Thank you reviewers, especially Fushica who is in love with my OC. Have fun with this one. (Mostly about Stan and Koji.) Me own not OBAN!
That afternoon, Stan and Koji went out looking for parts and tools to fix the Arrow 2. They found nothing. They saw Flint and Marcel, the Alwase team they beat sitting by a fountain.
"If anybody'd know about where to find parts, it'd be them." Koji said.
"I don't think it's-" Koji ran off before Stan could finish, leaving him no choice but to follow.
"Excuse me but-" Koji was cut off by Flint.
"Well if it isn't the humans who defeated and embarrassed us in the eyes of our own people." He sneered.
Stand and Koji looked around and saw how many locals were glaring and surrounding them, and they moved closer till they were almost back to back. Stan glanced around, looking for a way out; he found one.
"Run!" He yelled, pushing Koji. However, a lot of the little worms that powered Flint's ships popped out of jars and various places, swarming after the two mechanics. They turned down a wooden hall to-
"Dead end!" Koji exclaimed. They turned, and Koji kinda hid behind Stan, both backing up against the wall, as they saw the worms coming from all directions, even from the open top, crawling down the sided towards them. "Stan, I want you to know, I've always admired your work. You're a great mechanic."
The worms parted to reveal Flint and Marcel. "Well, what do you have to say for yourselves?"
"Look, we don't want any trouble. We just wanna find parts to fix our star racer." Stan said.
"Parts?" Flint scoffed. "This is Alwase. Our people haven't even discovered fire."
"And yet these two fish heads know exactly where some racer parts are." Kailua said, perched on top of the dead end.
"Kailua!" Koji and Stan cried together.
"Hey. So what did you do that made these two corner you, as if I didn't know?" She said with a mischievous look in her eye.
"Jordan and Molly beat them in a race and now their worms are read to eat us." Koji said in a panicky voice.
"Yes, I saw that race. They were cheating and yet ya'll won fairly anyway. So it seems to me it's the least the two bubble heads can do to take you to the parts you need to make up for their cheating. Isn't that right, squid head?" She asked Flint.
"Hey! You can't talk to the mighty Flint like that!" Marcel yelled.
"I believe I just did. Now shut up and take a number; I ain't talking to you right now." She switched her attention bat to the mechanics. "There's a graveyard of racers somewhere on this island. Unfortunately, even reading Squid brain's mind can't tell me where it is, so they're gonna have to take you. An you will, won't you fish face?"
"Get lost bird brain!" Marcel snapped. A vein in Kailua's eyelid twitched, she coughed, clearing her throat.
"Excuse me, but for a second it sounded like you just called me 'bird brain'." She spread her wings, leaned forward until she was sitting like a gargoyle on the ledge; with the sun behind her, she looked like some feral creature of mythology. Even Stan took a step back.
Flint clapped a hand/tentacle over Marcel's mouth, as he was about to answer in the positive, and turned him away. "Are you nuts? She's a Kelamian; she can scramble your brains on a whim. We go along with what she says."
"But why Flint?"
"Because, if they win, we'll have been beaten by the best there is; we'll be heroes again." They turned back to the three; Kailua's wings were retracted by this time. "We'll take you to the graveyard."
"Good, now if you gentlemen will excuse me." Kailua stood up.
"Where are you going?" Stan asked.
"Izzy's antsy about something and I'm gonna go find out what. Don't worry, these squids'll help ya'll. Bye, bye."
Before either man could ask what an Izzy was, she was flying off, leaving the mechanics with the locals and the worms.
"Come on humans." Marcel said, turning away.
"But, what about the worms?" Koji asked nervously.
"They're caterpillars, and unless you're seaweed, you're safe."
"Wait a sec. You threatened us with vegetarians?" Stan exclaimed.
"Move it humans, we don't have all day." Flint called.
Stan led the way out of the worms, Koji hanging on to his arm. They followed the squids out of town to a cave on the outskirts. The earthlings hesitated before going in. There was a tunnel and at the end of said tunnel was railing over looking the graveyard.
"Here we are human. The elders don't like technology but we can do it so long as they don't have to see it." Marcel explained as he and Flint led them through the junk and parts; there were other Alwase mechanics scrounging up parts. "All the parts from old star racers are up for grabs."
"Let's see, we need steel plates to reattach the engines, glass to recover the cockpit and turret," Stan listed and found said parts quickly.
"Power converters, cables, coolant tanks." Koji picked up.
"I can see you humans are gonna need a way to get all the parts to your pit. There's a spare barge on the docks, us that. Just put all the parts you need on there, and rid'er out to your pit just off the lake." Marcel said.
"Hey, thanks you guys." Stan said.
"Stan, you know our next opponent is Toros, so we're gonna need a new hyper drive if Molly and Jordan are to win. Something faster than the trident, but can stop in time for her avoid a collision."
"And something that will increase reaction time, otherwise Toros'll just ram'em into a wall."
"True."
They found all the parts they needed, with the help of the locals who were sympathetic to their cause. At sundown, they had everything needed to repair the Arrow II and make it better than ever. Stan and Koji, along with a mountain of supplies, got on the barge and said goodbye.
"How can we ever thank you for this, you guys?" Stan asked as the barge pushed off.
"Just win the race, human, and come back with the prize!" Flint said waving goodbye.
Back at the pit, Jordan is pacing, waiting for certain mechanics to return. They walked in with a large hovering platform with parts behind them.
"Where did you guys find all that stuff?" Rick asked coming out of his room.
"Here on the island with the help of the locals. An all-nighter and part of the morning will see the Arrow II better than ever." Stan said brightly.
"I knew you guys could pull through!" Jordan said enthusiastically. The mechanics set to work and got the regular repairs done first, though most of the night was dedicated to the additions that would make their baby run faster then ever dreamed possible. By dawn the next day, they were tired, dirty and proud beyond reconcile about the ship they improved. She was ready to race against Toros.
Please give me a week for my next update; I need to get through school first. That and homework. And the end of this wonderful insanity is very near.