Skyline's Quarter Mile (Prequel to Driving Life with a Lead Foot)
Endings Lead to Beginnings
Three months and two days ago, my father died. It was a rainy day, and being an Alicorn, he maintained his aging, and he was wearing his iconic armor, which was white with red streaks across his face and torso, and they looked like blood. Whenever I asked him about it, he never wanted to talk about it. I've noticed that something about his past might be off, every time he looks away, every time I brought him up when talking to Twilight. Even she started at the floor, like she knew something she couldn't tell.
He was doing his business and I was right by his side. I already knew full well that he had enemies, and most wanted him dead.
I was talking to him, and telling him about my last day of Canterlot High, which was the school he went to when he was younger. He was smiling, a happy smile I will never forget, and we were only moments from..... It happening.
His name was Skyline, and he's the best dad a kid could ever have.
And I am Clutch Kick, his daughter and heir to his place as honorary general of the royal military, and main field strategist. And I am an Alicorn too.
Today, I was visiting his grave. It, like the day of his passing, was raining, and regardless of it being wet and cold, I always sat by his grave. It had become routine. But today felt different.
As I looked at the sky, just sat against his grave marker. It was very elegant, and was placed in the royal graveyard. Under his name, it read "May the pistons forged take you where you wish to go."
I Looked at the ground above the where the casket laid and I saw something different today. The rain must have displaced the soil some, and a metal thing stuck out, only a little, and it'd only be detected with the most observant of eyes. But I had very observant eyes.
I carefully pulled out the device. When I looked closer at it, it looked like a USB drive...
I ran home that day. Our home was built specially next to a very old looking garage, but Skyline always used it up until his death. I ran upstairs to my computer. After it booted up, she stuck the USB drive in. When the computer registered it, a single pop up appeared, the rest of the screen going black. On it was a single link: ACTIVATE.
I clicked it and a video started playing. It was my dad.
"Clutch, if you're seeing this, you need to stop hanging out at my tombstone as much as you are. But there's something I need to tell you. The point of this drive is to show you my past. I've never been completely clear about it. But the rest of this drive will only work on a certain computer. I'm sure you'll know the one."
The computer then froze, showing four letters: WRHS.
I turned off the computer and ran to the garage. I ran up to his man-cave, a penthouse area of the garage, and ran to the bed inside. I had snooped around here so many times and soon, between the mattresses, I found what I wanted.
A key, with the letters WRHS on it.
I had always been too scared to go into the warehouse after his death. It brought back too much. But now was the day.
I turned the key to the lock and it dropped at my feet. I pushed up the large door just enough for me to get in, and I closed it.
I fumbled around for a light switch until I found it, and flipped it. After a few seconds, the lights turned on one by one, until the warehouse of cars was completely lit. I briefly looked for a car, and then I found it.
I walked over to the large figure under a tarp. I grabbed the tarp and whipped it off. This has to be it.
A 2002 Nissan Skyline GTR BNR34 V-SPEC Nür.
I tried the door handle, and to her surprise, it was unlocked. I sat in the driver's seat, and checked around for the car key. I knew there was a laptop in the glove box, but it's power was straight from the car. I then had a sudden flashback.
It was about three or four years ago, and Skyline was showing me one of his favorite movies he had gotten from another dimension. He told me it was called "2 Fast 2 Furious"
There was a specific scene in the movie I must need to remember... And then it hit me.
"Check in the center, check in the center." Said the character named Roman Pierce
"Cha-Ching!" Said the character Brian O' Connor.
I fumbled for the center console and found the car key. I grabbed it and inserted it into the key slot, and turned it.
The car rumbled to life, the exhaust echoing throughout the entire garage. She pulled the laptop out of the glovebox and turned it on. She put in the USB and a single word document popped up on the home screen.
"Let's see what you took to the grave, dad..."
"Clutch, I love you. I always have. But my past has always been a rough spot. I've never bee able to tell you, and I'm sorry. But now that i'm gone, you'll understand. And when you're finished, you'll see. What, however, I cannot tell you. Not now. After you finish here, go see Aunt Afterburner. She will guide you after I'm done here."
*STATIC*
"And, of course, May the Pistons forged take you where you must go. It's always a thing I've said, and it's true. I hope you'll come to understand it"
*STATIC*
"I've some inheritance for you, as well, something you should be very proud of, but you should always be careful. I will say no more. These files are not to be shown to anyone, at all. Even this computer doesn't have internet access. I want you to understand that you could hurt a lot of people by letting this out."
A long pause followed.
"I love you."
