I was directed to a small little house by a race flyer. Where was the track, though? The house I was standing in front of was just as small as mine. What could be going on inside? I didn't even hear any noise. How would that thing be able to fit ten people and their karts? To answer these questions, I kicked the door open and pushed in my kart.
Nobody was inside. No sign of a race was inside. In fact, the only three things inside were me, my kart, and a mysterious pink box. Seeing as how there was really nothing else I could do, I took the lid off the pink box and saw it - a miniature model of a race track was inside.
Was this a joke? This was the Shy Guy's Toy Box race course? If I tried racing on that, I'd trample it. I had no clue what was going on. I hopped back to the side of the box, and found a sticky note attached to it. It simply said "Toss kart in here ^".
This was the first time I actually laughed in a while. My vehicle probably would not be able to even
fit in that box. I imagined what would happen if I tried. Yeah, it would be pretty funny to see what happened. Besides, a sticky note told me to do it. So, I grabbed the back of the kart, pulled it so that it was angling halfway upwards, and then spin-kicked it inside the box.
It vanished. I didn't even hear any noise. This confused me even further. I snooped inside again and the same miniature track was there. Where did my kart just go?! This was creepy. Further inspection of the box showed that a second sticky note was attached on the inside of the box this time. This was even simpler than the last one: "JUMP". Sure, I'll jump. I might disappear along with my kart, but at least we would disappear together. For no reason whatsoever, I held my breath, aimed myself, and took a leap of faith inside.
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"Took you long enough."
I was greeted by a red Shy Guy with an inspector badge on. To his left was a huge playground made of gigantic building blocks. To his right was the starting line, where everybody was getting prepared.
"...uh, what just happened?"
"You jumped in the box. This is the Shy Guy's Toy Box track."
I just stood there with a bizarre look on my face for several seconds before saying the first thing that came into my head.
"Where's my kart?"
"Set up over there. Everything's okay. Hurry, because you've only got about 20 minutes to prepare."
"Uh, thanks." I walked over to where everybody else was. Koda was there, paying practically no attention to me whatsoever. Something was up with him, yet I couldn't figure it out. Also there were the Mario Bros., the Wario Bros., Peach, DK, Yoshi and Toad. No Bowser? Strange...
The only two things I did before we started was drink some water and try to scope out a good view of the course. This one was pretty long, so we would only be racing for three laps. Nothing else I did was interesting.
Cutting to right before we all took off, I examined my kart even though the Shy Guy inspector said everything was all right. I tried positioning my kart, but then Wario pushed it over to the left.
"Ow. What're ya doing?"
"I'm-a going to get revenge on Mario after what he did to me last time. Out of the way." I think last time, Mario crashed into him with a Starman. I knew not to get in Wario's path at the start.
Instead of a Lakitu, a Fly Guy came in holding the traffic light. I guess this entire toy box track was sponsored by them, or something. Half the audience was composed of Shy Guys as well. But I was probably too observant; I should have paid more attention to the light. I slightly missed the timing of when the green came on, so I got a slow start. I did get to see Wario turn his kart sideways and ram Mario halfway into the audience stand. Hah.
The rankings started to spread out during the first straightaway. I went to the far left to pick up an item - a Mushroom. I used it to boost down the center and go into fifth. The turns were pretty sharp, but I was getting really confident about my power sliding move. After that turn, I saw the people in front of me being smacked by small rocks. With a quick glance upwards and to the left, I saw a squad of about five Shy Guys sniping us with slingshots. That was probably their idea of "fun". Luckily, there were pillars of blocks to drive past so that they wouldn't hit me. I pulled past a stunned Peach and collected another item.
Yoshi, Luigi, and Toad were my next targets There were also a few Shy Guys walking along the edge of the track, picking up small blocks and stuff and then putting it in a pile off the track. This was all over to the right of me - first I had to go down a long straightaway and make a quick U-turn before driving down the other one. This put Yoshi in the perfect zone for my item - a Red Shell. I launched it and it did its job perfectly.
I wasn't advancing any more than third place, though. I couldn't gain ground on Luigi or Toad (who were both struggling for the lead), and I saw DK and Koda approaching. I grabbed a banana in the next set of items, and tried laying it down around another corner, but nobody hit it. Now I had to keep focusing on the track itself. I was about to enter a narrow part of the track - tall building blocks were everywhere else. I had to slow down a little just to not bump so much. The zigzagging ended around ten seconds later, where I went up a small ramp and landed on top of the blocks. The item blocks were hard to see with all the bright colors. I ended up missing those. After one more ramp, which was another sharp right turn (Koda passed me on the inside of this turn), I was heading towards a blue tunnel. I could tell that this was going to be fun.
When I entered it, it sloped downwards and pushed me along rapidly. All the Shy Guys needed was several hundred gallons of water and this could easily become the best water slide ever. My kart kept bobbing to the left and the right and back to the left... I thought that I might go completely around, but the slide ended up straightening out and dumping me not too far from the finish line. And I still had two more laps left.
Origin of Entria