The race was set.
Soon the track will become NO MAN'S LAND.
...
The Race continues with everyone's positions remaining the same.
"SWITCH".
And it began.
The track where no racer can control how, where and what happens to their ride.
Even being 1st place wasn't a sure way to winning the lap.
After all, they were now on NO MAN'S LAND.
Just like the name suggests. The track belonged to no one.
To be more precised, no one's position, speed, nor weapon was theirs.
And with the "SWITCH".
"Uhn?" STAR says as she appears in last place.
Her position had been switched with one of the COLLOSALS.
"AND IT BEGINS. WELL, IT'S ABOUND TIME WE SAY THIS..." The head commentator says looking at his assistant.
"SIGH. DO WE REALLY HAVE TO?" He replies with a flat expression looking at the head commentator who wore a broad smile on his face, nodding his head.
"WELCOME TO NO MAN'S LAND... SWITCH SWAP SPILL". They said simultaneously, with the assistant commentator putting his right hand on his face afterwards, feeling embarrassed.
NO MAN'S LAND was an area only known in old stories across the DEATH RACE layer as a place where no one who steps into it, can move at their own free will.
DAP01 and STAR who grew up hearing this old stories had prepared for it.
Even with the tiny details the commentators had given the racers before the race started.
All they got was, increasing their speed past their entry speed into the track will be impossible and their weapons will be powerless within the track.
Well, that was true.
But, SWITCH SWAP SPILL was the actual name of NO MAN'S LAND.
It takes everything from whoever steps into it, then...
SWITCHES the location of those within it, from wherever they want to wherever it wishes. SWITCHING them with even the atoms within the layer.
It could toss them to the very end of the land, or back to the very start. To the sea of stars or into the very ground.
An unpredictable SWITCH.
SWAPS whatever is on whoever steps into it's space with either itself or others who had stepped into this land.
Weapons, speed, even the very shape of what steps into it could be SWAPPED with another.
An unpredictable SWAP.
It SPILLS everything out of itself in an instant.
SPILLING out whatever dangerous things it had collected from those within the land.
SPILLING out even speed.
Being hit by whatever it SPILLS out, can either be what helps or what destroys those within it.
An unpredictable SPILL.
Which then ends with it returning everything back to the rightful owners for exactly 10 seconds and takes it back again just to repeat the whole process of SWITCH SWAP SPILL again.
STAR who was now tossed to the back of the race, was furious.
This was the second time she was being switched out of good positions and places she considered safest.
"SWAP".
While she moved at her top speed, about to overtake ASTRID who was in 6th place.
"CREAK... CRACK".
She realized she was no longer moving.
She had been frozen in place by the COLLOSAL behind her.
His weapon had been swapped with ASTRID. And he had ended up with the ice ability of the barbarian.
"SPILL"
Rainbow flames began pouring out of the sky, coming straight down at her.
At this point, She concluded she was the target of this land.
Her entry SPEED was one it had never experienced, of course it was bound to target her.
A trespasser amongst trespasser.
The land had just experienced an entry of multiple anomalies stepping into all at the same time for the first time and she was the first and most interesting of them all.
Stepping into the land at speeds, it had never felt, abilities it had never experienced.
The first of the pink maidens of the STAR UNIVERSE to step on NO MAN'S LAND.
She knew, breaking out of the ice was impossible as she was unable to transform her ride.
In that instant she remembered something which she had been ignoring the whole time.
Something, that was part of her.
It felt like that moment when we searched for something we always had in our hand.
"Sigh".
"BOOM... BOOM... BOOM".
Explosions began happening spontaneously at the back of the race with pink lights flashing and piercing into the ground and the sea of stars above the track.
...
At the same time STAR was experiencing SWITCH SWAP SPILL.