"This is it! We're heading into the final lap and Lucci is right behind the leaders. What a comeback!" Absalom exclaimed.
"A 199 laps and it all comes down to this!?" Bartolomeo exclaimed.
"This is it, kiddo. You've got four turns left. One at a time. Drive it in deep and hope it sticks. Go!" Iceberg told Lucci.
Lucci tried to go past Doflamingo and the other racer muttered, "Oh we'll see about that." Doflamingo muttered as he bumped Lucci, causing Lucci to bump into Rayleigh and the Dark King and Doffy lost control of their cars for a moment. Lucci slid into the infield.
"Doflamingo and the Dark king are loose!" Absalom exclaimed.
"I think Lucci is out of the race!" Bartolomeo stated, thinking Lucci wouldn't be able to make it through the infield.
Lucci then remembered, "Turn right to go left." He used Iceberg's old method to drive through dirt, and when Iceberg saw what he was doing, he smiled. Lucci drove through the dirt with ease and got back onto the track.
"Lucci saved it!" Bartolomeo exclaimed.
"He's back on the track!" Absalom stated.
"Float like a Cadillac," Iceberg started.
"Sting like a Beemer!" Lucci finished.
The fans cheered louder by the second. Lucci started to approach the finish line.
"Rob Lucci is going to win the Grand Line Cup!" Barto exclaimed.
"Come on! You got it! You got it, Lucci!" Luffy shouted.
As Doflamingo tried to go past Rayleigh, but the veteran kept blocking him.
"I'm not coming behind you again, old man!" Doflamingo shouted, ramming into the back of his car, causing the Dark King's car to fly into the infield, flip over several times, until it stopped, revealing to be severely damaged.
"Oh no," Shakky gasped.
Roger had a mortified expression are he witnessed what happened. Iceberg was shocked as well.
Lucci heard the crowd go silent until he looked up at the big screen to see Rayleigh's car was wrecked. He remembered the image of Iceberg's wrecked race car from the old newspaper article and realized the two images looked very similar. Lucci then stomped on the breaks and stopped just a few inches close to the finish line.
Doflamingo then sped past him, cheering, "Yeah! Wooo! I won, baby! Yeah! Oh, yeah!" as he drove into the infield and started doing donuts.
"What's he up to, Iceberg?" Robin asked.
Iceberg got a curious expression, wondering what Lucci was doing.
Lucci drove his car backwards until he was behind where Rayleigh was stuck.
"What are you doing, kid?" Silvers asked the younger man.
"I think the Dark King should finish his last race," Lucci said as he used his car to gently push Rayleigh's race car out of the infield and back onto the track.
"You just gave up the Grand Line cup, you know that?" Rayleigh said.
"This grumpy old race car driver told me something. It's just an empty cup," Lucci said. Iceberg smirked.
"Bartolomeo, is pushing on the last la legal?" Absalom asked.
"He's not really pushing him, Absa. He's just giving him a little bump draft," Barto said.
"Woo! Woo-hoo!" Doffy continued to cheer until he stopped and notice everyone was focused on something else. "What? What's going on?" he asked.
"That's what I call racing," Hatchan said as Bentham cried tears of joy.
"Hahaha," Roger laughed, happy about what he was seeing as Shakky smiled.
Lucci pushed Rayleigh's car across the finish line, resulting in thunderous cheers from the audience.
"Bravo my friend!" Brook cheered.
"Way to go, Luc!" Usopp exclaimed.
"Lucci-bro is super!" Franky shouted.
"Yoi-yoi! There's a loooooot of looooooove, you know, Jabra?" Kumadori said.
"…Shut up, Kumadori," Jabra growled.
"That's my boy," Kokoro said.
Luffy smiled at Lucci's good deed.
Meanwhile, Doflamingo ran onstage to claim the Grand Line Cup.
"Come on, baby, bring it out! Bring out the Grand Line Cup!" he shouted. Someone offstage threw the trophy at him. "Yeah! Now, that's what I'm talking about! Hey, how come I'm the only one celebrating is me, huh? Where are the girls? Bring on the confetti!" Doffy asked, just when someone shot the confetti at him very hard. "Ow! Ow! Easy with the confetti. What's going on? Come on, snap some pictures. I got to go sign my deal with One Piece!" Doflamingo said, still celebrating.
The crowd of people around the stage then started booing at him. Then, they started to throw garbage and his merchandise at him.
"What's wrong with everybody? Where's the happiness?" Doflamingo shouted as he ran off the stage to get away from the hateful crowd.
At the place where all the sponsors and race car drivers were, Lucci helped get Rayleigh out of his car. Shakky ran up to Rayleigh to be sure he was okay and said to Lucci, "Thanks Lucci."
"You're welcome," Lucci said with a smile.
Lucci walked over to the Risky Medicated Face Ointment tent to see his friends were all already there.
"You made us proud, kid," the short Risky brother stated.
"Congrats on the loss, Lucci!" Tilestone exclaimed.
Iceberg walked up to Lucci and said, "You got a lot of stuff, kid."
Then, Roger walked up to Lucci and asked, "Hey Lucci. How about you come over here and talk to me a minute?"
Lucci walked over to him.
"Lucci, that was some real racing. How would you like to be the new face of One Piece?" Roger asked.
Lucci glanced at the One Piece sponsor's tent.
"But I didn't win," Lucci said.
"Lucci, there's a whole lot more to racing than just winning," Roger stated.
Lucci glanced over to his friends who were talking to the Risky Brothers. If Lucci was how he used to be, he would've said yes, but over the last few days, he's changed a bit.
"Thank you, Mr. Gol, but these Risky guys gave me my big break. I think I'm going to stick with them," Lucci said.
"Well, I sure can respect that. Still, you know; if there's ever anything I can do for you, just let me know," Roger said.
"I appreciate that, thank you," Lucci said when he noticed Sekhmet and Usopp were checking out the One Piece helicopter. "Actually, there is one thing," the race car driver said.
A few days later, Sekhmet and Usopp were inside a helicopter, flying over Galley-La in it.
"Whoa! Hoo! Aaaa! Hey look at me! I'm flying!" Sekhmet screamed down at the town.
"The wish was only meant for you! Why am I up here?" Usopp asked.
"I think Lucci got the wrong idea, but it's fun right?!" Sekhmet exclaimed. "Whoa! Hoo! I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park!"
In Galley-La, Brook and Laboon were observing the displays for their tires.
"I think it's about time we should redecorate," Brook concluded when he heard someone at the door.
"Oi," a man with red hair and three thing scars over his left eye said as he entered the tire shop accompanied by a tall man with short gray hair and an X-shaped scar over his left temple and a man with a large round body shape wearing goggles over his eyes.
Brook and Laboon's jaws dropped when they saw the red-haired man.
"Hi, Rob Lucci told me this was the world's best place to get tires. How about getting me four sets of tires?" the man said.
"Laboon! Red-haired Shanks, one of the Four Emperors, is in my store!" Brook gasped. "A real member of the Four Emperors! Punch me in the face, Laboon. I need to know I'm not dreaming! This is the most glorious day of my life!" Brook then fell to the ground, passing out from excitement.
"Wow, I hope your friend recovers. I was told that you were fantastic," Shanks said to Laboon.
Laboon then fell the ground, passing out.
Luffy was at the Logue Motel, standing in front of it when he saw out of the corner of his eye Lucci running up the road wearing his Galley-La clothes.
"Just passing through?" Luffy asked.
"Actually, I thought I'd come and stay a while. I heard this place is back on the map," Lucci stated.
"It is?" Luffy asked, getting excited.
"Yeah, there's this rumor going around that some hotshot Grand Line race car driver is setting up his big racing headquarters here," Lucci stated.
"Really? Well, there goes the town," Luffy said.
"You know, I really missed you, Luffy," Lucci said.
"Well, I create feelings in other they themselves don't quite understand and…blah, blah, blah, blah," Luffy said as he and Lucci leaned towards each other.
Then, the One Piece helicopter went up to the ledge and Sekhmet shouted out the door, "Lucci and Luffy, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S…I-N-G!"
"Great timing, Sekhmet!" Lucci hollered.
"Hahaha!" Sekhmet and Usopp laughed as the helicopter flew away.
"They're my best friends. What are you going to do?" Lucci said.
"So, Lucci, last one at Robin and Nami's café buys?" Luffy challenged.
"I don't know. Why don't we just go for a drive?" Lucci asked.
"Hmm…" Luffy said as he tilted his head to one side. Then he straightened his neck and had a big grin on his face. "NAH!" he exclaimed before he ran down the road very fast.
"Yeah!" Lucci agreed running after him.
"Yeee-hooo!" Sekhmet whooped from inside the helicopter.
Well, the final chapter is going to be the epilogue! I hope you enjoyed this little parody!
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