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Death Becomes Us

Part 10: The Man Who Made a Monster

vampire!Eddie x supernatural!Fem!Reader

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WC: 7.6k

18+ONLY, MDNI, mention of wounds, car accidents, a bit of body horror, angst, guns, gunshot wounds, reader gets physically hurt (but bounces right back), blood, drinking blood, allusions to smut, evil men, supernatural powers, a demobat fren, fear of the unknown, a fire, werewolf!Steve, Dr. Brenner. References to one of my favorite 80's shows, the Incredible Hulk with Lou Ferrigno, and mid-90's MTV. Tiny references to FOI that you won't even notice if you haven't read the book.

Summary: Eddie, Jareth, and Steve come to your rescue, but do you even need to be rescued? Bad men surface and reader finds strength she never knew she had. Eddie confesses more than one secret to us, and the tension is thick. Reader is called Dove as a nickname.

Author's Note: I covered quite a few bases in this chapter, but there is still a lot to explore in the next and final part. We get to see reader in action and get some much-deserved satisfaction. I 've been staring at it for so long, I really hope you have fun reading this, love you. As always, Jareth's face claim is Jamie Campbell Bower.

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this starts right where Part 9 left off

Eddie snatched his keys and shoved Steve out the door before he quickly put some food down for Dio and locked the dead bolt.  

Steve called shotgun in the air, vaulting over the hood like an extra from the movie Grease, making Jareth roll his eyes.  “Is he part werewolf or labrador?” Whispering under his breath to Eddie, but Eddie just nudged him out of the way.

Jareth paused on the opposite side of the Pontiac GTO.  “We should go on foot, it would be faster,” hinting to the lightning-speed with which vampires moved.

Eddie inclined his head to Steve.  “Not when we’ve got the pup with us.”

“Fuck you,” Steve sneered, brushing back a flop of hair from his forehead.  “I can keep up with you two geezers, trust me.”

“What if I just kill him and rid us of the dead weight,” Jareth grumbled.

“You can try,” Steve bit, growling deep in his chest.

“Enough!” Eddie snapped, swatting the top of the car with his hand.  “Everyone get in and hold the fuck on. We’re goin’ for a ride.”

—----

Heat scorched through your veins like lava, and as your eyes fluttered open, you passively wondered if the car was on fire, and you were about to be cooked alive.

But

You were no longer in the vehicle.  Squeezing your eyelids tight to find the memory, recollection came flooding back as your fingers curled into dirt, cheek pressed into the forest foliage.  There might have even been a pinecone acting as a pillow at your ear.  

The muscles in your arms and shoulders throbbed, not to mention the feeling of your skull being cracked open by a catastrophic neurological event.  A migraine to rival all migraines.

You remembered being taken…the conversation about Brenner…and Bela…

Bela!

You called her name, but it came out as nothing but a puff of air, a whine deep in your chest.  

What if she got hurt in the crash? What if she —

The crash!

Adrenaline flushed through you like a swarm of bees and you sat up, cracking your stiff neck as you went, and your head swam.  

Where the fuck were you?

A car passed a few yards away on the highway and you realized you’d been tossed into a ravine.  In the distance, the SUV you’d been kidnapped in was on its back and smoking as if something inside had caught fire.  Where was that awful witch and the man who was driving?

A memory of ripping the door off by its hinges and climbing out of the vehicle flashed behind your eyes, but that was impossible.  You must’ve been able to jump out and then hit your head or something. You weren’t turning green and ripping out of your clothes; you were no Lou Ferrigno.

You moved your legs to make sure they worked, and soon you were on your feet, using tufts of grass to crawl along as if you were about to fall off the earth.

In the distance, thunder rolled.

—----

“Turn here, take the shortcut!” Steve shot his hairy arm between the two seats, pointing to right after the stop sign.

“I know what I’m doing!” Eddie roared.  “Just sit the fuck back and stay cool.”

Eddie could feel you, and his heart was jackhammering in his chest.

He floored the gas, tires squealing as they ghosted the road, peeling down the old highway through the woods that barely anyone used anymore.  The velocity shot Steve back against his seat, and Jareth’s fingers dug into the console while music from Sisters of Mercy blared from the stereo. 

“We’re close,” Eddie lowered his chin, laser focused on the scene ahead of him.  He could feel that familiar static fill his body whenever he was in your vicinity.  

You were not the first human whose blood he’d tasted, not by a long shot.  In fact, for the first few years after he’d been made vampire, he didn’t care about  himself or anyone else, and it seemed there wasn’t a willing human in a 100 mile radius that he hadn’t tasted.

But with you, it wasn’t even about your blood.

You made him feel a certain type of way that he’d been missing for over a decade, perhaps even his whole life.

The clouds trembled, and a crackle of lightning shot a silent burst of light through the midnight sky. All three of them could smell the wreck before it was ever in view, and Eddie released his foot on the gas to slow down a bit.

—---

You stumbled onto the main highway, and the headlights came at you too fast to understand what was happening.  

Everything was so bright, it hurt your eyes. It made you swipe your hands in the air and groan, fighting the illumination as if it were a tangible enemy. 

The car coming at you screeched on its brakes, twisting to the side so that it wouldn’t hit you, skidding sideways.

In a blink, you recognized the stunned faces on the other side of the windshield.

—---

The other two men in the car didn’t see that it was you at first—but Eddie knew.  He’d witnessed those shock white eyes before, void of color or pupil.

Electricity snapped off you, as if  you were a live wire. It crackled and skipped off of your skin like the lightning that appeared above them in the sky.

One of your arms was twisted unnaturally backwards at the elbow, but you somehow flexed the joint back into place as you stood there, correcting your posture.  You stood on one side of  your foot as if your ankle was broken, but then that righted itself with a sickening twist.  Your limbs jerked like the walking dead trying to move for the first time after reanimation.  All of this, and yet your face appeared unphased, as if you were impervious to the pain.

Your face was set in surprise and fear and confusion, and his heart nearly leapt out of his chest to be able to hold you.

With a curse, he slammed the GTO to a halt, tires burning rubber as they locked and skidded on the asphalt.  

Something told him you were fairly invincible, just like him, but he wasn’t taking any chances.  

Steve slid across the backseat, knocking his head on impact, and Jareth’s fingers dug so deep into the console that they left puncture marks.  

Eddie didn’t have time to think about what the other two were doing or the danger of leaving his car in the middle of the highway, he threw the gear into park and jumped out to check on you.

From above, there came a loud squawking, and Bela soared down from where she’d been circling in the sky to land on your shoulder with a weight that almost made you lose your balance.

—-----

Bela bared her teeth and screeched at whoever was approaching from the vehicle.  The headlights were too bright, and your ear canals were on fire with hot noise.  A loud, shrill ringing filled your skull cavity like sharp a million tiny pinpricks.

But then you recognized his silhouette

You’d know  it anywhere

“Eddie?”

“It’s me,” he assured you.  “Are you hurt?”

Bela settled once she knew it was him, lowering her wings, and his body came to block the light so that you could see the distress in his face.  He reached a hand out to touch your arm, but then he yanked it back with a hiss.  It was like you’d given him an electrical shock, with volts like those from a cattle prod or taser.  

“I didn’t mean to do that,” you hesitated, hoping he’d dare to touch you again. 

And he did, rushing closer without pause, not caring about how bad the last one stung. He cupped one hand at your jaw while the other went to your hip, searching your mouth for temptation's sake.  “Let’s get you home.”

He got zapped a few more times from seemingly stray sparks, in the chest and the side, making him wince, but he did not relent.  It was a good thing the violent stabbing did not force him back, because just then your knees gave out and you slumped into his arms. Bela took to the sky again before landing on the hood of the GTO with another high pitched wail, wings spanning out as if she were about to conduct an orchestra.

Eddie dropped to his knees on the ground next to you, careful to protect your head from the pavement with his hand.  In wolf form, Steve trotted over to nudge your face with his snout and lick your cheek with a whimper.

“She’ll be okay,” Eddie took his jacket off and made it into a pillow for you, before angling to sink his fangs into his own wrist.  “She needs blood.”

“Use mine,” Jareth hovered nearby, and you could vaguely hear them arguing as your adrenaline crashed.  “I’m older, my blood is stronger.”

“No,” Eddie growled, and then the two bared their teeth at each other.  

Eddie knew that, more than anything, Jareth wanted to be in  your head, to be linked to you in the same way he was.  To know where you were at all times and for you to have…those special dreams about him.  No way in hell would Eddie let that happen.

He’d already punctured a vein and had his tattooed wrist over your mouth, leaking his life force into your trembling lips until you were able to latch on and suck.  

Jareth’s stare bore into Eddie.  “Maybe I should tell her you’re the reason Brenner knew about her in the first place.”

Eddie glared at him.  “You don’t know fuck about it.”

Jareth smirked.  “I know more than you think about the little ‘job’ you were hired to do for him.”

Eddie’s eyes narrowed and he shushed him. “This isn’t the place for this, Jareth.”

A car had to navigate around the GTO to continue down the old highway, and the person shouted their disapproval, but then the driver slowed once he spotted you on the ground and the SUV that was rolled over on its side in the distance.

Jareth and Eddie turned to him and hissed with their fangs out, glaring at him with obsidian eyes, until he slammed on the gas and sped off in the direction he was headed.  Steve growled and chased after the car, keeping up with it for a while before hanging back to sniff around the wreckage that you’d managed to somehow survive.  

You mumbled, gurgling on a spurt of blood, and Eddie took his wrist away.  Your eyes were closed, but your tongue flicked out to lick more of his essence from your stained lips.  Were you conscious enough to know what they were talking about? He’d planned on telling you everything, but the time was never right.  He never expected things to get so…messy.  Never expected you’d become so…special to him.  

Some rich dude offers you to keep an eye on someone for a couple weeks for an abnormally huge chunk of cash, you do it.  He’d had no skin in the game when he initially accepted the offer.  

Caring about you as much as he did was the last fucking thing he’d expected to happen, but he didn’t know how to make it stop.

Jareth leaned over you to get closer to Eddie.  “If you don’t tell her soon, I will, and your little fairytale will be over.”

All Eddie could do was grind his teeth: Jareth was right, he should’ve explained the whole thing to you that night when he’d waited for you to get back from your date with Steve.  But by then, he was afraid he’d lose you.

Yet, how could you lose someone you never had?

“We need to get out of here,” Eddie eased you into a sitting position, your head flopped, and then held your chin in his hand.  Your eyelids were fluttering and your skin was beginning to cool as the healing properties of his blood took effect.  

God, how badly he wanted to press his lips to yours.

“What about the witch?” Jareth stood to full height to look over and see Steve sniffing around the crash. “What if they survived?”

Eddie had you off your feet and lifted in his arms by then, but Jareth was right.  As much as he wanted to get you far away from there, he’d watched enough horror movies to know that you never turned your back on a killer until you knew they were dead.  Knocking them unconscious with the back of a shovel wasn’t enough; you had to chop their whole head off and throw them in a cement mixer.

Steve morphed back into human form halfway back to the group, butt naked again, to report back on what he’d found.

Eddie waited for him to announce that there was no one in the vehicle and the bodies were gone…

But instead, Steve shook his head.  “Looks like they didn’t survive.  His neck is broken and she’s—-”

“Are you sure?” Jareth blurted with an air of irritation. “Maybe I should check for myself.”

“I think I know what a dead body smells like, asshole,” Steve grunted, pushing back on Jareth’s chest.

The headlights of another car was approaching, and Eddie reiterated that they needed to get as far away as possible from the scene of the crime. He threw the keys to Jareth, and made Steve sit in front so that he could crawl into the back with you while you healed.  Bela billowed into the sky and hovered there, waiting to see where they were taking you so she could follow.  

It wasn’t his blood that healed your broken foot or your fractured arm though—you’d done that all by yourself.  Maybe you didn’t need him after all, maybe you’d be better off without him.

“Put your pants back on,” Eddie tossed the clothing from the back seat over to Steve.  “I don’t need you teabagging the upholstery.”

Next to him, you had your head on Eddie’s shoulder and your hand on his thigh when Jareth sped off just in time to miss being clipped by the oncoming semi truck.  It blared its horn just as you lifted your head to look up at Eddie with groggy eyes.

He licked his lips, feeling his throat close up at how near your face was to his.

“Did you save me?” Your voice was strained, sounding like your esophagus was constricted.

Eddie put his hand over yours and you interlaced fingers.  “I think you saved yourself,” he mumbled.  “You don’t need me.”

“I do,” you said it so fast, and he leaned over even more, thinking maybe he hadn’t heard you correctly.  “I do need you.”

Your hand in his, he brought it up to his chest, searching your eyes as an avalanche of words trembled at the tip of his tongue, right there wanting to roll out like a carpet of devotion to you.  

He took a deep breath to calm his nerves because he was shaking so fucking bad.

Jareth caught his eye in the rearview mirror and the two glared at each other before Eddie broke contact and wrapped another arm around your shoulders to bring you closer.  “We’re almost home,” he hushed, planting his lips to your forehead, blushing at the way you refused to let go of his hand.  “I won’t leave you.”

—----

By the time you got back to the trailer park, your energy and strength had been fortified and you urged everyone to go home to let you get some rest, except for Eddie, who’s hand you were still holding as you got out of the car.

The witch and her companion being dead felt too good to be true, and a measure of palpable dread hung in the air.  It was unspoken knowledge that Brenner was still after you, and he knew exactly where you lived.  

Jareth stepped forward, tipping your chin up with the crook of his finger.  “Are you sure you don’t need anything, love?”

“She has me,” Eddie growled.

Jareth fluttered his eyelids in that bored way he’d mastered.  “If you’re so concerned, we’d be better off at Sacrament.  I can keep her safe there more sufficiently than she’d be in this…” he fanned his hand around a few times, “...this place.”

Bela landed on the railing with a swoosh and squawked.

“I hate to say it, after everything,” you angled toward the steps, exhausted.  “But I don’t think this Brenner person is going to stop until he gets what he wants.” You glanced sideways at Eddie. “I don’t want anyone else to get hurt because of me.”

“I’d like to meet this guy myself,” Steve said through gritted teeth.  

Jareth flipped the collar of his coat up and ran a hand through his golden hair.  “Well, my offer stands.  Sacrament is at your service if you should require shelter or protection.”

“Sounds good,” Eddie said dismissively, reaching for the railing to cage you away from the two men. “We’ll let you know.”

“Thank you, Jareth,” you told him, and he winked at you, returning the genuine curve of your smile.

And Eddie hated it so much, he wouldn't have been surprised if steam were coming out of his ears like a cartoon villain.

But he let it slide because Jareth could make things fucking awkward in that moment if he wanted to.  

You turned to Steve.  “Would you like to come in? I don’t have much by way of food, but—”

“He’s fine,” Eddie answered for him.

The two glared at each other for a beat, but then Steve relented.  “Thank you, but I’m not hungry.  Still, I think I’ll stick around for a while, check the perimeter,” he ignored the tick in Eddie’s jaw and waved at you as he backed up to disappear around the backside of the trailer. 

“Hey Harrington, my vest!” Eddie shouted, and it wasn’t long before the denim came sailing through the air to land on the dead lawn near the porch.  Eddie bent to pick it up with a huff, and by then Jareth had disappeared into the night.

Now you were finally alone, and as much as it was what he wanted, it made his stomach drop.

Eddie paced the living room a bit before taking a seat, perching precariously at the end of the sofa to bounce his knee and gnaw at his bottom lip.  

“Listen,” you took a beer and a half-full bottle of NuBlood out of the fridge to put it in the microwave for him.  “I figure there’s no use asking you to leave with people obviously hunting me down, but I really need to take a shower.  So just…make yourself at home I suppose?”

The microwave dinged and you walked the warm glass bottle over, and then waited for him to wrap his hand around it, fingers grazing yours, before you spoke. “I feel like there are some things we should talk about.”

Eddie was already nodding. “I’d like that,” he gulped.

Eddie waited until he heard the shower running before he sank down into the cushion and used the remote to turn the TV on.  He needed to distract himself from letting his mind wander to how you were absolutely undressing in there, about to be naked and wet and…

He squirmed in his seat and turned the volume up.  It was an MTV music video for Metallica’s Until it Sleeps, but he only vaguely cared as he puffed his cheeks for a forceful exhale. In his head, he practiced what he would say, how he would beg your forgiveness, and how he never really understood what this guy Brenner was all about until it was too late…

In the shower, you made the water as hot as you could handle it, leaning into the burn, and stood there for the longest time without moving. Eyes closed, you could feel Eddie step into the shower behind you, sneaking his hands around to pluck at your nipples.  “Room for one more?” He rumbled in your ear, just before he nibbled it.

He wasn’t really there, but you couldn’t help but touch yourself with a soapy hand as if he were, biting your lip around a moan.

The water ran cold by the time you were ready to step out, swooshing the curtain aside with a swift swipe of your arm.  

The thump of something heavy falling to the ground out in the living room had you straining to hear what it might’ve been as you pulled a clean t-shirt and jeans on.  Music videos were on, playing In the Blood by Better Than Ezra, and you called Eddie’s name.

The only response you got was from Bela, and she let out one long screech that felt like it had the power to break glass.

“Eddie?” You shouted this time, flinging the door open to let the steam roll out and fill the hallway. “Bela??”

The door to your trailer was wide open, but Bela was there, scrambling from the back of the couch to perch on your shoulder the second you came into view. 

“What happened?” You asked your demobat companion.  “He just left us here? Without a word?”

The potted terracotta plant that had once been above the TV right by the door was on the carpet, shattered.  

You crossed your arms over your chest, and shivered as you stepped one foot out on the porch to look around, a chill breeze nipping at your flesh.  “Eddie? Are you out here? Steve?”

The whole court was eerily silent, even the crickets and frogs were holding their breath.

You backed up into the house, pulling the door shut.

The TV screen went from MTV to static, and you stepped back to stare at it while Bela swished her tentacles around nervously, leaving red, raised scratches on your arm and neck.  She was heavy, but you’d gotten used to her weight and hitched our shoulder up to accommodate.

The static changed to the image of a man standing before a black backdrop.  He was tall and thin, wearing a business suit with a full head of silver hair. 

“Hello Dove,” the man on your TV said.

He was looking right at you.

You glanced around for a weapon, but as if he could read your mind he said.  “No need for that, I don’t want to hurt you.”  He was handsome in a “trust me”, evil doctor kind of way, but the last thing you felt like giving him was your trust.

“What did you do to Eddie?” It felt stupid, talking to an electronic device as if it were a person, but that was the situation you’d found yourself in.  

Brenner said nothing, but you got a bad feeling and swallowed to wet your dry mouth before taking cautions steps over to the window facing his trailer to peel back the blinds.

But you could already see the flames inside, and just then, you smelled the smoke.

His trailer

It was on fire.

“Nononono no,” You chanted, charging for the door.  

“Come with me quietly,” the man on the TV said, calmly. “Or your vampire boyfriend will meet the final death.”

You halted in your tracks, glaring down at the older man, nostrils flaring with anger.  “Come with you? Where are you hiding?” You chided; hands balled into fist as you cocked your head. “You’re not afraid of me, are you?”

Brenner looked down before meeting your eyes again.  “Your father underestimated the capacity for your powers.  I don’t plan to make the same mistake.”

“How did you know my father?” You barked.

Outside, one of Eddie’s windows blew out, glass shattering everywhere, and his curtains went up in flames.

You ran outside and flew down the steps before the man's voice could stop you.  Dio, Eddie’s cat, ran by to hide under your trailer.  

Maybe Eddie had gone in like a crazy person to save some photos or something, and somehow, he’d gotten trapped in there.   Bela took to the sky while you rushed to his door.

But then there he was, staggering out on a dark cloud of smoke, holding an electric guitar in his hand.

“My sweetheart,” he held it up.  “I couldn’t let her burn.”

He was smiling at you from the top of his steps, dimples popping, and you could help but mirror it, flooded with relief.  He really didn’t care that his whole place was burning, as long as he had Dio, his guitar, and you.

He’d lost much more in his life to a fire once when he was younger, so this one wouldn't sting half as bad.  

And it suddenly didn’t matter that some creepy old dude could somehow talk to you through your TV: Eddie was okay.  

But then something else happened. 

He took the first step, never taking his eyes off of you, but something knocked his shoulder back, like an invisible punch.  

And then another and another

The smile on his face quivered and his forehead creased, trying to understand what was happening.

He tucked his chin to look at his torso, and your eyes followed.

Dark blooms were appearing on his shirt like liquid spilled from an inkwell.  On his chest, over his heart, from his stomach.  

He stumbled down the last two steps and then fell to his knees, dropping the guitar so that he could brace himself with his hand.

Had Eddie been shot?

You didn’t have time to figure that out.  Some strange voice in your head told you there was a chance the trailer could explode—or maybe you’d watched too many movies—but you had to get him away from there.  He was a vampire, and even if he had been shot, he could heal, but you weren't sure how he would survive his body being blown to bits.  

The next thing you knew, you were carrying him, much like he’d carried you in his arms earlier.  You didn't need to summon the insane strength; it was just there. There was that buzzing in your skull, and you could feel violent sparks crackling through your muscles.

Everyone was coming out of their trailers at that point, and Dolores was screaming frantically into her phone wearing a nightshirt and curlers in her hair.  You didn’t know how long it would take for the fire department to get there, or if there was a possibility that the wreckage would spread to the other trailers.

You put Eddie down on the other side of your hearse and leaned him back against the tire to find there was blood trickling from his mouth, but he still tried to grin at you.

“See,” he sputtered.  “You’re like a superhero.  You don’t need me.”

“But I do,” tears clouded your eyes while another window blew out from the trailer.  You put your forehead to his and your lips brushed together.  “Please, don’t leave me.  Eddie I—”

“The bullets,” he winced.  “They’re silver.  My body can’t reject them.”

There were three or four different holes in him there that were steaming as the silver burned him from the inside.  You cupped your hand on his jaw, and he grabbed your wrist, turning his head to kiss your palm.  

“Here, take my blood—” 

You yanked your shirt down to give him your pulsing jugular, but all of a sudden you were forced back by some unseen force, flying through the air until you landed ass first in the gravel and skidded to a stop, rolling over to find yourself face first at the feet of someone wearing a pair of black, shiny shoes and slacks.

“Dove,” a familiar, deep voice said. “We meet again.”

You pushed back, scuttling away to find that it was the man from your TV; he was standing in your trailer park.  Flanked by two menacing looking men with bald, tattooed heads, wearing sunglasses.  Each of them in suits and ties as if they were the actual Men in Black.  

“I don’t know you,” you grumbled, getting to your feet that were bare and bleeding, but healing rapidly. You checked around each shoulder cautiously to see that there was a handful of other men in suits, all of them holding guns, and then a tall guy with a scalp of strawberry stubble, no more than 20, in a red jumpsuit. The guy had his chin down, eyes pinned on you as if he might shoot lasers from them.

His expression was deceivingly kind.  “My name is Martin Brenner.  I met you before you died the first time,” he said casually.

“You see, your father and I used to be friends,” he walked a circle around you, before coming front and center again.  “He stole valuable information from my laboratory in order to bring you back.  You're my property as well, but he decided to keep you from me.”  

“My father never mentioned you,” was all you could say.  In your peripheral vision, you could tell the others were inching close.

“We could’ve been so great together, Dove.  Imagine your contribution to science.  And you would not be so uncertain about your powers,” he stepped back to gesture at the boy in the red jumpsuit.  “I want to introduce you to Kane.  He was reanimated the same way you were, but under my expertise and supervision.”

Kane had a railroad scar on his forehead, and a hand that was a different skin color than the rest of his body.  It wasn’t just a different skin tone; it was a body part from an entirely different person.

You thought about all of the love you were raised with, and though your dad fumbled the ball on attentiveness quite a bit, you never doubted how much he cared for you.  You were beginning to understand that maybe he didn’t explain what abilities you might have because it would lead you back to Brenner somehow.

The surge of power was growing inside of you, and instead of pushing it down, you let it grow and churn and spill out, creating a type of electrical force field around your body, a vibrating aura of protection.

“Show her what you can do, Kane,” Brenner said.

Not sure what to expect, you watched Kane rubbed his hands together, creating a bright bolt of lightning from the friction, his eyes went milk white, and then he shot an arm out towards the nearest hulking security guard, palm open, and it sent the man in black off his feet, sailing back as if he were hugging an invisible beach ball.  He smacked into the side of the opposite neighbor’s trailer with a bone to metal thwack.  

Your eyes were fixed for too long on the man slumped in the gravel, and when you turned to face Kane again, he was a few steps closer, peering through his lashes at you with an evil twitch of his lips.

Apparently, you were the next example in his bag of tricks.  

Your feet were off the ground before you could process another thought, catching air like a rag doll only to drop down and skid face first into the cold, dry earth.  

Oh, so that’s how it’s going to be, eh? Lifting into a push up position, you spat dirt and blood from your mouth with a curse.

Gathering yourself up and into a crouch, you vaguely heard Eddie call your name, but he was still rendered temporarily helpless by the silver, and your head was spinning.  Not so much from confusion and fear this time, but more…anger.

You nailed Kane with a heated look, and then your hand lashed out in his direction, though he was yards away, and actual sparks flew from your palm, spitting like fireworks.

Kane was pummeled in the gut with a force he obviously wasn’t expecting, and you kept going before he could find his footing again, knocking him down before he could raise a hand at you again..

“How does that feel?” You bit, towering over him. 

In a heartbeat, you lifted Kane’s limp body above your head with a roar that you could not believe came from your own mouth.  Arching back, you aimed to drop him over the nearby trailer hitch, which would surely break his back, if not kill him, but then you remembered who you were and faltered.

Blinking, trying to quiet the buzzing in your skull, you knew you did not want to kill this boy.

You understood, even under such duress, that he was only doing what he was told.  

But Brenner was actually applauding you, pupils blown from the intensity, urging you to keep going, to murder this stranger at his bidding.  

You could’ve very easily ended up just like Kane, if not for the love and protection of your father.  

Heaving, trying to calm yourself, you threw Kane’s body in the opposite direction, so that he landed on flat ground that would absolutely hurt, but he’d be able to walk away.  

Brenner beamed at you like a parent watching their child take their first steps.  “You’re stronger than I’d imagined.  Your powers have somehow increased since your inception, and I’d love to know why.”

You squared up with him, making him step back to avoid the sparks actively snapping off of you.  “What do you want from me?”

You didn’t have to look to know that all of the guns were trained on you.  

“I want you to work for me, Dove. We could change the world together, you and I.”

It felt like he was trying to sell you a car, not asking to hook you up to electrodes and make you his own personal soldier.  

“Never,” you were calm now, and you wanted nothing to do with this man or whatever he thought he could do for you.

The flames went higher on the trailer, and in the distance, wails of a fire engine could be heard.  

You caught sight of Eddie, but he was flat on the ground now and no longer sitting up.

You rushed by Brenner, slamming into his shoulder as you went, but two of the guards caught you by the arms.  It felt like they were stronger than normal men, and when they bared their fangs, you realized they were vampires.

Growling, you flung them off of you, and they went stumbling back as if they weighed nothing, as if you were suddenly impervious to their supernatural strength.

“Kill the boyfriend,” you heard Brenner bark at the men.  “Use the wooden bullets this time.”

A gun cocked, and you ran a few steps, but then vaulted over Eddie’s body, arms wide, using yours as a shield.

You felt the bullet impact like a dagger in your back, but it was as if it bounced off somehow instead of penetrating.  Eddie barked in pain as you covered him, but then he clung to you as you rolled him under the hearse, away from the gunfire.  

Caging yourself on top of him, knees on either side of his hips, and stomachs touching, you could feel how weak he was; the silver enabled his body from healing, and you had to find a way to get them out.  

You watched the feet of the one with the wooden bullets approach the vehicle, thinking of your next move when Eddie whispered into the side of your neck: “You’re so fucking beautiful—”

If this was the end for him, this was how he wanted to spend it: with you, being able to see your face one last time.  

Before you could respond, there came a shrill, tortured scream, and the booted feet you had your eye on stumbled back.

More agonizing screams, until the body in question dropped to the ground, limbs writhing, and you could see that Bela had attached herself to his head like an Alien facehugger.  

Only because he was a vampire, he was able to pull her off, but she took most of his flesh and his nose off with her.  

Bela took to the sky again, out of view, and they aimed their guns up at her.

“Not so fast, boys,” a new voice rumbled from the shadows. “I want to play, too.”

Eddie’s shallow breaths moving under you, it was all you could do not to cheer out loud when you realized the voice belonged to Jareth.

And apparently, Jareth brought friends; enough to fill the entire courtyard.

They were crouching on the roofs, on cars, everywhere.

Brenner and his crew were surrounded; Bela had gone to get help.  

In the woods, a pack of wolves howled their attendance as well.  

Jareth pierced the closest vampire in the heart with a wooden stake and he exploded, guts flying everywhere.  

As far as the human bodyguards went, the rest was a bloodbath.  

From what you were told later, Kane ran, and Brenner tried to get behind the wheel of the SUV, but instead he was dragged into the war zone and drained dry before being ripped limb from limb. 

Jareth wanted to keep the doctor in his dungeon to torture him, but a few of the vampires knew of Brenner and the experiments he’d done on their kind over the years.  It was all nothing short of sadistic torture, keeping them barely alive so that he could run experiments on them over time and sell their blood for a profit.

They’d been wanting to get their hands on him for a long time.

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By the time the rescue team and fire truck showed up, all of the vampires had evaporated into the shadows, and you’d snuck Eddie up into your bedroom, carrying most of his weight as he was only able to hobble.  You collected his guitar as well, and brought Dio inside, since those were the only two things from the burning wreckage, he voiced a care about.  With the lights out and the curtains closed, you used a modest bedside reading lamp to assess the damage.  While you were concentrating on him, his eyes never left your face, his heart bursting. 

“You might have to suck them out,” he cleared his throat.  “The bullets I mean.  I’m sorry if that’s weird.”

“You mean, weirder than all of the other shit that happened tonight?” You mumbled, coming back from washing your hands.  There was still dirt caked under your nails, possibly some blood, but whatever.

“Good point.”

Until you got the bullets out, any blood you gave him would be useless, so without another moment of hesitation, you crawled up on the bed, springs bouncing, and knelt next to his torso, bracing a hand at either side of him. He was burning up around the sight of each wound, and the skin sizzled as the alloy continued to roast him alive.  

The first one was at the surface and came out fast, hot metal on your tongue.  The next one, under his right nipple, was deeper and you had to suck harder, making Eddie’s toes curl.  You spit each out onto the floor, and strings of his blood mingled in your saliva.

One hand behind his head, the other rested at his hip with a thumb in his belt loop.  “So, you’re like…the incredible Hulk, but with powers.  That’s pretty badass.”

“I don’t know what I am,” you scoffed, sucking out another, and then pausing to watch the openings seal up and heal.  “I’m a waitress, that’s all.  That’s all I want to be.”

He nodded, musing on how many times he’d wished he could go back and not be a vampire. He wanted to tell you the story of when he was reborn, but that could wait for another time.  Now it was time to put some very messy cards on the table. 

The last bullet was deep, and you had to swirl your tongue around in the hole to loosen it.

“I have something I need to tell you,” he blurted while your lips were near his belly button.

“Mmmhmm?”

Fuck, here it goes…

“First, I just want to say that I had no idea who this Brenner guy was before, like, a few months ago,” his next swallow felt like he was chugging a grapefruit. “If I’d have known what a creep, he was I never would’ve…”

You stopped what you were doing to raise your head, waiting for him to finish, the final bit of silver still lodged in his abdomen. “You knew of Brenner? Before all this?”

He couldn’t look at you, he had to stare at the ceiling.  

“Uh, yeah, that first week you were here, he tracked me down at the chop shop and said he’d pay me a shit ton of money to keep an eye on you. I didn’t ask a lot of questions.  As far as I knew, you were his long-lost daughter, or some shit and he wanted to make sure you were safe.”

You sat back on your knees, trying to let that sink in.

He lifted up to brace himself on an elbow, wincing at the sting of the remaining bullet.  “I didn’t know you then, that was before we were…” he fumbled with what he wanted to call you and what you actually were, “...a friend.”  

“So,” you frowned down at your hands.  “You’re the reason I was kidnapped tonight? The reason all of this happened?”  Your wide eyes snapped to him.  “Did you set me up?”

He sliced his hand in the air a few times, shaking his head vigorously.  “No..nope…I had nothing to do with any of this,” he pleaded.  “I only reported back to him for a couple of weeks, and then I stopped, really.  After that night I first took you to Sacrament, I told him I was too busy to—”

All of the horrific memories were rushing back to you.  “What about the Klemp’s? Did you pay them to hurt me or something? So that I’d have to drink your blood and let you into my head?”

Eddie spoke so fast; he stuttered over his words.  “No, absolutely not, never! I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I would never let anyone hurt you like that.”

“But they did hurt me,” you muttered.

Now it was you who couldn’t look at him, working your jaw muscles as you tried to decide which emotion you should be feeling.

“Why should I even believe you?” Your voice was small.

“Please believe me I—”

“If you knew this guy was stalking me, why didn’t you tell me sooner? If you’re as concerned for my welfare as you claim to be?”

You couldn’t tell if you wanted to cry or scream; maybe both.

Eddie didn’t have a chance to answer.  You were on your feet at the end of the bed with your arms crossed.  

Suddenly, you were shaking, and you couldn’t control it. “After Sacrament, I didn’t see you for a long time, it felt like you were avoiding me.  Was that because you no longer had to fake interest in me for your scam?”

Eddie pushed himself up into a seated position, blinking back the memory of how painfully hard it had been to stay away from you for all that time.  “No, you have to trust me, that had nothing to do with—”

“Trust you?” You barked a sarcastic laugh.  “Tell me why then? Why avoid me for so long, huh? Because you weren’t getting paid to—”

Eddie’s voice wavered and he spoke in a rush.  “Because I started to have feelings for you, that’s why. Happy? Because ever since that first day I saw you, you’re all I can fucking think about.  Because I can’t even look at another woman without seeing your face, and believe me, I’ve tried. I’ve gotten real good at disappointing people and leaving people behind, and all I know is, I don’t want to disappoint you.”

Your lips parted to say something, but he figured what the hell, he might as well scare you all the way off while he was at it.

He relaxed his shoulders and wet his lips. “I never told you that I was made vampire against my will.  I died and was brought back, but my heart went cold, and I never thought I’d feel anything for anyone ever again.  I didn’t want to feel anything.  I should’ve stayed dead, I wanted to be with all of the people I’d lost…”

His suede brown eyes sought your face.  “When I’m with you, I don’t feel dead anymore. When I think about you, I feel fragile and human again.  Like maybe I’ve got something worth giving away.”

Silence filled the room like helium in a balloon about to burst.  

He’d gone for broke, and there was nowhere left to hide. He was officially at your feet, where he’d always been.

“You don’t have to say anything,” he whispered when you didn’t respond right away. “I get it.”

You tilted your head all the way back to stare at the ceiling.

“I dream about you every night,” you admitted on an exhale. “Logically I know it has to do with ingesting your blood, but it’s…it’s more than that.”

He bit at the inside of his cheek, picking at a thread on the comforter.  “Every night, huh?”

You gave a few slow nods, and you could almost hear the smile pull across his teeth. 

“Yeah, so, blood induced dreaming should only happen a handful of times after it’s ingested,” he said, shifting in his seat. 

You kept nodding, since that was something you’d already suspected.  “The dreams are always so vivid, I wake up…”

He dared to finish for you after a long pause. “Wanting more?”

“No,” you corrected, turning to face him.  “I wake up wishing they were real.”

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1. How many works do you have on AO3?

44 😲 in my main AO3 account. 2 others in my older account = 46!

I didn't realize I had that many things!

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

270,883

3. What fandoms do you write for?

All 44 of those works in my main AO3 are MacGyver 2016. One is a crossover with The Rookie. The other two at Star Trek TOS and Star Wars fics.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Table + Flashlight + IEDs

Mac + (Wilderness + Training + Survival) + Jack

Lost Causes

Lake + Stick + Fever

4 Times the LAPD Didn’t Pull Jack Over + 1 Time They Did 

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to! I often respond to a chapter's comments when I post the next chapter of a longfic. And sometimes I just space on it and respond a year later when I notice I failed to respond.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Oh definitely my X-ray + Penny flashfic, Bad Penny. Most of the comments are variations on HOW DARE YOU!!!

There are a couple other flashfics with pretty ambiguous endings, too.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

That's a hard one. Most of my fics have a happy or at least comforty ending. Maybe... uhh.... Electricity + Combustion ? which I literally labeled "whump with a fluffy ending". I also have two Jack Lives fics so that's always a happy situation at the end...

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I haven't. A few weird comments but I mostly scratch my head and ignore them. Anybody who hates on my fics will be getting a very long and nasty reply, followed by their comment being deleted.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Nope, no smutty fanfics here. I did have a romance I posted for another fandom awhile back (and never finished), and I've written fade-to-black stuff in my orig fic novels.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Just one! My Macgyver 2016+The Rookie cops-vs-spies crossover, in which some LAPD officers keep coming across a black GTO involved in shenangains around LA: 4 Times the LAPD Didn’t Pull Jack Over + 1 Time They Did

It's probably the funniest thing I've ever written, and the ending is one of my very favorites. Also possibly the only gen fic ever posted in The Rookie fandom, although I don't look over there much.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes. Somebody stole all my completed fics from FF.net last year. There was a big Tumblr post about some site full of stolen fics, and sure enough, there mine were. I asked to have them remove, got not reply. I haven't posted anything to FF.net since then.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I'm aware of.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, but not for a long time. I used to frequently co-write fics in my first fandom.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

I'm going to go with Washington State Ferry M/V Wenatchee. Who doesn't love a good ferry boat? It's an irconic style, fun if you're walking on, handy if you need to drive on, saves you hours of driving around Puget Sound by land. Also just a very nice-looking ship.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Ugh, wow. I have a couple dozen things I kinda like but might never finish. My favorite, and least likely because I've made the least progress on it, is a MacGyver fic about Patti having plotted out her revenge better, and tring to fuck over the team by having listed Jack as her replacement... which of course gives him access to high-level secrets like Oversight's identity. Much drama ensues.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Ramping a story up. Characters. Make a story fully story-shaped.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Endings. 😫

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Hmmm I don't think I've ever needed to. Like most things in writing, I'm not against it in theory, but it can be done well or badly.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Anne McCaffrey's Pern, back in the paper fanzine days. Prior to joining AO3 in like 2019, I had 0 fanfics posted on the internet but a few in zines listed on Ebay. 😂

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

This is IMPOSSIBLE to answer. I could answer it differently every day for the next couple weeks. Anything I already mentions plus a couple more!

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Rising From The Ashes || Chapter Seven

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“Jackie boy you had better show this lot just exactly how us bikers do it,” Chibs screamed, wrapping his arm around Jax’s neck, pulling his head down, placing numerous kisses on his forehead, making you giggle. “And if you don’t, then I’m afraid we will have to revote for President,”

“That’s harsh,” Jax laughed, as he squirmed out of Chibs’ hold. “I mean we all know that we will come out on top.”

“Just making sure brother,” Chibs winked.

Rolling your eyes at the boys, you spun around as you heard Roman moan, there was always something with him, no matter where you were, he would find something to moan about.

“Oh hell to the no,” he exclaimed, backing away from everyone holding his hands up in surrender, “none of these mother fuckers better bring their lips anywhere near my face,”

Shaking your head at the giant man child, you watched as Tej edged closer to Rome pulling kissy faces, making you howl with laughter. There was never a boring day when it came to these two, and you realised just how much you had missed out on when you ran. And you definitely needed to make up for lost time.

“Come on Rome, stop being homophobic” Tej laughed, as he backed Roman into a corner, “it’s just a kiss,”

“Oh hell no, get your fucking lips away from me you freak.” Rome squealed, ducking under Tej’s arms, running to his car as fast as his feet could carry him, with Tej hot on his heels, blowing kisses his way.

“Ladies and Gentlemen this is my family,” you laughed, as Jax wrapped his arm around your waist, pulling you off the bench, making you squeal, instantly wrapping your arms around his neck as he held you bridal style. Reaching up, you rested your hand on the side of Jax’s face, softly running your fingers through his beard. “Don’t look at me like that Teller because I am going to beat your ass, so put me down and let’s do this.”

“Oh is that right babygirl?” Jax hummed, placing you back on your feet, burying his face into the crook of your neck, breathing softly, causing goosebumps to form on your skin. “Because we both know that I will beat you.”

“Stop trying to distract me and go get my keys,” you giggled, wiggling out of his hold, squeezing your thighs together at the rush of heat you felt over your body. You knew what he was trying to do, he was trying to get in your head and distract you but you weren't having it.

Soon enough Jax reappeared, tossing you the keys to the GTR, running your fingers over the cool metal, a smile played on your face, none of them knew just how good you were behind the wheel of the car, it was one thing you kept a secret just waiting for the day to shock them all.

“Tej, leave Rome alone you can try and kiss him later,” you laughed, as you walked over to your car, from the corner of your eye you saw Jax straddling his bike, reaching for his helmet. “Oh baby,” you said, in a playful tone. “Get in the car because you sure as hell won’t be able to keep up on the Dyna.”

Jax rolled his eyes at the comment, brushing it off even though he knew it was the truth, just like he knew you never fully went full throttle when he was riding your ass. The moment his ass made contact with the passenger seat, you put the car into first gear, wheel spinning out of your parking spot, leaving black tyre marks on the concrete. You couldn’t help yourself as you drifted out of the lot, with Letty and Dom in the GTO hot on your ass, followed by Brian in his GTR, Tej in his Koenigsegg CCXR and Roman in his bright orange Lamborghini Murcielago.

It had been a while since the whole crew had rode together and god was it a good feeling, in the distance you could hear the sound of the Harley’s starting up as the rest of the Son’s obviously didn’t want to miss out on watching the show.

It wasn’t very often Jax got to watch you behind the wheel, because nine times out of ten he was riding your ass on the Dyna. But there was something he loved, leaning back and just watching you drive, the radio was never on and the only sound that filled the car was the engine and your laughter.

After the last week it was good to hear you laughing again, it was one of the sounds he loved the most in this bleak and bloody world you lived in. Your laughter was like the sun coming out after a thunderstorm and always settled his thoughts. Nothing else mattered as long as you were laughing.

Glancing in the rear view mirror you saw Letty smirk as she was inches off your back bumper, this wouldn’t have worked with anyone else but you both knew each other’s styles of driving so she knew when to back off so she didn’t rear end you wrecking both of the cars.

In the distance you saw the lay-by you were looking out for, with a flick of your wrist you set the indicator going letting everyone know that they needed to pull in. Once everyone was parked you clambered out of the car, sitting on the bonnet as you sparked a smoke up.

“Right so this is how this is gonna work,” you said, pulling your sunglasses over your eyes, as you pulled the map out of your back pocket, laying it flat on the bonnet of the car, Jax was by your side, as Dom, Letty, Brain, Tej and Roman, crowded around the small paper map, “this road we are on, is basically a massive track, nice long straights and some nice sweeping corners. It’s about 4 miles long and this is where we shall race.” You grinned as you traced the lines of the map with your finger signally the route you meant.

You couldn’t help but laugh as the rest of the Sons pulled up on the side of the road, ready for the racing. You had taken over the small lay-by and it was now filled with cars and bikes. It wouldn’t surprise you if Uncer paid you a visit.

“What about the po-po?” Roman asked, “I do not want to be thrown in the slammer, again”

“Seriously Rome?” You laughed arching your brow at him, “stop being a baby, you ain’t gonna get nicked and if you do then you should have kept up with the big boys and girls.”

“Question is, who is going first?” Brian asked, looking between everyone.

Both you and Letty locked eyes with each other as you smirked at each other.

“I think this re-race is long overdue, don’t you agree big sis?” You hummed, flicking your smoke on the floor, letting Jax crush it into the ground with his foot. “Because I know you cheated the last time we raced.”

“Like I said baby sis,” Letty smirked, leaning over the bonnet, “you are going down. And I don’t know what you are talking about. I played fair and clean last time.”

“We shall see about that, and if playing fair and racing clean you mean nudging my back bumper then yeah you raced clean” you winked, “Once we have gotten this sisterly feud out of the way I think we need a free-for all” You giggled, sliding off the bonnet, screwing the map up and passing it to Jax before you jumped through the open window on the GTR.

“God I love it when you climb through the window,” Jax hummed, leaning against the door, “Now do you want a good luck kiss?” He said flashing you his famous shit eating grin.

“I don’t need a kiss for luck,” You giggled, placing your hands on the side of his face, bringing him in for a kiss, “But you know I won’t say no to your kisses.”

Both of you got lost in the moment, as your lips connected you wrapped your arms around his neck, tangling your fingers in his hair. It wasn’t until you heard Letty coughing that you pulled away, giggling like a teenager.

“We racing or are we smooching?” She laughed, arching her brow at you.

“Oh we are racing,” You nodded, narrowing your eyes at her.

All the cars had plenty of time to warm up on the drive over here, this was why this was your favourite spot to race, you didn’t have to wait for the car to get up to temperature, the roar of the engines of the GTR and GTO echoed through the mountains, as the two of you lined the cars up in front of Dom.

“Come on man, you better hang back with Bry,” Rome snickered, “We don’t want you two messing up those golden locks.”

“Rome, have I told you that you are a twat?” You shouted, hanging your head out of the window.

“No, not recently because you disappeared from the face of the earth Kiddo.” He said smugly.

“That was a low blow,” You scoffed, flipping him your middle finger before turning your attention back to Dom.

“Now girls, you better play nice,” he winked, lifting his arms in the air.

Glancing over at Letty you blew her a kiss as you revved the engine, making her roll her eyes at you, before you turned your attention back to Dom. The moment his arms dropped you brought the clutch up, slamming down on the accelerator, flicking your eyes between the road and the rev counter, letting the revs creep up until you were bashing it off the limiter before slamming into second gear.

Glancing to your left, you saw Letty neck and neck with you, wearing a smirk as large as yours. You knew she was doing the same as you, riding the gears until you were redlining.

This was the time you felt free, behind the wheel, letting the wind blowing through your hair, listening to the one sound that set your heart free, releasing it from all of the negativity and fear you felt.

Nothing else mattered right now apart from the road ahead of you and your car.

@chibsytelford @bigcreatorwombatdreamer @pumpkin-spice-hate @talicat713 @mrsmarvelous1995 @band--psycho @little-diable @phoenixhalliwell @galaxysanduniversesinmymind @withmyteeth @jessprins13 @rightwhereiwantyou @jasonbabymama @garbinge @zozebo @sunnyfleur23 @princess76179 @hippyprincessxx @drakelover78 @pancakeisreading @pascal-reyes

#Jax teller #jax teller x reader #jax teller imagine #sons of anarchy #sons of anarchy x reader #sons of anarchy imagine #fast and furious #fast and furious x reader #fast and furious imagine

[saintsurvivors]

an uncomprehensive list of places Angus "for fuck sake put that back" MacGyver has been banned from, either temporarily or permanently, compiled by his loving and long suffering partner and best friend Jack "Handsome Devil" Dalton;

Approximately ten different paintball and airsoft places, mostly for blowing shit up that shouldn't have been able to have been blown up in the first place and for getting no less than eighteen kids under the age of ten to revolt against their team mates, join his side, and bombard everyone in the entire paintball place with hand grenades packed with garish paint

An actual think tank that was very unhappy with the fact that mac had been able to solve their apparently unsolvable cryptography program that was going to be put in place for security for the pentagon and then other high profile several places of interest and then saying 'that was easy, got another one?' Also, because he stole thirty seven pensthat jack doesn't want to know what the kids done with, bc mac is apparently a pen kleptomanic?

A science museum because they'd got the information on what jack honestly hopes is a dummy corpse, and mac just had to climb into the exhibit and redo the info bc mac is a grade a nerd and then ended up going on a tangent to anyone who would listen about the history of the exhibits and went into such details the actual tour guides didn't know what the fuck he was on about.

The phoenix research labs temporarily after somehow managing to arm the very very dangerous rocket kept there for research with nothing more than a gum wrapper and bc he 'wanted to see if he could do it'. FYI, he managed to do it. (To his credit, Matty, he managed to disarm it with the same piece of gun wrapper.)

His own apartment bc he tried to cook and bozer wasnt there to help and Riley is as shit with fire hydrants as she's good at computers. They don't talk about that.

His fathers office after James got an equation wrong and mac solved it and stuck a post it to the board with the words 'thanks son' in a passable forgery of his fathers handwriting. James, apparently, didn't appreciate the sarcasm.

Jacks apartment after being able to replicate the minions fart gun bc jack asked him too and didn't think he'd actually be able to do it. jack knows better now.

The closest animal rescue shelter to his house bc when he was concussed and high on vicodin that jack had forced him to take, he'd laid down in the middle of the shelter, allowed the dogs to just dog pile on him and then tried to abscond with about fifty dogs that he insisted were vital to his survival.

The second closest animal shelter to his house because, in a separate incident of when he was concussed, shot and high on prescription pain meds - seriously kid, we need to get you a painkiller that doesn't send you so freakin' loopy - he had shut himself up in a tiny cage with a teeny tiny paralysed kitten and managed to rig up a bastardised wheelchair. This normally would have made the shelter very happy but it the fact he'd cannibalised their crash cart.

The CIA because apparently he makes their analysts and engineers look like fools. They get grouchy whenever they see Mac, like little chihuahuas.

His last two mandatory therapist's because he made them cry. They won't breath a word of why. Jack dreads to think of why.

Mama Daltons kitchen down in texas bc "that boy of yours jack wyatt could curdle water, he may be a genius but he ain't got a lick a' commonsense." Mac knows better than to argue.

All of the phone stores around his house and the foundation. very self explanatory. not good for insurance.

jacks precious shelby gto bc he made the back seat look like a crime scene bc he wasn't wearing his seat belt, he was messing with a doohickey and Jack had to break. It took six washes for all his blood to come out.

Two top secret that definitely don't exist military bases bc the top brass thought he was threatening them by explaining how he could make a frag grenade with nothing but one of jacks many, many bullets, his shoelace, and a ton of fucked up pens. The other one is bc he nearly blew up a good third of thr base bc he and one of their top demolition experts got too excited over their prototype rocket launches. jack had many regrets and matty a lot of phone calls

Quantico FBI headquarters bc, whilst consulting as an engineer there, was so sleep deprived that he managed to rewire their entire computer network with varying degrees of success to sing iron maiden whenever turned on at full volume. He has since been allowed back on the stipulation that he has a handler with him. That handler is often jack or riley who often let mac do his thing bc mac is mac and they are weak to him.

#macgyver 2016 #angus macgyver #txt #tv #im sleep deprived and watchijg macgyver dont @ me #just this decending list of utter fuckery #Jack dalton

[gasgasdaily]

The man, the myth, the legend, Smokey Nagata and his 2 glorious Supra vmax machines.

"Smokey" hails from the northern parts of Japan in Hokkaido from a farming family. When he got his 1st car, a Mitsubishi Galant GTO, he couldn't even drive it yet but got the boss of a local Toyota dealer to fix it for him to drive only for the school to find out about him driving without a proper license and have him expelled. With nowhere to go, the boss of the dealership employed him and he started to take his Celica he got afterwards to race in the mountains but being up having few competitors, he left and headed to Tokyo.

There, he found work at Trust, subsidiary of GReddy and again tinkered with cars during work time. The bosses knew about it but also liked what he did thus it became a secret between themselves which spawned the name of his future company, "Top Secret". Top Secret then became a shadow company where Smokey would make parts and tune cars slyly as a testbed for both Trust and GReddy and he often took such prototype cars to the street and made a name for himself.

He then had an ambition to do 200mph on public roads and thus he began working on a supermachine and because it was the 90s, its the peak of Japanese automotive industry where everyone is making aftermarket parts for racing and Smokey always has a habit to mix-and-match parts to make things work. Thus for his 1st project to hit 200mph, he got a A80 Mk 4 Supra chassis and stuffed a RB26 from a Nissan GTR R32 into it tuned to 1,001hp. Reason on why he did not use the 2JZ is that for high speed runs, he needed the top end power which the RB provides better than the 2JZ which works on low-end torque power better. Thus with everything assembled, he was about to test it but then, a call.

Max Power was a car and young adult magazine at that time that often talks about cars and also crazy antics people do with cars and hearing of Smokey's antics before hand, they challenged Smokey to bring the car to a foreign country and do his run. Smokey found it amusing and took up the challenge while picking the UK and the infamous A1. While setting up all that, he got Option magazine roped in to document it all too.

While in the UK, the runs began and Smokey did burnouts for theatrics and also to warm the tires but both time he tried, issues kept popping up. 1st run saw the car slightly backfiring due to the petrol running way too lean and the 2nd run saw the hood trying to detach itself from the car thus forcing him to slow down. 3rd run was better but only able to achieve 194mph which wasn't bad but not the target. However as he was easing down from his 3rd run, problem. The cops caught on to him and were trying to arrest him. Being the polite Japanese he is, he pulled over on the road shoulder despite being able to easily outrun the cops. He was then promptly charged with his international license revoked for 1 year, barred from entering the UK for 10 years, a few hundred pounds of fines and had to have everything that the cameramen and footage from the camcorder strapped to the Supra deleted. Alas, being a brave man, Smokey snuck a storage device containing the clips and escaped back to Japan and soon, he became an overnight sensation as Option ran a whole magazine worth of content of the run in the UK and that helped Smokey's failing business.

Discontent that he did not manage to hit 200mph, he decided to try again with seemingly the same formula but slightly alterized it. He got another A80 Supra body, streamline it but this time slapped a V12 from a Toyota Century and 2 big turboes good for 900+hp. He then brought it to the Shutoku line and ripped it. His target was 260mph but despite trying and trying, all he got was 241mph which was great enough as he had unofficially broken 2 records already with 2 different cars. 1 being the only foreign car to do more than 190mph in the UK and also the 2nd one, till now (I think) is the only vehicle to do more than 220mph on public roads not only in Japan but also the world.

[monkey-network]

GTO: One of My Favorite Arcs

This one’s going to be a 1st for the channel. Great Teacher Onizuka is honestly one of my favorite manga of all time. It’s one of the few that regardless of how many others I’ve read, I just feel pride whenever it comes back in my mind. As such, I wanted to spin a tale of one of my favorite arcs of the original GTO series just because. Spoilers for anyone interested. First I’ll see to set the stage.

Urumi Kanzaki is one of the students in Onizuka’s class, and while they initially describe her as the dumb blonde stereotype since she looks the part, she is actually a child prodigy. Early in the series, she was one of the antagonists to Onizuka, harboring her hatred for teachers after a heart shattering moment involving one of her past educators, and essentially let her past trauma nuture her to believe her intelligence made her. She can be menacing with her intellect, to the point where she commits actual terrorism in the school after being provoked. Onizuka eventually gets through to her thanks to his unconventional, almost suicidal, methods, and she stands by him after “loosening her asshole” on life, so to speak.

Now. We cut to chapters 127... This isn’t necessary the start of the arc, I’d say it’s the setup. Kanzaki wants to hang out with Onizuka, get away from her parents, and she’s having some good fun with him. During this time, she grows closer to him, not much in infatuation as much as having genuine respect for him. Then another student/antagonist/friend(?) of Urumi, Miyabi Aizawa, comes out of nowhere. Their egos clash for a bit, ending with Urumi stinging Miyabi with some harsh words which causes her to retaliate with something that would hit Kanzaki where it hurts the most. When I mentioned that Kanzaki is a child prodigy, that intelligence comes from the fact that she was actually a in-vitro newborn.... a test tube baby. This origin has haunted her her whole life, one secret she wanted to bury more than anything, one that ignited her vitriol towards teachers in the first place, and on the day where she goes back to school, hopeful of being around people that would truly give her a sense of belonging....

Miyabi exposes her to the whole school

This “rumor” causes murmuring shame towards Kanzaki, immediately labeling her a monster, and this shatters her completely. As such, she decides to retaliate, one last time. Before leaving the school, she spray paints a website URL on the windows, MiyabiAizawa.com. Rightfully confused, Miyabi finds that Urumi set up hidden cameras in her house and the website was pre-meditated with teasing images and a countdown that has 69 hours left before it reveals a major secret Urumi had in store on it. This sends Miyabi into a cold panic and some of the students to hack into the secret of the site before time runs out, All the while, Onizuka heads out to track down Urumi, whom has ghosted within the city.

Things take a turn for the worse where it not only turns out the site will upload major viruses if there’s an attempt to break in, Urumi has plotted to kill herself not long after the website was discovered in an undisclosed location; reciting a notable Japanese philosopher’s farewell poem or swan song. Onizuka heads to her mother’s house, whom has little concern over her as much as the stock market being a heavy financial stockholder herself. As Onizuka storms off, it’s almost poetic justice that the company her mother invested in applied for bankruptcy, essentially ruining her financially and leaving in a desperate plea for Urumi’s presence. That’s something I love most about this series’ characters, regardless of whoever you are, you are not above getting punished or karma thrown back at you, deserved or not.

This arc, like the other great ones in this series as a whole, is also great in keeping the momentum. For someone that liked Urumi once redeemed and was happy that she finally got to be happy, I was on the edge of my seat with Onizuka wondering what happened. It was especially momentous that the one person Kanzaki conversed with before her attempt at death is Onizuka, generally the last person she found to be a great part in her otherwise heavy life. 

This is one of the few times where the series puts our hero not only on a race against the clock, but with someone’s life on the line. Someone he thought had changed, a smile he thought could live better for herself. And like with everyone else before her, he’s giving it his all to save her from her own built doom. Not to mention everything else going on; another teacher putting out a scandal note against Onizuka, Miyabi trying to OD herself, the foiling vice principal trying to track down Onizuka to selfishly help him get out of a crime. There’s just so many layers stacked on top of a considerably tragic and scary moment for Kanzaki. A moment that culminates in her passing out in the snow...

This wide panel especially got me. Contrasting the cluttered panels of the flashback before it, as it slowly shows snowfall, the sudden emptiness of it with Urumi’s body being the only thing there made page-turner feel like an understatement.

The climatic chapters have our teacher and the vice-principal giving chase up to the ski dome where she is and the students at the school creating an online hacker war to unlock the website. The vice-principal is clinging, tackling, begging Onizuka to help him save his job. And when the guy essentially throws Urumi out as a statistic, Onizuka rightfully puts him in his place.

I didn’t mention the vice-principal’s sideplot cuz I didn’t want this to be too long. I’ll just say he’s a well meaning yet ugly motherfucker and this moment here is definitely a good turning point for his character. This is also a great moment where Onizuka is legitimately angry at somebody and it just has the fist pumping feeling where you’re on his side 100%. Back to the main point, he finds Urumi in the distance and the students finally get the website unlocked. And after all this time, Urumi only planned to post a single image... of her and Miyabi as kids.

“She was only ever going to post this one. No matter what Miyabi did to her... in her heart... Urumi believes that they’re still friends and always will be.“

Miyabi overhears this in the hospital and while there are some loose ends to be handled in the later chapters, I'm honestly glad with the pervy yet relieving ending we get where Urumi wakes to find that Onizuka and a tag along student came to save her, happy that her favorite teacher went through all that trouble just for her.

One of the core themes of GTO has always been ‘Responsibility’. For Onizuka, where he lacks in actual academics, his strength is in helping people, students or adults, own up to the troubles they bear deep down, think better or remind themselves that there can always be a better path to take than the one they’re on. This is with the fact that Onizuka does not stop until his job is taken care of regardless of what gets in his way. This is where GTO shines for me. Be it a race against time or having to deal with persistent antagonists, Fujisawa knows how to make every chapter well paced to where you can feel genuinely concerned with what happens next yet never feels like each is getting stretched thin with padding. It can get text heavy sometimes, but he makes sure every arc reaches the most satisfying conclusions, open ended or otherwise, and he makes sure Onizuka does not rest or die until a lesson has been learned. For Kanzaki, like the one before, it’s about not letting the past have a chokehold on your life and it was pretty heartfelt to know that while Urumi had the right to get revenge on Miyabi, she doesn’t and she was willing to die knowing that memorial pain of hers would never go away. And when Onizuka saves her, it was that second chance to learn that while the past can hurt, she doesn’t have to cause trouble to know she doesn’t have to suffer alone with her memories, garnering a even better respect for Onizuka. 

As for this arc, I will admit that it isn’t the greatest arc in the entire original series, I’m saving that for another day, but it’s one of my favorite because getting to know Kanzaki, I felt really concerned for her. Near death experiences isn’t uncommon in this series, but this is one of the few times where the tension of rescuing her and seeing Onizuka furiously riding his motorcycle actually sat with me. It made me truly respect this series with how dark it can get without ever going on melodramatic. Like its main character, it always see to be real with its readers and this arc honestly put set the stakes and only went better from there. Like it’s main character, the story puts the pedal to the medal and just gives ya the most driving ride of your life.

It was the best

#great teacher onizuka #GTO #manga #sorry for the rant n bant #long post #nostalgia #analysis #Good Stuff

[hirocimacruiser]

Hello all. Been a while since i posted on here but thought this was worth sharing. Smokey Nagata's old weekend toy galant GTO is now in Perth. Hi-comp NA 4G63 with ITBs.

#Top Secret GTO #Galant GTO #4G63 #mitsubishi galant #4G63 galant #Smokey nagata #Top Secret

[macgyvergirluk]

macs big birthday

i done this for lucas birthday on monday but as its my own birthday on sunday im not going to have time to shear this on time so thought id put it up earlie.  hope you have a wounderful 30th birthday monday :)

Jack has a plan, it’s not every day you turn thirty and Jack is going to make sure Mac has the best thirtieth birthday ever. Jack knows that once Mac’s father had left on his tenth birthday. Mac hasn’t cared much for birthdays ever since. Until he met Jack. Jack got kind of upset when he found out by accident that Mac was having his twenty first birthday in the sand box, so he grabbed a few fellow soldiers and they had a little party of their own for him. And even though it wasn’t much Jack had to give to Mac. He gave him his first taste of alcohol, and it was not the good stuff. Ever since then Jack had tried to make the day special for Mac.

But this one has to be extra special it is the big three zero. But he had promised Mac no fuss or big parties as Mac hated to be fussed over and Jack want this to be the best birthday Mac has ever had and the most memorable.

Jack has spent months planning Mac’s birthday and checked in with Matty that it was ok for him and Mac to have that weekend off. Also the Friday and Monday to make it an extra-long weekend. Matty had given it the go ahead and even planned to give Mac a lot of lab work that week so Mac and jack wouldn’t end up getting injured. Jack had sorted it with Riley to track them and where they were going so if she saw any suspicious activity to warn them and then send someone in to sort it before it got to Jack and Mac as Jack actually wanted to enjoy this vacation as much as he wanted Mac to. And that meant not getting kidnapped or shot at.

As the time grew closer Mac was getting suspicious of all the secrecy around him and was worried that Jack may have gone over the top for his birthday. Not that Mac didn’t appreciate Jack's efforts but he just liked have a couple of quiet beers with friends, no mad parties. But he knows Jack loves an excuse to throw a party from time to time.

So Mac is quiet surprised when Jack tells Mac to pack his hiking gear and anything he would need for a few days away fishing. He is even more surprised that Bozer wasn’t packing and says he’ll see him in a few days and to enjoy his trip. Once Mac’s jeep is all packed up, he and jack set off early Friday morning. Jack jumps in the driver’s seat, Mac in the passenger’s and they set off.

‘You excited, hoss. Just us and the wilderness.’

‘Yeah I was surprised when you told me what you had planned.’ Mac smiles.

‘Well, it’s your big three zero, you got to enjoy it, man.’

Three hours later Jack pulled up in front of a lovely log cabin situated next to a large lake.

‘Let’s get the stuff inside, then hit the lake. I fancy fish for dinner.’ Jack says.

‘And what if we don’t catch any?’

‘Then you’re gonna be out there a long time, hoss, cause we got nothing else.’ Jack jokes.

An hour later once they have settled in to the cabin, Mac and Jack are out on the lake, rods out in the water relaxing and sipping a beer.

‘Now this is the life.’ smiles Jack.

‘Who new turning thirty could be so peaceful?’

‘You won’t be saying that when we’re back at work.’

‘Right now I’m not even thinking about that.’

It takes them two hours to get a bite and by that time jack has nearly given up until Mac’s rod starts to move and he catches the world’s smallest fish.

‘Just put it back that won’t even scratch the sides. [AM1] I suggest we go and cook those steaks I brought just in case.’

‘Sounds good.’

Mac loves sitting outside cooking on the campfire and listening to Jack ramble on about his dad, who would bring him to places like this as a kid. Mac is grateful he has Jack in his life.

The following day they go for a hike through the woods and find a waterfall. Mac can’t think of any place he’d rather be right now.

Jack was so glad he has tired Mac out today, hopefully the kid wouldn’t wake up too early for the surprise tomorrow. Being a secret agent has its draw backs when you want to sneak around.

For extra measure Jack may have slipped a little bit of a sleeping tablet in to Mac’s hot chocolate as he knew Mac hates any type of drugs. But Jack wants to make Mac’s thirtieth birthday special.

The following morning Jack makes sure the blond was sound asleep which he was and he quietly lets Bozer, Matty and Riley in to the cabin to start preparations. While Bozer starts on his famous pancakes, Jack and Riley start to put up decorations while Matty sets up all the cards and presents on the coffee table.

It isn´t till nine am that a disheveled Mac walks out the bedroom, hair a mess, half asleep. He has woken to a surprise smell of pancakes not just any old pancakes but the ones he only associates with Bozer.

He nearly jumps a foot in the air when Jack, Matty, Riley and Bozer jump out from behind the sofa yelling happy birthday.

‘Before you say anything about no parties, this is not a party, this is your family wanting to spend time with you on your big day.’ Jack explains, leading Mac over to a seat in the living area where Bozer hands him a plate with pancakes.

‘Thanks Boz.’

Mac looks at them all, as they all dig in to their food. He can’t believe they have driven all this way just for him on their day off. They could have been in bed still relaxing.

‘Thanks for coming, you really didn’t have to.’ Mac says.

‘It’s not every day my man turns thirty.’ says Boz.

Once breakfast is eaten, Riley announces, it’s time for presents and excitingly hands Mac her gift, a blue envelope, inside is a message saying he was going to be spending 2 days with NASA engineers behind the scenes.

Mac looks at Riley in disbelieve.

‘How…?’

‘I think you mean thanks and that’s for me to know and you not to know.’ she smiles.

‘Thanks Riles.’

‘Me next, me next.’ Bozer chants, handing Mac his present.

Mac laughs when he opens it, it’s a book called cookbook for scientists.

‘You do know that probably won’t help his cooking.’ Jack says, ‘may help him blow it up more.’

‘I hope not.’ Bozer answers, now worried about his gift while the others laugh.

‘Now blondie, I’m not one for getting all sentimental on you but as it is your thirtieth happy birthday.’ Matty hands him a large box. Mac doesn’t know what to say as he opens it and pulls out thirty boxes of paper clips and thirty rolls of duct tape.

‘You can never have to many.’ she smiles. Mac puts the box down and gives Matty a big hug.

‘Now my turn, I bet you can’t wait to see what I got you hoss.’ Jack goes over to the cupboard and comes back, handing Mac an odd shape parcel. It’s a bear holding the number thirty. Mac looks at it as he was not expecting that from Jack. Jack is known for his randomness but normally it’s something Mac can use or they can do together but a bear…

‘You like it?’ Jack asks.

‘Yeah.. its.. great.’ Mac smiles. He knows big birthdays mean a lot and maybe as this bear has thirty on it it’s to remind him of his time here. And mac shouldn’t be ungrateful, he isn’t, he’s just surprised. It isn’t till he goes to put the bear on the table that he notices a string round the bear’s neck and that string led to a bag behind the number thirty. Mac takes the bag from the bear and opens it and inside is a set of keys. A set of keys he recognized. They are the keys to the Mustang he and jack had spent the last year doing up together, after jack had bought it as a random buy.

He looks at Jack stunned, then back at the keys.

‘Happy birthday, hoss, she is all yours. You need a great set of wheels for when you find a lady friend one day instead of that jeep of yours. I know she doesn´t beat my GTO, but…’

‘Jack, it’s perfect, thank you.’ Mac says trying to hold back his emotions on such a gift. He pulls Jack in a hug which Jack returns not wanting to let go of his boy. Mac may not have a dad to share in these moments and make these moments special, but Jack is sure going to make up for that loss.

The rest of the day is spend swimming in the lake playing random outdoor games followed by a lovely birthday meal prepared by Bozer with a massive number thirty cake, made to look like it had been made out of paper clips.

Mac can’t be happier as he blows out his candles. This has been his best birthday yet. And he got to spend it with the people he loved.

‘Right, some of us have to work tomorrow blondie, so we got to love you and leave you and we’ll see you both bright eyed and bushy tailed on Tuesday.’ Matty announces as they prepare to leave.

‘Absolutely Matty.’ Mac smiles.

As Mac shuts the door after their goodbyes and settles down with a cold bear with Jack, he feels that no other birthday will ever come close to this one.

‘Thanks Jack.’

‘For what?’

‘You know.’

Jack just smiles.

#MacGyver #jack dalton #lucas till

[heavymetal666lml]

Lori Mattix (sometimes known as Lori Maddox) was born in Los Angeles in 1958. When she was 13, Lori made her entry into the rock n roll scene with Sable Starr. They were regulars at the Rainbow Bar & Grill, Rodney’s English Disco, the Continental Hyatt House (the notorious “Riot House”), and the Whisky A Go Go.

Lori Mattix became a teen model for several magazines including the Star magazine, the most popular of the time. Lori’s petite frame, large brown eyes and masses of chestnut curls drew her many admirers. It was reported that she lost her virginity to David and Angie Bowie at 13.

When a photo of her was shown to Jimmy Page, he quickly became infatuated with her. He was still dating Miss Pamela of the GTO’s (later Pamela Des Barres) during this time, but when he was in LA in 1972 on the Zeppelin tour Jimmy Page went after Lori Mattix.

Lori avoided Jimmy Page’s advances several times. She admitted that she was frightened of him. Finally Led Zeppelin’s tour manager “kidnapped” her and brought her to Jimmy’s room at the Hyatt.

In an interview for the Hammer of the Gods, a biography of Led Zeppelin, Lori Mattix said that the room “was dimly lit by candles… and Jimmy was just sitting there in a corner, wearing this hat slouched over his eyes and holding a cane. It was really mysterious and weird… He looked just like a gangster. It was magnificent.”

The love affair of Jimmy Page and Lori Mattix started that night. It was kept secret since she was only 14 and Jimmy was still dating Pamela. His relationship with Pamela ended dramatically when he took her to a party for the band but left with Lori.

Accounts during this time said that Jimmy and Lori were very much in love and for the next year and a half she traveled often with the Led Zeppelin band. But when Lori turned 16 he left her for Bebe Buell, the Playmate who had recently been living with Todd Rundgren.

Bebe was Jimmy’s date for the Swan Song soiree, which Lori found incredibly upsetting since she was still in love with him.

Out of her mind on Quaaludes, she stumbled around the party, bloodying her nose and soaking her white gown in blood. When Bebe and Jimmy were leaving the party, she cornered them, screaming at Jimmy, “Why are you doing this to me?” but he ignored her and went to the Rainbow Room where he had a huge fight with Bebe over his cruelty to Lori.

Lori went to the Hyatt the next day where she found Jimmy and Bebe in bed together. She fled but came back later and knocked on the door. When Bebe opened the door with the chain on it, Lori reached through, grabbing Bebe’s hair and trying to drag her out.

Jimmy watched his former and current girlfriends fight it out from the safety of his room, laughing hysterically.

Lori drifted out of the groupie scene and briefly got back together with Jimmy in the early 1980s. She supposedly never got over the pain of their first breakup but has gone on to a stable career as a buyer in LA and has a son.

Just like Sable, Lori’s style was an amalgamation of trash and full-on glamour. Often wearing hot pants with halter tops made from long, thin scarves that barely covered her pre-pubescent breasts, Lori was just as likely to wear a vintage 1940s satin gown with a mink stole.

Even in her trashiest outfits, her huge smile lights up the snapshots and she never appears as cheap as Sable sometimes did. More openly romantic than her good friend, it isn’t hard to see how she was so deeply affected by the events of her teenage years.

After drifting out of the groupie scene, Lori Mattix held a series of jobs. She worked as a buyer and manager at a fashion boutique in Los Angeles. Lori occasionally gives interviews where she talks about her groupie days, especially her relationship with Jimmy Page.

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It's about the details... I've dedicated the last 5 years of my life to studying racecar design and philosophy, years before I even owned the #naturallyaspirated #Nozarashi86. There's so much rich history in Japanese, European and American tuning. Whether it be from the likes of JUN Auto, Top Secret, Tec•Arts, or Garage Revolutions... Or from the streets of those independent tuners from the Mid Night Racing Club... Or taking on the tuning philosophies and techniques from classic Formula 1 cars such as Lotus with their Ford Cosworth motors, or right down to IMSA Thoroughbreds that competed in GTP or GTO... There's so much, and so many amazing ideas worth applying to this car of mine. And so I keep at it, constantly trying to improve and make her better... 📷 by @gtracct (at Vehicle Vault) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2vfE1FnCl7/?igshid=1sfquw6grlj2

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07/09/2020 News Alerts about Cars Industry

07/09/2020 News Alerts about Cars Industry

First picture of Tesla Model Y and Ford Mustang Mach-E side by side

The first picture of a Tesla Model Y and Ford Mustang Mach-E side by side has emerged and this gives us a quick size comparison in the process.

Automakers have been aggressively electrifying the crossover/small SUV segment.

In the US, the Tesla Model Y and Ford Mustang Mach-E are expected to be two leading premium electric vehicles in the segment.

Source: https://electrek.co/2020/07/07/tesla-model-y-ford-mustang-mach-e-picture-side-by-side/

Watch A Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Hit 195 MPH

We live in the golden age of power, where cars such as the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 offer supercar levels of performance at more than half the cost of an Italian exotic. It is a good time to be alive indeed. The Redeye is one of our favorite American performance cars and starting at only $72,295 (MSRP) it delivers a knockout punch, but laying down such immense power takes skill and patience.

Source: https://carbuzz.com/news/watch-a-dodge-challenger-srt-hellcat-redeye-hit-195-mph

The 7 Weirdest Cars Ever Made by Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth and Jeep

Talking about great cars (and discussing what makes them great) is always fun, but we at Gear Patrol also enjoy looking back at the vehicles that were downright weird. Not the worst cars –though that can be fun, too — but rather, the strangest, most eccentric vehicles that carmakers actually went to the trouble and expensive of developing and selling. Many of said cars remain absolute head scratchers, even with decades of hindsight.

Source: https://gearpatrol.com/2020/07/07/weirdest-chrysler-cars-jeeps/

Mitsubishi Motors South Africa restarts sales

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Source: https://www.just-auto.com/news/mitsubishi-motors-south-africa-restarts-at-full-throttle_id196502.aspx

Mercedes-Benz Reports Q2 Sales of 59,461 Vehicles

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) today reported Q2 sales of 59,461 Mercedes-Benz models. Additionally, Mercedes-Benz Vans recorded Q2 sales of 10,760, bringing MBUSA to a grand total of 70,221 vehicles for the quarter, a decrease of 17.2% over the comparable period last year.

Source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200708005560/en/Mercedes-Benz-Reports-Q2-Sales-59461-Vehicles

Mahindra Offering Benefits Of Up To Rs 3.05 Lakh On SUVs In July 2020

Mahindra is yet to cross its usual five-digit sales figure in the unlock phase. Since March, the Indian carmaker has just managed to sell a quarter of its usual monthly shipment of around 15,000 units, while its arch-rival Tata crossed five-digit sales figure at around 11,500 in June.

Source: https://www.cardekho.com/india-car-news/mahindra-offering-benefits-of-up-to-rs-305-lakh-on-suvs-in-july-2020-25780.htm

Jaguar Needs To Be Ambitious, Embrace Luxury, And Move Upmarket To Thrive

Jaguar’s fabled history means it has the potential to become an upmarket luxury brand, placing it just below the likes of Bentley and Rolls Royce with lower sales but much bigger profits.

with lower sales but much bigger profits.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2020/07/08/jaguar-needs-to-be-ambitious-embrace-luxury-and-move-upmarket-to-thrive/#3a4c50fa393b

Lotus Plans To Obliterate The Bugatti Chiron’s 12.4-Second 0-322 KPH Time

The Lotus Evija, the 2,000-horsepower electric flagship that will pioneer the next-generation of sports cars from the automaker, is not targeting low-speed acceleration. Lotus wants its car to beat the supercars where they thrive — closing in on 322 km/h as fast as possible.

Source: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/07/lotus-plans-to-obliterate-the-bugatti-chirons-12-4-second-0-322-kph-time/

Maserati showcases Nettuno: an F1-based engine for road cars

The new engine will make its debut under the hood of the MC20 sportscar, which will be presented during the ‘MMXX: The time to be audacious’ event on September 9-10 in Modena

Source: https://www.evoindia.com/top-news/maserati-showcases-nettuno-an-f1-based-engine-for-road-cars

Porsche is transforming its Leipzig factory to produce only electric vehicles Porsche has fast-tracked extension of its Leipzig facility to get ready to produce electric vehicles. The external work on the new body shop for the third-generation Macan, the first fully electric version, is now complete. The next step is to set up the plant inside the building.

Source: https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/news/porsche-is-transforming-its-leipzig-factory-to-produce-only-electric-vehicles-41594185598190.html

Rolls-Royce Wraith Kryptos unveiled: A unique secret message hidden in each Collection Car

Rolls-Royce has unveiled its new generation of Collection Car; one that brings an intriguing and entertaining challenge for the buyer. Who will crack the code? And what answers will the code bring? Only time will tell. Or will it?

Source: https://www.financialexpress.com/auto/car-news/rolls-royce-wraith-kryptos-unveiled-a-unique-secret-message-hidden-in-each-collection-car/2017361/

A custom car company makes $250,000 Land Rover Defenders with Corvette V8 engines — check out the Twisted NA-V8

The popularity of the Hummer H1, the Lamborghini the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen, and the Land Rover Defender makes plain that there’s an appetite for land-dominating and truck-like SUVs.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/a-custom-car-company-makes-250000-land-rover-defenders-with-corvette-v8-engines-x2014-check-out-the-twisted-na-v8/slidelist/76856393.cms

Lamborghini teases its ‘mystery car’ ahead of launch on July 8

Lamborghini is all set to drive in its new hyper car on July 8. Ahead of the launch, the luxury sports carmaker took to social media to tease the upcoming ‘mystery car’.

Source: https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/cars/lamborghini-teases-its-mystery-car-ahead-of-launch-on-july-8-41594113807685.html

Audi unveils Q4 Sportback e-tron concept

NEW DELHI: Audi unveiled the Q4 e-tron coupe variant as a concept car. The Audi Q4 e-tron concept was first showcased by the German automaker at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show in a bid to give visitors a taste of their first compact electric SUV. The new Q4 Sportback e-tron is the second model in this line-up.

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/auto/cars/audi-unveils-q4-sportback-e-tron-concept/articleshow/76848849.cms

Connected cars next big thing in India: Kia Seltos, MG Hector top gainers

Kia Motors recently sold in excess of 50,000 connected cars including the Carnival and Seltos while MG claims to have retailed more than 20,000 internet-enabled cars in less than a year.

Source: https://www.financialexpress.com/auto/car-news/connected-cars-next-big-thing-in-india-kia-seltos-mg-hector-top-gainers-embedded-sim-internet-price-specs/2017454/

New Honda WR-V: The cheapest car with sunroof in India

2020 Honda WR-V is the cheapest car in India to get sunroof feature. The SUV offers this provision on the VX MT trim which costs ₹9.7 lakh for the petrol variant while WR-V diesel VX MT costs ₹11 lakh

Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/auto/car-news/article/new-honda-wr-v-the-cheapest-car-with-sunroof-in-india/618121

Strike warning for Nissan as row grows over pension scheme changes

The possibility of the first ever strike at Nissan’s Sunderland plant has been raised after a row over pensions escalated.

The automotive giant has proposed closing its defined benefit pension scheme, saying it is unsustainable.

Source: https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/strike-warning-nissan-row-grows-18563230

Ferrari Just Lost The Trademark Rights To Its Most Iconic Car.

Italian super car maker Ferrari has lost the trademark rights to the world’s most expensive car and arguably the most iconic car in its storied history, the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2020/07/08/ferrari-just-lost-the-trademark-rights-to-its-most-iconic-car/#53d5f5d37993

Tesla’s Musk approaches a $1.8 billion bonanza

(Reuters) – Tesla Inc’s blistering stock rally is putting Chief Executive Elon Musk in reach of a payday potentially worth $1.8 billion, his second jackpot from the electric car maker in about two months.

Source: https://in.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-stocks-musk/teslas-musk-approaches-a-1-8-billion-bonanza-idINKBN2492OY

Renault cars offers July 2020 | Benefits available on Renault Kwid, Duster, and Triber

Even though automakers in India are largely back to work after the temporary hiatus brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, sales are yet to return to normal. And when we say ‘normal’, we mean pre-COVID-19 levels. And to help them get there, companies have relied on various incentives for car buyers, especially discounts and benefits.

Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/videos/times-drive/car-news/renault-cars-offers-july-2020-benefits-available-on-renault-kwid-duster-and-triber/66565

Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in blockchain technology firm Circulor

Volvo Cars has made an investment in blockchain technology firm Circulor through the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the company’s venture capital investment arm.

Source: https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/volvo-cars-tech-fund-invests-in-blockchain-technology-firm-circulor/

BMW India opens pre-owned car facility in Bengaluru

BMW Group India has opened a BMW Premium Selection (BPS) facility in Bengaluru and it will be under Navnit Motors.

Source: https://www.deccanherald.com/business/dh-wheels/bmw-india-opens-pre-owned-car-facility-in-bengaluru-858559.html

Refreshed Lexus LS revealed with new technology

Lexus has updated its LS flagship saloon, with a focus on improved ride, comfort and enhanced technology.

The refreshed fifth-generation saloon goes on sale in Japan later this year and is expected to be offered in the UK, although Lexus has yet to confirm markets outside of Japan.

Source: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/refreshed-lexus-ls-revealed-new-technology

Confirmed New Car Launches From Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai

India’s two largest passenger car manufacturers, Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai, have several new models in the pipeline that will roll out by the end of this year.

Source: https://www.indiacarnews.com/news/confirmed-new-car-launches-from-maruti-suzuki-and-hyundai-40691/

Fiat celebrates 63 years of iconic 500 car by launching a virtual museum

The first generation Fiat 500 hatchback was introduced to the world back in 1957. To celebrate the iconic car’s 63 years of existence, the company has inaugurated a virtual museum dedicated to the past, present and future of the 500.

Source: https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/news/fiat-celebrates-63-years-of-iconic-500-car-by-launching-a-virtual-museum-41594109679896.html

Maruti Suzuki moved 6.70 lakh cars by rail in last 6 years; green mode helps save fuel, cost

The country’s largest passenger vehicles maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL) on Wednesday said it has transported over 6.70 lakh cars through the Indian Railways in the past six years, witnessing a CAGR of over 18 per cent.

Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/maruti-suzuki-moved-670-lakh-cars-by-rail-in-last-6-years-green-mode-helps-save-fuel-cost/article32019243.ece

Volkswagen showcases the new Tiguan

The third-gen Tiguan has been thoroughly reworked, with new exteriors as well as interiors and electronic suite, and the addition of crucial driver-assistance tech

Source: https://www.evoindia.com/news/car-news-1/volkswagen-showcases-the-new-tiguan

New Skoda Octavia VRS offered as plug-in hybrid for the first time

Skoda has confirmed a trio of power trains will be available for new Octavia VRS buyers to choose from when the car goes on sale in the Autumn – including a plug-in hybrid (PHEV).

Source: https://www.am-online.com/news/new-car-news/car-model-news/2020/07/07/new-skoda-octavia-vrs-offered-with-three-powertrains

There is no change in our product launch schedule or capex plan: Kia Motors

There is no change in Kia Motor‘s product launch schedule or the capital expenditure plan, said the company, at at time when many auto majors have deferred investments and launches due to corona virus pandemic.

Source: https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/there-is-no-change-in-our-product-launch-schedule-or-capex-plan-kia-motors-120070800131_1.html

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The very first #PontiacFirebird was cooked up in just six months. Pontiac’s management wasn’t exactly in love with the idea of building it at all - preferring it’s own concepts to reworking Chevy’s idea, but GM’s corporate board desperately wanted a Pontiac “Pony Car.” Pontiac’s manager at the time, John DeLorean, wanted to build a proper sports car to compliment the GTO as well as nab some Mustang sales. This idea took shape as the XP-833 “Banshee,” shown as a concept in 1964. DeLorean had been working on the car since 1963 and had a secret team developing it for production. His team, including engineer Bill Collins (who later worked with DeLorean on the DMC-12), presented it to the brass in 1965 when it was about 80% production ready. A 2-seater built around the old Pontiac Tempest hardware but with capacity for Pontiac’s new OHC six or V8s, GM’s top corporate guys, particularly Chairman Jim Roche, rejected the car almost instantly. Too close to the Corvette, they said, with unrealistic production goals (30K a year). DeLorean tried to keep the Banshee alive but in March 1966 he was given a direct order by GM’s chief engineer Ed Cole to build a variant of the forthcoming Camaro. DeLorean’s resistance was partly due to all the effort he, Pete Estes, Bunkie Knudsen, and chief stylist Jack Humbert (among others) had expended in differentiating #Pontiac from Chevrolet over the previous decade, which had resulted in unprecedented success. With just a few months to work, Humbert set about differentiating the Firebird visually - with unique panels ahead of the A-pillar and an aggressive Pontiac grill with quad headlamps, among other touches. Underneath, power was all Pontiac. The engines that get the most attention today are the 400 Ram Air V8s, but at the time arguably the most interesting combination was the Firebird equipped with the 230-cid “Sprint” OHC six. Keen eyed observers will note the “428” badges here. The powerful (up to 390hp) 428 was only available from the factory in the big #Pontiacs, but several dealers including Royal Pontiac and Myrtle Motors converted Firebirds to 428s for buyers who wanted more oomph, and they were a popular swap later. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8by91YlBO5/?igshid=h0sf5jh62uos

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