Chapter 1: The Chase Begins
I was driving along a winding canyon road, remembering the times I had years ago. The years before I became one of the most wanted. All the way back to the beginnings of my street racing career back in the city I was about to enter again: Palmont.
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I remembered one of my friends giving me the keys to his Toyota Supra, telling me to not screw up again. I nodded back then, and drove to the race.
Getting there, I found they were about to start already, with my girlfriend there as the race starter. She held up a red bag, and then she raised her hands, dropping her arms after a quick 2 seconds, and we all took off.
My car ended up getting off the line last, but I quickly made up that time in the first corner, with a Dodge Charger falling off into a reservior in front of me. I then used nitrous to pass most of the other drivers, and the next corner, I took the lead. I held that lead through the next several corners, and then suddeny a lightning beam struck across the track, hitting all the cars behind me, stopping them dead.
Cops began to pile up behind them, and I took off. I stopped next to Nikki, she giving me the bag, telling me to go. I took off, with the message to leave the city by my earlier friend, Darius. I listened. That's how my adventure at Rockport started, and ended with me leaving the city in the end also.
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I heard a car starting to scream through the corners behind me, a Corvette soon catching up to me. The Corvette suddenly hit me in the rear, making me nearly lose control. Instinctively I hit the gas, hearing a voice yell from the Corvette, "Guess who's back!"
Sergeant Cross.
I just went as fast I could possibly go, knowing he was now officially not a cop, since the Corvette was not with the normal Cross decals of his Rockport car. This Cross wanted to kill me! I just wildly drove through these canyon roads, with Cross in hot pursuit of me. A construction site was ahead ofme, I just barreled through, hitting the brakes suddenly when I saw an 18-wheeler blocking the road. I tapped the back end of it, the pipes falling off the back end, but I didn't escape in time because Cross blocked me from getting away. I tried to open my door, but he jumped form his car and shut my dorr. "Sit down! How's it feel?"
He didn't get to continue, since 2 cars pulled up and 4 people got out. Darius. "Hey Croc! I never said you could bounty hunt in Silvertown, did I?"
"The name's Cross, and this kid's from outta town!"
"Oh, it's you. Take care of him." Darius nodded to one of his goonies, and Cross left to talk with him. A Ford GT pulled up, and Nikki got out. She turned angry ASAP, and said, "Why you, why'd you come back her- let me go!"
"Calm down." Darius said, thinking. "Hmm, maybe you can show him the ropes."
"Are you crazy?" At that moment, Cross was in his Corvette and he left.
"You got a better idea?" Darius replied.
To be continued...