I spend my day trying to avoid thinking about Mia by going shopping being undercover I have a decent slush fund provided by the Feds and the PD, heading to Radio Shack I drop easily four grand on remote control cars, helicopters, camcorders, storage devices, radio control equipment, tools, a heavy duty laptop computer, then I head over to the greatest store in the world…Sears, and pickup all sorts of shit.
Back at Harry's garage I swipe all of the garbage into a trash bin, and start removing my purchases from their packaging, thousands of blueprints flood my mind…and I let myself sink into a trance.
When I slowly come out of the trance, I have six stealth drones and a controlling AI/VI, one of them has my issued sidearm in a makeshift upside down mount, the other ones have exhaust pipe missile/grenade launchers, with knockout gas, and small but high yield missiles that look like toys but could easily blow up an automobile, they are quadrotor style with a goofy looking plastic helicopter body/shell mounted on them.
The helicopter drones have a charging case that can easily fit into the back seat of a coupe or a trunk of a Honda civic, the drones only have about a two hour battery charge with maximum thrust.
There is also a taser weapon that launches taser darts that have a charge equal to a and looks like a standard issue law enforcement taser…it holds six taser darts and can only be away from a charger for six hours before needing to be plugged in.
'Wish…I had a night night gun from Marvel's Agents of Shield.'
[00:00:58 Seconds Remaining, Until next Sign-In Next Reward: Unknown.]
"Wait…it's been a week since the last sign-in…since my transmigration? It hasn't felt that long."
[Sign-in, Yes/No]
Mentally selecting yes, [Sign-in complete, Grant Ward skillset, knowledge/training and muscle memory. 2x Night Night pistols, 1x Sniper rifle, 400 hundred rounds of night night bullets, 200, of .45, 200 of sniper rounds, schematics and chemical formulas to produce Night Night guns and Night Night rounds.
[Installing Grant Ward…he prepared for sudden sharp pain…and a burning sensation throughout your body.]
'Oh shit!' I curse as thousands of images flash before my eyes and my body moves on it's own, in a super fast forward speed, my body feels like it's on fire, and then wham it's lights out.
I wake up to my phone vibrating in my pocket, pulling out my phone. I see that I have a text from an unknown number, "Races tonight come to abandoned warehouse district building xxxx on west side. P.S. Take care of our girl or I'll break you, love Letty."
'Love Letty…huh? I guess Mia would share us having sex…she probably told her about…me being an undercover cop…fuck I'm probably walking into a setup.'
"Guess it's true becareful of what you wish for..." I mutter softly.
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The warehouse district, night time.
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The usually abandoned warehouse district is teeming with life.
Various different music bumping from car's sound systems, gorgeous and less than gorgeous women in skimpy clothing, shaking they asses to the music and sitting on cars.
Some little play races between people just fucking around, the air's thick with burnt tire smoke and the scent of high octane fuel exhaust.
Neon lights glowing underneath cars, crowds of warm bodies swarm on both sides of the buildings, people rev their modified little rice cookers/tuners like their some kind of ferocious beasts.
I back up and park my Eclipse next to a dark red almost black Eclipse and a hoodless Honda civic.
Hector walks over to me, "Sweet ride man, what are you running underneath there?" Hector ask me, I don't answer with anything more than a smirk, as I keep watching the crowd looking out for a setup by Dom and his crew.
'I never should have told Mia the truth…'
"You gonna make me find out the hard way?!" Hector asks in mock outrage while smiling.
"Hell yeah!" I say back to him while smirking.
"You're brave, they call me Hector…" Hector says as he walks closer to me, "Got a last name too but I can't pronounce it…" Hector smiles and shrugs but you can tell that he's telling the truth.
"Brian." I shake his hand, "Typical white boy name, know'what I'm sayin." Both Hector and I chuckle, Hector points over to a Jetta with an clear hood, "See that one over there, that's my baby."
"You racin tonight?" I ask following Brain's lines from the movie when it all feels so natural.
"Nah, I'm trying to go legit…get in the nitrous circuit."
"Ya, heard of it?"
"Yeah, yeah…that's awesome man, I hope you get in."
Suddenly a baby/electric blue Integra GS-R pulls up next to my car and everybody scurries away, with varrying expression, ranging from lust to fear to outright loathing and hunger, those people I stare back at my hand reaching for my back up sidearm and my custom taser tucked behind my back.
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Mia gets out of her car in suck a way it drips sexiness but looks regal as fuck, full of energy there's a small smirk on her face that turns into a glare when she looks at me, 'Damn…she looks great in that outfit…she looks great in anything…especially nothing…'
She struts over to me, presses herself against my front stands on her toes and kisses me it's slow but hot, she's putting on a shoe for the hoes that have been eyeballing/flashing me since I first got here.
"You didn't come see me for lunch." Mia says and she sounds genuinely upset that I didn't come see her for my daily meal.
My hands slips around and rest on her hips, "I thought you wanted some space…and I got a little busy working on some side projects…" I say and Mia's hands slide up my chest and trace around my neck before interlocking behind my neck.
"It took me less than ten minutes alone with Letty to realize I don't want space away from you…" Mia murmurs sappily and I can't help the relief and stupid grin that lights up my face, and makes Mia giggle.
"Mia…did you tell Letty everything?"
"Yes…Letty and I don't keep secrets from each other…"
"Mia…is there a chance that Letty's inviting me here to the meet tonight is a setup?" I ask Mia seriously in a low voice so as to not be overheard, "No…it's not a setup…not in the way you think…Letty and Dom broke up yesterday after we left…I may have…well you'll find out tonight after you race Me, Letty and Dom…" Mia smirks like she's got this big juicy…secret that has her face flushing and an excited but uncertain look in her eyes.
"What…do I have to beat your brother in a race to date you or something? Because if that's the case Mia, you're not some trophy or car I want to win in a race…I want to win your heart the right way." I murmur cheesily.
Mia practically swoons, melts and coos all at once.
We're interrupted by a red RX-7 and pulling up and driving by us and heavily laying on the throttle.
Dom gets out of his car and glares in mine and Mia's direction.
"Alright, people!" Hector calls out. "Four cars, quarter mile. 2k a person First to the end gets the money and the bragging rights. Let's go!"
"Hector, you're going to hold the cash." Dom says laying down the law.
"Why Hector?" Someone shouts I think a black dude judging by the way the voice sounds, same black dude who's eyeballing my girl like a hungry jackal.
"Because he's, too slow to make away with the money." Dom jokes while him and Hector tap their hands tightly a couple of times.
"Hey, wait…hold up." I call out getting another glare from Dom, "
I don't have any cash…but I do have the pink slip to my car." I say and pull the piece of paper out of my back pocket.
Jessie snickers, "You just can't climb in the ring with Ali, 'cause you think you box."
I smirk at that, "Your boy toy knows I can box." I say with a smirk and point to Vince who's face is swelled up and has a black eye. "Check it out.
It's like this. I lose, the winner takes my car…clean and clear…but if I win, I take the cash, and I take the respect…plus you keep a leash on your guard dog for when I come to the cafe to see Mia and have lunch with her…" Mia makes a happy little sound at that, and I see Letty blowing a bubble of gum and rolling her eyes as she smirks out of the corner of my right eyes as she walks up besides Mia.
"Respect?" Dom asks me looking at me seriously for a few seconds.
I shrug. "To some people, that's more important." Dom nods a newfound respect for me shining in his eyes.
"That your car?" Dom points to my Eclipse and I nod he walks over along with Jessie.
I pop the hood, and Jessie lifts it up,
"I see a cool air intake, it's got a NOS fogger system and a T4 turbo, Dominic…I see an AIC controller, it even has direct port nitrous injection."
"Yeah. And a stand-alone fuel management system…not a bad way to spend $10,000."
"You see that shit? He's got enough NOS in there to blow himself up. Period."
"So, what do you say? Am I worthy?" I ask and Mia walks up behind me and takes my arm and glares at her older brother.
"...We don't know yet…but you're in. Let's go."
"All right…let's go!"
Mia stops me from going to close the hood and following everyone, "Brain…are you sure about this, you don't need to prove anything to anyone especially not Dom…you…bet your car but you don't have any experience racing." Mia murmurs her concern, "You're right I don't…but if I don't do this your relationship with your brother will suffer, and not having any family besides a friend still in county I don't want that to be the cause of that…not for you."
"Brian…" Mia murmurs her eyes growing misty as she stands on her toes and kisses me in a soft slow way.
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