well...i wanted to try my hand at initial d fanfiction writing, seeing as how im a big fan of it. this has the original characters of Initial D and it starts in the middle of the Project D arc. this will put actual real people in the real world, my friends Alex and Chris, and me in a single racing team.
the team's name will be "Blue Moon Syndicate", isn't just lovely in its "originality" lol.
each of us will have 2 cars, one for normal racing, and also Project Cars that have been heavily modded and used only in extreme cases.
Regulars:
Me: '89 FC3S RX-7 (White) (I'm so original huh?)
Alex: '04 SE3P RX-8 (Black)
Chris: '86 AE86 Levin Turbo (Grey) (I know, isnt he original. btw: these are the cars we use for our group in the arcade game, Initial D Version 3, plus, the Project Cars are the same, except they dont have the same mods)
Project Cars:
Me: '93 FD3S RX-7, Competition Mica R1 (Yellow) (rotary extreme carbon fiber hood, Amemiya Sleek Headlights, Front bumper, GT 5 way rear spoiler) (this is the car i wanna buy in real life...drool)
Alex: '05 RX-8 (Yellow) (yes, I know, but this one has a supercharger installed on it which kills the point of the Renesis Engine. carbon fibered hood, front spoiler, and rear spoiler as well.)
Chris: '04 GDB (Blue) (As for mods, I dont think this needs any, its godly enough as it is)
Disclaimer: I do not own Initial D.
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Speedy Sloths, Chapter 1
It was a dull morning, it had that dull sense of dull dew and dull upcoming heatwave senses. In other words, an otherwise normal day for the Blue Moon Syndicate. The usual morning greetings consisting of,
"Hn...Yaaaawwwwnnn...hmph."
Cue scratching either stomachs or buts lazily, holding coffee or tea. Yup, that's us, the super sloths of Asian Americans, minus Chris, the man of Hispanic men.
Alex was about five foot eleven inches tall with untidy hair usually slicked back. Chris was around five foot seven inches tall with short hair and a wonder gut. Me? I'm about five foot nine-ish, last I checked, with hair that covers my ears and the back of my neck, front hair sweeped a little to the side to keep it out of my eyes.
Consider me the laziest of this entire team because I really am. Which makes perfect sense how I became leader of this team. I'm far from the best racer on our team, Chris and Alex have a long standing tradition of racing each other and alternating losses and wins with wins and losses. Me? I'm the lazy, laid-back guy with observant skills and tech knowledge. Guess this also makes sense why I was chosen to lead this team. Also the fact that no one wanted to do the paperwork and manage the races, so obviously it was dumped on me...boohoo.
"Alright, you guys, breaktime is over. Time for our morning runs, so start your engines and make a big bang off of Mt. Akina."
"Whatever, man, it's probably you that's gonna run your car right off the mountain."
The latter would be Alex, I should get angry at him but he has the skills to back up his lip. And so does,
"Is there any food left? Oh, and I challenge you to a morning downhill and uphill death match!"
That would Chris, doing his usual weekly challenge to Alex. You would think, him driving a Levin, that he wouldn't stand a chance. Surprisingly enough, he sometimes beats Alex's RX-8, in which case Alex re-challenges Chris to another race and beats him back. Yea, it's a nearly never-ending cycle.
We got in our cars and simultaneously closed our doors and keyed the ignition. Chris took off first, Alex second, and I, Jacob (I'm gonna use my real name for this fic), took off last. It was still pretty dark, not surprising seeing as it's about around 4 A.M. in the morning. When we reached the peak of Mt. Akina, we floored it and took off, Alex taking the lead with his 6-speed Renesis Engine, me second with my 13B Turbo, and last but not least, Chris with his 4AGE Turbo. We carried on like that until the first hair-pin.
Alex and I braked hard because ABS was a little slower on slowing down but Chris shot past us, braking at the last possible moment and holding it during the actual turn whilst Alex and I began to tap on the accelerator and drifted cleanly in and out of the corner, each passing 120 kph during the turn (I'm going to use partial real world physics because our cornering speeds in Initial D the game is around 130 kph and that isn't really feasible in the real world). Chris and Alex were a little faster than me on corners, as usual, and began to pull away from me.
This cycle kept on for a while, Alex and I kept catching up to Chris's Levin during the straights, but not really for Alex because he was able to match Chris in turns despite the differences in brakes. As usual, they slowly began to leave me in the dust.
"Meh, same as usual. Either none of us are getting better, or we grow at the same pace."
I shrugged and double-shifted from fifth gear into third gear and up-shifted back into fourth gear sending the car into a dizzying slide sideways into the corner and punched the accelerator hard launching my car into the straight-away.
Near the first long straight in Akina, I noticed the sound of three engines roaring through the corners I just cleared. Intrigued, I let go of the gas pedal and waited for the cars to pass. I gasped as I saw three very familiar cars. A white FC, yellow FD, and a black on white 86 Trueno.
"Project D? No flipping way!"
I grabbed a walkie-talkie and signaled my team,
"Alex, Chris! Project D is on the mountain, heading for you guys fast! Make up whether you wanna chase them or let'm pass."
They replied instantly,
"Project D? Shan-naro! I'm up for a race!"
Typical Alex.
"Same goes for me, man! I'm after them!"
I shook my head smiling,
"Alright, do whatever BUT, let them pass you and then chase after them, got it?"
"Roger that."
I entered the straight-away and let Project D pass me and floored it, roaring and nipping at their heels. I kept up at the pace Project D held until the corners. We had to brake at the same time to avoid crashing into each other, Takahashi Ryosuke entered first, surprisingly, Fujiwara Takumi and Keisuke went in side-by-side. I followed their entry as best I could but nearly hit the guardrail as result.
I veered a little to the left and saw Alex and Chris in line and soon passed them up, at which point, both shot out of there and chased after us. It was crazy!
A 6-way, two team unofficial battle down treacherous Mt. Akina. That was a bad idea...but it rocked anyway!
We closed in on the five sequencial hair pins. I went off to the side and let Alex and Chris go off ahead of me. From back there I had a good view of how Project D handled corners. Ryosuke and Keisuke braked earlier than Takumi did but Ryosuke held his lead, Takumi following his line exactly with a clean, minimal counter-steer drift. Keisuke entered at top speed braking until he entered the corner, over-steering and balancing it by continual counter-steering.
I think Alex and Chris surprised them when the two followed a close line behind them, just meters behind, engines sniping at the infamous pack in front of them. Ryosuke did the entry-based gutter run, Keisuke drifted through, and Takumi did the exit-based gutter technique.
I got the gist of the gutter technique then. I had heard of this famous technique that the Ghost 86 had performed in multiple races and tried it before. That wasn't such a good idea then because it resulted in me hitting the guardrail hard because I had freaked out at the last second when I was in the gutter and turned too late.
The gutter technique Takumi just did seemed a little easier to me.
'But still, I should improvise a little, just to make up for my slights.'
I double-shifted into third gear and up-shifted into fourth gear again, sending my car flying sideways into the corner, but this time as soon as I entered the apex of the turn I floored it and miraculously entered the gutter at the last second. This allowed me to keep most of my speed. Thrilled at the prospect of getting the gutters correctly, sort of, I proceeded to try and do this again and again, miraculously missing the guardrails and catching up to the group ahead.
I beeped at Chris and saw him break out of his line for a second, wavering the back of the car for a second. I guess he was surprised I caught up to them at the last second. All six of hit the brakes lightly and drifted into the second straight right before the end of Akina's slope. I thought we had them there until...
BAM.
Ridiculously loud backfire ripped through the morning air as all three of the Project D cars just took off on us. By the time we entered the first corner, they were out of sight. We reached the bottom of Akina's slope less than a minute later and saw Project D waiting for us there. We pulled over and shifted into neutral, put up the parking brake, and switched the emergency lights on. We got out and confronted Project D.
I looked to Takahashi Ryosuke who looked as cool, calm, and collected as ever, leaning on the side of his FC. For a long time, both teams stayed silent until Ryosuke broke the ice.
"You guys aren't all that bad, during that scrap, there were times when I felt a little intimidated."
He turned to look at me.
"Especially because of you. You fell behind so much when we entered the hairpins, but you used the gutter technique, or at least a variant of it and caught up to us. I tip my hat to your ingenuity and bravery. I tip my hat to all of you, you all have wonderous potential, but you still stand no chance against us."
I grimaced and I'm sure Chris and Alex gritted their teeth as well. Alex chose that moment to burst out,
"Oh yea! You only beat us 'cause we took it easy on you! We raced you for fun, if it were serious you'd have alot of trouble keeping us off your asses!"
"Dude, calm down. There's no need to justify anything, as long as you know that you could pose a challenge to them, it doesn't matter."
I tried to calm Alex down. He was a hot-headed racer with a lot of pride, especially since he had beaten Haru, his ultimate rival, not counting Chris, who also drove an SE3P, though colored white, on Irohazaka's downhill and Akagi's downhill (This actually happened when Alex challenged Haru in the game). He was a brilliant racer but his emotions ran wild and had as much free reign as the wind.
Ryosuke looked humoured and smiled and tilted his head down,
"I'll hold you guys to that challenge your friend just made."
Alex, Chris, and I broke out of our team throttle to turn around to the elder Takahashi.
"But I have a few conditions before I accept your challenge. First off, you must defeat the Todou Racing Firm, the Saitama All Stars, the unnamed team of Tsuchisaka's racers, and also team Emperor, especially the leader of the Emperor's, Sudou Kyoichi. After that, I will agree to set up a match in the course of your choosing. Set up a website for your team and post the race results for every battle you guys participate in. After I see that you have defeated the mentioned teams, I'll call your team for a meeting in Mt. Akagi. Until then."
Ryosuke got in his FC and the rest of Project D did as well. I still had a question for them though,
"Hey, wait!"
Ryosuke pulled over and rolled his window down.
"Why were you guys in Akina anyway? I mean, don't you guys just go to your homes after a battle or whatever?"
Ryosuke gave an abashed smile,
"We were helping deliver the tofu for the Fujiwara Tofu Shop, I heard it's good practice."
He rolled up the window as Keisuke shouted out,
"But that doesn't mean we're good already! And I'm no delivery boy, aniki!"
I watched Project D take to the streets until the vague morning mist engulfed them. I turned around, then, and looked at my slap-stick team and shook my head. Alex and Chris shook their heads too.
"We need to practice more, don't we?"
"Well, why don't we just use the Project Cars, with those, I bet we could beat them without trying!"
"No. You guys know my policy about the Project Cars; only if we desperately need them will we ever take the covers off of those, unless it's for a specific practice."
I heard Alex and Chris mumble something about "stupid" and "rules" and also "policies". We got back in our cars and charged back up the sneaky little devil, Akina. My mind drifted off as we sped up the mountain. I needed to get in contact with the teams Ryosuke had mentioned.
'But how?...'
"Wait! That's it! Website! Project D has its own website and it posts everything about their battles, including contact information about teams! Aaarg!"
That "Aaarg!" was due to the fact that I wasn't paying much attention to the road ahead so I had to completely stop the car before I smashed through the guardrail and flew off the mountain. I smashed my head against the steering wheel making the loud "beeeeeep" sound echo through the mountain. I definitely had a long way to go before I was ready to truly take on Project D.
"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEEEEEEEP!"
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Author's Notes: Soooo...for those who know about Initial D, how did this first chapter and first attempt work out? it sound alright to you guys? give me your opinions and critiques please.
anyway, yea, this follows 4th Stage, Project D arc.
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