Cartoon Network X Hot Wheels Universe: Chapter 3

Jake tried to open the door but it was locked, meaning no one was home. Jake unlocked the door and the three of them entered. As Jake, Latios and Latias went inside Jake's house, the two Eon Pokemon turned back to their true forms and had a look around. Jake found a note on the table. He picked it up and it said: "Dear Jake, me and Lily went to grandma's for the night. Make sure you do your homework and please DON'T do street races while we're gone. From Mum." 

"Man, even when she's not home, she's no fun sometimes." Jake said as he dropped the note and then looked at posters and trophies with a man with brown and grey hair, blue-grey eyes and was wearing a blue and white racing outfit and with a blue version of Jake's Corvette. "Who is he?" Latios asked Jake. "My dad. He was the best race car driver in the world to me. He always took me to the local race track after school in that Corvette C6R and there I was on his lap with me holding on to the wheel and him on the pedals. One day, about the time when I can live by myself, there was the Townsville Le Mans Finals. There he was in the lead until some guy named Dave Blackwell slammed him into the wall and then, dad went out of control. He crashed into nearly all of the other racers and his car was set on fire. It was then I heard him screaming. But people said that he died before the tanks blew up. They said it was me who was screaming. I saw Dave's son, Bryann about a month later. And at that first second I hit him. I just couldn't stop hitting him until I couldn't lift my arms anymore. It took me about 3 months to rebuild the Corvette. I always kept it as a reminder of my dad." Jake explained with a sad look as he looked out to see the Corvette C6R. Latios and Latias gave a sad look about Jake's dad's death. "I'm sorry." Latios said. "Don't be. For as long as I know, he'll be always by my side." Jake said. Jake's cell phone suddenly started ringing. He quickly picked up the phone and answered. "Hello?" Jake asked. "Jake, it's Claire." Claire said. "Claire, you would not believe what I just been through tonight."

"I know Jake, we saw it. We all did. And I'm not just talking about Jordan and the others, I mean everyone. Ben Tennyson, the BF5, the Battle Brawlers, Providence, the Kids Next Door, everyone! And Jake, we also got Hot Wheels cars. We all did. Dexter, Max Tennyson, Doctor Holiday, Professor Oak, Marucho Marukura and Professor Utonium's having an emergency session at the Salt Flats next morning. We'll get less attention from there. Think you can get there before any of us do?" Claire asked. "You know I can." Jake said. "Of course. Oh and Jake, we know about your "friends." Arceus and the other legendaries saw it too." Claire then hung up. "Who was that?" Latias asked. "My friend Claire. They know about us. Everyone. Even your friends. We're heading to the Salt Flats." Jake said. "What? It'll take an hour to get there." Latios said. Jake then smiled. "Oh no. No. No. No. I am not going back in that thing." 

"You're not. You're flying there with me." The two Eon Pokemon sighed in relief. 

Jake led the two Eon Pokemon to his shed. "You can sleep here for the night. Y'know, lay low for a while." Jake said. Latias turned to the shed and found something that shocked and disgusted her. "What is that?! Is that a dead dog? Are you butchers or something?! Oh, it's guts are all over the place and it's-oh wait it's just a blanket." Latias said as she looked closer at what she found. Jake walked up to it and picked up a dirty red blanket. "So that's where I left it. Anyway, night guys." Jake said as he left the shed and shut the door, leaving the whole thing in darkness.

As Jake was heading to the Salt Flats, he stopped at a lone road at a red light. Latios and Latias then flew away to join with the other Legendary Pokemon. Jake then turned to see four vehicles coming towards him and stopped next to him. Claire was driving a blue Mazda Furai with a magenta tiger like vinyl with blue tribal flame like stripes covering nearly all of the blue and a large mouth with teeth at the front, a magenta symbol of a tiger head with blue eyes and claws in flames on the sides of the spoiler, pulse cannons, machine guns, a blade at the front, a wide custom body kit with carbon fibre fins, magenta J5 wheels, blue tires that were on fire, blue window tint and a magenta neon. Jordan was driving a black Drift King with green flames with reptile scales inside them, red eyes on the sides of the front wing, T-Rex like teeth at the front of the front wing, a green symbol of a T-Rex emerging from a crosshair, machine guns, missiles on top of the front wing, a laser cannon on the roof, black J5 wheels, green tires that were on fire, green window tint, green chrome V10 engine with a blower and green neon. Mark was driving a blue Team Hot Wheels "Firestorm" with red flames, silver teeth with a retractable jaw that can crunch objects, a missile launcher, gatling cannons, red window tint, red tires that were on fire and red neon. It also had extended side exhausts which led up to the back, in front of the rear tires, two red off road lights on the top corners of the windshield shaped like ferocious eyes and a two barrelled blower at the front, which was unusual for a monster truck. James was driving an orange Twin Mill III with blue flames, an orange symbol of a wolf driving a cartooned version of the Twin Mill III and one of its paws holding on to the shifter with its eyes popping out cartoon like and drooling from its devilish teeth on each side of the car, a liquid nitrogen cannon, gatling cannons, a missile launcher, a wide super car like body kit, a wheelie bar, a large funny car spoiler at the back, orange chrome MC5 wheels, blue tires that were on fire, blue window tint and an orange neon. "Hey, Jordan what took you so long? I was hoping you showed up with some chrome spinners or something." Jake said. Jordan laughed. "Real funny." He said. He turned on the radio. "I bet a hundred thousand that I can beat you in the next three miles." He spoke through the radio. "Hundred thousand ain't gonna cut it. Let's make it a million." James said through the radio. "All right I like that. Million dollars, three miles. What do you think Claire?" Jake said. "Are we talking or we racing?" Claire asked. Jake smiled. 

The team revved up their engines and waited for the green light. Jordan suddenly hit the gas at the second before the green light appeared. He did a wheelie along with James and Mark. Jordan was in the lead because of his early start. He was yelling out in excitement and kept on honking his horn. "Ah, typical Jordan!" Jake yelled. "I gonna get this money! I'm hungry!" Jordan yelled. He was no longer in the lead as Claire suddenly sped right in front of him. "Don't make it too easy for me boys!" She yelled. Jake and James then sped in front of Jordan as well. "NO!" He yelled out. Jake was now neck and neck with Claire and slowly sped in front of her. "Not this time Claire!" Jake said. Claire shifted gears and sped in front of Jake. "You're gonna have to do better than that Jake!" Claire said. After a few minutes of racing ahead and speeding past each other, everyone was now neck and neck. The finish was now about a mile ahead. Mark engaged his NITROX and his monster truck went to 310 MPH and was covered in red flames. Jordan then engaged his NITROX and his car went 425 MPH and his car was covered in green flames. Claire then did the same and her car was going 440 MPH and was covered in magenta flames. James did the same as well and went to 475 MPH and his car was covered in blue flames. Jake was in dead last while his friends were in front of him. Jake then smiled and he then engaged his NITROX and he went to 500 MPH and his car was covered in orange flames and sped past his friends like a comet. The five of them sped past a crossroad with Jake was the first to cross it, making him the winner. "YEAH! OWNED YOU! OWNED YOU!!" Jake yelled. The five friends' NITROX then emptied out and they were both lined back up to 290 MPH. Jake tuned to his right after hearing a knock on his glass hatch. It was Latios and Latias.

Then everyone began to see the other Legendary Pokemon surrounding the group. Jake turned to see Latias and she smiled. "Alright, let's see what this thing can do." Jake said. Jake then pushed the gas harder and the Firestorm suddenly got faster. The speedometer now said Jake is going over 300 MPH! He pushed the gas harder and he was now going 400 MPH! The speedometer kept climbing but it took about less than a minute to get it up another mile per hour. Jake then engaged the NITROX Booster, making him go 500 MPH and setting his car on fire like a comet! "WHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!" Jake yelled. The others used their NITROX as well. The NITROX Booster ran out and Jake was still up to 500 MPH. He decided to ease off the gas to allow the Legendaries to catch up. Claire drove next to Jake and turned to see him. Jake turned to see her and both smiled at each other. Jake sped way in front of them and Claire was in front of Jordan as he tried to get in front of him but Claire tried to block him. "Why must I chase the cat?" Jordan laughed. "Alright, ladies and gentlemen, I got something for you." Jake said. He then sped up in front of everyone further and suddenly did a 180 and went into reverse. Jake lifted up the glass hatch and did the "rock on" sign. "YEAH MAN, HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES!!!??" Jake yelled. "SHOW OFF!!!" Jordan yelled back and he poked out through his window. "THAT'S THE BURNER FAMILY SCHOOL OF DRIVING RIGHT THERE, BABY!!!" Jake then noticed he was about to drive off a small edge. He quickly closed the glass hatch and did another 180 just before he hit the edge and did a small jump. The others followed as well. Jordan finally drove past Jake and drove past a narrow path with two rocks in between. "Oh you think you're the bomb, Jordan?" Jake asked. Jake sped back past him and for a few miles later they reached into some sort of snow area since there were many trees and a little grass seen as they got further. 

Everyone was pretty well with racing through the snow but James was so well on the snow, he was in the lead of the pack! The road was then getting a little bumpy but then James drove through the trees out of sight. "Where's he going?" Latias asked Jake. "James knows these type of roads by the back of his hand." Jake said. 

James was being followed by Kyurem as they passed through the trees. James looked in his rear view mirror to see Kyurem behind him then focused back to the road in front of him. He then made a sharp right turn and it led to a ramp and he jumped over the rest of the group that were racing by. Kyurem flew over the other passing by and continued following James. James then did a near left turn and the road he was following lead to a bridge! This was a good opportunity to use his NITROX as he blasted through the bridge in 475 MPH. Kyurem still followed him and looked down to see the others racing under the bridge.

Soon, everyone was out of the snow area and back on the desert road. They finally stopped in the centre of an old abandoned factory filled with large orange tracks. 

Then, Arceus hovered in front of Jake as he was getting out. "Uh, hi." Jake said. "So you're the boy that helped Latios and Latias escape from that hunter. Who are you?" Arceus asked. "I'm Jake Burner. I pretty much know who you all are. As well as everyone else. Well, maybe not everyone." 

"Right." Latios said. "Okay, okay. I'm not gonna lie to you guys. That was kinda fun!" Jake said. "Where did you learn to drive such a machine?" Mewtwo asked Jake. "My dad. I also got some fighting skills since the war against Lord Fuse. Man, those were good times." Jake then pulled out a gold custom assault rifle with a red dragon like head at the barrel, flames and a gatling gun barrel. Claire then pulled out two silver and magenta pistols with violet ribbons, Jordan pulled out a black and green sniper rifle, Mark pulled out a blue and red rocket launcher with a monster like head at the barrel, similar to Jake's assault rifle and James pulled out an orange and sliver ten barrelled shotgun. "And we can handle anything whoever throws at us."

 "What if someone throws a box of Skorupi?" Keldeo asked. "Uh..." 

"Y'know what? Just ignore him, Jake." Claire said. She kissed Jake on the cheek and suddenly, Jake fainted. All of the Legendaries looked at Claire in surprise. "He does that." Claire said. Jake then got up. "I'm up! I'm up! Did I just faint?" Jake asked. "Yeah." Claire said. "So you got your cars as well?"

"Yeah, in fact they're just as we wanted them. They have our favourite colours, our tags and basically everything else we wanted."

"So, someone seemed to know about us and gave us these cars that have what we wanted." Jordan said. "Including everyone else." Mark said. "So we gotta find this guy and get to the bottom of this." James said. "Lets take a look at that engine in yours." Claire said to Jake. She lifted the back body and had a look at the engine. "Oh yeah, XX32 Rasada Afterburner Ramjet Engine with a carbon fibre body. Included with a 40 litre fuel tank with each 10 litres in each V8 and four Zenther Racing Twinchargers. Probably would reach up to exactly 5000 Horsepower. Also, looks like the suspensions made out of carbon fibre along with CLONE Race Brakes. And a custom SNeedy Manual Transmission. He's a beast. But I haven't seen Nitrous Oxide like that before." Jake said as he tapped one of the NITROX tanks next to the engine. "How did you know all that?" Latias asked. "My dad." Jake said and he sounded a little annoyed. Jake pushed the back body down and Mark then climbed onto the back of his monster truck. "Jake! Got ya something." Mark said. He threw a large metal suitcase down to the desert floor in front of Jake. He bent down and had a look at it. It had a red dragon spreading its wings, which are engulfed in flames, on it. "You brought this here for me?" Jake asked. "Yep." Mark answered. "Thanks, this blade's the best battle companion a swordsman could wish for!" Jake opened the case and began to build something from it. The Legendaries were having a look at what Jake was building. There were many mechanical sounds, such as a gun pumping and metal clinking. He lifted what he created, which was a large sword with a chainsaw attached blade, a red motorcycle like throttle, a pair of four exhaust pipes on each side of the blade and a dragon head at the end of the hilt.

 "Now THAT'S what I'm talking about!" Jake said as he twisted the throttle, which made the exhausts burst out flames and the chainsaw blade rotating. The Legendaries were impressed by this boy's craftsmanship. James began to walk somewhere but he suddenly trips. As he begins to get up, he turns to see what appears to be a nearly buried safe. Claire used her Anodite powers to lift it out of the sand. The Legendaries were surprised to see that Claire had powers. Jordan used a large green energy axe to break off the lock, but it won't break. "Man, how are we gonna open this thing?" Jordan asked. A red '10 Toyota Tundra then drove out behind a rock and stopped. Jake and his friends seemed to recognise the truck. The driver got out and he had black hair and whiskers and he was wearing a black and red jacket, black boots, glasses and a white shirt. And he was wearing green and black boxers. "Oh my goodness!" Virizion exclaimed as she saw from what the man was wearing. The man turned to see Jake and the others and he seemed to recognise them as well. "Well I'll be, Jake Burner is that you? Boy, Claire, you filled out real nice." The man said as he pulled out a smile. "Yeah, you filled out real nice too, Steve." Claire joked. "What's going on, Steve? we're gonna need some of those "toys" of yours." Jake said. "Alright, what is it this time?" 

"That." Jake pointed to the safe. Steve walked up to the safe. "Oh man. I hate to break it to you but I never seen a safe like this before." He said. "Well, can you still crack it?" Jordan asked. "Heh, I'm gonna do more than crack it." Then there was a faint squeaking noise. Everyone turned to see what it was. "Dadgummit." Steve exclaimed. He picked up a net gun from the back of his truck and aimed to where the squeak came from. He fired out the net and caught an armadillo. "Armadillo. They been following me all Winter no matter where I go." Steve said. "What do you do with 'em?" Jordan asked. "I make helmets outta them. Armadillo helmets can block even the best brainwave scanners. They make a pretty good soup bowl too." The Legendary Pokemon were confused about what Steve said. "He believes about all of these crazy superstitions like aliens and stuff. Uh, even though they do exist around here." Claire explained. "Oh and uh, by the way, Mark would you be a deer and get that armadillo for me?" Steve asked. Mark gave out the "why me" look to him. But he went to get it anyway. "Man, he looks pretty mad." Mark said. Suddenly, he was shot with another net by Jordan and fell over. Jake and the others laughed. "Okay, you got me! That was a good one! C'mon guys at least get me out of this!" Mark yelled to his friends.

Steve then placed multiple explosives around the safe's hatch. "Got 'em for a nice deal. Government issue. Only expired about six months ago, so it should have a real nice pop." Steve explained to the Legendaries. "Alright, thanks." Jake finished talking through his cell phone. "Dexter and the others are nearby! They got about sixty miles from here." 

"Really?" Jordan asked. "But we gotta get to somewhere else that's has more tech. This place doesn't have anything left." 

"Watch your heineys, fellas." Steve said as he lit the fuse. It was going about five miles per hour. "This is the fastest fuse you got Steve?" Jordan asked. "It's a Chinese fuse." Steve said. As the fuse was close to reaching the end, the others covered their ears and braced for impact. But as the light reached the end, nothing happened. "Hm, might've been a wet fuse." Steve said. "Well, should we have a look at it?" Keldeo asked as he began to proceed toward the safe. "Depends if you want your face configured, pretty boy." Steve said as he stopped Keldeo from moving forward. "Maybe the fuse is backwards." Jordan said. "It's supposed to be backwards. It's a Chinese fuse." 

"No I meant it's probably backwards from what it's suppose to be."

"Have you ever been to China? Have you ever been to China?!" Mark began to walk back to his truck. "I ate Chinese food once!" Jordan argued. "Well, you don't blow up Mu-Shu Pork, my friend." Steve argued back. "I once dated a Indian girl at primary school."

"That is an entirely different oriental nation. Get an education!"

"You're the one who got the fuse wrong!"

"You don't know nothing about Chino-Sino American relationships!"

"Look you're missing the point..." As the two continued arguing, Mark pulled out his rocket launcher from his back and fired a missile at the safe and caused a big explosion, as it detonated the explosives attached to the safe. The blast was so powerful, it sent Jake and the others flying away and landed onto the desert floor. As everyone that was forced back by the explosion began to get up, Steve said: "Might've used too much." As they got up the door wasn't open but the explosion destroyed the lock. "Oh man, that one rattled my sphincter." Steve said. They opened the door and found large bottles of NITROX. "More of this stuff?" Mark asked. Jake picked up a bottle. "Maybe Dexter would know where they came from." Jake said. "Okay, if you need something else blown up, I'll be at home to wash my mongoose." Steve said. Awkward silence. "Okay." Steve then headed back into his truck and drove off. Mark then latched it at the back of his monster truck so it wont go flying off and everyone started to head off. "Sometimes I never understand humans." Zekrom said to Arceus through telepathy. "Y'know we can still hear you." Jordan said as he was walking past them. "Y'know, Jake I just realised something. Every time we do some thing, when we go somewhere and when we meet some one, something bad happens around us and we get caught into it." Claire said. Suddenly, an explosion occurred in the distance. "Like that." Claire said. Everyone saw a 16 year old boy with a red shirt with a flaming eight ball, blue track suit pants, black and white sneakers, brown hair with a fringe covering his right eye and blue eyes running on an orange track until he slipped and fell off the track and landed flat on his face. A group of people with weapons, armour and skull masks made out of scrap, dirty clothes and tattoos were chasing him. "Oh, here we go!" Jake said. 

He then ran to his Firestorm and got in. The others got in the cars as well while the Legendary Pokemon started to run or fly away with them. Jake put the key in the ignition, shifted to first gear and hit the gas. The roaring noise startled the goons, the boy and the legendaries. He drove up to the boy. The goons ran away as Jake stopped next to the boy and lifted the glass hatch. "Get in!" Jake said to the boy. He got on the passenger seat, Jake closed the hatch and drove off with his friends and the legendary Pokemon following him. "Thanks for saving me man." The boy said. "No problem. I'm Jake." He introduced. "Alex."

"Think you can find us a way to get away from those guys?" The goons were in all beat up and rusted off road vehicles like Ford F-150's and Monster Dairy Delivery's with weapons following the group as the smashed through the windows of the Track Factory. 

"I'll try bro." Alex turned on the GPS on a holographic screen in front of him. "Okay, there's a mine tunnel at 9'O clock!" Jake turned left and found the tunnel. He drove inside it along with his friends while some of the small legendaries followed him while the others went around and followed it. At the other side of the tunnel, Jake, Alex, Claire, Jordan, James, Mark and the legendaries following them raced out of it and we're back on the desert floor. The goons were still following them. Jake then did a 180 and fired his gatling guns. A barrage of fiery bullets hit nearly every goons in front of him and caused some of them to explode while others lost control and crashed into each other. He then triggered to missiles and a swarm of them just kept on coming out as Jake continued pressing the left paddle behind the steering wheel in his Firestorm.

 "Man there's too many of them!" Jake said. Mark then did a 180 behind everyone else. "Mark, what are you doing man?" Jordan asked through the radio. "Doing this my way." Mark said. He revved his engine which caused a loud roaring noise. He then engaged his NITROX booster and caused him to go 310 MPH in seconds and caused a wheelie like a dragster going off the starting line. Large crimson red flames shot out of the exhausts. He then pulled a lever and suddenly, the chassis then turned into a mech skeleton of a bull and the bottom teeth on the grill then retracted to the ground. Each of the wheels exposed four large talons and the monster truck was now a monster mech! Mark quickly pulled another lever down and sent two Ford F-150's flying as the bottom jaw retracted up. Make did the same thing over and over again, either crushing the vehicles or sending them into the air. He spun around, hitting all those who were hit and were sent flying into the air. Mark then switched to using the missile launcher on his Team Hot Wheels "Firestorm." He kept pressing the trigger non-stop and a swarm of missiles hit every single goon that was left, destroying them into debris. Explosions were everywhere and all of the goons were destroyed. Mark turned back his monster truck to it's normal form and caught up to his friends.

Everyone raced through the desert to find a perfect place. "That was one hell of a show you pulled off man." Jake said through the radio. "You're welcome." Mark said. "Claire, you found a place that's legit enough to be noticed?"
"I know a place." Claire said. Claire typed on the GPS screen in her Mazda Furai and everyone was surprised about what Claire sent. "Oh no, no, no, no!" Alex exclaimed. "Oh yeah." Jake said. 

Everyone stopped to an edge and looked over the edge. Jake smiled. "The perfect place." He said. The Hot Wheels Test Facility.