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Post by fierano on Oct 21, 2008 0:21:43 GMT -5
Glimmer had rounded the corner to escape them when he saw two very familiar fascias, asking him to come with them. Ebony was not so familiar, but he recognized Kamui anywhere. He practically could not stop thinking about her and how he lost to her for the first month or so after his replacing.
"You...why did you..." he whimpered, tears welling up... "What do you want with me..."
She wants t'help ye, lad. She beat and humiliated me...why would she want to help me!?
"Jenny!" Carl called out as he and Neville made their way around, the M3 gasping for breath as the injury had started acting up again, "Good...you girls managed to catch him..."
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 21, 2008 0:32:32 GMT -5
Kamui practically took her blade fan off of her roof again, aimed, and fired a blast that hit the ground just in front of Carl and Neville, which would force them to stop in their tracks. "Neither of you two will get no closer!" she snapped, "This bounty is worth nothing! Go find someone more worthless to go after!"
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Post by fierano on Oct 21, 2008 0:49:06 GMT -5
Carl and Neville skidded to a halt before the blade fan's blast and Kamui's threat. The chance for splitting the bounty 25% all around was now off. "Bounty..." Glimmer moaned, "What is this about now!?" "Jenny, the Shooter's right. If we wanted you for this 'bounty' we wouldn't have called you up. We just want to show you a good time, and then you can go back home," Carl said, spoken almost like a police negotiator, "That's it...just come with us." Glimmer started to move back...before someone else showed up at Carl's side of the alley. It was a Carbon Motors E7 officer from the NPD. "Freeze! All of you are under arrest! Don't you move or I will make you respect the right to remain silent!" shouted the officer, drawing an electric incapacitating device. "Crap! The pigs!" Neville shouted, turning around to face the cop. Glimmer was terrified out of his mind, unsure which way to pull himself...so El Bandito decided to give him a friendly "push" toward the two girls. "Wait! No! This isn't what I want!" he cried. This is fer ye' oon good, Jensie! Now moove it!"What the hell is wrong with him!?" Carl shouted, as the E7 slowly advanced into the alleyway... Neville checked his rear-view mirrors, "Maybe he's being RC'ed by these Managers or something..."
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 21, 2008 1:25:51 GMT -5
"Carl, you're a bold-faced liar and you know it!" Ebony snapped as she rejoined Kamui in helping Glimmer move it and follow her and Kamui down the alley, ignoring the cops and hoping that they would focus their attentions on Carl and Neville. Since she was also capable of talking to ghosts because of her empathy, she spoke mentally to El Bandito, 'Here, lemme help give him a little bit a motivation.'
She started pushing against the CLK's backend in hopes of moving him along faster. "I'm a friend of Kamui's, Jens. Where we're going, you'll be safe from the authorities and those two. Trust me, I grew up here and I know every little secret there is in this city."
Damn, I gotta do something quick to cover our escape, Kamui thought as she lifted her blade fan into the sky and mumbled a spell. This caused a huge smoke screen to appear between Kamui's group and the other group.
"C'mon, let's go!" she shouted at Ebony and Glimmer, "That smoke screen will only stay up for twenty minutes! Time to move it!"
(((((OOC: Going to bed... Night...)))))
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Post by fierano on Oct 21, 2008 2:03:20 GMT -5
"No...please...you've all humiliated me enough...let me go..." Glimmer moaned as El Bandito propelled him to where the girls were going. He checked his rear view mirrors, nothing but smoke.
Quit yer' whinin, it's better than being handed back t' the Managers fer their own purposes.
...the Managers?
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Carl and Neville backed off a bit as the smoke screen appeared, almost expecting an explosion.
The two peeled out and went into the smoke screen, the E7 too reluctant to follow...only to come out to the other side of the alley, with nobody else there.
"DAMMIT!" Carl cursed, slamming his non-injured front wheel against the wall. "We were THIS close!" "What do we do now?" Neville replied worriedly. "We lose the tail...shouldn't be too many. Then we head into the Nitropolis underground to find this guy before they cash him in." "They seemed like they wanted to help him though," Neville added as the two started to make their way through the backstreets. "Nah...like I was telling that Viper earlier, it's every crew for themselves."
Carl and Neville headed off into the night...but their quest was far from over.
"What about Slick?" Neville asked, "He won't be pleased that Ebony took his boy." "Neville...I like your thinking..."
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 21, 2008 10:12:14 GMT -5
Meanwhile, while the smoke screen was still providing them cover, Ebony had activated a secret switch she knew about on the brick wall and a tunnel yawned open before the trio.
"Whoa, that could only be possible from someone with an engineering degree," Kamui said as she viewed the entrance for a few seconds.
"I know," replied Ebony as she nudged Glimmer inside, "My kind are full of surprises, aren't we? Now let's get going before they get brave enough to drive through that smoke."
Kamui nodded and helped Ebony push Glimmer into the tunnel. The entrance slid shut, leaving only a brick wall behind them and an empty alleyway.
Inside, it was like they were traveling down a miner's tunnel. The lights that were strung along the middle of the ceiling were dim, but Ebony knew the way pretty well, so she was again in the lead, with Kamui bringing up the rear.
"Now I want to prepare you both when we get to the Arena," Ebony said, "We call it the Arena because it's the center of the underground where I and my brother grew up and because it's as big as an arena above ground. To you both, it might look like a gypsy's nest that is dimly-lighted. However, it has been home to me for 18 years, so I'd like you guys to respect that, okay?"
"Got it, Ebony," nodded Kamui, "When are we gonna come up to one of the guards that you said that were in the tunnel?"
"Very soon," said Ebony as a car, a steel gray Mitsubishi Eclipse Hatchback approached them, "Stay quiet. Lemme handle this."
She turned to the Hatchback and addressed him firmly, "Rayburn, let us through or crash and burn in your next race."
Rayburn nodded silently at the mention of the secret password in Ebony's sentence (which was required) and moved aside to let the trio pass, watching them with amber-colored eyes. Ebony moved passed him easily, staring him down for a moment before moving on down the tunnel slowly.
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Post by fierano on Oct 21, 2008 18:19:04 GMT -5
Glimmer didn't know whether to stick close to his once-arch-nemesis or make a run for it as El Bandito guided him down to the Arena with Ebony and Kamui. Despite spending pretty much all his time under Slick's "protection" above surface level, however, he know that he didn't exactly have a choice when it came to respect down here.
It still made him tremble at the thought of what they were going to do to him though. "What...what are you going to do to me? Please...if Slick finds out..."
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 21, 2008 18:24:48 GMT -5
"Slick doesn't have any authority down here," Ebony replied, "I do. Every decision made has to go through me. We're pretty big on protection of our own and those we care about. We're not gonna do anything with you."
"Same philosophy as the Shooters," said Kamui, "but she's right. We're not gonna let anyone get to you."
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Post by fierano on Oct 21, 2008 18:40:59 GMT -5
"I'm not worried about what they'll do..." Glimmer replied timidly. A car of lesser-built constitution would have been oiling himself about now. "If you're going to hand me in...or..." he gulped, "worse..."
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 21, 2008 18:53:40 GMT -5
"Okay, first," said Kamui, "We're not gonna hand you in to... anyone for that manner. And second, since when did you become so timid? From what I remember, you were always gunning for that Piston Cup and letting nobody get in your way." The Shooter's face was full of sincere concern, "What happened to the Jens Glimmer I knew?"
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Post by fierano on Oct 21, 2008 19:06:55 GMT -5
Glimmer gave a tormented smile. "He got...replaced...by someone who was better. That's all." Whether he meant his replacement on the Managers' roster or simply beaten out for the Piston Cup was pretty much irrelevant at this point.
He still had many of his one-of-a-kind Managers' mods inside, and he was still very worried about them being 'harvested' for someone else's performance. Of course, now that he'd been captured and El Bandito controlling him against his will, he might as well have been submitting himself to fate.
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 21, 2008 19:18:04 GMT -5
"That sounds like you've just basically given up," Kamui said sadly. She hated hearing something like that, especially if it had to with a lifelong dream.
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Post by fierano on Oct 21, 2008 23:12:26 GMT -5
"Well, yeah. You had a lot to do with it though...you and your friends and that ghost of yours did all you could to hold me back," Glimmer replied with a sigh, more mournful than angry, "Though I really can't blame you. It was merely my fault I couldn't resist enough and keep ahead..."
Oi, I wuzn't tryin' t' hold ye back, boy. You were being too stubb'rn-
Please...I've heard that too many times.
S'actly wot I mean, lad.
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Post by ebonyviper on Oct 21, 2008 23:21:06 GMT -5
"We weren't trying to hold you back," said Kamui, "We were just trying to prevent you from going down the wrong path."
"Kamui told me how stubborn you were and tried to fight her off several times when she was only trying to help you," said Ebony, "Even El Bandito was helping you. Why was that too hard to see?"
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Post by fierano on Oct 21, 2008 23:30:25 GMT -5
"Why?" Glimmer replied, a tear seeping from his windshield as he glared at the pair, "Because for once I wanted to show the world I was worth something...that I wasn't just that little green loser that everyone pushed around. Every race in the DTM I replayed the day I was wrecked in my mind to help drive me until I practically forgot it ever happened."
He turned away from them and continued, "My managers helped me...they only asked that I prove that I was good enough...no...the best, and I failed to do so." The CLK forced a smile again, "It's fitting, I guess...that I gained the nickname 'Silver' because I could never get the Gold."
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