Chapter 91: The F-Zero X Grand Prix!
It wasn't hard for everyone to agree to let the three sets of CMC go explore a different universe. As long as they promised to remain close to Sweetie Void/Phantom/Apple Death, their respective families trusted them to remain safe. Apple Death's group (which included Little Ghost) especially didn't have any problem convincing because, well, they were already dead and knew how to fight, having nice powers backing them up even if they didn't compare to Apple Death.
So the three sets of CMC gathered in Sweetie Void's Equestria outside of Ponyville where Phantom's group and Apple Death's group finally got to meet Sweetie Void's group.
"Nice to finally meet you two," Scootabot said, the others agreeing as they shook hooves.
"You know, if Sweetie Belle hadn't told us about what happened to you, I would have said that you look awesome." Sweetie Belle's Scootaloo couldn't stop herself from looking at her robotic counterpart in amazement.
Scootabot grinned. "I am awesome. I'm a freaking robot! Yeah, it sucks that I died, but no need to turn around this."
Phantom smirked before she used her Phantom powers to transform herself into a robotic version of her anthropomorphic form looking very closely like the form Metal Sonic took just after having absorbed the powers of a Phantom Ruby Prototype during the battle to stop the Death Egg from being launched. "Not as awesome as I can be."
The two other Scootaloo had stars in their eyes while the three Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom rolled their eyes, some letting out a giggle.
"I thought ya were supposed ta be the more mature one," Apple Death said.
You could see Phantom grinning despite the absence of a mouth in her current form as she shrugged. "I'm mature enough to know that, between Scootaloo and Infinite, I have more ego than even Rainbow Dash so boasting a bit is perfectly normal for me."
"And she is still Scootaloo. What did you expect?" Phantom's Sweetie Belle added. "It's not some half coming from an edgelord that will change that." A small wave of Phantom energy suddenly hit her. Sweetie Belle quickly looked at herself to see what Phantom did to her but, seeing nothing, looked at her friend and opened her mouth to ask what she did only to let out a squeaky noise like one of these squeaky toys. She immediately closed her mouth in shock. After a second, she did a few more tries, each time letting out another squeaky noise, before she gave Phantom a deadpan glare, blushing a bit in embarrassment as the three Apple Bloom couldn't stop themselves from laughing, and even the two other Sweetie Belle let out a giggle despite them giving Phantom threatening looks at the jab at their voice tending to squeak.
Phantom chuckled. "You should know by now to never refer to me or a part of me as an edgelord, Squeaky Belle. Oh, I think it suits you well. This should be your nickname from now on."
Her Sweetie Belle's glare only deepened at this before Discord suddenly rolled not far of them on an unicycle and said, "Sorry but it's already taken in a different multiverse."
"There isn't a trademark on it as far as I know so I don't care!" Phantom shouted back before the draconequus disappeared behind a tree. She then returned to her pegasus form. "Speaking of, we now need nicknames for you four," she said to her Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom as well as to Sweetie Void's Apple Bloom and Scootaloo.
"Just so you know, I'm Sweetie Void." The alicorn pointed at herself, then pointed at the others one by one as she said their nicknames. "Phantom, of course. Apple Death. Scootabot. Little Ghost won't need one. And... Mmh... Have you decided between Sweetie Lich and Sweetie Ghoul?" she asked to her undead counterpart.
"Let's go with Sweetie Ghoul. I don't feel like a Lich. I mean, Liches know necromancy, right? Well, I totally don't and I don't think I ever will. Apple Death is already the necromancer of the group."
"It doesn't mean that we can't have a second necromancer," Little Ghost retorted. "With your affinity with your voice, you could raise the dead and send them to fight just by singing. It would be epic to watch."
"And scary," most of the CMCs that weren't from Apple Death's group said, a chill creeping up their back at the image.
Phantom's Sweetie Belle, however, could only let out a squeak. Reminded that Phantom hadn't yet returned her voice to normal, she walked toward her friend and loudly squeaked at her ear, almost making her topple.
Turning a hoof into a hand to rub the inside of her hurting ear with a finger, Phantom glared at the unicorn. "Alright. Sheesh." She sent another small wave of Phantom energy at Sweetie Belle. "You could have simply squeaked to gain my attention and pointed at your neck."
The unicorn gave her best troll grin. "I did squeak to gain your attention, very loudly. And the way I did it was more effective and felt good. You can call that... sweet revenge." She proceeded to hoofbump her two counterparts who looked proudly at her. Little Ghost laughed but the three Apple Bloom and Scootaloo excepted Phantom let out groans. Phantom simply looked resigned.
"So, nickname... Nickname..." Phantom's Apple Bloom began to say pensively. "Ya know. It's really hard to think of a nickname for ourselves. How about ya give me one?"
Little Ghost eyed the three members of Phantom's group as she was getting an idea. "Since you two are with Phantom... Then how about we call you Phantom Bloom and Phantom Belle?"
Phantom's Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom looked at each other and gave a shrug before the Earth Pony said, "Ah guess this works. Sweetie?"
Her unicorn friend nodded. "Better than Squeaky Belle," she said, confirming the nicknames for the both of them while giving a last glare to Phantom.
"I like these nicknames. It makes you sound as if you were some kind of ninja or spy or some other mysterious figure in the shadows," Sweetie Void's Scootaloo said, making the two grin and laugh.
"But does that mean we should go as Apple Void and Scootavoid?" Sweetie Void's Apple Bloom wondered.
Sweetie Void thought a bit and shook her head before grinning. "Nah. You shall be Black Apple and Shadow Speedster! We will be the Darkness Trio!"
Her two friends both snorted while the others all looked at Sweetie Void as if she was crazy, making her laugh.
"They sound like Supervillain names!" Scootabot shouted before she grinned. "Can I exchange by nickname with this one? Shadow Speedster sounds much cooler!"
"Too late! It's taken!" the now nicknamed Shadow Speedster countered with a similar grin.
"Alright. Let's go with Black Apple," the now Black Apple said with a chuckle.
"Great!" Sweetie Void shouted before she used her powers to turn Black Apple's bow black and to materialize a white bandana with a black lightning bolt around Shadow Speedster's neck. "And there, to differentiate you from your counterparts!" She gave a mirror to Black Apple so she could see her now black bow.
Shadow Speedster looked down at her new bandana and touched it. "Neat!"
"AJ may think Ah'm entering mah Goth Phase," Black Apple said as she looked at the bow through the mirror.
"As long as you don't dye your mane and tail black, you should be okay," Sweetie Void reassured. "It's just a black bow after all."
"Well, this settles everything. How about we go?" Little Ghost asked impatiently. "I can't wait to visit a new universe anymore!"
Sweetie Void giggled and opened a rift to the universe she explored earlier. "We will have a few hours before we have to return for the night." Her group's day time and Phantom's group's day time were pretty close so they didn't have to worry about one group being late too much, and Apple Death's group didn't need to sleep so they didn't care how late they returned as long as they were back in time for school. "Thankfully, time in this new universe is a bit faster than in ours so we will have a little bit more time, but not much. More than enough to explore a bit and, hopefully, see something really interesting."
As Sweetie Void thought, as the group walked among the crowd, they didn't have to transform into humans or some humanoid creatures. With all the aliens around, nobody batted an eye at the group of equines. They were quadrupeds? They were far from being the only ones around even if bipeds clearly were the big majority. Obviously, it was hard for species without a way to manipulate tools to develop a civilization so that was why species like the ponies were so rare, but there were such species that developed a way to do this despite the visible absence of fingers or similar appendages so nobody thought twice about Sweetie Void and the others, especially when they saw that their legs were as dexterous as fingers, or even more, and could somehow hold objects with their hooves. As for why they looked so much alike? Well, there could be many explanations for this. A quirk of their species. Cloning. Twins. And Scootabot could easily be explained as someone having built her in the image of her two lookalike for some reason.
Even Little Ghost didn't gain attention! Were ghosts common in this universe too? Or were there actual spiritual species?
The fillies didn't ponder on that long as they marveled at the huge metropolis they were in and couldn't help but look at every stores to see the marvels they had. Even Phantom's group. While they came from a more technologically advanced Equestria, they were still Prehistoric compared to this world! Only the three UME weren't much impressed, especially Sweetie Void who spent several days in the Galactic Federation. Phantom simply eyed everything with slight disinterest. Apple Death reacted a bit more as she hadn't gotten to see much from Corneria City but she still was less impressed than the others.
Of course, they could buy nothing, having no local currency, but just exploring was more than enough even thought they wouldn't have minded tasting some of the vegetarian menus of the restaurants.
But then, Shadow Speedster had her attention attracted by a billboard advertising about what was called the F-Zero X Grand Prix which seemed to be a racing competition judging the animated image of a blue vehicle that looked like a little spaceship with its wings raised up floating on some track followed by a bigger pink one. And apparently, it was the second edition. There was a date too but she had no idea of if it was close or not. She didn't even know what was the current date. But a futuristic racing competition? She was so NOT missing that!
"Sweetie Belle! Uh... Void! We have to see that!" she shouted while pointing at the billboard.
The fillies all looked at the billboard and all who wasn't a Scootaloo rolled their eyes, amused.
"Why am Ah not surprised?" Apple Death said.
"But I think that we all agree with her, it will certainly be fun to watch." Sweetie Void looked around. "But now, we must find out how much time remains before it starts. Remember, we only have a few hours."
"Well that's easy," Scootabot said before she stopped a passing woman. "Excuse me miss. What is today's date?"
The lady raised an eyebrow but still answered, revealing that it was exactly the same date than the one indicated by the billboard. In other word, the Grand Prix started today! This very evening judging by the hour indicated on it! In just a couple of hours!
"Oh my gosh oh my gosh! Quick! We must find out where it starts!" Shadow Speedster shouted excitedly.
Asking around again, it wasn't hard to find out where it will take place. A man pointed at the track in the sky and then said where to go to reach it for the ones who didn't have a flying car. Of course, you had to have a ticket, one per person, which the fillies didn't have. If they couldn't go to the track then they could simply watch the race in a TV.
The fillies thanked the man and immediately went into an alley where Sweetie Void turned them invisible (excepted Little Ghost who turned herself invisible) before everyone was levitated to the track which was named Twist Road. Using their various powers, they had no problem passing all the securities and entering one of the large rooms with glazed walls overhanging the starting line.
Already, pilots and their vehicles were arriving on the track, and the public rooms were almost entirely full with people that had come early to have the best places. Giant screens above the pilots were showing informations and images about them and their vehicles, alternating between each of them, and many televisions in the room were doing the same or simply showing the track and the arriving pilots.
Now all the fillies were excited to see the race start as time passed and more and more pilots arrived.
Eventually, a man who was a cyborg, his eyes and the right part of his head being replaced by mechanical parts equipped with goggles and a microphone, who had green hair and a turquoise suit, appeared on several of the screens.
"Goooood evening everyone! Are you ready? What a question, of course you are! But the race isn't ready yet so we still all have to go through the gruesome process that is "waiting"!"
Phantom snorted. "Yeah. Waiting is always the worst part."
"Thankfully you have me, yours truly Mr. Zero again, to kill time! Not literally. Already, as you can see, our competitors are arriving one after another, and I see many familiar faces from last yeah! Dr. Stewart! Mr. EAD! James McCloud!"
The UME did a double take and the three of them shouted "What?!" before looking down at the track. And indeed, among the vehicles they spotted what looked like a modified version of an Arwing with exactly the same colors! And standing beside it was what looked like an human version of Fox's dad! Uh... And was that them or was that Mr. EAD guy reminding them of Mario? They should have payed more attention to the pilots showcased by the TVs.
"Seems like this universe has some counterparts of people we know," Phantom remarked. "I wonder who else there is."
Mr. Zero went to interview some of the pilots, starting with a brown-haired woman beside a white and purple vehicle who was named Jody Summer and was apparently from the military or the police, hard to say. Mr. Zero then went to talk to a bipedal tortoise-like alien beside a green and yellow vehicle named Pico, a regular from the first days of the F-Zero and also a known criminal and assassin. The fillies were surprised to learn that even criminals didn't hesitate to come racing here. Mr. Zero also interviewed what was apparently a newcomer beside his red vehicle, a pilot named Phoenix who was apparently a time-traveller along with a robot named QQQ who was also a pilot.
"Oups..." Sweetie Void muttered. If that was like with Silver... But seriously, they developed, or will develop time travel?
Phoenix revealed that they were after some criminal but couldn't say more beside reassuring the people that everything will be alright. Mr. Zero then went on to interview more pilots like a Superhero and his wife respectively named Super Arrow and Mrs. Arrow, a Supervillain named Zoda, another newcome who was apparently an important head mongul but also a criminal known as Don Genie, a living skeleton who was a revived pilot from some two hundreds years ago named Skull, the man known as Dr. Stewart, and a few others including an anthropomorphic feline-like being and a handsome-looking man that made many girls faint.
"There're really all kinds of people coming from all over the universe!" Phantom Bloom said in amazement. "Look! There's even an octopus and a gorilla!"
The public suddenly cheered loudly as a blue vehicle, the same one they saw on the billboard, arrived.
"Look who is coming everyone!" Mr. Zero shouted like a fanboy. "Here he is! Last year's champion! Captain Falcon himself always with his famous Blue Falcon!"
The blue vehicle, the Blue Falcon, stopped at what seemed to be its place before its pilot came out. The man was wearing a form-fitting blue armor and blue pants with a single metallic pauldron on his right shoulder, had two layers of gloves, the first layer, brown-colored covering his arms to the elbows and the second layer, yellow, only covering the hands, had golden metallic boots with a falcon on them, a yellow scarf, and had a red helmet with a visor barely letting his eyes being visible and a small golden falcon decorating it on the front.
Mr. Zero approached him followed by what seemed to be one of the representatives of the competition.
"Captain Falcon! How nice to see you back! Wanting to claim the belt and the cup for the second time in a row? Speaking of the belt..." The announced gestured to the representative following him.
Captain Falcon smiled and took a belt out of his vehicle before giving it to the representative.
"And after one year, the Captain just returned the Champion Belt! Whoever will win the Grand Prix will have the pleasure of returning home with it, this marvellous cup ready to decor your shelf..." At this, many of the screens showed a magnificent golden cup with a huge golden F on the front and a smaller flaming red X beside it between a pair of golden wings like the ones some of the vehicles had. "and one billion space credits!"
The fillies' eyes became as big as saucers. "No wonders people from everywhere, even super famous criminals, are coming to race!" Phantom Belle said.
"Do you think you will win the Grand Prix again?" Mr. Zero asked to Captain Falcon.
The Captain gave a small salute with his fingers. "I have my chances, but many pilots as skilled as me are gathered here tonight. The battle will be tough but I won't give any slack!" The public cheered again at his words and some of the pilots applauded. "But at least I will do my best to ensure that unsavoury people like Pico or Zoda don't leave with the prize money. It would only ask for trouble."
"You can dream, Captain Pigeon!" Zoda yelled from beside his vehicle. "This time, I will get the prize money and be able to finance my scheme! And finally, I will conquer the world! Mwahahahahaha!!!"
"What scheme? Another whacky robot that can't hurt a fly?" Super Arrow yelled in turn.
"SHUT UP!!!"
As they talked, a few more pilots arrived, including a freaking mutant T-Rex! Among the last ones to arrive was the same pink vehicle the fillies saw on the billboard. It stopped right beside the Blue Falcon and out of it came a massive man with muscles that would make Bulk Biceps proud. He was wearing a simple white sleeveless T-shirt with a leather vest, dark blue pants, boots, and some old-style pilot helmet, and his eyes were hidden behind small and round sunglasses.
He pointed a finger at Captain Falcon. "FALCOOOON!!! This time, I will be the one winning the Grand Prix! I swear!"
"I won't let you, Goroh!" a muscled man with a dark blue shirt, a white long coat, military pants, and a blue helmet shouted, his eyes also hidden behind small round glasses. "As I told you, as long as I'm here, you won't win anything, you traitor! I swore!"
"Don't talk like that to my dad, Antonio!" a ten years old kid dressed like Goroh but also wearing large pilot glasses, a katana on his back, and big wooden sandales making him look taller than he his shouted before he waved who was apparently his dad. "Don't worry, dad! I'm with you!"
Goros was surprised. "Dai?! You are participating too?!"
Dai took a pose to show off his muscles. "Yes! I will make you proud! But I'm warning you, if I win, I'm keeping the money!"
This made Goroh guffaw. "That's fair, son! But don't expect me to go easy on you!"
All in all, twenty eight racers were now present, leaving only two places. The crowd was getting wild as the hour of the start of the race was approaching.
But then, the last two racers finally arrived and nobody looked happy to see them, many looking in fear or booing at them.
The first was a red vehicle with a yellow front while the second was a huge black vehicle with two sharp spikes jutting out of the front.
Mr. Zero gulped. "Oh... Blood Falcon and Black Shadow..."
The two vehicles stopped at their places. Out of the first one came what looked like a perfect replica of Captain Falcon, but instead of blue, he was wearing red. His boots were silver with winged skulls on them, his pauldron had spikes, and his gloves and helmet were purple, the helmet having a skull instead of the falcon. Was it an evil twin?
Out of the other vehicle came a titan of a man who looked like evil incarnate. He was wearing an entirely black bodysuit with a cap and two huge bull-like horns. His feet also had bull-like hooves.
Again, Mr. Zero gulped, shaking like a leaf as he slowly and carefully approached.
"Yeaaah... That's the villain. Totally," Sweetie Void said.
"No kidding. He could give Sombra a run fer his money in the whole "Look at me, Ah'm a villain!" department," Apple Death said. "All he misses are skulls like on what Ah suppose's his underling."
Mr. Zero reached the evil man. "B-B-Black Shadow. You are back. That's... unexpected."
Black Shadow looked down at the poor man and grinned evilly at him before he grabbed the mike he was brandishing right out of his hand. "Yes, I'm back. And this time, I WILL get the belt, and anyone standing in my way will quickly learn to regret it. You are warned." He then crushed the mike before returning in his vehicle, giving Captain Falcon one last threatening glare.
"W-well..." Mr. Zero quickly moved away, returning to his jovial self. "The race is about to start so everybody gets ready! Pilots, enter your machines! Everybody else, clear the track!"
Both Shadow Speedster and Scootabot were now repeatedly jumping in excitement. "Yes! Yes! Yes!"
"Come on! Hurry up!"
After a few minutes, Mr. Zero reached his booth. "Here we are! The first race of the second edition of the F-Zero X Grand Prix, my friends! Readyyyyy?!!"
The many screens began a countdown. As the "3" appeared, the pilots began to turn on their engines one by one, their vehicles floating up to a few centimeters above their position.
2.
1.
"GOOO!!!"
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Only one song comes to mind
I've not read any of the story yet, but I saw an opportunity, so I took it. I'll read later, I promise!
ok...so..for the pokemon sugestion thing from the last chapter...i got this...
how about a literal hydra that can switch between types depending on what color head is in the front like that one Pokémon from the alola region in the anime that needed those disk's to swich types...???
asking cause of the hole hail hydra thing.
also..there could also be a diglet kinda thing that actually can fly but looks like a diglit till it uses one of its moves that need it to be out of the ground...it can be a ground and ghost type cause im kinda thinking the digotuto would have the scare effect on humans and Pokémon as a mimiku that don't have its costume between it and a living being's eye's.
Time to race for the fate of the universe!
(I think. I've never actually played an F-Zero game, though.)
In all seriousness, considering that there are now three sets of CMC in a single universe while such a race is ongoing, the time cops going after Sweetie Void aren't going to have the greatest time given the pure shenanigans those ten can get up to.
Too bad for the Crusader team that they can't make a kart and play... Maybe next time they visit Mario or if somehow Sweetie miss the left turn in the Albuquerque universe and end outside the Smash Multiverse and find herself in the 'Wreck it Ralph'
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I love it! Brings back memories from melee.
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Sounds like a Legendary. But Hydra has nothing to do with our Germany. It's from the Marvel Multiverse.
A flying Diglet? It could be cool. But I have no idea of what the rest of its body would look like.
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The time cops are the last ones that should be worried about them.
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The arc has just started. Who knows what surprises it is hiding.
Fun fact: NASCAR was started by a bunch of rum-runners who got put out of a job by the repeal of Prohibition (and it's an acronym, in case you're wondering about the all-caps).
I really think that Elfilin should also Go with Sweetie in adventures once in a while once we get done with KATFL in the future.
Like,Besides chilling with Kirby he wouldn’t have much to do anyways right?also if he does Start Gaining Fecto Elfilis Powers back after properly fusing together again, he could be way more active in battle.
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Don’t need to.
Replace the the ground from were they show their head with a Cloud and boom,flying-type Diglett
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i mean...my idea was that it is a ground type like a regular diglit..exept with a pair of wings on the sides of its head...but other than that looking completely like a diglit...then it uses a flying type move and it turns into a flying type instead of a ground type and is in the air..and the hole cloud under body thing could be what it looks like in its air form...
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...i saw a hail hydra thing a few years ago outside of the marvel universe once...don't remember from what tho...
but it could be like..a Pokémon that is a reference or that came from a Pokémon world out in the ultra space that ended up like if Germany won the world war...and they started making a Pokémon from scratch to be there as the figure head...but then an ultra beast snatched it and they fought and it popped up in that world and he caught it
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As long as they don't make everything implosion in some Cutie Mark Crusaders accident...
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Thanks for the fun fact!
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Yeah, he will certainly join the Star Allies.
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As nice as it would be, giving Gordon a Legendary would be a bit much.
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Well, seven Crusaders out of ten has already gotten their Cutie Mark; and among the three remaining, Little Ghost will never get one so she doesn't care. So, like in the series, our favorite fillies won't be as accident prone as they were. But they still remain children, so...
I have no idea how I didn't notice this... it's Unicycle in... well here in the United Sates, not so sure about the United Kingdom
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Thanks.