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"OH-Oh my ghoul!" Vanissha covers her mouth and nose with her jacket trying not to breath heavy. The stench was horrid, but the taste was even worse. It was really bad when you could taste what you smell. Ew!

She coughed a little moving away from Dorianna.

"Don't worry, Tori's mom has all kinds of home remedies for this kinda thing. It's like herbs and... uhhh grape juice. Yeah that's it..." Vanissha couldn't remember all the ingredients. But I was some kinda fruit juice. Did I really matter what one?

"You soak in a bath tub full of the stuff. Takes the stench right away."

Glen shared a look with Anne and Ryder and he led the three over toward the pileup on tangled limbs that 'was' Manny Taur and Gil Webber. Lagoona was fretting over Gil as was Deuce who was also talking to Nero, the fll-in for Gil.

Glen skided to a halt above his big bluddy Manny and leaned in.

"Does it hurt?"

And all eyes slowly turned to look at Glen.

The two teams were neck and neck in the final stretch, Atomica doing everything in her power to try to hang with Robecca. For an instant, she was tied with Robecca....and then ahead! Atomica's grin started to grow as she gained a nose of a lead....

And then a giant slime geyser erupted underneath her feet, knocking her to the left and careening into the stacks of tires on the side of the track. Robecca beared down forward, and....

"Winners! Robecca Steam, Rochelle Goyle and Manny Taur!" Ghoulia held up an arm to indicate that the race was over as Clawd announced the winners. Covered in viscous, sticky slime, Atomica tried to hide her face in shame as the crowd erupted in cheers for Robecca and Rochelle.

So much for her chance to be team captain. She probably wouldn't even make-

"Hey, great match, Atomica. Can I give you a hand?" Atomica looked up to see Robecca Steam on her knees in the slime, offering to help Atomica up. "That was a real hum-dinger of a race! Great job to everyone!"

Atomica's eyebrows arched, and for a moment she wavered... but then she reached out and her slimy hand took Robecca's. The crowd erupted in another cheer as Robecca held up Atomica's arm, and Rochelle skated up behind Meme and Marceline to raise theirs.

"Fang-tastic!" Clawd told them all as he frantically scribbled down some notes. "That's what I'm talkin' about! All right! Let's get some mops on the track here, and Heat 3, get lined up!"

Forgetting Ronan and Sweety for a brief moment, Lin swerved his head around in shock at the outcome of the previous SKRM race, his eyes wide open.

"Boo! BOOOOOOOOO!!!"

At Clawd's motion Nero, Deuce and Lagoona took their places and crouched at the starting line. Nero could feel his calf muscles twitching and he took a deep breath. He'd gotten lucky enough to try out, he wasn't going to ruin it with a false start. A time penalty would count double against them because of Glen. Mini-bro was made of caffiend and even if his ability to turn and stop wasn't so good, that edge of speed couldn't be ignored.

He caught the eyes of his team mates and they silently air-fist-bumped in solidarity. He knew he could count on his bros....and brolita.

"On your mark!" Clawd raised an arm and the two teams tensed, preparing to launch.

"Get set!"

Nero mentally ran down in his head all the obstacles he'd seen so far and rolled his neck. He could do this. He could, at the very least, make it all the way through.

"GO!"

The horn blared and they rocketed down the chute. Nero used his size to his advantage and let the weight build speed for him, crouching as low to the ground as possible to minimize air resistance. As soon as his eyes had adjusted to the dark of the tunnel they burst into the maze.

The air was damp and as they shot forward the floor dropped away into lake filled with piranha and a patchwork of irregular stepping stones, each barely a foot across, leading to the other side. The fish leaped out of the water towards them, trying to grab a bite.

Lagoona shot forward ahead of them.

"FOLLOW ME!" she called behind to her team mates, and as Nero and Deuce skated from stone to stone, they could hear Lagoona politely but firmly telling the fish to leave her team alone.

Glen finished off his last Red Ghoul and gave it a toss (where Chase caught it from the stands) smiled brightly as he crouched low beside his teammates, Anne and Ryder. he turned and gave Nero a friendly thumbs up as a manner of good sportsmanship.

"Dude! You know what to do!" Ryder said as he passed a flaming torch over to Glen's hands and Glen held it to the tires on the hextreme merboy's wheels and they ignited brightly! Ryder then turned back with his hands on the wheels of his wheelchair.

"GO!"

And all six kids took off at top speed and raced past the track and into the dark interior of the maze's entrance! Glen built a head of steam, very little (pun intended) in his path to stop him as he slid beside Lagoona and managed to pass her as he came up on Nero's left. How did a guy so big get so fast?

The six kids came upon a corridor in the maze that opened into that lake with biting pirahnas snapping at them. While Lagoona was able to circumvent this obstacle easily enough, Glen's team was another matter.

Ryder got a burning start and kicked off at the edge as Anne grasped the handlebars of his wheelchair and the merboy 'flew' them over the lake's side and landed on the opposite 'shore'. Glen took an 'alternative route' and raced up the side of the wall, swerved upside down on the ceiling of the cavern and down the other side of the wall, landing on the floor and following, quickly working to catch up!