Disclaimer: The following is a KhaosOmega fanfic. Though 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 Electronic Arts. Please support the official release.
Chapter 2: Meeting the Crews
Anise's POV
Well, when morning hit me and Lily proceeded to drive our way into the Kempton area. Along the way we decided to enter one of the races in the Morgan Beach section. With Lily acting as a blocker i easily won the race. During the race, though, my radio went off.
"Anise, i've got the info on the Kempton area. Resident crew is the 21st Street Crew, with Angie as leader. They mainly focus on muscle cars like your Corvette for their rides, so you might have a hard time outrunning them from a standstill. As for Angie, she has a tendency to use the various shortcuts to traverse a racetrack. Be careful."
"Thanks, Natsume." With the info on my opposition in Kempton i was ready to decimate the muscle car loving crew. But i had to tell Angie what i told Nikki and Scott last night, and expecting Angie to introduce herself after the race i had the perfect opportunity to tell her. Sure enough, Angie did cut me off as i proceeded to head around part of Kempton. Two Chrysler 300Cs were blocking my way and Angie, driving a Dodge Charger R/T, lined her driver-side window with mine.
"So you're the one who got Scott and Nikki back together."
"Yeah. It was because i revealed Darius as the mastermind of what transpired that night four years ago after living the events through my Psychic powers. Tell Wolf and Kenji that bit when you get a chance." i told her. She quickly activated her radio.
"Kenji, it's Angie. There's a red-haired Psychic girl in an amethyst purple Corvette who told me that Darius caused the chaos at the end of the race when Scott left town four years ago. Her powers had her live the events so she could let us know what caused everything that night."
"ANGIE! What are you doing on my radio?" Kenji asked. I heard him because he was broadcasting on an open channel. Wolf seemed to relay my thoughts to him through his own radio.
"KENJI, YOU'RE ON AN OPEN CHANNEL AGAIN!" Wolf yelled.
"Darn it, why do i keep doing that?"
"You're not the only one, Kenji. Epsilon of Team Vexus kept doing just that during her Magma days."
"Wait, you know someone from Team Vexus?"
"Yeah. Had a lot of run-ins with that team of now eight girls, so i know them quite well. It was me who set the chain of events that led to Alpha finally being broken into action. You and Wolf just follow my power level to where Angie currently has me held up with a two-car blockade. My power level's impossible to miss, as it's fourteen digits XZ."
"I'll just follow the five vehicles that seem to have left a safehouse-like building and appear to be headed just that direction." Wolf said.
"And i'll just follow the TFK Aston Martin DB9 that just nearly cut me off."
"Why didn't ya tell me you were there, Kenji?"
"I didn't know you were there until the last second myself, Wolf."
It took about ten minutes before Wolf and Kenji, along with my Rune Angel teammates that had left the safehouse, arrived at my location. I relayed my crucial info from that fateful night to the other leaders. Wolf happened to be standing inbetween Angie and Kenji when he saw a vehicle round a corner in his range of vision. There was a legitimate reason as to why he punched both other crew leaders on the arm.
"PUNCHBUG, NO RETURN!" The TFK crew leader had seen a Volkswagen Beetle, also referred to as a bug, from whence the Punchbug game originated. Kenji was looking around wildly trying to find the vehicle, but Angie took the punch the wrong way.
"WOLF! You don't hit a girl!"
"It was a Punchbug."
"A what?"
"In other words, Angie, it was a Volkswagen Beetle."
"OH! Now i know what ya mean."
"I yelled Punchbug when i bopped you and Kenji. At least the Bushido leader got the right idea after i bopped him since he didn't see the vehicle before i did."
"PUNCHBUG, GREEN, NO RETURN!" Kenji yelled, bopping Angie on the arm before proceeding to do the same to Wolf, stating he forgot to call the color of the Beetle as a reason for ignoring his "no return" bit.
"My bad, Kenji. It's just i couldn't see the color from where i spotted it." Wolf told Kenji. The leader of the Bushido crew then looked at the vehicles of my teammates.
"Let's see here. We've got a Dodge Challenger, sky-blue with a number 3, an orange Porsche Carrera GT with the number 1, a Nissan 350Z, lime green with no number, a Ford GT, violet silver in color with a number 4, and a Lamborghini Murcielago of the pearl-pink coloration with a number 6. That dark-blue vehicle Angie's got blocked off near the far wall appears to be a Mercedes SLR, bearing a number 2 on the door. As for the Corvette, there's a - wait, why's the number 07 instead of 5? I can understand the lime green car being numberless, but why 07? Plus, the team logo on all seven cars appears to be a phoenix."
"You mean that bird that dies in a blaze and is reborn from the ashes?"
"Have you been reading that seven-book series about that boy with the lightning-scar on his forehead again, Wolf?"
"WHAT? I was off that day and i couldn't find anything to do so i just nabbed the first book i could reach and started reading. Why are you asking?"
"There's such a bird as the pet of this one guy in there. Winds up -"
"Don't give me any spoilers, Kenji."
"The kind that tells you what'll happen in a certain story or the kind that goes on the back of a car?"
"That would be the former, Angie."
'What are the odds Jet was here recently? These guys are acting nuts talking about stuff completely unrelated to racing.' i thought.
"WAIT A MINUTE! The numbers on those cars, their colorations, and the fact they all have the same phoenix-like logo on the hood - we're dealing with the Rune Angels here."
"Wolf, did you just say what i think you said? Cause if it's the Rune Angels we're dealing with in those six cars we could pinpoint the link for the driver of each one, then that redhead must be..."
"Now i understand the purple color and the 07. The Rune Angels must be acting as wingmen to the XQ-affiliated Amethyst Angel, agent number 07GA. Figures she'd choose her homeworld allies instead of six buddies from XQ, as she only knows two quite well in the GX-native anti-crime group whereas her teamwork with the Rune Angels is quite good."
"I actually knew it was the Rune Angels a few minutes beforehand, but the 07 and amethyst purple coloration of Anise's Corvette must've threw me off. I was actually expecting a wine red car numbered 5." Samson, Angie's top wingman, who had just arrived on the scene, noted.
"She had a bit of a rough start with me at first." Lily said, having now finally climbed out of her SLR; it appeared she climbed out Dukes of Hazzard-style by climbing out the driver-side window. "And by any chance, was Jet Brazie here earlier?"
"Jet? Wait, he was the guy driving that cyan ZR1 three nights ago. But i thought his hair only reached his shoulders and was black in color."
"He must've left his Super Saiyan 3 form on again. Does that sort of thing with his first three transformations a lot. It's usually me who informs him of this, which gets him to revert back to his base form. And i might have a good idea for how to take down Darius for what happened that night. Our four groups can team up, get Scott and Nikki to join us, and then overpower the Stacked Deck crew in order to take down the guy responsible for the events of that fateful night four years ago."
"I'm in." Wolf replied.
"Count me in too." Kenji added.
"I'm in too." Angie said. Then Nikki's GT turned up, with a Lamborghini Gallardo alongside. Turns out Scott had gotten a new ride to replace the totaled M3.
"You want us to help you take down Darius? We're in." Nikki said, to which Scott nodded. The team was ready to roll.
"I hope you're ready, Darius Green. Cause Team Palmont is about to chase you out of town for good."
