Racing Club - Luigi Circuit!

[babylonmechanic]

Who: Wave and the Racing Club
What: Racing!
Where: Luigi Circuit!
When: Backdated to Saturday the 28th
Warnings: R for ROAD RAGE

Everything was ready. The track was booked, everyone had arrived, and they were finally prepared to go after all these weeks. Luigi Circuit. In her research of racetrack possibilities, this one stood out in her mind as a perfect place to get them started. She knew a lot of race courses already, but most of them were geared towards Extreme Gear riding. Normal vehicles wouldn't get very far at all, and besides, they were for pros. But this seemed like a nice and simple spot so that even the inexperienced racers could get a chance to shine. Nice and picturesque spot in the Mushroom Kingdom, that she was able to secure by asking Daisy for a favour, who in turn called up Peach and arranged the meeting spot.

With everyone there, Wave greeted them. "All right, welcome to our first actual race! We've got the track here all day, so what we're going to do first is some practice laps, just to get familiar with the course and let you all try out your vehicles on the road. Then when everyone's ready we'll have a three lap race around the track. We'll get started in just a moment, but first, a word from our club advisor, Professor Falcon!"

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[raced_god]

Oh right. A word. He was supposed to be saying words?

Okay, words.

Falcon removed himself from his hanging-back-from-the-group location and cleared his throat. It was a cute track. Cute little go-karts. Certainly nothing like the F-Zero circuit. "I...uh. Just let me know if you guys need any help or have any questions." That's what he was here for.

[fist-of-win.livejournal.com]

Suddenly...

The Fire Stingray appeared and crashed into a tree. Goroh stepped out and did ten back flips, before standing right next to his rival and fellow teacher.

"HEY HOW ABOUT A LITTLE "

[raced_god]

Falcon facepalmed so hard it was practically audible.

"Goroh, this is a go-kart track."

[fist-of-win.livejournal.com]

"NO "

And suddenly, there was a go-kart Fire Stingray.

[raced_god]

...It was pink.

"Where the hell did that come from?"

[babylonmechanic]

What the hell is happening. Where did Goroh come from. And where did that go kart come from. "Well, uh... if you two want to have a race, I guess it's okay?"

[monotreme-101.livejournal.com]

"This is gonna be AWESOME!! Go Professor Goroh - Show 'em what the clan leader of the Drivers Ed Ninjas can do!"

Knuckles was obviously quite excited.

[raced_god]

Falcon shot Knuckles a glare that probably would have been more effective had he not been wearing sunglasses.

On one hand, this was a challenge. If he refused to race, Goroh would never let him live it down, and he'd embarrass himself in front of the students, too. His rival had Driver's Ed, Falcon was not going to let him take Racing Club away from him. Even if all he really did was answer questions and tell stories.

On the other, it was go-karts. "I am not racing you in a go-kart."

[king-of-the-boo.livejournal.com]

King Boo raised his nubby arm.

"Are blue shells allowed?"

[snarksterpilot.livejournal.com]

Nester was here and also ready to go. He had a bit of trouble getting a kart, but once he hit up someone in his old flight club for help, he got a deal. The guy was a mechanic, so making a small go-kart for him was a breeze. He got a discount, too! It was a bit hard convincing his parents to give him the money for the kart, but after lots of begging begging, he managed to obtain the cashola. Aw yeah.

So here he was in a pretty standard red, orange, and white kart. Woo!

[oso-tigre.livejournal.com]

Okay, so go-karts weren't exactly hot choppers, but you had to start somewhere. Kumatora was ready for some action nonetheless!

[getthisguyoffme.livejournal.com]

Slippy was ready. It wasn't hot rods but it go-karting sounded like fun.

[monotreme-101.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Slippy!" Knuckles called, jogging over to give his buddy a friendly punch to the shoulder. "Who do you think's gonna win the battle of the Go-Karts?"

Sure, he'd wanted to race his real car, but if they were going with Go-Karts, then Go-Karts it was, and he would race the heart and soul out of his little Go-Kart.

[getthisguyoffme.livejournal.com]

Slippy smiled as he looked over his shoulder. "Hey Knuckles! No clue. I'm really hopin' to win though."

[monotreme-101.livejournal.com]

"We'll both do our best!" Knuckles replied with a grin. "It's funny - all those drivers ed classes and I don't think I have ever tried driving anything this SMALL - Give me a giant robot dinosaur or a monster truck any day." he laughed.

[getthisguyoffme.livejournal.com]

"Same with me but it'll probably be a lot of fun too," Slippy replied. "And I heard something about these kind of races use weapons. I don't know what kind but it sounds cool."

[monotreme-101.livejournal.com]

"Weapons, you say? Well, I'm all over that like butter on toast!" the Echidna grinned - he was looking forward to racing Slippy! They'd been freinds for a while now and worked on their autoshop projects side by side but this would be the first time they'd ever raced.

Go kart race of the CENTURY! Falcon vs. Goroh!

[babylonmechanic]

When Falcon and Goroh were seated in their karts at the starting line, Wave took to the track, holding up her arms. "Ready? Three... Two... One... GO!" She threw down her arms.

Re: Go kart race of the CENTURY! Falcon vs. Goroh!

[fist-of-win.livejournal.com]

Oh god these things were tight.

"EAT MY DUST, !"

Re: Go kart race of the CENTURY! Falcon vs. Goroh!

[raced_god]

"Like I haven't head that before." He growled, rocketing from the starting line. He had been pressing A repeatedly through the whole countdown, you see.

It was almost anticlimactic how slow the go-karts were. He sighed heavily and put it in gear, shooting forward and pulling up alongside his rival. He wasn't sure how many hits these things could take, but he'd never know if he didn't try. Banking hard, he slammed his kart into Goroh's as they rounded the first turn.

Re: Go kart race of the CENTURY! Falcon vs. Goroh!

[fist-of-win.livejournal.com]

"WATCH THE , YOU !" Goroh yelled back, shaking his fist for maximum effect...until he was pushed into a ? block. Falcon raced ahead of him.

"WHAT?"

Suddenly there were three red shells hovering around his kart.

"UHHH..."

Re: Go kart race of the CENTURY! Falcon vs. Goroh!

[raced_god]

Falcon was so busy laughing at shoving Goroh out of the way that he almost didn't see the question-mark block until it was too late. For an instant he thought it was something solid to run into and swerved, but the side of his kart caught the rotating block, shattering it as if it was made of nothing.

It felt like it was made of nothing, but all of a sudden, Falcon had shells hovering around his kart too. Not red like Goroh's though. Green.

"The hell are these?"

[fist-of-win.livejournal.com]

Well it didn't seem too hard, as Goroh finally notice the small flashing button and pressed it. Instantly a turtle shell launched itself and zoomed over to Falcon's Go-Kart, making one of the shells shatter.

"Well, this is interesting."

He slammed into another floating box and...

Speed Mushroom. Remaining : 3. Unusable until Red Paratroopa shells have been depleted.

"This is hella crazy."

[raced_god]

Luckily, one of his shells blocked one of Goroh's, but hell if Falcon knew why. Racing with items? Items were for sissies who couldn't drive. At the moment, however, he saw no need to deploy his remaining two shells, mostly because it seemed like they'd deflect anything his rival through at him.

He hoped, anyway.

Falcon veered and screeched around a turn, figuring that if the rainbow blocks were going to be right there in the middle of the road, he might as well make use of them.

...A little...bomb? With feet? Well then.

[fist-of-win.livejournal.com]

They entered a tight corner. Goroh tried to fire one of his shells, but it broke the other again. This was useless. He only had one left. He hugged the asphalt as much as he could, making his turn sharp. There was an odd clinking and he swore he could see some multicolored smoke coming from behind him.

Suddenly, whatever he had done had caused the kart to let out a steam of bluish fire and he inched right next to Falcon. With the students much father away, he screamed over the loud motors.

"You're going down!"