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August 7th, 2003Preshow: "Dino Duel" Bowser pulled his oversized, leather, driving glove over his oversized, leathery, hand. He took out his Chaos Emerald and looked at it inquisitively. He still wasn't quite sure how he was supposed to use it, but he had no doubt it would help him in his battle with that stupid green dinosaur. He surveyed the course that had been set up for his race with Yoshi. He thought back on the circumstances for the match and grinned. ---- the day before the match Bowser was in the training center, punching training drones back to the stone age with his incredible strength. He had gathered quite a crowd. Most people assumed because of the extreme amount of talking that Bowser did, that he was all talk. So when he backed up his words with power, people seemed to be quite impressed. Suddenly, the drones started coming in waves. The first wave went right under Bowser as he leaped into the air. They turned around and awaited his return to earth, apparently the AI on the drones wasn't too good. Bowser came down to the ground with the force of a small comet, the ones that weren't crushed under Bowser's feet and tail were destroyed by the immense shockwave released from his landing. Another wave came out of the wall, these were met by a quick but powerful sweep of Bowser's tail, leaving only twisted metal and a few sparks. Bowser anticipated the next wave and sent a burst of fire from his mouth at the door the drones were emerging from but the fire simply blasted onto the wall, leaving it an ominous glowing red. That could mean only one thing, someone had entered the training room. Bowser whirled around yelling, "Did I give you permission to interrupt my training session!!!!!" However, when Bowser saw the figure now inside the training room, his anger turned to humor. He began to chuckle, "What can I do for you.....Mario? Gwahohohoh!!!!" "I'm-a here on-a Yoshi's behalf-a," Mario said, not intimidated at all by Bowser who had pushed his immense, toothy face directly into Mario's. "What, does the cat have his tounge? That poor cat. Gwahohohoho!!!!!" Bowser continued his chuckling, seemingly completely ignoring Mario. "He-a wants-a to have a race-a," said Mario flatly. Bowser stopped at this. It had been a long time since he had been on the track, but he remembered how good he was at it. He thought for a moment and then turned his back to Mario and said in an ominous tone, "Do you really think having the battle as a race, will give Yoshi a better chance of surviving?" This time Mario was stopped in his tracks, Bowser had read his intentions perfectly, but he made no response to the threat. Bowser started again, "No matter, if Yoshi agrees I have no qualms about beating him at a race." Bowser pushed his way through the training room doors and left, leaving Mario to think about the decision he had just made. ---- now Bowser grinned to himself, he had really gotten to Mario with that one. Now he was lounging about on the race track before the race. The crowd gave a great cheer, signifying Yoshi had entered the arena. Bowser grinned to himself again and tucked the Chaos Emerald away behind his shell. It was time. Battle: "Burning Rubber" The stadium had been transformed once more, but not to the maze. Instead of a drywall maze there was a concrete race track built around the entire stadium. The stadium itself was not large enough to house a race track, that wasn't what it had been built for. So now the track, which normally would've been a circular track, was now a jungle of hairpin turns and jumps. Bowser had come out early for one reason or another, and Yoshi had just arrived and was now overlooking his cart. Bowser who had already looked over his cart and was now sitting back with his feet propped up on the wheel. "Ready to lose, clown," Bowser chided. Yoshi simply looked over at him and shot his tongue out, hitting Bowser in his face knocking him out of his cart. Bowser jumped up and came at Yoshi fist drawn back, but he looked over at the judges and slowly sat back down in his cart. "You'll pay for that, dino brain." Yoshi barked something and smirked, but more importantly he hopped into his cart and nodded to the announcer. Bowser smiled and turned on his engine. A Lakitu Bro. flew out of nowhere on his cloud. He stopped in front of the two carts. Suddenly he produced a fishing pole with a traffic light on the end. The two competitors knew that traffic light all too well. One blue light lit up, the competitors gripped the wheel. A second blue light lit up, the competitors held their breath. A red light lit up, flame spewed out of the exhaust pipes of the two go-carts and they were off. Yoshi pulled ahead of Bowser. They had been given the same go-cart to insure that everything was fair. This allowed the lighter Yoshi to have the speed factor for him. But Bowser's weight increased the friction between the wheels and the ground giving him more control over his car than Yoshi. The first section was a strait away to the end of the stadium, Yoshi had gained around three car lengths on Bowser as they entered the first turn. Yoshi swerved to the outside and cut in close, he managed to take the turn without losing any speed. Bowser followed angrily. If Bowser didn't get some luck, he would lose. Bowser's luck payed off, the next turn was a hairpin turn. He came in to the inside of the turn and slammed on the break, and yanked the wheel. He pulled through the turn less than a foot from the divider, and leapt into the lead. Yoshi followed behind. Yoshi followed behind Bowser. Who had plowed through a row of question blocks. He took two, forcing Yoshi to swerve to the right to claim the third. Bowser looked into the item display screen. He grinned as he saw a green turtle shell. Without further ado Bowser loaded the shell onto the back of his cart. Yoshi saw the shell and put on the brakes, he had obtained a ghost item but it wasn't of any use with Bowser having already loaded his shell. He didn't want to see the shell up close on anything but his display screen. Bowser haphazardly launched his shell backwards, directly at Yoshi, but Luigi was on top of it, he grabbed a hold of the bottom of his cart and yanked up. His cart rose into to the air, allowing the arrant turtle shell to pass harmlessly below him. He continued his catchup efforts on the Koopa King. Bowser was losing ground to Yoshi. The friendly dinosaur was now less than a cart length behind Bowser as they reached the jump. Bowser hit the turbo booster and rocketed ahead with Yoshi right on his tail, before the top of the top of the jump Yoshi got up right beside Bowser. They crested off the jump in unison. As they traveled through the air side by side, Bowser turned over to Yoshi and pushed his cart in mid air. The push caused Yoshi's cart to flip over in mid air and drift off to the side. Yoshi landed sideways against a wall and rolled to a stop shortly after. Bowser drove off laughing. Yoshi got up from the crash, Bowser was already off in the distance. Yoshi growled he didn't have much time to catch up, not enough to rely on his speed anyway, he needed to catch up some other way. He flipped his cart over and took off. Bowser was grinning slyly. He had totally wrecked that stupid fool Yoshi, he wouldn't have been surprised (or sad) if he had killed that stupid dinosaur. He sat back in his car and drifted around another turn, not concerned at all about the Yoshi anymore. As far as he was concerned this race was already over. Hahaha, that fool Mario has to watch another one of his friends leave. How fiendishly pleasant. Gwahohohohoho!!!! Bowser roared with laughter (in his mind). He plowed through a second string of question mark blocks. To his great delight a thunder bolt came up on the display. This time he laughed aloud, "Gwahohohoho!!!! There's not even a need to use this." Yoshi was way behind. He didn't even see the dust Bowser's tires had kicked up he needed a plan. He looked at his item display, he still had his ghost item. It was a long shot, but he needed something, anything, to help him close the gap. He took a big breath, and deployed the ghost. Bowser coasted along casually through a third row of question mark blocks, he began to look to see what he got but remembered he still had his lighting bolt. He kept driving but then looked down at his display to see a Mushroom instead. He took a big gulp. Yoshi looked down at the display case to see his winnings. The crowd made a surge of noise in the confusion of Yoshi's car disappearing. Suddenly a lighting bolt appeared in the display window. Yoshi barked something out loud that was no doubt a cry of celebration as he passed through the second row of blocks not picking up anything. He smiled and activated the lighting bolt. Bowser cringed as he felt a surge of electricity coursed through his body. He felt his body shrinking, he saw the stadium growing. He was a quarter of his size, he was going a quarter of his speed. Oh no!!! thought Bowser At this rate he'll catch me Bowser slammed on the gas as he tried to maintain his lead. Yoshi slammed a green foot onto the black gas pedal, his cart taking the turns at maximum speed. He could do it he could catch Bowser, not only that, he could win. He took a turn and blasted through the last line of blocks. He saw what he wanted to see in the item display. Three Mushrooms brightened the otherwise dark screen. He pressed the deploy button, and with a spout of fire he sped off down a strait away. Bowser heard the roar of a mushroom boosted engine. It was getting closer, he heard another one, even closer. Bowser was sweating bullets Yoshi would be passing any moment and he was too close to the finish to pull a comeback. He turned around to see Yoshi closing on the strait away. Suddenly he felt blood rushing through his body at top speed, he felt himself growing, and the stadium shrinking. He grew four times the size and gained four times the speed, but it was all for naught. Yoshi blew past him heading strait for the finish line. Bowser began to panic, he couldn't lose, not to Yoshi, the embarrassment would be worse than death. Bowser looked down at his item display and saw a solitary mushroom. He drew his breath and deployed. He began to gain on the green dinosaur, they passed a turn and the finish line was in view. He was closing, but not fast enough. He had reached the end of Yoshi's cart but Yoshi would still win the race. Bowser took a deep breath and did the only thing any self respecting super villain would do. He rammed Yoshi's cart off of the road. The impact of the collision also knocked Bowser off the course and the two came sliding to a halt, 30 feet short of the finish line. Bowser and Yoshi grudgingly got to their feet. First one to the finish line wins thought Bowser This is a race, not a battle. Bowser got up and looked over to his cart. In the crash somehow his cart had impaled Yoshi's making both carts completely unuseable. Maybe this is a battle thought Bowser. Yoshi surveyed the twisted wreckage, they couldn't be used. He would have to finish in a foot race he began to run back to the track but ran right into Bowser. He squealed a slur of words, probably trying to convince Bowser to start the race on foot, but one glance at the look on Bowser's face convinced Yoshi beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Bowser had no interest in racing. Bowser grinned at the bewildered dinosaur. He brought his hands together and cracked his knuckles in the face of the dinosaur. Yoshi let out his trademark, "Waaaaah" and jumped away as a Bowser sized fist crushed down into the ground where he had been standing. Yoshi landed on the ground only to find a tail coming right at him. Which smacked him into the ever crumbling wall of the stadium. Yoshi got up, he was mad now. If Bowser wanted a fight, that was fine with Yoshi. Yoshi flicked out his tongue and grabbed a piece of concrete. He withdrew his tongue and held the piece of concrete in his mouth. Bowser had been too busy laughing to see Yoshi's stockpiling. He turned around to see Yoshi looking mean, and grinned. "Well dinosaur," Bowser said in a voice dripping with disdain, "You're awfully intimidating." Yoshi made no response, not that Bowser would have understood one anyway. Bowser grinned and charged in preparing to smear Yoshi on the side of the wall. Yoshi watched Bowser close in, and smirked. He launched the chunk of concrete out of his mouth, with vicious speed and devastating accuracy. It smacked Bowser right between the eye's. Bowser fell to the ground, grasping his forehead. Yoshi leaped into the air, and then came slamming to the ground on the back of Bowsers skull, driving his head deep into the concrete. Bowser lay on the ground with his head in the concrete. Yoshi began to walk towards the finish line, feeling quite triumphant. However, his attempts were stopped by a row of flame that dropped in front of him blocking his path. Yoshi whirled around to see Bowser standing at full height stretching his neck. Bowser grinned and then unleashed another wave of flame at Yoshi. Yoshi jumped up in the air narrowly avoiding the hot flame blast. He landed on the ground only to have to dodge another one. This time he didn't get out of the way quite in time and was singed a little. He knew he couldn't keep it up. He had to end the battle now. Bowser unleashed another blast of flame, but Yoshi ran right through it. He put his arms up to block the blast but was severely burned. The flame stopped and Yoshi was 6 feet from Bowser. A sticky tongue shot out of the dinosaurs mouth rapping around Bowser and pulling him in. Bowser dragged his feet, but the pull was too great. He flew into Yoshi's gaping jaw. Yoshi tossed him around in his sizable mouth and then with a great gulp, swallowed the Koopa King. The crowd was silent for a moment, and then began to start to applaud, but then stopped again. As Yoshi's face began to contort with agony. Suddenly an egg the size of, well....Bowser popped out of Yoshi's backside. Bowser looked around his new environment. It was completely black. He tried to move his arms he could not. He had similar luck with his tail and legs. It appeared he had been......EGGED. Bowser tried to force his way out of the egg, but it was rock solid. Bowser became enraged, he hated not being able to move. He wasn't claustrophobic, but not moving frustrated him beyond anything. Yoshi looked at the sizable egg, and began to move towards the finish line. The fans cheered as the battle damaged dinosaur skipped happily towards the line. Mario began to shout praise from the sidelines. Yoshi barked something back at him and they both smiled. It looked like Yoshi had beaten the Koopa King. Bowser struggled inside the egg. He heard the announcer, mentioning Yoshi's inevitable win. I can't lose, not to him, NOT TO ANYONE!!!! The rage began to build inside of him. Suddenly a blue glow came from the inside of Bowser's shell. Soon the glow encompassed Bowser's entire body. He felt, strength beyond anything he had ever felt. All his muscles were working in overdrive, and then with a great yell, he exploded out of the egg. Yoshi was ten feet away from the finish when he heard the explosion. The pieces of the egg landed around him. He slowly turned around to face Bowser. Bowser was encompassed in a blue glow. He was standing examining his hands and heaving, his eye's shadowed by his brow. He looked over at Yoshi and smiled. Bowser was no good person. He had kidnaped Peach and Daisy....who knows how many times. However, when you looked in his eyes you didn't see evil. Yoshi looked into Bowser's eyes and saw evil. Bowser began to chuckle, not his normal comical laugh, but a maniacal chuckling. It was as if he was imagining some horrible deed and was delighted by it. He grinned an evil grin, and began to coil up. Yoshi watched the transformed Bowser coil up, as if stretching his lower back. Then he spun around and jumped in the air. While spinning in the air he retracted into his shell and landed on his belly. Leaving nothing exposed but his spiky shell. The spinning blue shell shot at Yoshi at unbelievable speed. Yoshi leaped up in the air, narrowly avoiding the lethal shell. He turned around to watch the shell come to a screeching halt less than a foot from the finish line. Yoshi landed and the shell attacked Yoshi again. Bowser wasn't going to be satisfied with victory anymore, he wanted elimination. Bowser's shell was too fast for Yoshi. After Yoshi had leapt up into the air, Bowser had repositioned himself under the poor dinosaur. He landed on the spinning spikes and leaped up into the air with pain. Bowser stopped spinning and got to his feet, he watched the hapless Yoshi fall to the ground, and smiled. He began to close the distance between the two. Yoshi looked up as Bowser drew back a powerful fist, and fired the kill shot at the spot where Yoshi had been sitting, but Yoshi was gone. He had leaped up into the air once more. Big mistake. Bowser's new found speed found him right at the spot where Yoshi was to land again, and prepared a monster uppercut. Yoshi looked down at Bowser waiting for him and began to peddle his feet. But it was no use, he was too tired. He felt an impact unlike anything he'd felt before, and flew off into the horizon. Bowser watched the green dinosaur fly off. Suddenly the blue glow evaporated from his body, and Bowser returned to normal. He saw the speck of the dinosaur and grinned. I think I like this trinket. Gwahohohohoho!!!!!! Bowser thought as he leisurely crossed the finish line. The crowd in utter silence. Aftermath: "Polli Di Gomma" Kefka had opted not to watch the day's match. Instead, he was leaping and dancing madly around the forest, participating in one of his favorite pastimes; frying woodland creatures. The clown always delighted in the suffering of those weaker then himself, which included, at his last count, everybody. A cute, fluffy rabbit hopped out of the bushes and gazed at the jester with loving, adorable eyes. It imploded with a particularly satisfying pop as he effortlessly zapped it out of existence. Kefka threw back his head and began to giggle insanely. "Uwee hee hee hee!" Kefka continued laughing with his head towards the sky. Suddenly a strange object caught his eye. At first glance it appeared to be a pear. He squinted to get a better look, and was surprised to see the pear rapidly grow and flail around in the air. His laughing died as too late he realized the true nature of the rapidly falling object heading towards him. "Uwee hee...heh..." SPLAT! Yoshi staggered to his feet, dazed and battered from the fight but happy to be alive. Fortunately, some sort of lettuce-like material had broken his fall. He gave a mournful squeal and began to trudge back towards the stadium to say his goodbyes. Bowser had played dirty and cheated, as everyone expected him to, and Yoshi hadn't been prepared for it. There was no excuse in the dino's mind for his loss but his own carelessness. Shaking his head, he broke into a brisk stride and headed off towards the stadium, where he saw his friends DK and Mario waiting for him. Meanwhile, Kefka's head was still lying facedown in the mud. He squirmed in disgust as he felt something slimy crawl over him. "Son of a submariner! He'll pay for this!" ---- The audience remained in a dreary hush. They quietly filed out in disappointment, victory snatched away from their favorite at the last minue. Already construction crews were dismantling the extensive race track, and removing the wreckage that was still vaguely recognizable as two intertwined carts. Bowser sauntered out of the stadium and headed to his locker room. He clutched the light blue gem confidently. With this newfound power, nobody could stand up to him. He was invincible. He was unstoppable. He was- "Still too weak." Bowser's jaw dropped as he saw a man's black figure silhouetted against the shadows. "Y-you again! What do you want now?!" He stammered, edging back against the wall slightly. "Do you honestly believe such trinkets can save you?" Scoffed the man, gesturing to the emerald held tightly in Bowser's grasp. "O-of course!" He exclaimed, jumping forward again. He had nothing more to fear from this one any longer. "Right now I could crush anyone in this tournament with this power! Gwahaha!" "Power," spit the shadow in disgust. "What do you know of true power? Your next opponent, while...defective, is more than a match for you and whatever toys you may possess. You must not underestimate the unfathomable level of hidden power within this man." "Is that all you came to say?" Retorted the lizard. "You mean nothing to me any more. This 'toy' is all I need to win!" But his voice shook, the confidence and swagger it once contained having left him again. "Of course, I never said such toys weren't...useful, from time to time." Bowser was surprised as he thought he saw the man smile. But his was nothing compared to the shock he received as he caught a bright flash of silver emanating from the man's hands. He stared in abject terror as the shadowy figure turned and once again dissolved into the darkness. He...has one TOO?! Next Entry Back |