Race 8: Dark Ice

Mobius, Central City

Inside a random hotel in the city, a semi-interested Grimadoom and his band of robot racers watch the second-to-last race of the day on television, barely surprised or even intrigued when they witnessed Blake Belladonna's team, Team Faunus, take the win and the cheers of their fans. "Oh, look, the black kitty won. That's terrible." Grimadoom stoically said, yawning loudly on his bed.

Metal Sonic turns his robotic head to his leader with a silent glare. "You're asking what I mean by that?" Grimadoom asked, thinking that's what Metal's asking if he actually talked. "She's in the same division as us. Once we win this next race against Team Dark, we're gonna demolish her team in the Division Finals. Then we're gonna wreck Sonic and his other friends in the Championship Match, assuming they beat Jet and Cinder."

Mecha Spider-Man turns his metallic head to speechlessly ask Grim another question regarding Team Dark. "Team Dark? Of course we're gonna beat them. Didn't I program any confidence coding in you?" Grim responded. "I'll admit; Shadow might prove to be a nuisance. I'll have to be extra careful around him during the race."

"What about the data?" Metal spoke in a monotone voice.

"Oh, so you CAN talk. Why have you been acting like a mime this entire time? And what "data"?" Grim responded.

"The racing data for Dr. Eggman." Mecha Spidey answered coldly in the same tone as Metal.

"Oh yeah. That. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Let's just get ready for the next race." Grimadoom half-heartedly replied, almost as if he doesn't seem to really care about completing his other mission.

Frozen Forest

BGM-Sonic Free Riders OST-Get Ready for the Big Event

"Here we are, boys and girls, at Frozen Forest," Old man Commentator Lee returns to give his precious audience what's going on in this last race for today. "Glistening ice coats this land of turns and slopes. It's also said to house ancient, powerful beasts that once ruled over Mobius many centuries ago. I wonder what they were? Dinosaurs? Aliens? My mutated tax money?" He chuckled at his little joke. "Well, we might find out during tonight's chilling battle."

Standing isolated from the other teams, both who happens to be mercenaries from their respective worlds, Team Wild Pack from Earth and Team Hooligans from Mobius, is Team Dark. Shadow the Hedgehog leans on a frozen tree, minding his own business as Rouge the Bat and E-123 Omega interrupt his lonely time.

"Shadow. The race's about to start. Stop brooding and get ready. There's a large cash prize and treasure that are screaming my name." Rouge joked around with the brooding hedgehog.

"I'm waiting for him." Shadow passively answered his bat partner.

"Awww. That's so sweet of you, brother. You missed me, haven't you?" Grimadoom joked as his team arrived to the cold race track.

Shadow stands completely out of the tree to coldly greet his other hedgehog rival. "Grimadoom."

"Hi, darling. Long time no see. Do a girl a favor. Slow the race down for me to give me an absolute winning chance." Rouge flirted with the grim clone.

Grimadoom quickly appears at Rouge's side to perform his own little flirt. "Sorry, little bat, but I don't slow down for anybody, no matter how lustrous or seductive they appear." He smirks when he hears Shadow growl behind him. "Don't be jealous, Shadow. In fact, continue being jealous. I hear it's a good warming up session for eventual losers." He savagely told the black hedgehog.

"You think I'm gonna lose? Hah! It would seem the delusional portion of your "inherited" DNA is starting to kick in." Shadow smirked.

"Your right. Your DNA is starting to act pretty stupid." Grim viciously retorted about the DNA he inherited from Shadow, angering the black hedgehog to the point of almost wanting to settle the score with his clone right this instant.

"Hold it," Rouge stopped Shadow before causing a scene. "Save the idiotic death match DURING the race, not a second before." She said with a scared face, as she REALLY wants to win that cash prize.

Shadow stays silent for a second. "…Fine. We'll settle this on the track. Prepare to meet your maker, Grimadoom." He said to his clone.

"May the best ultimate hedgehog win." Grimadoom deviously smirked as he prepares for the race.

BGM End

BGM-Sonic Free Riders OST-Frozen Forest

As the electrical gates start to shut down, both competitive hedgehogs charge in their light-speed energy into their Gears, then in a flash, zoom through the winter forest after the countdown, leaving their teammates and the other teams to eat their snow. "And there they go. This is gonna be interesting." Rouge said as the rest start the race normally.

The two hedgehogs enter the multiple curve section to begin their little fight. Grimadoom launches a blurry spin dash that Shadow easily avoids, countering with a barrage of chaos spears the dark hybrid blocks with the snowy terrain. He then launches his own volley of energy blasts at Shadow, forcing the ultimate life form to repeatedly teleport to avoid getting destroyed like the environment, elbowing Grim in the shoulder as they enter a cave.

"Are you trying, little pest?" Grim mocked his big "brother".

"Give it a second." Shadow thrusts his right hand to send Grimadoom away with an air shockwave, launching up top the bones of a deceased dinosaur, with Shadow still in hot pursuit.

"Little runt." Grimadoom cursed his mortal foe. As they approach the head of the bony dinosaur, Grimadoom starts psychically throwing its bones at Shadow to knock him off course. "Bonified victory." He punned with a grin, but that quickly turned upside down once he saw Shadow quickly catching up with a boost. "Don't you know when to give up?" Grim grunted.

Soon after hopping onto a few bobsleds, the two immediately collide their rides, viciously trying to destroy the other in this snowy race. With neither gaining the upper hand in both their battle and the race, the hedgehog race along a short straightforward route to the starting line, zooming into lap 2, with the other almost-forgotten racers starting to catch up to their grudge match.

Rouge managed to temporarily overcome Silver Sable for third place, almost getting smooshed by a boulder caused by the heated battle between her teammate and his rival. "Would you take it easy?! This is a race, not a warzone!" She shouted at the idiotic hedgehogs.

"I'm sure she's referring to you, Shady." Grimadoom said to Shadow's face, earning himself and kick to the chest, but that barely slow down the hybrid as he continues hogging the first place position.

"Get back here!" Shadow shouted, continuing his pursuit of Grimadoom, leaving behind a sighing Rouge.

"Oh man. He couldn't leave his attitude to freeze like everything else here?" Rouge asked before getting caught off-guard by Silver Sable's silver staff.

"Don't think this is over." Sable attacks Rouge with her staff, but was blocked by her diagonal kick.

"Watch where you point that thing." Rouge kicks the staff into the air, allowing her to drill kick a blocking Sable away until she stylishly recovered her staff so they can continue their little winter scuffle.

Close by, Omega and his many machine guns are at work trying to destroy Metal Sonic. "I will prove to Eggman who is the stronger robot." He said, launching a missile that the Super Badnik easily avoids. While he's distracted, Amelia Chen of Team Wild Pack sneaks up to Omega and temporarily disables him with a silent blade slice, but both racers were quickly caught upon Metal's tornado attack that sucked them up.

At the snowy boneyard, Mecha Spider-Man is clashing fists with the silent Bark the Polar Bear while the leader of the Hooligans, Nack the Weasel, and his crazy, unstable teammate, Bean the Dynamite simply watch from behind. "Alright, Bean, while the bot's distracted!" Nack ordered his bird partner.

"Do you want it big or small with a side of fries?" Bean asked a ridiculous question.

Nack growled. "Just do it!"

With a devious smirk, Bean summoned a large black, round bomb from nowhere and throws it at Mecha. Thanks to his built-in spider-sense, Mecha already recognized the danger, kicking Bark away to give him enough time to catch the bomb with his webbing and throw it right back at the Hooligans, bringing the whole dinosaur bones collapsing on top of them. "We're okay!" Bean said, punching through the bony rubble.

Not long after, Mecha's indestructible body is bombarded by Raul Quentino of the Wild Pack's firearms. The superior bot disarmed the man of his weapon and strikes him away with his spider-leg while simultaneously copying his and Team Hooligans data. "Raul Quentino data…copied. Team Hooligans data…copied." A second later, his spider-sense warns him of Rouge being knocked to his direction, quickly side-stepping away from the thrown bat then clashing blades with Silver Sable.

"I have fought Spider-Man. Work aside the wall-crawler. You think an imperfect bucket of bolts could match up to the original?" Sable asked Mecha.

"I am superior to the original in every way." Mecha stoically replied.

"Then impress me." Sable attacks Mecha, almost getting pierced through the eyes by his mechanical waldoes. She managed to get a good whack on its head, only to get punched in the gut. The silver mercenary stabs its side with a small knife, only for that same knife to be used to cut a small part of her own flesh. Once they approached the bobsleds, Mecha webs her up tightly to her own ride, causing her to crash through the green crystals without a way to avoid them.

We're now in the final lap, and just like before, Grimadoom and Shadow are brutally going at it through intense light-speed clash faster than the eye could see before shifting to teleporting brawls that freezes time. In the middle of the track, Grimadoom launches a miniature black hole that captures Shadow and the surrounding environment in the air to act as a cage for the ultimate life form, but that didn't slow Shadow for second, letting out a furious explosion to escape captivity, using the Air of his Gear to catch up and smash Grimadoom to the ground. This irritates Grimadoom enough to cause a "little" explosion that melts part of the Frozen Forest and almost destroys Shadow. Now both hedgehogs are furious and continue clashing at invisible speeds towards the finish line. Seeing how he's about to get punched in the face and that he's so close to the finish line, Grimadoom smirkingly allows Shadow to punch him, flinging him through the track and achieving first place while his rival gains second.

BGM End

"I win." Shadow said to the lying Grimadoom.

The hybrid hedgehog slowly gets up from the ground, chuckling. "You won the fight, but not the race." Grimadoom said, pointing Shadow to the rest of Team Superior arriving to grant them complete victory of the race. Shadow grunts in anger, realizing he just let Grimadoom win the race. "Thanks for the additional boost, "brother". Wasn't really needed, but I appreciate the assistance." Grim mocked him while cleaning himself up of the snow.

Behind him, Rouge and Omega hopped off their Gears to meet with Shadow. "You just HAD to go off on your own. You just couldn't leave your little grudge match for another time, can you?" Rouge angrily berated her hedgehog partner for costing her cash prize and treasure.

"…Sorry." Shadow apologized.

"Is it okay I eliminate him to brighten up your mood?" Omega asked Shadow.

"Not today, Omega." Shadow replied to the big bad bot of war.

"Discreetly, then?"

"If you can pull it off." Shadow replied with a smile.

Grimadoom stands by his lonesome, chuckling to himself because of his victory over Shadow. 'That's one little nuisance down. Now off to the Division Finals and soon I'll take home the trophy as number one. Watch out, Sonic, I'm waiting for you.' He sinisterly laughed in his mind, can't wait for the chance to race against Sonic in the championship round.

BGM-Sonic Free Riders OST-Free (Main Theme)

Spider-Man: It's your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man! Alright! The Division Finals! Once we win this, it's off to the championship! And just as I suspected, Cinder and her team managed to win their way here too. I'm excited! Let's go, Cindy! Time for you to fall behind me! Hehe!

Next time on D-Avengers: Transdimensional Racing:

Crimson Racing Rivals

Spider-Man: Try to make me try, Cinderella!

KFX Here: Answering Questions-

Joey Fonseca: In this series, the Chaos Emeralds can only be summoned if reality is crumbling down and Spidey's "fused" to the Great Web while using Chaos Control if he has one of the emeralds in hand.

Vonneyboy21: At the moment, I have no current plans to include Galactus or Silver Surfer. Maybe in a future story arc.

Frozen Forest Results:

1st: Grimadoom

2nd: Shadow the Hedgehog

3rd: Mecha Spider-Man

4th: Metal Sonic

5th: Rouge the Bat

6th: Silver Sable

7th: E-123 Omega

8th: Bean the Dynamite

9th: Bark the Polar Bear

10th: Amelia Chen

11th: Raul Quentino

12th: Nack the Weasel