Stanton steamer
chapter 1
Five foot six inches, brown hair, blue eyes, and Jean overalls. Stanton Steamer Peeves, Stan, was a normal boy for his age. he helped his dad in his restoration business, went to school, and had a girlfriend. He just turned 18 and had his driver's license, but however, had no car. That is until his life plummeted off the mountain that is normalness.
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Stan, Stanton Steamer Peeves, sat at the kitchen table polishing the last piece of a cadillac carburetor that his dad had asked him to clean for his restoration business. Stan, a fan of old junk and machines didn't really mind the work on the carburetor. But something was going on that day, he immediately knew however, that he was in for something when he got home earlier and found both of his parents carefully watching him. His dad looking over the newspaper that had headlines screaming:Tree of solid ice forms over Memorial Park!, and mother cleaning up after dinner.
"Hey Stan, will you please go to the garage and get me that lawn mower float carb." his dad suddenly asked as he folded his newspaper and watched stan as he walked over to the table.
"Sure." Stan replied casually as he put down the carburetor and walked to the garage. But as he opened the door, his eyes widened in surprise as he saw his favorite style car. A Stanton steam car, with a sign on it saying, Happy Birthday!, even though it was a little odd looking.
"We thought that, since you have a license and it was your birthday last week, we should get you your own car." His father said with a smile as he stepped out of the house and walked over to stan. "You're going to have to restore it on your own though. I will not help you at all."
"Thanks Dad! he said with a huge grin on his face as he looked over the car.
"So, where did you get it, and for how much?"
"At the junkyard and free. The junkyard man wanted it gone, even though it's in good shape. Said something about it being possessed by ghosts." his dad explained as Stan stood by him, looking at the car.
"I have never seen a design like this before, it has no gas tank, so it doesn't use fuel, and it has a bunch of add-ons. And I definitely feel like it's watching me." Stan told his dad quietly while they both scrutinized the car. He kept getting a spooked feeling from the car, like it was watching him with it's big gas headlights.
"Well, I'll leave you to it then." his father said as he suddenly turned around and walked away.
"Thanks for the help." Stan muttered sarcastically as he walked over to the car and pushed it into a garage behind their three story house. When his father had moved his restoration business home, stan had claimed the two story garage as his own. He also had his own workshop in half of the garage, complete with cair hoist and sand/paint booth, while his room was in the attic. The unique garage also had a basement that was filled with his tools and machines. It was also connected to the basement of the house by a tunnel. Over all, he had a good business going and was very happy.
"Now, let's see what your underside looks like." Stan said as he finished rolling the car onto the hoist and cranked it high into the air. The car's underside was dirty as could be, and a complex confusion of pipes, shafts, and transmissions. suddenly, he spotted something unusual.
"You have three engines, and a turbine, not to mention three transmissions. One for slow speed, one for power, and one for racing. Why are you built like this?" he mused while power washing the bottom of the car. As he continued to wash, he accidentally hit the front wheel well with the pressure washer, and shouted as the car wheel flattened to the top of the wheel well as though trying to stop the water from hitting that spot. Surprised, stan stopped washing and the wheel sank back down. But, when he continued again, as soon as the spray hit the well, the wheel went up and blocked it.
'Huh, must be ticklish.' he thought jokingly after spraying several times with the same effect. Suddenly stan got an evil idea, raising the spray tip into the well, he pulled the trigger and the wheel shot up again, but couldn't stop the spray. As the water continued to hit, the car started to shake horribly as though trying to hold in laughter. Thinking he had done enough, stan stopped and a groan came from the car, sounding like a sigh of relief. Lowering the car back down, stan noticed the time and was surprised, it was late at night. Sighing, Stan closed and locked the garage door and did the same for the basement door. Passing by the car one last time while heading to bed, stan did a double take as the cover for one of the front lights closed and opened, fast like a wink.
"I must be more tired than I thought, cars don't wink at you." stan muttered as he went to bed. However, ten minutes later stan woke up to a loud bellowing whistle below him. Covering his ears, he walked down to the garage and saw the 11 inch brass whistle bellowing on the car. But as he walked up to it it died down till it stopped. Fed up, he grabbed a wrench from his desk and pried the brass whistle off. Then, he stomped back upstairs and fell into his bed. After a few moments of peace, stan heard a rumble from below him as steam came out of the whistle pipe hard enough to shake his floorboards.
'This is the payback I get for tickling that d*** of a machine.' Stan thought as he realised this was going to be a long night.
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Saturday, two days after the car had kept him up all night, Stan finished polishing the last of the brass on the car, and stood in front of it admiring his handy work. Before he started restoring, the car looked like it had been through a war. Now, the round boiler in the front was painted night black with golden pinstriping around the edges of the face, funnel, and dome, and had a license plate screwed to the front. The body of the car was painted racing red, with more pinstriping around the edges, and the big brass whistle and gas headlights polished till they shone like gold. Stan Also had taken the time to clean the inside and paint the under-carriage black.
Stan couldn't help but smile when his dad walked out the back door and did a double take at the shining car. Completely dumbfounded that his son turned the battered thing to this in only three days.
"S-so Stan, are you going to show Amy your new car?" his father asked him once he snapped out of staring at the car's transformation.
"Today's Saturday, I made a date with her to go to the racing convention." he said as he walked over to the door and sat down in the driver's seat with the keys.
"Well try not to get into a street race with it, it looks like it will break if you did." his father told him as he turned the key, and all the gages lit up as steam flowed to the electrical turbine.
"Will do!" he yelled as he put the car into gear and slowly guided it out of the garage, chugging down the street while using the first transmission.
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Amy Corporal lived on the other side of town in a two story duplex. Standing outside, she was surprised to see a bright red car drive up next to her and stop. Whoever it was they had a nice car even though it looked weird.
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"Hey Amy! How do you like my car?" stan asked as he rolled down the window.
"This is your car?!" Amy asked in surprise as she opened the door.
"Yep, got it three days ago from the junkyard." stan said as he pulled away and headed for the convention.
"Three days!" Amy said shocked as she looked at the richly decorated car.
"Yeah, and it doesn't need to refuel either." stan added.
"So...What does it run on?" Amy asked, curious.
"I don't know. the junk man said it was haunted when my dad picked it up…and I'm beginning to believe him." stan replied skeptically.
"So, then how is it haunted?" Amy asked as she directed stan onto the road for the convention.
"Well… when I was power washing the underside, and I stuck the tip of the wash under the fender and the car shook like someone trying to hold back laughter." stan said as he traveled slowly down the dirt road.
"And watch what happens when I let go of the wheel on the road." stan said as he let go and the wheel drove along by itself.
"Amazing." Amy said as they slowly made their way through the cars. As they worked their way past, many people stopped and stared at the strange car in the midst of the race cars.
Then, they saw a man in a neon white shirt wave them to stop next to a parked, black street racing car.
"Hey. This aria is closed to the public, Miguel stereo is here to see our event and brought his street car. The fastest one in the nation, right next to you. So you have to move." the man said to them excitedly as he pointed to the black car beside them.
"Wow! I can't wait to meet him!" Amy squealed in delight next to stan.
"But we always park up here." stan said irritated as he pointed to the crowd.
"Well, not any more." the man told him rudely, angering stan.
"Fine… I'll go find a different spot." stan replied through clenched teeth. Sticking the car into reverse, stan baked slowly back by the black car. But as they passed, to both of their surprise, the passenger side mirror extended out and scratched along the shining black car, making a high pitched squealing sound. By the time stan stopped the car, the mirror retracted and left the large scratch along the side.
"What have you done to my car!" a man dressed in black clothes said as he raced over to the black car and looked at the scratch.
"Sorry! it was a-" was all stan got out before the man looked at him and said, "This is unacceptable! You, Me, race, no back out! The winner gets both cars!"
suddenly, the crowd gathered around them and pushed them to the start of the track.
"This is a twenty mile track! First one to the end wins." the man in the neon white shirt yelled as the black car settled next to them.
"Stan! What are we going to do?" Amy asked nervously next to him as the light counted down.
"Amy! I'm not going to lose this car." stan said defiantly as he prepared to race against the nation's fastest car. Suddenly, a second seat belt whipped out of the seats and hooked to the others, making racing belts for each of them as the light hit three.
Suddenly, as the light turned green and stan reached for the shifter, the shifter shifted to fifth gear on its own and two more shifters appeared out of the floor. stan grabbed the second one and put the peddle to the floor as they raced to catch up to the other car that was already ahead of them. Quickly shifting through the second transmission, they caught up to the black car as they passed four miles. then, as stan reached the end of the second transmission, a light on the dash blinked. It said: Warning Turbine activation imminent.
'What the heck?' stan thought, just as the boiler on the front of the car exploded forward about five feet, and a second funnel rose out of the boiler. Suddenly, the car lurched forward as both stacks poured steam into the air.
"uh, Stan?!" Amy cried as the third shifter hit second gear without stan controlling it and the car sped past the black race car.
"Hello Stanton and Amy!" they suddenly heard blare over the radio as it suddenly flipped on by itself.
"What the heck?" stan asked as the shifter hit third and they shot forward again.
"Now I like to thank both of you for saving me. I thought I was going to be stuck in this form forever. But now I have a chance to die in my world. The only side effect you will both have my powers and their side effects!" the radio said happily as the shifter shifted again, with only two gears left.
"Yeah, but the end of the track has a sheer cliff face!" Amy yelled in terror as the shifter went to the next gear.
"Don't worry! When we hit fifth gear, we will travel to my world!" the radio said just as they hit the final gear and everything turned white.
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