Voltage

Scene 8 "Meet the Junkies"

{Walking downtown}

Luke and Accelerate walk through downtown as people walk past them, they walk down an alleyway where loud techno music began playing. A female voice from the other end of the alley shouted out "Racers are you ready," as a small group of people begins cheering and yelling out "Go Hyperdrift." the female voice yelled out "GO!" Luke and Accelerate turn the corner into a large parking lot full of two people racing and a crowd of people cheering and betting. Luke looked around seeing buildings with graffiti on them and barrels with fire coming out from inside of them scattered throughout the area.

Luke Harris- "What is this place?"

Accelerate- "This is called the junkyard. It's where all of the ban racers go because they have nowhere to go once their kicked from the event. (Luke looks around) Some of them have been here for hundreds of years."

Luke Harris- (Looking at Accelerate in shock) "Hundreds of years! Why... shouldn't they be you know? Dead?"

Accelerate- "Surprisingly, the speed in our system slows down our aging process. Therefore the faster we run the slower and longer life we have."

Luke Harris- "Ok, so how old are you?"

Accelerate- (Walking away) "Three-hundred and six years old."

Luke looks at him with surprise and begins walking close behind him until they both stop while being greeted by the woman that was shouting earlier. She wore torn blue jeans, a shirt that smelled fresh with the word Voltage on it, she had a sleeve of tattoos on her left arm and a spiked bracelet on her wrist, her shoes were black with dirty white laces that hung past the shoe after they were tied, her hair was short and blonde with a strip of blue on the right side, around her neck was a necklace of a blue lightning bolt on it. She had blue eyeshadow and black lipstick on her lips as she chewed gum.

Alina- "Just call me Drifter, everyone does."

Accelerate- "I'm Accelerate and this is..."

Alina- "I know who you are."

Luke Harris- "You do? How?"

Alina- "Voltage... Voltage... Voltage."

Luke Harris- "You were at the race?"

Alina- "How can I knot? Speed is mine and my twin sister's life."

Luke Harris- "You have a twin sister?"

Alina- "Yeah she's racing right now. (Looks at the race between the two speedsters) She's pretty fast for the younger one."

Accelerate- "That's who we came to talk to."

Luke Harris- "What's her name?"

Alina- "Arial, but everyone here just calls her Hyperdrift because she knows how to cut corners like you wouldn't believe. (Looks at the racers) Oh, here she comes now."

Luke, Alina, and Accelerate look as everyone but a woman slows down around them. Her hair was black with neon purple in it, her eyes were glowing purple and her outfit was of a white T-shirt with a set of yellow eyes on it, the words under the eyes said "Only one god... Me." She had torn black leggings, with purple lightning bolts on them, her shoes were almost tight against her feet with the laces untied. As she stops running in front of Luke she removed a pair of goggles that had neon purple spikes on them.

Hyperdrift- "You're Voltage, (Luke nods) what are you doing out here?"

Accelerate- "We need your help."

Alina- (Confused) "You need our help?"

Hyperdrift- "Why?"

Luke Harris- "Because if you don't a whole lot of people are going to die."