Hammerhead

> *"This car features classic ’50s hot rod along with the edgy looking ’60s muscle car styling."*
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Hammerhead is a Metal Maniacs vehicle, first seen in the Water Realm. The driver of this vehicle is Blake Tyler, being his second racing car on **Acceleracers: High Octane**. It is equipped with the general modifications that a Metal Maniacs vehicle has along with Full Aluminum chassis to Carbon Fiber body panels and 20" Front Wheels & 22" Back Wheels.

## Usage

### Water Realm

Upon reaching the surface, Hammerhead landed on the track along with Seared Tuner, Synkro and Boss Hoss. After landing onto the track, Mike goes for the pass on Blake, who tried to block him, causing Hammerhead to spin out, falling to almost the back but regaining control nicely, ending up in 3rd.

RD-05 came up behind the drivers, activating the Slam Ram. Blake noticed this by looking on his vehicle's rearview, warning the others about the Ram and swerving Hammerhead out of the way to dodge it, but it didn't help, since he was caught up by the ram and sent flying along with Mike, who was also sent into the air. Blake and Mike both land back on the track, having lost all their momentum. After this, Hammerhead wasn't seen for the rest of the Realm.

### Cliffside Realm

Hammerhead was one of the human vehicles to enter the realm, however, there were no major events or scenes that happened with it.

### Ice Realm

Hammerhead was one of the human vehicles to enter the realm, however, there were no major events or scenes that happened with it.

### Neon-Pipeline Realm

Upon entering the Neon-Pipeline Realm, Blake swerved to the left to avoid the gap shown at the start of the track. At this point, Blake was the one in last place, which caused him to be the one being chased by the Sweeper. It sent out a couple of Sweeper Drones, that were pushed back to where they came from by Blake's Nitrox force, shredding them to bits.

However, Blake's booster-gauge was running low to near-empty because of the amount of Nitrox used; so, the Sweeper was gaining on a straight-up out of fuel Hammerhead until Fandango, driven by Patrick Smith positioned itself right in front of him, telling Blake to draft if he wanted to get out of that situation. Blake does so, entering Fandango's draft as Patrick hit his Nitrox, with the duo accelerating away from the Sweeper, and as the drivers sped towards the choke valve and away from the Sweeper, through some magic, were able to slip by and escape.

After this, no major events involving Hammerhead happened, but you can say it finished the Realm with minor damage.

### Ruins Realm

Blake, Henry and Kyle were on the verge of reaching a temple as RD-05 speeds off in front of them, leaving the three sandwiched between him and the Sweeper as they drove into the temple. Blake would diverge from the others and drive off into the right path, coming up behind RD-05. Soonly upon noticing it, he'd activate Hammerhead's Lava Plow, causing RD-L1 to use the Monument Realm Accelecharger. Blake swerves to his right, thinking that RD-05 would brakecheck him to slice his car in half, but as it turns out, it was a fake-out from RD-L1 to get a better advantage.

As Blake approached the center of the ruins, there would mines planted by RD-05 scattered the track that would go off. Hammerhead is completely destroyed by the explosion and scraps along the track, as Blake is shot into the air and suffers a rough landing while breaking his arm upon impact. After the crash, Patrick pulls Symbolic to a halt besides Blake and tells him to get in, and even though he could barely stand, he manages walk over to the vehicle and get into the passenger seat.

## Features

* Lava Plow - This mod activates a pointed plow right in front of your car. It can be used as a battering ram, or for extra protection.
* Forward-Mounted Ramming Blade - This mod activates a spike right in front of your car. It can be used to latch it into another vehicle.
* Nitrox II - Nitrox 2 is a special boost formula created by Dr. Tezla that temporarily increases the speed of the vehicle to exactly 300 MPH. It is the required speed needed to pass through the portals to the other dimensions.
* Shielded Tires - The Mod allows you to go through Molten Lava and not burn your Tires by covering them in Thick Steel, can also be used to protect the Tires from Overheating in heat based environments.
* Frount-Mounted Grapple Claw - Fired from the front of the car, the Grappler Claw can be used to grab onto opponents, or, to hoist a car up and out of danger.

## Trivia

* Hammerhead is currently the second Metal Maniacs car that went in most Realms, just losing to Leo's Spinebuster.

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