once upon a storm, twisters (2024) (paused)

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After finishing her little breakfast, Nala joined the rest of the team to help wherever she could.

"It's time to go."

She heard as Kate rushed over to Javi. Javi looked into her eyes with a bright smile.

"Alright, you heard her. Let's move out!"

Javi called, loud enough for the team to hear, but hopefully quiet enough that nobody else in the parking lot picked up on it.

Kate smiled excitedly. She looked over at Nala and the two girls brought their hands together for a moment and shared happy smiles before running to the vehicles.

Tyler Owen's red truck whipped in front of the Storm Par vehicles, almost taking some of them out.

"Looks like Tyler's onto it, too."

A voice sounded over the radio. Before Nala had the chance to put her seat belt on, the team had raced off in the same direction.

It wasn't long before Storm Par caught up to the storm wranglers, but it wouldn't have been a good tornado chase without someone being run off the road.

Nala closed her eyes tightly as Scott floored the car into the road and in front of the storm wranglers, but he was cut off again by the large RV that Dani and Dexter drove.

"Son of a bitch."

Scott cursed. Nala was just happy to be alive.

"There's our tornado!"

She heard someone over the radio.

"I don't know how Kate does it."

Nala awed as she marveled at the tornado in front of her.

"It's just one hell of a lucky break."

Scott dismissed rudely, but when he looked at Nala and saw the frown on her face, he regretted his words.

"Um, are you guys seeing this?"

Another voice came from the radio. The frown fell from Nala's face as she looked into the sky. Scott bent his head down so he could look as well.

It was beautiful. A second tornado touched down, dancing with the other.

"Fuhjiwara effect."

Nala gasped.

"What?"

Scott asked.

Nala pursed her lips for a moment, not realizing she had said that aloud, before giving him an apologetic look.

"Oh, it's what it's called. I just learned about it in class."

She looked down with blush dusting her cheeks. Scott didn't have time to say anything before Javi's voice came through on the radio.

"Enough messing around, let's get in front of these guys."

He ordered. Scott pushed down harder on the gas and sped in front of the RV that was in front of them. It earned them some nasty looks and unkind words.