[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/nODm5rf.png[/img][/center][color=turquoise]"Now that I think about it, aren't you the only dude in this race, Skull? Unless..."[/color] Lydia said over the radio as she passed the mysterious dark rider. She once heard of another skull-themed racer who everyone thought was a man until it turned out to be a girl. But, then again, maybe he wasn't even human but just a cold, computing machine. Who could know what happened behind that stone-faced helmet?

Anyway, such questions were of no importance to Lydia now. Not when she was almost catching up to Aurora and Rema.

[color=turquoise]"I don't wanna be a third wheel, so I'm just gonna go ahead while you girls duck it off, ok?"[/color] the aqua-haired girl said as she tried to move blitz past them only to be hit by Skull's mines. If the Aegis didn't have its shields up it would have been in for a much worse time, but as it turned out, all it did was throw Lydia's timing off for a while, allowing Skull to take the lead once again.

[color=turquoise]"Ok, if we are going to do this the hard way... Let me give you a taste of what I can do,"[/color] Lydia said as they entered the looping section, showing off the Aegis' superior maneuverability while forcing her way through with a volley of hypervelocity aimed primarily at the Skulldugg.[hr]