Chapter 16 - A Fateful Encounter
Back in Bern, one day before GP Week began, we received an unexpected buzzer.
"Who could be here? I'm sure no one arranged to come here..."
I let the door open, and it turned out Russell was at the door.
"Hey, Jase!"
"Oh, hi Russell. What brings you here?"
"Oh, I was just thinking of something we could do just before the GP Week races began. It involves both you and Ishizaki."
We went into our living room.
"So then, what I was thinking was..."
"Hmm?"
"That we should make our own racing 'team', only less...teamy. If you know what I mean..."
"Erm...what?"
"Well don't you think it's a good idea?"
"It seems a bit...ambitious to choose us for it though."
"I think you two are upcoming and rising stars for the future. You both could do really well. Plus, if you get into a team like this, you can reach the true race series much faster than just racing like normal."
"That's not entirely what I want...besides which you're totally different in us in terms of experience and age."
"Yes, but we need someone to cover each and every category."
"OK, but one thing I already know we're lacking...a supercar driver."
"My Clio would easily dominate them. You saw me back at Eiger, correct?"
"It's not a supercar. It's a hatch back
modified up to supercar levels."
"If you insist. If anything, my two cars are more tuned cars than supercars. Hence why my last practice race for the GP Week was in the Tuned Car Championship."
"Also, we need something to take on the mid-range Japanese cars."
"That's you."
"Oh, you must be mistaken. My car is much faster than them. I beat an R8 in my first race remember? Not to mention a Corvette, a GT-R, etc."
"Well then that's for the supercars!"
"It's not a supercar still."
"If you insist...right then, are you still doing this? Or should we find a supercar driver to join us?"
"I say we do the latter first then do the former after we do the latter."
"...Right, OK. Let's go hunting for some supercar! ...Drivers."
All three of us looked around, for the whole day. Even when it got dark, we kept on searching. At 21:45, I arrived onto a city road, which was weirdly desolate.
"This place seems...awkward. I'm sure it's not Halloween
yet..."
What I didn't know was that around the corner I was going to get a pretty big shock.
"I should probably just turn the car round and go home. It's been too long..."
I then, however, spotted a bunch of lights on the road.
"Hmm? I see lights."
I pulled up to them and saw 4 Pagani Zonda's, all lined up with precision next to each other.
"Damn, these guys must be rich to afford all of this."
Then I heard footsteps coming towards me, and as I looked ahead 4 people were in front of me. I asked them if they wanted to join us...
"Excuse me, can I have a w-"
Then I stopped. Because one face I saw looked all too familiar. Staring at me now coldly and heading towards me was none other than...Henry Cunning. One of the top drivers...in the world.
He was now walking towards me, staring at me like a total boss. Deja vu of Katie, much.
"Problem?"
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"Uh, no, sorry-"
"No, what were you gonna ask me?"
"Uh...don't worry-"
"NO! Tell me what you were gonna say!"
Then our conversation was interrupted by a different person on their 'team' (it was pretty obvious at this point).
"Henry!"
"...What?"
"That GTO...I recognise it all too well."
"In what way?"
"That GTO...it beat me in the rain at Monza."
"Wait...this is the one?"
"I'm sure. Same colour, same look, all that."
"Right, thanks Darren. Now I know who this guy is..."
Oh god, he knows me? Mind you, I had been winning an awful lot of races in recent times...
"Jason Cutler. I've got a score to settle with not just you, but your whole family. You see...your dad prevented me from winning the X2010 Championship. I was not happy about that. I've now got a vengeance against him, and now you. So you know what I'm gonna do? For the benefit of me, I'm gonna leave that GTO of yours in bloody smithereens."
"I bet you your Zonda that you won't."
"You saying that to my face? Right, then, you're dead."
At this point, I loled. Until I heard...
"Right! Darren! Chris! James! ...After him."
"...After him." So they were chasing me down. Yay.
"Oooooh bugger. This is gonna be fun."
I executed a quick reverse turn to get away from the 4 Zondas.
"Let's go, then!"
The 4 Zondas immediately went into hot pursuit mode.
"Come on, let's go!"
"Bring it then!"
"This won't be hard."
"Let's do this!"
I got a nudge from the purple Zonda, knocking me into Henry's Zonda R.
"Aargh! Damned bastards!"
"Haha! He's lost already!"
"Keep this up."
And before I knew it, I was boxed in between the 4 of them.
"Noooo!"
"Keep him there."
"Do it! Now!"
"Just do him!"
"Haha, this is just weak."
They waited too long though, and I got out of their box maneuver.
"Toodles!"
"Oh, 🤬 sake!"
I saw off another attack by the purple Zonda.
"Hah. Don't try!"
"For 🤬 sake!"
Then Henry's Zonda pushed me way over again.
"Yaargh!"
"Haha! Bye!"
Spoke too soon. I survived the impact and then Henry tried pushing me over again.
"Wow, epic fail."
"Come on, 🤬!"
At this point I started to get away again.
"Right, come on, GTO!"
But then they reeled me back in and Darren had a crack this time.
"No!"
"Fuhaha. Fool."
Then everyone seemed to hit the wall as I was blocked from the front again, only for everyone else to overshoot the corner.
"Dang it!"
"There it is, surely!"
We then went into the tunnel. At this point, I knew I would be making it out of the town soon. There was another road they couldn't follow me down since I guessed they'd have to hold their guard.
"I'm almost out, I think..."
"He's gonna get away!"
"Get him!"
I could see the way out now...
"I'm gonna make it!"
"He's gonna get away! Try for him!!!"
"We can't follow him down there!"
"Yes! There is is!"
"No! He got away! But we ned to hold our ground..."
"He's fast, but next time he is gonna be gone."
"He's too incompetent. Just wait till the next time we see him to get him."
"Jason Cutler, I shall have my revenge...you can't hide for long."
"Man, that was almost scary...I think I'll definitely go home now. Looks like it'll be jut us three for GP Week...tell you what though, this was a good practice for it. Heh."
Jason, Ishizaki and Russell have almost made their way to forming a team. However, they still need one person to complete their ideal team. However, Jason didn't meet who he wanted at all. Now with GP Week barely 10 hours away from kicking off, it's time for some big races, some small races, and one race that might just make a small change in Jason's life. Everyone's ready for GP Week, so how will it go?
Stay tuned to Grand PriX to find out!
Starring:
driftking18594 as Henry - Pagani Zonda R
Onboy123 as Darren - Pagani Zonda LM
uMadson? - Pagani Zonda C12 (silver)
FishyJuice - Pagani Zonda C12 (purple)
Special thanks to all of these men for helping out with the fan fic!