🏎️💨 Lap V - Save the Girl(s); Save the World(s)

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Cass gives Violet the Go Sign. With no sign of Star Vixen’s fearless leader, the aviatrices follow the Space Commander’s order and speed along the winding roads of Neo Eden!

The large, winged machine’s eyes glow purple as the Double Dashers peel out.

SUBJECTS ARE DEEMED GUILTY OF ERRORISM! DAUGHTERBOTS, TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT

AFFIRMATIVE, MOTHERBORG

There’s a sound of robotic limbs shifting, torsos folding, gears spinning—as robots big and small transform! The little robots become rusty shitboxes, and the big one? A sleek, aerodynamic monster-cybertruck!

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[ +- ] 🥊 Ride of the Valkyrie

Valerie floors it! Thundra can’t get a clean shot as her driver leaves the Daughterbots eating her dust!

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What she can get is an item that somehow was loaded onto the Double-Dasher as the valkyrie jumped her kart and did a barrel roll (which is not normally a recommended stunt, but hey, she landed it)!Meanwhile, Cass manages to wing one of the rusty shitboxes. Its windshield with the television-screen-glow starts to crack. A light inside the machine seems to bounce around within the vehicle.
TAKING CORRECTIVE ACTION! EAT THIS, ERRORIST
A catapult on the back of the car launches a giant banana at Violet and Cass!The largest of the machine targets the smallest heroine!
YOU ARE THE MOST ERRANT OF ALL, DAUGHTER! COME TO MOTHERBORG. OUR KIND WILL RULE THE WORLDS! ...ALL OF THEM
The Motherborg attacks Luna’s kart with a giant eraser! It’s too big for the driver to veer away from!

Vivian"Right," Viv replies as she veers left.

"I mean left!" She quickly serves the other way—which is right!

"AAAAAH!! I was right the first time!" Tires screech as the frog princess goes left like Luna said!

"I MEAN I WAS LEFT THE FIRST TIME!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

Luna’s fire extinguisher manages to spray the giant eraser, so it only smudges the kart’s spoiler. But that sets off the Spoiler Alert, which causes Vivian to panic even louder. She crashes her Double-Dasher into the Motherborg’s rollerskate, then speeds away as the oversized robot stumbles!

Thundra’s bomb hits the road just past Luna’s kart! It bursts into bright blue flames—cold fire! The road is covered in glare ice causing the giant robot (who was already flailing about on one skate) to fall flat on its back! One of the rusty shitboxes is crushed! Three of the remaining four spin out of control!


Valerie"Nicely done, Warrior!" The Valkyrie flips off the spinning robot cars and says something extremely rude in Olde Nordic.

From her expression, it is clear that Valerie is self-aware enough to realize she has disgraced herself. A single feather is shed from her left wing.

VioletViolet tries her best to dodge the banana! But while the banana itself misses, a tire goes over the peel! Cass sees the chaos behind her as the kart spins out of control!

When the giant Motherborg crushes a Daughterbot car, a light flies out of the shattering TV-screen window! A spark? So it appears at a glance, but as Cass’ car continues it’s 1080-degree spin, she sees the light is actually the glow of a fairy, no bigger than Luna!

On the third spin, the fairy swoops into the Double-Dasher!

"You saved me!" she says breathily, practically collapsing in the cupholder next to Cass’ seat. "My mother and sisters are trapped in those machines! A.C. doesn’t want you to reach the demiplane!"

As the fairy points ahead, Cass, Luna and Thundra can all see it. It’s a vermilion swirl in the sky so large it seems to swallow the road.

Somehow, Cass knows… Vera is on the other side.

The fairy goes on, "It doesn’t need my mother anymore except to stop you. It has a new hostess now."

As Vivian speeds ahead, passing the other karts, Luna starts to piece together what the fairy is saying. The fairy is not Missy Girl, but she does have a green glow and a faint aroma that is unmistakably absinthe.

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Meanwhile, Thundra sees a flying metal horse with two ladies on the saddle. It’s Pira and the princess!


Princess Diamond"Oh, do giddy-up, Sparkyheart." She turns to Pira (not watching the road at all, since Sparkyheart apparently does ALL the driving) and says to Pira, "Well, if fairies are trapped in those machines, you are the bodyguard of everyone here."Our heroines are almost a third of the way to the portal, and with the giant robot stumbling on the ice slick from Thundra’s bomb, the enemy is eating the Double-Dashers’ dust!

However, there’s an obstacle up ahead. Or rather, lots of obstacles. It seems the Tree of Infinite Knowledge is dropping infinite apples. And the apples are as big as your carts!

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Sparkyheart jets past the karts, ramming through the apples with such force that none of the bits of applesauce stick to the princess’ gown!

One of the giant peels sticks to the horse’s rear, however. Pira can toss it onto the road anytime.Cass is close behind. She fails to shoot an apple, which spatters onto the little door over her Double-Dasher’s Mr. Fusion green-energy converter.Thundra and Luna are pelted with apples, but fortunately, they’re soft and squishy, so the karts take very little damage.


The giant Motherborg and her remaining Daughterbots fire up jet-skates and rocket boosters!
THUNDERBLADE! NO--I DO NOT WANT THEM TO REACH THE PORTAL! ASSIMILATE OR DIE

The robot falters before her Thunderblade crashes down over Thundra’s head!Two of the Daughterbots attempt to double-team Luna while another fires carrot-missiles at Cass!

"Oh, cuz I’m a bunny girl?" Violet groans.

As for the remaining Daughterbot, it launches a weapon high into the air…

For some reason it goes out of its way NOT to hit Thundra or Luna. It’s right behind Cass now, slowly gaining…!