It's strange how easily some places can just be forgotten about. Take for example, the large warehouse park in old Canterlot that had been scheduled for demolition, but still stood because the company contracted for the job was bought out by a firm that, due to unfortunate circumstances, failed to complete the job despite having already been paid for it. The city forgot about it because of the money it had cost it, and the people forget about it because it was a relic of a dead chapter in the cities history.
However, not everyone had such short memories, and the people who did remember this place used it as have a haven to conduct all number of Illegal activities, and one of those actives was street racing, an activity that Rainbow Dash is very eager to partake in. She looked around the empty and sparsely lit parking lot of the warehouse through the front window of her Mitsubishi Lancer GTS, a look of concern spread across her face.
Rainbow Dash had been invited to join the Canterlot Underground Street racing Circuit a few weeks ago, she knew the offer was legitimate as it had come from someone she knew and trusted. At first it had seemed like a dream come true, but after learning more about the rules, and the people in charge, her fantasy had been replaced with a rather grim-dark reality.
“This is so, cool!” Scootaloo said from the passenger seat.
Rainbow Dash sighed. “Scootaloo, when I agreed to take you along, you said you wouldn't freak out at every little thing,” Rainbow Dash looked around a little bit more before turning to face the younger girl. “Also, what's so exciting about an empty parking lot anyway?”
Scootaloo shrugged and replied. “It's mysterious,” She suddenly got a huge grin on her face. “In fact, I bet the other racers are watching us right now, trying to figure out weather were friend or foe.”
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and sighed as she slumped back into her seat. She wasn't annoyed at Scootaloo for acting stupid, she was annoyed at how right she was. Rainbow Dash put her car back into drive, pulled into the third parking lot, then flashed her headlights in the pattern Chrysalis had told her.
Immediately after she did that, the warehouses garage door pulled up, and a wave of music blared through, accompanied by a bright light. The two girls shielded their eyes for a moment before looking back up and seeing two men waving at them to pull inside. Rainbow Dash complied and slowly started forward.
She looked over at Scootaloo, and after seeing her astonished expression said. “They don't start watching you till after you give the signal.”
The warehouse was filled with racers. A little over 2 dozens cars lined up along the side walls and in between the shelves. The two guys from the entrance directed Rainbow Dash towards a spot near the back, on the way there she passed several racers and got an idea of her competition. After parking, someone knocked on her window and motioned for her to roll it down.
“Information.” Rainbow Dash pulled out an envelope that contained the papers Chrysalis said she needed, and passed it to the man. “How old's the kid?” He asked as he read through the documents.
“She's fifteen.” Rainbow Dash replied.
The man finished looking through RBD's documents, then passed the envelope back to her.
“Kids your responsibility, anything happens to her, we don't care. Any questions?”
“Where's Chrysalis?”
The man pointed to the center of the warehouse where the majority of people were gathered. “Over there, but don't expect the boss to talk to you face to face, she's kind of busy right now.”
“I know.”
Rainbow Dash got out of the car, Scootaloo tried to get out too but Rainbow Dash locked the door before she had a chance. She tried unlocking it again but the door wouldn’t budge.
“Uh, Rainbow Dash?” Scootaloo asked.
“Childproof locks, sorry kid, but I gotta make sure your safe.”
“What, Oh come on Dash please, I've been dying to see cars, you can't just..”
“What, I'm sorry I can't hear you, the music's too loud!”
Rainbow Dash walked off with a smile on her face, leaving Scootaloo to pout in the car.
Chrysalis the changeling, that's what every young racer called the cities master mechanic who also ran the local racing circuit. Chrysalis was standing on top of her SUV, she wore a leather jacket with an aqua blue athletic shirt underneath, and pain of black jeans with military boots. Rainbow Dash made her way to the front of the crowd so that Chrysalis would notice her before before she started speaking.
“Ladies & Gentlemen, welcome back for another night of racing, and gambling!” The crowd started a small cheer upon hearing that, but they quickly quieted down. “This week, we have a new racer joining us, young, Ms.Rainbow Dash.” Everyone in the room turned to look at RBD, even the music died down a bit. She walked up next to Chrysalis's SUV and stood there as confidently as possible. “So,” Chrysalis continued. “Who here want's to race the newest member of our little club.”
It only took a few moments of discussion before someone from the crowd volunteered.
“I'll take on the newbie!” The crowd parted as a girl with blazing red and yellow hair walked through. “Hello, Dashie.”
“Sunset.” Rainbow Dash's tone was filled with distrust and annoyance, despite the fact that her and Sunset Shimmers relationship had moved from hated enemies to rivals who watch movies together every other Friday, finding the girl here of all places was not something Rainbow Dash had been expecting.
“What's the matter Dashie,” Sunset asked. “Are you mad that I found out about this place before you did.”
Chrysalis interrupted her before she could reply. “That's one racer, we need one more volunteer.”
“I'll do It!”
The crowd parted once more to reveal another face familiar to Rainbow Dash.
“Oh, you gotta be kidding me.”
Standing there, wearing in his favorite jacket and a confident yet apologetic smirk, was Flash Sentry. “Hey Rainbow Dash.”
Chrysalis smiled as Rainbow Dash face-palmed in embarrassment. “We have three racers, I believe that's more than enough for initiation. Racers, to your cars, then to the starting line. Go!”
Sunset Shimmer took off immediately toward her car, Flash on the other hand, stayed right where he was.
“We should talk.”
“Do you know what Twilight would do to you If she knew you were here!” Rainbow Dash said to Flash Sentry as they walked back to Dash's car.
“I could say the same thing about you, what are you doing here Dash?”
“Racing, hoping to earn some money and have fun, same as you I'm guessing.”
Flash Sentry chuckled. “Yeah, yeah, fine, how about we both keep quiet about this to Twilight the others.”
“That's fine with me, but what about Sunset?”
“Don't worry, she won't talk, she may act tough but really she's scared to death of getting caught by anyone she knows, In fact, I think my head nearly exploded from confusion after I saw her just up and challenge you like that.”
They walked the last few feet to Rainbow Dash's car laughing.
“Alright, I need to get to my own ride, see you out there.”
Rainbow Dash unlocked her doors and Scootaloo came rushing out.
“There you are! what's going on?”
“I'm about to race.”
“Oh cool, I'll... Your not gonna let me ride with you are you.”
“Sorry kid, but I can't let anything happen to you.”
“So your just gonna leave me here with a bunch of criminals.”
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “Just stay here, climb up the shelves if you have to, and If anyone messes with you,” Rainbow Dash pulled a stun gun out her pocket and handed it to her young friend. “use this on them.”
Scootaloo dumbly stared at the weapon for a few moments before slowly taking it and then tucking it into her coat pocket.
“So, remind me again how you know these people?” Scoots asked as Rainbow Dash started her car up.
“It's a long story kid.” The older girl replied.
Rainbow Dash stepped on the gas, launching her car forward and out the warehouse, with Flash Sentry followed soon after, along with a crowd of young adults eager to watch the race.
“Climb up the shelves, 'pfft'.”
Scooaloo hurried after the racers, intent on seeing her friend and mentor trounce them all.
If someone happened to be walking through the warehouse park on this night, they would be most assuredly be surprised to see 3 very fast, very expensive, and very well maintained cars mixed in with the trash and decay of the area.
Of course, that someone would not know that there was a secret street racing circuit operating in the area, and that such cars appeared in the area several times on this same night almost every single week. That person would also most certainly be surprised to know that the flaming red Corvette Z06 was being driven by local physics major Sunset Shimmer, that the electric blue Mitsubishi Lancer GTS with a rainbow tail-fin was being driven by sports star Rainbow Dash, and that the oil black Camaro SS with lightning vinyls was being driven by the up and coming rock star Flash Sentry.
These three individuals were all awaiting the light currently hanging above them to turn green. Which would be happening in three, two, one.
“GO!” The crowd gathered around them yelled and the three drivers took off. And the race was on.
The race was a 3 lap circuit around the warehouse park. Rainbow Dash in her overexcited state had almost gunned her engine prematurely, Flash sentry on the other hand had managed to remain cool, calm, and took off at the exact moment the light turned green, and Sunset Shimmer, despite her intimidating performance a few minutes ago, had actually been so nervous she missed her mark by about 2 seconds.
After speeding off from the starting line, the three racers began jostling each other for first place, they may have been friends but now that they were on the track they had to put on a good show otherwise people wouldn't bet, and if people didn't bet then Chrysalis got mad, and when Chrysalis got mad, someone's head rolled.
After rounding the first corner, Flash and Dash took the lead, leaving Sunset in the dust. The girl may have had a powerful car but that didn't mean she always knew how to use it. Rainbow Dash took a moment to glance in her mirror and admire Sunset's vette, then quickly re-focused on the task at hand.
Flash's Camaro was powerful, almost as powerful as Rainbow's own car. She had raced him before for fun and lost about a third of the time. She wasn't too worried that he would beat her this time, but she was worried that Flash might make this only a near win for her, or even worse a tie, and Rainbow Dash couldn't afford anything less than overwhelming victory if she wanted to be taken seriously by Chrysalis and the rest of the racers, so she did the only thing her over panicky mind could think of at the moment to reassure her victory, she hit the nitrous.
At first it seemed like she had made the right decision, but then Dash realized that she was accelerating towards a wall at about 120 MPH. She cut her wheel sharply to the right and went into a drift in order to avoid smashing her car into a pancake, Dash's Mitsubishi kicked up a large cloud of smoke and derbies as it ground to a halt. It was right as the vehicle had slowed down to a safe speed that she heard a crunch and felt the rear end of her car jump into the air for a few seconds before settling down and continuing it's acceleration. Dash had to fishtail the vehicle for a few moments before the nitrous stopped and she was able to regain control of her car.
“Fuck!” Rainbow Dash Yelled at herself for being too nervous and stupid to realize how dangerous it was to use the nitrous on that turn. She hadn’t had nearly enough distance to make the turn in time and it had cost her the back of car, and now she would have to the rest of the race without a boost, while both Sunset and Flash could pull theirs out at any time! Rainbow Dash turned the final corner of the circuit that led back to the start, she crossed to finish line with about a second and a half lead on Flash, and a three second lead on Sunset.
The last two laps continued on as a battle between Flash and Rainbow, Sunset tried to maneuver her way to first several times but got pushed back each time. In the very final lap, Flash activated his nitrous in an attempt to cross the finish line first. Fortunately for Rainbow Dash though, she had had a large enough lead to be able to hold on to first place, she beat Flash by about 1.3 seconds, and totally destroyed Sunset Shimmer by a whole 3 seconds.
As Rainbow Dash got out of her car, the other racers who had been watching rushed up to congratulate her, they praised Flash and Sunset as well, but Rainbow Dash had earned her spotlight and she was basking in it.
Suddenly a sharp whistle broke through the crowd. All the racers turned and saw Chrysalis standing standing there with her goons. “Congratulations Miss Dash, you've passed your initiation test.” Chrysalis nodded to one of her men, the goon walked over to Rainbow Dash and handed her a small package wrapped in a plastic bag. “Your winning's.”
Rainbow Dash opened the top of the bag, and counted five one-hundred dollar bills. She quickly covered up the money, and tried not to burst out in hysterical laughter.
“As for you, Miss Shimmer.” Sunset Shimmer looked like she was about to pee her pants once she heard Chrysalis say her name. “Next time, please try to drive just a little bit better.” Sunset Shimmer tried not to whimper as she nodded in response to the older woman’s “request”. “Excellent, well then racers what are we waiting for, next race starts in 10 minutes, contestants get to your vehicles.
The crowd dispersed and almost everyone went back inside. Rainbow Dash, Sunset, and a few other racers stayed outside for various reasons.
“You wrecked your car.” Rainbow Dash looked over at Sunset. She was surprised that her frienemy still had the nerve to talk after what Chrysalis had said to her. “And you lost the race.” Sunset Shimmer started laughing, which caused Rainbow Dash to start laughing as well.
“Uh, Dash?” Rainbow dash stopped laughing and saw Scootaloo standing there with her arms crossed.
“Yeah Scoots, what is it?”
“Well, I hate to interrupt your moment but, I think you and your friend should move your cars before the next race starts.”
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, It was gonna be a long night.
