The Olympics would begin in only a mere day, so both sides were training themselves so they would be in top shape. The teams trained in separate locations, in order to give their opposition privacy.

"51, 52, 52..." counted Wario as he lifted two dumbbells.

"205... 206... 207..." huffed Bowser while he lifted weights.

"56757458 56757459 56757460..." said Daisy, effortlessly lifting a random truck up and down.

Toad, however, wasn't making much progress with his exercising. "ERRRR ARRRRGH OEEEEE HAAAAA!!!" With one last pull, the mushroom head finally opened his gym locker.

"What a weakling" laughed Waluigi. "I would go back home if I were you. You'll only bring this team down!"

"Waluigi, that's mean!" Peach snapped at the lean, purple-clad man. "Toad just hasn't been working out lately, right Toad?"

"No, Waluigi is the one whose right" sighed Toad. "I can't let you guys lose because of me. I'm dropping out of the team."

Mario objected "but-a Toad, you can't-a leave! You-a just got here-a!"

"Oh, I'm not leaving. I'm going to see if the Fuwa have any job openings. There has to be something I can be useful at."

Bowser put down his weights and replied "try the pizzeria, I heard they require mushroom toppings for their specials!" He and the Wario brothers laughed cruelly.

-

"Charmy!!! Espio!!! Where are you two?" shouted Vector. Ten minutes have past and the alligator has yet to find them. Perhaps they were training with the others?

The head of the Chaotix checked with Shadow at target practice. There, the black hedgehog was firing a rifle at distant targets, practically every shot was a bulls-eye.

"Hey, Shadow" said Vector. "Did you see Charmy or Espio anywhere?"

"Nope" Shadow replied, his focus still on the targets.

"Are you sure?"

Shadow then turned around, the rifle now aiming towards Vector. "Positive."

"Well, uh, okay. Thanks."

Next to check up on was Sonic and his friends. Tails and Knuckles were running in circles on a midsized track, while sat on the sidelines just relaxing.

Vector asked Sonic "have you seen Espio or Charmy anywhere?"

"That chameleon and bee? Sorry, they haven't come here" the blue hedgehog responded.

Puffing from his running, Tails spoke "hey Sonic, why aren't you training with us?"

"What's the point? I'm the fastest thing alive!"

"Is that so?" Knuckles said with a smug grin. "Then perhaps you should go training in the swimming pool…"

"You wouldn't dare!"

"LETS GET HIM, TAILS!"

The blue blur got up and ran around the tracks, with Knuckles and Tails charging after him for 'motivation.'

Vector now went to see Amy and Blaze in hopes of finding his partners. Instead, he only found the pink hedgehog and purple cat wrestling… mud wrestling that is.

"Uh… excuse me" Vector interrupted. "Did you see Charmy or Espio here?"

Wiping some moist dirt off her face, Blaze replied "actually, I think I saw them with Cream a while ago."

"Really? Where did they go?"

Blaze was about to say something, but Amy tackled her into the mud and answered "they didn't say where they went."

Heaving a sigh, the alligator left the dirty ladies to do their business. Perhaps he should get training by himself.

-

Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman was up to his old schemes again. Well, he more like THINKING up a scheme, and his current plan was a bit unsuccessful at the moment.

Using the radiation detector on his egg mobile, the doctor grumbled "I was positive the Olympics was smuggling nuclear missiles. Oh well, better get back to the drawing board. Now where's the villain's flying machine parking spot… WHAT?!"

Eggman found the villain's flying machine parking zone… only it was taken already. The object on the parking spot was hard to describe. It looked like some sort of helicopter and one the front was a face you would usually see at the circus.

"How dare they park that piece of junk in MY spot! No matter, I'll just move it to somewhere else."

With a push of a button, a hook with rope attached to it was shot out of the egg mobile and latched on the bizarre flying machine. As he towed the machine away, Robotnik could hear a furious roar nearby. He looked to see a large turtle stomping towards him.

"AND WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING WITH MY CLOWN COPTER?!" Bowser screamed.

Eggman simply replied "why, getting this hunk of junk out of the way."

"Hunk of junk? HUNK OF JUNK?!!! You got some nerve messing with the King of Koopas, fatso!"

"Fatso? Ha, takes one to know one!"

"Grrrr! That's it, eat my fireballs!"

Bowser spat a ball of fire into Eggman's egg mobile. The force of the flame was strong to disable the egg mobile's anti-gravity mechanism, sending the vehicle and it's rider crashing to the ground.

Chuckling at the carnage he created, the Koopa demanded "now get your filthy hook off of my Clown Copter!"

"If you insist" Eggman said with a mischievous look on his face.

One button pushed later, the hook detached it off the copter. And by 'detach', I actually meant 'self destruct'. The explosion obliterated half of Bowser's ride.

Needless to say, the owner was the polar opposite of happy. Like a giant monster rampaging through downtown Tokyo, Bowser clawed the egg mobile, tearing off every bit of metal until he reached the driver. Now his target was unprotected, Bowser pulled back his fist, only to thrust it toward the oval-shaped man.

"ENGAGE ELECTRO SHIELD!"

Upon contact, the Koopa King received a very painful electrocution. He fell to the ground his hair frizzy and his ears smoking, all the while Eggman was completely unharmed.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk" the doctor wagged his finger at Bowser. "That should teach you a lesson. Never mess with Doctor Ivo Robotnik, the world's greatest scientific gen-"

He sentence was interrupted as a jet of embers flew through his face. Eggman stood silently, his face charred and the remains of his moustache falling off like ashes.

"You just made yourself an enemy" sneered Eggman.

"Really? I never would have guessed" Bowser said with sarcasm.

"Just you wait, turtle. I'll make sure of it that your team will never win the Olympic games."

"Not if I make your team a bunch of losers compared to mine!"

With their bodies fried to crisp and their minds set on revenge, Bowser and Eggman went their separate ways, planning the downfall of their new rivals.