It was quiet and calm in Propwash Junction. The sky was clear, with soft noise of the breeze blowing through the trees and the warm rays of sunshine that fell down on the lush green grass like a warm blanket.

A perfect day for doing air tricks...

*ZOOM!*

Natalia soared through the skies, with her speed leaving a stream of small clouds trailing behind her. She prepared herself for another air trick that she was going to perform. With her engines whirring, she prepared to do perform her tricks.

"I call this, the spiral dip!" she said out loud to herself as she started to dip down, with the wind around her was whistling as her speed grew. She started to turn slowly, and then she started to spin faster and faster, closer and closer to the ground that was laid out before her.

"Okay… pull up Talia, in three…two…one… NOW!" Just as she was just a few meters above the ground, she immediately pulled up, making the grass below her rush with the wild wind and to startle some of the nearby planes and cars. She laughed in excitement and as she flew back up into the sky again, as two planes from below were watching her.

"Who was that?" Sapphire questioned to her older sister plane, Crystal. Crystal turned to look up at the direction of the zooming plane. She gave out a warm smile.

"That's Natalia Romanowski, a Russian race plane..." She replied to her younger sister plane.

"Oh… hey! Isn't she related to the well known Russian Bomber plane that just moved in Propwash junction a few weeks ago?"

" If you are talking about Sir Dimitri Romanowski, then yes she is his daughter…"

"Oh… Okay…" Sapphire replied back as she got back to whatever she was doing.

In the skies, Natalia had already done a few tricks. She got out from her shed early in the morning and flew around all morning just to try some moves that she had dreamt up last night. She was about to do the 'Sonic Boom spin' When a voice called out in her radio speaker system.

"Natalia, where are you now? And what are you doing?" The voice crackly static voice called out. It was her father.

" Oh! Um, hello father! I was just…"

"Are you doing your air tricks again?"

"Uh… Yes? "

"Well, I need you down here in on our front runway because I need some help from you, okay?"

"Okay…"

"Good… Sir Romanowski signing off! " He declared before cutting off. Natalia sighed as she flew down back to her shed.

"Okay father I'm here, what is it that you need help with?" Natalia questioned as she pulled up to face her him.

"Hm? Oh yes…" His gaze that was looking elsewhere was now facing his daughter with a warm smile.

"Natalia, I want you to fly over to see Dottie and tell her that we have guests coming over to our shed and that we need her help, I have some work to do so could you do that for me please?

"Yep, I'll go!" Natalia was about to leave when she turned back to her father.

"Who's coming?" She asked

"The Racer planes that competed in the 'Wings around the Globe' event, remember them?" As soon as Natalia heard 'Wings around the globe' she stopped in her tracks her blue eyes grew wide in surprise.

" The racers…You mean?"

" Yes the racers, Ishani, El Chupacabra, Rochelle…" Sir Romanowski was going through a list of names of the planes that had competed in the event.

" Bulldog, Tsubasa, Ripslinger…" As he said the last name, Natalia's engines bubbled with excitement. Her system was full of thoughts about her racing idol.

"Oh My Gosh Ripslinger is coming! He was once the champion racer plane in the world! He was the plane that had inspired me to do air tricks and strive to be the best! I can't believe he is actually flying over to Propwash Junction to our place!" Natalia was in a deep daydream mode that she didn't even hear her father calling her for three times.

"Natalia?, Natalia?, Natalia Romanowski?" He called out to her and finally caught his daughter's attention.

"Hm? Oh! Sorry father! What were you saying again?" She said shyly and lightly scolded herself for being a total idiot.

"You better find Dottie, Dusty will be flying to pick up the guests…"

"Oh! Right! Bye!" She called out as she moved down the runway and flew away.

Meanwhile, Dusty was on his way to a city outside of Propwash where his friends and all the other racers were waiting. When he landed, there were already so many cars and planes that were taking photos of the racers, Paparazzi's, fans, news reporters and so on. One car turned around to face Dusty and called everyone out.

"Hey guys! It's Crophopper!" As the car exclaimed, others turn to his direction and started taking photos of dusty while a news reporter drove up to him and told the cameras to start rolling.

"And here were reporting live right here and right now with Dusty on our side! So Dusty! What's the special occasion?" The car reporter questioned as everyone waited excitedly for an answer.

"Uh… I am here on a mission for a friend…" He stated.

"Oh! And who is this friend of yours may I ask?"

"Natalia Romanowski..."

"You hear that folks?! The Daughter of Sir Dimitri Romanowski has asked this racer for help!" The reporter exclaimed. One car with a microphone went up to dusty to ask something.

"Mr Crophopper! Would you be kind to tell us what Miss Romanowski asked you to do?" the car asked.

"Natalia just asked me to pick up…" Dusty was about to finish his sentence when he heard a female, but recognizable voice call out.

"Dusty? Is that you?" The voice called out. He turned behind him to find his friends behind him, El Chu, Rochelle, Bulldog and the plane that called out to him, Ishani.

"Guys! You're here!" Dusty says with surprise and happiness in his tone. Ishani went forward and gave him a warm smile.

"Well of course we are here! We all wanted to see you! Right everyone?" The others nodded in approval. Dusty gave them all a kind smile.

"Hey, thanks…" Then his smile faded and turned into a look of concern. "Wait, if all the other racers are invited… that means…" Dusty was surprised when he heard another voice call out.

"Hey kid…" Dusty turned around and saw a plane with colours of green and black and flames painted on his side. Dusty Immediately recognize the plane.

"Oh…It's you Ripslinger…" He says with a little bit of annoyance in his tone.

"Why is he here?" El Chu Commented.

" He's here because he was invited too, the invitation says that ALL racers that were in the wings around the globe race were invited…" Rochelle spoke up, then rolled up in front of Ripslinger.

"Even if they were dirty cheaters who just go over the limits to win…" Rochelle says with slight anger showing.

"Hey c'mon now, I get enough hate already. The huge majority of my fans have all left me and the only planes I have that still support me are Ned and Zed…Happy?" Ripslinger said sarcastically.

"Fair enough… But it still won't change my mind to make me feel sympathetic for you…"

"Um guys? We have to go; now, Sir Romanowski is going to be waiting for us…" Dusty reminded them.

"Yes my friend! Let's fly away!" El Chu Exclaimed with a heap of enthusiasm as he flew off.

"Hey El Chu Wait for us!" Dusty called out to him as he followed after him with the rest of the racers following too. The Paparazzi and the fans, seeing that the racers have started to leave, followed after them to get a good scoop

*Timeskip to the Afternoon*

Everyone who was living in propwash were busy decorating the whole place, little cars and planes running about and hanging lights and some went into their shops and turned on their neon signs, seeing that this was probably a great opportunity to get customers to buy their goods.

"Thank you so much for helping Dottie! I really appreciate it!" Natalia says as she gave the little blue forklift a warm smile.

"Hey, No Problem, a friend of Dusty is also a friend of mine…" Dottie replied as she put up the last of the decorations. Natalia Turned to Chug, who was also helping out.

"And thank you too Chug…" She gave him a warm smile.

"Aw, don't mention it!" Chug happily replied. Just as Natalia was about to leave, She saw her father just arriving, looking quite polished.

"Natalia, get polished and meet us at propwash's big runway so we can wait for the guests to arrive, okay?"

"Okay! I'll be quick!" Natalia says as she flew off to her shed.

*Timeskip later*

Dottie was trying to find chug. He just seemed to have disappeared after he had finished putting up the decorations. She turned a corner of a house when she spotted him drinking some fuel that she had prepared as snacks for the party.

"Chug!" Chug gave a startled squeak and turned to Dottie with a guilty look on his face.

"For flying out loud Chug, those were for the party…" Dottie sighed in exhaustion and a slight hint of annoyance.

"Sorry, I was hungry and I couldn't wait for dusty to arrive…"

"No it's okay… just don't drink the whole batch would you? We need to save some for Dusty!" Dottie's annoyed tone turned into a laugh.

"Now c'mon! Dusty could be arriving any minute now!" She exclaimed as she and Chug proceeded to move to Propwash's Big Runway.

"Can you see them?" A curious car asked.

"Nah, I can't see them…" Another car asked.

Everyone in Propwash had gathered around the big runway. Even the Fans and Paparazzi that were in the city had drove or flew all the way to Propwash to see the racers. Just when they were about to leave, a little girl car started making honking noises.

"Hey! Look! I see something shiny in the sky!" She pointed out. Other cars and planes turned to the direction of the little girl and looked up into the sky. Just as the little girl car had said, a brief flash of metal reflecting of the sunlight could be seen. Then, there were more flashes of metal light in the sky, followed by the faint sound of propellers whirring.

"Hey! It's them!" A car shouted out. Paparazzi already began taking pictures at the sky whenever they say a flash of metal. As the figures in the sky grew closer to the ground, they could make out the shapes of some of the racers.

The racer planes had landed on the runway, and came to a steady stop. Papparazzi and fans immediately started to crowd around them, wanting to get a glimpse of the flying celebrities.

Dusty was a bit startled at first to be immediately swarmed with camera flashes, but got used to it quickly. He was looking through the crowd, trying to find his best friends until he heard a voice called to him.

"Dusty! Dusty over here!" Dusty turned to the direction of the voice and saw a little blue with a green fuel truck next to her. He smiled at the sight of them.

"Dottie! Chug!" He greeted them with happiness.

"Hey Dusty! How's your engine? Is it fine? Did you manage to top up your fuel before you went?" Chug questioned him, his 'worrying mother' personality kicking in. Dusty managed to give out a laugh.

"I'm fine Chug, and you?"

"Never been better!" He replied cheerfully. Dusty turned to Dottie. "And you Dottie?"

"Same here…" was her response. Dusty smiled at the thought of spending time with his friends. He then suddenly remembered something.

"Hey, where's Natalia?" He asked.

"Oh, she just went to her shed to get polished…" Dottie stated.

"Oh… well if she was here, she would really flip out internally when she sees Ripslinger!" Dusty laughed a little, which caused Chug and Dottie to laugh too.

"Yeah, she tries to keep her admiration of Ripslinger to herself, but I founded out a few days ago when I drove into her shed and saw talking about him to herself.

"What are we talking about?" The trio turned around and found Natalia with a confused look engraved on her features. Her Eyes widened with surprise when she saw Dusty.

"Dusty! It's so good to see you!" She greeted the crop duster with cheerfulness.

"Yeah, You too Natalia!" Dusty Smiled at her. Then out of the blue, her shy personality gave out in a burst.

"So! Let's get this party started!" She shouted out. They couldn't have agreed more.

The huge party was going smoothly. Everyone was having to time of their lives, drinking fuel, talking, dance moves. It was the talk of the town and it even made it on TV. Everyone was letting it go and having fun.

Except for Ripslinger…

Ripslinger had brought Ned and Zed along with him. He stayed there waiting for someone to strike up a conversation with some planes or cars, but nobody would want to talk to a prideful cheater like him. Even if cars bothered to talk to him, they would only be asking him where dusty or the others racers were so they could get their autograph. He found it a bit unfair that cars were talking to Ned and Zed, but not him.

"Why would they? Nobody would want to have anything to do with a plane who showed up on the news and labled as a 'Dirty rotten no good prideful' plane…" He continued to mope about how hard and unfair his life was right now, not realising a female Russian plane was watching him from afar.

"OH MY GOSH! RIPSLINGER IS HERE! WHAT SHOULD I DO!? SHOULD I TALK TO HIM? UGH JUST GOING UP TO HIM JUST MAKES ME BLUSH! MAYBE I SHOULD ASK HIM FOR AN AUTOGRAPH…YES! I WILL!" Natalia squealed internally as she mustered up as much courage as she could to go up to the racing plane.

"Um hi… can I…" She was about to finish her sentence when he cut her off.

"Look, if you wanna get an autograph from Dusty, he's over at the snack table." He stated with annoyance hiding in his tone.

"Um… I was actually… wondering if I could get an autograph… from you…" Natalia replied shyly. She was trying very hard to hide her blush and to keep her engine cool.

"Oh…" Ripslinger looked taken aback by that response, but managed a tiny smile. "Sure…" He sighed. As Natalia goy her autograph, she couldn't help but let out a tiny squeal.

"Thankyou…" She replied with the sweetest voice he ever heard, and then went off. Just as he was watching her leave, he saw a mysterious dark painted plane that had some sort of strange looking device strapped to his wing. The plane was eyeing Natalia as he was about to press the button.

"Hey lady! Look out!" He yelled out. The whole party went silent and turned to look at Ripslinger.

But it was too late…

The Plane pressed the button on the device and it started to glow. Multiple beams of light Shot out from it and started randomly flying erratically around the party. One of the lights hit a random plane, and he started to glow blue and dissapeared into light.

Natalia watched in horror as chaos started to erupt, with cars and planes trying to get away. Some to the lights attacked the racers, Dusty, Ishani, Rochelle.

"What's happening!?" Dusty Exclaimed in fear as he saw that his wings where starting to disappear into light. He say that the same thing was happening to his friends.

Natalia looked around to see if anyone was okay. She heard an angry and frightened yell and turned around to see it come from her father. A Glowing blue light was hurtling towards him.

"FATHER! NO!" She Screamed as she speeded towards him. Just as the light was a meter away from him, She stopped abruptly in front of him and took the blow. She felt suddenly felt her engines start to boil and grow hotter and the surroundings around her glowing brighter in blue.

"NATALIA!" She heard her father call out to her.

"I-I'm sorry father…" She says in a weak voice.

Ripslinger who saw the whole thing happening, zoomed after the Russian female stranger plane, but felt himself been hit by something.

He looked at his wings and saw that they were glowing blue. The whole area of propwash was glowing in a bright blue light, brighter and brighter and the ringing noise that he heard was growing louder and louder.

Then, an explosion of blowing blinding blue light radiated throughout the whole area and the ringing noise was at its loudest.

Then everything turned black…