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Name: Snowbow Kids Plus: The Epic Adventure
Author: Eikichi
Rating: PG
Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor
Chapters: 15
Words: 18797
Published: 4/30/02
Updated: 1/11/03
Complete: Yes

Description: A wacky tale based on Snobow Kids Plus for Playstation (I own the system and the game.). Read and review pweese!

Disclaimer (By Author):

Story

Chapter 1

It was at least a year after the Kids had met 3 new friends during another
attempt by Linda to set up an even bigger competition. Things were running quite
well, and were about to take a turn for the wild.

It was unusually warm for weather that was usually expected in the mountains.
Instead of snowing, it was raining, and the temperature was fixed around 60 degrees.
To them, this was like summer weather. Who is "them"? You'll find out in a moment.

*BANG*

"Owwwwwwww!!! Ugh, I've had it up to here with all this workout stuff in the
basement!!! Where's Ruby?!?"
A pink-haired, fair-skinned girl stormed upstairs from the basement looking
ticked off as well as injured due to having stubbed her toe on a 200-lb. barbell.
A boy with spiky black hair walked up to her.
"What's the matter, Pamela?" He asked.
"I banged my foot on one of those really heavy things with the weights on either end
...ooh, what are they called?" Pamela fumed.
"That would be barbells..." The boy replied.
"Well, Slash, we're gonna do something about this. Come on, let's go ask Ruby what
he might be able to do..." Pamela said to the boy (Slash).
Slash was a ten-year-old boy of mainly Japanese background, with light skin
and wild spiky black hair. Sometimes when he was angry or got hurt, he would
stop speaking English and abruptly start cursing in Japanese, which always
made the others laugh.
Pamela pounded on the door to Ruby's bedroom, where within loud music was playing.
"HELLO! CAN-YOU-HEAR-ME?!?!?" She shrieked, pounding on the door. "I NEED TO TALK
TO YOU NOW!!!!"
A brown-skinned, muscle-bound guy with yellow hair done funny opened the door and
calmly replied.
"Yeah?" He grumbled, peeved at someone having interrupted his free time, which he
considered sacred to himself.
"Your stupid- uh.... stupid-" She stuttered, not being able to find the word again.
"Barbells." Slash put in for her.
"Yeah! Your stupid *barbells* in the basement hurt my foot!!!" She screamed.
Ruby laughed. "Well, that's what you get for trying to lift things that are too
heavy for ya!"
Pamela steamed, her face growing red. "I WASN'T TRYING TO LIFT THEM, I
WAS JUST WALKING BACK FROM THE LOWER BACK DOOR WHEN I STUBBED MY TOE ON
ONE OF YOUR CRAZY EQUIPMENT PIECES! THEY HAVE TO GO!"
"They won't go anywhere else," Ruby explained. "I, for one, know that due to having
an ear almost chewed off by Linda earlier..."
"Well, you deserve it! I'm getting rid of them." She said, turning on her heel.
"No no no! Wait, no Pamela, I got an idea-" He began, but she was already leaving
for the basement.
"You have enough muscles as it is! You don't need these anymore!" She shouted over
her back.
"Well I need that stuff to KEEP them that way!!!" Ruby hollered.
"Too bad, you can be just like the rest of us and stay at your NORMAL size!" Pamela
retorted.
"But I dowanna be a normal size...." Ruby whined. Despite his tough-guy looks, he
didn't have much of an ego, or courage for that matter.
"Help me lift these out of that door over there." Pamela muttered to Slash once they
were in the basement. "Let's start with this huge contraption over here..."
"They're too heavy, we need Ruby to lift 'em!" Slash told her.
Pamela sighed in disgust. She trudged up the stairs and knocked on Ruby's door
- again.
"Go away." He pouted in response.
"But-"
"I said LEAVE!" Ruby shouted in a tear-jerked voice.
Pamela reluctantly headed back down to the basement, shaking her head.
"I think I hurt his feelings..." She said. "Now he won't even help us try to get
these out of here!"
"Well THAT'S obvious." Slash said. "I mean, not because his feelings are bashed,
but because he doesn't WANT this stuff out of here."
"Ugh, what's the matter NOW?" A girl's voice said from the top of the basement
stairs. Slash and Pamela turned to meet a girl with fancy blonde hair and a
quite well-endowed appearance.
"Oh, hi Nicole." Slash said. "We're just trying to figure out-"
"How to move these?" Nicole replied. She spit on her hands, rubbed them together
and lifted up the heaviest piece of equipment, effortlessly. Slash and Pamela
stared in disbelief as she lifted the equipment up and out of the basement door
underneath the stairs. She came back smiling.
"Cinch-y." She said. "Now for the other stuff..." She was about to lift up another
equipment model when she looked at the other two.
"Well, aren'tcha gonna help me?" She asked.
"Uh, you look like you don't need much help..." Slash muttered.
Nicole laughed. "Oh well, I use these too, so maybe that's why-"
"Then why don't YOU have lots of muscles too?" Slash asked.
"Enough questions and help me get rid of this stuff." Nicole put in. Without further
ado, the other two helped her carry all the stuff out of the basement door and up the
other set of stairs leading outside to the end of the driveway. When they were done,
the first question popped was;
"Think we should sell these?" Slash said, albeit too loudly, and a familiar voice
piped up....
"SELL WHAT?!?!?" It was Ruby. He ran down the stairs and caught up with the other
three as soon as Slash was just about to start making a "For Sale" sign to hang on
the equipment.
"You're not selling these!!!!! I thought I told you to leave these here!!!" He
raged, ran outside, and brought in the equipment models one-by-one-by-one until
they were all back in their original places as they were before they were
carried outside.
"There! Let's KEEP them that way!" He said, stomping his foot, and
charged up the stairs just as their buddy Jam was coming downstairs, and in the
process shoving him aside and sending him tumbling down the stairs. The three Kids
ran over to him.
"Are you okay?" Pamela asked Jam. Jam was a guy who had a skin color slightly
lighter than Ruby's, having a long nose with two white stripes around the end,
and with brown hair done in a lot of fancy Jamaican-looking dreadlocks. He
claimed that he wanted to be a rap music star when he got older and better at
singing and breakdancing.
"I'm fine...." He said, eyes spirals that were going *woo-woo-woo-woo* as they
spun around and around from being dizzy from getting knocked down the stairs.
The other three helped him up to his feet.
"Thanks..." He mumbled. "Ugh, I've got a headache..."
"Awww...." Pamela said, feeling awfully sorry for him (she was a very compassionate
person), and she took off his hat and rubbed his head.
"Heyyy..." He said, absent-mindedly waving his hand by his head as if to say 'cut
it out' but Slash and Nicole looked at each other amusedly, because they knew that
Jam liked what Pamela was doing. Jam was one of those guys who loved the company
of girls, especially nice ones like Pamela. (He didn't like Nancy though, and
Nancy was the nicest one of all.)
"Come on Jam, you know you like it..." Nicole teased him.
"Be quiet, Couch." Jam taunted her. He was always making fun of her last name
(which was Couch) and in doing so called her other related names like 'Nicole Sofa'
(which was a name that earned him a black eye and a near broken leg as well as a
few locks of hair torn out).
"What did you call me?!?" She asked him in an outraged tone of voice.
"Couch." He said, smiling.
"Geez, Jam, ya think you'd learned by now. You're just asking for more of that
hair you love so much ripped right out of your scalp..." Pamela sighed in
exasperation.
"That's a good idea! I think we should take a little off the top this time."
Nicole said, rolling up her sleeve and arching it by Jam's face.
"Okay okay, heck, I was just kidding!" Jam said nervously.
"Then SAY so." She said, rolling her sleeve back down. "Now go get lost." Jam
breathed out his nose in kind of a huff and headed upstairs, hands in the pockets of
his red vest.
"Wow, you sure told him off...." Slash said, stepping away from Nicole, but tripped
over the same barbell that injured Pamela and fell on his butt.
"AIIIIIIIIIII!!!!" He yelled, and began cursing in fluent Japanese as he always did
in those situations. Pamela and Nicole burst out laughing.
"Aaaagh, my otoro!!!" He screamed. "Geez! Stupid thing! Now I know why you guys
wanted Ruby's stuff out of here!"
When he was done having a hissy fit, Pamela picked him up and carried him upstairs,
and while this may have been a gesture of kindness, Slash spoiled the moment by
asking her a rather obscure question.
"Hey, you massaged Jam's head when he hurt it, how's lying me down and massaging my
butt for me?"

*WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!*

Slash was dropped and left to tumble down the stairs as Jam had done earlier,
saying "oof" and "ow" as he hit each step. Nicole stood over him, eyeing the hand
shaped slap marks on his cheeks.
"Uh, maybe that wasn't a good idea..." Slash mumbled.
"No. It wasn't." Nicole replied.

Chapter 2

After the untimely incident involving the rather offbeat comment that Slash
made to Pamela (and allowing time for him to recover from the mark on his face she
left him as a souvenir [and reminder]) something else was going on somewhere else
in the huge house. It all started with the smell of something burning...
"Does anyone smell that?" Slash yelled to the kids upstairs. "It smells
like burnt something-or-other, can't put my finger on it but then again, maybe I
don't want to..."
He went upstairs and knocked on Nancy's bedroom door.
"Hey! I asked you guys something...." He paused, then went to the next
door.
"How about you, Nicole?" He said. "You smell that?"
No reply.
"What the heck are you guys doing?!?" He yelled. Then he ran downstairs
and saw smoke billowing out of the oven door.
"AAAAAAAAAYYYYAA!!!" He yelled, once again his voice switching to a distinct
Japanese accent. He ran into the kitchen and coughed as he pulled out a pizza that
was burnt black, and as he put it on the table and fanned it off, he saw the cause
of the problem - a snoring Tommy asleep in one of the chairs in front of the kitchen
table.
Tommy was a kid with a slight weight problem, who was very shy but very fair
and kind to everyone. He prefered to wear green a lot, it was his favorite color.
No matter where he went or what he was doing, he was ALWAYS eating. He had an X
shaped bandage on the end of his nose from a nasty childhood accident [which is
explained in my other fic, As Told By Tanya.]
"Tommy!!!" Slash yelled, shaking Tommy awake.
"Hmmmmm....? Oh....hi, Slash." He said nonchalantly.
"Tommy..." Slash said, "Are you aware that there was a smoldering pizza in
the oven just now that was about to set this whole mansion on fire?"
"I made a pizza." Tommy said, practically drunk with drowsiness. "I hope
you like it."
"Listen.." Slash said, grabbing Tommy's husky cheeks and glaring him in the
eye. "The pizza sure is NOT suitable for eating, and it almost burned up the
kitchen!"
"Did I put too much seasoning on it...?" Tommy grumbled cluelessly.
"AAAYA! Forget it!!!" Slash screeched and stormed out of the kitchen.
Tommy shrugged, collapsed on the table again and started snoring loudly.

*Ding-dong*

"I'll get it!" A voice yelled. Nancy came running down the stairs. Most of
you know Nancy very well already. She is a small and generous blonde girl who has
a slight obsession with cute animals, esp. cats and rabbits. She is said to have
a crush on Slash, but rumor has it that her eyes are actually set on Jam.
Nancy opened the door. There stood no one, but there was a letter on the
doormat (which read, as all others do, "Welcome", but Slash had written in black
permanent marker above, "You're not", which inspired Nancy to flip it over.)
She picked up the letter and took it inside, closing the door.
"An invitation!" She said. "Oh, wow! This is great!" She ran upstairs
calling out the news.
"Hey guys! We got an invitation! I think it's to a party or something!"
She called out, then knocked on Slash's door.
"Hey Slash! We got an invitation! Wanna read it?" She squealed.
"Not now, maybe later." He replied.
Nancy knocked on the next door. "Hey Ruby! We got an invitation to a
party or something! Wanna read it and see what it is?"
"Sure, in a while!" He called back.
'Isn't there anyone who wants to see it NOW?' Nancy thought. She knocked
on the next door, which was the bathroom door, sensing someone inside.
"Hey, we got an invitation, wanna read it with me?" She asked, but all she
heard was a tinkling noise.
"Well, do you?" She asked again, a little more impatiently.
"I'm a little busy right now..." Came Jam's voice from behind the door.
"OH!! I'm sorry!" Nancy quickly apologized, then scuttled off to the next
door.
"Linda, we got an invitation! Wanna read it?" She asked, frantic.
Linda, hearing this, jumped up in her chair as she was putting on her
makeup. "Yeah! I wanna read it! Wait for me!"
Linda was the daughter of two very rich well-to-do parents who owned every
snowboarding course from Rookie Mt. to Silver Mt. [Ninja land was Sinobin's place].
She got everything she wanted, was spoiled rotten, and was the epitome of a valley
girl. Rumor has it she has a wild crush on Slash, but she pretends to hate him in
order to mask her secret feelings for him.
She bashed open the door, sending it banging on the wall and ran downstairs
after Nancy. Nancy sat down at the living room table and tore open the envelope.
"Wait! Don't read it yet, I wanna see it too!" She hollered.
"Calm down, you'll get to see it." Nancy calmly replied. She unfolded the
letter. It popped open, startling the two, and sending confetti and a fireworks-
smoke-like smell everywhere.
*You have been challenged!* Was the bold-type message on the top of the
letter. *The masters of the art of snowboarding have challenged you to a nine-
course tour of the canadian rocky mountains on a first-class snowboarding tournament!
Bring all your belongings, lots of clothes and your snowboards of course! You're
going on the trip of your life!*
"WE'RE GOING ON A TRIP!!! YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Linda screeched. "I'll get
all my stuff together right now!"
"Whattam I hearing about a traveling trip or something?!?" Ruby said with
excitement as he bounded down the stairs, shaking the house with every strong step
he took. "I wanna be famous! I wanna be a superstar! A world-class snowboarding
supermodel!" He posed, with one arm in front of him and the other bent like he was
winding up for a punch. "After all,.....I AM SUPERMAN!"
"You're nuts." Was Jam's reply as he walked downstairs zipping up his pants.
"It's just a scam, that's all. Like those pop-up things on the internet that say
you've won a trip to the Bahamas or just got one thousand dollars or all that."
"No, really! It's real! See for yourself!" Nancy said, practically shoving
the invitation letter in Jam's face. He read it after grabbing it from her hands.
"Wow! Well, in that case, I'm in!" He said, and immediately after, thinking,
'Nancy won't stand a chance. After all, I'm the trick master!!!' After thinking this
he noticed that Nancy was sort of *gazing* at him. He backed off at first, but then
he smiled, albeit a little nervously.
'Why is she staring at me like that...?' He thought. 'Is she hinting at
something...?'
"Whaaaaaat?!?" He demanded at Nancy.
"Nothin'." She said, still smiling that same sweet little smile.
Jam could only stare back, at her blue eyes, at her happy look. A strange
feeling began to enter his mind, a rather positive one, but he dismissed it.
The others heard the commotion and ran into the living room. Soon, all eight
kids were in there chattering about the invitation to the snowboarding tour.

And all of them were willing to accept the challenge.

Chapter 3

It didn't take anyone very long to get all their stuff packed and ready for
the big trip. Infact, within ten minutes there were suitcases and luggage bags and
anything else imaginable down in the middle of the living room floor, overcoming
everything else. Three out of 15 suitcases had personal belongings (esp. Linda's
makeup, Nancy's plush animals that she said she couldn't sleep without, Jam's
CD player, stereo set and portable CD case), eight others contained clothes, one
suitcase for each kid (eight kids), and the remaining four contained miscellanous
stuff such as their snowboarding gear and other things, including some things that
the girls needed to bring along...and when I mean that, I mean the things that they
need for when that time of the month comes around. Unfortunately, of all the cases
that Slash had to open to see what was in it, he had to open THAT one. Tommy walked
in and caught him just in time....
"Hey Tommy, what's this thing do?" Slash asked him.
"What's what do- OH MY GOD!!!!!!!" Tommy yelled. His buddy had the cotton
part of a certain small cylinder-shaped FPP (that's *feminine protection product*)
poked out and had the cardboard tube stuck on his finger.
"It's stuck..." He said, just as Tommy was yanking it off.
"Of all the suitcases to open, you HAD to open that one!!!" Tommy hollered.
"Why? What's in that one?" Slash asked cluelessly.
"Never mind, I guess you're too immature to know..." Tommy sighed.

* * *

"Is all our stuff down there?" Linda asked.
"Yep, that's all of it." Nicole answered her.
"Great! Are we ready to go?" Linda said.
"Ready as I'll ever be..." Tommy muttered, spraying burger crumbs out of
his mouth.
"Good - wait, where's Jam?" Nancy asked.
"He's up in the bathroom doing his hair. Man, his motto oughta be 'Don't
touch the hair' or something like that." Ruby complained.
"That already IS his motto." Linda mused.
At that moment Jam came downstairs running a black comb through his hair.
"Ain't nobody as good-lookin' as me!" He announced in his saucy voice. "I
bet all of you that I'm the prettiest guy here!"
"You mean the most HANDSOME." Pamela corrected him.
Jam blushed. "Uh....ya, that's what I meant! Handsome!"
"Dork...." Nicole muttered.
"ANYWAYS, are we gonna get going or what?!?" Ruby yelled.
"Yeah, but there's one thing." Tommy said.
"What's that?" Nancy replied.
"WE CAN'T DRIVE!!!!" Tommy screeched.
"Oh, he's right..." Pamela sighed. "If we can't get to where we're going, we
can't go on the tour."
"It says on here that we have to be at the Canada National Airport ten miles
from here by......4:00 p.m., May 12, 2002."
"That's today!!!!" Ruby panicked.
"Even worse! That's in 25 minutes!!!" Nicole spoke up.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Everyone screamed. No one knew what to do. The only
option was....
"I'm driving!!!" Slash announced. "I'm not missing this once-in-a-lifetime
chance! You guys stay here, I'm gonna be famous!!!" He said, getting up and getting
all his suitcases together and heading for the garage.
"YOU WOULDN'T DARE!" Linda said to him. "You don't even have a license!"
"I don't care!!! I'm going! Come on, guys!" Slash yelled, heading inside
the garage towards the one and only vehicle that his mom left him when they said they
were going to live in the big mansion on the tallest mountain of Snow Town....their
brand-new red Convertible.
"That car's a fortune!" Tommy begged Slash. "You wreck it, you're in deep
trouble!!!"
"I'm not gonna wreck it anytime soon as long as I know what I'm doing and where
I'm going!" Slash called back as he stuffed his luggage into the back trunk of the car.
"Now the rest of you hurry up or we ain't going nowhere!"
"But-!" Linda protested.
"NOW!!! HURRY UP THE LOT OF YOU!!!!" Slash screamed at the gang. All at once
they grabbed their suitcases full of clothes and belongings and stuffed them in the
trunk. The suitcases that didn't fit went behind the back seat.
"All right! Let's go to that tour!!!" Slash called, but Nancy had one more
complaint -
"What'll our parents say if they find out we're halfway across the world?"
"The WORLD?!?" Slash gawked. "Most of the courses are right here in Canada!
That's not too far, is it?"
"But it's still out of town...." Tommy grumbled in disapproval.
"Just think!!!" Slash shouted at his obese friend. "If our parents see us on
TV as superstars, they won't be mad, they'll be glad they ever decided to have us in
the first place!!!"
"I was an easy birth." Jam bragged. "I weighed only 5 pounds 13 ounces and it
only took my momma 3 hours to deliver me."
Everyone just stared at him.
"Of course, that's 'cuz I was premature." He admitted. "I was supposed to be
born a month later."
"I WANNA BE A SUPERSTAR!!!" Ruby hollered. "Get the car going, Slash! I don't
care what my folks say! I'm gonna be famous and so are the rest of us!"
"I'm with him!" Linda proudly announced. "Let's go to that airport! Screw the
license, Slash! Let's hit the road!"
"RIGHT! Snowboarding World Tour, here we come!!!" Slash said, smiling.

He turned the key in the car's ignition as the rest prepared for the biggest adventure
they would ever experience....

Chapter 4

Vrrrrrrrrooooooomvroomvroooomm.....-

"It's starting up!" Nancy squeaked.
"Get ready to have our heads smashed in..." Linda whined.
"We're dead.." Jam mused.
The car started up and began to roll down the long driveway as Slash pressed
the gas pedal. The passenger Kids got nervous on the spot.
"AAAAAAGETMEOFFGETMEOFFGETMEOFFFFF!!!!!" Ruby screamed. "I don't wanna do
this! Can't we get there any other way?!?!?"
"No! I'm not looking back this time! We're going!" Slash shouted back.
"I'm doing this for all of you guys! Here we go!"
The car began to roll down the street at a fast pace, causing one-third of
the Kids to start screaming out of nervousness. This was unnerving enough to Slash
who was trying to keep it under 40 and at the same time making sure that he was
going to get to the airport on time, and he finally called back over his shoulder.
"SHUT UP ALL OF YOU!!!" He screeched. Ruby was still screaming.
"And you!" He said to the nervous-wreck muscleman. Ruby shut up.
"We're almost there! Just a few more blocks and we're good as on time!"
Slash tried to convince the others, although the airport was still a few miles away.
"We won't get there until at least 15 minutes from now!" Nicole yelled.
"Hit the gas pedal, Slash!"
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Everyone begged. It was too late. Just like the late
Dale Earnhardt, Slash took off down the street at a steaming 75 mph. By this time
everybody was cowering in the back seats of the supersonic-speeding convertible
struggling to keep themselves quiet before Slash yelled at them again. However,
when Pamela heard a familiar noise she had to speak up.
"Slash...?" She said. "I hear a police siren!"
Sure enough, they saw the reflection of red and blue flashing lights on the
rearview mirror. At once all the kids began screaming "Pull over! Pull over!" or
"Go faster! Go faster!" which was enough to drive Slash to insanity. Finally he
decided and slowed down the car. When it came to a full stop, the officer got off
of his motorcycle and walked to the side of the convertible. Seeing that the violators
were kids, he stared unbelievingly for a moment, then cleared his throat.
"Sir..." he said, addressing Slash as politely as he could without laughing,
"Might I be inclined to inform you that you were going 75 mph in a 30 mph speed zone?"
"We're in a hurry! We...uh..." He stammered. "We...." He looked back over the
car seat and saw Linda stuff one of Nancy's plush toys under her red dress and lie
back. The alibi hit Slash like a sack of potatoes.
"My wife is having a baby!" He blurted. The officer raised one eyebrow and
looked in the back seat of the car. Linda was huffing and gasping, pretending to be in
pain, and the other kids were yelling "C'mon, push!!! Push!!!"
The officer gave Slash an unmoved stare. "Your *wife*...?"
"Uh...uh...my girlfriend!" Slash guessed.
The officer rolled his eyes. "Geez....too many teenagers getting pregnant
before marriage....can I see your license?"
"Uh, don'tgotoneadrunkdudetookitfromme. See ya!" Slash said all in one breath
and hit the gas pedal with a slam. The car sped off, leaving a flutter of ticket
papers flying around the flabbergasted officer and his bike. He got on the motorcycle
and sped off towards the fleeing car....
"Slash, you butthole! NOW look what you did! Now we're probably gonna get
arrested!!!" Jam screamed angrily.
"We ain't gonna get arrested as long as we catch that plane!" Slash hollered
back. "I can even see the airport now!!!"
Sure enough, the top of the airport complex could be seen appearing just above
the horizon.
"Hurry! Hurry! Faster!" Everyone yelled at him. Ignoring their commands and
yet eager to get to their destination before something bad happened, he hurried off
with a car full of kids to the airport. They parked the car in one of the parking lot
spaces, grabbed their luggage, and scrambled into the building. They approached the
teller's counter in front of the registration desk and he spoke up.
"One ticket for eight to the Rookie Mountain resort!!!" Slash said. "Please
hurry!"
The teller lost no time in getting the kids a booked travel route and gave
the ticket to them. "Hurry, your flight leaves in 5 minutes."
"Thank you!" Slash called over his shoulder, and ran through the metal
detectors in a hurry to get to the airplane in time. As they got to the plane terminal
Tommy laughed.
"Slash, I never knew Linda was your future spouse..." He chuckled. Slash hit
him so hard it knocked his green hat off and sent it flying. Tommy ran to go get it
and joined the others as they boarded the plane....

Chapter 5

Once they were on board the plane, they found a row of seats that accomodated
them and sat down, pausing to stuff their luggage in the overhead storage compartment.
They sat down and began to do stuff as the plane took off. Once again, Ruby began to
whine.
"Ohhh...what are my folks gonna say about this...?" He nervously muttered,
twiddling his thumbs.
"It's okay, Ruby. Just think! As soon as we become famous our little road
trip here will have been well worth it!" Nancy said to him.
"Well, I do wanna be famous, but what if I get in big trouble for doing this?"
He said with a tremble in his voice.
"It's okay..." Nancy said, putting a blanket from one of her suitcases around
his shoulders. "Just go to your happy place."
"Oh God...." Jam muttered, rolling his eyes. "Nancy, you should be some sort
of psychiatrist or peer mediator when you get older..."
"I'm already Snow Town Middle School's peer mediator." Nancy informed the
sassy rapper. "So put THAT in your pipe and smoke it."
"Oooh, you got roasted!!!" Slash crooned.
"Shut up, dude." Jam sneered.
There was a bit of silence as the plane soared silently through the clouds,
but ten minutes later a gagging noise made the passengers of the plane turn heads.
"I knew I shouldn't have eaten all those burgers..." Tommy said into a white
paper sick bag before he started gagging again.

~ Three hours later ~

The plane landed on a long stretch of black top as the plane arrived in northern
Ontario, Canada where the Rookie Mountain resort was. The Kids grabbed their luggage
and headed off of the plane, eager to see what their new destination looked like.
"Wow-!" Nancy said, watching the breath float out of her mouth in the cold air.
"This place is soooo much prettier than back in Alberta!"
"I think Alberta was prettier." Jam contradicted.
"Well screw what anyone else thinks," Slash blared, "We're at our first stop to
becoming world-class snowboarders!"
"True." Pamela said. "Although I have to admit, this could possibly be your
most preposterous idea ever, Slash."
"It doesn't matter." Nicole replied. "Now that we're here, let's find ourselves
a place to stay."
"Good idea!" Ruby cheered. "I'm tired. We should find a really fancy resort to
stay in!"
"Who do I look like, Bill Gates?" Slash snapped. "How are we ever gonna afford
a fancy place to...to..."
He stopped as he saw Linda wave a handful of 100-dollar bills in his face.
"Duhhhh!!! You're forgetting who's the millionaire princess with the rich
mommy and daddy here!" Linda bragged. "I got the money, and I'm gonna get us a real
nice place to stay while we're here, so don't forget to thank me!"
"Thank you thank you thank you!!!" Slash said, hugging Linda and rubbing his
face all over her shirt front. "I love ya I love ya I love ya-"
"It's nice to know you like my chest so much, Slash." Linda giggled. "Now say
thank you to my FACE this time."
Slash blushed and looked into her eyes. "Thank you, Linda!"
Linda smiled. "Anytime, Slashy-pie."
Everyone exchanged glances and went "Ooooohhhhh....!!!"
Linda's face went from sweet to sour. "Shut up. All of you."

* * *

"Wow...!" They all said in unison as they stepped into the hotel that they had
just come upon. It was a little way from the airport they had just arrived from and
they were all pretty exhausted. They couldn't wait to see what their room looked like.
"It says, 'Room 304, Floor 3'"Linda said, reading the registration slip. "Let's
take the elevator."
"I know, I'm not going up the stairs." Tommy mumbled.
"He'll probably fall down and roll all the way like a boulder." Jam laughed.
"Don't diss me or you're gonna get a fistful..." Tommy threatened.
"Y'know Jam, you are being a bit negative. I think you need this R and R more
than the rest of us here." Pamela said.
"I'm negative because I wanted to get here knowing that I'm safe, but now that
our hedgehog-haired buddy here broke the law AND flew us halfway across Canada, I don't
feel too safe around him anymore." Jam explained moodily.
"I'm not a hedgehog." Was all that Slash had to say in return.
"Here's the room." Linda said, stopping in front of a door a short distance
from the elevator entrance - "304. Come on, let's see!"
They opened the door to their hotel room...
"COOOLL!"
The hotel room they had checked out was not ONE room, but several lavishly
decorated rooms all connected into one, except the bedroom and bathrooms, whose
entrances were secured by white wooden doors.
"This is soooooo cool!" Slash said, dropping all his suitcases and running into
the living room, taking a flying leap and crashlanding on the couch. "It's so neat in
here!" He said, bouncing on the sofa.
"My turn to bounce!" Ruby yelled and ran in along, tumbling onto the couch and
bouncing so hard it almost made lightweight Slash hit his head on the ceiling.
"Easy, you almost squashed my head on the ceiling fan." Slash complained.
"Heeeehehehehehe!!!" Ruby cackled as he bounced wildly on the sofa. "This is so
much fun!!!"
"Having fun, Ruby?" Nancy called to him.
"I'm in my happy place, Nancy!" He called back.
"Good!" Nancy said, smiling sweetly.
Jam rolled his eyes in disgust, but then stole a look at those friendly blue
eyes and wondered why he was getting second thoughts about his rival....
"Jam!"
He snapped out of his trance and looked at Pamela, who had called him.
"Put your suitcases in the closet along with the rest of ours!"
"Okay..." He answered, and began his wondering about Nancy as he went over to
the huge closet to put his stuff in there. After closing the door, he looked out the
large window of the hotel room's living room space and wondered what everyone's parents
would have to say about their road trip.

Chapter 6

Ring ringRing ring
"Will somebody PLEASE get that"
Ring ring
"Gaaahh"
We see a hand reach over and snatch the phone off of the holder, almost knocking it down in the process.
"HELLO?" Ruby asks impatiently.
"Uh..." The voice over the phone responds. "I...I was just replying to a call requesting room service"
"OH! Okay! Come right up!" Ruby answers, and slams the phone back on the receiver without even saying 'bye'. He looks over his shoulder.
"Tommy! We're getting room service! Isn't that cool?" He yells.
Tommy cheers and jumps on the couch. "Yah! That means lots of good food!
Tell them to order a pizza for us! Make it a large, with cheese, anchovies, mush-
rooms, onions, peppers, cheese"
"You already said cheese." Ruby clarified.
"I know, I mean another layer of it!" Tommy said happily.
"No wonder you're that size..." Ruby muttered under his breath.

Ten minutes later
The buzzer on the door rings

"I got it!" Tommy roars and charges for the door. He opens it and sees a bellhop standing there.
"Uh...somebody ordered room service...?" He answers nervously.
"Yah! My pizza!" Tommy cheers.
"Uh...nobody ordered a pizza, sir..." The nervous servant responds.
"Huh? I thought I did." Tommy says, scratching his head.
"Well, I can order one for you, sir." "Really, thanks! Have them put everything on it including two layers of cheese, please!" Tommy informs him.
"Cheese-please!" Nancy giggles from the other end of the room. "That made a rhyme"
"Hey it did!" Tommy smiles, then turns back to the servant. "Okay, that's all for now. Thank you, mister!" "You're quite welcome. If you need anything at all, just give me a page"
He gestures to the buzzer on the door, then leaves.
"Yay! Pizza time!" Tommy cheers and jumps on the couch, just to miss and fall to the floor with an earthshattering thud. Someone screams from the kitchen and another thud is heard.
"Uh..." Tommy muses, and runs into the kitchen. There he sees a ladder fallen on its side, and a very dazed Slash on the floor.
"Uh...sorry, dude." Tommy mumbles.
"Aaaaaa..." Slash moans. "Itai-o"
"What?" Tommy responds cluelessly, lacking knowledge of Japanese.
"It hurts..." Slash translates for him.
"Ohhh..." Tommy answers.

Ten minutes later

Somebody knocks on the door, then when no one answers, knocks again, then uses the buzzer.
"Hey, I think that's for you, Tommy." Nicole says, looking up from the fashion magazine she's reading.
Tommy doesn't answer.
"Tommy?" Nicole asks. She looks at him. He's sound asleep, with a big snot bubble coming out of one of his nostrils.
"TOMMMYYYY!" Nicole screams. Tommy wakes up with a start.
"What?" He demands.
"Your pizza's here." She says, going back to her reading.
"PIZZA!" Tommy says, and runs for the door. He opens it, only to find no one there, just a box with a pizza inside and a note on it reading;

This is the pizza you ordered. Sorry to keep you waiting, but I had other residents to deliver to. Enjoy the pizza, sir

-Joe, your room service management employee

"I gotta remember to say 'thank you Joe' to Joe sometime." Tommy says, and doesn't hesitate to open the pizza box and start devouring it. Pretty soon the scent of pizza is floating around the room that the Kids rented, and everyone catches a whiff and gathers around.
"Can I have a piece"
"Save some for me"
"Give me some"
But it's too late; the pizza is gone in seconds. Tommy only nonchalantly stares into space, then burps.
"Pig." Nicole snorts, and stomps off. Everyone else does the same.

On the other end of the hotel room, the bathroom door is closed and the interior is very steamy, and through the steam a familiar shadow walks towards the hot whirlpool and steps in. He sighs as he lowers himself in slowly.
"sigh...nothin' like a hot bath to melt all your cares away." Jam says to himself as he leans back against the edge of the tiled pool. "Just what I needed to help me get some shut-eye." He closes his eyes and smiles as he seems to fall asleep, and soon he's fast asleep.
"Hey Pamela!" Nancy says from outside. "I'm gonna be in the bathroom, 'kay"
"Sure!" Pamela answers. Nancy opens the door to the bathroom and sees all the steam, waving it aside as she walks in, not even seeing Jam. However, Jam wakes up just in time to see Nancy place her new clothes on the floor and start taking off her current clothes. He claps both hands over his mouth and his eyes shoot open as he first-handedly witnesses what his so-called 'rival' looks like without any sort of garments on. He blushes and tries to keep silent, but it doesn't last long.
Nancy reaches for a towel off of the rack, turns around, and-

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK!"

Scared out of her wits, Nancy begins beating Jam senseless with the folded towel she's holding and trying to make herself decent at the same time. Jam screams and bolts out of the bathroom like a bat out of heck, and everyone in the living room turns around in response to the racket just in time to see Jam streaking across the place, screaming at the top of his lungs with an also un-clothed Nancy in hot pursuit. The two nudes run through the kitchen, the dining room, through both bedrooms, back through the living room and disappear down the hallway, With Nancy shouting insults and Jam crying for mercy.

Everyone stares with wide eyes, still as statues, and on cue they all faint.

Chapter 7

"Hey guys, why is there a note by the door?"
"I don't know, pick it up and read it."
Pamela picks up the note. It's in the room-service management's handwriting
and it reads:

Dear Snowboard Kids:

I recommend that you start preparing for the Rookie
Mountain race. It's at 3:00 p.m. today and the people
attending the race hope to see you there.

"Uh, maybe we should get our stuff together." Tommy grumbles.
"Yeah. Then we'll be off!" Nancy cheers. Due to the previous incident in
the bathroom, she's wrapped in a towel and so is Jam.
"First..." Nicole gestures to Jam and Nancy - "I think these two should get
some decent clothes on before we do anything else. I don't know how it happened but
I'll have to make sure I shield my eyes before anything like it happens again."
As Nicole's talking, Nancy absent-mindedly tries to see under Jam's towel.
As soon as he looks at her, she stands up again and thinks, 'why was I trying to do
that?!? That was so unlike me...'
"Is something wrong, Nancy?" Nicole speaks up.
"Uh, nope. Nothin'." Nancy nervously replies.
"Alright." Nicole answers.
Nancy stares ahead, a little nervous for whatever reason, and looks to her
side. Jam is looking at her in a curious way.
"What?" Nancy asks.
He shrugs. "Ah, nuthin'."
Nancy smiles.
Jam smiles back.
Silence.
Jam holds Nancy's hand.
Nancy holds on to it.
They find themselves drawing nearer to each others' faces and as soon as
their noses touch....
"HELLOOOOOOO!! EARTH TO THE TWO TRICKSTERS!!! GET READY TO GO SOON!!!"
Slash screams in their faces. They slightly jump from being startled, and they head
off in opposite directions to get some clothes on.

'Do they like each other?' Slash thinks.

* * *

[on board a bus to Rookie Mountain]

"Next stop, Rookie Mountain Skiing/Snowboarding slopes!!!" The bus driver
announces to the passengers.
"This bus smells." Linda complains.
"You smell." Slash retorts.
"I'm hungry." Tommy mutters.
"I'm sleepy." Nancy yawns.
"I look terrible. You guys made me hurry when I was putting my makeup on
and now I look like crud." Nicole snaps.
"There's a coffee stain on my vest." Jam complains.
"You probably put it there." Pamela says. "You're the one who had coffee
this morning."
"Well, I'm aware of THAT." Jam says.
"Be nice to each other." Nancy says to the two.
"You-" Jam starts, but sighs instead. "Yeah, okay..."
Slash hears this and looks at him. Pamela also has a puzzled look.
"All right, so where's the mountain?" Nicole asks. "All I see is fog and snow
and wind and-"
"You can't see wind!" Ruby says. "It isn't a...uh...isn't..."
"Visible." Nancy puts in for him.
"Yeah!" Ruby exclaims. "Vincible! The wind isn't vincible!"
Nancy sighs in exasperation, but pats Ruby on the shoulder. "Good."
Ruby happily bounces up and down in his chair in response.
"Stop bouncing." Nicole snaps.
Ruby pouts and crosses his arms. He glares at Nicole under his sunglasses,
then absently grabs a flyaway hair sticking out from the side of Nicole's ponytail
and begins pulling on it.
"Cut it out, weirdo!" Nicole shrieks, slapping his hand.
"You need a hug." Ruby says blalantly.
"That's it." Nicole gets up from her chair and storms off to the front of the
bus when the back of her dress is tugged on by Linda.
"Where do you think YOU'RE going?!?" Linda asks.
"I'm not staying here with Elvis. Make me sit somewhere else, or I'll tell
the bus driver to stop this stupid thing and let me get off." Nicole steams.
"ELVIS!!!" Ruby laughs, and strikes a pose. Slash does the same, and the two
begin laughing and giggling.
"Oh no." Linda sighs. "TWO Elvises. That's double the trouble for you,
Nicole...."
"Let me leave!!!" Nicole says-

"Alright.....Rookie Mountain! Those traveling to this location please step
off the bus now. Otherwise, remain seated." The bus driver says.
"YES!!!" Nicole cheers and takes off for the door, forcing it open and
jumping out.
"Wait for us!!!!" The rest say, taking off after their blonde friend.

[At the Rookie Mountain check-in station]

"And you eight are..." The clerk behind the desk says.
"We're the Snowboard Kids and we're here for-" Ruby answers, but is cut off.
"YOU'RE the Snowboard Kids? Wow. Okay then, the lodge is right up this-"
She didn't even get to finish because they were already out the door.

[At the lodge]

"So when does it start again?" Nancy asks as she dons her usual bunny hood.
"Uh....3:00." Tommy says in a voice muffled by yet another mouthful of
hamburger.
"Alrighty." Nancy says. "That's in 25 minutes. Well, are you guys all ready
and everything?"
"Yeah, except for one thing." Slash says.
"What's that?" Nancy asks.
"We're missing someone." Slash says as he counts everyone. "There's seven
of us. There used to be eight."
*Meanwhile*
"I can't. I just can't!!!!" Ruby says, pounding on the wall by the front
door. "I know I wanna be famous but there's just something that isn't right about
it! I might get in trouble or I might even get a call from my parents while we're
here....or even worse, maybe that police guy that we saw when Slash was driving will
find us and try to arrest us!!!"
As he's talking, Nancy walks up to him from behind.
"Ruby..."
Startled, he jumps and whirls around to face her. Behind his sunglasses,
Nancy can see that he's been crying.
"Ruby, don't worry about a thing. I mean, I'm worried too, but just think.
After the tournament, there'll be people everywhere wanting our autograph....and
yours!"
"R...really?" Ruby sniffles.
"Really." Nancy replies.
Nancy holds his wrist and leads him to where the others are, and they're all
looking at Nancy like she's some sort of ghost or something, except Jam. On his
face is a look of admiration.
"Well, let's get to that slope!" Nancy says to clear up the silence. Everyone
nods their heads and follows Nancy out of the lodge.

* * *

"Have you seen these kids, sir?"
"Uh..."
The policeman that Slash ran into is standing by a blue van holding a photo
taken from one of his hidden cameras. It shows Slash looking all puzzled, Ruby
hiding under the car seat (with difficulty), and Linda shoving a pillow under her
dress while everyone else looks on with flabbergasted expressions.
"No, sir. But I'll look for 'em." The man in the van says, and drives off.
Another car drives up, and the cop repeats the procedure.
"Sir, have you seen these kids-"
The next guy happens to be Ruby's dad. He looks like a HUGE musclebound
model with very-very-very light blonde - almost white - hair done in a military
style crew cut. He stares at the picture and gasps.
"H-hey! That's my son! That one, hiding under the car seat!" He blares.
"You've seen these kids?" The cop asks.
"I sure have! Ruby's always hangin' out with them! They call themselves the
..uh...Snow-board Kids!"
"Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to step out of the vehicle."
"Hold on! I mean not now, I was just-"
"NOW!!!" The cop demands.
"Ah, anything sir!!! Anything if you can find my son! He's been missing ever
since the weekend!" Mr. Green says to the cop.
"All right. Just cooperate and we'll find him." The policeman says.
"Oh thank you!! Thank you so much!" Mr. Green says.

Chapter 8

The Snowboard Kids walked up the huge hill leading to the lift that would
take them to the top of Rookie Mountain, where the start line was. Unfortunately,
due to having been walking in freezing temperatures most of the time, some of them
were getting a little silly, probably to make things a little more active.
"Hey I gotta joke for ya." Slash says to Nicole. "What do you get when you
cross a bird and a barstool?"
"Not now, Slash..." Nicole grumbles.
"A stool pigeon!!! HA HA HA HA HA HAAA!!!" Slash laughs and so does Ruby.
The rest just glare at the two crazies with sweatdrops on all their heads.
"OH! I've got one!" Ruby says, jabbing his elbow into Slash's shoulder.
"What did the...oh wait, how did it go...?"
"Enough..." An increasingly annoyed Nicole growls.
"....I remember now! It goes, what did one-"
"NO JOKES!!!" Nicole says. "They're all stupid anyway."
Slash and Ruby glare at her, then Jam speaks up.
"Hey guys," he says, "Listen to this. Okay, one day this *blonde girl*-"
- he looks at Nicole - "-Goes into her kitchen and takes out a box. She dumps all
this stuff on the table, stares at it, and then grabs the phone and calls her girl-
friend. Her friend says, 'what's wrong?' and the *blonde girl* says, 'come help me
with this thing.' So the blonde girl's friend comes over there, and she says, 'why
is there cereal all over the table?' and the *blonde girl* says, 'I can't figure out
this puzzle! I know it's supposed to look like a tiger but I don't see any pattern!'
And she holds up the cereal box and it has Tony the Tiger on it!!! Get it? She
thought the Corn Flakes was a box for a tiger puzzle because she's a DUMB BLONDE!?!?"
Slash, Ruby and Jam howl with laughter, but Nicole's face is growing red and
she looks like a tea kettle about to blow the whistle.
"Uh, guys...." Linda says, tapping Slash on the shoulder.
Nicole's teeth are grinding together.
"GUYS..." Linda insists, but the three guys keep laughing.
Nicole reaches her hands out like she's about to throttle the three.
"YOU GUYS!!!!" Linda screams. The three guys abruptly stop laughing and look
at Nicole. The moment they all see her, they scream on cue and take off up the hill
with Nicole screaming after them and running to catch up with them.
Everybody, including Linda, sighs.

* * *

An hour later, four of the Snowboard Kids - Slash, Nicole, Linda and Tommy
were picked to race on Rookie Mountain. They're all lined up at the finish line,
waiting for Mr. Dog, the faithful old snow hound, to appear. Sure enough, he drops
down in the miniature little air balloon and waves to the four kids.
"Hello there children!" He says in a gusto that is reminiscent of Chef from
South Park. "Ready for an exciting race? I hear this whole thing is actually a sort
of championship or something! Eight whole courses! You guys ready?"
"We're ready when you are!" The four shout back.
"Okay then!" Mr. Dog says, holds up the pistol, looks at the audience, and...

BANG!!!

~@ Lap One @~

The four are off. Slash immediately pulls into first place, but is hit with
an ice shot and frozen in place. Nicole giggles and runs into a shot box but is
knocked over because she has no money. Linda passes up Nicole, pointing at her and
taunting her, and skids off down the slope. Tommy is in fourth, taking another
burger out of his pocket and proceeding to eat it. Slash releases a frying pan but
for some reason it malfunctions and all the pans come crashing down on him. Dazed
and with little lines under his eyes, he springs back up and heads down the course,
with Tommy still in last even with the chance to pass up Slash during the pan
incident. They arrive at the lift.

Status:
1st - Linda
2nd - Nicole
3rd - Slash
4th - Tommy

~@ Lap Two @~

Linda is rather confident that, although it's only the second lap, she has
this race won. She speaks (or thinks) too soon, as she finds herself on the ground
one second and in the air dangling from a parachute the next. Sighing, she watches
Nicole speed off towards an item box - and this time, picking up a coin before she
does so - she gets bombs. She leaves one behind and Slash haplessly runs into it,
scorching his suit where it hit it. He curses in Japanese and growls a few English
cuss words as well as he picks up speed and goes after Nicole. Tommy runs into an
item box and lets a frying pan attack hit everyone on the ol' bean, and he chuckles
to himself as he finally pulls into first before getting on the lift.

Status:
1st - Tommy
2nd - Nicole
3rd - Linda
4th - Slash

~@ Lap Three @~

Tommy is pretty tickled at having bested everyone when it came to one little
pan trick. He skids into a shot box and picks up some Slapsticks. He waits for some-
one to pass him up, but that takes a while since everyone is far behind him. So he
shrugs, discards the Slapsticks by throwing them at one of the "Atlus" banners, and
as soon as he does this he is encircled by three ghosts. He sweatdrops and grumbles
as Nicole passes him up, then Linda, then Slash. Wishing he hadn't gotten rid of the
Slapsticks, he runs into an item box, hoping for another pan, and gets.......a rock.
Peeved, he throws the rock and it smacks Slash in the head. Slash shouts an obscene
remark in Japanese and picks a fight with Tommy while they're both heading down the
slopes. Nicole and Linda shake their head and remark something about "boys will be
boys" before Nicole gets on the lift, followed by Linda.

Status:
1st - Nicole
2nd - Linda
3rd - Tommy
4th - Slash

~@ Lap Four @~

Nicole is far ahead of Linda, and Tommy scoots ahead of Linda while humming
and getting ready to fire a bomb at her. Scared, Linda ducks out of the way and Tommy
throws the bomb. It misses Linda, misses Nicole, and goes into the audience. The
people in the bleachers scream and run away from the bomb as it collides with one of
the benches and blows up. Nicole screams, "Nice going, fatso!" At Tommy. Being dually
insulted by this, Tommy roars something at her and chucks a bomb at her. It hits her
and sends her flying upwards. Laughing at her, Tommy scoots ahead and takes the 1st
place rank. Slash is still in fourth, beginning to think that the only way he can win
this one is if he gets a frying pan that DOESN'T malfunction...so he gets on the lift
and suddenly, it hits him. *no pun intended*

Status:
1st - Tommy
2nd - Nicole
3rd - Linda
4th - Slash

~@ Lap Five @~

Tommy is in first once again, and is trying to tell his mind to tell his board
to go REALLY, REALLY FAST so that he can speed up and cross the finish line before any-
one tries to pass him up. So he runs into an item box and snatches a Speed Fan. 'Just
my luck!' He thinks, and uses it. In a spray of snow he goes flying down the course,
laughing and doing a sort of butt-wiggle dance as he goes. Unfortunately, Tommy-boy's
little victory jig is cut short by a smash on the head by a frying pan, and then the
mouse appears over his head and takes all his money - 2500 G. An outraged and flabber-
gasted Tommy gawks as he looks behind him and sees everyone else in the same condition
as himself. The last thing he sees is Slash laughing as he nears the finish line...

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOALL!!!!"

"HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! NO ONE CAN BEAT ME!!! I'M THE GREATEST!!! I GUESS
NOBODY CAN BEAT ME!!! I'M INVINCIBLE!!! I'M UNTOUCHABLE!!! AND I'M IN FIRST PLACE!!!"
Slash is bouncing up and down and doing backflips now that he has finished in
first. A disappointed Tommy is in second, sagging his shoulders as he crosses the line,
followed by a shocked Linda and an also disappointed Nicole. Someone walks up to Slash
and hands him a trophy with the words "First Place at Rookie Mountain" engraved on the
bottom.
"Congratulations, son! You won the first course out of eight! And here's your
hard-earned money prize." He hands Slash 6000 G.
"Wha?!? Yaahaaaaa!!!" Slash grabs it and waves it around. "Look what I got
look what I got!!"
Everybody sighs.
"Well, do we head back to the hotel or what?" Nicole says. "I think all the snot
in my nose has turned to ice."
"We didn't need to know that." Tommy mutters.
"Really." Linda says.
"I'm the winner I'm the winner I'm the winner..." Slash chants happily.
"Shut up." Nicole snaps. Slash yanks on her ponytail.
"Hey!!!"
"Ha ha ha! You can't beat me! You lost. Admit it. I'm the greatest!" Slash
rants.
"WE KNOW!!!" The jealous three say to him, and as they do the rest of the Kids
step down from the bleachers and run up to the four contestants.
"Way to go, dude!" Jam says, giving Slash a high five. "You were awesome!"
"Jam's right." Nancy says. "You pulled through with flying colors!"
"You were the REAL Superman!!!" Ruby says, slamming Slash on the back with his
strong hand, making Slash cough due to the wind knocked out of him.
"You were wonderful." Pamela says to Slash, kissing him on the cheek. Slash
gasps and falls backward into the snow. Everyone gathers around him, expecting him to
be in some sort of pain, but instead they get a glimpse of a lovesick look on his face.
"Koishiteru..." Slash remarks wistfully.
"Wha...." Tommy says.
"He says, 'I'm in love'." Pamela informs. "Am I the only one who can interpret
Slash's fluent Japanese?"
"Probably." Nicole says in an 'I-don't-give-a-crap' tone of voice.
"Well, let's head back. Before Nicole talks about her freezing snot again." Jam
says with a roll of his eyes. All the Kids gather their boards and head for the bus
stop that will get them a bus back to their hotel...

* * *

"All right, our suspects are eight children around preteen age that were spotted
driving a red convertible out of Snow Town towards the airport the other day." The cop
says over his walkie-talkie to the other cops. "We need to find them before the end of
the week. Otherwise their parents will be throwing fits and we need to stop the parents
before they get too unruly and decide to look for their kids themselves. That'll just
lead to more trouble. So let's find those children!"
The rest of the cops agree and they drive up in their cop cars, of which there
are ten, towards Snow Town Airport.....

Chapter 9

"Wow....6,000 G!!! I could buy...uh...a...a really really expensive thing
with this much money!!!" Slash brags to the rest of the gang.
"That's great." Nicole grumps.
"Yeah. Whoopee for you." Linda adds sarcastically.
Slash just stares. "What's wrong with you people? Why can't you just accept
the fact that I WON, so you should get over it already!"
Pamela nods. "Yes, I agree with him. Try to congratulate him for winning
that race. It looked difficult."
"ANYBODY can win on Rookie Mountain!!! It's the easiest course of them all!"
Tommy argued.
"..." Linda and Nicole both say.
"Let's just catch that bus back to the hotel. Then after a day or two's rest
we'll head on over to Big<