SPEED RACER X!!!
FALLEN HERO Episode 20 - X
Morning at the stately mansion of Jettison, who sits beside the pool as usual having his breakfast alone. One of his butlers brings him the morning paper. He lays the paper next to Jettison's cheese Danish. Jettison thanks and dismisses the servant, who bows politely and returns inside.
Jettison picks up the paper and lays the paper open on his lap and looks down at it, the headline reads,
RACER X MISSING
PRESUMED DEAD!
"Whoa!" says Jettison, he reads, "Infamous grand prix racer dies at lonely bridge near outskirts of the city. Local police speculate foul play ended the racer's life suddenly." "Wow!" he says placing the paper back on the table. He hears a splash, and turns to look at the pool.
"You!" he says.
"Just having a morning swim", said Sonya.
"Looks like bad news arrives in twos!" he says turning away.
"Now is that anyway to talk to a lady!" she smiles and chuckles. "You must be talking about that unfortunate accident."
"Don't you have somewhere else to be?" he says.
"Oh, poor little rich boy got up on the wrong side of his money?" she mocks.
She looks down at the newspaper and says, "Racer X finally got a taste of his own jinx! Looks like he won't be getting in the way anymore."
"He was a great racer! Better than anyone on your team I'd wager! I was hoping to race against him in the World Earth Grand Prix." he says.
"Well, he was no Rex Racer. But how would you like to join a winning team?" she asks.
"Me? Join up with the likes of Team Exelion, no way! I'm doing just fine on my own!" he replies.
"You should think about the future, time changes things, our team can help you defeat Speed Racer, if you join us that is" she said.
"I'll beat him fair and square all by myself, you're not going to have me play the fool again! As usual, you're all wet!" he says.
"Humph!" she scoffs "You won't beat Team Exelion or Speed Racer!" she jumps back in the pool and swims away.
Jettison looks back at the paper, "I wouldn't be surprised if Team Exelion had anything to do with this!"
At Hibiki Motors, Speed enters the kitchen yawning. Mom and Pops are discussing the headlines; they are distressed at hearing of Racer X's death.
"What could have happened?" said Mom
Pops replies, "Such a racer was sure to have made many enemies, who knows!"
"Speed, where did you go? How did you ever get the Mach V back?" asks Mom.
"I had a little help from a friend, his name is Night Wraith."
"Night Wraith!" Mom and Pops exclaim together.
Pops asks, "Is he a new racer?"
"I don't think so, he said he was avenging Racer X's death" replies Speed.
"Oh Speed! He sounds dangerous!" says Mom.
"Don't worry, Mom, I don't think we'll be seeing him again" says Speed. Thinking to himself, he never even saw him at all even when they rode together in the same vehicle the night before.
"It's hard to believe Racer X is gone! I think had we gotten to know each other more that we might have even become friends, but not anymore!" said Speed
Pops continues, "It seems rather odd that Racer X could allow himself to get cornered. After all the Shooting Star is a racing car and you'd think as experienced a driver as he is that he'd be able to get away!"
Mom replies, "Dear, he's only human. It's very sad that a young man would be cut down in his prime only to have it be plastered all over the headlines, just to sell papers. You should try to have some consideration for his family, after all no person is an island. Even though he wears a mask, and claims to have no family, somewhere in this world there must be someone that loves him who's grieving at the loss of him right now. It would be a terrible existence indeed to live without someone to love and someone who loves you. Life is too short to take our loved ones for granted."
Pops looks at her and says, "My dear, I am reminded why I love you so much! I am very grateful for you being my better half." She leans over close to him saying "Thank you dear!" and she gives him a little peck on the cheek.
Speed, after seeing them together happy after so many years, thinks about Trixie and wonders about their future together.
Meanwhile at the Fontaine household, Trixie is shocked as she reads the headlines of the newspaper, "Oh, no! Racer X! Now we'll never find out who he was!"
"Huh? Racer X is missing?" said Spritle.
Trixie thinking to herself, "I need to investigate this for myself! Something is very suspicious about this! Time to do some snooping!"
Later that night, Trixie arrives at Racer X's mansion. She jumps out of her vehicle and creeps toward it saying to herself, "This place is a bit spooky at night! Now don't lose your head, this is no time to get scared! After all, I'm not a little girl anymore!" The night is windy, it brings a chill to her spine, and she becomes a bit apprehensive, but continues onward.
She looks through a window and sees Joe inside; he's fallen asleep in front of the fireplace. "Perfect!" she says with a smile as she edges her way along further around the side of the mansion. She looks up and sees an open window above with easy access from an adjacent tree. "This'll be easier than I thought, although I thought I'd outgrown climbing trees!"
She climbs quietly up the tree and grabs on to a sturdy branch that takes her close enough to reach the window then she goes inside. The wind outside causes the shutters to creak and rattle slightly. She is startled by the noise; she turns quickly looking back at the window and gasps quietly.
"Now don't get jumpy, there's nothing to be afraid of!" A thought crossed her mind that she wished she hadn't thought of, ghosts! "Now come on, there's no such thing as ghosts, everybody knows that! --- Right?" She tries to put the thought out of her mind and pulls out a flashlight. She looks around and discovers she's in the library. "Nothing but books, nothing scary about books, I like books!"
She finds a door to another room and enters. She sees clothing and discovers she's in a walk-in closet; she turns the corner and startles herself when she shines the flashlight into to a mirror. "Oh! This is ridiculous!"
She goes back into the library and finds a door to another room opposite the walk-in closet.
She enters slowly and quietly shining the light on a table with a candelabra in the center. "Now we're getting somewhere!" She shines the light around the room, a chair is in the corner of the room, a window, and a small table with a vase full of fresh flowers in the other corner, above is a chandelier. "Hmm...Nothing here, wait!" She shines the light back again and sees a mannequin wearing Racer X's mask and cape! "Oh!"First she is frightened, then relieved, she realizes what's she's found!
She reaches her hand out toward the mask, and before she can touch it, suddenly behind her she hears the chair creak. The hair on the back of her neck stands on end! She looks around shining the light on the chair and sees nothing.
She gets the feeling, she's not alone, and then the crystal of the chandelier begins to tinkle. She shines the light on the chandelier, and a chill runs down her back, she cringes.
She looks side to side for a moment and her hands begin trembling, then she whispers, "Hello-o-o-o...Is somebody in here?" suddenly she hears cloth being pulled from the mannequin and thrown on top of the table!
She gasps as she shines the light on the table, it's Racer X's mask! With that she promptly exits the room still shining the light on the mask in the middle of the table! She bumps into someone or something, "Excuse, me!" says a voice. Her eyes widen and her heart is pounding, not turning around to see whom it was, she quickly exits the library out the window she entered through!
She doesn't know how she got down the tree so quickly or how quickly she ran, only that she entered her vehicle still holding a small broken branch from the tree. With adrenaline still pumping, she drives away vowing never to go back to that spooky place again! Back on the road, she is relieved and feels safe again.
Inside the library, Joe watches from the window, "Will that be all sir, I am sorry for falling asleep!" "That's perfectly alright, Joe, I only wanted to make sure she got back to her vehicle safely. Perhaps now we'll be seeing less of Miss Fontaine." said Racer X pulling off the wraith mask in the darkness. "Yes sir, goodnight sir." "Good night."
FALLEN HERO Episode 20 - X
Morning at the stately mansion of Jettison, who sits beside the pool as usual having his breakfast alone. One of his butlers brings him the morning paper. He lays the paper next to Jettison's cheese Danish. Jettison thanks and dismisses the servant, who bows politely and returns inside.
Jettison picks up the paper and lays the paper open on his lap and looks down at it, the headline reads,
RACER X MISSING
PRESUMED DEAD!
"Whoa!" says Jettison, he reads, "Infamous grand prix racer dies at lonely bridge near outskirts of the city. Local police speculate foul play ended the racer's life suddenly." "Wow!" he says placing the paper back on the table. He hears a splash, and turns to look at the pool.
"You!" he says.
"Just having a morning swim", said Sonya.
"Looks like bad news arrives in twos!" he says turning away.
"Now is that anyway to talk to a lady!" she smiles and chuckles. "You must be talking about that unfortunate accident."
"Don't you have somewhere else to be?" he says.
"Oh, poor little rich boy got up on the wrong side of his money?" she mocks.
She looks down at the newspaper and says, "Racer X finally got a taste of his own jinx! Looks like he won't be getting in the way anymore."
"He was a great racer! Better than anyone on your team I'd wager! I was hoping to race against him in the World Earth Grand Prix." he says.
"Well, he was no Rex Racer. But how would you like to join a winning team?" she asks.
"Me? Join up with the likes of Team Exelion, no way! I'm doing just fine on my own!" he replies.
"You should think about the future, time changes things, our team can help you defeat Speed Racer, if you join us that is" she said.
"I'll beat him fair and square all by myself, you're not going to have me play the fool again! As usual, you're all wet!" he says.
"Humph!" she scoffs "You won't beat Team Exelion or Speed Racer!" she jumps back in the pool and swims away.
Jettison looks back at the paper, "I wouldn't be surprised if Team Exelion had anything to do with this!"
At Hibiki Motors, Speed enters the kitchen yawning. Mom and Pops are discussing the headlines; they are distressed at hearing of Racer X's death.
"What could have happened?" said Mom
Pops replies, "Such a racer was sure to have made many enemies, who knows!"
"Speed, where did you go? How did you ever get the Mach V back?" asks Mom.
"I had a little help from a friend, his name is Night Wraith."
"Night Wraith!" Mom and Pops exclaim together.
Pops asks, "Is he a new racer?"
"I don't think so, he said he was avenging Racer X's death" replies Speed.
"Oh Speed! He sounds dangerous!" says Mom.
"Don't worry, Mom, I don't think we'll be seeing him again" says Speed. Thinking to himself, he never even saw him at all even when they rode together in the same vehicle the night before.
"It's hard to believe Racer X is gone! I think had we gotten to know each other more that we might have even become friends, but not anymore!" said Speed
Pops continues, "It seems rather odd that Racer X could allow himself to get cornered. After all the Shooting Star is a racing car and you'd think as experienced a driver as he is that he'd be able to get away!"
Mom replies, "Dear, he's only human. It's very sad that a young man would be cut down in his prime only to have it be plastered all over the headlines, just to sell papers. You should try to have some consideration for his family, after all no person is an island. Even though he wears a mask, and claims to have no family, somewhere in this world there must be someone that loves him who's grieving at the loss of him right now. It would be a terrible existence indeed to live without someone to love and someone who loves you. Life is too short to take our loved ones for granted."
Pops looks at her and says, "My dear, I am reminded why I love you so much! I am very grateful for you being my better half." She leans over close to him saying "Thank you dear!" and she gives him a little peck on the cheek.
Speed, after seeing them together happy after so many years, thinks about Trixie and wonders about their future together.
Meanwhile at the Fontaine household, Trixie is shocked as she reads the headlines of the newspaper, "Oh, no! Racer X! Now we'll never find out who he was!"
"Huh? Racer X is missing?" said Spritle.
Trixie thinking to herself, "I need to investigate this for myself! Something is very suspicious about this! Time to do some snooping!"
Later that night, Trixie arrives at Racer X's mansion. She jumps out of her vehicle and creeps toward it saying to herself, "This place is a bit spooky at night! Now don't lose your head, this is no time to get scared! After all, I'm not a little girl anymore!" The night is windy, it brings a chill to her spine, and she becomes a bit apprehensive, but continues onward.
She looks through a window and sees Joe inside; he's fallen asleep in front of the fireplace. "Perfect!" she says with a smile as she edges her way along further around the side of the mansion. She looks up and sees an open window above with easy access from an adjacent tree. "This'll be easier than I thought, although I thought I'd outgrown climbing trees!"
She climbs quietly up the tree and grabs on to a sturdy branch that takes her close enough to reach the window then she goes inside. The wind outside causes the shutters to creak and rattle slightly. She is startled by the noise; she turns quickly looking back at the window and gasps quietly.
"Now don't get jumpy, there's nothing to be afraid of!" A thought crossed her mind that she wished she hadn't thought of, ghosts! "Now come on, there's no such thing as ghosts, everybody knows that! --- Right?" She tries to put the thought out of her mind and pulls out a flashlight. She looks around and discovers she's in the library. "Nothing but books, nothing scary about books, I like books!"
She finds a door to another room and enters. She sees clothing and discovers she's in a walk-in closet; she turns the corner and startles herself when she shines the flashlight into to a mirror. "Oh! This is ridiculous!"
She goes back into the library and finds a door to another room opposite the walk-in closet.
She enters slowly and quietly shining the light on a table with a candelabra in the center. "Now we're getting somewhere!" She shines the light around the room, a chair is in the corner of the room, a window, and a small table with a vase full of fresh flowers in the other corner, above is a chandelier. "Hmm...Nothing here, wait!" She shines the light back again and sees a mannequin wearing Racer X's mask and cape! "Oh!"First she is frightened, then relieved, she realizes what's she's found!
She reaches her hand out toward the mask, and before she can touch it, suddenly behind her she hears the chair creak. The hair on the back of her neck stands on end! She looks around shining the light on the chair and sees nothing.
She gets the feeling, she's not alone, and then the crystal of the chandelier begins to tinkle. She shines the light on the chandelier, and a chill runs down her back, she cringes.
She looks side to side for a moment and her hands begin trembling, then she whispers, "Hello-o-o-o...Is somebody in here?" suddenly she hears cloth being pulled from the mannequin and thrown on top of the table!
She gasps as she shines the light on the table, it's Racer X's mask! With that she promptly exits the room still shining the light on the mask in the middle of the table! She bumps into someone or something, "Excuse, me!" says a voice. Her eyes widen and her heart is pounding, not turning around to see whom it was, she quickly exits the library out the window she entered through!
She doesn't know how she got down the tree so quickly or how quickly she ran, only that she entered her vehicle still holding a small broken branch from the tree. With adrenaline still pumping, she drives away vowing never to go back to that spooky place again! Back on the road, she is relieved and feels safe again.
Inside the library, Joe watches from the window, "Will that be all sir, I am sorry for falling asleep!" "That's perfectly alright, Joe, I only wanted to make sure she got back to her vehicle safely. Perhaps now we'll be seeing less of Miss Fontaine." said Racer X pulling off the wraith mask in the darkness. "Yes sir, goodnight sir." "Good night."