Announcement: Since school has started for me recently, with me entering my junior year in high school, I may not be able to post as much due to my schedule, which isn't as busy now, but it may most likely be in the future. In the future, I will try my best to update whenever that is possible. I thank you for your understanding.
That, and four things I wanted to clarify, two of which are Hera and Zeb's appearances with both of them being humans in this AU:
Zeb is a Caucasian male who has a slight beard, short haircut with light brown hair with green eyes, stands at his height he appears as in the show, and wears a light blue Las Vegas t shirt, blue jeans that are ripped slightly, and black Nike sneakers. He also has one tattoo showing a little bit at the bottom of the sleeve of his shirt on his right arm. It is a tattoo of a sports car traveling on Route 66, symbolizing a drive he took in that same exact sports car during his first year in the motor club.
Hera is a Caucasian female who has brunette hair that goes a tiny bit past her shoulders, her height is the same one that she appears as in the show, as well as her eye color, and she wears a grey and white sleeved baseball shirt, dark blue jeans, and emerald trainers. Unlike Zeb, Hera does not have any tattoos.
In terms of Sabine's car, since I know that there are different types of AMGs out there by Mercedes, her AMG is an AMG GT R to be specific.
And last thing before the next chapter, Sabine and Ezra will have their Season 3 looks, while Kanan will appear as his usual self before he got blinded by Maul in Season 2, as you may have already picked up.
That's all I wanted to say. Enjoy this next chapter.
Chapter 2: The Night Drive
3rd Person P.O.V
The racers continued driving on the highway towards long beach at night, with traffic being very light on a night like this, giving them the opportunity to go fast and overtake their opponents with ease.
They were currently halfway there, with all of them going at it with their rides. As of now, Kanan was in the lead, with Alex trailing dead behind him, and behind him was Ezra, in which Sabine was gaining on him. As for Hera and Zeb, both of them were neck and neck in the back of the three leaders and Sabine's AMG, with Hera having a slight advantage thanks to her Aston Martin being lighter and faster than Zeb's Raptor.
Ezra hit his nitro, in which his car released flames from the tanks in the back, trailing past Alex's Challenger, and pulling a move by drifting past Kanan's Mustang with his nitrous still active to the left of the leader, and then pulling ahead of him.
Kanan, not planning on going easy with this new blood in the crew, he engaged his turbo, swerving past traffic on the road, and then came up back on Ezra's orange and black Skyline, going neck and neck with the new blood. Meanwhile behind them, Sabine was trailing past Alex, and closing in on the new blood and the leader. She hit her nitro in her AMG, overtaking the both of them, now in the lead of this night drive.
In Sabine's mind as she continued gunning it, she thought that this race was her's, considering that she was a little further ahead than anybody, thanks to her AMG having extensive modifications installed by her. That was until Hera's Aston Martin pulled up behind her, alongside Alex's Challenger going neck and neck with the British made car. Zeb came trailing behind her AMG as well, thanks to him saving enough of his nitro to catch up with the leaders, while Kanan and Ezra were closing in dead behind the pickup.
With Alex and Hera literally next to each other, both of them continued to gun it, waiting for the moment to make the turn that would take them to the exit of this highway, on which both of them had their hands on their button on their steering wheels that would engage turbo. Alex slammed it hard, his Charger going past Hera's Aston Martin, but not today for him. She engaged her turbo, with him doing the same thing, both of their cars battling for position as they nitro did its job.
The racers eventually came up to the exit, with Sabine still ahead by a few meters, with Alex coming in fast, his Charger packing enough juice to get past the AMG. "Dammit!" Sabine exclaimed, hitting the gas hard to catch up to Alex's charger, just not before Ezra overtook her in his Skyline. He hit his nitro, going fast down the road, and then drifting to the right hard, with Sabine and Alex following, and then the others drifting. Once he got out of his drift, the final stretch was coming up.
Ezra hit the gas as hard as he could, with Alex and Sabine gaining on him, and with Zeb getting past Kanan and Hera in his Raptor, now gaining on the leaders. Zeb managed to get past Alex and Sabine thanks to just about enough juice he saved up to hit the nitro, going quick and fast down the road, before he finished the race in first place. He drifted to a stop, with his truck's side facing the way in which the others were coming from. In second place was Alex, and then Ezra came in third once he got enough juice to get past Sabine at the last second. Both cars drifted, their side's facing the way in which Hera was coming in her Aston Martin, and Kanan in his Mustang. Kanan finished in front of Hera, who came in last.
All of the cars got back on the road, and were now cruising in the order of which people came in. Kanan then brought his phone up, and dialed everybody on a conference call.
"Nice run, gang." he said. "Thanks for taking me out here with you guys on this night drive." Ezra chimed in. "Anytime, kid. You're always welcome as a member of the crew." Alex said. "So where to now, gang?" Kanan asked them. "Should we cruise down to the bar and grill and have a few drinks? Maybe our friend's there." Sabine said. "I could go for some drinks with you guys." Ezra responded. "I'm up for it." Hera said. "Same thing." Zeb responded. "Alright, to the bar it is. Zeb, lead us there if you could." Kanan requested. "On it, boss." he responded.
The crew pulled up to the Pike Restaurant and Bar, and parked their cars there, in which they got out of them, and headed to the entrance.
"Who is this friend that you mentioned, Sabine?" Ezra inquired. "He's an old friend of ours that we've known for a while. We go back to when we used to do the Long Beach run a lot ever since I joined the crew a year ago." Sabine answered. "He's a cool guy, Ezra. You'll get to know him."
They walked into the bar.
Ezra's P.O.V
"Hey, Kanan. I see that you brought the crew along." the bartender said, who was a man who appeared in his middle ages with a white beard going, he was bald, he had a muscular build, and he was wearing a black t shirt and jeans. "Yes we did." Kanan responded. "Who's this though? A new blood?" the bartender inquired. "Yes he is as a matter of fact. He joined the crew today, and we decided to take him with us on a night run after dinner." Kanan replied. "Ezra," he said turning to me. "This is our old friend, Rex. Rex, this is Ezra, our newest recruit." "Pleasure to meet you." Rex said, shaking my hand. "Nice to meet you too." I replied.
Unusually, the bar didn't have as many people since people were out elsewhere on Long Beach, so it was just us and Rex, along with a few more people. So we sat at the bar, except for Sabine, Alex, and me because we were below drinking age, but Rex invited us to sit up in the chairs. We accepted his invitation, and we had some drinks with the crew. The three of us didn't have alcohol though. I had coke, Sabine had water, and Alex had ginger ale.
The night went by, and I was so far enjoying my time with my new friends here, including Rex. It seemed like that I was being welcomed into the family with open arms from them, and it felt good. I also got to know Sabine, and Alex, a little bit as we drank, and had a good conversation about stuff with her. She's also a cool person as well. She was a graffiti artist, and she painted those designs on her AMG herself, which I found cool, considering that I partially painted my Skyline myself. Everything was going great, and it seemed that way.
After we hung out for a while, we decided to get going after it was getting late. We got back into our cars after we said goodbye to Rex, and then cruised back to Los Angeles.
By the time we got there, everybody split up, going back to their houses, including myself. I was now in my apartment watching South Park, and then I decided to see if my new friends were on Facebook or any other social media when a commercial rolled around. When I found them, I sent them friend requests, and then got ready for bed. I got in my boxers, and then went to sleep. Today was a great day, Ezra.
One month later
A month has passed since I joined the crew, and I was involved in a lot of stuff with them. Stuff like street racing, price races, running into trouble with the law, and this one FBI agent who we all despise, Agent Kallus, who ended up scratching my car one time, was a real problem that we encountered. Other than that, life was good, and the crew treated me like family as the times went by.
I had gotten a job recently for my spare time when I'm not racing for money, in which I'm working as a clerk at a nearby 7-11 down the road from my place. My shift is only 5 hours during the day, and I work there for only three days out of the weeks, being Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. The job is better than nothing, and it offers me a decent pay.
Since today was the weekend, I ended up going to the HQ to see the crew. I pulled up to the HQ, and walked over to the room where the crew hangs out a lot in, which is their own game room that they set up themselves. I was walking through the halls, where I saw Sabine walking by. "Hey, Ezra." she said. "Hey. How ya been?" I asked, bringing her in for a friendly hug where we patted our backs. "Good. You?" "Pretty good." "And by the way, Ezra, I was wondering if you would be able to do this with us." "Do what, Sabine?" "The crew are having a meeting about this, and they would like you to come join them to discuss this thing that we are talking about." "Sure."
I walked with her over to the game room, where I saw the crew all seated. "Hey, guys." I said. "Ezra, just the man I wanted to see." Kanan said. "So what's this meeting about?" I inquired. "The rest of us are doing it, and we would like to know if you would do it with us." "Do what with you guys?" "So there is a race going on, and a lot of the top drivers in California and the west coast are doing this thing. This is a road trip race that has us racing this route *Kanan pointing to the map that has the route highlighted in orange* that goes from L.A. to Chicago. The grand prize for the winner: 25 million dollars." "Seriously, Kanan?" I asked in shock. "Yup. And we are entering the race to get that money for ourselves to do what we want with it. So are you interested in taking the drive with us?" Kanan asked.
"Anything for that kind of money." I answered. "Great." Kanan said. "When's the start of the race?" I asked. "It starts in two days, and it starts here." Kanan said, pointing to Santa Monica Pier on the map. "And then it goes to Vegas, and then we head up north, and make our way into the mid west, and then into Chicago." "What time are the drivers heading out at?" "At around 8:30 am, they are heading out." "Alrighty then, guys. I'm rolling with you." "Glad to have you with us, Ezra."
One night later
I packed the rest of my things for tomorrow, including additional money for necessities on the road, and snacks and drinks in my travel backpack. I also had my phone charger with me ready for the morning, and my toiletry kit, that had my toothbrush and toothpaste and whatnot. After I packed everything, I went to sleep, preparing myself for tomorrow.
The next morning, I woke up at around 7:00, in which I showered, brushed up, got changed, putting on my plain white t shirt, my orange driver's jacket that had two brown stripes on the left side of the front of it, my grey jeans, and my black sneakers, packed the last second stuff, ate breakfast, and headed out to my car. I informed the landlord that I would be away for a while, and he said to travel safely and make up for the rent whenever I get the chance. I nodded back at him, and headed out in my car to Santa Monica Pier. While on the way over there, I contacted my boss at work, informing him that I would be away for a while, and he said to enjoy my trip and get back to work soon. I eventually arrived at the pier, where I saw the crew in their cars ready for the run.
At around 8:10 to 8:20 while all of us were waiting for the race to begin, more cars started showing up, and there were a lot of them. According to Kanan, about 250 to about 300 drivers in total signed up for this race, including Alex's girlfriend, Isabella, who was a member of the motor club herself, driving a blue Camaro with a carbon hood, small spoiler, and had various mods already installed on there. She lined up behind her boyfriend's Charger, and then we were now waiting.
Before we knew it, 8:30 hit, in which we were all on our way. We agreed for us in the crew to stick together, and to keep it that way throughout the entire race to Chicago. We followed each other in a formation, passing other racers along the way. And then eventually, after getting a call about so many street racers on the road, the police dispatched numerous cars to try and apprehend us, but we weren't gonna let that happen.
At multiple points, the police got in front of me and the crew, even having to ram the cop cars after they started getting on my friends, and on me. And this kept happening throughout the time we spent heading to the highway that goes to Vegas. Eventually, we finally got to the point where after a grueling long time of avoiding cop cars, the crew and I managed to get out of the city, and we were on our way to Las Vegas.