Tradeschool Stories

The year is 2048 Lot O'Brian is the husband of Spinelli O'Brian and father to Church O'Brian. Lot is a Master mechanic and tuner with a retired reputation and has a name of being the best driver and a dangerous tuner in the street racing world. Lot has settled down with his high school sweetheart Spinelli who now practices being a top tier veterinarian. All 3 of them live on their 3 acre ranch house about 30 min away from the big city. Lot has retired from his street racing days and works out of his own tuning shop. Church, now 16 years of age and is already driving, he already knows a lot about mechanics and tuning from his old man, and is desperately trying to follow in his fathers footsteps by making a name for him self in the streets of the inner city. In doing so, he has gotten him self into a bit of trouble that causes his father to make a big decision to keep Church out of trouble with the law.

At twenty-four, Elara Vance is a "dinosaur" in the Elite Mechanical Engineering fast-track program. After six years of pulling double shifts at a diner to pay off her father's medical debts, she's finally trading her apron for a torque wrench. But the program is cutthroat, the "prodigies" are nineteen and cruel, and her TA-a brilliant, cynical twenty-two-year-old named Julian-thinks she's just a hobbyist. Elara has one semester to prove that a late start doesn't mean a finished race.

On the eve of high school graduation, Mario and Luigi's life diverges into two parallel realities: one in which they get accepted and move into Cornell's dorms to pursue their careers, the other in which they don't get accepted into Cornell and must rethink their next steps while still living with their parents.