Story by Eric Lentz aka Aero Tendo
(Earth – Hawaii)
(Academy Entrance)
Racer flew in under his own power to the Academy's landing spot and landed softly with his backpack full of books and homework. He could swear, every day the workload was getting more and more. It was as if the teachers were trying to make his backpack heavier every day.
Racer was walking the path from the landing spot along with the others when he heard a voice calling to him from behind him. Racer turns and sees his friends Jason and Caroline walking up to join him with smiles on their faces.
Jason comes up to Racer and says, "Hey there, I see that you survived your little fight with Max. Good going!"
Caroline puts her hand on Racer's shoulder, "I tell you, I can't recall ever seeing Max so pissed off about anything! What'd you do?"
Racer blushes a little and turns his head away to say, "N-nothing, well… nothing that was my fault really." Turning his head back to look at his friends he says, "Maxine tricked me into a kiss and Max saw."
Jason laughed, "Most guys wouldn't mind being kissed by a girl, especially if she looked like Maxine."
Caroline pokes Jason and gives him a look that said, "What am I? Chopped liver?" before saying, "Look Racer, Max will get over it and you guys will be friends again."
Just then Racer senses a increase in energy behind him before he hears an angry voice, "I wouldn't count on that happening anytime soon Carol." Turning around, he sees Max standing there in front of Maxine who was trying to make flirting gestures without Max seeing.
Racer looks at Max and says, "Hi Max and Maxine" waving to them friendly but gets a glaring look from Max when he says his sister's name before continuing by saying, "Nice to see you both. Can we put the whole fight behind us?"
Max was still glowing a bit while he stares at Racer and says, "Sure, as long as you stay away from my sister. We won't have any problems." He looks at his sister behind him who pretends to be having at a friend in the distance and says, "Let's go Maxine." Before walking off with one last look that said, "Don't push me" to Racer.
Maxine silently mouthed, "Call me Racer" before following after her brother into the Academy.
Jason slapped Racer on the shoulder and said to him, "Man, you are in bigger trouble than I thought. Max doesn't want you anywhere near his sister and she has the hots for you!" Racer turned to face his two friends as Jason says; "I'd stay away from Maxine unless you want another fight with Max."
Caroline meets Racer's eyes and says, "As rare as it is that I agree with Jason, on this account, I think he's right. You should stay away from Maxine until she sets her sights on another guy."
Racer says, "I didn't tell her to kiss me, she tricked me." Clenching a hand he says, "This whole mess is her fault."
Jason leans in and whispers, "By the way buddy, is she a good kisser?" which causes him to look distant then blush softly which gives Jason the answer he needs and he whispers a bit too loudly, "So she was that good a kisser, you lucky dog you!" because Caroline overhears and with a blushing face she pushes Jason hard enough that she sends him flying two feet away.
Racer looks gratefully at Caroline as he was glad he didn't have to put up with any more of Jason's questions and he could just imagine what Jason was going to ask next. Caroline nods a "You're welcome" without saying anything while still lightly blushing and hoping that he didn't notice, which he didn't because he was still trying to stop blushing from Jason's question.
(Inside the Academy)
The day went on by as usual unless you count the times where he had Max or Maxine for the same classes, in which he found himself wishing he was anywhere but there.
Fortunately the teachers assigned the seats at the beginning of the semester, and he sat several seats away from either one of them so he couldn't into too much trouble although he knew there was one class that he knew he was going to regret showing up for.
The class was Fighting 105 in which he knew both Max and Maxine would be in, but he also silently thanked that most of his other friends such as Jason and Caroline were also going to be there. He silently hoped that nothing would happen and that he could get through the day without another fight like the one he'd had out in the desert.
One look at Max and Maxine as he entered the warm up area and he knew that there was going to be no such luck for him that day. He hoped at least that he'd be able to get through without getting them both kicked out of the Academy for good because he wanted to graduate with his license.
Racer warmed up on along with everyone else in his assigned spot and with the teachers keeping a sharp eye on everyone to make sure that there was no talking or anything else that might distract one from warming up properly because in this class, if you didn't warm up right you were going to FEEL it later afterwards. Racer was glad for that part at least which gave him time to think a little and decide to ask a coach about not putting him up against Max or Maxine.
Once he was done warming up, he walked over to the nearest teacher whose name was Kaiba but everyone nicknamed him Cyber Eyes because of his robotic eye that he had.
Kaiba watched as Racer approached him and saw that he was worried about something, which made him wonder why he was coming to him of all the teachers. Kaiba didn't like it when students came to him, he just wanted to train them to fight properly so that what happened to his eye wouldn't happen to anyone else, ever. However, he knew that being a teacher also meant that the students would have to approach him every so often. He wondered if Racer wasn't feeling well or simply wanted to skip today's lesson.
Maxine saw Racer walking towards Kaiba and figured out that he was probably going to ask the teacher about leaving class or not being paired up with either her or Max. Well, she wasn't going to stand for not being able to pair up with Racer so she ran towards Kaiba as without Racer noticing until he was just about to start talking to Kaiba.
Racer started to say to Kaiba, "Sir, I need to talk to you about the pairing up today…" when Maxine interrupted and said, "Yes! He wants to pair up with me today!" before Racer turned to her and said, "No I don't! Your brother Max would try to destroy me if I paired up with you even by shear coincidence!" Maxine frowns and said, "If he did, I'd never speak to him again!" loudly enough at Racer to catch Max's attention.
Max flew over quickly to where the two were arguing in front of Kaiba who was thinking "Why me! I have to get the two who are arguing over some stupid stuff!" Max said loudly enough to get their attention, "What is going on over here? Racer, are you hitting on my sister?"
Racer turned to Max and said, "No! I was just trying to ask the teacher if there was any way that I didn't have to be paired up with your sister!" Maxine shouts, "What? I'm not good enough to spar with?"
Max glares at Racer and is about to say something when Kaiba says in his loudest, sharpest voice that would do a drill sergeant proud, "ENOUGH! Racer! Max! You two will pair up! Maxine will pair up with Caroline! NO ARGUMENTS!" Kaiba crosses his arms with his suit light up pretty brightly and looks at the three of them as if daring them to say a single word.
Maxine, Racer and Max all turn to the VR-Fighting Stadium where the rest of the students were. Max growls, "Stay away from my sister!" at Racer who replies, "Tell her to stay away from me then!" Maxine crooks her arm into Racers and holds on tightly as she says to Max, "You can't tell me who to see or who can be my friend, so take a cold shower because you need to cool off!" Max looks at the two of them with anger and his suit is brightly lit up, showing that he was highly charged up.
Racer sighs and knew that they wouldn't get any real injuries in the stadium, and any energy attacks would be simulated while drained appropriately from their bodies in the right amount. All he really had to worry about were the physical attacks, even though the room reduced the damage done, it still let them feel them up until they were knocked out in which the room would teleport him out.
Racer and Max step into the room and before the door is shut Maxine says, "Good luck Racer! I'll be rooting for you every step of the way!" and blew him a kiss which only served to get a growl from Max.
The room changes into the scenery of a planet far away while above them, looking very far away, some of the students and a few teachers watched them. The scenery reminded Racer of a picture of the planet that the Nameks lived on only there were no buildings or any other signs of life other than the odd-looking plant life.
A teacher's voice booms overhead and says, "All right, I want this to be a good, clean fight. I hope you two have learned what you two were supposed to have practiced over the weekend." Looking up at the distant people that they both knew were in a phased dimension overlooking a planet that they were really on. Racer shouts, "I am ready!" with Max shouting even louder with more force, "I'm so ready for this! Let's get it on already!"
Max looks over at Racer and gets into his combat stance with Racer doing the same before hearing the teacher say, "You may start…" with them both moving the moment the words were out of his mouth.
AN: I'm sure most of you can guess where this is going... Yep! A BIG fight! There'll be more than just fighting going on if I can help it. Anyone want to guess the outcome of the fight? heh, I'm certainly not going to tell! As for the ho-boy, I got that from the show Quantum Leap.
