Mountain Race

**Mountain Race** is the first episode of Season 8 of *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, and the 87th episode overall.

## Synopsis

Citizens from all over The City of Nexus and Yoshi Resort gather to participate in the Vice President's newest idea: a race across the local Mountain Range.

## Plot

   **"EVERYONE SCREAM AND RUN AWAY!!!!" - Turtle Man**
This section contains spoilers for the storyline of Turtle Man and DaPhantom, proceed with caution!

The Vice President (posing as Vice King) hosts a meeting at the recently repaired Town Hall to announce a snowy race in the nearby mountains, claiming that the winner will get a giant cake with £200 in it and that the mountain range was carved out to make the race more safe. Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. are among the many people who signed up for the race and gave their applications back to the Vice President with Officer M. and Turtle Man modifying their vehicles for the icy track whilst DaPhantom quickly builds up his own new car for it. The Mario Bros. Plumbing shows up and Mario reveals that he and Luigi entered for the race, telling them that they should give up since they are going to win, but this only boosts the trio’s motivation even more. Victor also signed up for the race and turned his bakery into a giant vehicle which he activated with a lever and drove to the mountains. Before Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. departed, they noticed Snappy the crocodile running by with the Amulet of Souls and Officer M. tries to take it from him since it is dangerous. Snappy bites him and says it is just a frisbee, then digs away but the guys dismiss it for now as they think that he wouldn’t know how to cause any damage with it. Arriving at the race, the three meet the Frost Mercenary who is still mad at them for their encounter a few months ago and ensures them he will win but they are not so sure of it. Shumi and Llama (who had travelled all the way from Yoshi Resort)as well as a few others here involved in the race too, then the Vice President shows up to begin the race with a count down to 30. Though everyone started the race before he reached 0 and he then entered his own limo, for he was attempting to win his own race for some reason.

The Frost Mercenary realised that his ice wheels weren’t adapted for the road and so he instantly crashed into a tree, with his shattering into icicles which damaged the Mario Bros’ windshield. Though Luigi was able to fix it quickly and threw a shell at Shumi’s vehicle which had caused him to get knocked out of it and he was run over by Llama’s car, yet he was still fine after it. The Vice President had started cheating by using a turbine to fly over most of the track and get into first place, so the trio and Victor decide to work together and that they’ll share the cake if any one of them wins. However the Mario Bros. Van caught up to them and started trying to knock them away such as colliding vehicles and throwing green shells at Officer M’s car which made him spin around. He was able to boost away and off a ramp though, and Victor threw a spike pie at the brothers van which knocked them off the mountains. Officer Jones also got involved in the race but was knocked off of the track by Llama, ironically after he claimed that he was sick of being pushed around by everyone. Just as it looked like all four of them were on a good track, Llama showed up and attacked Officer M’s van using his magic and then jumped on to try and attack; Officer M. managed to knock him off and Llama prayed too hard so he ascended into the heavens. Turtle Man and Officer M. then got knocked off by the Vice President so Victor and DaPhantom agreed that they needed to work together to defeat him - Victor then threw a explosive pie all over the Vice President’s windshield which made him spin out of control. As Victor and DaPhantom were on the edge of winning and could see the finish line, Mort appears out of nowhere and just crosses it, thus making him the winner of the race. The Vice President reveals a very obvious shortcut that he put in the track which basically leads to the end of the track, but that only Mort noticed it. Mort won the cake and was ready to eat it and find the £200, but then the Vice President pulled out Victor’s explosive pie which he still had and wanted to eat but tripped, causing the whole mountain range to explode. With the cake and everyone’s vehicles completely decimated, the guys decide to just go back home and act like none of this ever happened, with the Vice President asking for forgiveness.

The Mario Bros are later seen climbing back up and get into an argument, but then they forgive eachother and decide to go get a pizza.

## Characters

### Major

* Turtle Man
* DaPhantom
* Officer M.
* Vice President
* Mario
* Luigi
* Victor
* Llama

### Minor

* Snappy (episode debut)
* Frost Mercenary
* Shumi
* Shimi (no speaking lines)
* Officer Jones
* Mort

## Trivia

* The infamous Shimi made a minor appearance during the race as well, being seen in the background of some shots riding a unicycle.
* Though Snappy appeared first in the post-credits scene of the second movie, this marks his and the Amulet of Souls' first appearance in an episode.
* The idea for this episode was conceived by DST Gxming, the voice of Turtle Man.

Tunnels
**Season 2**
He Shoots, He Scores
**Season 3**
Moon Lair
**Season 4**
Final Showdown
**Season 5**
Evil Chef
**Season 6**
Farewell, Friend
**Season 7**
Restaurant War
**Season 8**
Soul War
**Season 9**
Cursed
**Specials**
Easter Special