Rat Race. . . Anime Style
Chapter 11: THE FINISH LINE!
As I said, everyone, the next chapter is here! SO ENJOY IT EVERYONE!
Vash was busy riding the horse he, 'borrowed'. "Come on boy, GEDDYUP", he shouted, although the horse was showing no signs of speeding up. But he had a reason for speed because approaching him was a sign that said: WELCOME TO SILVER CITY Home of the 1860 Gold Rush.
As Vash approached the city, he noticed a pickup, that was overheating, had paint splattered over it's top and had some of it's glass shattered, approaching from behind but took no notice of it.
Inside the truck, Ranma and Naru were pleading to the truck, "Come baby, just one more mile!" They took no notice of the rig approaching behind them.
Inside the rig, Marge had just snapped out of her drug induced sleep and was eying the truck driver sleepily. "Homey", she asked in a daze. "Hey Marge, how did ya sleep", said Homer, riding in the passengers seat. Bart was behind him. "Alright, we are almost there", he said.
The Bigfoot truck was hurtling towards Silver City. However, they ended up behind a line of a broken down truck, a horse, and a rig. "Come on Largo pass them", yelled Piro. "I can't we are too big", yelled Largo.
Inside the rig, Homer noticed what Bart just pointed out. "YOU WERE RIGHT BOY!" Then yelling with his hands cupped he yelled, "MOVE!"
"They stopped", said Burns, looking at the tracking board. "No", said Pegasus. He pushed a button on a remote which zoomed in closer on Silver City. The lines, showing the 'racers' moved in towards it. "See they're moving." All of his guests sighed in relief.
Vash was still riding the horse, after moving into the city with the unknown line behind him, he reached downtown. He then noticed a huge building, that had the words, SILVER CITY TRAIN STATION on top of it. He gasped at how close he was. He quickly jumped off the horse. As he did, Piro and Largo looked out the passenger window of the Bigfoot and saw where he was heading. Homer did the same inside the rig.
When Vash started running towards, so did Ranma, Naru, Piro, Largo and Homer (who now had his family, including Lisa and Marge cheering him on) did so as well.
"Daisy, Daisy", sang the crazy people. In one of the seats, Belldandy and Skuld awoke from their dazed slumber. They looked out one window and saw the other 'racers' running towards their direction. Wondering where they were running too they looked to the window opposite their seat, and saw the train station. Realizing the situation, they came to their senses and starting running towards the front of the bus, yelling, "STOP THE BUS!" As soon as the bus stopped and when they reached the front the attendant went in front of them and said, "Woah! Ladies, ladies, ladies, you know the rules. . ." "WE ARE NOT CRAZY LADY", yelled Skuld. "Yes", said Belldandy, "We are in this race, we should have bought a comic and we didn't buy one from that guy on the road and we crashed." "Which is why we borrowed the rocket car", said Skuld then she pulled out her hammer, "AND IF YOU DON'T OPEN THIS DOOR, I AM GOING TO CRUSH YOUR HEAD IN!" The attendant did nothing, so Skuld hit her head hard enough to nock her out. "NOW OPEN THIS DOOR DRIVER OR YOU ARE NEXT", yelled Skuld. "Yes ma'am", he whimpered. "Thanks", said Belldandy sweetly, "And have a nice day." "Come on sis", said Skuld, "Let's go!" With that she tugged Belldandy along.
They joined the rest of the racers, who are now running frantically towards the station."
Inside the station, in the lobby, Croquet was playing around with his cell phone while waiting for the winner to arrive. Next to him was door leading to a bunch of lockers and of course one of those lockers was Locker 001, the one holding the cash prize!
Soon, Croquet's attention was drawn to the train now pulling in. The conductor was holding a frantic Excel and was throwing her out. Kroquet quickly pulled out the cellphone and said, "It's Excel. Excel Excel, on a train that just rolled into the station.
Pegasus and his guests were listening on the speakerphone. And everyone cheered in impressiveness. Bowser and Geovanni shook hands knowing it was their bet. Illpalazzo just shrugged and grinned. "Well what you know, the wasteful energetic girl that gets killed managed to pull it off! You got to love a long shot", said a smiling and laughing Pegasus.
The other 'racers' were now neck in neck and shoving and pushing at each other to be the first to get to the train station.
Excel entered the train station, key in hand. "This is it. I am about to do it Illpalazzo", she said. "Here she comes", says Croquet. "Oh it's you the ingnorant millionaires ignorant assatant", said Excel. "She's holding the key", said Croquet. Excel then noticed the lockers and ran towards them. "And she's going to the locker!" Excel inserted her key into locker 001.
Outside the window where the lockers were, a robber was just getting off the train after a quick heist, thanks to the costumed girl making a huge distraction. In his trigger happy celebration a stray bullet went through an open window and hit someone opening a locker. "Oops! Better get out of here", he said and ran off.
Croquet walked towards Excel and said, "Excel, well done and Congratulations, on behalf of Maximillion Pegasus, The owner of Industrial Illusions and the promotional hotel and casino, I would like to . . ." He was cut off when he noticed Excel had her eyes rolled up and her neck was bleeding with a bullet in it.
Pegasus and his guests listened impatiently to the now silent speakerphone. "Croquet is it over", asked Pegasus.
The racers were still running towards the station. When they reached the door the crew struggled to get in. They finally got the door opened and they all ran in and towards the lockers where they all just stopped, gasped and stared at the form of Excel, who was standing there with the key in the locker. The group groaned a bit in defeat when Largo noticed the bullet wound and her eyes were rolled back. "She's dead!" The crew got it's pep back again, shoved Excel and her key out of the locker and they all began trying to get their keys into the locker, eventually, it was Piro who got his key in first and opened it to receive his reward which was . . .
. . . an empty locker. Everyone gasped at this. Behind them the Great Will of the Macrocosm just finished reviving Excel and ran out the door. Excel stood up and asked, "Did I win?"
Okay, I have been waiting to write this part for so long. Don't worry, I am now pumped to write the next chapters soon! Until then adios!