Minty Zaki was a bit overzealous in her desire to win. This was best displayed in her vehicle. It was light as air, making it very fast, but absolute murder to try to steer. This led to such things as Minty being miles ahead of everyone else, but crashing into every wall in sight. Minty was used to bumping into walls though. What she wasn't used to was flying.
She wasn't sure who had put down the sticky slick, but Minty did know it would completely throw her off her game. Back when she was still on the ground, Minty didn't know that would be literal. Perhaps activating Sugar Rush a mere moment before rounding the bend into the tar-like mess wasn't very good planning, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Now though, it didn't seem so great.
Unfortunately, Sugar Rush had a firm grasp on this 'physics' business, meaning that a hundred or more miles per hour coupled with a sudden stop made for a little thing called inertia. That little thing had launched Minty into the air at tremendous speeds. With a high pitched scream, Minty took off, drawing a confused look from Candlehead and Adorabreezle, who both happened to be in the area. That was twenty minutes ago.
At this point, Minty was mostly bored. Yeah, being unable to do literally anything except look at stuff for twenty minutes will do that to you. At least the view was nice. She could see the forests, the castle, the mountains, and even a little dot coming right at her. Hang on, something didn't seem right about that.
Elsewhere, a diet cola volcano to be exact, Candlehead and Adorabreezle were trying to put their plan into motion.
"What is it you guys find so fascinating about shooting me at stuff?" Candlehead asked as she drifted out into the middle of the molten soda.
"Don't be like that. We need to rescue Minty, and my aim is better than yours. Plus, I was the one who talked Jubileena into giving us a parachute." Adorabreezle said. She was throwing rocks up at the Mentos stalactites, trying to knock a few loose.
"Your aim isn't better than mine! In fact, mine is… um, Adorabreezle? There isn't a whole at the top of the" Candlehead was cut off as Adorabreezle succeeded in hitting some Mentos hard enough to knock it down. This shot Candlehead into the wall, sending the platform she had been on straight up. As Candlehead scrambled to get a new chunk of wafer cookie to float out on, an entire column of Mentos fell.
Candlehead jumped into the cola just in time to be shot up into the roof. Sadly, her aim wasn't as good as she had hoped, and Candlehead face-planted into a stalactite. Now this one broke free. All of this seemed to set off a chain reaction that eventually knocked all of the Mentos free. Every. Last. One. Adorabreezle was able to run off. Candlehead wasn't so lucky. The fire topped racer catapulted into the air. Fortunately, the Diet Cola was already mostly flat, and the eruption didn't cause as much damage as it could have. Of course, that didn't mean Candlehead wasn't moving so fast she thought her face would peel off.
Yep, the dot was getting closer. Minty wasn't going fast enough anymore to avoid the thing, and would have to take it full force. Maybe it was something soft, like a marshmallow. Maybe it was a reverse shooting star. Maybe it was… nope, Minty could see it now. It was Candlehead. As soon as she registered what was being launched at her, Minty was knocked upward by the other racer.
"Hi." Candlehead said as the two continued to sail higher.
"What are you doing?" Minty asked.
"Rescuing you." Candlehead said with a smile.
"How are we supposed to get down?" Minty asked.
"I brought a parachute!" Candlehead said triumphantly.
"Candles, that isn't going to help us stop going up." Minty said. Before Candlehead could reply, the two went right through a cotton candy cloud.
"Ooh, that tasted great!" Candlehead said.
"We're going to suffocate and die in the cold vacuum of space." Minty said as she looked up. They were heading straight for the stars now.
"Oh, don't be so pessimistic. We get to be the first Sugar Rush astronauts!" Candlehead said.
"I appreciate the optimism, but that isn't exactly worth death." Minty said.
"Pssh, who cares? We'll just respawn." Candlehead said. Just then, they connected with something very solid. They had gone so far up that they hit the upper barrier for the game. Then, they fell.
"Oh my gosh, this is actually worse!" Minty screamed as she clung to Candlehead.
"Relax, I have a parachute." Candlehead pointed out.
"Deploy it!" Minty demanded.
"Are you serious? It'll take us hours to get down if I deploy it now." Candlehead said.
"Yeah well… I don't have a choice do I?" Minty asked.
"Nope. Hey, have you ever gone this fast on the track?" Candlehead asked.
"No! I have never driven at a thousand miles per hour, especially straight down!" Minty yelled.
"We aren't going that fast. We're actually going at about five hundred seventy meters per second. Assuming, that is, that my calculations about the rate of acceleration due to gravity are correct." Candlehead said.
"Candles, you never went to school! You don't know the gravity rate accelerator!" Minty said, managing to completely mangle physics terms even more than Candlehead mangled their speed.
"Hey, is that your car?" Candlehead asked, looking down.
"Huh. Yes, that's my… oh my gosh! We're only like fifty feet up! Deploy the chute!" Minty shouted. Candlehead followed the instruction this time. The pair drifted slowly to the ground after that. Minty immediately fell to the ground and started trying to hug the racetrack.
"I'm alive! Oh sweet mother of milk-balls, I'm alive!" Minty cheered.
"You're welcome. Hey, do you know how to put a parachute back in its backpack?" Candlehead asked.
"No, I don't." Minty said.
"Huh. Oh well, you up for some cookies?" Candlehead asked, slipping off the backpack.
"I just got shot out of my car, then had you thrown into me, then fell from freaking space!" Minty shouted.
"Is that a yes?" Candlehead asked.
"Of course it's a yes, let's go." Minty said, suddenly calm again. Fortunately for the racers, that was the end of the excitement for that day. Until Candlehead realized that her candle had gone out in the volcano's eruption that is.
