Veterinarians Meet Vigilante

CHAPTER 4

Gotham City

November 2023

The race for that night was simple, you go around the block twice before going down to 8th St and past the police station. After passing the police station, hopefully without getting caught, the racers need to go up the ramp to the highway that was on 12th St then make their way back to the start. First one there of each group of two gets to move up the bracket, then the last two racers are the ones who decide who wins the whole race for the night. Venus was so excited for this race, it's one of her favorite tracks and she had added some new lights to her car to throw off the other racers. Juniper was in the second group of 2 to race, all together there were 4 groups of 2 to start with, 2 groups would go at the same time so there were 4 racers at a time and the first and second place winners of that race would move up in the brackets. Venus was in the last group to go, the Red Hood was in the first group to go and obviously he had won his group. Venus and Juniper had also won their brackets and were now moving on to round two of the races. Venus and Juniper had to race each other while Hood had to race one of the others from group 2. Venus ended up winning against her sister by drifting into an alley way as a shortcut, Juniper wasn't exactly happy about it but she knows how competitive her sister can get, especially when it comes to racing. Both girls never really planned on falling in love with street racing, for Venus it was the adrenaline she got while behind the wheel, for Juniper it was just the environment.

You would think with street racing being illegal that there were some pretty nasty people down there, but everyone gets along and no one judges where you are from or who your parents are. It's a community, one big adrenaline rush craving community. They were now down to the final 2, Venus has been racing for 3 hours now and was starting to lose the rush because of how boring all the other racers were being. They were all playing the safe game, Venus was bored. But now she was excited, it was down to her and the Hood. If she could win this last race his precious Lambo would be hers, along with bragging rights of course, and she couldn't wait to rub her win in his face... well helmet but potato tomato. "All right ladies and gents! The moment you have all been waiting for! The last 2 racers for tonight are Venus and Hood!" As soon as the announcer finished his sentence the area was drowned in cheers and clapping. "Racers! To your vehicles!" Venus was shaking, she was so excited and nervous. She walked towards her car and hopped in the driver's seat, starting up her hype playlist and turning all her lights on. She started up and revved her engine. Hood was looking at her through his helmet, she was good he had to give her that. But he seemed to realize the same thing she had realized earlier, the others were all playing it safe. He decided right then and there that he was going to give her a run for her money. He had to admit to himself though, the girl is beautiful, she's short but she's curvy and plush in all the right places. He normally went for blondes or redheads, but there was just something about the tiny racer that caught his interest. He finally snapped out of his gaze when her sister bent down into her window to tell her something before the race started. Now her sister was totally Dick's type, the same height as Venus, maybe a little bit taller and gorgeous chocolate brown eyes. He would bet his new rifle that Dick already had eyes on her, or at least Nightwing did. He figured out pretty quickly that these were the sisters that Damian and Dick had come into the cave earlier in the week talking about, apparently Venus had a thing for knives.

Every little thing that he found out about this woman had his attention, and he would be lying if he said he wasn't curious about what else she had up her sleeves. Venus was more than ready now, her sister had put a surprise in her nitro and she was excited to see if she could throw Hood off his game or not. The extra boost to her nitro was sure to come in handy along with the strobe lights she had added earlier. Juniper was the flag girl for the final race, knowing that her sister finds good luck when she flags for her. Once Juniper waved the flag they were off, Venus bolted for all of her shortcuts, luckily her car was small enough she could take all the alleyways and tricks. She had made it past the police station finally, all that was left now was the ramp. Somehow, Hood had beat her to the ramp and now she was behind by half a mile. Smiling to herself she flips the button compartment open on her gear shift and shifts into nitro, she gains speed faster than normal and is able to shoot past Hood in a few minutes. Once she was in front of him she flipped one of her light buttons to switch to the strobe setting to throw him off course, then she decided to go balls to the wall. Once she was almost where they needed to be to make it back to the starting line, she drifted through two cars on the other side of the highway and hit her nitro again to gain some air so she was able to completely jump the bridge. Then she drifted into a U turn before making it past the finish line and braking. The cheers were so loud that Venus couldn't even hear herself think, she had actually done it. She just beat the Red Hood in a street race, soon enough he pulled up next to her and hopped out of his car. She decided she would rub it in just a little bit, "Took your time Hood! I've been here for ages." She drags on as she pretends to look at her cuticles. He looks taken back for a minute before saying, "In my defense little plant, I didn't expect you to jump the bridge like a psycho!" He laughed out as he leaned against his car slightly. "There's no rules in street racing bubs." She shrugs and walks slightly closer towards him. "I believe you owe me the keys to your car good sir." She exaggerates as she holds out her hand in a teasing way, she was probably testing his patience but she didn't really care.