The Truth That Lies Beyond The Lies

An AcceleRacers Fanfiction

By: Wings of Speed

Disclaimer: If you really feel the need to read it flip back to Chapter 1, you'll find it there.

Summary: A few hours after the aftermath of the wreck and one of the Silencerz identity is revealed, or is it?

The Truth That Lies Beyond The Lies

Chapter 14: The Line's Drawn at Betrayal

Kara lay on the medbed, her eyes now closed in sleep, a bandage still wrapped around her head. It was still a miracle to Vert that Jon and Mikey had managed to pull her from the wreckage of her car before it had exploded. They had said at first glace that the damage to her car hadn't looked that extensive, but something must've shorted and then caused the resulting explosion.

He heard movement at the door and turned to look. Nolo stood there, leaning against the frame, his eyes silently watching Dr. Tezla's niece. "How's she doing?" he finally asked.

"Lani said she's sleeping now." Vert answered as his gaze turned back toward the sleeping form on the bed. "She's doing a lot better than she was. I know Lani was worried there for a little bit, but things seemed to have calmed down once she fell into a deep sleep. Now we just have to wait for her to wake up." He glanced up at Nolo, "She's going to be sore for a while though, she took a nice blow to the head. It was a good thing she had her helmet on."

Nolo nodded his head as he pushed himself away from the door frame and walked slowly into the room, he understood the hidden meaning behind Vert's words. Kara could've very easily been killed in the accident. "She's not going to be happy to know that her car's a complete loss, I don't think she had that one for very long. It looked pretty new to me." He looked down at Kara's sleeping form, "I pity the Silencerz if she ever gets her hands on them. I know I certainly wouldn't want to be any of them."

Vert nodded his head, his gaze continuing to watch Kara. Then he looked up at Nolo, "Trinity's not gonna be very happy either. Shirako and Monkey both took a look at Bass Assault after she left and they both agree that there's a lot of structural damage and the frame's broke in several places."

"Speaking of Trinity, where is she? I haven't seen her with the rest of the Atomic Winds and Courtney's Supra is missing." Nolo asked.

Vert closed his eyes for a moment then opened them to look up at Nolo, "She took Street Thunder into town to look at a new car to replace Assault. She left a couple of hours after the wreck, once Lani had given her a clean bill of health. I guess she only suffered a few scratches, a couple of bruises and a banged up knee as well as a mild concussion. She'll probably be back here in a couple of hours…but then again it all depends exactly what type of car she's looking for and whether or not she can find one in town.

"Courtney didn't seem very happy about Trin taking her car though, think she's afraid that she might wreck it or something. I guess the whole thing of two cars totaled within a month isn't sitting to well with her at the moment." He looked back down at Kara then sighed. "In the end she just might call this guy she knows in Wyoming that owns a garage and has a couple of her spare cars stored and see if he can't have one of them transported down here."

"That'd probably be a little easier than starting a new car completely from scratch," Nolo commented as a slight grin spread across his face.

"Like we're doing?" Vert asked, catching the bait and smiling up at his friend and team leader.

"Yeah, like we're doing, but no one ever said any of us do things the easy way, now did they?" Nolo responded with a grin.

"No, they definitely didn't," Vert agreed.

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Octainium pulled into the repair bay at the Silencerz headquarters and promptly pulled into the stall reserved especially for that car. The driver's side door slid outwards than lifted up and the driver slowly got out, placing both feet firmly on the duracrete floor. The helmet was removed and placed on the roof of the car and wavy reddish blond hair cascaded down to just about the small of the driver's back.

A technician slowly approached the car and walked a couple of times around it, surveying the damaged inflicted on the front end. Then stopped and faced the driver who still stood next to the side of the car. "Run into some problems?" the technician asked, looking into the stormy gray-blue eyes of Octainium's driver.

"You could say that," Octainium's driver responded, "Though it would be more likely put that some problems ran into me. Said problems have been dealt with."

The technician nodded their head in understanding, "Admiral Graymond wanted to see you as soon as you reported in."

"Understood. And where can I find the admiral at?"

"He's in his office. We still haven't received any communications from Accelium or Technetium; you didn't by any chance see them while out on assignment?"

The gray-blue eyes narrowed slightly before the driver answered, "No, I didn't see them." With that said the driver turned on their heel, their reddish-blond hair whipping around them and in a stride that gave no indication of being in any sort of hurry headed for the admiral's office.

Walking casually down a couple of corridors and making a few turns here and there when warranted, Octainium's driver finally stopped outside of a large metal door; hitting an admittance button, the driver waited for the signal to come in.

A chime sounded and the heavy metal door slowly slid opened.

The admiral was sitting at his desk, a cigar clenched between his teeth. His beady eyes stared at Octainium's driver as they walked into the small room; at least he thought it was small, he figured since he was an admiral he should have an office that was three times the space of this one. One didn't always get what one thought they should have though.

He took the cigar from his mouth and placed it in an ashtray on the left side of the desk then folded his hands on the desk's top before him. "Corporal Wheeler, I presume you have some good news for me, or at least you had better hope you do." The veiled threat was apparent, even to the young woman that stood before him.

He indicated for her to have a seat in the chair before his desk and she sighed as she did so. She blew a couple of stray strands of hair from before her eyes then fixed her gaze on the aging admiral. "All depends on what you consider good news."

He growled beneath his breath, "Don't play your word games with me young lady! Have you located the Wheeler kid or not?" A sudden gleam entered his eyes, "Have you located your cousin?"

She suppressed the growl that was lodged in her own throat, "Of course I located him Admiral. Did you really think I would not?" A predatory grin suddenly crossed her face, "He doesn't even suspect that someone he trusts is actually betraying him." She then chuckled softly, "He doesn't suspect a thing."

"And Bass Assault?" he questioned, his eyes gleaming with pleasure that his plan was working just the way they had intended for it to.

She leaned back in her seat and waved a hand carelessly in the air, "Totaled as planned. Though I'm rather saddened to see it go."

"And Bass Reflex?"

"Will be sent for as planned," she answered.

Admiral Graymond chuckled low in his throat. Things were going exactly as had been planned and it would only be a matter of time until they had Vert Wheeler in their grip and there'd be no escaping this time.

He waved his hand in dismissal. "Good, once your car has been repaired, which should only take a couple of hours, you can return to your mission."

She saluted as she got up from her chair and turned to leave the room. Admiral Graymond cleared his throat, "Adding the vendetta against Shirako was a stroke of genius, you must be commended on your contribution to the plan."

She turned around and smiled at him, but there was something in her smile that gave him a moment's pause. There was something dangerous in that otherwise innocent smile, something that troubled him.

Hmmm…and the plot thickens. Yes, I know, this was a rather short chapter but it was a rather short informational piece as well and didn't need much more added to it or it probably would've ruined the whole flow for the chapter. As I've said before, things are really going to start to heat up now and hopefully you're still glued to your screen and wanting to know what's going to happen next. If not, then I haven't been doing my job very well, have I?

Questions? Comments? Guesses on what you think is going to happen next? Then by all means place them in a review! I can't say this enough, I just love reviews and every single one of them has been positive so I love it even more!

Now, to thank those that have left anon. reviews…

Chase Wheeler: Thank you so much for the praise. I'm amazed that mine is the only AcceleRacers story that you're monitoring, I guess you must be finding something of interest in my writing, which is very good for me! I know this was a short piece, but it was just basically an informational filler. As for what Trinity is up too, I think you maybe surprised on that. There's still a lot that needs to be revealed concerning her character, but it's all going to be brought to the light shortly. Hope you're still enjoying the story!

Phoenix: I have got to say that I like your name…besides Unicorns, I've always held a fascination with the legendary Phoenix, as well as Dragons, which are my favorite mythological creatures. I sent you a reply to your review concerning getting a bit off track, hopefully you received the e-mail. As for being mad…nah, definitely not, you gave a nice review with a simple question, there's no way I could be mad over that. You didn't flame the story after all…that would've just gotten me a bit perturbed and probably a little irritated (along with a bit of sadness thrown in there somewhere) but no, as long as the review is nice and the questions are logical, I never get mad over reviews. Thanks again for the review!

Kara: Yeah, we both got concussions, but you got the worst of the two! Better you than me I guess, lol. Oh yes, Kara will definitely be able to knock some sense into our wayward Winds leader…someone has to after all. As for the attraction between Trin and Shirako…I'm just full of surprises aren't I? As for how many chapters will there be…um…that's a good question. I know where this story is to end at, it's just a matter of how many chapters will be in there between this point and the ending…in other words, I'm not sure! I'm figuring there's probably going to be over 20 Chapters total, but I'm not sure. What happened to Octainium…? Well, they're not very happy with Trinity for trying to take them out, let's just say that for the moment. But then again, you already know the whole backstory to Octainium and their driver…so…yeah. I'm so glad I got on the Forums too, now I can talk to you anytime I want and not have to worry about posting a new chapter just to get information out of you, lol! You can thank me all you want for using Kara, but she's your brainchild so I'll still thank you for letting me use her! Thank you again! The credit is still all yours. Now I have one question for you (not pertaining to the story) What are you doing RUNNING into walls? Forgot to ask that in my PM to you.