Inside the pyramid, the racers all ready themselves for the second race. "I may not be able to enter the pyramid," says the voice of Talko out of nowhere, but there will be flying cameras around here that will keep track of your movements. Now let us begin the race!"
And so the racers are off.
As they race through the only path of the course, they soon come to a strip of path with a bottomless pit down below, and there are giant stone pillars swinging back and forth above the path.
Sunaman easily drives through the pillars without getting hit. "If he can do it, then surely I can do it!" says Ganondorf, and he drives pass those pillars while avoid getting hit. He, too, made it pass. A couple of other racers weren't lucky, and they got swatted off the course to their doom below. Actually, it's not a bottomless pit down there; there is a sea of sand below, so the fall isn't fatal.
Pico recklessly zooms through the pillars, and made it through. "I'm gonna show him what I'm capable of!" thought Link. He also tries to drive pass the swinging pillars. He sees a pillar swinging towards him, and he quickly steers towards the side to avoid getting hit, but instead, he drove off the path and falls down. "YAAAAA!"
Pico looks back and down at him and laughs, "Ha! Idiot!"
"Hook Shot!" yells Link. He pulls a trigger on the steering wheel and the front part of his vehicle shot out a long hook that latches onto the back of the Wild Goose, and Link's car gets pulled up and back onto the course.
"Hey! Cheater!" shouts Pico.
"Who cares?" says Link.
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The other races continue on into a long hallway with suspicious holes on the sides of the walls. A short while after they drive through the tunnel, arrows begin shooting out from the holes! "Yikes!" they scream.
However, Sunaman is not scared. A wall of sand appears around his vehicle and protected him from the arrows. "Argh! That guy is doing cheap stuff!" says Ganondorf as he tries his best to avoid the arrows.
A sharp arrow hits the side of a racer and knocks him off course; he hits the wall and is pelted by more arrows until the car explodes. The explosion in the rather narrow hallway causes the ceiling to collapse, and a pile of rubbles block the way forward. "Oh no! How do we get pass this?" asks a racer.
"Out of the way!" shouts Pico at the top of his voice as he zooms into the scene, with Link dragging behind him via the hook shot. The Wild Goose rams into the pile of rubbles and smashes right through it, clearing a way! The racers are glad and they continue the race. "You think I'll let any of you pass?" says Pico. He begins ramming his car back and forth, knocking out all the racers. And Link is still dragging behind him. "Would you please just stop following me!" Pico shouts at him.
"Not until we get out of this narrow passage!" replies Link.
"Argh!" Pico sways his car left to right violently and slams Link against both sides of the wall.
CRASH! CRASH!
"Ow! My car will break at this rate!" says Link, and he quickly retracts the hook shot, but it tore out piece of the Wild Goose's covering.
"Hey! What are you doing!" yells Pico. "You tore off an important part of my car that is responsible for its handling ability!"
"Well, too bad for you!"
"Why you!"
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The current racers in lead are Sunaman, followed by two other unnamed racers, and then Ganondorf. Ganondorf speeds up fast to a racer and kicks it hard in the side. "Out of the way!" he yells at the racer.
"Why should I?" replies the racer rudely. He steers to the side to crush Ganondorf against the wall, but the Gerudo quickly slows down and gets behind the racer, and then he drives to the other side of the racer.
"I told you to get out of my way!" says Ganondorf. He pulls back his fast and gathers dark energy. "Warlock Punch!" He punches the side of the car hard and smashes its engines, making it malfunction.
"Argh! How dare you!" cries the racer as his moves around uncontrollably. Then there was a turn around the corner and the racer hits the wall because he isn't able to turn.
"You should've listened to me!" says Ganondorf.
The racer in front of Ganondorf sees him catching up. "He will never catch up with me!" says the racer. The back of his car opens and several tacks drop down from it.
"You think you can stop me with this?" says Ganondorf. He steers to towards the wall and kicks off it very hard, and the momentum sends him and his bike flying towards the opposite wall, and Ganondorf is now actually driving on the wall!
"What! How did he do that?" gasps the racer.
After passing over the tacks, Ganondorf carefully lands onto the floor next to the racer. "Ha! Got you surprised, eh?" says Ganondorf.
"You won't get pass me!" The racer tosses several tacks at Ganondorf, who easily blocks them with his hand armor.
"It's my turn now!" Ganondorf then punches the racer silly in the face and knocks him out, and the car sways off its path and crashes.
BANG!
"Now for that sand shaman!"
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"Wow! Ganondorf is so cool!" exclaims Young Link. "I never knew he could do that!"
"That's nothing special unless it's car," says CF.
"I wonder how's Link?" asks Zelda.
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Ganondorf is now catching up to Sunaman. "You! I'll never let you pass!" he shouts.
"Ah, so the Gerudo has caught up," says Sunaman. "I must make my move fast."
Ahead of them is a large chasm, and racers must get across it by driving up a ramp.
"Don't worry if you fall down," says Talko's voice out of nowhere. "It is soft sand down there, so a small fall will not hurt you! However, you are out of the race if you do fall down, so be careful traveling over the ramp!
Sunaman drives up the ramp and into the air! But he isn't fast enough and did not make it to the other side of the chasm. "Ha! Too bad for you!" laughs Ganondorf upon seeing it.
But Sunaman simply smirks. Suddenly, a large column of sand appears from the pit and catches him, and lifts him into the air again!
"What!"
Sunaman gets back onto the course and zooms off just as Ganondorf lands on the other side. "I congratulate you on catching up with me," says Sunaman. "You even cross the chasm with ease."
"Tsk! Like my speed isn't as fast as yours!"
Pico and Link are approaching the same ramp, and they are having a combat together. "Die!" yells Pico as he constantly rams the side of Link's car. Because Link's vehicle is made of wood, it begins to break apart.
"Oh no! It can't hold up any longer!" gasps Link. "If I cannot carry on in this race, then I won't let him also!" He pulls out a bomb and lights it.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?"
"Take this!" Link hurls the bomb at the Wild Goose and it explodes just as it hits the covering.
BANG!
The explosion tore out a chunk of the racing machine, revealing all the internal engines. "Argh! What have you done!" cries Pico. "Now my car can't take it any longer!"
Link then forcefully slams his vehicle into Pico's. They both slide off the main path and miss the ramp, and therefore fall down the chasm.
"AAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
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"OH NO!" screams Zelda.
"What? Link fell off?" says YL.
"That means he will be disqualified from the race!" says Marth. "Why did he do that?"
"His vehicle can't take it any longer," says CF. "But seeing how he doesn't want his opponent to beat him, he takes his opponent along with him also."
"NOOOO! LINK!" screams Zelda.
"Get over it."
"Right, I foresaw this already," says Mewtwo. "But didn't want to tell you."
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"Link and Pico are out of the race!" says Talko. "Can you believe it? Of the 17 racers who came in, only 6 are left! Who will make it to out first?"
The remaining racers drive as fast as they can and fight their way to the end. They have one more obstacle before the exit—the sand river.
It is a river of sand that constantly flows to the side until it goes down a sand fall (like a waterfall but with sand).
Ganondorf zooms into the sand river and drives at top speed to reach the other side before getting carried down the sand fall. "Argh! It's so hard to drive on sand!" he growls.
"This is nothing to me," says Sunaman. At his command, a portion of the sand rises up and hardens into a bridge, and then he drives across it safely. Another racer tries to drive across the sand bridge too, but it disappears before he can get to the other side, and he drops into the sand river and struggles to get out.
Ganondorf is fighting against the direction of the sand flow, because he is getting nearer and nearer to the sand fall. The softness of the sand and its movement make it hard for vehicles to travel on. "Argh! How can I lose here!" he cries. He sees 2 racers helplessly try to escape the sand river, but they fail and fall off the sand fall. "No! I must not fall here!" He cups one hand and energy starts to form in it, and he hurls the energy ball directly behind him near the wheels. The explosion of the energy ball blasts Ganondorf into the air and right on the other side of the sand river! "Yeah!"
"Wow! Ganondorf managed to escape the sand river!" exclaims Talko. "There are 4 racers remaining in this race!"
Ganondorf drives at top speed and soon caught up with Sunaman. "I won't let you get there before me!" he shouts at Sunaman.
"You managed to escape your doom," says Sunaman. "Now this is where the real deal begins!"
They begin driving up a slope, and they can see light above it. After much upward movements, they finally reach the light and made it out the pyramid together! "Yes! At last!" exclaims Ganondorf. And the finish line is not too far ahead either!
"They have escaped the pyramid!" says Talko, who is in his mini-plane flying above the pyramid. "Who will win first?"
Ganondorf's zooms towards the finish line as fast as he can, and Sunaman tries his best to catch up. "I will not let you!" says Sunaman. "Desert Dart!" At this command, the sands around them rises into the air and form into sharp spikes, and they shoot at Ganondorf.
Ganondorf drives in a wavy formation to avoid getting hit, but one sand dart did scrape him across the shoulder. This pain is nothing to him; he continues to move forward bravely.
"This will be my ultimate way to stop you!" says Sunaman. "Sandman, oversoul into the desert and stop him!" His guardian spirit Sandman fuses with the desert, and then two gigantic hands of sand appear in front of the finish line to block Ganondorf.
However, Ganondorf still zooms forward, not caring what is in front of him. As he zooms forward, a purplish aura appears around him. He keeps on zooming and approaches the giant hands that are awaiting him. "You will only be crushed!" says Sunaman.
But this did not happen; Ganondorf forcefully drives right through the giant pair of sand hands and directly across the finish line!
"What!"
"Congratulations! Ganondorf won first place!" announces Talko.
Ganondorf stops his bike and takes a deep breath. "I did it… At last, I did it… Nothing can stop me…"
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"Wow! He won!" exclaims Bowser.
"That was good-a of him!" says Mario.
Zelda is still sad about Link losing though. "Don't be sad, Zelda," Peach comforts her. "I believe he will be all right, even though he lost the race."
"You are right," says Zelda. "His life is more important to me than winning the race."
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Sunaman got 2nd place, and he got out of his vehicle and approaches Ganondorf. "What do you want?" asks Ganondorf.
"You sure have great skills that are unexpected," says Sunaman. "I admit you are a better racer than I am."
"But you're not too bad yourself also. You sure have amazing control over sands!"
"We might race against each other again in the future. I hope you will put up another challenge for me the next time we meet."
"Heh! I look forward to it!"
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At a fancy restaurant that night…
"3 cheers to me for winning first place!" shouts Ganondorf with joy.
"Hip hip hooray!"
But Link is the only unhappy one. "C'mon, Link! You're lucky to still be alive!" Zelda tells him.
"Fine, at least I gave Pico a lesson," he says. "I sure don't want to see him again."
"You know, Ganondorf," Bower tells him, "if your instructor sees that you got first place, how will he react?"
"I don't care about him. I haven't seen him since the preliminary days," says Ganondorf.
"Well, I think he'll change his opinion about you."
"I don't care about him!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
Well, this race is done also. Not sure if you like it though. I actually find it a bit… bland. I wasn't much on ideas when I made this chapter. I was too deep in planning about after the final race, so you can expect parts after that to be enjoyable.
And yes, Link lost the race. Blame it on Pico! However, this won't be the last time Smashers losing the race. A couple more of them will continue to get disqualified, but don't worry, as some of them will make it the final. And what happened to Pico afterwards? All I'm saying is you haven't seen the last of him yet.
Coming up next chapter: 'He' Has Appeared! And Captain Falcon Gets to Race!