Acceleracers Nexus.
Chapter Three: Race Night! Part 2.
Author: Chase Wheeler.
Disclaimer: Same as Before. I don't own Acceleracers.
Summary: The Race between Dawn and Chase is going strong but a Speed Patrol officer is about to make things harder for our racers.
Acceleracers Nexus.
Chase gunned the engine, swerving through oncoming traffic to try to lose the Speed Patrol. The officer was talented though and was keeping on Heaven Sent's tail like he was glued there. The racer watched as Dawn made hasty and jerky maneuvers to try and get free from the Enforcer, but it was no use. He glared at the enforcer as if trying to make the car blow-up by force of will alone. No such luck. Chase shook his head and settled into his racing seat, It was going to be a long night. Shifting into the next gear, Chase swerved to the side of a semi and swept Rageous beneath the trailer and onto the other lane. The angry truck driver blared his horn but Chase paid him no mind. He had made a decision, the only way to lose this Speed Patrol jerk was for him and Dawn to work together. Grimacing, he pressed a button on his monitor and was connected to Dawn's car.
"The only way to lose this guy is to work together, Dawn." Chase said to the screen as he watched Dawn yank her steering wheel to one side to dodge a oncoming car. She looked exhausted and he couldn't blame her. The Speed Patrol taxed all street-racers.
"What have you got in mind?" She asked. The chase was really wearing her down. It could be heard in her voice.
"I've checked the GPS. There is a split in the road coming up. You take the right side. I'll go left."
"What?" She looked angry. "You're just going to leave me behind?"
"No. Just trust me, would you? I know what I'm doing. This isn't my first time dodging the Speed Patrol."
"If you say so." She relented. "So I take the right branch?"
"Yep. And I'll go left."
"gotcha."
Chase nodded and switched off the vid-con. The split was coming fast and he had to position himself to take the left turn. Left-foot braking, Chase pulled the wheel to the left and sped into the turn. He slowed Rageous to watch as Dawn sent Heaven Sent into the right turn and anticipated the Enforcer to follow her. But he was wrong. The enforcer easily made the left turn and was right behind him.
'Damn it!' Chase thought. His plan was blown to hell. He had been so sure that the Enforcer would follow Dawn then he'd come through the inside of the apartments and take the Enforcer out with a attack from behind. But everyone knows what is said about the best laid plans.
Chase's eyes widened as the Enforcer overtook Rageous and swerved to a stop in front of him blocking his car. 'Why wasn't he going that fast before?' Chase asked himself. The only answer that came to him was that he had been moving slower because of the traffic.
Chase dropped the gear shift into reverse, but the car wouldn't move. Looking around Chase saw a wire attaching the Enforcer to his car. He was trapped. All he could do was watch as the Speed Patrol officer got out of his car and started walking towards Rageous. Giving up all hopes of escaping, Chase rolled the driver's window down.
The officer was a tall man, oriental by the looks of it. He had a long pony tail hanging through the gap in his patrol hat. Looked kind of old to be a Speed Patrol officer as well. Any thoughts Chase had of fighting the man died off when he realized just how built the man was. He could rip Chase in half.
"Where'd you steal this car from, boy?" He asked as he neared the driver's side door.
Chase was taken aback. He'd never heard of the Speed Patrol asking about stolen cars. "I didn't steal it, sir." Chase answered as politely as he could.
The cop had gotten close enough to see Chase by now and Chase thought he saw surprise written on the older man's face for a few seconds. "What's your name, kid?"
"Chase, sir." Was all Chase supplied, trying to keep his last name hidden.
"Your full name." The officer demanded.
Chase gulped. "Chase Wheeler, sir."
Chase thought he heard the officer whisper something like "My god, It's like looking at Vert all over again." But he couldn't be sure.
"Nice car, kid. How did you get it?"
"I um built it sir."
The surprise was there again, but only for a second. "Really now. Well it's too bad I'll have to impound it."
Chase frowned. Rageous, Impounded? The thought tore him. Rageous was more then a car, more like a best friend to Chase. He couldn't handle the thought of losing it. The officer seemed to soften a little at Chase's reaction. He looked at his watch.
"Well Damn it. Seems I can't arrest you. My shift is over. Guess you're free to go." As the large man said this he pressed his hand against his badge and the cable connecting the Enforcer to Rageous unhooked and was drawn back into the bumper. "It really is a nice car. You did a good job, kid."
Chase was amazed out of his mind as the officer walked back towards his car. Just before he opened his door, the man looked back at Chase. "Tell your father we're even now." Was all he said before sitting in the Enforcer and speeding off. Chase caught sight of the back bumper as it left and the name of the officer was imprinted there. "Sargent Kitano." Chase said to himself. 'Could it be?' His mind was spinning. 'Could that have been The Taro Kitano?' Shaking the idea off as ridiculous, Chase shifted the car into first and sped off. He had a race to finish.
Dawn was a little worried. She hadn't seen Chase or the Speed Patrol Enforcer in a few minutes. The last leg of the race was closing, the finishing line drawing near. She'd win, but it wouldn't be a victory to her if Chase had been caught by the Speed Patrol. As if he had been reading her mind, Dawn caught sight of a red blur charging towards her on her rear monitor. The red flames blaring behind it signified that Chase had activated his NOS. It also meant she was probably going to lose. Deciding she had no choice either, Dawn flipped her new NOS switch once Chase had come up to her passenger side. She thought using it at such a late time would secure her the win, but she had only ever seen Chase use NOS twice. He surprised her by using NOS a third time to stay perfectly even with her car. The finishing line was drawing near.
Chase smiled in his car. Rageous wasn't doing its best on purpose.. Chase had decided that letting the race end in a tie wouldn't be considered losing and it also meant that all side bets should be null and void. So keeping his car perfectly even with Heaven Sent, chase crossed the finish line and slammed on his brakes to stop. Heaven sent stopped right beside him. The crowd was silent. No one had ever seen Chase tie with anyone. He was always the winner. Always, until now. Smiling still Chase opened the gullwing door and stepped out of Rageous at the same time as the blue Eclipse's door opened. With a casual stride, He moved over to Dawn and offered her his hand. "Good race."
Dawn reached forward to grasp his hand with her own shaking hand. He didn't know what she was so scared of. 'Maybe it's the adrenaline.' He thought.
Dawn was in a state of shock. Not only had she tied with Chase Wheeler, but he had actually came up to her and complimented her. She had been so sure that he would be pissed at her for ruining his winning streak, but Chase surprised everyone again and took it casually. 'He's so amazing' she thought to herself. Everything seemed so good right now. Her hand in his, his smile before her eyes. Dawn could melt. But all good things...
Somewhere in the crowd, one of the chasers didn't like the look that Chase was giving Dawn. He had never once looked at her like that. Never once smiled just for her. She had tried several times to seduce the racer into her bed but always failed. She had suspected that Chase was stone. That he only cared for racing, and didn't want a girlfriend to hold him down. But the gleam in his eye right now as he looked at Dawn was all she needed to see to know that Chase was a normal teenage boy with his own lusts and desires. She just hated she wasn't one of them.
"Boo. Loser bitch!" She called out hidden in the crowd. "She was only able to tie with Chase because he took care of the cop for her!"
Every single Chaser in the crowd snatched up those words and agreed loudly. "She could never beat Chase in a fair race!" and "Loser!" were screamed loudly from within the crowd. One by one everyone in the crowd started to agree. Many called Dawn names, others demanded a fair rematch. Someone even threw their coke at the poor female racer.
Dawn couldn't take this. She'd never have tried to beat Chase if she knew it would be like this. Even her own friends in the crowd had turned against her. It was too much and it all sent Dawn back into Heaven Sent crying. She floored the accelerator and flew off to the cheers of the crowd.
Chase was boiling inside. He'd recognized the first voice to call out and he knew it was all out of jealousy. The cheers the crowd yelled as Dawn drove off in tears was the last straw. "Shut the hell up!" he yelled over the crowd. Everything went dead quiet. "Dawn tied with me fair and square. Have you all forgotten the rules to Kash's races? There are none. The place that Dawn got is what she deserved!"
Without another word, Chase ran to Rageous and slipped inside. Flooring the accelerator, He sped away after Dawn like a rocket.
Dawn fought to control her car with the tears in her eyes. She should have known that the crowd would never take it that she had tied with Chase so easily. He was their hero. And to them she was nothing but trash. She didn't have the right to race Chase.
The tears came faster now, they blurred her vision. The sound of the horn was the only thing that made her aware of the oncoming diesel. Reacting without thinking in her clouded mind, she jerked the wheel to the right and barely swerved out of the way in time. Her car cruised off the road and head-first into a telephone pole at 120 mph. She saw the pole coming only a second before she hit it and simply thought 'What a great day to die.'
Chase had caught up to Heaven Sent just in time to see Dawn hit the telephone pole. Jerking the handbrake, he stopped Rageous quickly and jumped out. He ran towards the mangled blue Eclipse as fast as his legs could take him. Reaching it he called out to her. "Dawn!" but no answer came back. He tried the door but it was jammed against the frame. He pulled with all his might but it wouldn't budge. He knew time was running out, the NOS tanks would go up soon.
In Chase's rush to get to Dawn he hadn't heard the diesel squeal to a stop and hadn't seen the large beefy man climb out and run towards the wrecked car. The bone around the driver's neck bounced as he rushed to the side of the car. "Move." was the only word he said to Chase as he practically threw the young teen to the side and grasped the edge of the doors in his large gloves with steel plates across the knuckles. Chase somehow read that one of the bars had Pork imprinted into it. The sound of the door being ripped violently from its hinges brought Chase back to the present. As soon as the truck driver had cleared the door off the car, Chase rushed to Dawn's side. She was unconscious but he could tell by the movement of her stomach that she was alive. Thanking god for that, he hastily unbuckled her from the harness and pulled her from the car.
"Maybe you shouldn't move her son." The Truck driver said.
"There's NOS in the car. We gotta get away from it."
The large man didn't need to be told that twice. Grabbing both Chase and Dawn he hauled them to his shoulders and ran as quickly as he could to the other side of his truck's trailer. Mere seconds after he had gotten onto the opposite side of the trailer, a large explosion was heard ripping through the air.
Huffing, the large man set Chase down and set the young girl on the ground. "I should listened to Monkey and went on that diet." he whispered to himself. Chase busied himself with checking Dawn's head and body for any wounds or gashes. Finding none he settled down a bit.
"We should get her to a hospital, son." The man said as he towered over the pair.
"No. My dad's med-bay is better than Bayview Pines Memorial. I'll just carry her there."
"I'll follow you. I want to make sure the girl is okay. She gave me quite a scare."
"You can follow, if you can keep up." Chase replied as he set Dawn in the passenger seat of Rageous. The large truck driver nodded then climbed into his truck as Chase sped off towards Beacon Hills.
Chapter Three is done. Yay! Hope you all enjoy it. I got a new Word Processor so I should do better on spelling and grammar mistakes. Maybe it will also keep my indentions since word pad would not.
The Acceleracers characters might seem a bit OOC but remember they are 20 years older. Like in their 40's ya know.
Warning note: No one try these driving techniques in real life. I test them all on Need For Speed Underground 2 and Need for Speed Most Wanted, so you can't be sure what would really happen. I mean those are video games.
To Reviewers:
Wings Of Speed: Hate to hear that the site is giving you so much trouble, but I'm glad to know you like the story. This is my first fan fiction, and you were my main inspiration with The Truth that lies beyond the lies.
KawaiiYamato: I really like that idea actually. I'm just afraid I won't write the character like you approve of. I have a few ideas in my head to play around with on that. We'll just have to see. Tell me if you want to listen to my ideas though.
Jumper Prime: You caught that, eh?Congratulations. Making the chapters longer wouldn't be a problem except that I always try to end each chapter on a bit cliffhanger. And Patrick McClurg will be making some appearances soon. I like your idea on Nolo's daughter, I think I'll probably use it.