The Art of Stealing Cars by Kara Tezla
Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the Acceleracers Characters. although I wish I did And I do not own Trinity Wheeler and Co., those belong to Wings of Speed.
Summary: The Teku and the Metal Maniacs go to LA to race, but what happens when their cars start disappearing?
Author's Note: We came in third out of sixteen teams on Saturday at the volleyball tourney. It was awesome.
Chapter Nine: Road Trip
"Alex... wakey-wakey! It's time to see your uncle!" Mark said, shaking Alex's sleeping form gently. Alex turned over; away from Mark.
"Alex!" Mark scolded playfully, tapping his foot loudly. A sly smile crossed his face as he ran to the heavy black curtains that covered the window. "Alex... if you don't get up now, you're gonna be really sorry!"
A small groan escaped Alex's lips. "Mark...there is nothing in the world that could--YAAAAHHH!" He screamed as Mark ripped the curtains apart, letting a bright ray of sunshine fall on Alex's face. Mark then ran over to the bed and ripped the covers off, revealing that, once again, Alex had been too lazy to change the night before, for yesterday's clothes still clad the teen's body.
"Mark!" Alex said, blindly groping for the covers that had disappeared. "Not fair! Not fair, Mark!" He shouted, squinting around the room for his friend. "I am going to--" Alex leaped out of bed, heading for Mark.
"AH!" Mark yelled, running for the door.
Alex followed him as fast as his legs could go, because, you know, it was still only 10 o'clock in the morning. As soon as Mark slammed the door behind him, which was right in Alex's face; Alex stopped running and rubbed his eyes. It was way too early for this kind of thing.
"Alex...!" Said Vert's cousin, Trinity, flinging the door open. There was a solid thud and a yelp as the door came in contact with Alex's head, who unfortunately still stood behind the door. He fell to the floor; half dazed and half conscious.
"Oh my gosh, Alex! What happened?" She said, rushing to kneel beside his limp form.
"What do you think? You just hit me with the door!" He said. When she leaned over, her strawberry-blonde hair fell over her shoulders and tickled his face.
"What the hell were you doing behind the door?" She asked, sitting back on her heels.
There was silence as Alex thought for a second. The answer he came up with was I don't know! but he wasn't about to say that out loud. So the next best thing that he could think of was to change the subject.
"Well... how did you get in my room without a room key?" He said weakly.
"Mark gave it to me,"
"No way in--Mark!" He shouted, making his ears ring with the effort.
Mark poked his head in. "That was really stupid to stand right behind a door, Al. You should know better," He quipped, then ran off down the hallway with Alex on his heels.
VVVVVVVVVV
"Kara, it's time to go. We need to pick up your cars quick, so we better leave." Said Tyce, walking up behind her. Tyce Johannson looked Asian--with his black hair, tan skin, and almond-shaped eyes, but he wasn't. The tips of his spiked hair was died a orangish-blonde, and his muscular arms could be seen below the wide openings of a sleeveless shirt. They stood by the window for a couple minutes, enjoying the view over the small park across the street.
"Kara," He reminded gently.
"Yeah, I know." She said, turning and walking past Tyce like he wasn't even there. He followed her silently out the door, where Mark and Adrianna Anderson were waiting for her.
"Where's Al?" She asked glancing from person to person.
"He's already downstairs with the Teku, Metal Maniacs, and... um... that other gang." Answered Mark, thinking. He looked at his sister, who was a spliting image of him, but wasn't that the case most of the time when you were a triplet? "What were they called again?"
"Atomic Winds, Mark," His sister said, obviously annoyed.
"Right, the great Atomic Winds!" He announced in his best booming voice. For this he received an eye-rolling from Adrianna, a glare from Kara, and a chuckle from Tyce, who got a elbow in the ribs from Kara.
"Ouch! What was that for?" He exclaimed. Kara just grinned.
VVVVVVVVVV
Alex sat in the passenger seat of Reverb, staring into space. Vert was beside him, watching the bars of music scroll by on the computer screen as he turned it from song to song.
"Alex?" He asked, looking up from the small monitor in front of him.
"Hm?" Alex replied, snapping out of his daze.
"What's your sister like?"
Alex chuckled. "Evil,"
Vert grinned. "Funny. No really, what's she like?"
"It depends on what you want to know, why?"
"Just because,"
"You like her?"
"She seems like an interesting person!"
"Well, unless she likes you back, you are in for one major heartache, dude. She hasn't dated anyone for years."
Vert fell silent for a minute. Shirako's infamous bass could be heard in the background. "Start with the basics,"
"Basics?"
"Yeah like her favorite color, favorite animal, likes, dislikes, etcetera."
"Okay then, her favorite color is blue; her favorite animal, I'm pretty sure is a cat; she likes expensive stuff, but hates jewelry. The only jewelry that she likes is silver necklaces and watches; no big, dangly stuff either. She's fairly simple... most of the time. She's not a big dancer or singer, even though she's good at both." Alex rattled off random information for a while before Mark, Adrianna, Kara, and Tyce exited the main hotel building. Mark and Adrianna rode together in the same car, as did Kara and Tyce, because Kara and Mark's cars were back at the headquarters. Alex already had a couple cars at his uncle's from all the visits, but he preferred the silver Nissan 350Z that he always drove.
They arrived at the old warehouse in about ten minutes. Kara jumped out of her car and sprinted for the giant loading door. Reaching around her neck, she pulled a key chain up over her head. Pulling a key out of the small bunch on the chain, she jammed the key in a key hole at the side of the door.
As soon as the door had risen about four feet off the ground, she pulled the key out and ducked under the door. What she saw surprised her.
YAY! I found time! not literally SHOUT OUTS!
Kawaii: AH! KAKASHI ROCKS, DUDE! He's drawn on my trapper-keeper for school! He is just... so funny! I also like Gaara and Ino. Choji looks like a caveman; Shikamaru is fat; Rock Lee's eyebrows are huge, but Master Guy's are bigger; and Neji has no pupals. It's all good.
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