CHAPTER 3 - SELECTING THE FIRST CAR

Julius finally decided to go through the car selection. He was surprised to find every car ever made on Earth, but a whole lot of different cars from different worlds. His biggest surprise was there was an additional bonus for the user if they selected a car from their world.

He could only select from a few cars sadly. That was his biggest upset. He decided to pick a car from Earth for the world bonus. The bonus was a random boost to a vehicle selected from the user's home world.

Julius went through the selection of cars. He only had three options available for him to select. The big lemon, the nerd mobile, and the clown car. The results made him cringe.

The big lemon was literally a yellow lemon sitting on a platform with wheels. The lemon's body was mounted on the platform chassis length wise. A windshield was the only glass that could be seen at the front of it. Mounted on top of the lemon car was a fire hose.

The Nerd Mobile didn't look much better either. The car looked like an old beamer slapped together with random car parts that didn't match in any way or color. Sticking from the roof was a little coil spring of some kind.

The Clown Car had to take the cake for weirdness. It looked as if someone slapped an old wind up key to a 60s Volkswagen Beetle. The car was plain white in color with pink polka dots splattered all over it. Sticking out of the hood was a long cannon of sorts.

Juluis next scrolled through each car to check their stats.

BIG LEMON

Description: What you pay for is what you get. 

Restricted events: Miscellaneous Events

Strengths: Hard to target. Lemon speed ability makes the car more manageable.

Weaknesses: Weak to attacks. Needs constant maintenance.

Ability one: lemon juice: Uses a lemon gun to squirt lemon juice at opponents. Once a car is hit the car will deteriorate.

Ability two: lemon speed: gives the Big Lemon better stats in durability, speed, and handling. The car will lose all durability after being used in an event.

Class: Compact

Top Speed: 90 mph

Acceleration: Slow

Durability: Very Weak

Weight: Very Light

Handling: Medium

Credits to buy: 3,000

Maintenence Cost: 2,000 per event

NERD MOBILE

Description: Every nerd's dream mobile. What more could you want?

Restricted events: Demolition derbies

Strengths: Very durable. Easy to maneuver. Good Acceleration.

Weaknesses: Is able to be easily targeted. Lacks in speed.

Ability one: Revenge of the nerds: an area effect Shockwave that causes opponent's vehicles to lose power and control for ten seconds. The car must be at 25% health or less to use.

Ability two: Four Eyes: Durability increases by four times for an event.

Class: Compact

Top Speed: 60 mph

Acceleration: Very Fast

Durability: Strong

Weight: Heavy

Handling: Good

Credits to buy: 15,000

Maintenance Cost: 1,000 every five races.

CLOWN CAR

Description: Make your rivals think your clowning around with this ride. 

Restricted events: N/A

Strengths: Has a decent top speed. Powerful attacks that do massive damage to opponents.

Weaknesses: Shooting accuracy is poor. Can lose control at high speeds. Not good at cornering.

Ability one: pie cannon. Lauches giant cream pies at opponents. Pies cause car parts to deteriorate quickly.

Ability two: send in the clowns. Mini clown cars can be ejected off the car. They home in on a target and explode.

Class: Compact

Top Speed: 110 mph

Acceleration: Average

Durability: Medium

Weight: Light

Handling: Very Poor

Credits to buy: 20,000

Maintenance Cost: 2,000 per every 10 races

It took Juluis a few minutes to decide. Each car had its pros and cons. After a good ammount of thinking, he went with the clown car. The nerd mobile seemed okay but he wasn't sure if being an easy target would be worth the fix cost. The big lemon had some good perks. Unfortunately, the repair costs would be too much, he figured.

Juluis spent 20,000 credits on the clown car. It appeared in the garage in blinding light. It took a few seconds for his eyes to adjust as he walked over to get a better look at the car. The interior was bright red. There were only two seats he could see getting a better look. The rear passenger seat was blocked with a wall. 

Juluis got in and sat into the driver's seat. He wanted to check out more of the car's features. He first got a look at the wheel. There wasnt much to it but he was curious what the horn sounded like. He hit the horn to hear someone honking a clowns nose. It gave him a good laugh as he checked out the rest of the car. 

The dash board was lined with many buttons, switches, and lights. He looked around at each of the switches and buttons to see what they could do. 

Julius found the button that worked the pie cannon. He couldn't help himself as he pressed it. A giant cream pie materialized out of the cannon mounted on the front of the car. It went flying across the garage smacking into a wall. The pie began to eat away at the wall. It left a glitchy mess of wall work behind as the pie dissolved. It wall quickly repaired itself as the pie also disappeared.

Julius was met with a system message after firing the pie. You won't be able to escape the nexus. No matter what you do. Your fate will be sealed…, Sighed the demiser.

The grim message was not something he was expecting. Juluis was a little fearful but also curious who "The Demiser" was.

Well if I want to escape. I better start doing events to make credits to live…

With that Juluis got out of the car to check the available events.