Race 4: X-Traffic
Earth, Las Vegas
Night has approached on the first day of the DX World Grand Prix. To temporarily end the festivities, Division D racers will sport around the colorful, neon-lit city of Las Vegas of Earth. With the race still a few minutes before starting, the dark hybrid clone created by the Masters of Evil, Grimadoom the Hedgehog takes some time hanging outside a casino with his team he calls Team Superior, which fits because not only he egoistically sees himself better than all challengers, but also because his robotic allies, Metal Sonic and Mecha Spider-Man, are built to be superior to their organic counterparts.
"Annnnd done." Grimadoom puts up his sport glasses after finish upgrading both robots' software to perform exceptionally well during the race. "There. Now you two won't totally suck during the race. Can I get a thank you?" He asked, receiving nothing but non-sensical beeps from the bot racers. "Yes, yes. I AM nice." Grimadoom replied, even though he has no idea what either bot is saying. Immediately after, he gets a call from his wrist communicator. He checks, groaning to learn it's from one of his "fathers", Dr. Eggman. "Great. It's Papa Egg. What does he want this time?"
The dark hedgehog answers the call. "Yeah, what is it?"
'The next race is about to begin at any moment. Remember your mission!' Eggman ordered him.
"Yeah, yeah, I KNOW. Stop calling me." Grimadoom quickly hangs up the call before Eggman gets the chance to spit his lip more. "Sheesh." He crosses his arms in tiredness. "Can't give a hedgehog a break. Make me work during my vacation, and they still won't give me an allowance."
"Then try your luck at the casino. It's done wonders for us."
Grimadoom turns to his right to see Cinder and her team, Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black, walking out of the casino in their racing clothing, holding bags full of hard-earned cash. "I did. Won $500. Still two hundred short to buy a new flat-screen HDTV."
"Want me to spare you any?" Cinder kindly asked since she is pretty loaded right now.
"It's very rare of you to be so kind. Must be in a good mood tonight after winning your race." Grimadoom smirked, revealing that Team Toxin have won their race for today.
"We slaughtered the competition. No one stood a chance." Mercury responded with a grin.
Grim chuckled. "I'll believe that. So, where are your new friends? Still gambling with those rigged machines?"
"Give it a second." Emerald deviously smirked, as she knows what's going to happen next.
BGM-Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity OST-Catch Me If You Can
Literally a second later, the casino doors fling right open, as three distinct-colored, extremely good Extreme Gear riders fly out of the casino with the guards on their tails. "STOP! THIEVES! GET BACK HERE WITH THE MONEY!" A guard shouted. They try to shoot them down from the air but they get swerving and turning from all bullet-fire, then gets knocked to their butts by the winds coming from the green hawk's board.
"Thanks for the cash, boys!" The anthropomorphic bird mockingly laughed, but was suddenly surprised by the heavy police cars surrounding the area.
Now it's Grimadoom's turn to show off his skills. "Too much noise." He thrusts his right arm straight at the police, and with a loud shout, flips all cars and officers on their backs, leaving his old friends and new friends to escape via a teleportation snap to a quiet rooftop far away from the casino. "That's better."
"Thanks for getting us outta there, Grimadoom." Emerald thanked the hedgehog.
"No problem. Didn't want to make a scene that would cancel the race." Grimadoom replied.
"Hey, nice trick you did back there." The green hawk complimented Grimadoom's impressive powers.
"Hmph. Thanks. Anything to impress the legendary Jet the Hawk, leader of the infamous Babylon Rouges of Mobius." Grimadoom replied with the knowledge of these rouge treasure hunters.
"Ah. My reputation is starting to precede me across dimensions now, huh?" Jet smirked.
"I saw you guys' race earlier today. You COMPLETELY dominated everyone. No one stood a chance against you. They didn't even come close." Grimadoom told them.
"That because they're all beginners. I am the only one that can push their Gear to their very extreme." Jet boasted his arrogant ego. The legendary wind master takes a quick second to check out Grimadoom's team and notice something familiar about them. "Hey. Do I know you? You look familiar, especially your pal in blue." He questioned Grimadoom's and Metal Sonic's remarkable appearance that looks striking similar to Sonic, his ultimate rival.
"The name's Grimadoom, and these are my teammates: Metal Sonic and Mecha Spider-Man." He introduced himself and his non-talkative partners.
"Metal Sonic? A robot version of Sonic the Hedgehog? Seriously?" Jet questioned with a cocky demeanor.
"Why are you working with walking scrap pile of that blue hedgehog and the spider guy?" The Rouges' genius mechanic, Wave the Swallow, wondered.
"Maybe because he's lonely and has no friends." The Rouges' muscle-bound doofus, Storm the Albatross, mocked the dark hedgehog.
"Something like that. I was limited in choices, and these two were the best I could find." Grimadoom replied with a smirk, playing along with Storm's mockery of him.
"Trust me, Jet. They may be robots, but they are extremely skilled." Cinder said to the cocky bird.
"We'll see about that. I doubt this pile of junk is HALF as good as the original." Jet replied, not believing in Cinder's words. "The REAL Sonic the Hedgehog is the reason why I'm here, that way I can finally best him who's the fastest."
"Not so fast, Jet. I have a few scores to settle with the hedgehog myself." Grimadoom told him.
"Get in line! You're not worthy enough to even be MY equal!" Jet arrogantly responded.
Despite the insult, Grimadoom lets out a calm, sinister-like chuckle. "Then watch me in this next race. There you'll see just how powerful I truly am."
"Heh! I'm looking forward to it!" Jet grinned, intrigued.
BGM End
BGM-Sonic Free Riders OST-Get Ready for the Big Event
Fireworks fly into the night sky as the race across Las Vegas is set to begin. All fours teams arrive and are prime to dominate the competition. Team Superior looks eagerly confident, mostly Grimadoom anyways since the other two can't properly emote. Team X-Men, consisting of Shadowcat, Rogue, and Colossus, are anxious to get started. Lupe the Wolf of Mobius, and her Team Wolf, wants to get this show on the road. And there we have Team Atlas of Remnant, with the innocent android, Penny Polendina and her team getting geared into motion. Everyone that could make it, including the D-Avengers and their racing teammates, sits down on the large audience seats close to the electric gates where the racers are anxious to ride off into the neon night.
The last commentator of tonight's race is a nice old man, looking to be in his mid-90s, but still rocking amazing shades. "Excelsior, everybody! I'm Commentator Lee! Eh, that's not really my first name. Tonight, we're ending Day 1 of the DX World Grand Prix, HERE, right in the center of the City of Lights, Las Vegas! The racers of Division D get to race around a custom track that's everything you would find in a casino, made possible by our very own Stark Industries, with a little help from Breezie Media! How 'bout we check in on some of the racers!" Lee walks up to Team Superior for a quick interview, as he finds something interesting about this team's weird line-up of "familiar" faces. "Hey! You three look familiar?" He asked Grimadoom.
"You sure about that?" Grimadoom stoically asked the old man.
"Yeah. Two of you look like that Sonic fellow, and this one looks like Spider-Man." Lee remarked their strange resemblances to Sonic and Spidey.
"We may look similar, but we're superior to them in every way, hence our team name "Team Superior." We're going to CRUSH the competition. Show no mercy to our opponents. And, ya know, have a little fun along the road." Grimadoom slyly grinned to the camera.
"That sounds threatening enough to be believable. Huh. But I wonder how you can handle against an all-star team like the X-Men." Lee switches the mike and camera to Kitty Pyrde standing no far from the doppelgangers.
"Don't worry. We can handle ourselves. A clone copy like Grimadoom is nothing compared to what the X-Men deals with every day." Kitty said with the taunting smirk.
"I doubt I'll need to steal his powers to win this shindig!" Rogue smiled for her fans across the world.
"Come, X-Men! Let us save the smack talk for the race, yeah?" Colossus asked his mutant teammates.
"You pitiful mutants think you can beat me? I would like to see you try." Grimadoom ominously responded to their taunting.
"Then bring it on! We're not afraid of you, grimhog! Better be careful, or I might phase through you and steal the finish line!" Kitty taunted back.
"The youngsters are certainly heavy on the smack talk tonight! Let's see how much of that will continue during this AMAZING race!" Lee said.
From the audience seats above the race tracks, Spider-Man and his friends observe Grimadoom and his team getting in position for the race. "Kitty's going up against Grimadoom and our robot duplicates. This could get ugly. I wonder if he's following the Masters of Evil's orders?" Peter deeply wonders.
"Whatever his intentions are, the Xs' are gonna have a hard time beating him. Let's hope they can pull off a miracle." Sonic says.
"YOU CAN DO IT! KITTY! PENNY!" Ruby cheered for her friends on the track, waving after Penny notices her.
BGM End
BGM-Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity OST-Through Traffic
The four team racers set into gear as the timer counts down. "I hope you fools can entertain me." Grimadoom taunted his rivals, successfully getting them irritated before they speed through the streets of Las Vegas. The race quickly gets intense through casino-styled track, with Grimadoom having already taken a boundless lead thanks to his mad speed and frightening skills with his Gear. This leaves him enough room to continuously taunt his opponents trying to catch up. "So you want to play tag? This should be interesting!" He boosted away with a cocky smirk on face.
'The race has started, and Grimadoom has completely taken the lead! Just at the way he's drifting through those tight turns!' Lee commentated on Grimadoom's mad performance just mere seconds after the race has begun.
Impressively, the other races caught up with Grimadoom riding on neon-lights on the side of a tall casino. "Alright! You guys aren't so boring after all!" Soon, the quipping hedgehog finds himself surrounded by the other teams. "Oh no, at this rate I'll lose the lead!" He said in such a sarcastic tone it's so obvious he's bluffing, especially with that smug grin he puts up immediately after. "Yeah, right!" He quickly vanished through the wind itself, making the other races question if he's way ahead of them or have fallen behind, but once they ride across a large pinball table with all its gimmicks, each enemy racer is stunningly caught off-guard with Grimadoom's random teleporting in front of their faces while making a taunting face to piss them all off before retaking his lead.
Lupe grunted in irritation. "He's making fools of us."
Team Wolf was about to perform a quick boost to catch up, only for Mecha Spider-Man to strike them with his webbing. Lupe tries to attack the robotic wall-crawler with her spear, but Mecha counters with one of his metal spider-legs. Meanwhile, Penny bravely takes on Metal Sonic, using multiple floating gun-blades to hopefully shoot him down.
"Can you PLEASE stay still? Why are we even fighting? The two of us aren't so different." Penny questioned since both she and Metal are related as robots.
Metal Sonic doesn't care about Penny's questions, just spin dashes her away from his sight. Penny retaliates by commanding her swords to attack Metal. Metal easily dodges each blade, secretly scanning them and Penny herself for a certain purpose he will now show off. "Penny Polendina data…successfully copied." He spoke with a cold, monotone voice that scares Penny to the core, especially after Metal summons his own multitude of gun-blades to attack Penny with a giant laser. Luckily, she uses her own weapons as thrusters to avoid heavy damage, but the impact of the blast almost knocked her off the pinball table if her teammate, Ciel Soleil didn't save her in a nick of time.
"This game of tag is starting to lose its luster, and we've only just begun." Grimadoom taunted, still far in the lead of the race. After launching themselves out of a dice-shaped water fountain, the racers circle around back to the start of the race, now entering lap 2.
'It's been one whole lap, and Grimadoom is still in the lead! But for how long though, 'cause it looks like the X-Men are catching up!' Lee commentated as he spots Team X-Men catching up to the taunting darkhog.
"Alright, sugah! No more playing nice, ya hear?" Rogue takes off a glove and reaches for Grimadoom's arm, hoping to absorb his power and weaken him a bit. The flirty mutant managed to grab hold of his arm, but for a split second felt his link to the Exo Espeon Stone, a bottomless power flowing through within him entirely, she couldn't hope understand it. Then another split second later, his arm discharges electricity, forcing Rogue to take off her hand. "What happened?! Why couldn't I absorb your power?" She questioned while tending to her wounded hand.
"I've learned to counter abilities such as your through sheer willpower alone. I'm in a league you could never attain." Grimadoom said with a sudden swift to a darker tone. Rogue throws a few heavy punches that Grimadoom blindly avoids with his speed. As they re-approach the neon-light section, he kicks her away in the chest for Metal Sonic to deal with.
"Alright, tough guy! Let's see how you handle this!" Colossus launches a powerful punch that didn't faze Grimadoom a single bit when it connected. "Huh?" The metal mutant was confused by the hedgehog's indestructible durability to withstand such a punch, leaving himself open for Mecha Spider-Man to tie him up in webbing.
All that is left of the X-Men is Shadowcat, making Grimadoom wonder her current position as he arrives at the pinball table area. "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! I have a web-ball of yarn I could make for you." He said while webbing up a ball. To his quick surprise, the ball was kicked into the air, but he couldn't determine who as this person is invisible. "Okay, I have to ask: What kind of cat turns invisible?" He asked, then gets kicked in the chest as Shadowcat turns off her camouflage.
"A Shadowcat. Duh." Kitty smirked.
Grimadoom psychically throws the large pinballs in the area at Kitty, but it proved futile as the X-Man phase through all of his attacks, either physical or energy-based. "Tricky, tricky, little cat. Try my hand on a magic attack." He rhymed while charging up a mystical blast that hurts Kitty even through her phase shifting.
'Lap 2's 'bout to come to an end, and still, no one has overtaken Team Superior! They look to be shoe-in for the finish! Still, there's one lap left! It could be anyone's game!' Lee remarked on the race so far, just as all racers enter their final lap, with Team Superior ahead of the curve.
From their seats, the D-Avengers watch helplessly to see their friends losing massively to Team Superior. "This race is lost. They don't stand a chance anymore now." Kaine bluntly remarked his thoughts on the race towards its end.
"Don't say that! It's still anyone's game!" Weiss told him.
"Look with your eyes! Grimadoom's been toying with them from the beginning!" Kaine directed them to Grimadoom just, annoyingly riding backwards on his Gear and STILL holding first place. "He's good. REALLY good. So as his robot junkies. He would've won this race a lot sooner if he wasn't clowning around."
"So he's like Sonic. Is that really surprising?" Mayday responded.
"Well he does mostly have my DNA, and everyone else's." Sonic chuckled shamelessly.
Back with the race, the extreme riders have already arrived back at the large pinball table to hopefully catch up and overcome Team Superior in the race. "It's official. This game of tag is boring. It's time we declare ourselves the winners." Grimadoom confidently proclaimed his victory. With a simple step on his board, he gear changes to have two extra small air boosters to boost his speed, but that isn't enough to make his opponents cry. His dark aura sinisterly glows, slowly transmitting it all into his board to surpass its limitations. "Time to unleash the ultimate speed." He said with a dark, ominous tone. Without hesitation or fear, Grimadoom performs a thundering burst of speed that breaks through light, absolutely flabbergasting the other racers and the audience on how fast he's moving, and before their brains could completely process this, Grimadoom has already crossed the finish line while still withholding his first place position. Seconds later, the rest of his team arrives, granting Team Superior ultimate victory as the winners of this race.
BGM End
"Sensational! Simply sensational! I don't know how they did it, but Team Superior took this race by storm, dominating it with their outrageous speed no one could ever hope to comprehend! Man, what a way to end off today's festivities!" Lee commentated as everyone cheers Team Superior for giving them an awe-strucking race.
"Haha! I do love putting on a show for the fans!" Grimadoom grinned.
Spider-Man and his friends jump down to meet up with the friends that have lost the race hard to Grimadoom. "Kitty!" Peter runs up to check on his old girlfriend.
"Penny!" Ruby runs up to check her robot friend. "Are you alright?"
"I'm spectacular, Ruby! Thanks for caring." Penny smiled, reliving Ruby of the stress.
"Spidey, could you tell me what just happened?" Kitty asked him.
"You lost?" Peter replied.
"BESIDES that." Kitty glared at him.
"It seemed that Grimadoom channeled his energy into his Gear to move at light speed, similar to what the Human Torch did but on a whole another level." Tails explained, comparing this feat with Johnny Storm's recent race.
"Whoa, that's crazy." Yang responded.
As Grimadoom checks on his Gear, Sonic walks up to his clone for a quick chat. "I have to hand it to ya, Grimadoom. You were impressive today."
"Believe me when I say you haven't seen nothing yet." Grimadoom told him, still hiding more tricks up his sleeves.
"I'll believe it. Looking forward to whenever we party on the track." Sonic grinned.
BGM-Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity OST-Options
"Hope you have room for one more!" Out of nowhere, much to Sonic and his friends' surprise, the Babylon Rogues and Team Toxin ride up to meet with their racing rivals. "Don't forget it's MY job to take you down, Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"Jet?! Why am I not surprised you've signed up?" Sonic asked after reuniting with his racing rival.
"It's been a while, shorty. I hoped you slightly improved how to tinker with Extreme Gear more efficiently." Wave mocked Tails.
"Wave?! Yeah, I've gotten better!" Tails replied.
"But I doubt it'll be enough to defeat us this time!" Storm said, looking like he's ready to rumble with Knuckles.
"Bring it on, Babylon Rogues! If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get!" Knuckles responded, deeply wanting to pound Storm's feathery face in already.
"Babylon Rogues?" Kaine questioned the identity of these bird-brains.
"A bunch of alien genie, treasure hunting thieves we met last time while racing inside a black hole." Spidey answered, recounting his previous adventure with Sonic and the Rogues involving ancient relics that can control gravity.
"Now I KNOW you're making that up." Kaine responded, not believing a single world about the Rogues being descendants of aliens and are somehow genies.
"Oh, it was very true, Scarlet Spider." Cinder told the spider-clone.
"And I'm still mad at you I missed such an adventure." Yang glared at Peter, still upset she and the rest of Team RWBY wasn't called for that gravity-blowing adventure.
"It's not like I was expecting to stop a black hole when I came for a visit." Spidey told his girlfriend.
"Enough of your martial prattling!" Jet intervened in their little conversation.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. Just because you don't have a girlfriend, doesn't mean you can rush them to stop." Sonic teased the green, lonely bird.
"Heh! I'm all about rushing! Once this Grand Prix is over, I'm gonna prove to everybody who's the fastest one in the multiverse! Just wait and see!" Jet proclaimed, arrogantly.
"Looking forward to it. See ya in the finals, Jet!" Sonic said, having the feeling the next time they meet, it'll be the finals.
Jet grunts with a smile, hopping back on-board his Gear and rides off to the night with the rest of his team along with Team Toxin and Team Superior. "This Grand Prix's gonna get a lot harder from here on out, huh?" Ruby asked her pals.
"Yeah, and I'm looking forward to it. Team Babylon. Team Toxin. Team Superior. All awesome opponents. This is gonna get exciting!" Sonic gleamed with excitement from his smile.
"Of course you would say that, but I can't lie to say that I share the same opinion. Let's see how tomorrow's races will be." Spidey grinned behind his mask, looking forward to the next batch of incredible races and new rivals he'll encounter the next morning.
BGM End
BGM-Sonic Free Riders OST-Free (Main Theme)
Spider-Man: It's your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. It's Day 2 of the Grand Prix and already we've found some new trouble. Hope you all remember Adam Taurus, because some of his loyal White Fang hounds have teamed up with Belladonna's assassins! Not the Belladonna we're friends with. The one that commands the Assassins Guild. And somehow, both of them have a grudge with Kaine. Now we need to beat them in a race or else a few people are gonna die, which mostly includes Kaine's friends, and Blake. Luckily, we have help on this race.
Next time on D-Avengers: Transdimensional Racing:
Assassins Fang
Spider-Man: Jesus, Kaine, what did you do to piss off these guys?!
KFX Here: For the Las Vegas race, Team Superior won overall 1st place. Team X-Men won 2nd place. Team Wolf won 3rd place. And Team Atlas won 4th place. Next time, Team Spiders race together with Team Shepherds against the combined might of the White Fang and the Assassins Guild.
