Ch12 Back to London Town
One afternoon, after they have crossed through the Chunnel they have finally arrived in London.
“Mason, welcome to my new home. Other than the weather and food, everything is great. They don’t call it Great Britain for nothing.” Nekomi said
“Well Morven, I have been here several times now, there is no need to show me around. I just want to chill and hang out.”
Michele then said, “Well it's fun to hang out with your best friend here but don’t forget that we also need to find someone here.”
“Yes, yes. We know. We all know that we need to find a MG Metro 6r4. I will keep an eye on it, OK?” Nekomi then said as he walked along with Mason.
Later they ended up in a local pub drinking beer, as they were drinking Mason noticed an interesting looking car slowly stopped in front of the pub.
“Hey Morven, this car looks kinda funny, do you know what is that?” Mason said
“I think it's actually a Metro.” Nekomi then replied.
Soon enough a flash appeared in the car and a girl in a raincoat came out of the car. Sat next to both of them, and ordered a pint of beer.
Mason and Nekomi winked at each other, knowing what to do. Nekomi then starts talking to the girl while Mason starts calling Clara.
“So, is that Metro yours?” Nekomi then asked
“Yeah.” The girl then answered.
“Group B car famously being naturally aspirated. Interesting choice you got there.” Nekomi then said.
“Oh, so you know. I think you are the only one I met that noticed this. So may I ask, what’s your name?” The girl then asked.
“Just call me Nekomi.”
Right then Clara came and proceeded to sit next to the girl. Saying “Hey! Watson! How you doing?”
“How did you find me here?” The girl, now known as Watson, asked.
“Those two of course.” Clara said as she pointed towards Nekomi and Mason.
“Why are they even here? Are you all stalking me or something? I’m gonna call the police on this.” Watson started to freak out because of how sudden it was.
“Silly you, they are helping to bring the gang together again. Remember the 80s? Hey, we even have Josephine and Quattro here as well.” Clara then said just to calm Watson down.
“But, what about… you know, the Italian?” Watson then asked.
“Well we are asking you for help.”
“Well I’m sorry but I can’t do much about it… Unless… I think I know someone that might help.”
“So who exactly?” Mason then asked.
“Well you will instantly know her when you all meet her. She has been in different TV shows before so I am sure you will like to meet her.” Watson then answered. “Come meet me tomorrow, at the same place and at the same time. You are gonna love it.”
“Just one more and we are all set to go to Italy.” Clara happily said. “I am so glad that we are all going to be back together again.”
The next day, after they have finally met up with Watson. They were led to an old fashioned apartment. Watson knocks on the door and someone speaks through the door, “Who’s this?”
“It’s Watson here, I have brought some friends with me and we need your help.”
Later the door opened revealing a tiny little girl.
“Oh my! It seems that everyone is here, come make yourself at home, I will make everyone tea.” The little girl was shocked at how many of them came but invited them all nonetheless.
“Sorry I don’t have enough cups and chairs for you all so some of you will have to share cups and sit on the carpet. I hope you guys are fine with it.”
Just as the little girl is preparing tea, Seb decided to say, “Aww… it's a little girl, how cute.”
After the little girl heard it she immediately said in a heavy British accent saying, “Oi! I’m actually 60, don't treat me like a little baby girl. I am the first rally car for god’s sake!”
Everyone was shocked by her actual age of the little girl except Watson who knows her well.
After Nekomi heard about this and thinks to himself, “So you are old but are somehow really really small. Also it's one of the first rally car in the world. Wait, are you Mini?”
“Yes, my name is Mini. Mini M. Cooper to be exact. You sure have a sharp eye my love. You will be the first to get some tea.” the little girl then said.
“Well, it's mainly because of your size but thanks.” Nekomi then said.
“Let me properly introduce myself, I am one of the most iconic cars that Britain has ever made, 3 time Monte Carlo rally winner, 4 if I didn’t get disqualified for that one time for an ‘illegal lightbulb’. Not only that, I got featured in many shows like the Italian Job or my most famous gig…”
She then proceeds to take off her coat revealing a green T-shirt and takes a teddy bear with her.
Everyone immediately knows that this is Mr Bean’s car. Then she sang the theme song and danced with it. Exactly like the cartoon that everyone watched and loved. After that they all clapped at her sudden performance.
“Well you all know me now, so how can I help?” Mini then asked.
Watson then whispered into her ear explaining everything that was going on.
“I see why now, I would say that this is going to be really hard. But it does seem that everyone needed for the job is here. So we can tick that off the list.” Mini happily said, “Now, I only know about one of them, I think the first time we met was in 67’. She was the mother of the 3 daughters that you guys are afraid about, so all we need to do is to find her so we might just as well get some clues on what to do next.”
Now everyone got excited that it might be possible to see Italian cars. And noises start getting louder as time goes on.
Mini managed to calm everyone down and said, “Please do not get ahead of yourselves, I said that this is going to be really hard remember? So the plan is I will try and discuss with the so called ‘Godmother’ so we can finally get some clues and try to be in our side.”
Mini then starts pointing at others to order what their jobs are, “Katrina, Angeline, Liana, Watson and Cossie, you girls will try to deal with ‘The frog’. Mind you it does have a Ferrari engine, fast but it's hard to control.”
“Quattro, Josephine, Alice and Clara. Your group will try to deal with ‘The Scorpion’. Quattro especially, it's time to get your revenge. 1983 remember?” Mini continued.
Quattro immediately became determined, tightening her fist and said, “Yes, I will sure do!”
“Well finally, the boys, you guys will have the hardest job of all, to deal with ‘The Phoenix’. Six time world champion remember? She’s basically almost perfect, so good luck I suppose.”
Nekomi then gulped as he did know what he was truly dealing with. Mason, Tommi, Kimi, Seb and Pierre looked at Nekomi’s reaction. They all know he has a huge knowledge about cars in general, even though they have no clue what they are dealing with here, seeing him like that, makes them all, including the usually calm Fubuki brothers, terrified.
Seb then gently asked, “Any clues bro?”
“I am honestly out of ideas this time. It's the perfect car.” Nekomi gasped. “I said I have only seen it once in my life. But I do want to try and race it. It's like a dream come true, yet scary. Very scary.”