Don't race with Miwa. It's one thing to let her drive, but a whole other thing if you try to race against her. XD
Did I mention Miwa is very (scaredly) competitive when in a race.
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*A montage of race cars are seen driving around for the Great Wall Race.*
"Once a year, this city becomes more than a city. Once a year, these streets... become more than streets. This year... the winner will become... immortal!" announced a commentator.
*The camera cuts and zooms out to show a giant trophy shaped as a Peach of Immortality. It then fades to a television screen. Mk and Mei gasp while Miwa looks unimpressed.*
"A peach of Immortality!" Mk exclaimed in excitement.
"I wanna burn any peach I see, even a peach of Immortality." said Miwa in a monotone voice.
"Uh, peach of what now?" Pigsy questioned, confused.
Mk and Mei start ranting at Pigsy for not knowing what the peaches of Immortality are. Tang clears his throat and interrupts the conversation.
"If you'll allow me. Legend says there is a sacred field of trees which grows in the Heavenly Realm, protected by the gods themselves. Every few thousand years, these trees bring forth the Peaches of Immortality. Against the wishes of the Heavenly Host, the Monkey King took them all, making himself immortal!" Tang explained.
"Stupid old monkey." Miwa mumbled, not being impressed by this if anything she felt disappointed. "Guess I now know where my stealing habit comes from."
"Hold up. I thought Monkey King was already immortal." said Pigsy, raising an eyebrow and crossing his arms.
"Piggy, you're missing the point! Whoever wins this race will–" Mei went on to explain only to get cut off by Miwa.
".....Will live forever." said Miwa as another memory came back, which caused her another headache.
"Yeah that's right!" said Mk with a bright smile.
"Motherfucker, he could have killed me when he fed me a peach of Immortality when I was just a baby." Miwa started frowning at that memory.
*Flashback.*
"Let's see, I know I put it somewhere in here." Wukong was looking through some of his random piles of stuff that he had stolen, trying to find something.
Miwa was playing around with some of the random stuff laying around, laughing as she kept finding something new to play with. Not knowing what could be dangerous.
"Aha! Found it! I knew I still had one left laying around here." Wukong had a bright smile on his face, holding a peach of immortality in his hands. "Sunny, you are gonna love this!"
Miwa looked over at Wukong, tilting her head to the side confused. "Dada?"
Wukong walked over to her and used his tail to easily pick her up and into his arms. "After you eat this, no one will be able to take your life." He smiled, handing her the peach.
Miwa smiled happily when she was given the peach, not thinking anything of it she ate it right away. But when she finished it she started having trouble breathing, and it only got worse as she started screaming out in pain. Curling into a tight ball in his arms.
"I heard screaming, what's going on?!" a black blurry person rushed into the room, they seemed deeply worried.
"I don't know! I just fed her a peach of immortality and the next thing she starts screaming!" shouted Wukong looking just as panicked and worried about what to do.
Miwa started getting surrounded in a cosmic aura, forcing herself out of Wukong's arms still screaming out in pain until she fell over and went quiet.
"Freckles!" The two shouted.
*End of flashback.*
"Huh, I wonder who that other person was. They seem somewhat familiar but I just can't put my finger on it." Miwa snapped out of her thoughts when she heard Mk's voice, looking over at Mei's bike.
"This is huge! Those other racers won't stand a chance!" said Mk excited.
"Right? I know the track like the back of my hand! The back alleys, the front alleys, the sideway alleys. All the alleys! I was made for this!" said Mei with confidence.
"Hah! As if, don't forget I've been the winner of this race for three years in a row, and I'm planning on making this my fourth win." Miwa said with a cocky smirk, leaning against her red bike with a bit of gold and purple colors, that she finally had been able to fix.
"No way! I'm totally gonna win this thing." said Mk with just as much confidence.
"Wait, what? You're not racing. Miwa and I are racing. You've been watching me train for months! This should not be a surprise. And Miwa is the lead champion that no one has ever beaten in a race." said Mei crossed her arms.
"Yeah, you get in a race with me and I'm not gonna play fair. I'll see you as someone I wanna crush." said Miwa, as she got very competitive if she was in a race. Another reason she wasn't allowed to drive anything unless it was necessary.
Mk let out a nervous laugh. "Oh, yeah, uh, I just thought you two were doing that stuff for me." Mei growls, while Miwa gives him a deadly glare with a cosmic energy surrounding her. "But upon reflection, that doesn't make much sense."
"How would you even— Ugh! There is no way you'd beat me. Let alone Mimi, unless you have a dead wish." said Mei glaring at him.
"Uh, I so too could beat you two. I'm a delivery boy, pretty sure I know how to drive real good. And Miwa has taught me a few tricks." said Mk, crossing his arms.
"Yeah, how not to crash into things. Not racing." said Miwa raising an eyebrow.
"Pfft." Mei couldn't see him beating either of them.
Just then Mk and Mei sees Tang leaving the noodle shop with a small flag and runs over to stop him.
"Mr. Tang, who's the better driver? Mei, Miwa or me?" Mk notices the Mei and Miwa flags Tang was holding.
"Well, this is very uncomfortable." Tang nervously laughs and runs off.
"Gah, whatever! I'm absolutely gonna win!" Mk declared.
"How? You know you need a vehicle to race, right?" said Mei, looking at him.
"Oh, I've got a vehicle." said Mk with confidence.
"It's better not be what I think it is." Miwa was shaking her head. "You enter my race Mk, and you are dead to me."
Mk let out a nervous laugh, slowly backing away.
"You don't think he actually is gonna enter the race, do you?" Mei questioned.
"If he does, I'm gonna leave him in the dust." Miwa said, punching first into her other hand.
Mei let out a long whistle. "They don't call you the Race Queen for nothing."
"Race Queen? Last I checked they called me the Race Killer, because of how I destroyed my competitors in any race." Miwa raised an eyebrow.
"Like that one water demon guy you raced against last year? I'm amazed he didn't end up in the hospital, unlike his poor race car. That thing is never gonna see the light of day again." Mei found a video on her phone showing last year's race.
Miwa gave a slight shrug. "At least he slept through the chaos."
"Because you used your magic voice to make him and some of the other racers fall asleep." Mei pointed out.
"Me using my voice to make the others fall asleep and lose the race? nooo, I would never use such a cheap trick like that." said Miwa, acting all innocent.
*Later the contestants are at the start of the Great Wall Race.*
"We're now just minutes away from the start of the race as the drivers make their final preparations! Even our three year champion, Miwa the Race Queen is here. Will she take the win a fourth time and crush her competition, or will this be the day someone gets a chance to take the win from her!" said the commentator.
Mk crashes in and joins Mei and Miwa at the start line. "Oh, hi, Mei and Miwa. Didn't see you guys there."
"You're really gonna do this? You're really gonna try and race me?" said Mei.
"Well, don't blame me if I crashes that tuk-tuk." said Miwa, crossing her arms.
"Yeah! And so are we! Monkie Kid! It's your worst enemi–" Jin and his brother came up on their race car, but quickly froze in mid-sentence after seeing Miwa.
"You two!" Miwa made a motion with her hand slicing over her neck. "I'm gonna make you wish you didn't show up for my race."
Jin and Yin slightly started shaking in fear, clearly Miwa hadn't gotten over what happened with the whole trapping Mk in the Calabash that she helped them steal.
"You don't even know the track!" said Mei looking at Mk.
"I've got Monkey King powers! I think I'll be fine." said Mk, though felt a deadly glare coming from Miwa.
"Can you peasants be quiet?! I'm trying to get in the zone." said Redson, coming up in his race car. "Oh, I see my sweet Ruby is here to cheer me on too."
Miwa glared over at Redson but took a deep breath and walked over to his race car. Smiling ever so sweetly. "Why yes, and I also have something sweet to give you."
"Really now, and what would that be my beautiful Ruby?" Redson leaned over the side of his race car.
Mk and Mei watched from their vehicles, knowing Miwa and how she felt about Redson let alone someone trying to race her. They knew he was signing up for his own death.
"It was nice knowing him." said Mei pulling up her phone to start recording it.
"5 bucks, she is gonna crash him at the start of the race." said Mk looking over at Mei.
"Oh, you're on! I'm betting she is gonna crush him near the finish line." said Mei with a smirk, shaking hands with Mk.
Miwa kept smiling sweetly at him, with her tails moving ever so aggressively behind her. "Lean a little closer, and I'll show you."
A small blush grew on Redson's face, he leaned a little closer smiling thinking that he might have an idea what she would give him.
Miwa smiled as a cosmic energy surrounded her, and the moment he was close enough. She slapped him right across the face, leaving a red mark and what made it even worse. Was it got caught fully on camera and showed on replay on the big screen for all to see.
"Oooo, that's gonna hurt big time! Looks like someone has become the Race Killer's new target!" Yin and Jin announced for all the hear.
Redson was caught completely off guard by that slap, it hurt like hell as he placed a hand on his red cheek. "What was that for, woman!"
Miwa grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, staring him dead in the eyes. "It's one thing to claim me as yours, but it's another thing of you trying to race me, Pepper. I'm gonna crush you in this race."
Miwa walks back to her race bike just as a huge dump truck arrives. Everyone except Mei, Mk, Miwa, and Redson runs away, screaming.
"Oh! It looks like we've got some last minute scratches as DBK and Iron Fan join the race." said Yin.
"Yeah, and, totally unrelated, we're the new commentators. And, to spice things up, we've gone ahead and altered the race track!" said Jin.
"What?!" exclaimed Mei, Miwa and Mk.
"That's right! Here's your start line. Here's your finish line. Get there any way you like." said Yin.
"On your marks!" said Jin.
"Hold on!" Mei rushed to get on her bike while Mk got on his tuk-tuk.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Miwa quickly got on her bike.
"Get set!" said Yin.
"Wait, what?" Redson looked at the others confused.
"Go!" Jin and Yin shouted through their mics, and DBK blows past the others.
"Sorry darling! We'll meet you at the finish line, hmm?" Princess Iron Fan laughs.
Miwa took off right after them, leaving the others behind in a smoke trail.
Mk drives off. "Yeah. I'll... see you at the finish line!" Mei and Red Son take off afterwards.
"Get back here!" shouted Redson.
"And it's become immediately apparent that some drivers are better than others!" Mk and Mei squeeze in a turn. "Oh! That is a very sharp corner!" said Yin, just as the focus turns to Miwa.
Miwa took her focus into her surroundings, ignoring the others and what was happening when a slight smirk grew on her face. "They did say we can get there any way we like. So why don't we test that."
Speeding up Miwa saw what she could use as a ramp and used it as a shortcut, and crashed her bike against the side of Redson's race car. Just when he was talking with his parents.
Redson was laughing at his parents when he was close to them. "My victory is assur–" He was cut off by Miwa crashing into him, causing his car to spin out of control. "You'll fucking pay for this! Noodle Girl!"
Miwa rolled her eyes and turned her attention to DBK and Princess Iron Fan. "So, how did it feel when the old monkey put you under a mountain? I hope it was comfortable, because unlike him. I'm putting you in the grave."
"While I see what our son likes about you, I do not appreciate you speaking in that manner towards my husband." Princess Iron Fan said in a cold tone.
"Oh I'm sorry, did I hit a sore spot?" Miwa picked up the pace seeing the sharp corner they were heading towards. "Might wanna take a turn, you know, before you make your own grave."
"I turn for no one!" DBK slams down on the pedal and drives straight into the mountain.
"Ooh... They are literally driving through the mountain! It's a bold move." said Jin.
"Very ambitious. So... I guess we'll catch up with them... On the other side of the mountain?" said Yin.
"Huh, he actually went for it." Miwa decided to take her own way like DBK, but instead of going through the mountain she tried using her powers. Now driving on solid air, going over the mountain though she couldn't keep it for very long.
"Wow! Did you see that, the Race Killer driving in the air!" said Jin amazed.
"But can she keep her winning streak and take the fourth win? Now what we'll have to wait and see." said Yin.
Miwa tried keeping herself in the air but ended up getting a headache because of another memory, this being the worst time to have any of this. As she lost focus and was now falling straight towards the ground, screaming in panic.
"I'm gonna crash! I'm gonna crash!" It didn't help that she got another headache, a faint memory of the past when she crashed into the forest of flower fruit mountain and was found by Wukong and another person.
Miwa in a panic tried doing anything to stop the crash, but when she got closer to the ground she closed her eyes. Waiting for the impact, but it never came as she opened her eyes and saw that she was surrounded by darkness.
"...Mac? Is this your doing?....." Miwa looked around while still on her bike. "Macaque?" She started driving through the darkness, hoping to find herself a way out or to find Macaque by any chance.
Miwa was slowly getting a bit nervous by how empty and dark it was, the only sound that could be heard was her bike. ".....If it wasn't Macaque's doing, then did I by any chance do it myself?"
Miwa couldn't help but wonder if she had gotten another power, similar to Macaque which added another question to her mind. "Shapeshifting powers like dad, and if I'm right, I now have shadow-like powers as Mac...No, that can't be right....but it would make sense, but then why are those memories still blurry for me?"
A confusing frown grew on her face, and it added more questions to her. "I can't ask Macaque, it would seem a little awkward and at the moment, he doesn't want anyone to know he is around. I could ask dad but with how he didn't mention anything about my other parent, I think that would be a sore topic for him."
Miwa let out a frustrated sigh with all of this going through her head. "I should get back to the race, I can wonder about this later."
"FIrst thing first, how to get out of this place without any help from Mac." Miwa tried to focus on where she wanted to go, and a clear view appeared from a random building. Showing the others getting close to the finish line.
Miwa turned up the speed on her bike and got out of the shadows just in time to catch everyone by surprise.
"What is this?! Miwa is back in the race!" said Jin just as surprised as everyone else.
"What an entrance! Disappearing into the ground, only to appear again out of the blue!" said Yin.
"Miwa?!" shouted Mei and Mk surprised.
"How?!" shouted Redson, shocked to see her still in the race.
"I'm not gonna lose that easily! This is my race, and I'm not gonna make this easy for you guys!" Miwa crashed her bike into Mei and Mk's vehicle using her cosmic energy to make a few small stars, causing the tires to drive over them and getting a few holes.
"Miwa!" shouted the two in annoyance.
Miwa laughed at her friends shouting at her. "Anything goes in this race! Just because we are friends doesn't mean I'm gonna make it easy!" She drove ahead catching up to Redson.
"Noodle Girl! Don't think I've forgotten about you humiliating me!" Redson was clearly pissed off about the slap to the face that she gave him.
"Well at least he isn't calling me Ruby anymore." Miwa quickly dodged his car from trying to crash into her. "Sorry Chili, but this is my race. And you wouldn't be the one to beat me."
An idea came to Miwa's mind but wasn't sure if it would work. "It's all or nothing." Taking a deep breath she focused on the shadows under the back of Redson's car, and slowly half of his car got pulled into the shadows.
"WHAT?! How is this possible!" Redson tried pressing and pulling anything, hoping it did something.
"Thanks for the race! But this is the end for you!" Miwa drove ahead, though caught a glimpse of Mei and Mk already catching up.
"Don't think we are out of this race just yet!" The racers drove at full speed towards the finish line, and the cameras caught them crossing the line at the same time.
"It is all over!" shouted Yin.
"It's a tie! Mei, Mk and Miwa win!" shouted Jin.
"Wow that was fun, but damn you weren't going easy on us." said Mk smiling.
Miwa let out a relieved sigh, taking off her helmet as she was covered in sweat. "Yeah and who knew you guys would tie with me."
"We need to celebrate this! Selfie time!" Mei pulled Mk and Miwa up for a group photo.
After taking the picture together they got handed the trophy, holding it up.
"Noodle boy! Noodle girl! You both are insufferable... That peach should be mine!" Redson exclaimed.
"Ha! You're never getting this fruit!!" Mk bites on it and falls off the pedestal, wincing in pain. "Ah... Ah. Ow. I don't think it's ripe yet."
"Umm, it's just a trophy! We don't really get a peach of immortality." Mei explained.
"Yeah, why else do you think I only enter this race where the trophy is a peach? If it was real I wouldn't be entering this race each year." said Miwa crossing her arms.
"What? But... But... But the poster says—" said Mk in disbelief.
"It says right there on the poster!" Redson pointed at the poster.
Mei and Miwa laughs. "It says you get immortality by having your picture projected on the great wall." Mei points out their signature picture is revealed. "Duh!" Mei and Miwa continues laughing.
"Oh. So... The peach is a metaphor? O... kay." said Mk, feeling a little embarrassed that he thought it was real this whole time.
"I knew that! You think you're so... Peasants!" Redson declared in frustration before teleporting away.
"Wait. But what about the real peaches. Where are they?" Mk questioned.
"I don't know." said Mei, giving a shrug.
"I have a small idea." said Miwa, thinking back to where she noticed some peaches back at his place.
*Later at Miwa's apartment.*
Miwa let out a relieved sigh after having come out of the shower, now wearing some comfortable pajamas and walking into the kitchen. Opening the fridge and grabbing a mango.
"That was a crazy race." said someone from the shadows.
"AAaah!" Miwa almost dropped the mango but quickly caught it with her tails, turning around to see Macaque now standing in her kitchen. "Learn to knock, would you! I swear you and Wukong hardly understand the word privacy." She slightly rubbed her ears, after the race her hearing had grown a bit sensitive again.
Macaque raised an eyebrow at her statement but decided to let it go. "Looks like the spell broke."
Miwa let out a sigh but didn't feel like lashing out at him for the night. "I guess so." She walked out of the kitchen and into the living room and sat down on the couch. "So why are you here again?"
Macaque followed after her but not before grabbing himself a mango too, and sat down beside her. "Just wanted to congratulate you, I wasn't able to watch the whole thing. But from what I was able to see, it looked like you had fun."
Miwa gave a slight nod, happy to hear he had watched her race. "Yeah, it was a lot of fun.....but."
"But what?" Macaque was about to take a bite of his mango, but stopped when he heard the hesitation in her voice.
"I just got a new power in the middle of the race." Miwa took a bite of her mango, eating some of it before speaking again. "I don't have much control over it, but it looks like it's the same shadow-like powers as yours."
Hearing it was the same powers as his, caught Macaque's attention. Now curious to hear more. "Huh, well now that's interesting."
Miwa looked down at her half eaten mango. "So I was wondering if you could teach me how to use them. It took a lot of energy out of me when I tried using them."
"Hmmm." Macaque took a bite of his mango, gently patting Miwa's head which seemed to comfort her a little. "Sure, I don't see why not."
"Thanks Mac." Miwa gave him a small smile, and also asked him the other thing that was on her mind. But decided against it, it had already been a long day and she wasn't up for it at the moment.
"By the way, it was fun to see you slapping the shit out of Redson and then going on to taunt his parents. didn't think you had it in you." said Macaque with a smug face.
Miwa let out a soft laugh when he mentioned Redson and his parents. "What can I say, don't mess with me in a race. And I just like messing with people when I can." She leaned back on the couch with the same smug face as him.
Macaque let out a laugh too, patting her head again. "I know what you mean." He went on to put up a new noise damper spell on her ears, that way she wouldn't have to worry about her sensitive hearing.