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Back at the hanger, Molly and Jordan got in the Arrow2 and rolled out to the entrance, Aikka and Kailua already agreed to watch from the audience.
"So Molly, according to Rush's philosophy is your ram's horn half full or half empty?" Jordan asked.
"It's full to the brim!" Molly replied smiling. She flew the ship into the arena and awaited her opponent.
"Well, I guess our reputation scared him off" Jordan mocked from the turret.
Spirit was standing in the entrance. He was startled to see the earth's hip; it reminded him of one he raced against along time ago. He stepped out into the arena, next to the Arrow. Molly started to shake, recognizing the alien.
"Uh, correction, I think Spirit forgot a little something, like a star racer." Jordan Joked, not realizing the pilot was shaking in fear.
She was on the sidelines, her dad holding her. She looked up at him and asked, "Mommy's gonna win right?"
"Of course, you know she's never lost a race." He replied smiling down at her. Just then, her mother's opponent walked by; one look and Eva buried her head in her dad's chest. He stepped up next to Maya's racer, took off his cloak, and got down on all fours, like he did now, and feathers grew and filled out his body, growing wings.
The gong was sound and they hovered, ready to go when the circle dropped and they were off. Molly was enraged. She tried many times to slam Spirit between the wall and the Arrow2, even slowing down to try at one point.
"Molly what are you dong!" Jordan yelled at her.
"Trust me Jordan, if we don't get him, he'll get us!" Jordan cut off the link, he may not understand what Molly was thinking, but she seemed very serious, so he started shooting at Spirit, forcing him to ho above the ship. Jordan lost him on the scanner.
"Where'd he go?"
Molly looked around and found him in person from standing on the right reactor.
"He's on the reactor" She snarled. "Jordan, do something!"
"I can't touch him from here." He said when his lasers didn't come close to his target.
"Then I'll just have to deal with you myself." She growled and started rolling and slamming against things trying to get him off and possibly kill him, nothing was working. She spotted a low bridge ahead and put in extra speed, intending to scrap him right off the Arrow2.
"Molly, what are you dong? Pull up immediately!" Don Wei shouted in the link. She didn't listen.
"Molly!" Aikka shouted from the audience, standing up with Kailua. Molly slammed into the bridge, severely damaging her ship and knocking Jordan out. Spirit was fine; he'd jumped off and went back into his racer bird form. Rick, watching on the screen in the hanger, remembered Don Wei once telling that his first racer, his wife, was killed in the race against Spirit and his daughter saw it. Molly must some how feel connected to Maya's death, he thought. What if…Molly's really Don Wei's daughter out for revenge" Rick switched the stations on his communicator and stepped out the door and out of earshot of the others. On the screen Molly was going through a tunnel after Spirit. Aikka and Kailua had left the audience.
"Molly or whatever your name is, I'm on a secure line. I know you're Don Wei's daughter and I'm sorry about what happened to Maya but you don't have to do this understand?"
Rick talking to her kept Molly calm enough to get through the tunnel without further damage to the Arrow2. But when she got out, Spirit used his body to completely cover the cockpit, blocking view. His mask-like face appeared above her.
"Stay away from me!" She yelled. She started to panic and rammed into walls and rocks and a spike that split the ship in two. Spirit got off as the turret dropped and the cock pit fell over, breaking from the engine and shattering throwing Molly from it. Spirit circled overhead as moll go up on her hands.
"I did what I had to," She sold herself, thinking she's killed her opponent, when he landed a little away from her. She fell back against a rock behind her, unconscious. Spirit advanced when Aikka came up and jumped off his beetle and stood protectively in front of Molly, sword out.
"You have already won the race Spirit. There's no need to harm the girl!"
Spirit raised his hands to show he meant no ill will. Aikka was confused and suspicious but stepped back anyway and allowed Spirit to Molly, but stayed close.
Kailua was at the top of the ravine watching, having already made sure Jordan was alright and that the rescue team was on the way. She was ready to swoop down if Spirit tried anything. Although unable to do much still being injured, she could distract him long enough for Aikka to get Molly out. She hoped it wouldn't come to that.
The masked alien knelt down and laid a hand on Molly's head, a yellow aura erupted from his hand and went into Molly. Aikka gaped as Spirit looked in her mind to find what had caused her rage. He saw Maya and himself on the final curve of a race 10 years previous, he flew close and the shop blew up. Eva thought he'd don it on purpose. Molly mustered, calling for her mom.
Spirit then put in his memory of that day. Through his eye's Molly sees oil fly from Maya's ship and the engine was short circuiting. She saw her mom waving him on, lest he be killed too. Then it blew up.
A tear unconsciously down Molly's face as she saw what really happened. The alien had been trying to help her mom, not harm her. Spirit smoothed Molly's hair and stood up. Aikka looked at Molly, a tear down her face, and then stared at Spirit who had a tear running down his face as well. He went back into racer from and took off toward the winner's gate.
Aikka watched him leave, then sheathed his sword. He knelt down and looked Molly over; she was in pretty bad shape. He looked up and saw the lights from the rescue team coming for molly, having already picked up Jordan.
Back in the hanger, Rick looked in on Molly who had a bandage wrapped around her arm, another on her nose, and a band-aid on the side of her face.
"You gave us quite a scare Ms. Wei." He told the unconscious girl. He closed the door and Molly came to. She went to Jordan's room and found him awake, one arm in a sling, and a bandage around his head. She knocked and he looked up.
"Uh, can I come in?" She asked.
"Yeah, sure." She sat on the edge of his bed.
"I'm sorry, at least you trusted me this time."
"We've dropped a place in the ranking, if we don't win the last race we're out. And that's not all, the Whizzing Arrow 2, it's in pieces."
"I really screwed up, didn't I?"
"Molly, did you know Spirit?"
"I thought I did."
Molly left and went out side to find Rick and Don talking. Rick was saying that he can't do anything for his daughter but maybe he could go easier on Molly. Don said that now he had to push Molly even harder. Rick got angry and asked what was so important about the ultimate prize.
"Imagine it, the entire galaxy offered on a silver plate. The ability to destroy civilizations, conquer planets, even…bring back a loved one."
Molly stared. "Mommy."
Yes I put the race in detail but I really liked this one so I decided to share it with ya'll.