//------------------------------// // Chapter 9 - Meeting the 'Countess of Eternal Speed' + The Second Skirmish Part 1 // Story: The Battle of Danger City Part One - A New Dawn // by DangerDean //------------------------------// The next day, Oscura City Alliance of Extreme Darkness HQ, 10:15 Things were going smoothly for the Legion of Speedfreaks as they recieve the large shipment full of the Alliance’s files which Danger brought in last night. There were originally going to be used for the destruction of Danger’s team but it fell into the hands of the Legion. Since the files that were abandoned had no meaning to them now, it must have been a front to attract anyone or anything to use it for their own deeds. Meanwhile, Adagio Dazzle was in the Alliance’s car manufacturing plant which looked identical to the plant that the Legion of Speedfreaks uses. She was in the process of finishing off her newest creation as her Rossolini LM Classic was obliterated during the Battle of Paradise City. Her creation was a hypercar desgined to look like half Ford GT and half Ferrari 330 P4 with a 7.7 liter twin-supercharged V8 producing 2160 horsepower and 1631 torque. She called it the DZLE1 Adorer. As she finished with the engine bay. Estrella Dragonheart opened the door to the room where Adagio was working. “I say, nice wheels there, Adagio.” Estrella said taking a glimpse at the Adorer. “Why, thanks so much, Estrella.” Adagio put her hand on her heart at how good that compliement Estrella made. “I was making this yesterday but I need to check under the car for any gas leakages.” “Why, Miss Dazzle?” Estrella asked. “I have a habit of not checking the gas tank.” Adagio replied, while underneath the chassis of the car and hoping not to get any fluid on her full-body leather outfit. She treasured the outfit ever since she joined the Alliance of Extreme Darkness and she became good friends with Estrella. Not so much Oscura as she had a flashback to when Oscura pointed her Desert Eagle at her back at Paradise City. “Anyways, Oscura told me to remind you that she’s planning a second wave.” Estrella informed Adagio as she saw her get up from underneath the DZLE1. “When are we setting off. ‘Cause, A, I’m nearly finished with the car and B... it’s a 100 miles from here to Danger City and it’s not a small city.” “Err...” Estrella looked at her phone displaying the time: 10:17. “We’ll give you as long as you need. After that, we will set off at 1100 hours on the dot as Oscura planned. Then... we will show Danger and his allies what we are made off!” She then explained the course of the plan. Later, Adagio had a thought about something. Something related to Oscura. “What’s Oscura doing, I dare ask?” She said, deadpanned. “She’s talking to her sister. Primarily about Danger, knowing her.” Estrella replied, feeling her pain somewhat. “Who?” “Anastasia Galaxia.” Estrella said. “Oh.” Adagio realised who Estrella meant. “Who’s Anatasia?” She then asked. Estrella facepalmed at how dumb Adagio was when she made that comment. Meanwhile, Danger City Legion of Speedfreaks HQ, Top Floor Corridor, 10:20 Applejack was on her phone talking to one of her old friends, Ra-Ra, known as the ‘Countess of Eternal Speed’ and as Countess Coloratura. Spitfire, Danger and Rainbow noticed her doing like this as they were walking across the corridor. “Hey, Danger.” Spitfire looked at Danger being a bit supicious as to what is coming out of Applejack’s mouth. “Applejack’s been talking to her for about half an hour. What will become the outcome of this?” “Could be a bait or something, this is getting a bit suspicious.” Rainbow thought as she folded her arms. “Actually, Dashie.” Danger interjected. “Ra-Ra’s a good friend of AJ and I think there may be an offer she can’t resist.” “What’s that, Danger?” Spitfire asked.” “An offer for her to become a Speedfreak Legionnare.” Danger replied. Spitfire and Rainbow’s eyebrows were raised at Danger comment and they eyes were fixated at him. “What put that idea in your mind!” Rainbow exclaimed. She hoped that Applejack didn’t hear her voice. But she didn’t. “Rainbow, when is Danger ever wrong? All right, he may have a brain shaped like an explicibly popular fishing float. But he does operate from a system of total logic and we would fools to ignore his sage council.” 2 seconds later, Spitfire, Danger and Rainbow decided to leave Applejack to it. “I just can’t get the staff these days, do I?” Danger said to himself as his ego was still not as perfect as it was before having been damaged since Oscura first held him at gunpoint back at Paradise City. “Anyways, I have an idea for you, Spitfire.” “What’s that?” “Do you fancy a faster car?” Danger offered. Spitfire wasn’t too sure about what’s going through Danger’s mind at that moment. “What you mean by that, Danger?” “Well, Rainbow told me last night, while I was with Akula at the abandoned factory, that Oscura was planning an attack on us with 12 Venators and six OAV6 Impalers. She also told me this morning that she’s setting of at 11. So...” Danger said. “Danger’s right, Spitfire.” Rainbow reinforced Danger’s idea. “Every day that passes, Oscura’s vehicles are getting faster and the Alliance is getting more members to compete with us. Danger City is counting on us. “I know that basically the whole world is counting on us, Dash.” Spitfire interjected. “But Dean gave me a good question that I can’t decide on.” “It’s not like I’m trying to liviate the pressure off of us... and the rest of the Legion.” Rainbow continued. “But what I’m saying... is the truth. The amount of hatred Oscura has with Danger is astronomical. It’s vice versa with how much Danger hates Oscura. But you do need a faster car than the modified Bugatti Chiron you used previously.” “OK, Rainbow, you got me.” Spitfire announced. “Danger, I accept.” Danger was pleased and told her to follow him to the car manufacturing base. Meanwhile, Applejack was still on her phone, she didn’t hear Rainbow’s voice as she was in the middle of a conversion with Ra-Ra. As she was talking, the three of the five main assets of the Legion of Speedfreaks, were heading towards the car base, or as Danger calls it, the crucible of his masterpieces. “Ah think that I might heard somethin’ ‘bout his team, me thinks.” Applejack said. “Who, Applejack?” “Danger, he keeps on buildin’ crazy vehicles to combat this Oscura.” Applejack replied. “You mean Oscura Galaxia?” Ra-Ra concluded. Applejack nodded. “Yeah, she gives me shivers.” “It sounds like he needs some assistance. AJ. Building vehicular masterpieces is like creating music. Do you think I should send him a dial to discuss with him?” Ra-Ra offered. “Do what ya gotta do, Ra-Ra. Ah’ will see ya later, then.” “Sure thing, AJ. Bye.” After Applejack ended the call, she isn’t liking on going with Danger and Oscura. Even though she is in the right team, the Legion of Speedfreaks. She was fearing her own evil version of herself, Rotten Apple. “Ah’m not likin’ this one bit.” Applejack said to herself. “If Danger’s still in a freak contest with her. Ah’ can only predict that there will be no winners.” After that, Applejack headed to the vehicle base so she build a muscle car that’s in the calibre. What Applejack doesn’t know that Legion of Speedfreaks is handling former Alliance of Extreme Darkness technology, hence why Danger and Black Flame launched a retrival mission to collect the abandoned memory sticks and hard drives, which suceeded. What she also doesn’t know, is that aside from being Danger City Legion of Speedfreaks HQ, Main Vehicle Production Base, 10:23 In the vehicle base, Lightning Dust, Aria Blaze, Twilight Sparkle, Black Flame and Crimsonia Dragonsfire were hard at work finishing off their latest creations. Because they each heard from Rainbow Dash that Oscura was planning a second wave. They were also accompanied with Starlight Glimmer, Sunset Shimmer, Azura Dragonsfire, Pinkie Pie and Rarity. Lightning was working on a variant of the LD3 Thunderstorm with 3500 horsepower but with the same amount of torque as the original version. She thinks that the LD3 Thunderstorm 3500 (as she calls it) is faster than the original. Aria, Black Flame, Crimsonia and Twilight were working on a new supercar for Starlight, called STR056 Starhunter. Before they created it, they looked into the new repository of cars that Danger transfered over to the main hard drive which took all of last night to download. Even though the car files were transfered, the army vehicles took all the hard drives. Danger insisted that the remaining files would be transfered while they are doing things in the background. The STR056 Starhunter had resemblance to a Lamborghini Veneno and a 992-series Porsche, powered by the same engine used in the DGR15 Excelsior R, which has 170 horsepower less than the Excelsior X. Starlight tested the Dragonhunter 5 days before the Battle of Paradise City. The top speed was 314 miles per hour. Sunset Shimmer had finished working on the SUN001 Sunchaser which, like Starlight, used one of the new files Danger synchronised to the main drive. The SUN001 Sunchaser is powered by a custom built 8.75 twin-turbo V12 producing 2,265 horsepower, Sunset was last to know that Oscura was on the offensive, the reason is because she was originally busy comforting Midnight Skies who had recovered from the voices of Oscura. She was told by both she and Danger. that she doesn’t have to worry about her any longer. Danger, Rainbow and Spitfire entered the room and Danger headed towards the DGR16 Ghostwrath and he was planning to tune the suspension for when he changes the driving mode to MegaSport+, mostly because he installed the mode before all the Alliance of Extreme Darkness vehicle files (the non-millitary ones) were callibrated on the repository. Danger was going to do that later and wanted to auto-build an Alliance of Extreme Darkness vehicle for Spitfire. But before he could do this. He noticed that lots of text was going upwards on the screen. “Rainbow, the boards have gone literally loco-boco.” Danger said, having noticed a tsunami of files on the touch screen. “I did a memory clone on the supercar files, this morning, Danger. I started it after breakfast and err... there’s about 28 million files all together. Luckily, the technology we use means that it copies 600,000 files in a span of an hour. So if you do the math that’s...” “Just shy of two days?” Danger guessed. And he was correct. “But I put four clone adapters to make it copy 2.4 million files in an hour which means it only takes 12 hours, So at 10:25 this evening, we can use the copied files to our advantage.” Rainbow said as she tapped on the previous menu, letting the file cloning carry on regardless as whether it would be switched on or off. She then pressed a file named ‘OSC09445’. She noticed that the car name was a OHC Project 1 Halcyon Destroyer. Next, she created a duplicate of the file and named ‘SPI00004’ She named the car ‘Spitfire Racing Cars SPI1 Flamechaser.’ The file then was sent to auto-build and within seconds, a bright-orange hypercar, resembling a Ferrari LaFerrari and a Raesr Tachyon became visible to Rainbow’s eyes. “Do you think we will still use the files before you cloned them, Rainbow?” Danger then asked, because he just had an idea. “Definitely, I transfered all the pre-made files before we went into sleep mode, which took the whole of last night,” Rainbow responded. Sunset Shimmer walked towards Danger and Rainbow as she heard the conversion in the background. Sunset was wearing a full sleeved shirt with her cutie mark in the center with two symbols on each side. The symbols consisted of two S’s interlocked like a keychain. She was also wearing tight-fitting jeans and the same boots she wore during the Friendship Games. “What are you talking about, Rainbow?” Sunset asked, “It’s just what Danger and Black Flame brought in last night. About... 28 million files, no less.” Rainbow replied, facing Sunset in the process. “You know that’s Oscura’s files though, right?” Sunset then thought as Rainbow and Danger at each other. “There was one thing that was bothering as of recently, Dean. You’ve been with this ‘Demon Lord’ and you stole this many files from Oscura?” Sunset was on the verge on being angry. Starlight heard the words ‘Demon Lord' and walked towards Sunset. “Danger, has your brain gone 404? Why did you transfer rogue files onto our drive?” Starlight demanded. But before he could speak, his phone rang. Danger looked at it was... Akula. “One moment, girls. Rainbow, please keep them talking.” Danger asked, facing Rainbow. Danger walked out of the room to get a break from the conversion which is current getting mildly tepid. “Hi, Akula.” Danger greeted. “Oh, hi Danger, I’ve heard from Chrysalis that you do have more important matters in your own hands. She said that wants to help you in your fight against Oscura.” Akula said over the phone. “That’s brilliant, Akula. But there was something I didn’t say to you last night. During the retrival mission.” Danger complimented, but his face was showing concern. “What’s that, Dean?” “During the Battle of Paradise City. Chrysalis pulled a sneaky on the Legion and sent four Hunter Civillians to take us out.” Danger replied, sighing afterwards. “When was this, Danger?” Akula then asked. “Err... about three days ago.” “OK, I tell Chrysalis about that, she may have mistaken you as Oscura.” Akula then announced. “Really?” Danger was shocked by this. He knew that Akula speaks the word of truth. “I received the email containing the file for the 1Q30, by the way. Thanks for sending to me.” Akula then said. “Your welcome, Akula!” Danger was pleased that the millitary vehicle he sent to him arrived. “When are you coming to Danger City?” “1100 hours, when the Alliance is setting off.” “OK, then. See you later then, bye.” Danger ended the call and headed back into the main vehicle base. But before he could open the door. His phone rang again. This time it was... his nemesis. Oscura Galaxia. “Why do I have Oscura on my contacts?” Danger said to himself and answered it. He knew he would be digging his own grave by doing this. “What you do want?” He sighed, having becoming bored of her, ever since the Battle of Paradise City. “I want to tell you this, Danger. We will be setting of in 35 minutes. At normal road conditions, we will arrive on the outskirts of Danger City in about 50 minutes. I hope you will be expecting our arrival soon.” Oscura said. “I will capture you and handcuff you to a column and I, personally will interogate you... and you will answer all of my questions I will ask you. Failure to do this... will result... in your agonising death.” Danger was not interested. “Do you understand, Danger? Or am I going to say it again?” Oscura then demanded. Still not being interested, he ended the call, pissing off Oscura in tandem. Seconds later, his phone rang a third time. This it was... Ra-Ra. Which brought Danger’s attention. “Danger, here.” “Oh hello, Danger. It’s me, Ra-Ra. I heard from Applejack that someone is making your life hell. I’m wondering if I could assist you with this.” Ra-Ra said. Danger was intrigued. “I’m listening.” “Actually, I have an idea.” Ra-Ra then announced. “Meet me at the Arrow Point Club west of the Central Firespark District, they willl let you in as you have special permission off me and I will tell you everything.” “How far is it?” Danger asked, “About 5 miles.” “OK, then. I’ll make my way there then,” Danger ended the call and made his way to the underground car park. Starlight meanwhile, wasn’t in the best of moods for two reasons: One, the fact that Black Flame, Rainbow and Danger put Alliance of Extreme Darkness files into their Legion’s mane drive. And two, Danger allying himself with Akula made her anger levels rise. Into ‘proto-Oscura’ levels. Black Flame meanwhile, knew that Akula hates Starlight as much as Oscura hates Danger. She was about to lash on Rainbow for what she had done. But Twilight talked her out of it. Aria then headed towards Rainbow, who was feeling down-hearted after her argument with Starlight and Sunset. “Rainbow, don’t feel bad about this. She’s just having one of her rivalry moments again.” Aria tried to comfort her. “OK, Aria. I believe you.” Rainbow replied. Meanwhile, Oscura City Alliance of Extreme Darkness HQ, 10:30 While Danger headed towards the heart of Danger. Oscura was still talking to Anastasia and five minutes ago, Tenebrisa Galaxia, who was the girl and Black Flame met 12 years ago, joined in the conversion five minutes eariler. “Remember Oscura.” Anastasia said. “I’m your sister... and I know you want grab Danger by the neck and strangle him to death. But you have to realise... that Danger has a IQ of like... 400.” Oscura understood what Anastasia said, but her mentioning Danger’s name makes her heart sink. “Anastasia, I understand how much I hate Danger, which quite frankly, it’s beyond the scale. But you don’t have to mention the fact he’s quite skilled at everything he does.” Oscura said, putting her left hand on her left cheek as she sat down on the couch. “I’ve been a victim of Danger’s activities less than you have, sis.” Tenebrisa implied, poking on the fact that Oscura and Danger has been fierce enemies forever. “So I have a reason to argue on this.” “You never will!” Oscura shouted. “For the past ten years, I been planning my damn revenge on him. My inner demons told me that it never work.” “I don’t know why you bother sometimes.” Tenebrisa teased. This angered Anastasia a bit. “Can you not, Tenebrisa.” “Sorry.” Tenebrisa apologised. “But it’s true.” Anastasia facepalmed. “Oh, please Sombra, help me.” Oscura muttered under her breath, while lying down on the couch with her hands on her hand. She wanted the Battle of Danger City to end after her fleet of Venators and Impalers sparked Danger’s downfall.