Disclaimer: The following is a KhaosOmega fanfic. While the Amethyst Angel name and appearance are of my design, the girl portraying her, Anise Azeat, and the rest of the Rune Angels belong to BROCCOLI, while Need For Speed: Carbon belongs to EA. Please support the official release.
Chapter 1: Cross and the Angel
Scott's POV
I was driving along a cnayon road heading back to my hometown of Palmont City. It was just as i passed the sign indicating that ten miles were left when he showed up. Following me was a Chevrolet Corvette that i recognized. Cross had returned. He then proceeds to chase me along the road, finally pinning me in as my back end hits a truck behind me. Before i can escape, he cuts off my escape route - back the way i came. I don't end up managing to exit my BMW, either, as he slams the door before i can get out.
"Sit down. How ya been? It's about time we settled a little score from Rockport." Cross tells me. Then a female voice suddenly appears out of nowhere.
"Cross, is it? I take it you lost your job with the police so you became a bounty hunter." That was when i saw the owner of the voice. She was very beautiful, beating even Nikki. Her hair was a wine-red coloration with several pink highlights, in which was a ribbon on the right side, two bulbous hair clips, and a hairband embroidered with a flower on each side (though i could only see the one on the left as the ribbon was blocking the other one). As for her outfit, she was wearing a teal jacket with a golden X near the right shoulder over a turquoise top that exposed her shoulders, along with a one-ringed yellow miniskirt and cyan gloves. Completing the outfit was a pair of thigh high socks, white in color, and a pair of amethyst purple platform sandals. Surrounding her azure eyes was some jade green eyeshadow, and she was also wearing three pairs of hanging earrings. I recognize her easily, but Cross is clueless so i don't want to give away her identity. Then the Audi R8 shows up, with Darius at the wheel.
"I never asked for your help, Crogg. What makes you think you can bounty hunt in my territory without my permission?" Darius says to the bounty hunter. When i was younger i watched that one program, and it seems Darius triggered the most famous running gag from it as he got Cross' name wrong.
"It's Cross. And THIS guy's from out of town."
"So we meet again."
"All right Darius. I was expecting you to show up when i spotted Cross in Palmont. There's something i oughta tell Scott here about that night four years ago, but let's wait until Nikki shows up. I'm sure she'll switch targets once she hears about it."
'She knows.' i heard Darius think in my head as this girl had Psychic powers. Then a Ford GT turned up. It was Nikki. She promptly barreled for me but Darius held her up.
"I was waiting for ya, Nikki. There's something you and Scott here should know about that night four years ago. Darius here was the mastermind that switched the prize bags, alerted the cops, and effectively chased Scott out of Palmont. I figured there'd be a confrontation as i saw Scott being chased by Cross from well in the air as i can control gravity itself without one of those Gravity Control bands, so i thought you two should know." The redhead said. This effectively caused Nikki to turn around and she promptly nailed Darius one across the face.
"What are you, Psychic?" Darius asked. Moments later Nikki and Cross had embarrassed looks on their faces as Darius' pants had mysteriously fallen on their own; i had a feeling the redhead used her powers to do that.
"Actually, yes." With that, Darius left looking embarrassed, Cross left after hearing of a different bounty somewhere else, and i walked into Nikki's GT as my BMW was totaled thanks to that truck.
"Just so you two know, i have a set of six wingmen waiting for me at that safehouse near the interstate. I've got some pretty good teamwork with them despite a rough start with one of them. I'll see you guys later if i get a chance." the redhead told me, then disappeared with two fingers from one hand on her forehead.
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Palmont City Interstate Safehouse, a minute later
Anise's POV
It's a good thing i can recognize my Rune Angel teammates' power levels. Instant Transmission only works when there's a familiar power level the user can lock on to at the intended destination. Once i had left Scott and Nikki using the maneuver, i was in the safehouse near the interstate within a minute. Then i spotted my teammates with the Rune Angels. I almost failed to recognize Rico without her hair ribbons, as i had suggested so any enemies wouldn't easily recognize her first sight. Of my six teammates Lily, a dark-blue-haired twenty-one-year-old, and the age twenty-three (as of last week) Marjoram girls were old enough to know how to drive cars in the real world, unlike where we were currently. In the real world i'm talking about, people have to at least be sixteen in order to legally learn how to drive (i was a year older while Rico was one younger) and a license was needed. Well, this world was full of crew street races, so i thought my crew-mates would be my Rune Angel teammates. I had more experience working with them for six wingmen total, whereas in XQ i almost exclusively worked with the two girls i could combine with to create XQ's ultimate weapon.
Part of this safehouse was exclusively for our cars, so i decided to look at them. The first vehicle bore a number one and was orange in color - Rico's car, a Porsche Carrera GT. Next to it was Tequila's violet-silver Ford GT, numbered 4. Then it was the pearl-pink Lamborghini Murcielago numbered six that had been Natsume's choice. Beside that was Lily's dark-blue Mercedes SLR, a red number 2 on both doors. After that was Kahlua's lime green Nissan 350Z, without a number. Nano-Nano's car, a sky-blue Dodge Challenger numbered three, was next to last in the line of seven cars. The last of them was my amethyst-purple Chevy Corvette Z06, numbered 07 as an XQ reference instead of my Rune Angel designation number of 5. Tomorrow, we would start to take over Palmont for Scott.
