After the race, Rin suggested to Braedey that they should go ahead and get something to eat at the school cafeteria. Fortunately, the food here was much more enjoyable than the food in the cafeteria back at his school.
Rin, meanwhile, she got herself some yogurt and some fruit plus some milk to enjoy, while Braedey got some bacon and eggs to enjoy. The two did not talk as she ate. Braedey and Rin look over to see Lucy, Conor, Speed and his brother X talking with each other, the two of them sitting nearby. Rin gets out a sketchbook, and she began to sketch what looked like the shape of the Transformer. Braedey was about to ask her about something, when he stopped when he felt a cold liquid pour all over his head and down his back.
"Oops." A familiar voice said behind me. Braedey turns around to see Annalise standing there with a pompous smirk on her face. Braedey whipped the liquid out of his face with the sleeves of his jacket and he realised it was milk.
"You little..." Braedey was about to say more.
"Hey!!" Rin barked angrily, slowly getting up from her seat and glaring at Annalise. "You just ruined my sketch of Braedey's car."
The smile on Annalise's face quickly disappeared and Braedey could not help but smile myself even though he was covered in milk. "Who cares about your stupid drawing? You shouldn't even be at this school at all. All you even care about is your little cheap notebook." Annalise spoke back sardonically. "This is a school for racing, not finger painting class."
Rin slowly stepped closer toward Annalise. She was glaring daggers at the other girl. "That might be true... but at least that's from the perspective of an unobservant cynical annoying little brat like you or your twin friends."
Annalise's face reddened. "What did you just sa-"
"You heard what I said." Rin repeated with a smirk. "What, do you need a hearing aid?"
Annalise huffed indignantly "What makes you think you can talk to me like thi-"
"You're the one who started it. What, now you have hearing and memory loss? You need to sort yourself out; I don't even understand what X is doing with you at this point." Rin ranted off. Braedey couldn't help but wonder if Rin had realised that he was sitting there soaked in milk. He also looked around to see the whole cafeteria is watching.
"Is that... jealousy I hear from Rin?" Annalise asked aloud.
"No, it's just but pure hot anger." Ron stated bluntly.
"Hey! Break it up." Braedey looked to see X walking toward them and standing between the two girls.
Braedey then remembered he was still covered in milk, and seeing as though no one has noticed, he got up and attempted to walk off, but Speed now walked up. "Hey, you okay?" Speed asked softly.
"Been better." Braedey admitted as he grumbled to hismelf. "I'm gonna go take a shower and clean up my jacket."
"If you're late, I'll tell the teacher that you're dealing with something." Speed reassured to him.
"Thanks, Speed." Braedey nodded back, then he goes off to go and get himself cleaned up.
"Thanks for that, Speed. Sorry for my outburst." Rin apologised.
"It's alright. Things like this happen." Speed reassured to her. "Though I'm surprised how calm Braedey took the whole thing."
"I'm surprised by that too." Rin admitted. "I'd better go and check on him to see if he's alright." She heads off on her way after Braedey.
"That was stupid of you to do to begin with, and you know it." X scolded to Annalise after he finally managed to calm her down after the fight.
"I wasn't even trying to ruin that stupid book. I was just aiming for that stupid boy." Annalise said back as she stomped her foot angrily on the ground.
X groaned in annoyance. "Whey do you hate Braedey?"
"He is going to push me off the board soon!" Annalise yelled out in complaint like she's a toddler having a temper tantrum. "First, it was your brother who pushed me into 3rd place. And now, this new boy is going to push me right off!"
"He's a good racer, not his fault." X stated.
Annalise glared daggers at the boy. "You're supposed to take my side!"
"Braedey hasn't done anything wrong though!" X responded, him getting a bit angry as well.
"Yes, he has." Annalise said as she stomped off, Jared and Jesse both following on after.
Braedey, meanwhile, he had managed to clean himself up and gotten his jacket washed and cleaned as well. He made sure it isn't wrecked, to his relief. The jacket is a gift from his cousin Jessie when he was 15 years old. This jacket has also become a part of his signature outfit. After cleaning himself up, Braedey stepped over to his car, getting a waxing buffer, and he began to work on waxing his car. Luckily, the paintwork has a special coating to keep all the dirt and mud off the car and it does not stick. He had to thank Rex for coming up with this new paint scheme.
"Hey, you home?" Braedey stood up nearby his car and he saw X now standing by the garage.
"Uh, hey." Braedey greeted back. The fact X barely talked to him beforehand and now standing before him confused him. "What brings you over here, X?" He asked.
X walked up and leaned back against the wall. "I just wanted to come over here and apologise for what Annalise did before. She'd never apologise herself." He answered.
"I kind of guessed she wouldn't, since she seems to hate my guts for no reason." Braedey reassured to X. "It's okay, you didn't have to apologise for her. I've dealt with a number of bullies in my time. They do nothing but pick on those who they think are weak."
"I thought someone should." X stated with a smile." She really shouldn't have done that... but she is always like that."
"If she is always like that, then why do you date her?" Braedey now asked him. "She doesn't seem all that interesting to be around."
"Just forget about her." X stated to Braedey. "She will get over it soon... just be careful for now." He advised to him, then he leaves the garage.
"Sure. Thanks." Braedey acknowledged as X left.
"Hey. You good?" Braedey now saw Rin make her way over. "I just saw X leave."
"It's okay. He just wanted to apologise to me in regards of what Annalise did." Braedey reassured to her. "You weren't kidding about X being a nice guy."
"True." Rin nodded back in acknowledgement.
At that moment, the rumble of a car's engine could be heard, now getting Braedey and Rin's attention. They both make their way out of the garage, the former closing the garage door and locking it, just as they saw the Howlin' Heat car from the Qualifying Race nearby.
"Uh... who's this guy?" Rin questioned.
"Never seen who the driver is behind the wheel of this car." Braedey answered back. "So you're asking the wrong guy."
The Howlin' Heat's engine then cuts off, Braedey and Rin both looking on. The door now opens as someone now emerges from the vehicle. This someone looks to be a typical teenage male with an average build to his body, standing 5ft 8" tall. He has bright blue eyes, fair skin, while having short darkish hair, having a sports jersey jumper on, plus black jeans with flame decals on them, and flame-style sneakers.
"Uh... may we help you?" Braedey questioned.
"I guess you got my message." The male spoke out to Braedey.
"What do you mean?" Braedey inquired.
"First day you arrived? The Qualifying Race?" The unknown male now inquired. "The message on your Transformatrix?"
"Wait..." Braedey realised. "That message was you... Blaze?" He pointed over to him.
"Yep. That's me. I am Blaze." The male greeted, now identified as Blaze. "A pleasure to finally meet you in person, Braedey Martin."
"What? Hang on, what's your story, friend?" Braedey questioned to Blaze.
"Yeah. Where did you come from?" Rin also inquired.
A Cybertronian Headmaster, one who is native to the Speed Planet AKA Velocitron, Blaze is known for his extreme racing risks that often lead to him burning up while out on the track, and needing the fire creeds him on. Over time and with much modifications done to his body, Blaze has gained a resistance to heat and plasma blaster fire. Sure enough, after the war, Blaze had heard of a racing school down on Earth, so he then decided to go down there. After meeting up with the Autobots on Earth and having been told about what has happened, Blaze acquired himself an Earth vehicle mode and he travelled to Racer Academy where he then learnt about the legendary Braedey Martin. Despite his crashes in races on Velocitron, Blaze is a skilled racer. He idolises the leader of Speed Planet known as Override, as she is the best racer on the planet, even if he wants to beat her someday.
A somewhat confident and hotheaded person, Blaze is quite knowledgeable about racing. He is loyal to his friends and fierce against his enemies. Since Blaze is a Headmaster, he is smaller than the average male Cybertronian, being the same height and having the appearance of a typical human, due to him using a type of synthetic skin given over his robotic body.
"Huh. That is something else." Rin commented.
"Definitely did not expect that." Braedey mused. "So, you opted to race here on Earth? Why?"
"Well, racing on Velocitron is great and all, but I think learning about racing from a human's perspective is more important and pretty exciting to be a part of." Blaze admitted. "Ever since I've arrived here, I've learnt a fair deal."
"That's good to hear." Braedey nodded.
"So... you're telling us that you're a Headmaster, so where is the rest of your robot body?" Rin questioned.
"My body is my car, the Howlin' Heat." Blaze gestured to his car. "Want me to show you?" He offered.
Braedey looks about and he can't see anyone else. "I guess it can't hurt to say yes." He answered back.
Blaze smiled before he ran back over to his car and he climbed in. Once he does so, the engine roars to life, then the vehicle began to break apart and change shape, engine parts, metal components, wheels and servos moving about before the final product revealed itself before Braedey and Rin.
Blaze is a 20ft tall robot, with a grey and gold colour scheme, red neon lightning across his form. He has a streamlined body shape and form, with a set of gold 'wings' on his back, wheels for his shoulders, with his second pair of wheels hidden from view, his broad chest tapering down to a narrow waist, and slender legs that are tipped with boot-like feet. He also has exhaust pipes on his forearms like blaster cannons, with the engine block situated on his chest, his helm having gold formations like a crown. The Autobot symbol is present on his chestplate.
"What do you think?" Blaze asked, kneeling down on one knee to look at Braedey and Rin.
"Neat." Rin commented.
"Definitely did not expect to run into a Headmaster in my lifetime, but I'm definitely impressed." Braedey nodded his head back, Blaze shifting into vehicle mode and sitting behind the wheel. "Nice to meet a fellow Cybertronian. Just don't do anything reckless or else I'll have to revoke your license to race and Jane your wheels removed."
"Ooh..." Blaze shuddered.
"Guys. We should get going to class." Rin now spoke up. "Professor Aniskov will have our heads if we're late
"See you there!" Blaze revs his engine before reversing away and executed a 180 spin as he drives away.
"I'd be reprimanding him for a stunt like that." Braedey commented aloud.
So, over the next week, Braedey took X's advice, and luckily, Annalise has not tried anything else after the milk incident. Though on the other hand, Braedey has had to contend with the newfound paparazzi who knew who he is and began to take his pictures. Rin did ask him how he dealt with so many people taking his picture, and he told her that all he did was simply smile and just go with it. Run was surprised by how mature Braedey can be, whenever he's on the track or not.
Though there was one person on the campus who was definitely prying too much into Braedey's personal life, and that was Mitch, a crazed stalker and someone who favors money over everything else. He had been trying to pry inside of Braedey's garage or dorm room, only to get nasty shocks from the security systems Rin had set up in case, or even trying to find ways to sell anything of Braedey's to make a quick buck, only to nearly get his head slammed into some lockers by Braedey, especially when he attempted to sell off Braedey's blue sports jacket, only to be held up by his throat and was threatened to be made into a stuffed figure and be presented as 'The Stalker That Went Too Far'. Mitch had backed off, but he was still a pain in the rear.
A day goes by, with Braedey walking to the garage. As he did, he could hear arguing nearby, though a part of him hoped it was not coming from his garage. Then, he recognised the voices: Conor and Rin. Braedey sighed as he walked through the door to see the two of them yelling over the hood of the Transformer with Chim-Chim jumping up and down beside them.
"Well, of course you improved the Mach 6's design. How hard is it to improve an iconic and existing design that you've obsessed with over your whole life?" Rin yelled at the red headed boy.
Conor straightened up in annoyance. "Well, where's your super-elite car? Huh? Where's your masterpiece? I don't see it anywhere." He puts a hand over his brow, looks around the room, and somehow manages not to see Braedey in the doorway.
"Where is your original super-elite car?" Rin asked.
"Oh!" Conor's face reddened. "You are such a... LITTLE STUPID HEAD!"
Rin smiled. "Shut up, butt munch."
"You two done now?" Braedey spoke up, Conor and Rin both looking over at him.
"I think so, yeah." Rin acknowledged back. She turned to Conor and pointed toward the door. "Get out, and don't forget to close the door." Conor groaned but did as he was told. Rin smiled as Conor and Chim-Chim left the garage.
"You two don't really get along, do you?" Braedey inquired.
"He's just so... annoying. I mean, he's all Mach 6 and Speed Racer this and that, and he's got no fashion sense at all." Rin sighed in exasperation. "Honestly, he's about as bad as that Mitch."
"Mitch, I understand. But Conor? He's a good kid. Just a little... over enthusiastic about his work." Braedey said to Rin.
Rin now considered this. "Well... I guess you're right." She admitted before looking at Braedey. "Jeez, you're good at that - being calm enough to settle things."
"I've had to handle some heated situations before in the past." Braedey shrugged casually. "But sometimes, negotiating can go one or two ways - either calm and collective, or with fists flying." He chuckled.
Rin giggled a little. "That would be funny to see. I don't want to brag, but I know a thing or two about throwing fists. I doubt Conor does."
"Come on, killer. Let's get down to the track." Braedey chuckled.
"Right behind ya." Rin acknowledged back.
A few moments later, the cars were lined up down at the track. Speed's and X's cars, the Mach 6 and the Shooting Star, sat up front on the line, while Braedey's car, the Transformer, is parked up just behind both Racer brothers. Blaze's car, the Howlin' Heat, is parked up alongside. Annalise's car, the Spoiled Brat, is just behind the two brothers and alongside Braedey and Blaze's car, while the twin's car, the Double Deuce, is behind them. Among them were a few other students with their cars, and unfortunately, there was Mitch with his car, an ugly orange boxy hatchback with a big wing on the back named the Mitchmobile.
"Alright. Keep an eye out on the twins and Annalise, and do whatever you can to get ahead." Rin said to Braedey.
"Gotcha." Braedey acknowledged back.
"Good luck out there." Blaze walked up and shares a bro-fist with Braedey. "I'll be by your side if you need me."
"You too, Blaze." Braedey nodded back.
Braedey climbs into his car, strapping himself in as the cockpit canopy closes down and seals itself in, Blaze getting onboard his wheels. Speed and X both get into their cars and get ready to race. Annalise got into her car, the twins both getting into theirs. Blaze rolled his shoulders as he revved his alt-mode's engine. Up above the track, the holographic countdown of lights flash up and begin to countdown. The drivers rev their engines, the ground shaking under their wheels. Inside his car, Braedey rolled his shoulders and grips the wheel. Sure enough, the horn sounds off as the lights go green, and all the cars launch off the line with the roar of their engines echoing out.
The Mach 6 and Shooting Star take the lead ahead, the Spoiled Brat car struggling to find a path around, the Howlin' Heat lurking behind the three cars. The rest of the pack bunch themselves around the track. With the Transformer, Braedey turns hard left, his car sliding its back end out while going on straight at speed, all wheels rotating in the process, spinning without total loss of control. Blaze rockets along at speed, flames spitting from his exhaust. As this goes on, the Double Deuce falls back a bit with some of the other students also jostling for position. As they drive along, the section on the track opens up to reveal some sophisticated technology and computer operating systems below. A moment goes by, then the pair of large metallic arches rise up before forming up together with a metallic clank. A moment later, within the interior of the arch, the blue portal energises within, almost like that of a Cybertronian Groundbridge.
"Virtual Track activated." An automated voice reported.
The cars make their turn around the track once more, the Mach 6 and Shooting Star both taking the lead, the Spoiled Brat car struggling to move, the Transformer and Howlin' Heat just behind with the rest of the pack behind them. They soon began to approach the portal, and once they go through, they find themselves now located within what looks similar to Monument Valley in Nevada, but with a lightning storm echoing overhead.
"Lightning Alley, this is definitely a new track for us to try out." Rin reported on Comms. "Watch out for the lightning bolts overhead."
"Noted." Braedey acknowledged, dodging an incoming lightning bolt with a wide slide to the left. "Whoa... too close."
"Like I said, be careful." Rin advised.
"Let's put the pedal to the metal." Braedey stomps down on the accelerator, his car launching forward at speed. "Whoa!!"
"I like the way he thinks." Blaze commented, him now accelerating after the Transformer, the two cars now sliding and racing in tandem as they race through the desert.
Throughout the Lightning Alley track, the cars rocket through the valley and towering rock structures that are around, some of the cars including Mitch's being hit by light in and being removed from the Virtual Track in the process, while others continue on their way. Up ahead, the Double Deuce and Spoiled Brat cars were both struggling to keep up with the Racer brothers and their cars. But as the twins look back, they can see both the Howlin' Heat and Transformer closing in fast. The twins both look to one another and smirk before they push the button on their dashboard to make their car separate and become two separate cars, splitting up.
"Let's give him what for!" Jesse declared.
"Time to put the squeeze on him!" Jared agreed.
Both twins began to drive up either side of Braedey's car, the brunette now taking note of this, but he stayed calm and relaxed. He takes note of the two smaller cars as they deploy buzzsaws, no doubt to try and slash at his tyres. But before they can, Braedey pushes a yellow button around him in the cockpit, and in a split-second, metallic shielding surrounded the tyres and the buzzsaws break off the metal shrouding and they shatter like glass.
"What in the-?" Jared questioned.
"What just happened?!" Jesse asked in shock.
"The buzzsaws..." Jared began.
"They just shattered!!" Jesse finished in disbelief.
The two twins were stunned by this, but then opted to try and squeeze the Transformer from both sides. Braedey slams down on the brakes and his car slides out from the twins as they turn hard and prevent each other from trying to run into one another. With the twins now distracted, Blaze drives ahead to block their path, all while waiting for what Braedey will do next.
Braedey raised his left hand and placed it into the hole, just as the clamp forms over the Transformatrix, the watch beeping in confirmation, Braedey pulling his hand back. He taps the faceplate, the core popping up, which brought up the blue, hologram image of Boulder. He scrolls through the playlist as he spins the dial, then he found what he's looking for and pushes down the core.
Outside the car, the white paint now disappeared with a blue flash that washes over the car like a wave, the white colour scheme giving way to a metallic military black paint. At the same time, a set of A-10 tailfins and twin turbofan engines appear around the back section, a pair of electrical conductors forming on either side of the cockpit, plus a M134 six-barrel rotary Gatling Gun sticking out the front of the vehicle.
"Thunderbird Mode, armed and ready." Braedey announced. A moment later, the lightning in the air all now start to converge within the conductors on the car. "I've got the touch, and got the power! Feel the power of Thor!" He declared.
All at once, bolts of lightning erupted out from both the conductors, striking both cars of the Double Deuce, to the shock of the twins as they were stunned by the many volts of lightning coursing through their vehicles, then they both lose control before they crash into one another and they disappear from the Virtual Track.
"Wicked awesome." Blaze commented as he drives alongside, the Transformer turning back to normal in the process. "That was definitely an act of god right there." He said on the Comms to Braedey.
"Much obliged. Now, you go catch up with the Racer brothers. I've got just one more car to contend with." Braedey instructed.
"You got it, Saviour of Cybertron." Blaze acknowledged back at this, before he accelerated away with a roaring howl from his engine, flames spitting from his exhaust.
Annalise, meanwhile, she was driving along as fast as she can to try and keep up with the other drivers, but Speed and X had both ran away from view. She was now getting annoyed as she struggled to keep up, just as she saw the Howlin' Heat rocket pats at speed, her fuming in anger. But then, she looks back to see the Transformer gaining ground and accelerating towards her.
"Oh, no you don't." Annalise turns hard and she goes to block the path of the Transformer.
Braedey, however, he was not slowing down or letting his foot off of the accelerator. He kept charging ahead and raced right at the Spoiled Brat, slamming the front of his car into the back of Annalise's car, knocking her off-balance as she swerved out of the way as he drives up alongside.
"Hey! You're gonna pay for that!" Annalise glared, then she goes to slam her car against Braedey's. "Nobody gets away with smacking into me!"
Braedey accelerates forward to dodge the attack, then he spins the Transformer around to face Annalise and the Spoiled Brat head on. She attempts to drive past, but Braedey blocked left and right like he's on football defence, preventing her from advancing. She was now getting more annoyed by this as she struggles to get past. Finally, Annalise accelerates forward and slams her car into the front of Braedey's car, inadvertently getting her Spoiled Brat wedged against the trident-like front of the Transformer. BAD idea.
"Ooh... time for you and I to go for a spin..." Braedey smirked to himself.
With some quick movements with his feet against the pedals, and shifting through the gears, the Transformer now began to start spinning around 360 on its axis, the four wheels moving in motion despite their 180 wheelspin motion, it and the Spoiled Brat spinning around in quick succession, both gaining in rotational speed. Annalise tries to get her car free, but with how much force she rammed her car into Braedey's, she couldn't get free. On top of that, the G-forces she was feeling right now from the high-speed spinning was definitely not helping. After some more seconds of high-speed spinning, Braedey deployed the jumpjacks and launches both cars into the air. With a metallic snap, the Spoiled Brat is sent flying away, Annalise screaming out at the loss of control, and before she crashed into some rocks, she had vanished from the Virtual Track. Braedey lands down on the ground with a thud, then he smirked after what he had done to Annalise before he stomped down on the accelerator hard, blue jet flames erupting from the engine exhaust at the rear, and the Transformer rockets away after the leading cars with a sonic boom in its wake.
Further ahead, both the Mach 6 and Shooting Star are both charging on forth through the desert as fast as they can. They drive on as they also dodge incoming lightning attacks and more. At the same time, the Howlin' Heat was closing in on the two cars, but both Speed and X went on the defensive and blocked the Headmaster in disguise from advancing onward, Blaze revving the engine in his alt-mode as he tries to get by.
"There's got to be something-" Blaze was cut off when he then heard a sonic boom echoing from behind, mow making him look back. As he does so, he could see the Transformer rocketing towards him at supersonic speeds and the Racer brothers. "Holy-!"
"Transformer COMING THROUGH!" Braedey called.
Blaze could only watch on as the Transformer now race right past him, then he could witness the car launch into the air thanks to its jumpjacks, leaping right over both the Mach 6 and Shooting Star, much to both the brothers' surprise and shock, the Transformer racing onward, the Mach 6, Shooting Star, and Howlin' Heat trailing behind.
The four cars eventually exit the Virtual Track via the exit portal, the four cars driving across the finish line and coming to a stop. Braedey breathed out a sigh and smiled to himself as he unstraps himself from his seat and opens the cockpit canopy. He waved to the crowds as they cheer out to him, Rin running up to him, while Blaze got out of his car to walk up. While he was climbing out of the car, Annalise threw her helmet down at the ground in anger, the twins and X trying to calm her down as she storms off, Speed being greeted by Lucy and Conor, and their mechanical monkey.
"Wicked awesome." Rin said as she appeared beside Braedey.
"Thanks a lot." Braedey thanked back as he climbs out of his car.
"Definitely wicked out there." Blaze complimented, he and Braedey both shaking hands.
"Thanks a lot. And nice driving out there." Braedey complimented back to Blaze. "Cannot wait to see what we'll do next."
"Absolutely." Blaze nodded back, then he gets back into the Howlin' Heat and drove off.
Speed walked up. "Great race out there." He shook hands with Braedey.
"You too, Speed. Can't wait to race against you again." Braedey nodded back.
"Yeah." Speed nodded before he walked off with Lucy and Conor back over to the Mach 6.
"Come on. Let's celebrate." Rin announced.
"I'm down for that." Braedey nodded.
After the whole race, Annalise had decided to go and complain to her father, up in Zazic Tower on the other side of the racing campus. She was going to talk to her father about what happened.
Zile Zazic is the owner and founder of Zazic Industries, a multi-billion dollar company that has global influence in the fossil fuels industry. While he may seem a like a nice individual upfront, Zile is extremely greedy and ruthless, and will resort to any tactic to achieve his goals. On the other hand, Zazic Industries is one of the worst carbon emitters and fossil fuel companies with the most significant negative impacts on the climate, as well as responsible for damages caused by their faulty products and automobile engines due to poorly designed and unreliable engine blocks and systems. But Zile Zazic does not care about that - all he cares about is the money in his pocket and the empire he has built and forged on with.
"Are you serious?" Zile asked to his daughter who was pacing back and forth angrily in front of his desk. "You want me to kidnap a teenage boy over some petty teenage problems?" He grumbled.
"Petty teenage problems?" Annalise repeated in anger. "This isn't petty! He is ruining my life. He pushed me off leader board, had his friend humiliate in front of everyone at breakfast, acts superior to me, and is making my boyfriend turn against me-"
"That is a good thing. No more Racer boy in your life." Zile muttered under his breath, which caused Annalise to glare daggers at him.
"You don't need to keep him, just scare him." Annalise said as sat down in the chair and Zile groaned. "Just have Stan or one of your other henchmen do it."
"I can do it, Mr. Z." Stan spoke up as he jumps up and dropping a box of cookies he was eating on the floor and looked down at it sadly. Stan is Zile's personal assistant and second-in-command, despite being clumsy and dimwitted most of the time. His large size and gentle composure makes him look like a jolly giant, often getting in the way of the evil plans he is supposed to carry out.
Zile shook his head. "No, I'm not going to kidnap some random teenage boy."
"He's that alien robot shapeshifter boy from the news, Daddy." Annalise now revealed, Zile taken aback by this. "What?"
"Wait... you're being serious about this?" Zile questions his daughter at once. "That boy is here, at this school?"
"YES!" Annalise yelled out in annoyance. "Why are you suddenly so scared about this nobody?"
"This doesn't bode well. That so-called nobody is a one-man robot army, Annalise. One that could very well find out every dirty little secret I have out there, and he could even undermine everything that I've built my entire oil empire upon..." Zile muttered out in worry.
Annalise was taken aback, then she smiled as an idea arrived in her head. "You know, Braedey is rather close to Speed and them. I see him talking to Speed a lot. Maybe he knows something useful about the Mach 6."
Zile now perked up a little after hearing this as some thoughts went running through his mind. "And even if he doesn't, we can use him to get information... or even get the Mach 6 itself."
"I'm glad you see it my way..." Annalise smirked.