Rising Storm

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> "*Jesus, man. Looks like you've been through hell... and sh\*t. Literally.*"
> ― Sweeper reacting to see Nate's severely damaged car
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**Rising Storm** is the penultimate episode of the series and the ninth episode of the second season. In this episode, after the events of Deep Impact, the Hellgang regroup at a location somewhere in Firwood, feeling like they have lost the battle against Alpha's Mafia and Alpha is feeling the heat due to Falcon messing up. Not wanting to accept defeat, Sweeper and Nate travel to Italy to speak to Morello for assistance against Alpha's Mafia.

## ***Summary***

### **Previously On Deep Impact**

The flashback of Deep Impact shows Rebel dying to protect Savage. Afterwards the scene cuts to Savage in present time.

### **The Never-Ending Nightmare**

Savage leaves his house to pick up Rebel's Viper. While on the way, he hallucinates Rebel exploding behind him which startles him and causes him to spin out. After regaining his composure, he continues on his way to Rebel's old house and bring his Viper back to his house.

The next morning, Hellhound and Black Widow visit Savage, worried about his condition, to which Savage claims he has been drinking nonstop while mourning his brother's death. After some talk, Hellhound and Black Widow notice he brought Rebel's Viper back to his house. They begin working on it after Savage invites Hellhound and Black Widow to help him with the car, but not before Hellhound tells Savage to get something to eat.

### **The Undead Man Walking**

At the Belasco City Police Station, HellCop along with Detective Max, Officer Barry, and Officer Kyle are in disbelief after finding out that Falcon was only charged with reckless driving, causing an accident and failure to obey a police officer and was released from jail early. Despite this, they managed to get information such as his home address and real name, to which HellCop notes that he be get back to jail again the second he makes one mistake; during this discussion Falcon enters a taxi to meet his gang. After Detective Max states that he swears Falcon is the same person he chased on American Road in 2018, HellCop states that it's time to take down his whole gang along with the Hellgang who have been causing trouble for years.

### **Getting Back To Work**

Falcon arrives at a warehouse, where he meets what's left of his gang; Howitzer, Nomad, Simna, Vegas and Sithis. After some brief discussions about his release and the fate of the Hellgang, Falcon decides its time to go somewhere and asks Simna if she could give him a ride. In response, his gang gave him a new car: a 2016 Ford Shelby GT350R which he uses to go to Alpha's villa with Simna, while the rest of the gang leave to take care of their own business.

At the villa, Falcon and Simna talk about what to do in the future, ultimately deciding on going to Lost Heaven. After a while, Alpha and his escort arrives at the villa, where Falcon calls him "dad". Inside the villa, Alpha explains that he paid a fortune to bail out Falcon and was at risk of losing everything due to Falcon's screwup. Alpha then berates Falcon for getting several of his men killed and forcing Alpha to clean up his mess. Falcon apologizes, having nothing else to say, and Alpha tells him to stop whining and get to work.

### **Pest Control**

At Ronson Valley, Vulture and Norman were being transported in a prison bus. Vulture is confident Alpha will break them free as it's their only chance to do so. Aztec spots the prison convoy and Sithis released James from his trailer. James shoots a missile at the prison bus which causes the bus to flip and roll over onto a truck. Raven questions if they could've survived, to which James fires another more powerful missile at the flipped prison bus causing, a big explosion that kills Vulture, Norman, the other convicts on the bus, the two police officers escorting the bus and a few civilians who were in the vicinity of the explosion. Afterwards, Sithis, James, Raven and Aztec leave the area.

### **An Early Christmas Gift**

On Christmas Eve, Savage visits Rebel's grave and tells him that Christmas Eve without him is lonely. He also tells him that Hellhound and Black Widow helped him fix his Viper and how he keeps seeing him everywhere before Simna shows up. Savage asks Simna if she was here to finish the job, to which Simna offers him a way to avenge his brother and friend. Savage is reluctant to trust Simna due to their frequent clashes throughout the years, but Simna explains that she can't stand being in the gang anymore but can't leave since Alpha kills any deserters; she also explains that Alpha had the two men who were arrested killed out of paranoia that they would cooperate with the cops, and she doesn't love Falcon after the money and power corrupted him to the point where he doesn't care about the death of his own crew. Upon hearing this, Savage is finally convinced and is willing to let her share everything she knows so the Hellgang can plan to take Alpha, Falcon, and the rest of the mafia down for good.

### **The Last Thing To Do**

Sweeper and Nate arrive where Hellhound and Black Widow are hiding, and after a brief chat, Nate then asked Hellhound if he has a plan to avenge Rebel and Luca. Hellhound states that it's over as Alpha's Mafia has way more people and weapons than the Hellgang and he can't risk losing any more of their friends. Sweeper asks Black Widow if she agrees with Hellhound, to which she agrees. Frustrated at their inaction, Sweeper decides he will take care of things on his own and leaves with Nate. Shocked, Hellhound yells at Sweeper not to do anything stupid, which he ignores.

### **The Fresh Smells Of Pizza**

A month later, Sweeper and Nate arrive in Italy. Nate questions where their car is, and Sweeper responds it should arrive soon. After awhile of Nate questioning Sweeper's plan, Salvatore arrives, asking if he is Jackson. He leaves the men with a blue 2019 Toyota 4Runner Off-Road and asks that they take care of it as last time five of his cares were destroyed by some Americans last year. Sweeper makes Nate take the 4Runner due to Nate's poor driving skills, while he opens the container, he had shipped with them, which contains the black 2035 SRT Tomahawk X they stole from Falcon's Gang a few months back.

Sweeper and Nate drive out of the docks, but Sweeper drives too fast is pulled over by Officer Matteo. Nate tells Sweeper to act normal, but knowing there's no way out, Sweeper decides to speed off quickly and attempt to lose the cops. Nate is forced to drive off as well and runs over the officer knowing he doesn't have a choice.

### **Arrivederci**

A chase between Sweeper and Nate with the Italian Police and Carabinieri ensues. While evading Officer Tony, Sweeper accidently winds up face to face with three Carabinieri; he then reverses into an intersection and cause an accident that disables two of the officers and pulls a 180, causing a motorcyclist to get launched off his bike into a parked car. In the meantime, without directions, Nate is chased through the narrow streets of Italy, causing many accidents involving police officers and civilians. Sweeper turns right into an intersection to avoid a roadblock and drove right under two semis which confuses the police on where he went.

Nate encounters an accident Sweeper caused and is spotted and chased by Officer Leonardo. Nate reversed down a flight of stairs, knocking over a stand and disabling Officer Matteo's car who was looking for him along with Officer Leonardo who was behind him. Nate then drive through alleyways and intersections causing even more accidents and his car to be damaged. Nate was then battling with an officer in a Gavril Roamer Carabinieri in a two-way lane which resulted on him driving over a Lamborghini Gallardo and a Ferrari 458 Italia. Seconds later, the officer crashes into an ambulance who was carrying the injured biker from earlier. Sweeper is spotted by multiple police officers which he disables by making an Alfa Romeo 159 flip over and crash into them. Sweeper enters a roundabout in which he encounters Officer Bruno and two more officers with Officer Tony joining the chase. Sweeper gets onto the highway and cuts off a semi, causing a big pileup that disables Officer Bruno. He then sends the information needed to Nate. However, the police are still chasing him, so he drives under a trailer and tricks an officer in a ETK K-Series Polizia into crashing into a flatbed two truck stopped on the side of the road which cause a major accident that disables the rest of the officers chasing him and blocks the highway. Afterwards, Sweeper makes his way to Castelletto, where Morello resides.

In the meantime, Nate was driving through the narrow roads where he heard police sirens coming. Officer Moretti sideswipes Nate which causes Nate to roll over onto several parked cars, damaging the 4Runner although it's still drivable. Nate then rolls back into an intersection and even more cars crash badly damaging the 4Runner. Afterwards Nate drives to another town with more cops on his tail. He manages to disable most of the cops by making them crash into parked cars. They make their way along a dirt road where Officer Salomone takes a shortcut and tries to block Nate, but it failed as he gets sideswiped and knocked on his side. The officer in the Maserati Ghibli Carabinieri tries to rear end him, but he instead gets caught on Nate's tow hitch and Nate shakes him off into the water. Nate is out of town with a Nissan GTR R35 Polizia chasing him, and Sweeper is almost at Castelletto; along the way, he destroys Riccardo's fruit stand. Sweeper then encounters Officer Marco and Officer Stefano and is unable to back up due to a truck behind him. Sweeper then tries to do a wheelie over the police; he fails the first time, causing the officers to laugh but succeeds the second jumping over Officer Marco's car. As Sweeper ascends to Castelletto Fabrizio gets distracted by the Tomahawk and crashes into Flavio's stopped car ahead of him. One of the barrels on Flavio's trailer falls down the hill, hitting a car carrier and exploding, knocking all the cars off the trailer, disabling Officer Marco and Officer Stefano, and blocking the road.

Sweeper is finally near the castle, while Nate is still being chased in the countryside. Nate then stumbles upon an intersection and jumps straight through a trailer truck carrying porta potties, covering the 4Runner in all sorts of disgusting fluids, while the officer behind him jumps through a shed and wrecks his GTR R35. The cops behind the flatbed start chasing Nate, so he sideswipes Mario and causes a serious accident that blocks the road. The officer in a Jeep Grand Cherokee Carabinieri collides into the accident while the other two officers go around the pile-up. Nate is then blocked by a car with an oversized trailer, which allows the cops to start catching up to him, and he then immediately overtakes the car once he can. Sweeper arrives at the castle and asks if Morello is there, however he is informed that Morello isn't at the castle at the moment and that he should arrive at his villa soon, so he heads there and informs Nate. One more cop starts chasing Nate, so he makes Aidan crash into two cops. Nate encounters more cops as he goes off-road up a hill with Officer Lucas chasing him and the other officers turning around to go to an alternate route.

Sweeper arrives at the villa, where Fabien, who's guarding the front entrance, informs Vito, who's guarding the gate entrance of his arrival; Vito blocks the gate to ask Sweeper of his presence. In the meantime, Nate gets back on the road but gets struck by the cops, causing a major accident that disables all the cops and damages the 4Runner beyond repair. Nate then makes his way to the villa, where Fabien informs Vito once again when he went through the entrance. Sweeper is surprised at Nate's current condition, which he blames Sweeper for due to the speeding that sparked the whole chase. At that moment, Morello and his escort arrives at the villa and tells Vito to search Sweeper and Nate before letting them in.

### **The Peace Offering**

After done being searched, Morello invites Sweeper and Nate in. Morello asks who they are, and after the brief introductions, Morello orders Gregorio to get Vincenzo to treat Nate's injuries while he and Sweeper have a conversation inside over drinks. Morello asks why they visited and comments on he used to own one of the cars that Sweeper is driving. Sweeper tells Morello that it's actually his Tomahawk. Morello doesn't believe it at first since his was colored yellow and didn't have any scratches, and Sweeper explains that the car was repainted by the guys who stole it from him a few months back. Morello asks if he is sure it's the same car, to which Sweeper asks if Morello knows the name "Falcon". Morello recognized the name as Alpha's subordinate and figures out it was Alpha who ordered the destruction of his cars and the theft of his Tomahawk. After Sweeper explains that Alpha's men killed two of his friends, Morello figured that he was asking for his help with the Tomahawk being offered, to which Sweeper answered yes. Morello explains he would've helped even without him bringing back the Tomahawk, to which Sweeper asked if he could keep. Morello refuses, but he offers to help him and his gang get revenge against Alpha. After the successful deal, Sweeper and Nate then heads back to USA knowing they have got what they need even with Nate's broken arm.

### **Damn Americans...**

Salvatore along with his associate, Abramo drive along a row of their cars. Salvatore stops in front of the 4Runner, and decides that he won't rent cars to Americans anymore, with Abramo agreeing.

### **I Was Too Late Wasn't I...**

In the post credits scene, Officer Lucas who was chasing Nate off-road earlier finally makes it onto the road. However, all he finds is the accident to which he says, "He's gone, isn't he?".

## ***Errors***

In SFD S02E08 in the first scenario, you can spot Black Widow's Plymouth Fury parked at Hellhound's house and the car was colored black and unmodified. However in this movie, her Plymouth Fury was heavily modified and resprayed to grey despite the SFD timeline took place after the first part of the movie. It might be possible that FrIz didn't pay attention to this detail.

## ***Community Cast***

* SubaruSTI07 as: Thomas
* G-E-Sassulia as: Jason
* Bimacars21 as: Bima
* ANDYANDY as: Andy Evans
* Stynger as: William
* Bro\_ as: Kane
* StirlingSLR as: JW
* Sunnyz as: Andrew
* Dani\_Zyro as: Zyro & Rara
* ThatCarDude445 as: Waxen
* Cooldriver10 as: Charlie Drives
* Roadkiller245 as: Detective Razor
* ScintillaGuy97 as: Officer Jaron
* Scoty as: Officer Joshua S. (Joshua S. in credits)
* Top Tier Studios as: Hank
* Beambloxtv1 as: Gabriel
* Beamix as: Beamix
* FlipcarPIGNU as: Pignu
* Titanls as: Officer Tony Romano
* CanceledAvatar8 as: Officer Laile
* Killstreak451 as: Officer Agatino Catarella
* Tomys as: Karo
* Night-OBLIVION as: Night
* KaiserimnopYT as: Officer Antonio
* CrimsonCrocodile as: Officer Moretti
* Hiflex480 as: Officer Leonardo
* Matthew Harrison as: Gerald
* Vlad\_06 as: Vlad
* LeGran as: Nick
* Flippi 284 as: Flip
* Juni as: Juni
* Kerr114514 as: Kerr
* Brien\_w as: Officer Marco
* GleamingAndrex69 as: Aidan

## ***Trivia***

* FrIzErIs had to move several applications that contained mercenaries and American police to the Season 2 Finale due to keeping Italy as a secret location for the movie.
* According to FrIz:
	+ ~372 hours were spent working on this movie over 5 months.
	+ 1413 clips were recorded (S02E07-08 had 1378 clips).
	+ 247 GB of footage were recorded (S02E07-08 had 175 GB).
	+ ~124 Vehicles were damaged or destroyed (~93 in S02E7-08).
	+ 8 dummies were injured (1 twice).
* During the live premiere of the movie, FrIz went to his friends birthday party.
* Inertia and Vincent are the only Hellgang members who doesn't appear in this episode,
* The title of the movie is suggested by Bubba in Discord, who was a moderator for FrIz's server and creator of the IMDb page for FrIz's movie.
	+ FrIz initially thought of titling the movie as "The Enemy Of My Enemy" before eventually took Bubba's suggestion.
	+ The title reflects the current state Savage is in, as his brother got killed and vowed for revenge.
		- It could also possibly reflects Alpha's eagerness to take down the Hellgang.
		- The title also reflects the Hellgang and Morello's Mafia teaming up to take down Alpha and his whole organization.
* This episode is, by far, the longest of the entire series (excluding the Season 1 Finale and the combination of Taken and Deep Impact).
* In this episode reveals that Alpha is Falcon's dad.
* This episode reveals Falcon and Simna's real names.
	+ Falcon - Alexander
	+ Simna - Serena

* If you listen closely between minute 2:02 and 2:03 of the movie (more easily heard with headphones), you can hear the BeamNG replay being started sound effect, which is possibly an oversight from FrIz himself.
* It is unknown how Sweeper knows Salvatore, although it's possible he got his information from Savage who at the time was gathering information from Simna.
	+ It's likely Sweeper already knew who Morello is since he mentions the Tomahawk being stolen from Italy in S02E05.
* The Viper that was previously mentioned by Rebel made its first appearance here.
* In SFD S02E08, Hellhound and Black Widow is seen at his house at January 20th 2020. Nate and Sweeper arrive at Italy at January 18th 2020. It is unknown why Hellhound would move back to his house despite possibly still being wanted by Alpha.
	+ It's possible that things has calmed down and it was safe for him to go back to his house.
	+ It's also possible that at this point, the Hellgang had resolved their conflict with Alpha. However, this is unlikely since the time gap is only 2 days.
* For whatever reason, most of the police officers and civilians in Italy speak English than Italian unlike in the Italian Job where all of the residents speak Italian
	+ Its possible that they do speak Italian and FrIz is only translating the English meaning of it on the subtitles.
	+ Its also possible that some of them speak English fluently.
	+ It was confirmed that FrIz didn't put any Italian subtitles is because the person that did them before is no longer available.
* Most of the Italian police officers are returning characters from The Italian Job. And the portrayers are nonetheless credited despite not applying for said characters.
* It's unknown why the Italian dispatch does not know the name of the Tomahawk and called it a Turnback even though it was owned by Morello before being stolen by Falcon's Gang.
	+ Funnily enough, when the dispatch call it as a "Turnback" the police officers that are responding are seen turning back to which they immediately spot Sweeper in the Tomahawk
	+ It's possible that many of the officers haven't seen the Tomahawk since there were only a few made.
* During the scene where Falcon and his gang leave the warehouse, Diablo's yellow H-Series that was unused by him since Epic Freeway Chase can be seen in the parking lot.
* In the scene where the police are shown at the police station, A car alarm is triggered for an unknown reason.
* FrIz changed the title card for this episode. This is the fourth time he changed it, the first in Epic Chase Leads To Freeway Disaster, the second in Derailed and the third in Deep Impact.
	+ The new title card is also edited by Shados, a community member and moderator for FrIz's Discord server.