Lucas picked up the colossal gold bar. And threw it away. Fortunately, Lucas hadn't gone insane; he had thrown it at his pursuer- a short, fat man in a yellow hat. Lucas had never been so afraid. You might think this was cowardly, but Lucas was only a boy after all. And this man was impossible to escape. However much Lucas twisted and turned around the intricate maze of mine tunnels, the man always seemed to find him.
Wario ducked under the precious projectile. He had good underground senses, and it was only the boy's stamina that had stopped him getting caught so far. Wario was panting heavily- he had been chasing his prey for a whole minute without stopping! Imagine his tiredness!
Lucas continued running... and reached a dead end. His heart stopped. The boy turned his head. And Wario was advancing. He'd long since discovered that there was not enough room for using PK attacks; it was too dangerous as well. The whole mine could be brought down. He would have to fight hand to hand.
"Yoshi!"
"Jiggly!"
Jigglypuff started spinning on the spot at high speed. Then the Pokemon shot forwards like a cork from a bottle of champagne. Yoshi barrel-rolled aside and Jigglypuff almost rolled right off of the edge of the cloud. There were ten large clouds in all; simply a large expanse of fluffy- white but solid cloud. The other clouds also had battles going on. Each cloud was an arena (though with nothing to prevent someone falling) and there was a large crowd of cloud beings watching each fight; all ten clouds had battling occupants at the same time. The face-off between Yoshi and Jigglypuff had the largest congregated cloud crowd by far. The cloud people had only had fights between Goombas and the like for as long as any of them could remember, so when the two strange animals had been beamed right into the centre of their cloud city, they had immediately been pounced upon and scheduled for a huge battle four hours later- sure to be the highlight of the millenium.
Sure the two anthropomorphic combatants were fighting atop the ninth cloud, but neither was on Cloud Nine. They would have much preferred a quiet battle than to be forced to fight, surrounded by thousands of cloud people shouting and cheering.
Jigglypuff's elastic potential provided centrifugal force as the Balloon Pokemon stopped a few metres shy of the edge, before catapulting straight back. He cannonballed into Yoshi's midriff, knocking him through the air. Yoshi avoided falling off the cloud by implementing some strange manouevre in which he flailed his feet rapidly, slowing his momentum and bringing him down. Yoshi wasted no time in scampering forwards. Jigglypuff shot into the air and Yoshi leapt up after him, kicking off of Jigglypuff's head (or body) for extra height. They propelled themselves hundreds of metres into the air (much to the excitement of the cloud people) and began to battle.
Jigglypuff was an aerial menace; ducking, dodging, weaving, pirouetting, and stringing attacks together seamlessly. Luckily, Yoshi was just as much a creature of the air than of the ground, and managed to hold his own. The aerial animosity was drawing to a close as they approached the ground; while being solid enough to prevent people falling through it, it was still fluffy and springy enough for them to avoid injury when they hit. Before they hit the cloud, Yoshi quickly lashed out with his tongue, and somehow swallowed Jigglypuff whole. Jigglypuff was then ejected from the other end ( a cloud mum shrieked and covered her child's eyes) as an egg. Yoshi then flutter-jumped, keeping himself about a metre above the cloud. The frantically jiggling Jiggly-egg dropped, hit the cloud, and bounced back up. Yoshi swung his tail and hit the egg while it was in the air, knocking it right off the cloud.
The crowd cheered with great gusto at the spectacle of the century (except the cloud mum leading her child away and muttering something about highly inappropriate entertainment) as Yoshi sighed with relief.
"Yoshi..."
Lucas backed away and felt the tunnel wall behind him. He felt something out of the ordinary and almost cried with relief. He scrambled inside a tiny hole in the wall. Wario didn't even break his stride; he immediately turned and dashed off down a random tunnel. No doubt he was using his tunnel senses to locate an alternate path. Then Wario suddenly charged back into view and shoulder-barged the wall with the hole. Fissures and cracks developed on the rock wall. Lucas fell backwards in fright. Wario had actually been taking a run-up to break through the wall. Wario stepped back for another ram and Lucas scrambled to his feet, desperately searching his surroundings. There were three tunnels branching off in different directions, but they went on for miles in a straight line, and taking into account Lucas' enormous fatigue from running for so long, he knew that Wario would catch him in an instant. That left one option. Lucas sprinted towards the mine carts as the wall collapsed behind him.
Lucas' mine cart shot round a corner in the tracks at high speed. Unfortunately, Lucas had no idea how to slow the cart down so the whole thing tipped precariously on its axle, threatening to overturn and kill Lucas. Wario's cart appeared behind him, steadily getting closer. How, Lucas had no idea, because Wario's cart was heavier, and he'd set off a few seconds later than Lucas. Then he realised- Tabuu must be speeding Wario's cart so that Lucas didn't escape and ruin the battle. If it could be called a battle. A pursuit, more likely. But Lucas had more pressing things to consider : a pile of rocky rubble and debris was lying on the track ahead. It wasn't very large, but almost certainly capable of derailing them. Lucas pulled out his snake and (innuendo aside), clamped its mouth onto the front of the cart . The cart was approaching the rubble rapidly but Lucas had to wait until they were beneath the wooden beam on the ceiling. Once they were, Lucas tossed the snake up there (but its mouth was still fastened to the cart, of course). Its tail wrapped around the rafter (it was stretched double) and then it contracted to its normal size, pulling the cart up with it. Because of the cart's momentum, it was left swinging like a pendulum from the beam. When they were at the peak of the swing, the snake let go, and the cart dropped neatly over the rocks, landing back on the rails behind the debris (the snake had aligned itself perfectly).
Wario's method was nowhere near as aesthetically pleasing, but it yielded identical results. He gripped the sides of the cart, and then jumped, lifting the cart with him, and landed back on the tracks by sheer luck.
Wario cackled; the rocks had slown Lucas down, and he would be within grabbing distance in a matter of seconds...
A matter of seconds later, Wario leaned out of the front of his cart and plucked Lucas out of of his as easily as a child snatching a sweet from a bag of Haribo. But then Wario saw what was ahead, and his grip relaxed enough for Lucas to squirm out and drop back into his cart. However, he didn't have much time to relish in his good luck before he saw the obstacle ahead and began to wonder why he had such bad luck. But all thoughts were driven from his mind apart from those of his impending death, as the rails ended (on a hill unfortunately) and his cart shot off the tracks into darkness.