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Straight Line Nights

January 30, 2017
By Droach BRONZE, Baltimore, Maryland
Droach BRONZE, Baltimore, Maryland
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INTRODUCTION
It’s June 2nd, 2006. A big street racing event is going down right now in North Dakota that started on 11:00PM, it’s a drag race event on the highway Interstate 94, to be more specific. All the popular names in the street racing game that are in the state are there, and the people with money to burn,steep pockets, whatever you wanna call em are there placing bets and putting lots of money on the hood on the cars their betting on as well. This event is a good way to go from broke too rich within a few races, one if you're lucky. So no racer is gonna ignore this event, not even for a second, even if it is currently 3:00AM.


CHAPTER 1: MY CAR IS CHERRY RED YET MY LAST NAME IS GREEN
A random voice from the crowd screams “I SEE HEADLIGHTS!’’. Everyone's attention was quickly drawn to the racer in first place headlights that was quickly gaining on the white stripe girls spray painted on the middle of the highway with the intention to make a somewhat accurate finish line. Everyone was focused like a predator hunting their prey until they made out the racers car. Another random voice screams out from the left side of the crowd that was spilt in order not to crowd the street “I KNOW WHO’S CAR IT IS, IT’S TYLER GREEN’S CHERRY RED MUSTANG!’’. The crowd cheered for Tyler’s victory like fanboys/fangirls seeing their favorite celebrity win a grammy. “That's the twelfth win in a row tonight with an addition of five-thousand dollars in my pocket, i’m getting so many gifts in one night and it’s not even my birthday’’,  says Tyler while stepping out of the car. “Well you're birthday is over now!’’ ,  are the words that was blurted out of a random racers mouth. Tyler replied with “and why is that?” while trying not to laugh since he already knew the answer. “Well i’m glad you asked. You see i drive a 200 hp Volkswagen golf GTI and I have ten wins under my belt with two-thousand dollars in the bank. I beat a 100 hp Ford focus, that means if i can beat a zippy hatchback i can beat some muscle car.” says the racer with a cocky smirk on his face. Tyler could barely keep a straight face, he thought to himself  “this kid can’t be real!”. After letting himself calm down, he said to the sixteen year old racer  “so does that mean you want to race me?”. The young amature racer made the “this is your chance,you're gonna do it” face and then yelled too Tyler with a loud “HECK YEAH!, and i’ll race you for all the money you’ve won tonight just for bragging rights.” Tyler quietly giggled behind his back and then said “alright, give me about fifty minutes”. After the amature racer excitedley ran back to his car, he then thought to himself with a cocky expression on his face. “And that makes the 13th chump trying to beat me! I got the fastest street legal muscle car in the state and these guys expect to win in their hoopties they call cars!? , Doesn’t matter though, because they got a good amount of money on em, so i’ll race them and take every dollar they go-”.

 

CHAPTER 2: NOT THIS WANNABE AGAIN (the introduction of Michael Huarache)
Tyler’s thoughts were interrupted via the loud growl of Michael Huaraches  tricked out, fine-tuned Dodge viper srt10 looking for a parking spot, the rumor going around about Michael's Viper or as the people call it “the Baby blue Monster” is so loud that if he ever reved it near you, you and at least 10 other people within the range of the sound would go deaf. Tylers southern accent kicked in when he tried to say “Jesus christ Michael,i thought i told you to pipe that viper down!”, before Michael loudly interrupted him by yelling “First of all!, you don’t got enough paper to tell me to do anything!” while talking with lots of slang. Tyler tried to reply by saying “Man i know that but i’m telling you you gotta pipe that thing down, it’s gonna mess people's ears up”. But Michael interrupted him  mid-sentence for the second time yelling out “I’M NOT DONE YET!”. Michael then said “second,i know for a fact you ain’t calling me via my real name!”. Michael prefers to be called via his street name “Stephone Jones”, females have to slightly drag the last name out. Tyler groaned and then corrected himself calling Michael Stephone with a slight attitude. Everyone calls uses that name since it was rumored that he got somewhat hit for calling him by his real name three times in a conversation in early 2005. Michael then said “that's better, my name is Stephone and remember that, before i race you and beat you, just to keep you in line”. Tyler then said in his head “and this is coming from the wannabe that buys a manual transmission viper yet has barely any experience with a manual”. Tyler was ready to race the amature that challenged him 50 minutes ago but he noticed a big crowd of people who was forming a circle around somebody and heard about five people in the crowd say “IT’S HIM! IT’S REALLY HIM!” completely in sync, so Tyler was eager to see what all the fuss what about, so he checked it out.

 

CHAPTER 3: THE MAN WITH ALL THE FANS (introduction of Kenji Bushido)
After moving through ten people, he saw the one and only Kenji Bushido sitting on the black hood of one his his best and most famous cars, a bright green w/black two tone Mazda RX-8 which has 690 hp with a japanese veilside bodykit and a tall spoiler. “Hey Tyler,nice too see you here” are the first words Kenji said during his time at the event which was twenty minutes. Tyler replied with “You too, and as always you're in the spotlight” in a rude tone. To avoid being heard, Kenji whispered “Bro who cares, fans are just people that wanna be you”. Tyler then said “well you're lucky, i’ve only been running into chumps at this event since twelve in the morning!”. Tyler was going to keep complaining but Kenji stopped him and said “You have people talking about you, why are you getting so worked up about this?”. “Because I wanna race a good driver, I’m tired of racing chumps that drive cars that are worse than that “tuner” of yours!”. The whole crowd of people went silent as soon as Tyler said that,  a few seconds later everyone ooed and mumbled. Kenji blasted out “WOAH WOAH WOAH, WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT MY CAR!?”. Tyler then rudely replied “You heard me!, it’s a slow, unreliable piece of crap, that's why the dis-continued the RX series!”. After Tyler said that,a random person in the crowd managed to reach out too Kenji’s ear and said “Damn man, he just talked some mad trash about you're red, you gonna take that from him?”. Kenji gave him a hand movement, hinting at him too shut up. After the man got the message and back off, Kenji turned to Tyler and said “Alright, if my car is so slow, how about we race, we start on the 60 mph sign that's farther than the white line, make a U-turn when the person in first place turns on their left blinker and finish by  passing the white line again”. Tyler then asked a question saying “Are we gonna have people bet on this?”. Kenji answered saying “sure why not, but my question to you is are you gonna accept my challenge?”. Tyler accepted the challenge and trash talked Kenji via saying “you're gonna be racing to deliver chinese food in a chinese delivery truck tomorrow once i’m done with you”. Kenji was greatly offended by those words even though it all didn’t make any sense. “YEAH YEAH,so it’s a race! I’m bettin 486 grand on This!, whoever wins the race gets the money! And it better be Tyler, or else.” Michael said after appearing out of nowhere.

CHAPTER 4: THE REPUTATION SHATTERING RACE
Both  and Tyler step into their cars, Kenji started up his turbocharged rx-8, while tyler starts up his supercharged Mustang. Kenji’s turbocharger chops through the air, making a STUTUTU sound, Tyler's supercharger sounds like an overheated machine. Both cars line up on the white 60 mph sign with  bold,black text. Tyler and Kenji waiting for the guy in the middle of their cars too say go, as soon as the word go came out of the guys mouth, both engines roared while their tires screeched down the street at the same time. 110,120,130,140,150,160. All of those speeds on both cars speedometers were already passed, but Tyler takes the lead since he was going 10 mph faster than kenji, that means he was going 210mph. Kenji banged on his steering wheel while driving thinking to himself “DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IT!”. Tyler turned on his left indicator, giving Kenji the signal to make the U-turn. Tyler thought to himself “even though kenji is on me, i’m still gonna win as usual, this is it i’m getting 400k, all i gotta do is not get passed for a big longer!”. Tyler was so excited that when he reached too change to 4th gear, his hand jumped the knob all the way to 6th gear, causing his car to slow down while on max RPM’s giving Kenji a split-second win. Kenji got 486k that night. While everyone cheered Kenji on, Tyler was in the back of the crowd in his car thinking to himself “How? This has to be a dream, i’ve been racing for 10 years and i have never made a mistake so stupid like that during the time until now, i was right there, i was going to win, i was going to win, WHY COULDN’T I JUST CONTROL MYSELF FOR JUST A FEW SECO-”. Tyler's thoughts were interrupted for the 2nd time since someone yelled out “COPS!”. Everyone got in their cars or carpooled with someone and fled the scene,so did Tyler, knowing that his reputation has been ruined and will surely get exposed for how cocky he was the next day.

                                                             
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CHARACTER BIOS

 

MAIN CHARACTER TYLER GREEN: Tyler is a somewhat muscular white man that drives a 700hp,cherry red with chrome trim,supercharged 2006 Ford mustang GT v8 with a K&N supercharger for more air for the intake, giving it extra power. He is one of the best street racers in North Dakota and feels like only skilled people can race him, but giving low skilled racers (or tyler likes to call CHUMPS) a run for their money, which is not a surprise since his skill has made him a cocky driver.

 

MICHAEL HUARACHE: A black 17 year old, afro and puberty mustache wearing street racer wannabe with 40 billion dollars that was passed down to him by his billionaire dead father Dave Huarache. Michael loves the street racing scene so he spends most of his money on cars that can beat any racer, fast and furious merchandise, and betting on street racers in events.

KENJI BUSHIDO: A five foot 6 asian american that only drives and works on japanese sports cars, he has lots of fans and customers going in and out of his custom car shop and any race he goes too, at least 50 people know who his name is. He has lots of cars but in this story he drives his Green w/ Black two tone mazda rx-8 with a greddy turbocharger.
 


The author's comments:

This storys setting is in June 1st,2006. A race event is going down in North Dakota on the highway Interstate 94. Our main character is Tyler Green, he drives a 2006 Ford Mustan Gt with a K&N supercharger wich helps him go up to 700 hp on the Dyno, all of that power is going to his head so now he thinks he'll continue to win every race. But on this night he will lose and he will be left in shock, who does he lose to?, what made him lose? find out this question by reading this story.


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