"It's the insider again. It looks like he's sent us a riddle." Finn announced.
"Riddle?! Like those carnapper movies?!" Rush teased.
"Stop it!" Del yelled, hitting Rush with a tire.
"Ooh, I love riddles! Lemme at it!" Jim said.
"Oh... really?" Finn asked, surprised.
"Yeah, dude! I won the racing academy's annual Halloween heist four years running!" Jim exclaimed.
"And yet he hasn't won a race." Rush chimed in smarmily.
"Shut it, 'go-for-silver'!" Jim scowled.
"Uncalled for!" Rush exclaimed.
"Alright, alright. Calm down. Forwarding it to you now with special encryption." Finn said, doing so.
Jim quickly opened his messages eagerly, enhancing the forward link and reading through.
"First line;
Something beginning with H.
Well, that's obviously the word 'heist'. He points it out himself." Jim noted.
"Yes. That's evident. As is the 'million bucks...' line. They've obviously managed to get away with it." Finn added.
"The next stanza is where things get a bit more interesting. That 'mission success...' and 'under duress...' rhyming couplet sounds like someone may be working with us on the inside without Nettes knowing." Jim added.
"Hence the next two lines; 'old timer doesn't know' and 'rose-colored mat'." Finn added.
"So is this messenger really the insider? I'm not alone in thinking that?" Cal chimed in.
"Not at all," Finn said.
"And judging by the next few lines, it looks like Sensoji will still be the meeting place after all," Jim said.
"So this is just crap we already know?" Rush swore.
"Wait, what about the 'ANTE-mountain' bit? Do you have any clue what that could mean?" Jim asked.
"ANTE. Is that, like, Anti? An anti-mountain?" Cal chimed in.
"An anti-mountain would be a plane or flat land." Finn pointed out.
"But how does the 'red liquid' line tie into that? Unless it means-" Cal began.
"It's a volcano. The final battle will take place in or near a volcano." Jim finished.
"Why on Earth would Nettes want his final showdown to be in a volcano? Maybe he really has gone mad." Rush quipped.
"But how would we know what volcano?" Cal asked.
"Red Italian liquid... ANTE-mountain..." Jim pandered.
"Search up Italian volcanoes," Finn asked.
"I'm on it," Cal responded.
"What's this about volcanoes?" Del chimed in, concerned.
"I think the conspiracy lugnuts have finally gone mad." Rush quipped.
"I'm so confused," El added.
"Okay. I searched volcanoes in Italy and found these;
Mount Vesuvius,
Mount Amiata,
Monte Vulture,
Monte Cavo, and-" Cal began.
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The Principles of a Grand Hunt // Part 1 - A Cars Story
FanfictionWelcome to the Grand Hunt! For the third part of 'The Dash to Victory' series, our favorite gang of talking cars are tasked with hunting down the elusive principal-turned-evil, Helmut Nettes. He doesn't make it easy for them, contorting their minds...
