A lonely young tuner tries to escape the realm of rule-breaking tuners and Boost his 'fellow-model'. Hope you enjoy! Please read and review.

Disclaimer: I don't own Cars or the canon characters from the movie. They are © to Disney and Pixar. I only own the Mitsubishi Eclipse Axel.


A dark night sky fill the expanse of the horizon, dotted with stars. The highway was very empty although occasional travelers passed. A lone silver Mitsubishi Eclipse ran along the highway cruising at a safe speed. He was young around 14 years only. Yet the reckless driving instinct of a Tuner has been washed out of him. The wind passing through swiftly and smoothly over his streamlined body. He was a tuner alright. The spoiler on his back pushing his body firmly on the ground.

He was a tuner but alone compared to the others that go in packs. He would have been with his kind. But the thing was almost all the other tuners were bad. Sure they were probably good when they were kids. Now all of them broke the speed limits were out doing bad.

He was alone now. Isolated from all the other Tuners. A smile played on his lips. This was what he liked, the wind in his face, no taunts from his fellow tuners.

"Hey, Axel! What are you doing here?" A voice called from behind him. He sighed as he looked back to see that Boost was approaching fast from behind. The purple glow from under his chassis was too distinct to mistake for another Eclipse. This was Boost alright. "This is our turf."

"I'm just passing through, Boost." Axel replied in a monosyllabic tone. His eyes trained forward. He especially didn't like Boost who was his fellow-model. He was always being annoyed because of being the same model as Boost except that he didn't race.

"Yeah! That's what they all say." Boost aligned himself up with Axel so they were side by side. Axel pushed forward but Boost followed his movement.

"Come on. Let me pass." Axel pleaded as he pushed forward again, only getting the same result.

"You have to race me." He said triumphantly, "And beat me first!" His eyes glowing with enthusiasm and determination. Axel gave a sigh knowing he would have no other choice.

"Alright you win!" Axel closed his eyes. A strong rumble came from his dual exhaust pipe and loud roar came from his engine. When he opened his eyes, blue neon lights gleamed from beneath his body. He was in his complete Tuner form.

Boost had to blink in disbelief. This wasn't the Axel he knew. The Axel he knew was very proper, kind, friendly, and all that. Now he was seeing an import that had the appearance of complete racer within. He grinned mischievously.

"3, 2, 1," He counted down fast and a split second before go his tires squealed as he shouted, "GO!" Axel was shocked with the sudden cheat. He roared and followed quickly with a downshift. He pulled ahead of Boost. Boost looked at him while Axel cast a sideward glance at Boost. Boost pulled forward with a noisy roar. Axel up shifted and pulled calmly ahead of Boost.

Boost was thrilled, yet worried at the same time. He was happy that Axel was giving him a wonderful race, but on the other hand his rep was going to be damaged if he lost. He pulled ahead of the other young Eclipse and turned into an exit.

Axel followed suit not paying attention to the signs. He weaved his way here and there through the traffic and turned into the exit. Boost was a little ways off and all the way ahead he could see a T-junction where Boost already has took a turn to the right.

"Haha!" Boost laughed, "Take that turn trying to catch me, kid!" He slowed a bit to see how Axel would handle this.

Axel accelerated constantly. He knew what to do hoping that it would just be clear of traffic. As he approached the T-junction he pushed on the brake, swerved to the right, pulled the handbrake making his rear end slide out. And now he counter-steered towards the left. He was in a drift through the T-junction, leveled out as he passed Boost and slowed down.

"There!" Axel said sternly as he let Boost approach. He wasn't too happy to have won but there. Now Boost must leave him alone. Axel turned off his neon lights and waited for Boost.

"You gave me a scratch!" Boost shouted angrily as he rammed into Axel's left side.

Axel was pushed off the road and started to slip on the dirt. When he got back on the road Boost nudged him back off the road and when Axel went off his front right tire blew up as it hit a rock and the wheel rim cracked. He tried to turn frantically to the left. His front right axel was broken and felt very painful but he still tried to get on the road. Just then he saw a tree up ahead. He tried turning and pushing some more to get out of the way but the damage couldn't take the turn. He closed his eyes just before he crashed into the tree. He had turned a bit during his attempt so only his right front bumper hit, but from the speed he had he flipped over and crashed upside-down then tumbled over landing right side up.

He struggled to see ahead of him. Boost was laughing as he sped off but stopped laughing as he was being chased by a police car. "Have… fun… Boost…" Axel said as he fell off into unconsciousness. Just as he did, he left his hazards on.