"IF YOU ARE STUCK BETWEEN FOUR WALLS. I AM SORRY TO SAY THIS, BUT...
GOODBYE AND SEE YOU IN THE NEXT DEATH RACE".
"UHN?" said two racers.
...
After •BURNING RAINBOW• passed AMÉ, DAP01 and ASTRID close to the end mark of NO MAN'S LAND.
Now in 3rd place, he puts out the flames of "BURNNNN", The MAXIMUM OUTPUT of •BURNING RAINBOW•.
Returning back to his normal rainbow flames, he zooms off immediately, chasing after THE COLOSSALS.
ASTRID passes the end mark in 4th place with DAP01 and AMÉ following right behind him in 5th and 6th place respectively.
All 6 racers began heading towards the end mark of the 6th lap as fast as they could before anything surprising pops out and alter the state of the now empty plain land.
Just like in HEAVY RAIN.
STAR still in first place continued moving at top speed, not slowing down or giving anyone the chance to come close to her
She controls parts of her hair, stretching them out.
She forms a defensive line behind her with the hair.
Positioning them like forks facing upwards.
She infused the hair with her energy, giving each strand the ability to cut through anything that came 5000 FRIS close to her.
Now 3O minutes into the race.
Each of the 6 DEATH RACERS currently in the 6th lap, had a similar feeling.
~{AMÉ.
WHAT IS GOING ON?}~
"What do you mean?"
~{DO YOU KNOW HOW ANNOYING IT IS WHEN I ASK YOU A QUESTION AND YOU PLAY DUMB?
I'M ASKING WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH THIS LAP}~
"Do you think I know?"
~{IT'S YOUR REALM.
OF COURSE YOU KNOW WHATEVER'S GOING ON.
WEREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO TOLD THAT JUDGE NPC TO CHOOSE THE TRACKS AND LOCATIONS FOR EACH LAP.
WE JUST LOST ONE LAP BECAUSE OF SOME UNFORSEEN STAR.
BUT WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.
IF THIS GOES ON, WE MIGHT VERY WELL SPEND THE WHOLE 5 PIONS SAGE GAVE DECEIT}~
"Well, don't blame me. Blame SAGE". AMÉ says, switching of the display on his bicycle. "And stop disturbing me".
...
~{DON'T SWITCH IT OFF AGAIN.
JUST ANSWER MY QUESTION.
WHAT'S GOING ON?
I'M PRETTY SURE EVERY OTHER RACER IS EXPERIENCING THE SAME THING}~
"Like I said. Don't blame me, blame SAGE".
~{SAGE?
THAT'S TRUE.
HE STILL HASN'T LEFT NO MAN'S LAND.
BUT IT'S BEEN NEARLY AN HOUR NOW...
WAIT, MEANT TO SAY TWO... UHN?}~
"Oh, you finally noticed".
~{AMÉ, WHY AREN'T WE MOVING?
ANSWER ME.
IT FEELS MORE LIKE THE TRACK WON'T LET US MOVE FORWARD UNTIL THE LAST RACER ENTERS INTO THE TRACK.
WE BELIEVE WE ARE MOVING FORWARD BECAUSE TIME KEEPS RUNNING.
BUT WE AREN'T.
IF THIS IS REALLY SAGE'S FAULT, THEN HE SHOULD GET OVER HERE FAST.
WE'LL BE COLLATERAL DAMAGES IF THAT MISCHIEVOUS FREAK COMES AROUND.
I REALLY WOULD LOVE TO USE MY POWERS, BUT YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING.
AREN'T YOU AMÉ?}~
AMÉ ignores him and turns back to check if SAGE has entered the track yet.
Using PIXILATE radar, he was able to easily scan back into the burning and destroyed NO MAN'S LAND.
"What is he still waiting... Oh, he must have already gotten the message on what's going on. Guess that's why he's not movin..."
And "DOOM".
The first wall falls from the sky, in front of THE COLOSSALS.
"Oh, he already moved. We really should ban him from using SEND". AMÉ says to himself, looking ahead of him, towards the direction of the wall.
"Here comes more. Better prepare for the ones coming from under. Don't want to be raised above the ground and made to restart the race... Well, I can just switch with first. Haha. That'll be evil".
Walls began appearing in every direction, dropping and rising around the racers.
At this point, they all then concluded that their suspicion were right.
They were never as far away from the starting point of the 6th lap as their eyes made them believe.
Time went back to how it originally was.
With walls in every direction, the DEATH RACER were now locked in a MAZE.
A DEATH MAZE.
...
Back to the present.
"Hey, he's joking right. What does he mean goodbye and see you in the next DEATH RACE?". STAR asked herself.
DAP01 who was also locked in between 4 walls, was thinking the exact same thing.
What kind of sick joke was this.
They both had never heard nor been in DEATH MAZE, even with their long history as DEATH RACERS.
"What's meant to happen now?" They questioned themselves.
DAP01, without trying to think of a way out of the box he was now enclosed within, decided ot was time to use BOUNCE BACK.
Similarly, as if they were in sync. STAR thought of the same thing, but to use her hair to form an explosion on the same level of the one she unleashed on NO MAN'S LAND.
"OH OH. WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT.
EVEN AFTER HEARING WHAT I HAD JUST SAID, THOSE TWO RIVALS AREN'T READY TO GIVE UP.
WE SHOULD REALLY GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE...
ON THEIR SEND FORTH". The head commentator says with a smirk.
"Haha. That was a nice line" JUDGE said from where he was. "Well, he's right. If only they knew where they are, they wouldn't be trying to break through".
"Two?" STAR and DAP01. said simultaneously.
"Wait... Our send forth?" STAR asked herself. Confused by what the head commentator said.
Unfortunately for both of them, it was already too late.
They had already released BOUNCE BACK and A STAR IS BORN.
"BOOM... BOOM... BOOM".
...
In STAR Universe, within the Pink Galaxy.
"Huff... Huff... Did I just die?"
...
At the same time in another Universe within the DEATH RACE layer.
In a Galaxy called 01.
"Huff... Huff... Huff... Was that a BOUNCE BACK?"