For those who are concerned about the Smashers who have lost: Do not worry, for they will have a big role in the future—one that concerns THE world.
Oh, I seem to have forgot about Frank. Let's just say he lost off-screen, okay?
Chapter 31: The Final Race! Blaze Through the Victorious Road of the Rainbow!
"Before we begin the race," says Talko, "I would like to ask the racers what their wishes are."
"I want to become a great mechanic and build lots of powerful airships!" says Cid.
"I just want to live a relaxing life and let everyone be happy," says Banjo.
"…" Random Racer No. 45 just kept silent.
"I want my name to spread all over the world and become the greatest swordsman!" says Samurai Goroh.
"I want to have a happy marriage with Lilina and live a wonderful life afterwards!" says Roy.
"To become the richest man in the world! HAHAHAHA!" laughs Wario.
"I want to conquer the world and become the greatest scientist alive!" says Eggman loudly.
"I don't really have a wish for this race," says Sonic. "I just want to prove that I am the fastest thing alive! And also to stop Eggman from reaching his evil plans!"
"I don't-a really know yet," says Mario. "But Luigi has one."
"I wanna become a brave warrior!" says Luigi.
"I don't feel like saying it," says Ganondorf.
"To become the ruler of the world," says Black Shadow in a dark tone.
"I'm not exactly sure what I want to wish for," says CF. "At first I just wanted to complete what my father didn't complete. Now I'm thinking… I just want my friends to have a safe life and live happily together.
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"I never knew Captain Falcon cared so much about us!" says Peach.
"I thought he was just interested in himself and winning," says Zelda. "But now I see the reason he wants to win."
"Oh Roy! He really loves me!" says Lilina.
"Let's hope that Black Shadow guy doesn't win," says Link. "He doesn't look to be the perfect ruler for the world."
"SONIC! BEAT THEM! YOU CAN WIN!" yells Amy loudly.
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"Well, it was interesting to hear all your wishes!" says Talko. "Some of you have really good ones while some of you… don't sound really interesting… But nevertheless, it is up to Carma to decide who gets his wish or not! Without further delay, we shall begin the race!" He hops into his plane and flies into the air, and begins the countdown. After he's done, he fires a bullet into the sky, and it explodes like a colorful firecracker in midair.
And the racers are off!
"Hey! One last thing!" shouts Talko. "There will be no interferers in the race! Since this is the last race, we want it to be fair and square, so do not worry about ambushes!"
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CF, BS, and Sonic Team are in lead. BS steers towards the Tornado and rams it into the side really hard. "Hey! This guy wants to push us off!" says Sonic.
"Don't worry, Sonic," says Tails. "Even if we fall, we can still fly back up!"
"But I still want to teach that guy a lesson!" Sonic hops off the car and hits the Black Bull, and then bounces back to his seat. "Whoa! It sure has a hard armor!"
"Anyone who comes against me shall die!" BS slams the Tornado again very hard, this time knocking it off the course!
But since the Tornado is also a plane, it flies into the sky. "Told ya!" says Tails.
"Let's take the sky instead!" says Sonic.
"I'll deal with you again if you dare mess with me!" says BS.
"Don't forget I'm your opponent!" CF says to BS.
"Let's see if you're really as good as your father, who lost to me!" BS rams into the side of the Blue Falcon very hard, and CF also fought back with equal strength.
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"Get blast to bits!" says Waluigi as he throws several bombs at the Mario Bros.
"Get them good!" says Wario. "Those plumber brothers will never beat me!"
"Whoa! Stop that!" says Luigi. "You're gonna hurt someone!"
"That's what I want to! HAHAHAHA!" laughs Waluigi wickedly.
Random Racer 45 drives next to them, but was caught in an explosion and sent flying into the air in flames. However, it did several flips in air and put out the flames, and falls back down onto the road and continues moving alongside them.
"Tsk! This guy wants to annoy with us!" says Wario. "Let's show them whose boss!"
Waluigi takes out a shotgun and readies it, but is hit in the back of the head by an egg. "Yeow! Who did that?"
Banjo and Kazooie was the one who shot them. "Good aiming, Kazooie!" says Banjo.
"I'm going to make sure the next shot does something!" says Kazooie.
"Why you!" says Waluigi angrily. He points the shotgun at them and takes aim.
"Oh no you don't!" Kazooie shoots out a battery egg, and when it hits the shotgun, the gun gets electrocuted and zaps Waluigi, making him drop the gun onto the road.
"Yeow! It hurts!" he cries.
Suddenly, several fireballs shot in and hit the back of Banjo's car, setting it on fire. "Ahhh! Banjo! Our car is on fire!" cries Kazooie.
"Ya! Get it off!" Banjo cries.
Roy zooms pass them and says, "Sorry about this, but see ya!"
"Get if off! Get it off!" cries Banjo as he drives around wildly.
"There's no water!" cries Kazooie. They keep on zooming around until they drive off the course.
"YAAAAAAA!"
They quickly jump off their burning car, and were soon rescued by rescue robots. However, the fire has severely burned their car, and they have no more chance of racing on.
"Banjo-Kazooie has lost the race!" says Talko.
"Sigh… Our luck ends here…" says Banjo.
"This sucks…" says Kazooie sadly.
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Goroh has caught up behind CF and BS. "Now I'm going to cut you two into pieces!" says Goroh. He opens his cockpit glass and takes out his katana and swings it against the air. "Metal Cleaver!" He swings it so hard that it shot out a wind blade. It hits the back of the Black Bull but leaves behind no scratch! "Uh?"
"It's useless trying to do something to my car," says BS. "And for trying to do so, you shall fall!" BS slows down his car until he is next to Goroh, and he rams him violently, knocking Goroh off the course.
"YAAAAA!"
But Goroh is rescued by the robots immediately, and brought back onto the road to continue racing. "Argh… That guy is scary…" says BS.
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Sonic Team is getting left behind a little bit, as the Tornado's flying speed isn't match to the speed of moving on ground. "Let's get back onto the road," says Sonic. "That way we can catch up! We're getting left behind!"
"I agree with you, Sonic," says Tails.
"I'm going to shoot you down!" says a voice. They turn around to see Cid flying after them.
"We're in trouble, Sonic!"
"Get ready to be shot down!" says Cid as he shoots them with a newly equipped machine gun. The Tornado flies around in a wavy path and performs several spins to avoid the bullets.
"I can't shake this guy off!" cries Tails.
"Don't worry! I'll handle him!" says Sonic, getting up from his seat.
"Ha! You're not afraid of falling, are you?" asks Cid. Suddenly, a missile hits his Highwind Runner and it explodes. "YAAAA!"
KABOOOOOOM!
"Uh? What happened?" asks Tails.
""I did you the favor of getting rid of him," says Eggman, who is driving along the road besides them. "Are you happy?"
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"WHAT! CID! NOOOO!" screams Yuffie upon seeing his destruction.
"Cid… lost…?" says Tifa in shock.
"That's so terrible!" gasps Aerith.
"Too bad for him," says Cloud. "But he's still safe. Look, the rescue robots caught him before he fell to his doom."
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"Curses…" mumbles Cid as he is suspended in air by the robots.
"Cid Highwind is out of the race also!" says Talko. "10 more racers to go!"
Eggman is firing several missiles at the Tornado, but he keeps on missing. "Argh! Why can't you stand still?"
"Get onto the ground, Tails!" says Sonic. "I can handle him easier that way!"
"Yes, Sonic!" says Tails as he slowly flies towards the ground.
"So you're going to take on me seriously? I'll accept it gladly!" says Eggman. After the Tornado had landed in front of him, he fires more missiles at them.
Sonic hops off from his seat and performs a homing attack onto a missile, and he bounces off it and hits the second missile before jumping back to his seat.
"Argh! You're getting more annoying than ever! Take this!" says Eggman as he fires more missiles at them.
"Whoa! Watch out!" cries Tails as he quickly steers to the side to avoid most of the missiles.
"Surely you can't avoid this!" says Eggman, but he is interrupted by something moving very fast past him. "Wha!"
"Whoa! This speed sure is fast!" says Roy. "Creating an explosion using the Sword of Seals sure gave me a great boost!" In case you want to know what he did, Roy stabs the Sword of Seals directly onto the road behind his motorcycle, and this resulted in a small explosion that sent the motorcycle zooming forward. How is this possible? It's a story, so anything can happen!
"Argh! I wasted to much time messing with this cursing hedgehog!" says Eggman. "Time to end this!"
Sonic hops down from the Tornado and begins running beside Eggman's vehicle. "You said you wanna finish me off?" asks Sonic.
"Damn right!" Eggman takes out a gun and fires it at Sonic, but the hedgehog easily avoids them.
Sonic runs behind Eggman and begins spinning along the road furiously. "Get ready for this!"
"No! Not that attack!" cries Eggman.
"Meteor Saw!" Sonic shoots himself forward very fast and smashes right through the vehicle, shattering it into pieces and sending Eggman into the sky.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Sonic quickly hops back on the Tornado and gives Tails a high five. "Yeah! We got rid of him!"
"Great job, Sonic!" says Tails.
"Eggman is out of the race too!" says Talko.
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"Sonic! You rock!" shouts Kirby.
"SONIC! YOU'RE MY HERO! YIPPEEEEE!" yells Amy at the top of her voice.
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This is the order for racers if you are curious: Black Shadow and Captain Falcon are both in lead, with Sonic Team behind them, then Ganondorf, then Samurai Goroh, then Roy furiously catching up behind him, and then the others behind him.
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Goroh turns his head around and sees Roy catching up. "Someone wants to play with me, eh?" he says. "I'll show him!" He takes out his katana and swings it hard, shooting out a long wind blade that moves around in a spiral formation. "Giant Train Impact!"
Roy quickly steers to the side and barely avoids the lethal hit. "Whoa! That was shocking! Now's my turn!" He uses the same trick he used earlier and boosts forward towards Goroh. When near enough, he pulls out his Sword of Seals and swings it forward very hard. "Flare Blade!" He swings it so hard that a blast of fire is sent out, and it engulfs the Fire Stingray. Not only that, but the heat is too much for the vehicle to handle, and it explodes.
KABOOOOOOOOM!
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" screams Goroh as he is shot out of the explosion and sent tumbling along the road before he finally stops.
"Roy has just destroyed Samurai Goroh!" says Talko. "This race is starting to become a violent one! How many people will there be by the end of the race?"
Now the remaining racers are CF, BS, Mario Bros., Wario Bros., Random Racer 45, Roy, Sonic Team, and Ganondorf. CF and BS are in lead while Random Racer is last.
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"Argh! We'll never catch up with those cursing brothers if this keeps up!" says Wario.
"Shall we use the Waluigi Boost?" asks Waluigi.
"Good idea! And it's called the Wario Boost!"
"Why must you have everything named after you!"
"Because this is my car! I get the right to name it after me!" says Wario, and then he presses a button and the back of the car opens, revealing a large engine. The engine then shoots off flame and it shoots forward really fast, surpassing the Mario Bros. "YEAH! WE PASSED THEM!"
"Whoa! They sure are fast!" says Luigi.
"We must-a catch up!" says Mario, and then he zooms off faster than before.
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"Now they are heading for the great speed ramp!" says Talko. "Can they make it over the chasm safely or will they fall? But it's not a problem if you fall."
CF and BS shoot into the air via the speed boosters on the ramp and safely made it to the other side. Sonic Team also easily made it to the other side, although with a bit of help from its flying engine.
Ganondorf and Roy are fighting all the way to the speed booster. "You will never make it with that tiny bike of yours!" says Ganondorf.
"It's you can't make it!" says Roy. "Your motorcycle is so big and bulky! I'll be surprised if it does!"
They both drive up the ramp and shoots into the air via the boost. But unfortunately, they both didn't make it… And they fell.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The Wario Bros. came and boosts to the other side easily, because the Wario Boost effect is still on. Next comes the Mario Bros. With the help of a mushroom, they are able to get across easily. Next comes Random Racer 45, who also makes it across easily, but without using any aids.
Soon, the rescue robots bring Ganondorf and Roy back onto the road, but not on the other side the chasm. "Argh… We must do it again," says Ganondorf.
"I'll get across before you this time…" says Roy.
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CF and BS fight all the way through the race, even driving up a twisted slope. The Wario Bros. is furiously catching up, thanks to the Wario Boost. They even went pass Sonic Team! "Whoa! They made it past us!" gasps Sonic.
"Ugh… I'm getting sick from the spinning…" says Waluigi, getting sick from the continuous twisted upward drive.
"You're weak!" Wario says to him. "A real man should be able to handle this!" They keep on driving and eventually caught up behind the two in lead! "Ha! I found them!"
BS turns his head around and says to them, "Congratulations on making it this far, but this is as far as you will go!" He slows down his car next to them and then begins ramming them violently.
"Hey! What's the big idea?" says Wario. "So you wanna fight? Take this!" Wario also rams back at BS.
"You cannot defeat me! I have been racing since my youth, and you are no match for me!" says BS. Then a black aura appears around his car.
"Wha! His car is getting a strange but cool aura!" says Waluigi.
"Ha! This is nothing!" says Wario. "See me ram him off the course!"
BS rams at the Wario Car again, and this time to impact is several times stronger than before. The impact is so strong that the Wario Car broke into pieces before tumbling off the course.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" scream the Wario Bros.
"Hey! It's Wario!" says Luigi as he and Mario drives up the twisted slope.
"Ya! They are destroyed!" says Mario. "I actually pity them…"
The rescue robots quickly come to grab Wario and Waluigi before they drop too far down. "CURSE THAT DEMON!" shouts Wario extremely loud. "I'LL GET HIM FOR THIS!"
"Now there are only 7 racers left in the race!" says Talko. "Who will survive to the end?"
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BS and CF are still ramming against each other. "I'll avenge for my father!" says CF.
"Then see that you are strong enough first!" says BS.
"Are you saying that I'm not strong enough?"
"You can never defeat me!"
"Here we come!" shouts the voice of Sonic as the Tornado catches up to where they are.
"Tsk! More pests are coming! I will see that nobody but I cross the finish line!" says BS.
"Want to take this?" Sonic jumps off the Tornado and gets behind the Black Bull, and performs the same attack against it. Though the attack did not destroy the Black Bull, it succeeded in sending it for a spin."
"Argh! How dare you!" growls BS. And while he is off guard, CF rams him in the side. "ARGH!"
"This will be the downfall of you!" says CF.
"This shall never happen to me!"
Suddenly, the Mario Bros. boosts up ahead and caught up with the 3. In fact, they even zoom past the 3! "Whoa! That was fast!" exclaims Luigi.
"Da mushroom works every time!" says Mario.
"No way! I'm not gonna lose to them!" says CF.
"This will be a really exciting race!" says Sonic. "But in the end, I will win for sure!"
"The finish line is not too far ahead!" says Talko. "Who will make it? This is so exciting!"
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"It's getting more and more exciting!" says Bowser. "I can't wait to see who will win!"
"You can do it, Mario!" says Peach.
"Roy! Why are you so slow?" says Lilina. "Please do better than that!"
"SONIC! BEAT THEM! YOU MUST WIN!" shouts Amy.
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The 4 racers begin to catch up with each other, and they are traveling in an almost equal line towards the goal. "WHO WILL WIN? WHO WILL WIN!" shouts Talko, because he is really excited about this.
The 4 gets closer and closer to the finish line…
Closer…
Closer…
Closer…
Closer…
Until…
All 4 pass the line seemingly at the same time…
"Who passed the line first?" says Talko. "We shall consult the trusty camera!"
All 4 racers come to a stop. "Phew… That was so close…" says CF. "I'm sure I crossed the line first."
"No! We did!" says Sonic. "Right, Tails?"
"I'm sure we did," says Tails.
"I think we did," says Luigi. "But I'm not too sure either.
"Let's wait and see da results!" says Mario.
Black Shadow just kept silent. Soon, the other 3 racers, Ganondorf, Roy, and Racer 45, cross the finish line also. Ganondorf bangs his head against the motorcycle and says, "Argh… Fine, I lost!"
Roy lowers his head in disappointment. "Darn… I didn't want to disappoint Lilina about this…"
"…" Racer 45 says nothing.
Talko comes down from his plane and takes a look at the camera that is placed near the finish line. "Seems like it succeeded in processing the picture!" he says. "Are you excited to see who are the winners?" Everyone nods in response. "Okay!" He opens the back of the camera and slowly reaches for the picture.
Everyone trembles anxiously and also in excitement as he slowly pulls out the picture from the camera.
"C'mon! I must at least get top 3!" thought CF.
"I must be first! I must be first!" thought Sonic.
"Who is it? Who is it?" wonders Luigi.
Talko looks at the picture, and then…
"LALALALALALA! HAPPY EVERYONE! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY! I LOVE YOU!" sings Barney happily and stupidly.
Okay, that was pointless… It was tossed in to surprise you, ha!
Talko opens his mouth and speaks, "Congratulations! We have 3 winners!"
Everyone takes a deep swallow and listens eagerly.
"I think I'll say it next chapter," says Talko. "But I'll just tell you that Black Shadow isn't one of them."
TO BE CONTINUED…
YAAAAHOOOOO! THE FINAL RACE HAS ENDED! Phew… That was exciting, right? As Talko said, Black Shadow isn't the winner, so you can easily assume whom the other 3 are, but I won't reveal the rankings until next chapter.
Thoughts? Review!
Coming up next chapter: The End of the Race and Deathborn's Plan Unleashed!