Author's Notes: Well, thanks again to Milleniumon the Sonamy Freak and NinjaAki for ACTUALLY helping me make this chapter. It's a poker game that's inspired from Futurama and, more importantly, Banjo-Tooie, so I hope that you'll have great memories from both series when you see this chapter, ladies and gentlemen!

Disclaimer: As this story is reaching out of the 100-chapter limit, so will I reach out my age limit of 100 chapters. So that means, you're STILL gonna have to deal with me first after 100 big chapters of this story, and I'm going to keep tellin' you that we don't own anything official and that all fan-made characters belong to their owners. That, and Yoshi Kart is property of Yoshizilla.

It has been an unexpected day at Dinosaur Land. All of the racers in the Deathtrap Stadium race (except Sonic the Hedgehog/Amy Rose, who qualified to be in the next race to get points), have told the others how their experience was. Now let's see what's happening in the dark, stormy night of this fine day at the hotel/McDonald's...

Yoshi looked at the lighting-crashing and thunder-booming storm outside from the window. He shrugged, and the green Yoshisaurus took out a rag. He started to clean one of the tables. "Gotta keep the table sparkling clean so it can shine!" He said with a smile.

Pikachu came up next to Yoshi. "Hey Yoshi, me and Kirby are gonna host a basketball TV event sometime soon. You wanna join?" The yellow, electrical mouse asked the green Yoshisaurus.

Yoshi waved his left hand at Pikachu. "Meh, it's all right, Pikachu." He smiled. "In fact, me and my buddies are gonna have a little poker game after I finish cleaning this table. Know anyone who's interested?" Yoshi asked.

Pikachu thought for a moment. "Hmmm...well...I think you could ask Captain Falcon, Link, Marth, and Roy..." He shrugged. "But of course, you know how much Wario and Snake can get."

Yoshi scoffed. "Wario and Snake are almost the same; they just want to win the money." Both he and Pikachu had a good laugh.

Pikachu rubbed the back of his head. "Well, Yoshi, I'll see ya later. I gotta install the new dish up on top of the roof."

Yoshi nodded. "Good luck, Pikachu. Nice talkin' to ya!" The green Yoshisaurus said, waving goodbye to Pikachu, and went back to cleaning the tables.

Captain Falcon moaned. "Man, how the heck did these tables get so dirty? All these stains..." He asked himself, as he cleaned another table.

"Messy eaters!" Samus replied, pissed off that she had to clean this table for the third time in a day. "Ugh! I can't deal with this..." She grimaced at the chewing gum stuck underneath.

Marth nodded in agreement. "Think the last group to use this was some group of pigs..." He said, starting to ponder.

Samus rolled her eyes. "Literal or metaphorical?" She asked Marth, throwing the cloth on the table angrilly

"Both!" Marth exclaimed, grimacing. "Those guys passed by me and tossed their garbage right at me!"

Ness suddenly came down into the McDonald's, and was heading for the phone booth outside when...he crashed into the cleaned tables Marth and Samus have done. "GAAAH!"

Yoshi ran over to the broken debris that were two tables, and noticed the crushed Ness. Yoshi shook his head and placed his hands on his hips. "Oh boy. I don't think Samus or Marth are gonna be happy about this..." He looked over to the two shocked humans.

Marth fell on his knees, completely devestated. "AGH!!! ALL OUR HARD WORK!!" The blue-haired swordsman shrieked.

Samus fumed, a red vein on her forehead appearing. "UGH! I am NOT cleaning this up!!" She angrilly cried out, stalking out of the McDonald's and heading up to the hotel.

Ness moaned, wagging his legs weakly. "Urmph...little help?" The young PSI boy moaned.

Yoshi rolled his eyes and let out a little chuckle. "Heh! You wish!" The green Yoshisaurus headed upstairs.

Marth got back up to his feet. "Samus, wait!" He took off after the armor-suit girl, but not before lifting the table off of Ness.

Ness sighed of relief. "Phew. Thanks," Ness said to Marth, before the boy slipped on greasy oil and cracked his back. "Ough! This is gonna make a mark on my back..."

Captain Falcon sighed. "Well, I guess I might as well have a soda while I'm here." He grabbed a cup holder, popped in some ice, and then pressed the soda button, watching the brown-and-black cola fill up to the top.

Upstairs, in the hotel rooms...

"I call dibs!" Popo said, running across the hallway with Max, Nana, Saria, and Young Link, all running towards Pikachu's room.

Luigi sighed as he watched the kids run across the hallway. "Geeze...those kids are fast." Luigi laughed. "What's next? Hedgehogs?"

Mario nudged Luigi. "Don't press your luck, Luigi," Mario whispered in Luigi's ear, "You know how dangerously fast SOnic and Shadow can get."

Luigi sweatdropped. "Oh...yeah." He chuckled nervously, as the two plumbers went back inside, slamming the door together.

At Yoshi's dorm, Peppy Ankylosaurus and Heppy Ankylosaurus were moving the poker table into the western end of the room. Dr. Hoshi was also watching them, making sure the Ankylosauruses wouldn't place it wrong.

"Steady...steady...you're good!" Dr. Hoshi said, giving Peppy and Heppy a thumbs up, "That's the perfect place to put a poker table."

Peppy chuckled. "Gee thanks, doc." He then heard a knock on the door. "Yo Heppy, can you get the door?"

Heppy smiled. "Why certainly!" The purple Ankylosaurus walked over to the door and opened it, to find Tails and Cream in front of him. "Yello?"

"We heard you were setting up a poker table." Tails explained, holding a deck of cards with pictures of women in their bikinis.

"And we want in." Cream continued, standing behind the two-tailed fox cutely but knowingly

Heppy laughed. "HA! Nice try, kiddies, but you ain't gettin' in. This poker game is ONLY for mature characters." He slammed the door.

Tails moaned. "Great. We get kicked out of another opportunity AGAIN..." He sighed. "Why are Sonic, Amy, Knuckles, Shadow, and Rouge be able to find fun, but we can't?"

Cream comforted Tails. "Don't worry, Tails. We'll find something else better to do." The cute rabbit girl smiled.

Tails looked up at Cream, and smiled. "Gee...thanks, Cream." He said, hugging Cream.

Cream giggled, and the two mammals started to walk down the hallway with Cheese, who was sleeping.

Dr. Hoshi sighed. "Geeze, you think it would be this long for Yoshi to get more players."

Peppy shrugged. "Well, who knows who Yoshi's going to invite. It's only a matter of time."

Heppy nodded in agreement with Peppy. "Yeah. Let's just have a good time as it already is."

Dr. Hoshi sighed, and he shrugged. "Oh...if you insist," The purple Yoshisaurus replied to the two Ankylosaurus brothers.

"Hey guys, the food's almost ready!" Bronto the Brontosaurus shouted from the kitchen, "I got all delecious vegetables and fruits on this plate, as well as pizza, chips, sodas, AND popcorn!"

Falco Lombardi opened the door, and popped his head in. "Damn, you guys sure are stacked," He said, entering the room with Fox McCloud and Wario. "What's going on?"

Fox looked around, and he turned to Falco. "Looks like a poker game." He explained, observing more of the room.

Wario laughed. "Wehehehe! I'm gonna take all of the cash and prizes from the lot of you!" He nudged Fox. "Care for a challenge, Fox boy?"

Fox looked at Wario. "You're on." He chuckled and grinned.

Peppy started to gather seats, as well as Heppy. "Then gather round, cause the poker match is going to start in a few minutes!"

Dr. Hoshi nodded. "Right then, you youngsters have fun. I'm going to make more experiments in my lab." The purple Yoshisaurus went into the fault and closed it shut.

Yoshi came running back, appearing next to Falco and Wario. "Hey guys, I found more players!"

Heppy approached Yoshi. "Really? Which ones?"

Yoshi pointed to three of the characters behind him, who were ironically Crash Bandicoot, Coco Bandicoot, and Vincent Valentine!

Crash waved, laughing. "What's up, dudes? I'm Crash Bandicoot!" He sniffed, wiping his left eye. "The once-proud mascot of Sony."

Coco cheered. "He FINALLY learned to talk!" She grinned, motioning to her older brother with a smirk

Vincent nodded in agreement. "About time too." He said with a smile.

Coco rubbed the back of her head. "Yeah, I was getting sick of having to interpret mime..." She sweatdropped cutely.

Crash was somewhat insulted by that. "HEY! Lay off me..." He entered the room and looked around. "Damn! This is awesome! No wonder Sonic the Hedgehog and Sora like it here so much!"

Yoshi nodded. "Yup. Nintendo did a FANTASTIC job keeping the place nice." He chuckled. "Speaking of which, I wonder if Sora and Sonic are gonna join..."

Kazooie appeared alongside with Banjo. "I don't know about those two losers, but-" She pulled Banjo next to her. "You can count US in!" She chuckled.

Banjo nodded, grinning. "Yup! Me and Kazooie have a good experience with poker before, so we're in for sure!"

Yoshi smiled. "Sweet! Let me just mark down the list." The green Yoshisaurus pulled out a pencil and a pen. "Let's see...me, Peppy Ankylosaurus, Heppy Ankylosaurus, Bronto the Brontosaurus, Banjo, Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot, Coco Bandicoot, Vincent Valentine, Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, Wario..." He looked up at all of the characters. "All right, now all we need is a dealer."

Ganondorf appeared, with Tiptup by his side. "I'll happily accept that, Yoshi," The Gerudo King said, smiling.

Banjo scratched his head in confusion. "Wait, why is Tiptup holding a camera?"

Kazooie rolled her eyes. "Please, don't tell me you're actually gonna do a bloopers video for Video Games' Funniest Home Videos..."

Tiptup laughed. "Are you kiddin'? I never post videos on that stupid show!' He cleared his throat. "I'm actually going to record the poker match!"

Banjo and Kazooie both smiled widely. "Awesome!"

Ganondorf nodded, and he also shrugged. "Hey, I figured; what the hell could go wrong with having a poker match recorded?"

Wario rubbed his hands with glee. "Yes! Now people will be able to watch ME win the game!"

"Not if I have anything to say about it, buddy," Kazooie threatened Wario, smirking.

Wario shook his fist angrily at Kazooie. "Is that a challenge, bird brain?"

"Guys, please!" Yoshi shouted, breaking up an upcoming fight, "Can we just have fun and be angry with each other at the poker table?"

All of the other characters looked at each other, and nodded.

Peppy clapped his hands together. "Right, then. Okay, folks, take your seats!" He watched the different videogame characters sit in their favorable spots.

Heppy slammed the door and locked it. "There we go! Now we are safe, AND we don't have to have any trouble from outside!"

Yoshi cheered. "All right, gang! Let the poker party begin!" He shouted, with cheering from other characters echoing through the room.

The scene panels outside of the hotel, where it is raining heavily. The winds are now blowing hard, and the thunder booms louder as the lighting sparks the clouds throughout this dark and stormy night.

Author's Notes: Hoped you all enjoyed, ladies and gentlemen! The next racecourse is actually a combination; it's a rocky mountain AND a castle rolled into one crazy racecourse! Special thanks ges to Silver Horror for mentioning the castle, and thanks goes to Choco Mountain and partially the racetracks Aincent Lake and Boulder Canyon from Diddy Kong Racing for inspiring me to use a rockey mountain, and to help make the castle theme more present! See you in the next chapter, when the poker match begins!