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Race to the Blood

Starring: Cuddles, Toothy

Featuring: Lumpy, Nutty, Handy, Splendid, Giggles, Petunia

Appearences: Giggles' Mom, Nutty's Mom, Generic Tree Friends

Cuddles and Toothy are watching TV together and they see there's a race for a grand prize. They are both immediately interested.

Next thing, you see Cuddles, Toothy, Nutty, Handy, Giggles and Petunia standing at the starting line, ready to leap into running. The track is shaped in a Still-Alive flower and there are many obstacles in the way. Lumpy realizes that he forgot his whistle, so he takes a random one from the ground and blows it to start the race.

Unbeknownst to him, this whistle attracts Whistle, who then shows up in 10-ish seconds, and mauls Giggles to death. He trips and falls into an acid puddle before he can hurt anyone else. No one notices this because they are concentrating on winning the prize.

Cut scene to hurdles. Just as Handy is about to leap over them, sawdust gets into his eyes. It hurts, and he bumps into the first hurdle because he can't see. He finally opens his now red eyes to see that his arm has a bruise.

Nutty stops on his tracks later in the race, because his eye comes across a giant basket of sweets on a hill in the distance. Being his natural self, he leaps out of the track, and starts digging his mouth into these sweets. Cuddles and Toothy laugh at this.

The camera pans to the birds-eye view of the track, to show a jump-cut to when the race is halfway over. At this point, Nutty is very fat and the sweets are lying all over his body. In an attempt to get one more piece of candy, he trips and falls. He starts to roll down the hill, rolling faster as time passes, and eventually his body gets impaled by a hurdle on the track, exposing his inner organs and candy wrappers.

Nutty's blood splatters onto Petunia's body because she can hardly see what's going on. This causes Petunia to scream due to her OCD, and since Splendid shows up upon screams, he flies to the scene. He unknowingly decapitates the messed-up Handy (who is still trying to get to the finish) on his way to Petunia.

Cuddles and Toothy get distracted by this. Toothy trips and falls, scraping his eye on the ground. Splendid, on the other hand, jumps to conclusions and starts to fly Petunia towards the finish. He halts as soon as he comes across a tree branch, remembering what went wrong last time.

He quickly turns to fly her in another direction, only to impale his own back on the branch, and expose his heart. Petunia gets dropped, and quickly clutches onto a set of monkey bars suspended over water. Splendid's blood drips onto her, causing her to scream again. She ends up losing grip of the monkey bars, and she falls into the water. Shortly, she drowns.

Meanwhile, since only Cuddles and Toothy are left alive, Cuddles has trouble deciding whether to help the injured Toothy or take the opportunity to win the prize. Naturally, he goes with the former. So Cuddles ditches the race, and takes Toothy home.

As Cuddles puts eyedrops into Toothy's eye, he gets an allergic reaction upon sniffing, and then he sneezes. His phlegm ends up in Toothy's eye, causing it to infect both eyes severely. Cuddles shrugs sheepishly, as he changes his mind and decides to return to the track to win the race. He runs out, unknowingly knocking a tape measurer off the counter, which then slices Toothy's body into bits.

Back at the track scene, Cuddles ultimately crosses the finish line. Lumpy shows up giving him the 1st place ribbon, and taking him to the prize... which was intended to be the basket of sweets. Lumpy doesn't realize that most of the sweets are eaten. When Cuddles looks inside, he sees a whole bunch of messed up candy wrappers, and consequently cries because he thinks he went through a lot of trouble for nothing. Lumpy then finds Handy's severed head and decides to use it to play catch with Cuddles, thinking it will cheer him up. Throwing this head only causes it to hit Cuddles so hard that he falls over and bleeds in the neck.

The iris closes on Cuddles' head.

Moral

 * "Look before you leap!"

Injuries

 * Handy gets sawdust in his eyes and a bruise on his right arm.
 * Nutty gets fat upon eating too many sweets.
 * Toothy's eye gets scraped on the track ground.
 * Cuddles gets an allergic reaction to Toothy's eyedrops.
 * Toothy's eye gets hit by Cuddles' phlegm. Infection causes his other eye to swell as well.
 * Cuddles gets hit hard by the hardhat on Handy's severed head.

Deaths

 * Giggles is mauled to death by Whistle.
 * Whistle is killed in a puddle of acid.
 * Nutty is impaled in the stomach by a hurdle, exposing his inner organs.
 * Handy is decapitated by Splendid's arm.
 * Splendid is impaled through the back by a tree branch.
 * Petunia drowns after falling into water.
 * Toothy gets sliced by a tape measurer.

Trivia

 * "Race to the Blood" is based off "Race to the Bridge" by Gordon Goodwin.
 * Giggles' mom and Nutty's mom are seen in the audience of the race, along with Generic Tree Friends.