From: eabu249@orion.oac.uci.edu (Video Boy Oi)
Subject: CyberFormula GPX Synopses: Episode 9
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Organization: Dosu Productions
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:44:52 GMT


      

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Episode 9 - Arashi no Tabidachi
            Stormy Trip

   The winners of the Niseco race begin their trips to America to race.  Kyooko
and Shinjyo fly to America on a jet plane, while the Sugo team goes by boat.
Hayato, Miki, Ryoohei and Buihatch are enjoying a game of catch, but Asuka
doesn't join in.  She's looking at her necklace, which contains a picture of
her brother in it.  He was an F-1 racer.  Asuka and Hayato discuss Hayato's
success, when Kanto interrupts them.  Asuka suddenly becomes seasick.  Everyone
is reported inside as the ship heads into a storm.  Then Miki, who was joking
about Asuka's seasickness, becomes sick herself.  Even Buihatch becomes sick.

   The guys are with Asurada.  Maki shows Hayato his new game program, which he
programmed himself.  The object is to get your ship to port without crashing. 
They receive a progress report on the race, in the form of a FAX.  Kanto asks
Maki where the race will be.

   "The Grand Canyon."

   Hayato wants to play Maki's game, but Kanto wants to lecure him.  Hayato is
dragged off.  

   The ship is pounded by strong waves.  A huge wave rocks the ship, sending
Ryoohei falling back against the control panel of the trailer.  His scream 
sends Kanto and Hayato rushing back to the hull, where they find that the
grappler arm had come down and crushed Ryoohei's leg.  Kanto sends Maki for
the ship's doctor.  The doctor explains that Ryoohei needs a transfusion, and
only has two hours to live.  Miki offers her blood, but the doctor explains 
that they don't have the proper equipment, and that it will take more than
two hours to get him to a hospital.  He has to get to the hospital within
two hours.  Miki is angry at Ryoohei for being careless.  Kanto slaps her, to
bring her back to her senses.  Miki walks over to Ryoohei, and holds his hand
against her face.  Everyone is touched, and worried.  Hayato suggests using
Asurada to get Ryoohei to the hospital.  Kanto agrees, and they convert 
Asurada to "water-mode".  Hayato and Ryoohei get in, and Asurada is lowered
into the water.  Hayato asks Asurada to speed up.  Ryoohei then wakes up, 
and realizes that he's in Asurada.  Ryoohei explains his past to Hayato, and 
his dreams of becoming a CyberFormula racer.  He was champion in the kiddy
leagues, but he couldn't advance because he was a hemopheliac.  So his hopes
of racing were shattered.  Asruada warns Hayato of the reef ahead.  Hayato
decides to launch the satellite in order to see ahead.  They still have two
hours to go at their present speed.  Hayato tries to go faster, as he uses
the radar, like Maki's video game, to avoid the rocks in the reef.  He's doing
well, but he can't avoid the large rock ahead.  He stops, and the current
pushes Asurada aside.  Hayato then remembers Maki's game, and tries again.
Asurada is being followed by a huge tidal wave, and it slams them between two
huge boulders.  Asurada tells Hayato about the danger of staying there.  If 
they were to be hit by another wave, they'd be torn apart, unless Hayato could
anchor Asurada to the ocean floor, and get it to stay there.  Asurada counts
down for the exact moment to launch the anchor, just as the wave hits.
Asurada goes underwater, just as Hayato secures the anchor, and the wave 
pushes them clear of the rocks.  Hayato turns to Ryoohei, who has passed out.

   The storm clears up as Hayato spots land.  They get Ryoohei into the
hospital just in time.  The rest of the crew are still on the boat.  Miki
thanks Hayato and Asurada, as they celebrate.

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