Smiling at the latest upgrade, I ran my hand through Arcanines neck fur then followed him out as the service elevator dinged at our arrival. Leading him to the front of the building, I swapped out my boots for my air treks, and then brought out the collar and secured it around his neck. Once we were both ready and properly equipped, I kicked off with a leg and followed it with smooth motions of the other all while Arcanine lightly trotted beside me.
Between one motion and the next, we were outside of the shields that guarded the hospital.
"Come on buddy, let's go grab lunch,"I called with a smile on my lips as I did an enhanced kick off from my spot. I sent a metal image into my endo-sym armor to construct a mask. Again, I could see it from the rapid reflections as liquid metal crawled over my skin to form a badass oni mask.
Then the HUD came alive and synced with my omni-tool to provide all of the data I could ever need. Quickly, I had to dismiss a lot of it but just keep a simple map and speed because I was easily clocking 50 MPH at the moment and I was loving every second of it.
Arcanine was still just looking like he was enjoying an easy trott by my side and that fired up my competitive spirit. All I could say was MAXIMUM EFFORT!
"Woof! Woof!" Arcanine barked as I sped up, a big smile on his muzzle.
Arcanine followed as I turned down main and got onto the highway and that was when we really poured on the speed. Two power enhanced kicks of my legs pushed me well past 80 MPH and easily approaching 100 MPH as cars blurred by.
Arcanine started to easily pull ahead, but I wasn't one for losing. A little bump hop and me cruising along an air pocket as the storm regalia activated. Already my newfound super strength was translating into super speed which helped a lot, but it was the dynamic vision that had come in the clutch.
The speedometer within my helm flashed by 120 MPH and screamed into and well over 212 MPH as Arcanine and I dashed down the highway. My new and improved vision allowed me to glide between and over cars as they switched lanes and did the general stupidity of the everyday driver on the road. When the U-bend came around, Arcanine didn't even blink as we both jumped over and raced across the bay.
Mahh boy flew across the water, his paws flashing with fire on each step, the heat pocket he created worked as a platform for his paws. Then he thought that he had me as he sped up as the approaching boardwalk came into our view. We were both pushing well over 340 MPH now and even then, I knew that Arcanine still hadn't shown everything he was capable of.
Arcanine took off with a burst of speed and I took that as my own cue that cheating was perfectly okay, because the next thing I did was grab the air. Crafter activated for me during the transition and instantly, I knew how to form the perfect funnel cloud to ride on.
Between one heart beat and the next, I was at the boardwalk, and I had to admit that hindsight was 2020. The reason being that if I didn't have any shields, the sonic boom from us both breaking the sound barrier would have screwed up everyone's day. Throwing my hands up in triumph, I turned around and found Arcanine right there at my side with a big goofy grin on his muzzle.
Okay, so it was a tie then, I couldn't be mad at that face.
"Mahh BOY!" I crowed excitedly as I tried to wrap my arms around his neck and found that 'nope' my arms couldn't go all the way. Instead I started to scratch under his chin and also scratching the sweet spots behind his ears. With a chuckle, I looked around for the stairs to get off the beach and what I found didn't impress me to say the least.