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Europe: Cannonballer Hooligans!
"Well the Cannonballers are in Europe right now." Kevin said. "We'll have more news for you when we confirm with the betting table."
Speaking of which Adam and Morgan were hearing rumors that the Hogwarts Team are in trouble. Especially since their position in the race has stopped at a unmapped location in the UK.
"Alright! Everybody calm down!" Adam shouted. "I'll notify security and have them investigate the whereabouts of Team Hogwarts! Now can we please stop the fighting!"
Yuto and Lone Wolf drove up on the location of the Nelson. However they saw it abandoned. The only clue was a piece of paper with Hogwarts written in ink.
"Hogwarts?" Yuto asked in English. "What is that?"
Team Hogwarts were tied and gagged by a magic spell. They were taken back to Hogwarts and released in Umbridge's office. Who met them with a wicked smile.
"Welcome back Mr. Potter." she said. "You're in so much trouble for running away from me..."
The Olympic parked at a gas station in Denmark. Austin got out and saw the Aqua parked there as well, with everyone but Kyle in the Aqua asleep. Aus didn't want to wake them and he just went inside. Kyle was filling up a large cup with a suicide flavored slushie. Meaning it's all of the flavors available at the machine, mixed together.
"Some race huh?" Austin asked looking at the candy bars.
Just then a few members of the Flaming Dragon Gang entered the store. Finding the two Cannonballers finding some snacks. They walked over to Austin and pushed him.
"Can I help you son?" he asked.
"You start by standing there and getting the crap kicked out of you." said the leader of the three. "This is for Wong."
Just then a Dorito shuriken nailed one of the other two in the neck, knocking him out cold. The other two gangsters screamed bloody murder as Tony attacked them in his Doritos armor. The clerk gringed as the two were beaten severely by seasoned nacho chips. When the three were all taken out, the Cannonballers paid for their purchases and left. While the clerk called the cops.
As this was going on, in the part of Romania formerly known as Transylvania, the Spectre had caught up with the Elegant as night had fallen. Sylar had taken over the controls of the Spectre and was firing the vehicle's plasma cannon at the Elegant.
Goren was returning fire with his sidearm but was barely scratching the Spectre.
"Got you now, Hiro, you little SOB!" yelled Sylar as he continued to fire upon the Elegant.
Hiro was now at the wheel of the Elegant and managed to swerve to avoid the shots being fired.
"Hold on, guys! Help is on the way!" Grif's voice came over the radio.
The Chupathingy, the Puma, the Scorpion and the Mongoose joined the chase. Sister and Doc had managed to send an SOS to the Reds and Blues while Sylar had been distracted by his firing on the Elegant.
"I can't believe you talked us into helping your dumb ass sister, Grif." sneered Sarge. "If this sets us back, I'm gonna rip your nuts off and feed 'em to ya!"
"Hey, the only one who gets to threaten you guys is me!" O'Malley said.
"Hey can we clam it and help the guys out?" asked Church.
"No problem." replied Simmons as he opened fire on the Spectre with the minigun mounted on the back of the Chupathingy.
As the chase approached a large but abandoned village which lay at the foot of a castle on a hill, at Cannonball HQ Dethklok and DMX took to the stage to provide some accompanying music.
SONG: "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne
As the chase continued thorough the village, rounds of bullets and lasers were doing damage to practically all the buildings in the village and there was an explosion at least every fifteen seconds. In the castle, the angry Count Dracula looked out his window.
"Goddamn Cannonballers!" he sneered. "Every lousy year I come back from the dead and every lousy year they give me grief. Let's see how they like this!".
Dracula concentrated hard and suddenly, all the Cannonballers plus Sylar had been teleported into his castle.
"Whoa!" said Sister. "I knew I should never have smoked any weed. I'm seeing things!".
"You're not the only one." said the confused Goren.
"Greetings, my friends." Dracula said. "I'm glad to welcome you to my humble abode.".
"Who are you supposed to be? Dracula?" asked House, unimpressed.
"Yes." Dracula said in a deadpan voice.
"You look more like President Harris." said Donut.
"I don't get to choose who I look like when I'm resurrected, okay!" snapped Dracula.
"You teleported us here." said Hiro.
"Correct. And your stay here will be quite a long one." smirked Dracula. "You'll notice that I transported you here but not your weapons.".
"I don't need weapons." said Sylar. "I'd love to see what I could do with your powers!".
Sylar smiled and got ready to approach Dracula, but Dracula raised his hand and levitated Sylar up in the air and then slammed him against the wall.
"Don't play with the big boys, son. You'll get hurt." Dracula smirked.
Down in the village, Sheila and O'Malley were very confused.
"Where did everybody go?" asked Shiela.
"Great. More Cannonballers in trouble." said O'Malley. "And the more time this wastes, the more teams will get ahead of us."
"Hang on." said Sheila. "I'll let HQ know about this.".
Somewhere near Hogwarts
"I can't believe those wizard bastards took Team Hogwarts." Bam said driving up to Hagrid's cabin. They were joined by Team Alchemist, Team Mythbusters, Team Spartan and Team Supernatural. "So now we all have to save them from that bitch Dolores Umbridge."
"If you don't know anything about her, then why are you calling her a bitch?" Adam asked.
"Because she's a bitch for kidnapping fellow Cannonballers." Bam replied.
"I guess that's a good enough reason to me." Edward Elric said.
"I'll break in and begin the raid." Novak said. He ran up to the school/castle and ran into a invisible force field. "Where am I?"
"Sorry but there is a spell guarding Hogwarts." said a old man with a cane. "Only those with magic in their blood can pass through."
"Hey old man who are you and how do you know so much about this place?" Ed asked.
"I am Albus Dumbledore." Dumbledore said. "I used to be headmaster of Hogwarts. But Dolores Umbridge took over my position. Thanks to the Ministry of Magic being corrupted by Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters. But I happen to know the spell to help your friend and to remove the speel on the school."
"Okay..." Bam said. "Work your magic Mr. Dumbledore. Harry and his friends are holed up in there."
"Certainly and give Umbridge one for me." Dumbledore undid the spell and cast a spell on Novak that restored his memory.
"You know..." Mustang said to Ed. "Now that I think about it. Me, you and Al could've gotten throughout any trouble. We are alchemists after all."
"Maybe Al and I sure Colonel." Ed said. "But you didn't use a forbidden alchemy technique. So you probably wouldn't be able to enter."
The Cannonballers charged into Hogwarts and was met in the coutyard by Death Eaters.
"Who the hell are these guys!" Grant asked.
"Those are the Death Eaters!" Dumbledore stated. "Hogwarts is under attack!"
Sure enough there shouts and sounds of magic spells hitting everything. War was brought to Hogwarts, and that meant the Cannonballers had to find Team Hogwarts and fast. But first they had to deal with the Death Eaters. Novak runs up to one.
"Avada...!" the Death Eater was then kicked in the groin by Novak. His hood fell down to reveal that it was Lucius Malfoy.
Alphonse charged at Beatrix, but she casts a killing curse at him. Which only damaged his armor, as Al is nothing more than a soul fused with a suit of armor.
"AL!" Ed ran over and repaired Al's armor with his alchemy, metal alchemy.
"So you used a forbidden alchemy." Bellatrix said with a grin. "You're no different than us Death Eaters. Using forbidden arts everyday. Trying..."
Bellatrix had received a handful of worms from the Boogeyman. Team ECW had just arrived to help in the rescue effort. They saw their fellow racers were fighting the Death Eaters, and decided to join in. Pretty soon the Rumpo drove right into the courtyard, with Gob climbing out of the driver's seat.
"Hey we heard that Team Hogwarts was in trouble and we thought we could help out!" he said.
"We're definitely in need of more help!" Bam said as the CKY crew beat up on Lucius Malfoy. Phil eventually sat on Lucius, knocking the wind out of him. Finally Phil farted in Lucius's face, knocking him out cold.
"Phil with the win!" Bam declared proudly.
The Kimodo stopped at Drac's castle.
"I still don't see why we need to ask for directions to the Middle East!" Tobe said. Soon they knocked on the front door and were automatically let inside.
"Now this is strange..." Tobe said. Everyone was nervous about the interior of the castle. "Where is everyone?"
Within minutes tobe and his teammates were tossed out of the castle. Muji was captured by vampires.
"That was unexpected." Jing-Jing said.
Back inside Muji was handcuffed to a metal pipe in a dirty bathroom. A TV was placed in front of him. Once it turned on, Dracula was on the screen.
"My name is Dracula! We're going to play a little game!" he said with a smile.
The Meat Wagon was approaching the Transylvanian village, with all four members of Team Sooga on their respective motorcycles trying to outdistance them.
"You won't beat me!" yelled Abyo. "HI-YA!"
He jumped into midair and ripped his shirt off once again. Before he landed, though, a large vampire bat caught him in the air and flew off with him.
"That's what you get for showing off, Abyo." Ching scolded. "I guess we should go and rescue him.".
Ching, Garu and Pucca all overtook the Meat Wagon and followed the bat towards the castle.
"Crap!" yelled Jimmy. "We have to catch up with those guys and fast.".
"No problem". said Greg as he put his foot down.
As he did so, he heard Shiela's voice come over the radio. "Don't come through here, guys. It's a...".
Before she could finish, an even larger hoard of vampire bats flew under the Meat Wagon and lifted it completely off the ground.
"Trap." Jimmy finished for Shiela.
As the Meat Wagon was flown towards Drac's castle, Drac and Muji looked out to see a few more bats now carrying Pucca, Garu and Ching along with Abyo.
"Excellent, Muji. Thank you for informing me of your enemys' presence.". said Drac.
"Thank you, master." Muji smiled as he stroked his moustache. "This is VERY good for Muji.".
"Glad you think so." said Drac. "Have the vehicles put in the vault.".
"Alright we've learned that Team Hogwarts has been captured by some of their fellow students sent to retrieve them." Morgan said. "We've also learned that several teams have come to rescue them from their school, and are in the process of doing that now."
The Cannonball Band cheered to hear the good news. Now those who betted on the team now have hopes of winning that bet.
"Guys, I'm glad you got the message." said O'Malley as he had finally got through to Cannonball HQ. "Drac must have interfered with the signal."
"So, Dracula has captured some teams?" asked J.J.
"Yeah, and I think there's one more team on the way here." said Shiela as she was on the line as well.
"Okay. We'll send help right away." said Blake. "Is there anyone who could be of help in the area?".
"Yeah." said Fenderbaum as he checked the satellite feed. "Team Eureka and Team Gameavision are nearing the location. I hope they can help out, because the Capcom team have just entered the village the castle's in.".
Team Capcom had indeed arrived in the village and were now fighting off a few zombies that Drac had sent to detain them.
Ryu had managed to wipe out a whole squad of them by firing his Hadouken attacks at them and Chris had taken out many more with his guns.
Dante and Mega Man were holding their own against the undead warriors as well.
As the last zombie fell, the four fighters were exhausted.
They heard a slow, mocking applause and turned to see Dracula. "Excellent, gentlemen. My people could use men like you. And I don't take no for an answer.".
"Oh yeah, Drac." sneered Mega Man as he reached into his pocket. "What do you say to THIS!"
He pulled a necklace out of his pocket. The three other team members sighed in disbelief. It was a Star of David necklace.
Drac smirked and said "I say you should find yourself a nice Jewish girl.".
Mega Man looked at the necklace and said "Aw, crap! It's the other one isn't it?".
Drac snapped his fingers and then several more vampires emerged and seized Team Capcom.
The fight at Hogwarts continued as Bam put on some music and turned the radio up to its max. The song that played over the sub woofers and speakers was...
SONG: "Underclass Hero" by Sum 41
As the music was heard all over Hogwarts, the Cannonballers made progress in their fight against the Death Eaters. In fact there were more Death Eaters than even the Ministry of Magic thought possible. But the Cannonballers had to make their way through the Death Eaters and the students in Dumbledore's Army, fighting within the school. Even Dolores and the Minister of Magic had to fight off the Death Eaters.
"For someone who is not back they sure are coming in full force!" the Minister said.
"I wonder why?" Dolores added. "Unless they want Mr. Potter."
The figure that came down the hall next made the Minister lose all color in his face.
"He IS back..." the Minister said. "It's the Dark Lord himself!"
Voldemort grabbed the Minister by the throat and held his wand against the Minister's head.
"Where is Harry Potter." asked Voldemort.
"He's in the Room of Requirement..." Umbridge said terrified. "I locked him and his friends in there. Sorry Cornelius!"
Umbridge ran away out of fear. Cornelius Fudge was turned into a pig by Voldemort and wandered through the school. Hoping to find someone to undo the transformation.
In the dungeons of Drac's castle, Hiro popped back into the cell that the Cannonballers were being kept in after having teleported himself around the castle.
"Hope you enjoyed your little tour, Hiro." House said grumpily.
"Why are you such a dick?" asked Sister.
"Why are YOU so ditzy?" asked House.
"Hey, give it a rest." said Doc. "Were you able to find the weak points in the castle, Hiro?" he then asked.
"Yes." said Hiro. "Now all we have to do is let the guys who are on their way know about them.".
"No problem. " said Church. "Since I'm robotic, I can relay it to any Cannonballers' onboard computer through my brain."
"Then do it, you retard!" snapped Tucker.
"Okay! Jeez!" said Tucker as he did so.
"I guess we should be glad that Drac didn't think Hiro as big a threat as Syler." said Caboose as he looked over into the corner Sylar was in.
Sylar had been straped to a gurney and also had leg shackles on. He was wearing a tight strait jacket which had padlocked chains criss-crossing the front and a 'Hannibal Lecter' facemask.
"I'm gonna kill you guys AND Drac when I get out of here!" he sneered.
"The word is 'if' you get out of there." laughed Goren.
"What were you planning on spending the Cannonball prize on, fatbody? Donuts and coffee!" Sylar sneered at Goren.
"He has a point, detective." said Ryu. "If you really want to be good at fighting injustice..."
"Hey, spare me that crap, okay? I'm trying to lose weight." Goren said defensively.
"Try harder." said Dante.
In another corner, Garu was desperately trying to fend off Pucca as she tried to kiss him, just in case they wouldn't make it out alive.
"Pucca, I think he gets the message." said Ching as she rolled her eyes.
In the MX2000 and the Coach, Teams Eureka and Gameavision had got the information that Church had sent.
"How come Hiro didn't just try to escape as well?" asked Zoe.
"Probably he's tired from using his powers." said Jack. "Plus, I'd say he's a team player.".
"Okay, then. Let's dang well go!" said Larrity.
Todd took out his sword, Excalibur.
"I knew I would need this!" he smirked.
"Do you just get weirder every day?" asked Dean.
"Hey guys! We're right ahead of Team Eureka right now." said Mary.
"I think we need some music!" cheered Clarence musically.
"We hear you guys!" said Weird Al as he, Queen Latifah and Cletus T. Judd took the stage at CR HQ.
"We've got some money on you video game fellas, so you better do well!" said Cletus.
"Hey! No need for pressure, Clete." said Queen Latifah. "Here we go! For Team Gameavision!"
SONG: 'Code Monkey' by Jonathan Coulton
"That was great." said Victor as he and Brock applauded.
"I wonder how all that Hogwarts brouhaha is going." wondered Brock.
Finally Mustang, Winry, Al and Ed made it to the Room of Requirement. After they ran into Umbridge trying to escape. They were told about what happened to the Minister of Magic. So Gob decided to help undo the spell. Not really a good decision on their part. But everybody was finishing off the Death Eaters.
"How are we to get inside again?" Mustang asked.
"I think you had to think of what you wanted to do in there." Ed replied. "Alright everybody start thinking about Harry!"
They did so and the door opened to reveal Voldemort pushing a large birdcage like a swing. Inside the cage was Harry, Ron and Hermione.
"Zombie!" Winry shouted at Voldemort. Then she pulled out a cast iron skillet from her bag of tools, and hurled it as a ninety-nine mile per hour fastball. Fortunately it didn't do severe damage to the Dark Lord. But it did knock him out cold.
"It's about bloody time you came to save us!" Harry said. Ed ran over and transmutated his right index finger, which is his auto-mail arm, into a key. He then unlocked the door of the cage. All three racers of Team Hogwarts got out.
"Now let's get out of here." Ron said. All seven left the Room of Requirement, with Voldemort left behind.
The Coach and MX2000 parked outside of Dracula's Castle. A ll of their occupants climbed out, and walked to the front door.
"Come on Henry." Jack said with a grin. "Everybody knows there is no such thing as vampires."
"I would actually agree with you Jack." Henry replied. "Have you heard of the disease Porphyra?"
"Not really."
"It's a disease where a person needs blood transfusions. The person shows the signs of a vampire. Hence the need for blood, because it helps them live. Unfortunately back in the medieval times, people with this disease were classified as vampires. As well of those that were buried alive."
"Is anybody going to get to the point here?" asked Dave.
"Well my point is that there is a scientific explanation for this Dracula guy." Henry said. "Because Vlad Tempes Dracula died a long time ago. So there is no way he could be living in that castle that has some of our fellow Cannonballers."
Carter knocked on the door to Drac's castle. Muji opened it.
"Drac doesn't want more Cannonballers! Go away!" Muji then attacked them. However Henry used his omniremote, which he uses to access stuff in Eureka. The remote reversed Muji's brainwashing and returned him to normal.
"What happened to Muji?" Muji asked.
"Dracula must've hypnotized him." Henry said. "Most likely through a TV."
"TV can rot your brain, but this is the first time I've heard it brainwash people." Larrity said.
"Well let's try another way inside." Dave suggested. "A more forceful way inside?"
Dracula paced around his front foyer. Waiting for Muji.
"Where is that blasted slave!" he said. "I told him to chase away those Cannonballers!"
Soon the Coach burst through the wooden doors. With the brights on. Dave and Jerry jumped out with filled balloons. Rubbing their fingers against the balloons, and creating a sound that vampires go crazy. Dracula and his vampires flew around the foyer in a frenzy. Trying to escape the sound of fingers against balloons.
"Now!" Carter and the rest got off the Coach and charged into battle.
Back at Cannonball HQ, Gorillaz took the stage for a song.
SONG: "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica
Zoe and Mary ran to the dungeon, and found the cell keys sitting on a key rack.
"Who would be that dumb to leave keys to jailcells just out in the open?" Mary asked sarcastically. Zoe just grabbed the keys and went to unlock the cell door to the free the Cannonballers.
"Let's get out of here!" Zoe said. Everyone ran out, leaving Syler inside.
"Don't leave me!" he said. "I'm afraid of the dark!"
When everyone got back upstairs, they joined in the fight. Both of Team Red and Blue fought zombies, while the other Cannonballers fought off fishmen, werewolves, and a rebuilt of Frankensteins monster. Which was named Frankie.
"Hadouken!" Ryu fired his Hadouken at Frankie. Which knocked the corpse monster on his butt. Mega Man fired his Mega Buster at Frankie, destroying it, then absorbing it's 'power'.
"YOU HAVE NECROSIS RAY!" the computer voice inside Mega Man's head said. Mega Man turned from shades of blue to shades of black. He tried his new power out on the vampires. They instantly showed signs of necrosis, and quickly died from it.
"Awesome!" Mega Man fired his cannon again and again. Infecting every paranormal beast within the foyer. Soon Dracula made a run for the exit. In which he made it, but was struck by a speeding Rattler, being driven by Master Chief. Dracula was sent flying hundreds of feet into the distance. Crashing through the roof of a catholic church.
"What did we miss?" Chief asked.
Dracula had landed on top of bowl of holy water, near the entrance of the sancutary, during Saturday night mass. The holy water immediately did it's job and Drac was beginning to melt.
"I'm melting! I'm melting! Oh what a world! What a world!" Dracula was within seconds, a steaming pile of vampire goop and clothes on the floor. The priest ordered a catholic clean up crew by saying "Clean up! Aisle three!"
The Cannonballers got back onto the road, and headed straight for Italy. Unaware that Syler finally managed to free himself and escaped the castle.
"Dracula is dead and loving it..." Carter said putting on a pair of sunglasses.
"YYYYEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
Henry and Zoe gave him weird looks.
"What?" Carter said. "David Caruso does it all the time on CSI: Miami."
Jessie was driving the Sentinel XS through the Vatican. However she failed to notice that Pope Benedict XVI was in his popemobile, about to cross the street. She ended up cutting him off, just as the popemobile was only a few inches away from being sideswiped. This did not set well with the Catholic Church, nor His Holiness himself. Several Vatican bishops and cardinals donned racing pit crew jumpsuits, with the Pope's coat of arms on the shoulders, and the Christian Cross on the back. They quickly outfited the popemobile with nitrous oxide boosters, rocket engines and a V8 engine with a hemy. Benedict took off his hat and put on a racing helmet, then he hit the gas pedal and gave chase.
"Um Jessie..." Ash saw the popemobile chasing them. "I think His Holiness is after us and I don't think he wants us to confess almost hitting his popemobile."
"Oh shit!" Jessie hit the nitrous boosters.
Back at the Cannonball HQ, Reel Big Fish got on stage for an accompanying song.
SONG: "Cannonball" by Five Iron Frenzy
The Pope chased after the Sentinel XS, until James leaned over and started pushing Jessie...
"Jessie! Jessie wake up!"
Soon Jessie woke up and realized it was all a dream. She also realized she fell asleep at the wheel and had a minor fender bender in the Vatican.
"What happened?" she asked. "I had the wierdest dream. I dreamt we were being chased by the popemobile."
"Actually Jessie..." Giovanni said. "You ALMOST hit the popemobile. But since His Holiness is a forgiving man, and the fact he learned we're in the Cannonball. He's letting us off the hook, but only if Ree Big Fish plays a Christian ska song. To which they're doing right now."
As James took the wheel and drove off for the Vatican exit, Reel Big Fish took the stage to play Five Iron Frenzy's "Cannonball".
The Landstalker Mk II was speeding through Venice, Italy in boat form. As Shayla dodged the boats in this city on the water. Tim and Gin talk in the back, as Ricky sleeps.
"Well so glad we finally caught William and his group." Gin said.
"I must be honest." Tim said. "I didn't think we were going to catch them all so quickly."
At Heathrow Airport in London. Janice, William, and Danny were all extradited back to England. That was until Freddy Krueger cut the power to the entire airport. Effectively shutting the entire airport down. Flights that were about to land pulled back up into the air. Security tried to calm everyone down. During the anarchy, the three fugitives escaped and ran out to the airport parking lot, still wearing their chains. Freddy greeted them with a new car for them to drive in. A Freightliner semi-truck rig with trailer, called the Saxon.
"Get in, we're to take you to Africa! General Kazim is expecting you!" Freddy said. As all three climbed into the trailer. That was set up as a boat. "You won't believe how much time it took Mr. Bedlam's mechanics to turn this into an amphibious boat!"
Back in the Landstalker Mk II. The cellphone for the Cannonballers rung. Tim reached over to answer it. "Hello? Can you say that again?"
In the Italian winter sports resort of Cortina d'Amprezzo, Team Simpsons and Team Griffin were both racing through the town centre. Homer made a wrong turn and ended up driving onto a frozen lake where some people were playing ice hockey. The Griffins had followed them and ended up doing the same.
The people dived out of the way as both the Vegas and the Newman skidded on the ice, trying to regain control. The Vegas nearly ran into the Newman.
Stewie angrily glared at Homer.
"If that obese fool does that again, I'm going to ram him right up the..."
"Stewie, language!" said Lois.
Eventually both vehicles came to a halt.
Stewie got out of the Newman and angrily approached the Vegas.
"Stewie, don't do anything stupid!" Peter said.
"Oh, I won't! I leave that to you." Stewie sneered.
Bart had gotten out of the Vegas and appropached Stewie. Both kids tried to avoid slipping on the ice.
"What do you want, junior?" Bart sarcastically asked Stewie.
"You and your family are the biggest morons I've ever seen!" Stewie sneered. "Not only do you take wrong turns but you turn and skid around without making the proper signals!".
"So sue us!" said Bart. "God knows Matt wants to sue Seth."
"That beached whale I call my father may want to play friends with you lot, but I've a good mind to kick you up the ass!" Stewie said.
"Try it." said Bart.
Stewie went to try and kick Bart but Bart held him back by putting his hand on Stewie's head.
The Italian people started yelling at the two teams in their native language.
"I think we'd better go." said Marge. "We're disrupting their game."
"Okay." said Homer
Stewie and Bart returned to their teams' respective vehicles and they drove off the ice, with a bit of difficulty
Not too far away, Earl Hickey, Eva Wei and Tommy Vercetti were having a brief drag race along a long twisting stretch of road. At the finish line about a mile away, their various team mates were waiting and cheering them on.
"I hope Eva can do it!" said Koji.
"Of course she can, you moron!" said Stan. "It'll take a miracle for her to be beaten.".
"Pipe down you guys!" said Rick as he watched through binoculars. "She's taken the lead! I knew Little Mouse would do us proud.".
Earl began to move up to challenge Eva for the lead.
The Thoroughbred had a bit of difficulty navigating the turns.
"Come on, Earl! You can do it!" said Darnell.
"If he crashes do we get the money we bet on him back?" asked Randy.
Darnell angrily made a fist. "Do you want it in the chops, Randy?".
"Earl would say that would be very bad for your karma." said Randy in response.
"Karma my ass!" snorted C.J.
"It's true." said Randy. "I bet you Tommy won't win because of all the stuff he did in Vice City.".
"We'll see." said Niko as Tommy managed to get ahead of Earl and moved the Argento up to challenge the Quasar.
"You shouldn't play with the big boys, honey!" Tommy yelled over to Eva. "You'll get hurt.".
"I'd watch the road if I were you." Eva said.
Tommy looked back at the road and quickly breaked before the Argento went off the edge of a sharp turn.
As he tried to turn around, the Thoroughbred came back from third place and got into second once again.
As the two vehicles approached the final quarter mile, the Quasar led the way with the Thoroughbred always trying to pass but failing.
Sure enough, the Quasar crossed the finish line first.
Earl and Tommy's partners groaned in disappointment.
Earl stopped the Thoroughbred and got out of it just as the Argento finally caught up.
"Sorry guys." said Earl. "I know there are no rules in drag races but I couldn't cheat, especially against a kid.".
"You and your damn self-righteous crap!" grumbled Tommy as he got out of the Argento.
"It wouldn't do you any harm to take a leaf out of Earl's book, Vercetti." said Rick.
"Indeed no." smiled Eva. "Because karma has just rewarded him and you.".
"Huh?" everybody said.
"The only money I'm interested in is the Cannonball prize, and even if I don't win it, it'll be no big deal." said Eva. "I just love the rush in racing. So you guys can keep the money you wagered for this race.".
Everybody looked surprised and happy.
"Thanks, Eva." said Woozie. "You are certainly a very wise young person.".
"Glad you think so." said Eva. "Now, let's get on with the big race.".
"Hell yeah!" said C.J. as the three teams all piled into their vehicles.
"Alright this is a emergency bulletin for all Cannonballers." Damian said. "We've just received word and security footage at Heathrow Airport. The team of William O'Malley, Janice Foyt and Danny Cruger have escaped from police custody. From the footage we've seen, someone created a airport wide blackout and during the panic, the three escaped without removing their shackles or handcuffs. They're out there on the loose and their out for revenge against the Cannonballers."
Team Car Guys sat there in stunned silence as the news report of Cruger and his team escaping from police custody. Either that their stunned at the gay dance moves homosexual fashion reporter Bruno was doing in front of them In the middle of a crosswalk to be exact. Who also is really drunk from a drinking binge at a gay bar.
"Hi! I'm Bruno and I'm really drunk!" Bruno said in a slurred speech.
The Eiswolf sped through Europe, nearing the border to the Middle East, when the Saxon and Dog's pickup trunk reached them at the same time.
"There they are!" Dog said. "Those space bounty hunter piles of crap!"
"There they are!" William shouted. "Cannonballers!"
"Umm Dog..." Leiland looked into the cab of the Saxon to see Danny driving. "Look who's behind us."
"I don't give a...!" Dog saw Danny driving as well "Holy shit! Is that the same guy who escaped from police custody at Heathrow Airport?"
"The one, the only."
"Let's get them!" Dog said. "There is definitely a bounty on their heads!"
The pickup truck kept up with the Saxon. However Danny saw the bounty hunters and rolled his eyes. Then he slammed into them from the side. Knocking their truck off the road and destroying it beyond repair.
"Son of a bitch!" Dog said climbing out of the wreck. "Now we need a new car."
Luckily the police cruiser carrying Angel and Butterman arrived to help them.
"Can we get you a new car?" Butterman asked.
"Yes and something durable. Durable enough to survive a attack by a semi truck." Dog said.
The Melizanno went across the border first. They crossed into Saudi Arabia and sped along the highway, heading into dangerous territory. Every Cannonballer knows that going through this area is a gamble. As every Islamic nation in the Middle East may be unstable and won't tolerate speeders in their country. Especially Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. Those countries have terrorists within them. Terrorists who will be eager to get their hands on a Cannonballer for a ransom. They don't want money. They just want their fellow terrorist brothers free from the United States. But will a speed junkie be worth the freedom of the world's worst scum?
"The Cannonballers are now entering the Middle East." Kevin said. "Godspeed Cannonballers and be careful."
Author's Comment: Never before has any of the CR series authors ever had the Cannonballers go through the Middle East. I'm the first. this is the last time that I will split the teams in half. From Africa and the last chapter, I will be doing all sixty-two teams. Wish Turbo Man and I luck. We're going to need it for the last two chapters.