My Insane Days
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Inuyasha or Sonic characters involved in the story at all. If I did, I don't know, I'd throw them into a Burnout styled game. KABOOM! Triple Takedown!
Chapter VI (6): Burning Revenge
(November 24, 12:08 P.M. or about noon)
We had registered online the day before, and now the entire gang was now waiting patiently, or in Sonic's case, not so patiently. He ended up running around Houston 12 times before he stopped. And in a record 12 minutes too. Tails and I had come in the Supra/F1 car we built, or more that Tails built. Hey, I helped a lot too! Sonic, Amy, Knuckles, WT, Shadow, and Inuyasha had all come in the Suburban my mom owns, and it was Knuckles who drove, and he did it pretty well, except for the part that he nearly hit a curb exiting the neighborhood we all now live in. No, my parents didn't come, but my brother Byron did, since he was off from college. And boy did he have a surprise that the gang and I were all living in another house! He said he actually was a little skeptical it was really Sonic and the others at first, but now he believes it, after he was nearly ran over by Sonic! Byron currently is in the new house too, forcing us to make some room, but I'll explain later after the race and the party.
Tails walked over to me as I was just relaxing by the car. He had a soda in his hand, and he apparently was starting to sweat in the heat of the day. "Hey Adam. They've got some free drinks for us racers over by that concession stand right there." Tails pointed to the booth, and I noticed some other racers now getting some of the free sodas there too.
"Cool, but I'll pass for now. Not until I win will I get one of those! Hey, gotta leave a victory drink, right?" I said smiling as I looked up into the sky, which was clear.
"You do know, they are closing in about 5 minutes too." Tails said smirking. I jumped up and ran over to the stand, and soon I had gotten a soda of my own (a Mountain Dew), and I had found Tails had stolen my seat. "You took my seat! Get out!" I said with a slight bit of frustration, but not really true frustration, but more playful frustration. The one you do with your friends.
"Find another. There's a ton over there anyways." Tails said as he put on some sunglasses, and he just seemed to be enjoying the time in a way.
"Eh, fine. I'll go find the others then." I said as I walked away, and I began to look for my other friends. I soon found Amy getting a snow cone, and Knuckles just standing nearby. Some people were also looking at them too, but they just ignored it. "Heh, just sittin' back, eh Knux?" I asked as I had reached where Knuckles was.
"Yeah, but Amy just can't seem to choose a flavor snow cone right now." He said. "I guess you can show her back to the seats we got over there, okay? I'm gonna go and check up on the others back over there." Knuckles pointed to his seats, and he began to walk to them also.
Amy finally got her snow cone, and she walked over. "Where's Knuckles?" She asked.
"Eh, he went over back to your seats he got for ya. I'll show ya." I said as I grabbed Amy's hand, and she followed. More people looked at this, and I just ignored it, much like Amy did.
"They just won't stop looking, won't they?" my asked as we got closer to the grandstand seats. Well, they were more of temporary ones by the start/finish line.
"Yeah… They'll probably do that every time we leave the house I bet." I said as we got up to the grandstands. I let go of her hand, and we walked up the stairs. I saw Knuckles and Sonic waving to us, and I grinned and I led Amy to the spot. We reached the row of seats, and I walked to the seats they'd reserved for themselves. "Hey guys. What's up?" I asked as Amy sat down next to Knuckles. Sonic was next to Knuckles, and then some random people who were staring, but they soon looked away as the announcer made some announcements.
"Not much. Just bored of staying in one place, that's all." Sonic said as he got up, and I walked back out of the row. Sonic followed me, and we got to the bottom of the grandstands.
"Ever the speed lover, eh Sonic?" I said with a grin.
"Yep, can't stay still for long at ALL!" Sonic said as he suddenly grabbed my wrist, and he ran forwards back to the pit stall that Tails and I used for our car.
"Whoa! Slow down!" I yelled as more random people looked at us as Sonic ran past them. My feet barely ever hit the ground since we were going so fast.
Suddenly, Shadow appeared next to us. Sonic stopped immediately, sending me forwards nearly, but I stopped myself, and regained my composure. "You aren't gonna do something again are you Shadow?" Sonic said as Shadow just grinned.
Barely able to be heard, Shadow whispered, "Chaos Control." He disappeared and he reappeared back in the grandstands, next to the others. We heard a bit of a shout of surprise from even more random people.
"Naturally, that's what he'd do. Ignore me…" I said as I walked forward, and Sonic ran ahead to surprise Tails. I heard a yelp, and I figured Tails got surprised. I walked into the pit garage, and found Sonic was the one surprised, because he was in a net dangling above me. "Nice, you didn't look for traps. I'll get ya down anyways, but next time? Just don't go ahead without me there." I said as I jumped up and pushed the release button on the net's controls next to the garage door for the pit.
"Thanks." Sonic said as he got out of the net finally.
"No problem. Anytime!" I said as I rushed ahead. Tails wasn't in the garage, but he was in the room next to the pit garage. He was studying the course map. "Hey man. Still looking at that thing?"
"Yeah. I guess I'll go and talk to the others." Tails said as he walked out.
I followed him. "Just don't use your flight. It might frighten too many people. Kay?" I said as I stopped following, and I walked back into the room where all the course info was at. Basically, the room was where we could plan things without interruption from others, like the media.
"Sure thing Adam!" Tails said as he waved a 'bye' and he ran out of the pit garage. I saw him be suddenly mobbed by random people and media workers. I even saw my best friend out there, but he was walking to me instead of mobbing Tails.
"Hey Adam. I finally convinced my parent to let me come, so yeah." Ian said as he walked over to me.
"Heh, I see. It's been about a few weeks since I last talked to you it seems. Oh! Forgot to show ya, but I can show ya the car Tails and I are runnin' today!" I said as I made Ian follow me to the car.
"Nice. Think you can win?" Ian said as he saw the car.
"Yeah, we'll win for sure!" I said. "But, I've gotta go and help Tails get out of the crowd."
"Yeah, he's stuck with the media though…" Ian said as we walked out to the huge crowd around Tails.
"Coming through!" I said as I pushed past the crowd, and to the center, where Tails was being questioned about his car and how he was even here in the first place. "Hey Tails! Let's go!" I shouted to Tails, and he eagerly followed me out of the crowd, who kept trying to follow.
"Can I fly now? I don't wanna get caught by this crowd again!" Tails said.
"Yeah, sure. I can't stand that crowd anyways!" I said as I grabbed Tails's hand, and he flew up, leaving Ian to run after us. I heard some gasps of surprise, but we ignored them some more. We landed at the entrance to the stairs up to the grandstands the others in our group were at. Ian finally caught up and the media crowd wasn't to be seen.
"Can't you let me grab on next time?" Ian said panting.
"Maybe, but ya gotta be faster too!" I said. Tails ran up the stairs, and I followed with Ian right behind me.
"Here we are!" Tails said as he made the turn to the row where Amy, Sonic, Knuckles, Shadow, and WT were at. Inuyasha wasn't to be seen. Then I saw him running up the stairs with the media crowd following him. He ran around the stands, and finally the crowd stopped their chase, and Inuyasha finally reached us.
"Heh, they're persistent, aren't they?" Inuyasha said.
"Yep, that's the media for ya." Ian said as he sat down next to WT, and Inuyasha sat down next to Shadow on the other end. So the order was from left to right: Inuyasha, Shadow, Sonic, Amy, Knuckles, WT, and Ian.
Tails walked next to me, and he tugged on my shirt. "They're about to start! Let's go!" I grabbed Tails's hand again, and we took off to get back to our pit stall again. We didn't freak out as many people this time though. No media either was attracted this time.
I looked at my watch.
(November 24, 1:47 P.M.)
"3 minutes until they start the race." I said to Tails.
"And now for the National Anthem…" The announcer said.
(3 minutes later)
"Now for the most famous words in racing!" Announcer X, who I don't know is, said. I looked at Tails, he looked back, and we ran into our car nearly. We got in the car, and we heard over the loudspeaker in our pit garage, "DRIVERS, START… YOUR… ENGINES!" The celebrity race engine start person, who ended up being Jay Leno, yelled. Yes, he has really done that before, and he's also been the pace driver before the race also before. In the Daytona 500 a few years ago.
I started up the engine, and I gunned it, and the car took off. We drove out of the pits, and I made the hard right turn to the main road, the highway we were gonna race on. "Let's do this!" I shouted to Tails, who nodded with a huge grin.
"Let's turn on the radio also. How's that sound?" Tails yelled over the wind as we turned onto the highway.
"Cool!" I shouted as I hit the brakes at the start/finish line.
Car radio is now playing- Fall Apart by 1208
"3… 2… 1… GO!" The announcer practically screamed into the microphone.
All the cars in the field of about 12 or so cars took off suddenly, and we started in 6th, and I gained 5th immediately, as the cars were lined up in 2s. "Wooooo-hoooooooooooo!" Tails and I shouted out as we got the car going with super fast speeds.
BTW, the gears are set to be like this…
1st. 64 MPH
2nd. 110 MPH
3rd. 145 MPH
4th. 179 MPH
5th. 213 MPH
6th. 272 MPH
The GPS system we installed on the car read that the field was as following:
1st. 0:00.000 Lamborghini Murcielago 2002/ stock
2nd. -0:1.278 Dodge Viper GTS-R 2004/ full race version
3rd. -0:2.743 Calloway C12 2004/ tuned
4th. -0:04.243 Nissan 350Z Track 2003/ tuned
5th. -0:04.773 Toyota Supra 3.0 GT Turbo A 1988/ F1-spec modified (A/N Tails and I)
6th. -0:05.328 Ford GT40 2005/ tuned
7th. -0:07.937 Dodge Charger 440 R/T 1970/ race tuned
8th. -0:08.329 Ford Mustang GT 2005/ tuned
9th. -0:09.281 Honda NSX-R 2002/ stock
10th. -0:11.648 Honda Civic 2001/ tuned
11th. -0:11.698 Ferrari F50 1999/ race tuned
12th. -0:13.894 Mazda RX-7 Spirit B 2002/ tuned
We quickly caught up to the 350Z and passed it with such ease, that the driver shouted a HUGE string of curses at us. I mean a HUGE string of them too. The car in front of us now was seeming to pull away, so I activated the turbos, and the Calloway C12 was easily caught, and we passed with almost the same ease as before, except that the C12 now suddenly burst forwards with more power, and we ran neck and neck for about a minutes, and a few corners.
"Pull ahead!" Tails shouted, and I floored the car extra hard, and the car surged with more power, and we got ahead of the C12 at about 235 MPH to 224 MPH.
"Like that?" I asked.
"Yeah!" Tails shouted back.
The Murcielago was now in front of us, and we passed it easily. I turned off the turbos when the engine began to heat a bit more than usual. The Viper had made a huge lead now after it had passed the Murcielago.
Leader board:
1st. 0:00.000 Dodge Viper GTS-R 2004
2nd. -0:7.378 Toyota Supra 3.0GT Turbo A 1988
3rd. -0:9.849 Calloway C12 2004
4th. -0:13.981 Nissan 350Z 2003
5th. -0:17.162 Ford GT 2005
6th. -0:21.194 Ferrari F50 1999
7th. -0:25.521 Honda NSX-R 2002
8th. -0:32.816 Ford Mustang GT 2005
9th. -0:37.159 Mazda RX-7 Spirit A 2002
10th. -0:40.438 Dodge Charger 440 R/T 1970
11th. -0:45.083 Honda Civic 2001
12th. DNF Lamborghini Murcielago 2002
Tails looked in the rearview mirror, and saw the Murcielago flipping violently after having wrecked a wall to the inside of the course. I kept looking forwards, and I saw the Viper starting to reach its top speed, and I was now slowing down as there wasn't enough power to accelerate faster than 213 MPH. 6th gear was only reachable by using the turbos apparently.
I flipped on the turbos, and the car surged once again to over 230 MPH. "I think the Viper's going about 250 MPH, okay Adam?" Tails said.
"Yeah, I guessed that…" I said as I made a corner at about 160 MPH. The car bottomed out in the corner, but no damage was done to the body or the chassis.
A familiar car pulled up beside me. The Calloway C12 once again was battling me. I got closer to the car, and the other driver nudged me with his car. "I think he wants to pass…" Tails said nervously as the car shook violently.
"Then he's gonna have to wreck us first!" I said as I steered the car into his, and the other car went flying off a bit, and then he rammed me near the wall. I knew if we touched the wall, we'd be flipping much like the Murcielago had done earlier. I rammed his car again, and he almost ran into a highway sign, but he dodged at the last second.
"Hey! Watch it freak!" The other driver yelled at me.
"Make me!" I yelled back. I rammed his car again, and the car he was in suddenly went careening off the highway, and on the feeder road. He drove back on at the next entrance, but I was waiting, and I rammed him off the road once more, and he skidded on the grass, and he jumped back on and he whacked my car into the wall, but I recovered in time before we hit a rough spot in the highway inside wall.
"Hey! The last thing we need is for us to wreck Adam!" Tails shouted at me.
"Okay, but he's not gonna stop now! So, too late now for the warning Tails!" I said as I rammed the C12 once more, and he rammed me back. I never even noticed, but we still were catching the Viper, and soon we were now also next to the Viper going about 254 MPH. I rammed the C12 and he got me back. Somehow, both of our cars were unhurt by all the ramming. Guess he modded his car to be ultra strong, and the same with Tails's and my Supra.
"Great…" Tails said nervously. The screen on his side of the car turned on as one of our friends had turned on our radio system back to where they were.
"What's going on over there? What are you doing?" I heard Amy yell into our radio.
Car radio is now playing- Stay in Shadow by Finger Eleven
I turned up the radio so loud that the literally the car began to shake slightly. "I'm gonna kick this guy's ass! That's what Amy!" I yelled at the radio.
"Geez, what's he thinking?" I heard Shadow ask Inuyasha.
"I dunno…" Inuyasha said truthfully.
"Are you trying to kill yourself and Tails? Stop ramming that guy!" Sonic warned. "Or I'll stop your car for you!"
"That would kill us if you did anyways…" I said.
"He's right." WT said.
I rammed the C12 once more. Suddenly, I got rammed from behind, and I noticed the Ferrari F50 was the culprit. "DAMN! He caught up finally!" I yelled as I rammed the C12 one last time before I just smashed the gas. I passed ahead of the competition, and I ended up ramming the Viper in the back, and he went careening to the inner wall.
"SHIT!" I heard the driver scream as he hit the wall at 256 MPH. The Viper bottomed out the front fender and the car hit a rough spot in the wall. It then flipped over and went over my car, and landed next to my car, and it flipped some more. The thing kept rolling over, and more parts flew off. The other 2 cars got by barely, and the Viper suddenly was missing the ENTIRE front end of itself. The car stopped flipping and the car skid on its roof for about 600 feet before it finally stopped and flipped back on its correct side.
"Whoa…" I heard Tails say as I kept going.
"…" The radio went dead, and no one answered for a long time. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Amy screamed suddenly as she got the radio back on.
"I really didn't mean to do THAT!" I said as I kept going. The other cars backed off and suddenly the Ferrari decided to risk it and pass by me. I let him go but I used his draft to keep up. We passed by the start/finish line, and the crowd was half cheering and yelling, and half silent. 'One lap to go…'
"I don't know anymore… I really didn't mean to knock him out of the race like that. Honestly." I said to Tails quietly. He just nodded.
"It's okay, he's not hurt." Amy said into the radio.
"Thank god for that." Sonic said as he apparently sighed.
I got the car back to running with less ramming, and more actual racing. The C12 was still in contention, but he had to draft to keep up now. The Ferrari was running away until I smashed the gas again and the car surged back to the lead in one corner at over 160 MPH. The car was still running well, even with all the ramming done previously.
Car radio is now playing- Independence Day by No Motiv
We neared the end of the lap, but then the C12 began to catch me and the F50 was next to me. I got bumped by the C12, in his hopes to knock our car out of the race.
I got my car ready to make a pass again for the lead, and right at the finish line, I passed and…
1st. 0:00.000 Toyota Supra 3.0GT Turbo A 1988
2nd. -0:00.028 Ferrari F50 1999
3rd. -0:00.111 Calloway C12
4th. -0:45.892 Ford GT 2005
5th. -0:46.159 Honda NSX-R 2002
6th. -1:17.519 Nissan 350Z Track 2003
7th. -1:25.672 Mazda RX-7 Spirit A 2002
8th. -1:17.916 Ford Mustang GT 2005
9th. -2:00.095 Dodge Charger 440 R/T 1970
10th. -2:12.716 Honda Civic 2001
11th. DNF Dodge Viper GTS-R 2004
12th. DNF Lamborghini Murcielago 2002
"Oh yeah! We WON!" I yelled as I put up a fist in victory.
"Wooo-hoo!" Tails shouted out as he put up 2 fingers in a victory sign.
The radio turned back on. I saw that everyone was standing up cheering for us. "Yay! They won!" They all were shouting into the radio as they cheered.
I turned the car off the highway, and onto the road that was to lead to victory lane. As I drove into the designated place, I saw the group rushing over to Tails and I. "You guys did it! Even with that one little incident…" Sonic said with a little grin evident on his face.
"I never doubted it for a second." Knuckles said as he walked next to the car.
I got the car parked in the place, and immediately I got out and we both got mobbed by the media. "How do you feel with this last second win? Did you ever doubt your winning chance?" One guy asked.
"Well, it was hard to pull off, but this little car here had the power to do it, and I had to risk it, so I did. It does feel awesome to be here and all, but I couldn't have done it without support from my friends over here." I said as I pointed over to my group of friends. "Of course my car wasn't all built by myself, but mostly it was Tails's work over here." I said as I grabbed Tails by the arm, and pulled him to the guy.
"How exactly did you manage to make such a monster for a car to be able to win?" The guy asked Tails.
"Well, it took a whole lot of time yeah, but I also had to make the car be able to turn, so I also had to work on that a lot too. But, the real reason behind our win was because of the turbos we added at the last day before this race. Those turbos are the reason behind our win we have now." Tails said as I walked off to go over to my friends.
"So, how does it feel to be here?" Amy said.
"Well, to tell the truth, I really can't say exactly, but I do love it!" I said as I noticed Tails motioning to me. "Gotta go!" I ran over to Tails, and we walked up to get the trophy for the win. "Cool trophy we get too!"
"Yeah, finally too… that was a hard race at the end, wasn't it Adam?" Tails asked.
"Yeah, really hard on me with all the shaking the car was making at the end." I said as we picked up the trophy, and we stood there for a few cameras, and they all went off at different times. As the people began to leave, we walked off the podium with the trophy, and got re-greeted by our friends. Well, we got more mobbed by them.
"We gotta get home soon!" WT said suddenly as we all were talking.
"Well, I guess Tails and I'll see ya when we get back home!" I said as I jumped back in the car.
"Actually, I'm gonna let someone else ride in the car now." Tails said as he stepped back to let another person get to ride with me.
"Hey, I'll go!" Sonic said as he ran into the car, and got himself with the seat belt on.
"Hey, I'm gonna need to get this thing refueled first!" I said laughing. The tank of gas was only at about 1/16th before it was on empty.
"Okay, but let's go then and get it fueled up!" Sonic said just as enthusiastically as before.
"Okay man! Here we go!" I said as I drove off to the pit garage. I parked the car inside, and I got out the gas hose, and the car began to be fueled up to the max once more.
(1 minute later)
"Let's go!" I said as I got the car restarted, and I pulled out of the garage.
"Yeah!" Sonic shouted. I turned off the turbos, and got the on the road. I floored it, and drove onto the highway, and found that the highway was already getting crowded. Of course I slowed down, but coincidentally, Tails and the others in the Suburban ended up being next to us in the traffic jam. "Hey Tails!" Sonic said to Tails as he leaned his head out of the car.
"Time to go." Tails said as he noticed the traffic was moving again, but still slowly. "Hey Sonic. I'm trying to drive still, so, I can't really talk too much."
"Okay, I'll just talk to Adam then. So, what's up for tonight anyways Adam?" Sonic turned to me and asked.
"No time for anything other than a party I'm gonna go to with Tails and Knuckles, okay?" I said as I drove forward in the jammed highway. "Damn highway jams. Maybe those wrecks I made are the reason for this hold up still." I commented to Sonic.
"Heh, yeah. That's it, just keep thinking that…" Sonic said.
(3 hours later, 5:13 P.M.)
Back at home, we finally arrived, and it took 2 hours to get out of the traffic, and at home, and 1 hour to do nothing. Until now, I wasn't doing anything at all, except for pacing in circles. "Finally it's time! Hey Tails! Hey Knux! Time to go!" I shouted across the house as I ran to the garage, where that I had my brother waiting for us in his Honda Accord SE 2002.
"We're coming!" They yelled back. Knuckles came in about 3 seconds, and Tails took 7.
"Let's go!" I said as I threw open the door to the garage, and I jumped into the passenger's seat in the front, and Tails took the seat behind that one, or what I call the 'Japanese side of the car', and Knuckles got the 'American side'.
"Hey, I still have to back out and make sure I don't crash!" Byron said as he backed out the car, and he turned it onto the road, and we all got shot back into our seats from the car launching forwards fast as Byron hit the gas about 5.
(A car doesn't take too much to really start to GO)
(10 minutes later)
"Well, here we are! I'm gonna come back in about 3 hours, okay?" Byron said as he let us out.
"Actually its gonna last for about 2 hours." Tails said.
"Okay, 2 hours then." Byron said as he drove off. We turned around and saw some of the others there, about to ring the doorbell then. The 3 of us ran over to the doorbell, and stood behind the others.
"Hey everyone!" I said as they hit the doorbell.
"Hey Adam! Hi Tails! Yo, wassup Knuckles!" They chorused.
We all burst laughing at the 'wassup' part to Knux. "Just ring the doorbell already, hehehe." Knuckles said as he laughed and shook his head. The door opened…
A/N the rest of the party will occur in the next chapter, so be ready! I hope you like the details in the race and all! I enjoyed typing the grandstand scenes with Amy and the others. Shadow just seems to always just simply ignore everything anyways, so I hope all the parts were good at the dialogue. I know I'm getting better and all, but I can improve, as there's always that room. The entire race was based off of both Gran Turismo and Burnout Revenge. I hope you guys loved that entire sequence!
R&R please!