Chapter 1: Entering Los Angeles

Ezra's P.O.V

I came down from my hometown of Lothal, a town just outside Seattle, to Los Angeles for one reason: make a name for myself in one of the top driver's clubs on the west coast: The Rebellion. They are a motor club that treats everybody like family, and care about the ride on the road so much that one of them said that they never drive alone. And I wanted to be a part of this motor club after hearing so much about it. It just so happened that when I turned 18, and after I finished high school, I departed for Los Angeles to start a new life in the Rebellion motor club.

I have had a love of autos so much that I used to read stories a lot about the top motor clubs in the world, and never in my life have I seen myself starting a new life in that motor club.

It was a long grueling drive from Lothal, and I was glad to be entering Los Angeles finally. The drive took about a day or so since I stopped last night while near Portland, and I was glad that it was almost over.

I drove through the city to find my way down to the motor club, which was in Glendale, a part of the city. When I found their HQ, I drove up on it, parking it in front of the building, where a member of the club approached my ride.

"Members only, sir." he said. "I'm interested in joining your motor club." I said to him. "Well, that is a nice Skyline GT-R, sir, but it takes more than just a good car to enter the Rebellion motor club. But, I'll go and see my boss. Wait here, sir." he said. "Will do." I responded.

He came back a few minutes with his boss, who was a man who had brown hair rolled up into a pony tail by the looks of things, green eyes, and he had a goatee going. "So you're the guy who's interested?" he asked me. "That is correct, sir." I answered. "Any reason as to why you want to join our motor club?"

"I have a huge love of autos, and I used to read stuff about motor clubs around the globe. And once I heard about your motor club, I was interested in coming down here to join you." "Nice to see that you want to join us. However, it's not that easy to just join us, sir. You need to be tested. I'll tell you what, one of my drivers is looking for a race around the city. I'll contact her and tell her that you're interested in joining us. If you could beat her, you are welcome to join the club."

"Deal. Where can I find her?" "Head to Santa Monica Pier. She should be around there. Also, could you give us your contact info?" "Why?" "Just something that we usually do with new members, ya know." "Figures. Here you go." I handed him my contact info, which had my email and my phone number, and he gave it back to me. "Get going. She'll be waiting." "I will. See you later."

I pulled away from the motor club building, and headed down to Santa Monica Pier to meet this female driver for a race.

I arrived a little while later at Santa Monica Pier, where I saw a car that looked like it belonged to the female driver. My phone rang after I pulled up. "Hello?" I said. "Well, a new blood by the looks of things. Let's see how good you do your first run. Sprint race from here to the tallest building in the downtown area. Think you could handle that, new blood?" a female voice asked, who I assumed to be the female driver. "Yeah." I answered. "Good. Let's see what ya got." she said.

Her car pulled up next to me in front of a red light, and it was a nice looking one as well. It was a maroon colored Mercedes AMG that had lots of custom designs painted on it, body upgrades, as well as a spoiler in the back. As much as the car looked nice, I focused on the race and the road ahead.

I heard the Mercedes begin to burnout, and I burned out as well. The light eventually turned green, and I had a perfect launch. I pulled out into the lead, drifting to the right, and heading straight. She came in and overtook me, but I had a modified engine with a nitro mod, which I used, overtaking her, drifting to the left, hitting the gas as we continued down the road, avoiding traffic.

We eventually got on the highway, in which she overtook me, going fast down the road. Well not today for her. I engaged my nitro again, speeding past traffic, and eventually came to the point where me and her were neck and neck, but she was holding on well, holding the lead ever so slightly. But I pressed down on the gas hard, getting ahead of her, and then drifting to the left hard, with her following.

This was the final stretch, in which she sped up quickly, almost overtaking me, just not before I turned right and cut her off. I continued flooring it, and I won the sprint race. Now I got myself entrance into the motor club.

After the race, me and her were just cruising beside each other. She called me again. I picked up my phone. "Nice run, new blood. I like your style." she said. "Thank you." I said. "I guess you are worth enough to join the club. I'm about to head back there anyway. You wanna cruise down there?" "Sure thing." "Great. What's your name by the way, new blood?" "Ezra." "Nice to meet you, Ezra. I'm Sabine." "Nice to meet you." "You too. Let's roll out."

We made it back to the motor club building eventually, where we got out of our cars, and the boss was waiting for us. "So?" he asked. "He's good." Sabine told him. "Alright then. Welcome to the Rebellion, new blood. What's your name?" the boss asked me. "Ezra." I said. "Welcome then, Ezra. The name's Kanan." the boss introduced himself, shaking my hand firmly. Now I was a part of the motor club, my new life as a member had begun.

"So, do I get anything since I joined?" I asked Kanan, thinking that I should normally be getting something. "Thanks for reminding me. I almost forgot." he said, pulling something out of his pocket. "What's that?" I asked him. "That is a Rebellion patch. Once you become a member of the Rebellion, this signifies your membership. Take it, it's your to keep now that you're a member." Kanan responded. "Thank you." I said, putting it away in my jacket.

"By the way, anything else happening? Like races, meet ups, or something like that?" I asked. "Not really much tonight. All though we were going to be going to dinner tonight, just me, Kanan, and three of our other members, who are also some of our closest friends. You are also free to come join us if you want, Ezra." Sabine invited me. "Seriously?" I asked. "Yeah. Since you're a member of the motor club, you're almost like family at this point, along with every other new member that joined this motor club." Kanan said. "Sure, I'll roll with you guys." I said. "Great." Kanan said.

"What time are we going and where are we going to?" I inquired. "We thought about going to Brick and Mortar at around 6:00. Will that do for you?" "Sure, Kanan." "Cool. I'll get us a reservation in the meantime." "Cool. In the meantime, I'm gonna go and set up in the place that I'm renting for now for my time here." "You do that, we'll be waiting for you there at the restaurant." "I'll be there. I'll see you later, guys." "By, Ezra." "See ya."

I got back in my skyline, and headed over to the place located about 10 blocks away from the Rebellion HQ, and parked my car there. I got out my items from the trunk, and headed in to meet the landlord of the apartment building.

"Ah, you must Bridger." the landlord said in a German accent, who was a slim man who stood at around 6 feet, appeared in his mid thirties, had light brown hair that was gelled, had a small beard going, and was wearing just a black v neck with jeans.

"Yes I am." I said, shaking his hand. "Come with me then, I'll show you the place." the landlord said, walking me upstairs to my apartment. We came up on the apartment on the second floor, which was numbered 243. The landlord opened the door for me, letting me in.

I walked in, and it was a nice place. It had a living room with a flat screen TV and two couches set up, a balcony, two bathrooms, one in the living room and one towards the master bedroom, a kitchen, and it had a guest room. "How do you like the place?" he asked me. "It's a nice place." I said. "I'm glad you like it, Mr. Bridger." he replied.

"Now a couple of things that I need to clarify with you: one, the rent is about $400 a month. Do you think you could handle paying that amount on time?" "Yes." "Good to here. Two, I ask that you please not make a ruckus during late night. Don't play loud music or anything like that, which could wake up your neighbors on your floor. Will you be able to not make a ruckus?" "Yes." "That's good to here. I have no more further things to clarify with you unless otherwise, Mr. Bridger. Enjoy your stay here." He gave me the house key. "Thank you for welcoming me, sir." I shook his hand firmly. "No problem. Goodbye now." "See ya." The landlord closed the door after he left, and then it was time for me to set up my stuff.

An hour later

I'm almost finished with setting up my stuff, until I took a look at the time on my phone, and saw that it was 5:45. I had to be there at the restaurant with the guys by 6. I grabbed my car keys and my house key, and headed down to my car.

I got in my car, and headed down to the restaurant. I arrived there at around 6:00 sharp, where I saw Sabine's car parked there, and so was Kanan's from what I could assume. His car was a light green Mustang with black stripes and black rims. I also saw three other cars parked there. One of them was a Challenger that was orange with black stripes, the other was an Aston Martin that was silver with a black ghost on it and black rims, and the last one was a Ford Raptor that was light purple with a green design on the main body. As for those other three cars, I thought that they were the cars of the three that Sabine mentioned earlier.

Once I parked it behind the Raptor, I headed in to meet the crew. The hostess told me that I had to wait to be seated, but I told her that I was meeting my friends here, and she walked me over to the group.

"Hey, guys." I said once I came up to the table. "Glad to see that you made it, Ezra." Kanan said. "These are our friends, Hera, Zeb, and Alex." "How do you do?" Hera greeted, getting up out of her chair to shake my hand. "Good. Nice to meet you." I said, shaking her hand firmly. "My name is Zeb, you new blood." he joked, shaking my hand. "A new blood that is now a member either way." I said, shaking the hand the hand of the muscular man. "Welcome to the Rebellion. I'm Alex." Alex greeted himself. "Ezra. Nice to meet you." I said, shaking his hand. " After I met everybody, I took a seat on the far end next to Sabine and in front of Alex.

Sometime later

All of us were eating dinner now, and the food here was good. I also got to know everybody else during our time as we ate dinner, and had a good time with these people, especially Sabine and Alex because we were all around the same age group as it was revealed, and those two in particular made my welcome in the Rebellion motor club more great.

"So, anymore plans for tonight, guys?" I asked the table. "Not much. Probably just might take it easy for the most part." Kanan answered. "Or we could take a night drive with our new man here." Alex suggested. "Good idea, Alex. I could also use a night drive now that you mentioned it." Sabine responded. "We'll take a vote here. Who is up for a night drive?" Kanan asked us. We rose our hands to say yes, and it was decided that after dinner we would take a ride the six of us. For me, I saw it as an opportunity to test myself against these drivers, and I was definitely ready for a challenge alright.

After we ate dinner, and payed the check, we left the restaurant, where it was already dark outside. "So where are we gonna be driving to?" Zeb asked. "I'm thinking from here to Long Beach." Kanan said. "I think that'll do it." Hera agreed, with everybody else nodding in agreement. I honestly was okay with anywhere, just as long as I'm getting the opportunity to have these other drivers eat my dust.

"Alright, crew, to Long Beach it is. Mark the route on your phones and get in our rides." Kanan told us, all of us getting the route up from here to Long Beach, and getting into our cars. I entered my Skyline, Kanan got in his Mustang, Sabine got in her Mercedes, Alex got in his Challenger, Hera got in her Aston Martin, and Zeb entered his Raptor. We started our rides, and headed to the stop light on the other side of the road.

The formation went like so when we arrived at the stop light: it was Kanan and Hera up front in the first row, Sabine and Alex in front of me in the second row, and me and Zeb were in the third row, and we were now waiting for the light to turn green. Sensing that it may be turning green, the two cars in the very front started burning out, followed by Alex and Sabine's cars, and followed by my car and Zeb's.

When the light turned green, we were on our way.