🏎️💨 Lap V - Save the Girl(s); Save the World(s)

[ +- ] 🎺 Dolphin Shoals

ValerieJagged bolts dance across the Thunderblade as it bears down onto Thundra’s sword! But the impact is softened as a giant banana peel wraps the oversized sword!

"You are indeed a worthy shieldmaiden," Valerie exclaims as Thundra parries a blade much bigger than herself.
VivianLuna weighs next to nothing, but her sudden move (with help from the pixel dust shanked onto the kart?) forces Vivian to veer to one side!

"Yeep!" she shouts as a Daughterbot rams into her! But thanks to Luna’s dodge, the second Daughterbot’s impact barely makes a dent. Vivian looks to the bots on either side and asks Luna, "What’re we gonna do?"


VioletThe blue shell passes over Cass, but the rockets strike! She tries in vain to dodge the carrot missiles, but it’s no use. They’re red.

"Homing carrots! AAAAAAAH!! I’M A GONER!!"

Purple chunks of twisted metal fly from Violet’s Double-Dasher! A hub cap separates from the front wheel and rolls down the Neo Eden road a bit, until it embeds itself in a tree trunk.

"I’m not a goner. I… panicked. Sorry, Commander."

Not far beyond the tree is the vermilion glow from Vera’s portal…!


Princess Diamond"Ooh! We made it, Pira. We need only pass through this tunnel and OH MY GOODNE—!!!"

The blue spiked shell crashes from above, bursting into a big blue ball of light!

Sparkyheart loses its tail and its sparkle as chunks of metal fly! When the smoke clears, the mechanical horse is missing an eye, its underbelly is ablaze with chartreuse flames and its snout emits golden sparks!

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The Daughterbots ride in formation intent on stopping you as the Motherborg tosses her blade, and raises an impenetrable shield..!

VioletViolet blows a car to smithereens! A flaming tire arcs over the Motherborg’s impenetrable shield, presumably striking the giant robot.

Valerie Valerie is impressed. "Well done, Rookie."

She takes a shot at a Daughterbot’s tires. It’s a hit. "Hm."A fairy flutters into Thundra’s cupholder, just before Thundra speeds past the other karts! "Ooh, Mother’s not gonna like this," she says as the kart rapidly approaches the portal…

[ +- ] 🎻 Rainbow Road

Princess DiamondPrincess Diamond swoons as Pira—despite half of Sparkyheart’s hull being blown off—responds to the setback with enthusiasm and leadership!

As the horse spins out, Pira fires, striking all three remaining Daughterbots! A fairy escapes through a shattering windshield!

At Pira’s command, Sparkyheart rams through the two remaining Daughterbots, freeing those fairies as well!

As our heroines approach the portal, every Double-Dasher has a rescued fairy seated in the cup holder. Princess Diamond finds a fairy on each of her puffy shoulders.

"Let us adopt them," she casually suggests in her usual regal deadpan.


With the Motherborg’s shield up, it seems there is nothing stopping our heroines from entering the portal.


Vivian"Should we stop and deal with your Mother?" It’s unclear whether Vivian is directing her question at Luna or the fairy in the cupholder, but the yet-to-be-introduced fairy replies:



"Please keep driving, Your Highness. Mother will be saved when the Foxtailed Lady is saved."

STOP OR I’LL SHOOT

The Motherborg raises her shield! She unleashes a white beam—which strikes Princess Diamond!


Princess Diamond"Ooo..!"

"EEEEEE!" the shoulder-fairies scream in unison. They release bursts of protective fairy dust, but despite their efforts, the color is literally draining from the princess!

As a rainbow beam shoots from her graying hair, the princess gripes, "Oh, grand balls. Not again."

Whether our heroines speed up, slam the brakes, stay the course or veer—it’s too late! The rainbow beam strikes the portal!!



As your Double-Dashers (and Sparkyheart) are forced to ride into space, the lift-off is rough! Both driver and gunner will need to keep the kart/horse on the road as you ascend through A RAINBOW METEOR SHOWER!!!

Valerie"You’re really putting the bang in the bangoo!"

Thundra’s kart bashes through the meteors like Lightning! She not only gets through safely, but is awarded by her valkyrie passenger with…

—THE THUNDERBELT!!!

Vivian"Hee hee! You’re better at that than a biggunl!"

"Truly," Vivian agrees. "But speaking of ‘a big gun,’ I’ll shoot back at the shooting stars for our friends behind us!"

As Luna’s kart swerves through the obstacles, Princess Vivian fires at the hurtling space rocks, hoping to make survival much easier for Pira and Cass!

But all that fairy-princess swooning threw Viv off her game. "Aw, nuts."

Princess Diamond@FlyingSucculent
"I am trying not to not fear not but EEEP—!?!"