The Revenge of Marengo

[OctaScratchRock]

The SWATbot was launched from the car and was run down by a Nissan Z, bursting the robot to bits.

Eager, Tristina grabbed the steering wheel and tried to control the car. Unfortunately for her, the steering was completely useless and did not work whatsoever.

"I think you're forgetting just WHO is in control of that car, Tristina!" came a voice over the radio. "I have the controls in the palm of my hand and I'm not going to quit my chance at revenge!"

Now, however, Tristina could call for help.

-MEANWHILE-


Sally was busy eating lunch at the royal palace when she felt a vibration in her vest. She reached into it and pulled out NICOLE, who had a call for her.

"Snively's in the race!?" she asked as she heard Tristina's cries. "HE'S driving the Marengo!? He's after WHO?"

Sally ran outside to a blue Mazda RX-8 and gunned the engine. She headed straight for Danger Pass.



-MEANWHILE-


Snively gunned the Marengo's twin-turbocharged V12 engine and pulled up behind the Three Roses Club #6 car, a silver Ford GT like the others.

"PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!" shouted its driver. "I WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS!"

Snively didn't listen, of course.

Within moments, the #6 car was soaring over the edge.

The remaining Three Roses Club cars were now trying desperately to get ahead, now ignoring their "stay together" rule they seemed to have had earlier.

"LET ME HEAR YOU SCREAM!" Snively shouted into the wind.

[tiff15]

Swearing to herself, Tristina (now liberated from the Swatbot and Snively's control) Tristina raised both hands and created a fully functional keyboard (the same one used by computers)

"You wanna control my car? I'll control your helicopter." Tristina growled, her eyes fading to pure white as she began typing furiously at the transparent keyboard, each key flashing briefly as it was hit.

As the lines of code began to flow across Snviley's computer, he struggled to recognize them. it was as if Tristina was speaking an entirely new language. as he looked closer at the screen, however, he noticed a different command...one he had only heard shouted by a certain priority one hedgehog...

Juiceitloose.exe

"What is she..."

Snively gave a yelp as his helicopter began to shake as if it were being struck by rockets, smoke issuing from the overhead and tail blades of the helicopter.

MEANWHILE
Sonic raced through the canyons towards Danger Pass. "Tiffs in the driver's seat?!" He exclaimed into his wrist communicator. "Are you sure, Sal?" "the message came from her personal computer, MAC. Snively's controlling the car, according to Tristina." "I'm on my way, Sal. what's the plan to pull Tiff outta the car?" Sonic asked, the track of Danger Pass unveiling itself into his view.

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"We just have to get her out of it before it crashes or something." radioed Sally. "I'll try to grab her and pull her into my car. I need your help, though."

Snively struggled to keep control of the helicopter he stood in. "FINE, YOU LITTLE PRICK!" he said. "You wanna play rough? I'LL PLAY ROUGH!"

Snively intentionally aimed the Marengo for bumps and potholes to try and knock Tristina off her balance.

"I know you don't want to do this for me, but it's about time you realize that the remote controls aren't in the car at all! I've got them in the palm of my hand, and there's NOTHING YOU CAN DO!!!!"

The two remaining Three Roses Club cars were gunning through the cliffside. Neither one wanted to finish the race as roadkill.

Suddenly, a blue Mazda RX-8 made its appearance on the scene, quickly catching up to the swerving and unstable Marengo.

"TRISTINA!" called Sally over the roar of the Wankel Rotary engine powering her beautiful car.

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"TRISTINA!"

Tristina's keyboard disappeared at Sally's shout, and she blinked as her eyes faded back into view. "Princess, I-AGH!" Tristina cried out as the car swerved yet again, slamming her against her harness while coming close to careening off a narrow stretch of the road.

"Snively's-" "I know!" Sally interrupted, putting her impressive car into cruise control while reaching through the passenger side window to grab Tristina.

both women cried out as the Marengo rammed into Sally's car, knocking them both off balance and almost throwing Sally out the passenger side door.

"Princess!" Tristina screamed, looking to the radio as Snively laughed. Tristina turned back to the radio. "Snively that's enough! you've had your revenge! The Princess had nothing to do with-" "YOU ALL WILL DIE JUST AS MY FATHER DID!" Snively shouted through the radio.

"I gotcha Sal."

Tristina smiled as Sonic caught Sally and pushed her back into her car. her smile turned to screams as the car sped ahead of Sallys before speeding towards the next 3 Roses Club car.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=603uqEm ... x=199&t=0s
(music during this scene)

"Gah!" Snively muttered. "These filthy rodents think they can stop me from having the revenge I've planned for SO LONG....... Well, pun intended, SO LONG to them!"

Snively continued to smash the Marengo against Sally's Mazda, trying and trying to force it over the edge.

"TRISTINA!" Sally shouted, trying to keep her car stable. "TRY AND FIND A WAY TO CUT THE CAR'S CONNECTION TO THE REMOTE CONTROL!"

The Marengo's radio came on. "Give up, Tristina. I've said before that the radio control mechanism isn't even IN the car! It's in my hands, and I'm hundreds of feet above you!"

The next Three Roses Club car was just in front of them. Snively began to speed up, attempting to focus more on it than Sally. Now with no one trying to smash her off the road, Sally's driving smoothened. She was now able to go much faster given the car's natural stability and control.

"Don't you smash that guy!" Sally muttered toward Snively.

Snively grinned as the next 3 Roses Club car received a sharp ram to the rear. He nearly crashed, but managed to straighten out his Ford GT just in time.

"JUST DIE, WILL YOU!" Snively shouted.

Another sharp ram did the trick. The #5 car was now burning at the bottom of the abyss.

"For my father....!" Snively muttered under his breath.

[tiff15]

"It's not their fault!" Tristina shouted to the radio. she was just going into hacking mode again when she heard Sallys cry.

"You forget Needle Nose...I don't need to be near something to hack it!"
Tristina yelped as the Marengo swerved and hit another pothole, causing her newly conjured keyboard to fizzle out of existence. Just then, a loud BOOM came from under the Marengo's hood. frowning, Tristina raised her hand and began typing. after a few moments, her eyes faded back into focus.

swearing, Tristina brought back the computer sized keyboard and began to type.

Meanwhile, up above, the controls in Snively's hands began to shake, blinking wildly and vibrating slightly. a high pitched beeping began to emit from the controls as smoke continued to pour from the tail and overhead rotors of Snivleys helecopter.

Meanwhile, back down below, Sonic grabbed onto the side of the Marengo. "Yo Tiff you ready to blow this pop stand?" Sonic asked as Tristina pulled out of hacking mode. "Yes! but the buckles stuck on this harness!" Tristina cried, gathering up Mac and stabbing her still glowing transparent knife into the steering wheel.

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Music for this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC_wkSvTLpM

Snively saw sweating like a hog. "What's happening!?" he shouted as his helicopter was losing control. "Grr.....if I'm going down, YOU'RE COMING TO HELL WITH ME!"

He tried to steer the helicopter in the direction of the road.

Meanwhile, the Marengo was losing its control as well. With its driver distracted and with a tremendous gash in the steering column, the car was losing its steering and stability all at once.

"YOU NEED TO JUMP!" shouted Sally. "TO MY CAR!"

Sally pulled her RX-8 up alongside the Marengo, trying hard so that she didn't accidentally get hit by the swerving gray machine. That's when the two cars unintentionally collided, sending Sally losing control and knocking Tristina over.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" screamed Sally as her Mazda violently slid towards the edge.

The guardrail barely held up as Sally's Mazda slammed against it.

Sweating and swearing, Sally managed to get her car off the guardrail and back onto the road without plummeting to her doom. She again tried to safely pull alongside the speeding and swerving Marengo.

The Marengo skidded into the guardrail and began scraping against it, creating an unbearable "SKREEEEEEEEEEE" sound as metal scraped against metal.

Snively looked down on the scene with an evil grin as his helicopter sputtered and threatened to crash. "If I'm dead, I at LEAST want this girl to die...."

"SKREEEEEEEEEEEEK!!" The guardrail continued to creak from being scraped against. The Marengo had fully lost control as Snively's device was no longer in effect. The car was just aimlessly going 190 miles per hour with no destination other than death.

Tristina had seconds before the car would presumable break through the rails and plumment 12,000 feet to an explosive destruction.

"COME ON, TRISTINA! JUMP!!!!" screamed Sally! "DON'T DIE ON US!!!"

[tiff15]

"SALLY, I CAN'T USE MY LEGS!"

with one final tug, Tristina managed to get the buckle to release. grabbing Mac, Tristina used her arms to pull herself to the door of the Marengo.

she gasped as she looked up and saw Snively's helicopter, all control lost, careening quickly towards her car.
"IF I DIE, YOUR DYING WITH ME!" Snively screamed through the radio in the Marengo.

"I gotcha Tiff." Sonic said, his peach arms pulling her upper body out the window of the Marengo. grasping tight to Sonic, Tristina buried her head in his shoulder as -with a final pull- Sonic freed her from the car completely and ran towards Sallys RX 8.

wrenching the back door open, Sonic deposited both himself and a trembling Tristina into the backseat of Sallys car.

"Im sorry...Im sorry..." Tristina sobbed into her hands, her body shaking with both shock and relief that the nightmare was over.

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The helicopter crashlanded into the Marengo. The smoldering debris of both the helicopter and the Marengo flew over the cliff and into the abyss, leaving a trail of fire and smoke behind them. Snively's body was completely incinerated in the blast.

"You've got no reason to be sorry!" said Sally. "You just saved two people's lives!" she pointed ahead at the two remaining Three Roses Club cars. "You're a hero!"

Sonic pat Tristina on the back lightly. "You're an absolute hero." he said. "There's a good reason why I consider you to be one of our greatest assets."

Sally looked down over the edge at the smoldering debris of the Marengo and Snively's helicopter.

"There's no way Snively could have survived. He's died in the very same place his father died." said Sally.

"Like father, like son." Sonic muttered to himself.

Sally looked at Tristina. "Why are you so sad? What do you think you've done...? From my perspective, you've saved the day!"

[tiff15]

Tristina stared down at the smoldering wreckage of the Marengo and Snivleys helicopter.

"I think....I..."

the guilt, the overwhelming guilt, of the loss of the number 6 driver and of the driver of the white Toyota Chaser, crashed into Tristina's chest.

"I think she's still in shock, Sal." said Sonic, massaging the hedgehogs back.

"I was scared. Snively had a weapon that would make my hacking ability go haywire. He said two of my people died from it. I didn't...I never wanted to..."

Tristina buried her face into her knees and cried. she sat curled in a ball near Sonic and Sally, crying, releasing all the pent up emotion from the past 72 hours.

"I think...I need help." Tristina muttered, at last, sitting up.
"It's not over yet. There's still a lot of work to clean up Snivleys mess. I want to be in the frontlines, but I think I need help first. Princess?" Tristina's red puffy eyes looked up at Sally as the ground squirrel looked back at her.

"I'll tell you everything that happened, everything about the Marengo. but...I need help. I don't think I can move past this on my own."

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"Of course!" said Sally. "What else are friends for? I'll help you in any way I can."

Sally drove back down out of Danger Pass. As the roads started to look less bumpy and old, and the scenery started to look more inhabited, Tristina looked around. They pulled up back at Sally's palace soon afterward.

"Whatever it is you need help with, I'm the one to come to." said the blue vested chipmunk.

[tiff15]

Tristina smiled as Sally brought out a temporary wheelchair for her to use. (her own had been destroyed in the fiery crash that destroyed the Marengo)

"Thank you, Princess," Tristina said as she shifted her body from the car to the new wheelchair.

**Two months later**

Tristina sighed as she clicked 'send' on the last E-mail and rubbed the spot over her nose. the doctors said the headaches were a side effect of the beam Snively had used on her, and would go away with time, but were aggravated with stress. True to her nature, once she was given a clean bill of physical health by the doctor, Tristina was back at work. She gave her full report to Sally almost a week after the accident, then worked with local Mobian Police confiscate any computers Snively had, as well as the warehouse where he had stored the Marengo.

As for the car, little was salvaged after the fiery crash, except for the X3 still on the bonnet of the car. much of the electronics and engine of the car were engulfed in flames, as was Snively's body and the helicopter he had used. the controls he had used to control Tristina's car were found by investigators, and quickly dissected and broken down by Tristina. Any information Snively had on Tristina was quickly confiscated and filed away by Sally. All that remained of Snivleys 'Revenge' now was the red tape.

That evening, Tristina wheeled into the pub de la Paix qui coule to meet with the Princess and Sonic. as she wheeled into the room however, she noticed someone new sitting with them. "Oh, Tristina!" said Sally, standing. "How are you?" "Glad its all over." said Tristina with relief. "If I never hear the word Marengo again, it will be to soon." "about that..." said Sally, turning to the unknown man. "Tristina, this is Fredric Gobsmad. He was the driver of the number 8 car of the Three Roses Club" Tristina shook his head somewhat shamefacedly. "The Princess tells me your the heroine who saved my car...and my life."

OOC: BTW, I used google translate to translate the pub's name into English. Pub of flowing peace. it seemed like a great place to wrap things up. Take it away, OctaScratchRock

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"I think you may have made a new friend." said Sally happily.

She reached into her vest and pulled out a piece of metal.

"Just as a reminder of this adventure, I'm letting you keep this. We found it at the crash site."

It was the metal plate from the hood of the Marengo reading "X3."

[tiff15]

Tristina stared at the plate for an unknown amount of time. "Princess I..." she closed her eyes, and scenes from the past 72 hours replayed like a film behind her eyelids.

"I just need you to pretend to drive a car for me, that's all. I'd hate to have to punish you."


"I honestly don't think you want a third dose, do you? Most of your Mikanuean counterparts barely lasted 2. given, you always have been more stubborn than even your freedom fighter allies. must be a recurring trait in hedgehogs."


"Honestly, Hacker, given how much of a thorn you were in Robotnik's side during the war, I would have thought you would have put up more of a fight. Not as tough as you pretended, eh?"

"I doubt you have a choice."

"I think you're forgetting just WHO is in control of that car, Tristina!"

"Grr.....if I'm going down, YOU'RE COMING TO HELL WITH ME!"


"Tristina?"
with a gasp, Tristina was snapped out of her revere and back to the pub de la Paix qui coule.

"No princess, in any case, that plate belongs in a museum. As a symbol to the people that we had a history before Robotnik and Snively, and we'll have one after as well. I appreciate the offer, though." said Tristina, pushing the plate back towards Sally.