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Hot Wheels: New races, new drivers

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Chapter 3 : Mari's first race

(some parts were based from the comics, which I think their track its the 'Jungle terrain', starts with chapter 11 and you will understand)

The 35 drivers got into their cars and they stood at the starting point, one after one, side by side, the cars are organized vertically and horizontally in a perfect line. Mari is inside of her Mercy Breaker (NOT TONO'S CAR!! Search on google, it really exists), she is behind Skeet, a member from the Roadbeasts team, and she is beside with Ricky Bell, a teammember from her team.

She took a deep breath and concetrated on the traffic light, the red light turned into yellow, and then the yellow light turned into green. Time to go. The drivers pressed their foot on the pedal and they went straight, Banjee Castillo, the leader of the Roadbeasts, pressed the red button and the Nitrox 2 made his car go faster.

"HEEEEYAAAH! I'll never get tired of this!" yelled Banjee while his car is tilted in the air because of the booster.

Taro, Kurt, Vert and Kadeem used the Nitrox 2 too to get faster into the portal, Dan Dresden warned Mari.

"You need more speed to get into the portal, use the Nitrox 2 booster, Mari" said Dresden

"okay" responded Mari, she pressed the red button too and her car went 300 mph, she held her breath for a minute and her grip on the steering wheel got thigh, a giant portal could be seen at the end of the desert.

Banjee was the first to enter through the portal, as he got there, he landed on a curve which took him by surprise.

"woah! Watch out for the first curve, amigos, at least if you got wind!" warned Banjee After him, a lot of drivers came out of the portal together which almost every driver bumped their cars on the first curve, Mari's eyes widen and tried not hitting Taro's car, but she bumped it accidentaly.

"Oh- sorry!" Mari apologized to Taro while driving ahead

"don't apologize to the team's leader rival" commanded Kurt through the comms

Kurt was too ahead that he left his own team behind. Mari followed Dan Dresden, Ricky Bell and the whole Street Breed team on the cliffside tracks until they see 2 tracks divided in a loop.

"look! Hope we don't crash at each other" said Mari

Dan Dresden, Bart Scampi and Maximo went to the left side while Mari, Ricky Bell and San Jay Khan went to the right side, luckily none of them crashed at each other during the loop, but when they were about to jump from the ramp to another track, Maximo and Mari bumped their cars' sides and they landed not in a perfect way, making their vehicles skid, turning around and stopping in an inverted position.

"watch out, chica! You want to kill us?" asked Maximo while cursing at Mari

"I'm sorry, it's just-- I got nervous with the jump" answered Mari

"Maximo, calm down. It's her first race, it's normal for the rookies getting nervous during their first race" said Dan Dresden

"Whatever" Maximo puffed

"guys, we need to be going, our leader isn't responding us" said San Jay Khan

The team started driving again and they noticed they are been followed by the Dune Ratz and Scorches team, their leaders are behind them. Mari is being pursued by a Dune Rat team's member called Toni Berry, a Toyota RSC female driver. Toni accelerated her car and pushed her front on Mari's Mercy Breaker from the behind, Mari felt the bump inside of her car and almost lost control behind the wheel, but she hold on tight the steering wheel. She sees her rearview mirror and noticed that the Toyota RSC isn't behind her anymore, it's by her left side.

"you Street Breed people are always pretentious just like your leader" said Toni Berry

"well I just met him before this race so I don't know very much about him" nervously chuckling, Mari said to Toni through the comms

"ugh... shame"

Toni hit Mari's car, trying to make the girl lose control again, Mari presses her lips while looking at Toni's Toyota RSC, so she does the same thing that the rival did. They got distracted fighting while the rest of the teams passed them. The two ladies were about to hit at each other's cars again until Taro Kitano and Kadeem passed them so fast that Toni and Mari dodged.

"what was that?" asked Mari to herself

Another car came passing them, it was a Wave Rippers car, following Kadeem and Taro. The Street Breed girl followed straight ahead and noticed a bunch of cars from the Dune Ratz, one from Street Breed and some from the Scorches in the middle and almost out of the track.

"Dan, what happened here?" asked Mari through the comms

"I tried to do the pursuit intervention technique and everything went wrong, you can go without me, go with the rest of our team, the other teams are way ahead, I'll be right behind you" ordered

Dresden and Mari nods. Maximo leads the Street Breed into a tunel inside of a montain, and in it, the track divides in 2 sides, Mari followed Maximo while San Jay followed Bart, the two sides leaded straight ahead until they go over a ramp, all of them accelerated and jump, Ricky, Maximo and San Jay made a stunt during the jump, but Mari was the only one who didn't. And they landed perfectly. No one got hurt.

"Thank God you didn't made a stunt, have you imagined what would happened to us?" asked Maximo refering to Mari

"Maximo!" San Jay called, his patience started to overflow Mari started to feel shame for herself, maybe her brother was right after all. She is very clumsy for racing, but she holds back tears and took a deep breath. Dan Dresden finally reached them and they were driving together.

The background with a lot of mountains started to tremble like an earthquake, stones from mountains were colapsing, massive strange explosions, they came out of nowhere. Speaking of 'out of nowhere', suddenly Kurt's Slingshot came out jumping from a mountain's ramp and landed in front of the team.

"Looks like you got into a trouble" said Kurt

"where have you been?" asked Bart

"I took a shortcut which is that purple track and then I found out it was a very long way to the first place" Kurt responded, which is a lie

"ugh, and now we are so far behind" exclaimed Maximo

Maximo grunted and looked at Mari, and the girl only looked to the other side just to avoid his death glare. She thought 'why he is lookin' at me like that?', it didn't take 1 race and she is being a target of rude criticism not only from Kurt, but also from Maximo. Being honest, this isn't the first when she is underestimated, a few people from her own family didn't trusted her knowledge, her capacity for doing things for her own, she is just waiting for the time to prove they are wrong... If this never happen...

"Guys, check it out! A cave entrance in the mountainside!" Bart informed while pointing the entrance

"Good catch, Shrimp" Kurt tries to give a compliment

"Bart hates that nickname, Kurt" said San Jay Khan

There were golden statues built by the Accelerons, Bart couldn't stop thinking about of maybe there would be treasures inside the cave.

"Hey, check out these golden statues, are these real gold?" asked Bart amazed by the statues

"LOOK OUT!" Mari shouted while the cave's stones started to fall

The cave started to collapse too like the mountains and the Street Breed team wasted no time and they accelerated before the cave closes. But the problem is--

"Ricky Bell got trapped, what should we do?" Mari asked hoping they didn't get mashed in the cave

"Did 'Shrimp' help him? He couldn't stop talking about the statues" Kurt didn't sound worried

"we need to help them!"

"guys, look! It's coming from the rocks" said San Jay Khan Suddenly, Bart got out of the rocks while holding Ricky, they didn't seemed okay, like- a cave just collapsed on them. Mari got out of her car to help her teammates, she extends her hand to pull Ricky and help them to stand up.

She notices that their cars didn't get smashed by the rocks, they are indeed irrestible to high damage. After this life and death situation, Kurt leads the team until the finish line, they saw a portal, the finish line. They used the Nitrox 2 booster and passed it. They didn't get a first place like Kurt did alone last time in another track, but at least they got out of there alive. The question that appeared in most of their minds is: where did that earthquake came from?

When the brazilian girl is about to go back to Tezla's HQ, she saw more cars comming out of the portal, two teams. They were the Roadbeasts and Wave Rippers, they were the last ones. Mari watched the young teammembers from the Wave Rippers team getting out of their cars and giving a good job at each other even tho they didn't get neither a first place nor a second place, she saw Vert Wheeler, the blondie boy who has 16 years old getting out of the Deora II and she felt something familiar with him. Doctor Peter Tezla reunited all the 35 drivers inside of his H.Q informing the results of the race, he said that the next day in the morning will have another race and gives hope to the drivers to give 5 million dollars for a driver along with the teammates who will get the Wheel of the Power.

"Now get some rest. You'll need it" Tezla finished the reunion

Dan Dresden walked with San Jay Khan towards Mari, who was making some adjustments inside of her car.

"hey, Mari" Dresden called and she already stood up

"Dan..." there was a silence between them, "I'm very sorry. I'm not the good driver as you expected, maybe Kurt was right" Mari looked down with disappointed face

"hey, don't be like that. It was your first race, and I didn't know that Maximo would act like Kurt. San Jay told me everything..." Dresden informed

The girl closed her eyes and looked to her right side while her long hair hides her face, Dan Dresden felt sad for her and tried to think of something to cheer her up.

"look, why don't you take some rest like Dr. Tezla commanded? Sleeping late at night isn't very good for health" She nods.

The members of her team left her with her car, she decided to take some fresh air before rest, she closed the car's doors and accidentally bumped into someone. She looks up and it is a boy from the Wave Rippers.

"Oh- careful there" he said

"sorry" Mari apologized as she put her hair behind her ear

"hey I know you"

"I don't think so" Mari got confused

"you look kinda- Yo, Vert! Come here" he called and a blondie boy came

The boy whose name is Vert came towards Mari and Alec

"sup Alec, what is it?" Vert asked

"does she look familiar?" Alec grabbed Mari's shoulders from behind

Seeing Vert up close made Mari finally remember, he is the same school as her, she is studying at California, but they aren't in the same class. They don't even talk to each other, but she once saw him with Alec and his friend group in front of school after classes. Mari doesn't have all of friends like Vert has, bunch of teenagers came to her only to ask questions, not to make friendship.

"We've 'met' at the middle school, remember?" Mari tried remind them

After some time of think, a thought finally hit them

"ohhh, now I remember" said Vert "you're Luan's young sister, the famous driver from Brazil, I'm Vert Wheeler by the way. Leader of the Wave Rippers"

Okay, she would be lying if she says that she wasn't expecting that because that's one of two reasons why most of teenagers only went to her to ask questions. If wasn't because of him, her mother, her father or even she wouldn't be there at California, all thanks to Luan's fame. She started to feel that she is her older brother's shadow, but she doesn't keep any rage for her brother, actually, she feels happy for him.

"yeaahhh... that's me. Luan's younger sister" Mari faked her smile

"dude, your brother has an amazing skills, it's a shame that he needed to retire for a while" Vert happily said catching Mari when he called her 'dude'

"my brother always liked the racing and I should be taking care of him, but another person took my place to do it" Mari said in a honest way

"hah! No wonder Kurt choose you, you must have greatest skills as Luan's"

"Actually... I always wanted to try racing like him, but he never allowed me, he always says I'm very 'clumsy', but here I am"

She awkwardly smiled at them while Vert and Alec exchanged glances, they actually don't know what to say after what Mari has declared.

"but I wish you and your team a good luck for tomorrow's race. Because I ruined my team's race today. Some of them already hates me" Mari said while scratching the back of her neck and sighs

She awkwardly smiled at them while Vert and Alec exchanged glances, they actually don't know what to say after what Mari has declared. "but I wish you and your team a good luck for tomorrow's race. Because I ruined my team's race today. Some of them already hates me" Mari said while scratching the back of her neck and sighs

Vert and Alex noticed Mari's sad face so Vert signs Alec that they'll leave her

"oh hey" Vert said "how about a race between me and you after the oficial race? Just to see if you are good or bad"

"wait-- Really? What makes you think that I'll accept this offer?" Mari asked

"because I know the feeling of being underestimated. Trust me. You, me and Markie are not taken seriously only because of our age" Vert confesses and before he is about to leave, "you and Lani would make good friends tho. See you at the race tomorrow. You. Will. Lose" and he finally goes away while smiling, leaving a shocked Mari standing beside her car.

She smiled, finally another person instead of Dan Dresden who respects her and at the same time having this funny competition spirit, at least in her vision. Her expression turned into a confident one while thinking 'let's see then, Vert Wheeler'.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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