//------------------------------// // Chapter 11 - The End of the First Stage (The Second Skirmish Part 3) // Story: The Battle of Danger City Part One - A New Dawn // by DangerDean //------------------------------// With the Alliance heading for the Legion of Speedfreaks HQ. Rainbow who was finishing up setting up the console on her GTX2800R, heard a ‘red alert’ siren. She quickly headed towards the lift for the penthouse where the rest of her friends were. Rainbow thought to herself of the danger of what the Alliance has. Has Oscura reached her maximum breaking point with Danger? Only time will tell. She knows that only 17 vehicles were heading for the HQ. The 12 F850 Venators, the four OAV6 Impalers and Oscura. But could she bring more reinforcements? Rainbow was not looking to confident but knows that Danger could have some tricks. Even with the help from Akula. Danger meanwhile, was talking to Blazey about her hypercar she created half an hour ago, the LionBlade V3175GT, which is a 323 mile an hour rocket, as she claims. The LionBlade resembles a Ferrari 430 Scuderia at the rear, Lamborghini Veneno at the top and a Aston Martin DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo at the front. Blazey was also talking to Danger about his hypercar plans, such as his car for next year, the DGR18 Shuriken, named after one of the two groups in the Battle of Paradise City, a car which Danger plans to give to Rainbow Dash as next year’s birthday present. He was going to call it the RBD Vision Pulsar X. Two seconds later, Rainbow burst into the room. “Danger, they’ve arrived on the outskirts of Danger City... in less than three seconds and they are heading southbound as we speak.” Rainbow announced. Danger quickly got up from the couch and slammed the button to sound the alarm to warn the rest of the Legion that Oscura is coming with a vengeance. While the Legion scrambled, Anti-Pinks was wondering if she would intervene if anything happens to the squad. But she thought of her nemesis, Pinkie Pie, how she became disgusted of her persistent happiness.. and how much she wanted to strangle, or even worse, kill her. She turned towards her friends, Rotten Apple, Diamond Rush and Shadow Wings. “Do you think that the Legion will be able to beat us?” Shadow Wings asked Anti-Pinks. “I don’t know, Shadow Wings. I just hope the rest are OK. If not... we will join the battle.” But Rotten Apple had her own opinion. “But Anti-Pinks. You may remember what to happened to us in Paradise City. We got our cars destroyed.” “We’ll build new ones then.” Pinkie was being too over-confident, even though the horrors of Paradise City tried to get the better of her. “Darling, Mistress Galaxia has left the door to vehicle base locked. We can’t get in without permission.” Diamond Rush said. Anti-Pinks was at her breaking point. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN!” She bellowed as Oscura-style anger flowed through her. “WE NEED TO JOIN THE BATTLE... so I can teach Pinkie Pie a lesson or two!” This got Rotten Apple interested but Diamond Rush was trying to talk out of Anti-Pinks’ stupid idea but to no avail. “How are you going to do this?” Rotten Apple asked. “We hack our way to the main garage, there should be at least four F850’s spare we can use, then we use the teleporter to send us to the outskirts of Danger City.” Anti-Pinks had displayed a Oscura-esque hatred towards Pinkie Pie. Meanwhile, a convoy of hypercars led by the Excelsior X of Danger and the Pulsar GTX2800R of Rainbow Dash appeared out of the garage doors that slid apart. The rest of the convoy consisted of Aria’s AB1 Furyblaze, Spitfire’s SPI1 Flamechaser, Lightning’s LD3 Thunderstorm 3500, Crimsonia’s CRD1 Crimsonblaze Azura’s ARD1 Sapphire, Black Flame’s modified version of Danger’s Excelsior which is called the DGR15 Excelsior Dark Inferno Edition, Blazey’s LionBlade V3175GT, Sparky’s CougarBlaze V2975R, Applejack’s AJ2000GT and Twilight’s new hypercar, the TWI4 Andromeda with Starlight’s STR056 Starhunter and Sunset’s SUN001 Sunchaser bring up the rear end. As the group passed 186th Street, Danger looked on his GPS and found out that Oscura is on 240th Street and is on the move. Then Applejack came on Danger’s CB. “You think that’s all they’re bringin’, sugarcube?” “Beats me AJ, they are on 225th and only 39 streets way from us so...” Danger replied. “Ya tellin’ me that like ya afraid of her.” Applejack said, poking on the fact that Danger has a decade of history between him and Oscura. “Can you hang on a minute while I speak to Akula?” Danger asked her. Starlight heard the name ‘Akula’ again. “Not him!” She thought to herself. Luckily for Danger, the streets in Danger City were 450 meters separating from each other so he had plenty of time to contact Akula. “AK, this is Speedfreak, Oscura’s forces are heading southbound on 26th Avenue.” Danger said on the CB. “Copy, Speedfreak. Where is your group at the moment? 26th Avenue?” Akula then asked Danger. “Affirmative, AK, the group is still on the same avenue. Where are you right now?” “Well I didn’t know that Oscura would arrive in Danger City in like... three seconds. Give me about two minutes so I can use the teleporter. Where do you want me to put the location to Danger?” Akula said. “174th would be a safe choice, Akula. Anyways, I have visual on Oscura’s forces.” Danger then announced as he saw the OSC2 Valkyria coming for him.” “OK, Good luck. You’re gonna need it.” Akula said, ending the transmission. Two seconds later, Rainbow and Danger head westbound towards the city center. Danger thought there will be lot of traffic. But last time, he didn’t account of the G63’s that Oscura used two days ago, the ram plows. The OAV6 Impalers also have ram plows, much to Danger’s delusion. Meanwhile, Oscura saw the Legion’s elite heading west and was ready to give her orders. “OK, girls and boys of the DangerDean Extermination Force. You have waited long and hard for this moment to come...the day the Legion of Speedfreaks CRUMBLES TO ASHES AND DUST! You may attack when ready.” Oscura’s OSC2 Valkyria picked up speed and within seconds, all 21 vehicles were on the charge, to eliminate the Legion of Speedfreaks. Rainbow looked on her mirrors and saw the 12 F-850 Venators. All of them. “Err. Danger. We have company.” Rainbow worryingly said. “Nothing we can’t handle, Dashie-girl.” Danger said. “Remember, Dash, we have thrashed them before... we can do it again.” Spitfire said, trying to increase Rainbow’s confidence. “I agree with what Spitfire said, Dash.” Aria said over the radio. “We can do this, Dashie.” Black Flame said. “We may be outnumbered, but we will never, EVER, go down without a fight.” “Oh thanks.” Dash was speechless and with a tear of happiness flowed, she was ready to plant the gas pedal down and within seconds, an echo of fourty thousand horsepower can be heard throughout Danger City. Back in Oscura City, Anti-Pinks entered the vehicle production room by doing the following: overriding the code to enter and deleting the password required to enter the room. Anti-Pinks thought this might piss off Oscura slightly. “All right, girls. Choose what vehicles you want. Shadow Wings, you’ve already got your Porsche all set up. It’s just me, Rotten Apple and Diamond Rush. We WILL join that before-” Anti-Pinks said before being interrupted by Thundershock and Dark Fire. “Hey girls. I heard you need assistance in the battle with Danger and his cohorts.” Thundershock said. “Well I...” “Don’t worry, it will be easy to get you a vehicle that can outrun a Legion of Speedfreak nobody in the time it takes for you to say ‘Never trust a Speedfreak’. If only Midnight Skies could say the same thing.” Thundershock said before looking sad. “She’s not dead, you dullard.” Dark Fire faced Thundershock in a Spitfire-esque death glare. “I know but...” “Enough complaining.” Diamond Dust announced. “You two completely forgot that three of us need cars. “Oh yeah. Forgot about... that.” Thundershock’s mood turned from sad to sudden realisation. “Anyway, let’s build our machine of extreme speed... and ultimate chaos and destruction. Back in Danger City, Rainbow was being chased by a F850 Ventaor on 224th Street,19th Avenue, close to the city centre. Rainbow told the squad beforehand to split up in different directions with half going southbound towards the Amethyst Business Distrct. Two seconds later, the F850 Venator that was chasing her deciding the ram the RBD1 Pulsar’s rear. This rear shunt caused Dash to jump and be a bit furious, to put it mildly. Considering she spent 5 hours to triple-layer paint the car made more angry. “WHAT AM I WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE! I THINK NEITHER!” Rainbow spat out and decided to steer to the left to avoid a second shunt. The F850 Venator followed her to try again to ram her again, but it was cut short as the Venator plowed into an oncoming white Porsche Cayman and was launch about 30 meters off the ground. It then landed on top of Cupra Formentor and rolled four times taking out Ford Mustang and Audi SQ5 in the pile-up. Rainbow saw the mess the Venator left behind. But as she was going at 125mph, she didn’t see the cloud of black smoke as the Venator exploded after the crash. “HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT!” She shouted as the number of F850 Venators reduced to 11. Aria saw the number tick down and was ready to give another Venator a destructive ending. Before she could do that, a drone was flying above and it’s armament was pointing at the F850 Venator. “Err... Danger, there’s a drone above my car and I don’t who it belongs to.” Aria said, looking concerned. “That’s probably an F52 drone fighter Akula was talking to me eariler.” Danger said over the radio. “Hold the bill there for a moment, sir. But did Akula send a drone fighter without telling me? WHY!” Aria exclaimed. Before Danger could explain, the Venator that she was going to destroy, blew up instantly. Aria quickly swerved to the left to avoid the burning Venator. With two Venators down, Anastasia Galaxia decided to chase after one of the cars, specificly, Spitfire’s Flamechaser. Having turned off 26th Avenue heading south, Spitfire noticed Anastasia’s Nightreaper. And within seconds, the two cars blasted through traffic at 150mph with Spitfire and Anastasia weaving in and out of traffic. Spitfire then decided to turn left towards 22nd Avenue and that move caused Anastasia to follow her ever closer. Her Nightreaper even had the right side’s wheels go off the road. But Anastasia didn’t see the oncoming Mercedes V-Class and her Nightreaper plowed right into the V-Class and rolled on her roof and scraped for about 2 seconds. Anastasia was beyond pissed. “Why did you do this to me, Spitfire?! You’re no better than Danger, you know. The Alliance will get you for this! THEY WILL!” Her eyes turned red with rage which she gets from Oscura. 2 seconds later, Oscura was on Anastasia’s radio. “Status update, Anastasia?” “SPITFIRE JUST CAUSED ME TO FOLLOW HER RIGHT TO MY CAR’S DEMISE!” Anastasia boomed. This led to shock from Oscura. “WHAT! WHERE ARE YOU!” “ON MY ROOF ON 22nd AVENUE, WHERE ELSE?” Anastasia snapped. “Ugh, just wait for someone to pick you up to HQ, I’ll deal with Spitfire... after I dealt with Danger, personally.” Oscura instructioned her. Meanwhile, Akula’s armoured car, the1Q30 DHAAV, is on hot pursuit of four Venator on 23rd Avenue, with Danger being chased by Estrella, it was up to Akula to eliminate the G63s before they destroy his assault car. His 1Q30 Demon Lord Heavy Armoured Assualt Vehicle was basically a modified G63 AMG with 1.4 inch armoured plating shielding the engine, transmission etc. Also shielding Akula is 90mm thick bulletproof plexiglass The trailer compound is basically a windowless armoured bed cover with two spare wheels at the back. Including a modified Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station or CROWS for short with a 2A38 autocannon attached it, similar to one being used in a 2K22 Tunguska. The 2A38 was also equipped with a stealth belt. His F-52 drone, which he nicknamed Chrysalis' Wrath was searching across Danger City, trying to pick up any vehicles that may belong to the Alliance of Extreme Darkness. The drivers of the four Venatos, being Oscura’s newcomers, didn’t realise that Akula is right on the tail of them all and within two seconds, Akula rammed them all of them off the street. Two of the Venator hit parked cars while the other two crashed into oncoming traffic all but one exploded and Akula had a quick celebration. Danger didn’t see that the counter had go down from 10 to 6. But with Estrella closing in on him and a F850 Venator, he needed to outrun them both quickly and sharpish. He then turned right onto 234th Street heading north, with the EST1 Dragonheart and the Venator close by. But then, two OAV6 Impalers, two more Venators and Tenebrisa’s THC Vallhalla X were the same road as Danger. Estrella tried to avoid an upcoming collision, but it was too late. All seven cars collided into each other with Tenebrisa and Estrella taking the least of the impact. But the three Venators and two Impalers exploded after the crash. Estrella and Tenebrisa meanwhile, couldn’t move because both of their driveshafts broke, so both cars were immobilized. Danger looked behind and saw the mess that had been made. Well, that’s them gone. He thought and before Akula was on his CB. “Speedfreak, this is AK. Have you seen Oscura yet?” Akula said. “Err... negative, AK. I don’t have any visual.” Danger replied. “Don’t worry, Danger. You’ll find her eventually.” But as Akula finished speaking, a indigo-blue and light blue hypercar burst passed Danger. The car appeared to be a IND1 Strikestorm with resemblance to a Lamborghini Egoista and a Sesto Elemento. Danger knew it belongs to the Legion of Speedfreaks and that before the second skirmish stated, he contacted five of the Shadowbolts and they agreed to help out in Danger’s struggle against Oscura. Two minutes later, both numbers on Danger’s Skirmish Screen displayed 0 which confused Danger immensely. Rainbow was on Danger’s radio which might ease Danger’s confusion. “Danger, I’ve got some good news.” Rainbow said. That shocked Danger a lot. “What’s that, Dashie.” “I heard from Crimsonia that Oscura’s armada is in retreat. It’s seems that they don’t to mess with your friend Akula it seems. Also Oscura’s car is located on 27th Avenue, 264th Street, don’t know why though. Oh and the Shadowbolt Squadron has now plotted their course for HQ.” Rainbow replied. “I shall talk some sense into Oscura. After I had some lunch.” Danger announced, turning onto 27th Avenue. “You do that.” Rainbow agreed. Meanwhile 264th Street, 27th Avenue Danger City 11:59 “Ugh, why do my friends do stupid things.” Oscura complained as her head rested on the steering wheel of her OSC2 Valkyria, which had a driveshaft breakage due to a crash with Twilight Sparkle and Azura Dragonsfire. Oscura began to sob and she heard the engine of a car she knew very well. Danger’s Excelsior X. Oscura quickly got out of her car and rushed towards Danger who got out at the same time. “WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?” Oscura boomed as she grabbed Danger’s t-shirt collar. “Oscura, I told my friends a hundred times, what you plan will not work. Oscura threw Danger to the tarmac. “THE WAY YOU DESTROY MY MASTERPIECES MAKE ME WANT TO STICK YOUR STUPID FUCKING HEAD INTO A NUCLEAR BOMB! THAT IS WHY i HATE YOU SO MUCH, DANGERDEAN!” Danger tried to get up but got knocked out by a punch from Oscura. “YOU ARE STUPID, DANGER. SO STUPID IN FACT THAT I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING I REALLY SHOULD HAVE DONE, TEN FUCKING YEARS AGO!” Oscura boomed as she went to get a pair of handcuffs from her Valkyria. But Danger, who was still out cold, still heard Oscura’s hateful monologue. Rainbow saw Danger’s car and himself lying on the ground. She quickly got out of her RBD1 Pulsar and tried to drag Danger back to her car. She was shocked to see her best friend out cold. She put Danger back into her car and got out a towing rope to drag Danger’s Excelsior back to the HQ Meanwhile, Oscura was still searching for the handcuffs which were found 20 seconds after Rainbow retrieved Danger. She turned towards where Danger should have been, but threw her handcuffs to the floor in rage and sat down on the ground and sobbed intensely. Legion of Speedfreaks HQ Danger City, 18:59 Danger regained conciousness after a long rest in his quarters from the skirmish and woke to the sight of Rainbow Dash. “How long have I been out?” Danger said feeling his head still beating after the punch. “About six hours. We were really worried about you, including Akula, who stayed here until you woke up. Also, someone would like to meet you tomorrow about our victory in that skirmish.” “Who?” “Celestia?” Danger knew that Equestria was relying on Danger, ever since the Battle of Paradise City. “OK, thanks for letting me know.” Danger said. Rainbow and Danger both hugged for about ten seconds. “It’s good to be alive and seeing you, Rainbow” Danger said. “The feeling’s mutual. Danger. Why don’t you relax for a bit and not think about Oscura until she strikes back. Rainbow proceeded to walk out of the room before Danger interrupted her. “I just realised, it’s our Forza tournament this weekend.” “Well we aren’t starting without you, Danger.” Rainbow said as Danger walked towards the door. “Not going out in the semi-finals, two years in a row, remember.” Danger announced as he was joined by Crimsonia, Black Flame and Blazey. “You OK Danger?” Blazey asked him. “Sure, thanks Blazey.” Danger hugged Blazey for as long as Rainbow did, while Rainbow, Crimsonia and Black Flame walked along the corridor. After Danger and Blazey parted, they joined the other girls and walked towards the penthouse.