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I hit the gas. The Ferrari screamed—a high, Italian wail that flattened into a turbocharged roar. My HUD flickered: PURSUIT MODE ENGAGED. The road was a black mirror. Speed was the only language the road understood.

I caught up to him at the construction tunnel. Two lanes narrowed to one. The walls were exposed rebar and concrete teeth. This was where games ended.

I found him on the switchbacks near Fairhaven Hills. A silver Koenigsegg, low and wide like a hammerhead shark. He wasn’t driving fast. He was driving perfect . Every apex kissed, every gear shift a metronome click.

I slammed the nitrous. The world stretched. Trees became green smears; guardrails, silver blurs. 150. 180. 210 mph. The rain turned to needles against my windshield. PC - Need for Speed Rivals

I was back. The Ferrari, pristine. The clock, reset. The chase, continuing as if the fiery death had never happened. That was the cruelty of Rivals . You never really lost. You just tried again. And again. And again.

The rain on the Pacific Coast Highway didn’t wash away mistakes. It just made them shine.

And I switched sides.

Tonight, the objective was simple: Intercept a hypercar known as “The Ghost.” Rumor said its driver was a former cop who’d snapped. He didn't race for money. He raced to erase his own heat signature. Every mile he drove, he vanished a little more.

My garage door hissed open, a breath of cold air and burnt rubber. The Ferrari LaFerrari sat there, a red wound against the concrete grey. This was Redview County. On one side of the law, you had Zephyr, the AI voice that never slept, guiding cops like me. On the other, you had the Outlaws, chasing speed as if it could outrun their own decay.

I wasn’t either, really. I was just the thumb on the trigger. I hit the gas

"Deploying roadblock at Grid 7," the AI chirped, emotionless.

A blue ring of electricity burst from the back of the Koenigsegg. My steering wheel seized. The Ferrari fish-tailed, slammed into a granite outcrop, and barrel-rolled three times. The screen went black for a heartbeat.

I pulled over. The rain washed the soot from my windshield. I looked at the burning wreck in my rearview mirror. No driver got out. No driver ever did. They just despawned, their points banked, their car a husk until they respawned back at their own hideout, angrier than before. The road was a black mirror

"Zephyr, box him in," I muttered into my headset.

I tapped my right bumper. ESF—Electro-Static Field.