Opening File: Tork Maddox
Tork Maddox is the leader of the Metal Maniacs, and rival to Nolo Pasaro, leader of the Teku. He started out as a young driver who grew up fighting and racing, at some point arrived at Motorcity to be the top driver against the best. He teamed up with Charley and Coop who were trained by Jacob and formed their own for the time being until he made a team of his own with other drivers, calling themselves the Metal Maniacs. While aggressive and loud much like the other Metal Maniacs, he is also stern and level-headed, keeping the Metal Maniacs in check when they go out of line.
He has a fierce rivalry with Nolo who blames Tork for his brother Tone's death after the tragic accident in a previous race and made the youngest sibling to despise him to the point of revenge.
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Opening File: Deezel "Porkchop" Riggs.
Commonly known as "Porkchop" by his friends and team is a member of the Metal Maniacs, who usually hangs around Monkey. He is the muscle of the Metal Maniacs and as their biggest driver, he is quick to anger and impossible to stop. He wears a bone-necklace that he bites into to control his rage. Porkchop has never been beaten in racing before racing against the Teku. He has a rivalry with Shirako Takamoto, mainly because he doesn't like his music. During his time as a Huntsman, Porkchop makes sculpted heads of the Grimm he slain as 'trophies', usually the toughest of the Grimm. He also has a fear of water, because his father drowned when he was young and has been afraid eve since, not even taking a bath.
"There are things in our past that we like to bottle up and pretend they never happened, but sooner or later those fears comes back to haunt us. The only way to face those fears is to challenge them or talk about them with someone to help." TOM shares his wisdom. "Some be afraid of water, something that happened in our past, or a person we lost and felt responsible for that accident.
Unknown Location
Solomom stood within the room to observe results of the gem technologies and the corrupted fusions they captured. Decided what to do with them later and perhaps give them to the remaining rebels calling themselves the Crystal Gems as reports from his agents about them using a drill to stop the Geo-Weapon from becoming active. Little did they realise what he found and disturbed him, along with his superior that it had to be shared with their trusted allies.
"How much time do we have until the weapon becomes active?" Solomon asked a scientist for results.
"Still uncertain, but could anytime soon while we have other situations at hand such as the growing dimensional tears and recent alien attacks on the Reach colony."
It was a hard time for them when the Mesa Incident was investigated and sudden attack by an alien species, which was fortunately defeated by the mech from Jersey. No only to know where the Racing Drones are hiding, but they are growing stronger by the minute. "We need to be ready, whatever Sammael has done to it, it can't be good. Any signs of the remaining Plutarkians on Earth?"
"According to the Center, they left before we could apprehend them. What should we do with the Biker Mice?" One of the officers questioned him.
"Nothing, as long as they are continuing to help us, nothing. We have other priorities in mind." Solomon responded.
"On that we can agree." Turns around to meet a slender built woman with fair skin, black hair, purple lips, aqua-green eyes and a little black dot on her right upper lip. Her main outfit in every episode is her white scientist lab coat with white pants and white boots.
Stands before her and nodded his head with sign of respect. "M.O.M."
The woman named M.O.M. returned the gesture. "Solomon. I suppose you heard about the Mesa Incident. We managed to take the data files and made certain the Combine don't come back to our universe anytime soon. I've had to inform the Alliance and the Global Justice of the recent events."
"The G3 have become more active since the Plumbers' Earth branch was forced into retirement, and I'm certain you were not pleased with it after you were offered a place in the Center."
"You certainly done your homework." She sounded impressed how he knew of her history.
"It's my job to know who I work with."
"But we both know why I came, and you know as well since the disappearance of Dr. Peter Tezla along with the Wheel of Power." Narrows her eyes and folded her arms across her chest when taking a few steps forward to see the gem Injector being taken apart. "Gelorum has the Wheel and only a matter of time for we face a crisis if she has all the Accelechargers and destroy the Accelerons."
"I've already begun monitoring her drones, they've already taken down some of the Kindergartens and bases left by the Gems. With what I gather, its possibly the attack on the Gem Homeworld is only the beginning."
M.O.M. nodded her head. "And thanks to Tezla with his trust issues, he had go rogue and almost ruin everything we've prepared for the Ultimate Race. Now it's only a matter of time until THEY take notice."
Knowing who she was referring to and agreed with how Tezla may have bigger problems than just Gelorum.
"Since it's out of our hands, we can only be prepared for the worst. I've managed to gain some information that might be of Global Justice's interest, especially with the sudden kidnapping of Clovis Bray."
This caught M.O.M.'s attention and turned to him when he handed her a file and several others. "So he was working for her? Figures as much, she seems to have made some connections with a few organizations." Holds out photos of the Vehicons. One of them caught her attention. "Wait, I know this one. Tim Scam?" Holds out a photo of a male in his 30s, short brown hair and blue eyes.
Nods his head to confirm her question. "Turns out, Tim Scam was hired by Gelorum to infiltrate WOOHP and acquire certain technologies in weapons and military. Jerry caught him but was unaware of actually working for someone."
"That would make sense, so he was working for her the entire time and never revealed it?" Almost sounded impressed for the criminal, reading his files from Jerry upon his previous attempts to seek revenge on the organization and one of the few who almost succeeded in their plans. "Pity he was reported dead some time ago."
"Most likely. There be more on certain people she worked with over time." Not certain wether or not he could be out there still, but has found more than just Scam who worked. And I just found the recent ones who were thought to be dead. "Mac and Molly Mange and heading to GrimmFall."
"Better alert the city of their arrival, not sure what they're up to." M.O.M. said. "I just hope Tezla knows what he's doing, despite being a fool he has some good intentions for trying to make a better world."
"That we can agree with."
"Great job, guys! We won our first Racing Realm!" Jacob came to congratulate Mike and Texus after they successfully won the Water Accelecharger, which means now that all teams have one of their own. "That was quick thinking freezing the water to catch the drones off guard."
"Yeah, I can imagine the robots be all mad when we froze their tires. They be running on… thin ice." Texas commented. "Get it? Cause when Mike shot them with Ice Dust, the water froze and they got their tires stuck."
"Actually… not bad." Mike had to admit it sounded like a nice phrase, a little corny but catchy. "Just don't over do it, bud."
Chuck nodded and held up the Water Accelercharger in his hand. "Just have to figure out what this thing can do and keep it safe along with the rest."
"But doesn't mean the races will be more easy, things will get more serious and dangerous with the Drones and Gelorum, so what your backs." Jacob advised them to take it.
"Got that right." Julie agreed with him.
"Lets head back to the cafeteria, I'll whip up something good to celebrate our victory." Jacob offered to cook for them.
"Burners."
Mike and Chuck see Kurt and Karma approach them, not certain what they had to say and thought they didn't want to get to know them for being close to the Metal Maniacs.
The Burners waited for what the two want with them until Kurt reached his hand out to them. "Congrats on winning. You certainly earned it for stopping the Drones from winning."
Mike blinked his eyes and figured he was giving them a compliment for their win, giving a nod and smiles at him before accepting his hand to shake with. "Thanks, I didn't think we get any praises from the Teku."
"Despite how we see the Maniacs as rivals, you guys earned our trust after what you did in the Racing Realms." Kurt responded, making it clear they hold no grudge against the Burners.
"It was an interesting stunt you pulled on using Ice Dust. Had it not worked, the drones would have obviously won. Guess that shows the rumors about the drivers in Motorcity are true." Karma commented
"Yeah, caught them by surprise." Texas stated with a grin on his face.
"Plus, it was thanks to you for helping me
"So how's Vert doing after the accident?" Mike asked the Teku. "I bet he must be down for losing his car and the race."
Karma and Kurt turned to each other before back to the Burners upon mentioning about their teammate. "Well, thing is we don't know where he is. He just suddenly went and vanished after the race."
This surprised Mike upon hearing the news. "Really? I wanted to see how he was doing."
"Hope he's doing okay." Dutch said as his robot buddy agreed with a few beeps.
Kurt nodded and agreed with them. "I'm sure he just needed to be alone. But don't get too excited, we still got more realms to win and stop the Drones."
They all agreed and nodded, decided to try and built up their skills and upgrade the weapons to fight the Racing drones and Vehicons better.
"Don't worry, we all just need some training and follow Karma's advice on using the skills to win." Jacob still felt that the Accelechargers may not be enough to win, but only needed at the right moment and focus on using the skills to complete the realms. Hearing this made Karma grateful for his support and after her performance to help Taro escape the realm in time proved it.
Porkchop was taken to the infirmary to recover from his injury during the rough landing with the barrels he was relieved to be in one piece and not drowned. But felt embarrassed after what happened and thought why the Wheel had to pick water of all realms.
"Hey… h-how you feeling, Porkchop?" He finds his pal, Monkey walk in to see him.
Porkchop rolled his eyes and sighed, not wanting to admit he was not in good condition.
"Not good, huh?" Monkey guessed it and knew how badly injured he was. "So… anyway, I just wanted to ask, you know… what happened in there?" Walks over to his side and asked. "Why'd you freeze up like that."
"I-I don't like water." Porkchop told him, almost tried not to sound hesitant to admit it.
It started to make a lot of sense to the mechanic as he nods his head. "That's why you never take a bath."
"I took a bath!" Porckhop stated. "Once."
"So you mean… you don't like to go swimming or maybe you just never learned how-"
"I'M AFRAID OF THE GOB DAMMNED WATER ALRIGHT!?" Getting frustrated and almost startled Monkey until he calmed himself down and sighed. "Very. Afraid. "
"How come?" This was new to Monkey and always thought Porkchop wasn't afraid of anything, not even to the most scariest and dangerous types of Grimm known to history.
"Well, my daddy, see?" Trying to tell him the story of his past. "He… he drowned when I was a little boy."
"Oh." To hear about his father's death made more sense and felt bad for him to have witnessed that moment in his childhood. "You know, everybody's afraid of something." Trying to cheer him up. "Look at me! I'm afraid of everything, even the Grimm on the top of my list. Chuck kid probably as scared as I am when we met the drones."
He had to admit it, but Monkey made a valid point but despite his fear of everything and the Grimm, he didn't leave the gang and stuck by them and even cared for all their wellbeing. It somewhat made Porkchop feel better to open up a little just needed to try and not be a little afraid… maybe a little.
Meanwhile in the Racing drones' headquarters, a full force of drones and Vehicons surrounded the Wheel of Power since the surprising arrival of the human driver and retreated back through the portal before they could capture him. Gelorum gave command to the drones and the generals to secure the portal to prevent any more until the next realm. Gelorum stood over the balcony and somewhat… astonished in a sense to hear of the news.
Her view on humans has changed over the years, since her first encounter with them, they were nothing but primitives during the war against the Gems before she made her own rebellion against the Accelerons for taking far to destroy the Gems instead making them surrender. They failed to see it until too late that the Drones' primary function was to win, losing was not an option. Memories of the battle still within the memories to remind her of ones that made her decide to turn against them.
Flashback
The Racing Drones were sent to capture a base under orders of their creators within the landscape of Norway to capture and force the Gems into surrender, joined with a band of native warriors and the Crystal Gems. Using the Racing Drones to launch the assault to surprise the Gems with their guard down and crushed their defences.
The drones surrounded the surviving Homeworld Gems, forced on their knees as the Crystal Gems and Accelerons begin to secure the base. Among them was the largest of them, it had extended spikes on the back and the crest, unlike the rest that have green highlights, this one had the yellow glow.
"Looks like another job done." A Bizmuth Gem who came along with them to secure the plans for the Crystal Gems, her blades morphed back into the form of her hands once the battle was over. "Rose will be pleased to hear there were less casualties here."
"We'll escort the prisoners and find out what they've been working on here." The Acceleron officer said. "Escort them to the ship."
Instead of following orders given to the drone, only remained silent.
"Did you not hear me? Escort the prisoners." Curious as to what was going on with them.
"Something wrong?" Bizmuth asked if something was wrong.
"Probably a glitch, they've been getting a little rough since the war. We-"
CRACK
SHATTER
The group froze in shock when they just witnessed the drone leader raised a blaster from its wrist… and blasted one of the enemy gems right into their gem, her body shaken and stared blank in shock. Unable to say a word when her gem was shattered and her body lost hold of the form.
Bizmuth could only stood there in horror of what just happened, narrowing her eyes towards the machine that did it. "WHAT DID YOU DO?! YOU SHATTERED HER GEM!"
"Explain yourself! This was not your programming!"
"You were not ordered to kill." The Acceleron argued with the Racing Drone.
The drone turned around to face them and spoke with a female voice.
"IRRELEVENT. THE GEMS ARE ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTS WITH ENERGY TO FORM. IT IS HARDLY CONSIDERED 'MURDER' TO WHAT IS NOT ORGANIC AND ALSO GEMS ARE CONSIDERED THE ENEMY." Providing it's own belief in defence of executing the enemy.
To Bizmuth she was infuriated with the way they referred to her race as nothing but rocks. "Yeah? Well what if someone takes you out and see if that's called murder?"
"BIzmuth, no!" A white-scaled lizard Mobian called out to her, wearing black and green attire, a white fur collar and held a black staff with a green crystal. stepping in before she tried anything. and turned to the officers. "I think we need to take them before the drones run rampant.
The Accelerons agreed and feel the Racing Drones have forgotten their purpose, clearly using them for the war was not such a good idea despite how much restrictions they have. "You have overstepped your boundaries and hereby order you to return to base to be rebooted."
Again, instead of following their orders, the drones began to arm up. "WE WILL NOT FOLLOW YOUR ORDERS. DRONES. EXTERMINATE THEM!"
"YES, GELORUM."
One of the drones corners a terrified gem to complete the capture, about to take her gem. But all of a sudden, the Racing Drone was frozen in its place.
"Hang on guys!" Bizmuth joined the fight while the soldiers fired back at the drones that have now begun to revolt, using her axes and blades to cleave through them, slashing the arms and heads off. "I'm going for the leader!" But before she could get close, one of the drones shot her, only missed by inches and made her jump back.
"Careful! They'll shatter you too!" A bluish green humanoid in brown garbs moved his arms into slime tendrils and made into larger arms to assist her to defend. The Mobian Ice Elemental waved his arms, raising the ice before them and the hostages.
"Go! Get out of here!" The slime Elemental called out to them, giving them the chance to flee. Ignoring the fact that they were recently enemies.
The Drone leader now calling itself Gelorum stood among her followers, facing the group as more of them appeared in their vehicle "YOU BELIEVE SAVING THEM WILL CHANGE ANYTHING? WHEN WE HAVE COMPLETED OUR OBJECTIVE, THE THE WHEEL OF POWER WILL BE OURS. AND WHEN WE COMPELTED THE GREAT RACE, WE WILL BECOME INVINCIBLE!"
That was her plan from the start and through the years she has gathered many drones under her loyalty. Believing the Accelerons to be fools in believe in peace when they made the drones used for war against the Gems, only to spare them in hopes of reason to spare the threatened species. Beginning her own rebellion and took the moment to sabotage the attempts of their creators and allies, including Rose Quartz to make peace with the Gem Empire to continue the conflict for her gain. And when she has the Wheel of Power on the planet Earth, she will at last destroy her creators.
"Stop!"
Out of thin air, images of their creators and their foes vanished without a trace, much to the frustration of Gelorum. "The drones have forgotten their purpose of competiton and role we have given them." Hearing the voices, both male and female that try to reason with them when they have learned of their true objectives. "The important thing is not winning, but striving to win."
'WE WERE CREATED TO WIN! WINNING IS ALL THERE IS. THE WHEEL OF POWER WILL BE OURS!"
"The realms were created for living creatures, not for machines." The Accelerons reasoned.
End Flashback
Until that moment afterwards the Racing Drones escaped before the Accelerons would deactivate them, taken under hiding from under the Earth's surface. Waiting for the time until any form of civilization has developed the technology and skills of driving.
Reawakened and adapted to a new world but still plagued with Grimm the Drones once fought, now forged an alliance with the Fallen with mutual interests. In return for helping Gelorum to achieve her goals, Sammael offered to help against sabotage the Gem Empire's defences to keep them away from Earth, and in return prevent any disturbance of the Cluster until it emerges while and assist him for mutual agreements. Either way, least she would have the satisfaction of seeing her enemies be destroyed and could imagine the Gems be destroyed by their own Geo-weapon they created. Both neither want to admit it, but when faced with unknown forces and at a certain limit, even the great and powerful Fallen had his own limits but dared not share them with anyone, possibly even from his own circle. It would be something that Gelorum would do the same in her position.
Everyone was fast asleep, Porkchop was recovering well through the night and slept while snoring very loud.
Tork in his own room was throwing his head to the sides, grunting and shaking when having a bad dream.
He was racing against the Teku leader Tone through the streets for a challenge to see who was the best team of racers. Tone was taking the lead and ahead of Tork, frustrated and wanted to go faster, shifting the gears to accelerate and slammed the front to his car's rear end. His plan was to knock him out of the race and take the advantage, and it worked after seeing his car spin around to the side.
Only a little TOO well when he saw an explosion from his mirror.
Woken from the past events, Tork sat up and gasped when he realised he was back in the Accceledrome. He turned and thought he saw the spirit of Tone standing from across the room.
"It wasn't my fault…. Was it?" He told him, knowing he didn't mean to cause the accident, despite what his friends saying he didn't do it on purpose. Charley, Coop, even Jacob assured him. But part of him somewhat felt responsible for taking Tone's life and caused Nolo to utterly blame him for his older brother's death.
The ghost of Tone remained silent and dropped his necklace to the floor.
Opens his eyes once again and this time he was definitely awake, this time he doesn't see anything, not even Tone's spirit.
He sees some shadows moving through the bottom of his door, hearing the sound footsteps and became suspicious of what was going on
Karma was using the simulator once again to improve her skills once she figured out how to complete the realms better from the previous try out. Completing the simulation and steps out of the car to see the results of her improvement, only to find it a 99%. While it was impressive, but not even close to the Drones' perfect skills of driving.
"Not good enough." Suddenly hears a piece of metal fall and saw a figure walking by, and straight to the Metal Maniacs' cars. She had a clear idea who it was. Making her way over and switched the lights on to find Nolo with a wench in his hand. He was surprised to find the lights on and caught by Karma who did not seem pleased with what he was going to do.
"Go to bed, Nolo."
"We can't beat the Drones if we have to fight the Maniacs at the same time." Nolo told her.
"This isn't about winning races, not for you." Karma said. "It's about revenge for what happened to your Tone."
Nolo narrowed his eyes at her for the mention of his late brother. "Yeah, murder doesn't just happen."
"Tone crashed because he made a mistake." Karma stated.
"Tone didn't make mistakes!" Nolo tried to argue back.
"Stop pretending, Nolo! You know how he liked to show off! I told him he was drifting too much in the turns-"
"Don't tell me about my brother!" Nolo cut her off.
"Yeah." Karma nodded. "He wouldn't listen to me either, especially to Tiny."
"Are you lost?"
Before Nolo could respond to her mention of his remaining brother, both Teku find Tork calling out to them. "Or are you just looking for a place to be alone."
Out of frustration, Nolo threw the wrench at him but missed. Tork barely moved an inch as it hardly touched him but wasn't pleased about it. "If you ever do that again, you better not miss." Giving him a fair warning.
"Yeah, let's settle this once and for all!" Nolo proclaimed and ready to finish the Maniac leader for good.
Karma felt she had to step in to stop this from going further. "This is pointless, Nolo."
Nolo turned around to face her. "This is between him and me!"
"I'm not gonna fight you." Tork said, despite how much he wanted to teach the punk a lesson he wanted to be proven as the better man than get into petty fights.
Nolo glared at him and picked up another wrench to make Tork fight him, too angry and frustrated over the loss of his brother. Everyone told him to put it aside to let Tone rest, even his own brother, Tiny refused to be part of his quest to avenge their sibling and left without saying a word to him. "I think you WILL!" Grabs the wrench and bashed it into Tork's car window, breaking the glass easily and made Tork more than annoyed. But before either of them could start a fight, the alarms went off just mere moments after.
They would have to settle the score with each other another time.
I hope you enjoyed it and the little moment between the G3 from Sym-Biotic Titan and The Centre from Martin Mystery. Have thougth of adding a bit of flashback of when Gelorum and the drones began to turn on their creatores and allies, along with facing the two Elementals I thought must have taken part of Rebellion/war against the Gem Homeworld. Have pics of the two so will upload them to the wiki.
And now we are on to the next race and find out how the next race will turn out.
And to Maximus, I'm sure you'll catch X... that is if he hasn't made a switch with one of his duplicates. Anyways *puts a sign of hunting gear* Get your traps here! Make use to catch annoying people and 4th wall breakers!
Anyways, hope you all enjoyed the chapter!