"Welcome readers for another chapter of GrimmFall: Accereracers! I'm sure you are all excited for what will happen in this one, there are possibilities of TWO racing realms not introduced to the series could make appearance but not saying unless other ideas or discuss on PM for prevent possible spoilers. And have so many things coming to the story,"
Black: Uh, sir, we jst got another complaint from the head of the series, he seems to have trouble whenever a copy of X is about.
"Hmm, well I may have an idea. It's a big shot but we have to fight fire with fire. Something wacky, something zany and nutty!"
White: Call the Mask?
Black: Deadpool?
"Nope! I heard they came back after 22 years." Reaches for the phone. "Send in… the Warner Brothers."
"And the Warner Sister!"
Opening File: Nolo Pasaro
The youngest of the Pasaro brothers, Nolo looked up to his brothers being the oldest and strongest. He didn't enrolled for the Lucha Academy as it didn't feel like his calling despite being a fan of the lucha wrestling, especially one of the famous luchadors, El Toro Fuerto , the Strongest Bull or Ox. Despite not taking the path of a wrestler, decided to choose another of idea his family were well known in their town; racing. Nolo loved to race with passion and drive the toughest terrains against the other racers, even dreamed of competing in Motorcity for their toughest drivers, the Wacky Races, famous as the newest event for Mobians called the Rimba Grand Pix.
Wanting to be strong like the rest of his family and trained himself alongside his siblings to master the skills to be ready. He was a little cocky thinking he could take on anyone, even so far as to race through the Wildlands despite the dangers they pose. When his elder brother, Tone founded the Teku he was the first member under his wing. But when his brother competed against the Metal Maniac Leader and killed in a tragic accident, Nolo blamed Tork for his borhter's death and vowed to avenge him, no matter what it takes.
Nolo ignored Tiny's advice not to go down the path or even his crew after taking over the leadership, but hoping he would let go of the hate and move on.
Monkey found himself in paradise, all the tools and parts a mechanic could ever dream of: engines, tires, pedals, and so much more. Floating around, almost swimming in air until he stopped to find Lani floating in the air and smiling at him in a pure white version of her usual outfit.
Monkey had his sight on the brunette since the day he met her and could not deny his crush on her. True one time he admit the Charley girl from Chicago was attractive, but usually his thing for female mechanics and didn't see much connection other then mechanic jobs. But he knew Lani was the special one and tried to push the boundaries.
He sees her waving to him, wanting him to come to her like an invitation. "Who, me?" Playing the clueless one and chuckled.
The dream Lani nodded and was mechanic swam closer to her to receive a kiss. Then all of a sudden, Lani made this strange look with her mouth opened, and everything went white.
The alarm buzzed and made Monkey move about in his bed, his hands reached up in the air, trying to grab something before he fell out of his bed and made a loud thud, waking the mechanic by surprise.
"Oh, man." Groaned in dismay that it was all a dream.
Tezla took his position and ready to announce the next available drivers for the next Racing Realm.
"Think it's time I take the Sasquatch for a spin, could give the others a hand." Jacob told them and made his leave, surprising Lani and Tezla of this but didn't seem that big of a deal.
"Very well." The doctor accepted it and would have wished him good luck but had no time. "The following drivers will enter the realm. Jacob Davidson. Kurt Wylde. Taro Kitano.
"Dutch Gordy."
Hears his name called out and surprised to hear Jacob was joining. "Alright, lets go buddy." R.O.T.H. beeped in respond to join him.
"Micthell McClurg"
"Mitchell McClurg? Wonder who that is?" Dutch never knew anyone with that name. Unless it a certain person he can think of with a nickname to be preferred.
"Hey! The Name's Monkey!" Monkey called out to Tezla as he preferred his nickname as a Metal Maniac.
"Julie Kane."
The redhaired Burner was fully dressed and ran out of her room.
"Karma Eiss."
"Tork Maddox."
"Nolo Pasaro."
Much as Karma thought things couldn't get any worst than it is, but just answered her question. "We got a realm to race!" Walks away to leave the two before they try anything to start a fight.
The Teku leader frowned as she leas, turns to Tork one last time before making his leave. "See you inside." As he said before throwing a wrench he held to the ground.
Tork shook his head in disapproval over how the young Teku shows much of his older brother. "Just like your brother." Muttering under his breath.
"Urp!"
Almost startled by the loud beltch, seeing it was none other than Monkey waling past and holding a large bottle of a drink in his hand.
Monkey grins and turns to Tork. "You know, Tork, you should drink some of this before you go into the realm, 'cuz I'm telling you, man, this stuff will keep your eyes OPEN!"
'And I thought Coop had a big appetite.' Shakes his head while Monkey gave a light chuckle, but walked past him with too much on his mind at the moment.
Not bothered by what was going on and resumed his drink… right until Monkey took one look at his car and gasped, causing him to cough on his drink in shock of the smashed window of his car. "W-WHAT THE GROB HAPPENED TO ME CAR?!"
Rather than explain how it happened thanks to Nolo's personal issues, opens the Hollowback to climb in. "Take Spinebuster."
Monkey struggled to keep a straight face to a pale look, knowing fully tat the Spnebuster was Wylde's personal car and nobody dared touch… or even drive it but him. But given he had little choice and was called out for the race and followed his leader's orders.
The second ring stops turning, leaving only one left before the portal opens.
"Tork!"
Tork turned and saw his teammate, Taro throw him the Cavern Realm Accelecharger and catches it in his hand.
Wylde came by and to his shock was the Spinebuster being driven by someone other then him and was really mad. "Hold up! Spinebuster's MY car!" The Wolf Faunus proclaimed and marched to find Monkey in his seat, already strapped in with a seatbelt and helmet.
Monkey was having a bad timing to find Wylde present while working on the gears.
Wylde glares at the mechanic and thought he could steal his car from him. "Nobody drives my car but me!" He said and was almost within arms reach until until watching his precious Spinebuster drive off to the portal.
"Don't worry, Wylde! Your car's running great!" Monkey assured him after finally getting the gears working and speeding away.
"MMMOOOONNNKEEEEYYYYY!" Shouting out his name in the air with his fists up before he grunted and swore to himself if the Racing Drones or the Vehicons don't get his car. Wylde surely would make Monkey regret it.
The rings of the Wheel of Power finished aligning themselves and the portal was connected to the chosen Racing Realm, the Racing Drones along with the vehicon Generals, Jetstorm and Tankor lead them towards the portal, along with a larger vehicle, like all the Drone vehicles it was black with large wheels and larger than any Tank Drones and the size of a truck.
"Lets see them handle this beauty." Jetstorm said with a sinister glee before flying into the portal.
Within the command centre Gelorum sat on her chair alongside with her generals. With the new vehicle built in time, she would await for the results of the testing ground
The drivers now in their cars as the last ring was aligned and the portal opened, all three teams, including Jacob as he felt the acceleration for the first time, leaned back and trying to keep a good grip on the wheel. "Damn! That's some boost!" Keeping his monster truck steady on the track while driving through the loops.
"Just keep it steady, Jacob until you enter the portal but watch out for anything in there." Julie gave her advise from the previous experiences and not sure what to expect.
"This is Lani, everyone change your tires to Slick treads. Your about to enter the Metro Realm."
"Metro Realm, huh?" Dutch smiled. "Sounds like a city type." He drove alongside the other cars and felt the second thrust before jumping into the portal.
What he did not expect was many cars on the lane, which was the opposite.
"LOOK OUT!" Dutch cried out, hearing his robot beeped in panic while the Burner tried to avoid a crash.
Panic was all the drivers had in mind when they found themselves in some sort of tunnel full of fast moving cars, chicaning through the lane until they could try to find a way to reach the correct lane. Kurt avoided the passing cars and found out they were in the wrong lane and no sign of getting out through the tunnel, so far he had to focus on maneuvering through the track until a way out was found.
Monkey had a hard time when he accidently got the Spinebuster scratched from a passing car. "Sorry Wylde!" He just hoped to avoid more scratches for his own sake.
Julie was able to slip through the gaps when she somehow able to find a pattern, followed by Karma and Tork.
For Jacob, he had little problems with his larger wheels gaining an advantage and drover over the passing cars, it was fortunate for him they appear to not have drivers inside but were too many to deal with and slowing him down.
"There's no sign of an exit! Time we made our own." Switched the Cap Guns on, each one within a wheel emerged and started shooting the wall to drive through and followed by Dutch.
Taro nodded and thought of the same idea to get out of the heavy traffic. "The old man's got something. Emerging." He shouted through the radio and switched the lava plow on, finding a curve up ahead and drove straight towards the wall and burst through it to make a gap.
An old man with a pair of shades honked his horn. "Hey, watch were ya going, roadhogs!"
Julie passed by and had some idea of what she needed to do. "You guys go up ahead, I think we found a pattern through this."
"She's right, make the right timing to pass through on the lane we came." Karma shared her thoughts as both drivers slipped through the space between each car until they emerged the end of the tunnel. Up ahead was a floating metropolis floating in the orange sky.
"So this is the Metro Realm." Jacob was awed of how it looked like so many cities back on Earth.
Lani's voice spoke through the radio to contact them. "If you can find an exit, there may be less traffic off the freeway."
"Got it, we'll split up to find the portal." Kurt said.
"Good idea." Jacob nodded and liking the idea.
"Let's just hope it doesn't affect our time limit." Dutch acknowledged and joined the fellow Burners to take the track while the other two chose their own to find their way through the city to find the right path to the finish line.
Elsewhere in the Metro Realm, garage doors lifted up to open as multiple trucks emerged. Honking their horns before taking the road.
Jetstorm flew through the building with his squad in the air, as he wanted to use the advantage to find the portal but was ordered to remain low and use the buildings for cover should he find the drivers. "Hmm, no sign of them yet… hold on." From the corner of his optics he found familiar drivers on one of the roads. "Jetstorm to the boss, I found moving targets on the freeway!"
"Keepa close eye on them, do not lose sight of them."
"Not a problem." Thinking this would be a piece of cake for him
Gelorum contacts the rest of the drones and Tankor with the Sweepers. "The Humans are leaving the freeway. Jetstorm is pursuing them now."
Obeying her command and followed to the Aerial Vehicon's position.
"You sure it was a good idea to split up? I mean, to leave Nolo and Tork is a pretty bad sign of what's gonna happen." Julie thought about the hate between them.
"Yeah, I mean, what's with this rivalry between them? The two look as though they were ready to tear each other apart." Dutch questioned and R.O.T.H. beeped to agree.
Jacob sighs and thought to share the story with them. "It was since Nolo's brother was killed in an accident from a race. Nolo blamed Tork and vowed revenge.
"Damn." Dutch mumbled under his breath and felt bad for him. Julie was shocked to find out about it but certainly explains a lot.
"You said, Tork was part of your team years ago, you believe he didn't mean to?" Julie asked him.
"No way, but sometimes we have our dark sides." Jacob admitted but so saw something from the corner of his eye. "What the… something's in the air."
Flying through the metropolis was a squadron of jets. "Jetstorm!" Julie yelled out in alarm.
Jetstorm flew towards the Burners with his drones and immediately let loose a barrage of bolts in front of the trio, forcing the drivers to pull the breaks to avoid the damage. The vehicon general transformed into his robot mode along with his drones "Well, well, well. Looks like what we have here is an unlawful assembly. I'm afraid I have to take you boys downtown in pieces!"
The Burners immediately hit the acceleration to take another route when Jetstorm fired his plasma bolts at them.
"This is Jacob, we ran into one of the Vehicons."
"Which ones?" Kurt asked through the radio.
"The flying jutjob that's who!" Julie remarked and took a curve to avoid a drone flying above her. Able to shoot it down with her front cannons but another came up from behind. "I really hate it when these guys make things difficult!"
"I'm starting to agree with ya!" Jacob had more trouble on his part when the Aero drones were coming in from the sides, he quickly switched the weapon systems on to use the gattling guns, sprouting from the wheels and shoot them from the sides. He had more trouble with a pair of Racing Drones, much as they can try to fend them off, but the racers were on a time limit in the Metro Realm. "This is just like dealing with a swarm of Lancers." He muttered to himself. "We gotta get moving, can't stay in the same place too long!"
"There's a main track up ahead, let's use that to build cover." Dutch suggested when he was suddenly taken by surprise by Jetstorm right on top of him, surprising the Burner and his robotic companion who quivered in fright.
Jetstorm gave out a chuckle. "Don't worry about the pain, kid, I won't feel a thing."
"Yeah, let's see how you like a ride." Accelerates towards the edge of the track and jumped towards the closest building, switching the Mag Wheels to pull the car towards the metallic surface and drove fast.
The vehicon clings on as he can and tries to dig his fingers through the glass dome when on the front. "Nice try kid! But, it'll take more than that to throw me off! Now give me the accelecharger or-"
Without warning he was blasted off by the Sonic Spitter after failed to learn he was in between the speakers. Forced to propel his turbo jets to stabilize his position in mid air. "Cocky little meatbag!"
Dutch didn't finish and fired the Whiptail laser to fire from the laser gun, firing at his target to build enough distance until he found a suitable track from his view. "Julie, Jacob. I found a track we can use, follow me."
Not wasting time and followed his advice to escape the drones. Dutch was back to the ground and used the bridges for cover.
With the Burners ahead, Jetstorm recovered and regrouped with his drones and decided to follow them if they found a possible way through. "Jetstorm, Afterburn!" Transforms into his vehicle mode along with his forces to chase the Burners and find the portal to win.
The Burners had to try and lose them before they could find the others, but also had to deal with the vast number of cars around. He finds several paths but no idea which of them the Burners took. "I love it when they play hard to get!"
His form glowed in a ocean blue, his vision allowed him to see through the buildings and found his targets. Using the element of surprise when he launches a disc-like probe to seek them out and follows it the metropolis.
Unaware to the Burners until now they thought to have lost Jetstorm but something else caught their attention. "Guys, picking up something coming from behind." Jacob alerted the two.
The probe came close and flew over them after they pulled the breaks to outrun it, much to the surprise of the Burners when they thought it had them. "It… it missed." Julie thought it had them.
Jetstorm showed up with his squadron and transformed. "Au contraire mon cher." Proven his word as it made a turn back towards them, however he did not realise until too late when Dutch used his speakers to disrupt the probe's systems. Instead of the Burners as the targets, it was now coming towards Jetstorm. Realised what was happening and tried to make a run for it, but was not fast enough and made a big explosion.
KABBOOOM!
The Vehicon General and his drones were fortunate to receive some minor damage from the blast, along with his aura to lesson the damage. But as he was beginning to recover, something blasted one of his drones with a purple blast, causing the systems to malfunction.
TARGETTING SYSTEMS DISRUPTED.
COMPENSATING.
COMPENSATING.
The Aero Drone started to fire on its own, taking out one after the other, much to the General's shock of what he was seeing. "What are you doing?!" Jetstorm was hit in the chest by the drone, crashed against the debris and now more frustrated then he was. "That's it! I'm through working with a bunch of empty headed, tin-plated-"
"Ah-hem?"
Distracted by his frustration and failed to noticed the Burners right beside him with their faces clear.
"Ganging up on ME?! Let's see how tough you are when I bring back a whole BATTALLION back! Jetstorm, adios!" Decided to make his leave and transformed.
"Glad he's out of the way." Dutch said in relief but feels it was a little too easy. He noticed one of the drones still moving until it crashed to the ground. "What happened to them?"
"Let's not stick around to find out, we're on a schedule to find the finish line." Jacob said, much as he was baffled of what happened but did not want to waste any more time when they were on a time limit.
Nolo took the highway to find the portal and win for the race, but to his 'luck', the leader of the Metal Maniacs, the one responsible for the death of his brother was on the main road below. Taking the chance to avenge his brother, but before he could make a jump off the bridge, a train came by and almost run into it.
"Nolo, this is Lani. I'm downloading data on the most important skills for city driving."
"Hey, you're gonna teach me how to be a street racer?!" Not sure if he heard her right. "My brother took care of that." With a clear path to jump over the next lane, he switched the thrusters to make an easy jump to shorten the distance from his target while accepting in reluctance from Lani's advice to street race. Within range he made another jump down to the road and catches up towards Tork and rammed into the car's rear.
Taken by surprise, Tork growled to find the Teku leader right behind him.
"YOU READY TO FIGHT YET?!"
"Kid, you don't know when to quit!" Tork remarked and retaliated when he pulled the breaks, forcing Nolo to steer to the side but only hit the right side of his car. Both on the opposite sides of the road, giving each other a hard glare when they collide into each other, trying to push one another or as Nolo would try to make him crash into one of the pillars.
Barely left a scratch, Tork kept focus on driving while dealing with the kid who was trying to literally kill him. Moved to the back and accelerated forward, this time making his turn to ram into Nolo, causing him to spin and able to outrun the Teku.
Back in the Acceledrome, Lani could not help but feel something not right about the race apart from the Drones.
Mike entered the control room to see what was happening. "How's it going?"
"Well, we now know the Drones are around, but looks like they're doing alright." Lani explained to him but her expression did not escaped Mike's curiosity of what she was thinking.
"Something the matter?" Mike asked her.
"There's something wrong with this realm." Lani said
"Yeah." Karma agreed with her. "It's too easy. Just driving on city streets it-AHH!"
"Karma? What's going on?!" Mike called out and thought something happened to her when he heard the sound of a horn, something that was like a truck. Whatever it was they thought was easy just ended.
Karma grunted after a truck came out of no where and tried to run her down, but the worst yet to come when it was about to drag her to the end of the road with no signs of stopping. Making a full reverse just in time before the truck hits the wall and exploded.
Sighed in relief until now she knew there could be more of them, just had to be more careful and watch out for any more surprises in this realm.
Meanwhile not far from where she was, Monkey was really having a hard time, not just trying to avoid the dangers in the Racing Realm. But for how much longer he has to hold in his bladder. "Hey, has anyone seen a bathroom around here?
"I need to flush out the radiator. You know what I mean, uh… drain the oil pan."
To Lani's confusion and Mike's amused expression from Monkey's choice of words to describe what he was trying to say.
"Are you having having engine trouble?" Lani asked if he was in trouble. But this only caused Mike gave a mental sigh when he had a clear idea what was wrong, even this did not escaped Tezla's bafflement of how she could not understand the terms.
"Or maybe someone had a little too much to fill before going to the race." Mike implied and figured the moment he saw Monkey with the large drink he would have some problemts.
"A whole city with no restroom. It's like being in Empire City." Monkey muttered to himself as he was trying to find a possible bathroom before he would reach the limit. But finds a fire hydrant ahead, which could be useful as a substitute since there are no people about to make a scene. Making up his choice and parked right next to it.
HONK!
Before he could fully disembark the car, the mechanic spotted a truck coming right towards him. Gasped in fear and waste no time to make a full reverse, but the truck was closing in on him and started to panic. "You can tell Wylde he can have his car back!"
HONK!
"YAH!" Grabs the wheel to steer towards the sides before it could ram into the Spinebuster and made the truck to try pulling the breaks, only to end up losing its balance and crashed to the side. Monkey sighed in relief, especially with the car undamaged, meaning Wylde would not be too mad at him. "Yeah! That's what happens when you mess with the monkey!" Just as he thought to be out of trouble, spotting Racing Drones emerge from the side and drove towards his path. "Ooh, monkey better get moving." Hits the acceleration and make any attempts to lose them before they could find the portal.
"The enemy forces have scattered across the Metro Realm, already Jetstorm has encountered the drivers known as the Burners." Strika informed.
"They could be trying to widen their search for the portal." Obsidian implied, knowing Jetstorm's ability to fly in the air to locate the finish line, but was ordered to maintain close to the Sweeper or prevent the drivers from finding it. "I suggest we use his ability to lure them closer to the Sweepers."
Strika nods her head in agreement to the strategy, a drone approached the Vehicons to report. "GENERAL STRIKA AND OBSIDIAN, OUR PROBES HAVE DETECTED SEVERAL VESSELS IN THE SOL SYSTEM."
Bringing the generals' attention when they wondered who could have send them. "Do we know who they belong to?"
To show him, a holographic projection revealed a small number of star ships. "Those are Alliance vessels." Strika stated.
"And one of them belongs to none other than Captain Gantu himself." Obsidian recognised one of the ships but his attention to the others but could not believed they were here so sudden when they were suppose to maintain a distance from the ancestral planet. "Those ships belong to the Gaia Union. Surely they could not be aware of the Cluster."
"Unless, something else has drawn their attention such as the dimensional tears created by Van Kleiss." Strika shared her thoughts. "If he continues this experiment of his more, the tears could worsen."
Agreeing with her statement with the dangers of dimensional travel, unlike certain devices such as the Wheel of Power which opens and closes a stable link, but such devices after the Black Mesa Incident are example.
"Report to Lady Gelorum immediately, we will await further instructions of what to do." Obsidian gave the order while also to observe the activities of the Cluster with reports of the Justice Friends' plan to prevent it, little do they realise the current state of the Geo-Weapon. "Any sightings of the Gems?"
"NEGATIVE. ONLY ONE SHIP LEFT THE STAR SYSTEM."
"And if they do return, be certain to inform our allies." Gelorum approached them upon hearing the conversation. "If the rumors of them using organics are true, unless they have certain value of knowledge they are of no use to us. Eliminate them."
'I'm sorry everyone.' Before the next Racing Realm was chosen, Vert decided to leave the Acceledrome without anyone knowing. Lost the self-esteem and became more doubtful that they would need someone who could barely keep a car intact or save someone like he failed to save Kadeem in the Lightning Realm. Thinking some time off to clear his head would help find his mojo back.
Driving on his motorcyle and head back home. "Hopefully they're not mad that I was away too long, no doubt Clover be worried as mom would." Mumbles to himself as he contineus to drive through the night in the desert.
Little did he know a bird was awake and watched him drove pass, not taking note of it's reddish highlights and tail feathers with the rest mixed with black and red. Not taking its red illuminating eyes off the boy before it spread its wings to flight, soaring high above the oblivious Teku until it vanishes into a reddish glow.