember? Guess I can't blame you for this! All right, you keep driving! I'm gonna teach that villain a lesson for messing with me!"
Mr. 3 looks at both sides and is distressed; there are enemies on both his sides! "Do something, Ms. Goldenweek!"
"I'm out of ideas," says Ms. GW. "And I'm sleepy too."
"Argh! Then I'll handle them myself!"
"I won't let you do what you want!" says Wario, cracking his knuckles.
"We're with Wario!" says Luigi. "We'll put an end to your ambitions at once!"
Mr. 3 stretches out both his hands and wax pours out from them. "Wax Reconstruction! Change Form!" The wax circles around the car and encases it in a ball of wax.
"Wa! What's he doing!" gasps Wario.
The ball of wax shatters open and reveals a robot moving on wheels inside it! Mr. 3's head is sticking out of the front part and Ms. GW is sleeping on a seat on the back of the wax robot. "Behold the Candle Racer!" says Mr. 3. "You shall all be crushed!" Mr. 3 raises the giant wax arms of the robot and slams it down on both sides, trying to hit them.
Mario quickly slows down the car and the fist lands just in front of him. If he had not slow down, then the fist would've crush down on top of them. On the other side, Wario is able to halt the incoming fist by delivering a powerful punch at it. "You think you can defeat me using something like that?" says Wario. "You have greatly underestimated me!"
"You shouldn't underestimate me!" says Mr. 3. He swings the arm low on the road to hit the Wario Car, but the car jumps into the air just before it got hit! "What!"
"Ha! We got spring equipped onto the car! That's why it can jump!" explains Waluigi.
On the other side, Mario tells Luigi to drive while he tries to take care of Mr. 3. "Get rid of him quickly!" says Luigi. "I'm afraid he's gonna do something horrible!"
"Not-a problem!" says Mario. He opens his hand wide and shoots out a fireball from it. The fireball hits the side of the Candle Racer and melts off a chunk of it.
"How dare you!" says Mr. 3 angrily. He swings an arm at Mario, but Mario bravely thrusts his palm directly at the incoming arm. Because there is firepower in his gloves, Mario is able to smash right through the wax arm and destroy it! "WHAT!"
"Fire is your weakness, right-a?" asks Mario sarcastically.
"Argh! You're making me angry!"
"Now I'm gonna crush you!" says Wario. He jumps up from his car and drops down towards the Candle Racer. He lands on top of the wax robot very hard using his butt and makes a big crack on it.
CRACK!
The entire thing begins to crack. "NOOOO! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" screams Mr. 3. And it's amazing that Ms. GW slept through all of this.
Mario jumps up from his car and delivers a fiery arm thrust into the cracked portion of the Candle Racer. The heat enters the inside of the wax robot, and then…
BANG!
The entire wax robot explodes into tons of pieces, and Mr. 3 and Ms. GW (still sleeping!) are hurled high into the sky. "AAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!" screams Mr. 3.
Wario drops into the back seat of his car and cheers happily. "All right! I taught him a lesson!"
Mario drops towards the road below instead of falling towards his car. "Mamamia! Oh no!" Just before he hit the road, Wario quickly reaches out his hand and pulls Mario into his own car. "Why thank you, Wario! That's so unlike you!"
"Let's just say that it's to pay you back for helping me back there!"
Ms. GW falls into a flower field and is safe, but Mr. 3 falls onto the hard road.
SLAM!
"Argh… How can I lose…?" he grumbles angrily, and then Banjo and Kazooie zoom by and run over him.
SPLAT!
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Samus is still in lead, with Kirby not too far behind her. "He'll never catch up with me at this rate!" she thought to herself.
Suddenly, two men in knight armor pop out of a bush and onto the middle of the road. "We will not let you pass!" they say. "We have the special pass that allows us to interfere with racers! We will stop you here so that our comrade Mr. Lance C. Lot can get first place! Prepare to be…"
CRASH!
Samus simply ran over them without hesitating. Soon, Kirby comes by and sees one of the fallen guys, and he sucks one up and absorbs his knight armor. "This armor should come in handy!" he thought.
Kirby continues to chase Samus. "You're not escaping from me! Take this!" Kirby magically makes a lance appear in his hand (apparently, this is the power of the knight armor) and hurls it at Samus. The lance hits the back of her starship and did some damage.
"Why you, Kirby!" growls Samus angrily. She turns around and fires a plasma beam. Kirby quickly cancels his knight power and opens his mouth wide to swallow the plasma shot. When swallowed, a hat with glowing plasma energy on it appears on his head!
"I am now Plasma Kirby!" he says. "Take this!" He cups his hands together and creates a ball of energy between them. When the plasma energy is large enough, Kirby fires it at Samus.
"What!" Samus quickly steers to the side, but the plasma shot is able to scrape across the side of the starship a bit. "Argh!"
"Take more of this!" Kirby sticks out his hand and fires several thin plasma beams, and Samus keeps on moving left to right to avoid it.
"Argh! He's getting up my nerves!" She presses a button on the controls and the sides of her starship opens, revealing missile launchers. Each of the missiles is detached and fired at Kirby, but he used plasma bullets to destroy them.
"Ha! You can't get me with that kind of attack!"
Samus angrily mutters to herself on how she should never have fired the plasma shot in the first place. "All I can do now is to rush ahead!" she says to herself.
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Behind the two, the Mario Bros. (Mario is back in his own car) and Wario Bros. are catching up. "I see Kirby and Samus ahead!" says Luigi.
"Good-a! Let's-a catch up!" says Mario. He takes out two mushrooms and tosses one to Wario. "Here! Put-a theez to use!"
"Thanks a lot, my eternal rival!" says Wario.
"Why are you helping him?" Luigi asks Mario.
"Friends should help-a each other!"
Mario stuffs the mushroom into the exhaust pipe and the Red Fire boosts forward very fast. Wario did the same thing and the Wario Car boosts forward too. "Wow! This thing sure is useful!" says Waluigi.
"Come to think of it, Mario isn't all that of a bad person after all!" says Wario.
After using the boost mushroom, they are able to catch up with the two in front. "So you caught up, eh?" says Kirby. "But you'll never get pass me! I will get the foods I want!"
"Let's not fight, Kirby!" says Luigi. "Let's just keep on racing and see who reaches the finish line first! I don't wish to hurt you!"
"Well, I take pity on someone like you. Fine… But as for that huntress ahead of us…"
Samus takes a look behind her and is displeased. "Darn! More people are catching up! I better use bombs!" Samus presses some buttons on the controls and her starship drop behinds a trail of bombs as it travels.
"Watch out for da bombs!" says Mario. The Red Fire, Wario Car, and Warp Star move around in a zigzag and wavy formation to avoid running into any bombs along the ground.
"You can't get us with simple things like this!" says Kirby.
Samus smirks to herself and says, "Heh! You think you can still beat me? The finish line is not too far ahead! See if you can catch up with me!"
"I'm must get first place!"
"First place is mines!" shouts Wario. "Waluigi! Drive faster!"
"We're already at max speed!" says Waluigi.
Wario turns to Mario and tells him to give him more mushrooms, but Mario says he has no more.
"Darn! At a time like this! Now we can only drive the best we can!"
BANG!
"Did I hear an explosion?" asks Luigi.
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Sure enough, the explosion was caused by Banjo and Kazooie running into a bomb Samus dropped. Fortunately, it only sent their car flying high into the sky. "Ah! We're gonna fall!" cries Banjo. "Kazooie! Do something!"
Kazooie grips hard onto the car seat and begins flapping her wings; this caused the car to fall down slower. "Ow… This is so heavy…"
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Meanwhile, the 4 racers below are getting nearer and nearer to the finish line. "I'm so gonna get first place this time!" says Samus.
"NOOO! IT'S ME!" shouts Kirby.
"MEEEEEE!" yells Wario.
Suddenly, several long, thick white needles drop down in front of them and block their way! "What!" they all gasp.
Behind them, a large, white tank is approaching them at a furious speed. "Do you think you can get rid of me that easily!" yells an angry Mr. 3. "You have not seen my true powers yet!"
"That guys still alive!" gasps Wario.
"Oh no! I knew something horrible was gonna happen!" cries Luigi.
"These kinds of things can't block me that easily!" says Samus, and she fires a plasma shot at the white needles blocking the path, and the shot melted them all, and they all proceed forward.
"You're not escaping from me! First place is mines for sure!" shouts Mr. 3. The 4 racers quickly run for their life as the giant wax tank chases them from behind.
"We can't let this guy follow us!" says Wario. "He's gonna crush us all!"
"We must-a fight him off!" says Mario. "We will use fire!" Mario turns to the tank and shoots several fireballs, but the tank is too big to be melted with tiny fireballs.
"I will not fall to you idiots this time!" shouts Mr. 3. "Die!" He fires a large wax cannon ball at the Red Fire.
"Oh no!" cries Mario. Suddenly, a bob-omb is thrown at the side of the cannon shell and destroys it with an explosion. Mario turns to see that Wario was the one who threw the bomb. "Thanks a lot!"
"You said friends should help, right?" says Wario.
"Those two in front aren't doing anything at all!" says Waluigi. Indeed, Kirby and Samus have selfishly zoomed ahead and are not interested at all in helping them.
"Bah! I don't care about winning or not! I just want to beat the crap out of this guy!" says Wario. He takes out more bob-ombs and hurls it at the tank over and over. This slowly destroyed portions of the tanks and reduced its size by some.
"You brats!" scowls Mr. 3. "I have enough! Take this!" He shot out wax into the sky above them and it forms into the shape of an anvil.
Luigi looks up and sees the anvil falling. "Oh no! We're gonna get crushed!"
"Not today!" says Wario. He jumps up from his seat and headbutts the bottom of the anvil, and amazingly enough, shatters it into tons of pieces!
"What! How is it possible that you destroy my steel hard wax!" gasps Mr. 3.
Wario drops back to his seat and flexes his muscles. "I've been working out a lot, you know."
"Say, Wario, why don't we use the Wario Missile?" asks Waluigi.
"What War… Oh yeah! You mean the same thing we used on the old lady who was selling fake Wii? How can I not remember that? That thing will surely blow the tank to pieces!"
At the same time, Mario is searching through the car trunk. "Where's da fire flower? Ah! Here eet eez!"
"What are you planning to do," asks Luigi while still looking forward.
"I'm gonna use da maximum fire power to destroy Mista 3!" Mario rubs his hand against the stem of the fire flower and a fiery aura covers his hand.
Waluigi presses a large button on the control, and the trunk of the Wario Car opens, revealing a large missile. "Ready?" asks Waluigi.
"Always ready!" says Wario. "Fire at will!"
"All right-a! Now I have da maximum fire power!" says Mario, throwing the now useless fire flower away. He cups his hand together and slowly begins gathering fire energy into it.
"You guys…! You have crossed my path!" says Mr. 3 furiously. "I will kill you all at once!"
"Not today! Fire!" shouts Wario.
"Fire!" Waluigi presses the launch button and the missile shoots out from the back of the car trunk.
Mario opens his hand wide and shoots out a large fireball.
Both the projectiles hit the front part of the wax tank and…
KAPOW! KABOOOOOM!
The whole thing explodes and Mr. 3 is once again sent flying high into the sky. "GAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
"ALL RIGHT!" they all cheer.
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Repeata is up in the sky when he saw Mr. 3 flying up. "Looks like Mr. 3 is defeated once again! Now let's see who are the winners of this race that is held here in Wild Flower Meadow."
Samus and Kirby are both very close to each other and are reaching the finish line. It is near impossible to tell which one is more ahead.
"Who will win?" says Repeata anxiously. "Let's hope our camera takes a good shot of this!"
As they are very near the finish line, Samus did something unexpected; she shot out the grapple beam and it went pass the finish line! Kirby is shocked to see this. "What!"
And the audiences are surprised also. "That was smart of her!" says CF.
Yoshi's mouth drops open and says, "Does that mean…"
"Yeah, Samus won."
Yoshi lets out a sigh, but then says, "Oh well, at least he didn't lose…"
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To make a long story short, the race has finally ended. The Wario Bros. came in 3rd place and the Mario Bros. came in 4th. Banjo and Kazooie came in 5th, but they are not lost either. Pretty much every other racer in this race have been destroyed, so the remaining ones who passed the finish line are all considered winners for this race. But of course, the first 3 to cross the line get money prizes.
"Let's give cheers to Samus, the winner of the race held here in Wild Flower Meadow!" announces Repeata.
All the audiences in the theater stood up and clap their hands and cheer for her. "Samus is getting good at this!" says Zelda.
"The tougher she becomes, the more she becomes my rival," says CF.
"Guess she won't be easy to mess around with," adds Ganondorf.
"Samus! You rock a lot!" says Bowser. "You're the man… er… I mean girl!"
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That evening, at a restaurant in Sedan HQ…
"Everyone! Cheer for me!" says Samus happily. "I won first place!"
"Cheers!" all the others say, except for Kirby.
"Next time I'm gonna beat you!" says Kirby grumpily.
"Don't feel bad, Kirby!" Yoshi tells him. "At least you're still in the race."
"That's the good thing, but I really wanna get first place…"
"People are never satisfied," says Mewtwo. "This is the bad nature of living things."
"Like you have the right to say that…" says Dr. Mario while looking at him strangely.
"Oh, Mario, I noticed that you're pretty nice to Wario," Peach tells Mario. "I thought you don't like him."
"I never said I don't-a like him," says Mario. "I still sees him as a friend, but not-a one that eez easy to get-a along with."
"It's good to know that! I knew you guys aren't in bad terms all the time!"
"Hey Mario!" shouts Wario from his dining table not too far from the Smashers. "Come and let us celebrate over the victory of that wax fool!"
Mario raises his cup and says to him, "Yeah! Cheers!"
"Good thing you taught him a lesson," says Link. "I still haven't gotten over what he did to me, Zelda, and Peach yet."
And so, the Smashers enjoy the dinner they are having tonight.
TO BE CONTINUED…
This ends the first race of the finals. How do you like the racing battles? Surely it's very good, right? I hope you like it!
Let me tell you this beforehand, the second race might take quite a few chapters to end, and furthermore, the main focus won't be on the race, but rather, the battles between interferers…
Preview
Marth: Cassmon… She's such an angel… Should I tell her that I…
Master Hand: Hey, I brought a friend from the sky to help!
Ness: I'm in this race!
Pokey: Ness! You're in for a big surprise! Get ready to meet your makers in the race!
Bowser: You mean Ness will be in danger? Then I must help him!
Marth: Count me in too! I'm ready to help!
Coming up next chapter: The 2nd Race is in Rocky Valley! The Mercenary 4 Revealed!