Super City

6- Slip, Slide, Float, Bounce and Burst!

Seen from the top of one of it's highest buildings, Metropolia was an amazing city. All it's skyscrapers and incredible architecture stood out among the sea of buildings. Hover watched all of that from the top of the Grand Slider.

The Grand Slider was a scyscraper where a huge circuit started and coursed through the whole city, ending in the center Metropolia square. The track was tubular, similar to a waterslide, but large enough that twenty people could slide side by side without touching each other.

Hover was at the entrance of the slide with a confident smile. She wore a black jumpsuit and pilot glasses hanging from her neck along her obsidian-black collar.

"Ah, look at who's back on the track! Hover!" Said a green fat short man who wore no shirt. He was as confident as the girl.

"I was sure I'd find you here, Slippy." She answered.

"Ha! I've become the King of the slide while you were not watching!"

The green man boasted. Hover laughed.

"Ah, hi there, Hover!" Said a tall, thin guy. "Weren't you supposed to be studying to join Ultra University?"

"I can have fun too sometimes. I have to lift out some stress, y'know?" She answered. "It'll be fun sliding with you again, Bouncer!"

"Same here!"

Bouncer answered.

"Sis? Are you back here?" Hotshot had just arrived.

"Hotshot? Didn't know you slided!" The girl said.

"All the cool boys do!" He winked. He was with a pair of inline roller skates.

There were many others around. The sliding groups usually were composed by eighteen competitors racing for the first place.

RACERS, GET READY!!

Said the voice in the speakers.

"I was born ready!" Slippy declared.

"Ready and bouncing in antecipation!" Bouncer said.

"Let's set this slide on fire!" Hotshot boasted.

Hover put on the pilot glasses, then tore the collar from her neck and released it.

"Transform!"

She chanted and the obsidian-colored emblem grew ten times it's size, becoming a black hoverboard. Hover jumped on top of it.

"Ready!" She said.

"Ouch! That hurt! Was that jump REALLY necessary?!" Complained the speaking hoverboard. "I swear you get more and more careless everyday!"

"But you aren't even capable of feeling pain, Board!" Hover said.

"Good morning to you too, Hover!" Board responded.

"Why do you always dodge the point?"

RACERS, IN LINE!!

The speaker voice ordered.

The eighteen racers walked, floated, slid, bounced and burst to the white line right before the entrance to the great tubular slide. Some had a special stance, like Bouncer. Others, like Hotshot, started with their backs turned to the slide, and others, like Hover, had special equipment.

The slide started swooping steeply downwards, like a skateboard course, and proceeded into it for a few hundred meters, the it turning in other directions.

RACERS, START!!

And seventeen of the eighteen racers started moving right away to the track.

Bouncer jumped ferociously, hiting the top of the slide and bouncing downwards with incredible speed, taking the lead. Hover floated fast right after him, in second place. Slippy jumped and covered his body in slippery oil that allowed him to gain speed fast. He started in a bad position, but was gaining speed fast, closing in to Bouncer and Hover.