The Sunshine Airport was bright and sunny as the racers were finishing up, with Toadette and Wendy O' Koopa having a race against each other as Dry Bowser and Professor E. Gadd were watching the race at a table outside one of the cafes, both of them shaking their heads as they were contemplating with each other.

"I just don't get it, DB. I just don't get it. How on this wonderful, bright planet could they not use me, but make up fanfiction characters on the spot?" E. Gadd complained as he was speaking in his usual, unusual babbling, moving about in spite of his age. "It's repulsive! It's disgusting! It's despicable!"

Dry Bowser, who held his cup of coffee with both of his skeletal hands, sighed as he shook his head. "You should know this by now, E. Gadd. The new, modern Nintendo prefers being lazy and just reuse assets as opposed to actually taking risks and doing something genuinely new."

"...I realize that, yes." E. Gadd sighed in defeat as he lowered his head, sipping some of his coffee. "But they couldn't be tasked to come ask me to join? Or even let my robot version of Mario in? They had to use Pink Gold Peach?"

Dry Bowser closed his eyes as he rolled his left boney hand around, remarking, "Hey, at least you weren't kicked out of the playable roster while having a banner and two race courses dedicated to you."

"Ouch." E. Gadd responded as he jumped out of his chair and patted Dry Bowser on the back, mainly his charcoal colored shell as he attempted to make the skeletal reptile feel better, with Toadette and Wendy continuing to race each other as they were having the last race of the day.

"Help! Assist! SOS!" Storm The Albatross exclaimed as he was flailing his big burly arms, being on his out of control gray colored gear board. "I can't drive this thing that's clearly ripped off from Back To The Future!"

The Sonic Riders exclusive character was flying through the Sunshine Airport's huge terminal as he was crashing into various objects, much to his pain and the amusement of some plucky Toads who were watching the chaos from the safety of their desks.

"What are you pouty about?" Birdo asked as she and Kamek were walking outside the terminal, with various racers, mostly Miis and Koopalings, zipping about on different kart and bike builds.

Kamek sighed as he shook his head, glancing down as he complained. "I wanted to finally race, and I even had a perfect excuse with the Koopalings joining in, yet they still left me out."

Birdo placed her right hand on Kamek's shoulder, rolling her left hand around. "Well look at it this way. You were in the beta for Mario Kart 64..."

"Being in a beta doesn't cut it. I want to actually race, damn it!" Kamek snapped as he glared at Birdo, only for a female black Mii to race into him as he was sent blasting off again.

Birdo blinked as she turned around, to see the various racers going off course. She tried her best to dodge them, but she got zapped by someone using the Lightning power up, shrinking her and everyone else as she was then flattened like a pancake by a random Morton Koopa Jr. user.

"You know what?" Shadow The Hedgehog asked Silver The Hedgehog as they were in a Boeing 747 airplane heading into the Sunshine Airport terminal.

"What?" Silver asked as he was playing Pokemon Omega Ruby on his silver colored 3DS.

Shadow, who had his arms wrapped around the back of his head, glancing up at the ceiling as he then looked back at Silver. "We've been to Isle Delfino plenty of times, but I doubt that we were ever actually here."

"Well, to be fair, this place was recently built." Silver pointed out as he closed his 3DS, moving his right hand around. "If anything, Isle Delfino getting more popular just gave them a reason to make more places for people to drop by in."

Shadow nodded in agreement as they waited for the plane to land, noticing several of the racers zipping through on the floating mechanical piece hanging nearby the airport terminal high in the sky.