Ahem, remember: Meta-Knight and Snake will not appear in this story.
Chapter 25: Fall of Fox and Falco! A Blast Race in the Jungle!"Looks like a tough opponent for them," says Samus, looking at the big screen which shows Starfox Duo and Mantis.
"I'm sure they can handle it themselves," says Link.
"Want more ice cream?" Kirby asks Yoshi.
"Yes!" replies the green dinosaur happily.
"You're gonna get toothache," Dr. Mario reminds him.
"Who cares?"
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Back at the race…
"Air Chopper!" shouts Mantis. He swings his twin oversouled scythes against the air and shot out 2 crescent energy blades.
"Whoa! Watch out!" cries Fox. The Arwing Car quickly moves to the side to avoid the incoming attacks.
"Ha! See if you can dodge this!" Mantis swings his scythes again, this time shooting out 4 blades.
"More are coming!" cries Fox. The Arwing Car boosts into the air to avoid one, and then quickly drops onto the ground to avoid the second one, and then moves left to right to avoid the remaining two.
"That was close," says Falco.
"Bah! You're good at this!" says Mantis. "But this won't last forever! Scythe Cutter!" He swings his scythe at the trees in front of them, and a large energy wave shot out and slices through the tree trunks, making them toppling over.
"Wha! Tree fall!" cries Fox.
"Not a problem!" says Falco. He quickly shoots one tree into pieces and then steers to the side to avoid another tree. The farthest tree slams down in front of them, blocking their path, but their Arwing Car easily jumps over it. "Ha! Easy!"
"Grrr! Why can't you stand still?" growls Mantis. "You're just like a fly!"
"Falco! The radar indicates that there is a river ahead!" says Fox.
"So the announcer was right after all!" says Falco. "Okay, let's get ready to fly over it!"
Soon, the great river is in sight. It is a great river with a width like that of the Amazon River, and there are lots of dangerous animals swimming in it. The Arwing Car approaches the bank of the river and takes off into the air, flying across it easily. A couple of piranhas jumped up to get it, but they only bounced off the hard covering of the vehicle.
"Ha! Like this thing can be shredded into pieces!" laughs Falco. "And I wonder if that guy can even…" He looks into the rear mirror and sees Mantis's car flying in air! "Wha!"
"My oversouled car can fly like an insect!" says Mantis, whose car now has a pair of insect wing at the back of it. "I can travel through both air and land with ease!"
"Argh! This guy is annoying!"
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Meanwhile, DK and K. Rool also reached the river. Since both their cars have been built to travel also in water, they drive into it without fear. "Good thing my car is capable of doing this!" says DK.
"Ha! I can do it too!" says K. Rool. "Now I will sink you right here!" He takes out a bazooka and fires a cannon shell at DK.
DK quickly ducks under the shot and says, "Hey! You scared me!"
"Oh yeah? This is gonna scare you more!"
Meanwhile, another racer behind them drives straight into the river, but he is instantly swept away to his doom. I don't think this is even worth mentioning in the first place…
"Get ready to meet your maker!" says K. Rool as he readies to pull the trigger. Suddenly, a piranha jumps out of the water and bites him in the arm. "YEOW!"
DK quickly uses this as a chance to sail off, leaving K. Rool to be bothered by those piranhas.
"Dumb fish! Get off me!"
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After crossing the river, the Arwing Car flies into the sky above the trees rather than going into the jungle. Mantis also follows them. "It appears that the racers are heading for the skies instead of entering the Great Green Jungle!" says Repeat, who is riding his mini-plane. "This will be something interesting to see! An air race!"
Fox looks back and sees Mantis still following them. "He's following us!"
"Why must he follow us everywhere?" asks Falco, annoyed.
"How would I know?"
"I will eliminate anyone in front of me!" says Mantis. "Air Chopper!" He swings his twin scythes and fire more blades at them.
"Do a barrel roll!" shouts Fox! The Arwing Car performs a spin and deflects the blade away!
"What!" Mantis quickly flies aside just as the blade flies back towards him. "So you got some kind of tricks of your sleeves, eh?"
"You bet!" says Falco. "If you want a dogfight, then bring it on!"
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Down in the jungle, DK is driving smoothly. An anaconda pops swings down from a tree with its jaws wide open. DK is able to react quickly and grabs the giant snake by the neck and pulls it down the tree. He pummels the snake in the head a couple of times and hurls it out.
Then a jaguar jumps down from a tree to get him, but DK punches it straight in the face and sends it flying. "Feels like home!" he says to himself.
Suddenly, several oranges fall down from the tree and into his driver's seat.
"Uh? ORANGE BOMBS!"
KABOOOOOM!
The explosion clears and the outer covering of the Barrel Car is busted, revealing the engines inside. "Oh… This is terrible…" says DK.
One of the Kremlings on the tree threw these. "I got him, boss!" he says into a walkie-talkie.
"Good! I'll handle him from here!" says K. Rool, who has also successfully crossed the river. He soon caught up behind DK and points a bazooka at him. "Eat this, sucker!"
"Oh no!" gasps DK. The cannon shell flies out of the bazooka and hits the back of the Barrel Car.
KABOOOOOM!
When the smoke clear, there is nothing else of the car and DK. "Hahahahaha! I got him!" laughs K. Rool. "That annoying monkey is blasted into pieces!"
Suddenly, DK drops down from the sky and on top of K.Rool's car!
"WHAT!"
"You'll pay!" says DK angrily.
"Why should I?" K. Rool gets up and tackles DK, pushing him onto the front of the car. K. Rool then pins him down and grabs him by the neck and strangles him. All these happened on the front part of the car and while it is still moving. Reminds me of quite a few intense driving scenes in action movies…
DK quickly lifts a fist and punches K. Rool in the eye, knocking backwards. Now it is DK's turn to pin him down and strangle him.
This kept on going for a while until an explosion rocks the car.
BANG!
"Whoa! What was that!" gasps K. Rool. Quickly using this as a chance, DK winds up a punch and hits K. Rool in the face.
POW!
"WHAAAAAAA!" K. Rool is sent flying out his car and crashing into the trees.
BANG! CRASH!
DK then gets into the driver's seat and takes control of K. Rool's car himself. "I'll use his car, then," he says.
Suddenly, several explosions occur behind him. He turns around and sees Sweet Tooth's truck approaching! The sides of the truck are open, and many guns and launchers are sticking out. "I found you at last, you primate!" says Sweet Tooth angrily. "I will not let you win the race! I will crush you here!"
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"Scythe Rain!" shouts Mantis as his car flies into the air above the Arwing Car. He swings his scythes wildly and shot out several energy blades at them.
"Whoa! This is going to be wild!" exclaims Falco as he steers their vehicle back and forth like mad to avoid it, and once in a while doing a barrel roll to deflect the blades.
"This is getting too much!" says Fox.
"Now take this! Cutting Rush!" Mantis's car zooms at them very fast, but luckily, the Arwing Car is able to get a speed boost and circle into the air to avoid the hit. "Grrrr!"
"Hey! It's my turn now!" says Falco. "Take this!" He fires several laser beams and bombs at Mantis's car and blasts it violently in the back.
BANG! BOOM! KABANG!
"AUGH!" screams Mantis as his car begins to drop down in flames towards the jungle below. "THIS CAN'T BE!"
"Yeah! We got him!" exclaim Fox and Falco.
"YOU'RE GOING DOWN WITH ME! FINAL SLASH!" Mantis swings his scythe really hard and shot out two giant blades at them.
"Wha! Watch out!" cries Fox.
Too late! The Arwing Car isn't able to dodge it, and the cutter slices through the wings and cut them off! "OH NO! THE WINGS!" cries Falco. "WE'RE DONE FOR!" The Arwing Car plummets into the jungle, along with Mantis.
CRASH! BANG! SMASH! BANG!
"It appears that both the Starfox Duo and Mantis have a tie!" says Repeata. "They have both plummeted into the jungle!"
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The Smashers in the theater are shocked at seeing this, and with mouths wide open. Yoshi's mouth is wide open also, and he is holding his ice cream in a tilted way, and the ice cream falls the cone and onto the floor…
"They have lost," says Mewtwo. "They have no more chances."
"So much for struggling all the way to the finals," says CF.
"That's a good thing at least," says Luigi. "That way we will have lesser quarrels among friends in the future about who will win."
"Still, I pity that they fought all the way here and then lost," says Zelda.
"I dropped my ice cream…" says Yoshi with tears flowing down his eyes.
"Don't worry, I'll make a new one," says Kirby, but then he sneezes. "ACHOO!" He shook a bit and the cone falls off his head and onto the floor. Kirby stares at the cone in silence for about a minute, and then says, "Sorry, I lost my ice cream ability."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" screams Yoshi—Vader style
"Well, you ate enough already," says Dr. Mario.
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DK is still trying to escape the evil clown behind him. "Stand still, you flea-bitten ball of hair!" yells Sweet Tooth as he fires him with several missiles and bullets.
"I must get away from him!" thought DK. He keeps on driving and notices two familiar people among the bushes, but he didn't have time to stop and so keeps on driving.
"Huh? Wasn't that DK just now?" asks Fox. "How come his car looks different?" And then Sweet Tooth passes him. "And that was the clown who has a grudge against him."
"Darn!" cries Falco. "How can this be happening! Our car is destroyed!"
"Face it, Falco. Our car is demolished and we have no more chances in this race. We have lost."
"But didn't they say you can run to the finish line as long as you're not disabled? I'm doing so!" Falco begin running along the course.
"It's useless…" Fox tells him. And then Falco gets knocked into the sky by some racers.
"YAAAAAAAA!"
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"Stand still, you rotten brain gorilla!" shouts Sweet Tooth as he continues to blast him with all kinds of ammunition. DK keeps on driving left to right wildly to avoid the incoming attacks. A missile hits the ground behind his (actually K. Rool's) car and knocks him into the sky.
"WHOA!"
The car flips in air a couple of times and fall onto the ground on its wheels, and continues moving.
"Phew… That was close…"
"Argh! I'll get you this time!" growls Sweet Tooth angrily. He presses a button and the mechanical head at the top of the truck rises a bit, and then opens its mouth. It shoots out several flaming missiles all over the place, creating many violent explosions that uproot the trees.
"Hey! You're destroying nature!" DK shouts at him.
"Who cares? As long as I can get you, I'm glad!"
"I will not let you do what you want!" DK then notices that K. Rool's bazooka is still in the car. "I'll have to do something!" He slows down the car and moves to the side of Sweet Tooth's car.
"So you want to face me like a man?" asks Sweet Tooth. "Bring it on!"
DK places the bazooka on his shoulder and points it at the window. "Take this!"
"Wha!"
DK pulls the trigger and the cannon shell shoots into the window and hits Sweet Tooth.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The front part of the truck explodes and Sweet Tooth is sent flying into the air. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" And then the remains of the truck crash into the trees.
"Yeah! I did it!" exclaims DK.
"It seems that DK has destroyed Sweet Tooth!" says Repeata. "The finish line is not too far ahead! Can he make it before the others?"
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"He got the clown!" cries Yoshi. "No more ice cream!"
"Haven't you had enough?" Dr. Mario asks him.
"Wow! To think DK would still be so good driving other people's car!" says Roy.
"Is this even legal?" asks Ganondorf.
"As long as you're driving, it's legal," says Carlos, who this time didn't pop out of nowhere. Rather, he was in the theater all along and I never mentioned him until now.
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DK keeps on driving and sees the finish line ahead. "I'm going to win!"
But some Kremlings pop out in front of the line and say, "We're not letting you pass! You stole our captain's car!" They take out orange bombs and hurl it at him, causing an explosion that blasts the car into pieces. "Ha! We got him!"
But the explosion sent DK flying into the air. He grabs onto a vine and swings through the air and straight across the finish line. "YAHOOOOOO!"
"NOOOOO! WE FAILED TO STOP HIM!" cry the Kremlings.
"Congratulations! Donkey Kong has won the race!" exclaims Talko. Soon, a couple of other racers pass the finish line, taking the remaining places.
"I win!" sings DK while dancing happily. "I win! I win! I win!"
Soon, K. Rool comes walking to the finish line on foot. "That cursed monkey… You dare stole my car…" he grumbles. "I'll get you for this!" He pulls out his cutlass and runs to DK. "Die!"
DK reacted fast and dodges the strike from K. Rool. "You haven't had enough yet, K. Rool?" DK quickly grabs him by the tail and swings him around in air before hurling him away.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"That should teach you!"
Soon, Falco comes dragging on his body to the finish line, followed by Fox. "Did we win?" asks the exhausted Falco.
"Unfortunately, you both came in last and have lost," says Repeata.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" screams Falco in that same famous style.
"Too bad…" says Fox.
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"Did you see that?" exclaims Diddy. "DK won first place!"
"Wow! He's getting cooler all the time!" exclaims Candy.
"Yup, he sure has skills!" says Funky. "Even though his own ride is busted, he hijacked someone elses's ride and won!"
"DK rocks!" exclaims Dixie.
"Fine, my son is good for something," admits Cranky. "But why on earth does he wants to enter this race anyway?
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And so…
"Congratulations, Donkey Kong!" Mario says to DK. They are having their usual dinner in the same usual hotel café. It's not that big of a deal that they have to eat at a large, fancy restaurant, even if there are plenty in this city.
"Let's give cheers to him!" says CF, raising his cup.
"Cheers!" say the others as they also raise their cups. Falco is the only one who didn't, and he has his head resting on the table.
"Get over it, Falco," Fox tells him. "We lost."
"Yes, just accept your fate," Mewtwo tells him.
"Don't talk to me…" mumbles Falco.
"Just leave him alone; he'll get over it soon," says Fox.
CF is still deep in thought, and he says, "You know? I've been wondering when am I going to race?"
"You're not the only one," Ganondorf tells him. "Me and Link haven't had a race yet."
"Right," says Link. "I'm getting bored of waiting."
"Let's hope we get ours soon," says CF.
"By the way, where's Yoshi?" asks Kirby.
"He ate too much ice cream and is suffering in the bathroom," Dr. Mario tells him.
And so, we come to the moral of this chapter: Never eat too many ice creams.
TO BE CONTINUED…
How was that? I hope you like it!
And yes, Fox and Falco are officially out of the race. Being the main characters doesn't mean they always get to shine. Plus, I should begin eliminating characters to a certain number before the final race. If it is all Smashers in the final race, then it won't be really appealing. Don't worry, that doesn't mean none of the Smashers will make it the final race. Surely a couple of them will.
I really want to keepthis asecretfor a while, but I just can't help telling you. The story does not end after the final race. There will be an unexpecting event that you will find exciting!
Oh, I've decided that I'll only post the title of the next chapter. Making the old usual previews sort of spoil things. Try and predict what there will be just by reading the titles!
Coming up next chapter: Am I Still Not in the Next Race? Secrets of the Old Ruin Course!