The Scarlet Fire

Always Love

Inside the stadium, it is an awesome sight. An insanely vertical ski ramp runs from the top of the stadium and down through the goal post, with the landing ramp in the other end zone one hundred yards away.

Y/N pumps his fists - his signature move - as the full length of the gridiron explodes into a giant bonfire. 

A remix of Highway To Hell rocks the stadium as the crowd cheers. Meanwhile, Y/N's head is clearly somewhere else.

"Remember to hit your NOS while on the approach, not at take off-"

"Am I crazy?"

"You're jumping Texas Stadium. I think it's implied."

"I love her, Kuro. I always have."

The crowd starts to grow restless.

"Blaze and Chief Mechanic Kuro Furasshu run one final check..."

"You can feel the tension all the way up here in the booth. These men know that the smallest error can cost Y/N Blaze his life."

Back with Y/N and Kuro, they are debating Y/N's love life before fifty thousand fans. 

"So what if she's married? You can still tell her how you feel, right?"

"It's complicated..."

"It's 'complicated.' It's 'messy.' Ya know, for a daredevil you're some kinda chickenshit when it comes to your own heart."

Y/N goes to argue but he can't.

"You've been ridin' the gravy train on biscuit wheels, brother. But it's all hat and no cattle unless ya got someone to share it with."

"You're right..."

"Don't tell me. Tell her."

"But how? She's probably all the way to the interstate by now."

"I pumped this sled full of enough Nitrous to shame the space shuttle." Kuro grins. "Improvise."

Y/N smiles before slapping down his face shield. 

"And here goes Blaze!"

Y/N rockets down the ski ramp and lifts off through the uprights as Kuro closes his eyes like a frightened child. 

"He's not gonna make it..."

Kuro peeks between his fingers to see Y/N soaring through the rising flames of the blistering inferno.

"He's not gonna make it..."

But then, Y/N emerges from the flames and just barely reaches the landing ramp in the other end zone.

"BLAZE HAS DONE IT!"

"UNBELIEVABLE!"

Kuro smiles in wonder.

"Well dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians..."

"Y/N Blaze has set a new-"

The sports announcer cuts himself off as he realises, Y/N isn't coming back.

"Hey...where's he going...?"

Y/N rides up the steps of the stadium, past the neon concession stands, and right through the exit doors.

Once outside of the stadium, Y/N rides like a man possessed. Over the sidewalk, through the parking lot, and onto a service road where road construction has blocked off the entrance ramp. 

But Y/N won't stop now. He races up a construction ramp and leaps over the barbed wire fence a la 'The Great Escape!' 

Inside the news van, Zooey rides down the highway when Y/N pulls up right alongside her. Zooey double-takes.