[center][color=darkgreen][h3]Linkle[/h3][/color]

[color=darkgreen][b] Level 4[/b][/color] - (8/40) + 2 

[color=darkgreen][b]Location:[/b][/color] Peace's Castle, Yard ---> The Open Road

[color=darkgreen][b]Word Count: 1,115 [/b][/color][/center]

[@thedman][@Stern Algorithm][@Stekkmen][@DracoLunaris]
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Linkle listened intently to what Franklin had to say and made sure she understood it as he walked off. It was simple, but then again so had been Michaels gun advice and she hadn't quite gotten that the first time around so she wanted to make sure she'd abide by what he told her. She didn't want any more unfortunate misjudgements on her part. 

As she sorted it out and heard Bowser roar that it was time to go, his big cart letting out a rumble as it pulled off. All around her the karts rumbled to life, and she hurriedly ran over and jumped on the horse shaped two-wheeler. Slamming her hand down on the button to make the majestic steed roar to life she searched around with her feet until she found something that moved and slammed down on what she thought was the accelerator. 

The kart listed shamefully to the side as the other began to depart, resting on its kickstand. 

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Luckily for Linkle Franklin himself had selected a similar kart, so instead of sitting there all confused she'd just watched what he did. Twisting the handles seemed to make you go, and after a few sudden spurts and false starts Linkle sailed off after the pack. 

It wasn't as though he'd tried to trick her, she thought. As she went fairly slowly across the grassy paths of the Mushroom Kingdom, she found out that all the components were there. You twisted to go fast, the little levers were to slow you down, and you turned the handles from side to side to turn. She took the opportunity while things were still calm to practice and really get a feel for it, seemingly accepting her place at the back of the pack for now and just enjoying the smooth ride, the wind on her face, and the rabbit songs that were carried back to her on that wind. Once you got used to it they really were easy to control. She'd never even been on a horse before, but she had trouble believing that it was anywhere as smooth and easy as this.

As if in response to this thought she was suddenly passed by Din, clopping along on the back of some goat creature like some kind of mythical deity. She narrowed her eyes. Starting at the back was one thing, but getting passed? No, no, no, that awoke a fire. "Okay, horsey, let's see what you can really do!" She gunned the engine and shot forward to catch up with Din.

Linkle pulled up along side her. "Hey." She said, though it was a little hard to hear anything as the engine purred and the wind whipped past her ears. "Nice goat. That one of those pokemon? I didn't know they got that big." She just assumed from the ball that they were all supposed to be little.

She hung around Din as the grass and hills gave way to dust and dirt, just in case that creature got tired and gave out. As she rode she leaned low and pulled her hood up over her head to shade herself from the suddenly scorching sun and keep the dirt thrown up by the rest of the convoy out of her eyes, though she still ended up eating a good amount of it and it started clogging up her nose something fierce. 

She almost didn't see the big jump coming, only noticing it as she saw the other karts launched into the air. Seeing everyone else take it no problem she sped up and was launched over the gap. Her stomch fell all the way pout of ger chest as she flew through the ir, then right back into it as gravity caught up with her and she started her downward decent. She braced herself and landed roughly, front tire dipped a little to far forward, and nearly lost control of the vehicle but managed to wrench the thing back into balance just in time. She sighed with relief. If she could handle something like that it was safe to say she was a good kart driver. Anything the desert tried to throw at her now would be no problem.

She heard the desert's next curve ball before she saw it. Something being carried on the wind back to her, a different sound than the purr of engines, a different song than the happy singing of the rabbits. Something angry. Then she saw Bowsers big kart, visible even through the giant dust cloud it trailed in its wake, pull to the front to the front of the convoy and turn, spinning to its side to block the road. It looked like they'd finally made contact with the enemy. Linkle sped up.

She saw the others all shooting forward with their karts, going around the defensive wall Bowser had set up, but Linkle slowed down and skidded to a stop behind the kart. As confident as she felt just riding the thing she didn't feel like she had the skills needed to fight while doing so. She kicked the stand down, stood up on her kart, and jumped up onto Bowsers to seem what was going on. 

Absolute mayhem, looked like. It was easy to tell who the enemy was from the way their karts were much bigger, even if what was going on was hard to see though the dust being kicked up by the battle. She still make out Donnie zipping around throwing magic at people, and it was impossible no to spot the now massive form of Agoston stomping on anything that came close. She gawked at that for a few moments, having never wanted something so badly and yet never knowing it. She needed some of whatever had dome that. 

Putting her fantasies of [u]Giga Linkle[/u] out of her head, she ran over to where Bowser was spitting fireballs into fray. Linkle withdrew that bow she'd gotten from the skeleton and decided to follow his lead, giving support fire to the one's on the front line. She withdrew and drew back one of the blocky arrows and hoped her new aiming translated to this. She didn't think the arrow would do any damage to the cars bodies, but the black wheels the things rolled around on seemed a significantly softer target. She waited for one of the ramshackle vehicles to come into Agoston's range, figuring that anything wounded within reach of his big meaty hands was just as good as dead, and as one skidded around to try and give the centurion a wide berth she let loose at the things tire to cripple it for him. Really, she just wanted to see him smash something.