Disclaimer : I do not own Oban star racers or Molly star racer or anything to do with Oban in general so please don't sue.

Once Again

Chapter 1

Morning Molly

The morning sun broke through the curtains of a large mansion house, bathing the sleeping girl within with its golden rays. She groaned as the light penetrated her eyes and through a pillow in the direction of the window.

" stupid sun! waking me up when I've got nothing to do all day grrrr……….." She sat up suddenly, eyes wide as she remembered what day it was. She jumped from her bed and raced over to her vanity, rummaging through her draws she found the outfit she was looking for and quickly pulled it on before sitting before the mirror. Slightly out of breath from her hurried dressing she surveyed her waist length black and red hair and pulled out her hairbrush. As she brushed, her eyes wondered to the dog tags hung over the mirror. A soft smile graced her face as she realised, soon she would get to meet their owner. With a wistful sigh she positioned her goggles on top of her head and raced out the room.

As she raced through the halls she banged on several closed doors "get up losers we've got a test run to do" she shouted as she ran down the massive staircase and turned right into the garage. The hanger was huge, parts and tools lay everywhere and a large covered structure stood in the middle of the chaos.

Slowly she walked over to the racer and with a flourish removed the cover to reveal the Whizzing Arrow X1000.
"morning baby, today's the day" She whispered to the star racer as she ran her hand over the flawless finish. At that moment her trainer and mentor Dominic walked into the hanger, slightly dishevelled but with a bright smile on his face.
"Good morning Molly, you seem more hyper than usual this morning" he said good humouredly as he stifled a yawn. Molly ran towards him and through herself into his arms. He hugged her tightly, knowing that he was the closest thing to a father the young girl had ever had. "Where's Darren and John?" she questioned "I want to get this show on the road" she said determinedly as she leapt from his arms and punched the air enthusiastically.
"there on their way Molly, calm down" he pleaded as she ran round the hanger in a spectacular display of excitement, performing cart wheels and flips with ease. "but we don't have long" she cried, looking at her watch she said in a authoritarian tone "we only have five hours till the transport ship arrives"
Dom sighed in exasperation and turned to his computer equipment in the corner of the room. He brought up the invitation on the screen and motioned Molly over to read it.
"look at this Molly, its been 1000 years since the last competition and if you don't get it together we'll be out of the race before it even begins"
"fine" she huffed as he turned from the screen leaving the invitation on display. "I'll calm down"
"I'm going to make sure everything is packed and ready, try to stay out of trouble till John and D come down, ok"
"Yes sir" she said in a sarcastic tone as she gave him a mock salute.
With one last sigh he left the garage closing the door behind him.

Molly once again approached the computer and re-read the words on the screen, the words she'd read at least a hundred times since the invitation arrived.

The Avatar invites the Earth team to participate in the great race of oban. Transport ships with arrive at 2pm earth time to collect the team at the contact sight on the 3rd day of February. Only one team will be excepted from each planet so choose your participants carefully. The winner will receive the ultimate prize.

"A little less pompous than the last time" she though smugly. "Eva wrote that the Avatar was more big headed, but then again she always said Jordan was down to earth" The invitation did indeed fall short of the grand, snobby ways associated with the avatar. Just a simple e-mail to Wei Racing Industries headquarters was the only notification the earth team had received.

Molly was lost in thoughs of the great race when she absently put her hand to her throat. She was shocked to find for the first time she had forgotten to don the famous dog tags. "Its got to be a sign" she said quietly as she turned to leave the hanger.

Back in her room Molly removed the tags from there hanging place and pulled them on over her head. She searched the drawers of her bedside table and slid out a dog eared book with a plain black cover.

Opening the book carefully she read the name on the first page "Eva Wei"
The book she held in her hands was the only proof that the great race ever existed. A thousand years ago Eva Wei won the great race of oban for the earth team but was sworn to secrecy by the government. Never being very good at keeping a secret she wrote everything down so that next time, her prodigy would be prepared. And Molly Eva Wei was that prodigy, cloned from Eva's DNA five years after her return to earth and held in stasis till 16 years ago. Released from her frozen womb just in time to grow up and leave for oban to participate in a race that she knew was a lie.

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