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welp, too late now

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"We have to keep trying, though. Keep an eye on the SUV with a hawk."

"On it," she says.

You go back to the Challenger and use some basic repair magic to get those tires patched up. You have to use some wind magic to fill the tires again, and you do it carefully so you don't over inflate.

"They're still heading west," Raven says. "They're clearly getting out of town as quickly as they can now."

"Then we better hurry," you say as you get back in the driver's seat.

"It's alright, mom," Raven says as she and Arella go to the car. "You can stay in the front seat. I'll probably have to get out in a bit anyway."

You continue down Desert Inn Road at high speed to hurry after the SUV.

"They're turning north," Raven says. "Town Center Drive, before the freeway."

"We're almost there," you say as you can see the freeway in the distance. "I'm right about the electrical being fried. They should be out of town by now if the car was moving under its own power."

"Yes, it's clearly some kind of telekinesis or magic moving the car for them," Arella says. "Wait, that has to be them up ahead."

There's almost no cars on the road at this point, since you're heading into Las Vegas suburbs. And with no cars directly in front of you, you can see something twinkling in the light of your headlights.

"Yeah, that's them," Raven says. "My hawk can see us."

You speed up a bit more and prepare mana.

"Raven, prepare Sound magic," you say while having the windows roll down. "That mute trick I did in New Orleans, remember?"

"Yes! Of course!" Raven says. "I'm on it!"

Raven goes out a window while you do your best to lean out your window and aim at the golden SUV as you come up fast.

"Silentium!" you shout as you hurl a mute spell at the SUV.

You definitely hit the vehicle, and you don't hear the SUV's tires moving. Raven swoops in from above just as the floppy person with messy hair is put out the window again.

"Silentium!" she says to add on to yours.

The floppy person yawns but you don't hear it at all! It worked! You'll just close your eyes for a second...

"WHOA!" Arella says.

The car moves suddenly and you snap awake!

"What happened?!" you both say.

"You muted them but you still dozed off?" Arella says. "How is that possible?"

"Oh, I'm such an idiot," you say as you sit properly. "Echophenomena!"

"A what?"

"The automatic imitation of another's words and actions," you say. "It also connects to empathy. Just SEEING that human Muppet yawn triggers wanting to yawn!"

"Oh no!" Arella says. "Then what now?"

"It'll be fine," you say. "Raven is coming in from above, she didn't see the yawn."

Speaking of which, Raven shouts "Azarath! Metrion! ZINTHOS!" and her magic creates a twisting ramp! The SUV drives on it and TWISTS through the air!! You'd imagine the four inside are screaming, but you can't hear it anyway because of Silentium.

But then, in another defiance of physics, the SUV finishes the spiral faster than it should and lands, albeit roughly, on the tires! And they somehow make the turn to go north! You follow, managing to drift to keep momentum. Raven also follows, and you all pass through a school zone! Good thing it's nighttime. Then there's a HUGE four way intersection and the SUV turns left to go west again! You end up burning some rubber to make the turn this time!

You go down Sahara Avenue, with the freeway, or the Bruce Woodbury Beltway in this case, coming up fast! The SUV takes another insanely cartoonish turn to get on the beltway, you follow, and you hurry up to get right behind them. You use the nose of the Challenger to push the SUV sideways! It spins around, but it keeps moving, just backwards! And you get a better look at that woman who resembled Raven, and she resembles her even more now that you see her face! She's in the driver's seat but no hands on the wheel, so the SUV is definitely moving because of some kind of ability.

It's the man with the white hair that's looking back so he must be the one moving the SUV with his powers. There's another intersection coming up, and you're trying to read off the man in white what he's planning. The light's turning green to yellow, he's totally going to risk running the red light so you'll just have to run it, too. He waves his hand left, so you turn left, and you both nearly hit a car that was coming from the right as it passes through! Now you're on Charleston Boulevard, going west again, and through more suburbs!

Now you're heading out of Vegas, and there's a lot of open space by the... Redrock Detention Basin? Well alright. There's something going on over there, with cars running around and hitting each other. A demolition derby, perhaps? Wait, there's a big red monster truck in the mix. It smashes over quite a few cars, as it heads this way!?

The big red monster truck smashes onto the road, but in the wrong lane! Cars coming from the other direction have to get out of the way to avoid being run over! But why!?

The monster truck is moving up closer and closer behind you. The four inside the SUV are starting to move and get out through the windows. The not Raven drags the floppy person out and basically throws them around like a rag doll to get them on the roof. She also helps burger girl get up on top.

Raven swoops in, grapples with the other her, but has to watch out for burger girl's teeth! This allows the doppelganger to use that strength of hers to throw Raven for a loop!

The monster truck stays side by side with you and the SUV. The floppy person is used like a rope between burger girl and not Raven to get up to the monster truck, "Hellspawn 6." Those three are in, then the man in white finally gets out and onto the roof. He uses the same power that has been moving the SUV around to pop the back wheels up, and he runs up to be as high as he can before he JUMPS to the monster truck, where his cohorts catch him and drag him inside to join them. Then the SUV is left to drop, skid and turn sideways!

You slam on the brakes, turn so your side is facing the SUV.

"CUSTOS!" you cast.

Your Guardian spell blocks the SUV as everything skids to a stop. The monster truck gets away off into the night, and you sigh as you let yourself rest against the steering wheel.

"Well," you say. "We're definitely done chasing them now."

"Are you alright?" Raven asks as she flies back over.

"Yes, dear," Arella says, still breathing a little heavy. "My heart's racing, but I'll live."

A) Go get dessert now
B) Just go to bed
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