Vinyl found herself driving at high speed down the freeway trying to polish her skills. As she weaved between traffic cars, she noticed a pair of headlights in her rear view that seemed to be moving faster than the others. Vinyl adjusted her mirror and looked closer. The car that was chasing her was a blue Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R!
"ANOTHER GT-R?" Vinyl shouted out loud. "That's not possible! I'm the only one who can drive a car like that around here!"
The R33 was closing in on Vinyl's rear bumper. Vinyl floored it and shifted into a higher gear. As she began to pull away from the R33, she noticed something in her rear view. She wasn't pulling away anymore! The R33 was getting closer! They rounded a corner at over 270 kilometers per hour, and Vinyl's patience was running low.
Vinyl's brain was a mess of crisis. "There's NEVER been a car that could keep up with my R32 for this long!" she shouted to herself. "Is this a nightmare!?"
The two automobiles passed a semi truck, and Vinyl looked around. The R33 was nowhere in her rear view. "There's no way she could have just vanished into thin air like that....." Vinyl said to herself.
She looked back at the road ahead.
The rear lights of the blue R33 poured into her eyeballs as she saw the R33 was now in front of her and pulling away! "NO!" she screamed out loud. Vinyl, who was not used to having cars outrun her, pressed down on the accelerator pedal as far as it could possibly go. She shifted into fifth gear and kept pressing on the pedal with the angriest scowl of a face she'd ever made! As she kept up with the R33, she didn't consider that she was working the engine near its limit. She kept pushing the car on and on in this state, determined not to be outrun. The tachometer rose into the red. The car's temperature warning came on. Vinyl was so concentrated that she didn't even hear it beeping.
Suddenly, Vinyl felt a tremendous shock as if an earthquake had struck. An enormous BANG pounded against her eardrums like a gunshot. Vinyl's anger instantly turned to fear as a cloud of black smoke completely covered her windshield.
She had blown the R32's engine.
The poor sports car spun out like a meteorite as smoke sprayed out of the grille and hood. The smoking comet came to a stop in the middle of the road.
Vinyl immediately got out of the car to check the engine. The white unicorn lifted the hood to be greeted by more smoke, which hit her in the face and made her cough. Once the smoke cleared, she peeked her hear in at the engine.
It was damaged and covered in ashes.
A tear formed in Vinyl's right eye, and it slid down her cheek and fell onto the tarmac road below.
"I-I'm sorry." she said, trying to hide her sadness.
"I'm sorry I let this happen to you."
The next day, Vinyl showed up at a car repair shop. "I'm looking for a Nissan RB26 Engine." she asked. "Do you have one in stock?"
"We have something similar." said the repair man. "We've got a selection of turbocharged inline 6 engines that might be able to fit into a GT-R."
"No way." said Vinyl. "I'll only settle for a Nissan RB26. They're the fastest, and I love my dear R32. I want her to feel like herself. If I put any engine other than an RB26 in her, it would be like making a Stallion wear a bikini and making a Mare wear trunks. It would feel weird."
The mechanic giggled. "Well, since you put it that way, maybe I could get you a Nissan RB26 engine. But on one condition."
"What?" asked Vinyl, ready.
"You see, I've got some employees on strike here. If you can do their jobs for 'em today, I'll order an RB26 for ya." replied the mechanic.
Vinyl sighed and went to get an auto worker's uniform.
As she walked into the garage, she saw something that caught her eye very quickly. The familiar shape of a blue Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R was visible across the room. She ran over to it and tried to find its owner. Sure enough, it's owner walked out of the customer waiting room and, in a British accent, said, "Please stiffen the suspension, will you? And I'd like the differential to shift a little more power to the rear wheels."
Vinyl knew this pony's face (and her bow tie) anywhere. Octavia Melody stood a few feel away from her.
"Octavia!" said Vinyl.
"Vinyl!? What are you doing here!?" asked Octavia.
"Never mind what I'm doing here!" said Vinyl. "The real question is, what are YOU doing in an R33 GT-R!?"