Seared Tuner

also known as: that one car that's everywhere on the internet for some reason

> *- Yo! Time to pump up the music! - Michael "Mike" Jones*
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Seared Tuner is Michael's first car in his entire racing career. A modified mobile stereo, it's equipped with 4 subwoofers, 2 tweeters and 3 additional speakers in the cockpit, capable of producing 700 decibels of 192 bit sound. This car also has scissor doors, a wireless internet connection and a 6.2" monitor in the interior, as well as underglow neon. At the beginning of his career, he never lost despite being new to street racing, until he met the Teku and raced off against Kyle and his Synkro. Since then, he joined the Teku as one of its racers, as well as a mechanic and customizer. Seared Tuner is one of the few Teku cars that competed in a large number of realms, starting with the Storm Realm, ending in the Cliffside realm and partaking in almost every realm in between (Swamp, Cavern, Lava, Water).

## Usage

### Pre-Acceledrome

When GIG arrived at the coast to request aid from the Teku and Metal Maniacs, only three members of both teams went at the time, Mike and Seared Tuner being one of them, along with Henry Caine and his Mini Cooper GP JCW and Silavet Kitomyia and his Backdraft. On the way, while Henry and Silavet explained the history of the Wheel of Power, Highway 35 and Dr. Tezla to Mike, as well as David and Patrick, who also came along on Twin Mill and Mega-Duty, Leonidas appeared on Spinebuster and raced them all to Tezla's old cube, where they met with Brian "Zone" Kadeem, and after a brief reunion, followed him to the Acceledrome.

### Storm Realm

Upon upgrading Seared Tuner with Nitrox, the Teku and Metal Maniacs, along with Kadeem and his Krazy 8s, entered the Storm realm and, after a while in the realm, they encountered the Racing Drones. After a while of battling it out, one of the RD-06s dropped anti-vehicle mines and, in an attempt to dodge them, Mike swerves side to side until he bumped into one, detonating it and being blasted to the side of the track. Later on, while trying to catch up to the others, he spotted Henry's Mini Cooper, with its engine blown out. He stopped long enough to get Henry to the passenger seat on Seared Tuner and hook his car to tow it out the rest of the way. It was one of the last cars to exit the realm.

### Swamp Realm

Upon entering the Swamp realm, both Adam and Thomas gave the orders to split up to their respective teams. Mike was on his own through the majority of the realms. At one point, one of the giant mosquitoes tried to fly off with him, but he used his car's sound system to make it let him go and dropped him and his car back on the track. Fortunately, by the time he caught up with the other drivers, it was over, so he ended up being one of the first ones to exit the realm.

### Cavern Realm

At the start of the realm, Michael was playing his music through his sound system, which was bothering the Metal Maniacs, especially Patrick, who already dislike Teku music. Afterwards, he activates his multi-colored lightning to further bother Patrick, but worsening the situation due to the high volume causing vibrations to drop stalactites on the track. Just then, the drones commenced an onslaught on the drivers in an effort to eliminate them.

Fortunately, the drones were out the way thanks to Silavet and David. However, the danger didn't pass yet, as giant bats descended from the cave's ceiling, ambushing the drivers. During it all, Bully Goat and Monoposto were swarmed and damaged, followed by Boss Hoss and Track Ripper, and just as they were getting to Mike and his Seared Tuner, Silavet figured out how to stop them, so on Silavet's orders as well as his own pleasure he cranked the volume of his sound system to max peak, causing the bats to scatter and scramble, confused as to where to go due to their only means of navigation failing them, allowing Patrick to take the win. At the end, he entered the portal and exited the realm, just behind Boss Hoss.

### Lava Realm

When entering the realm, Mike took the right path with Adam, Kyle and Blake, hoping to reach the portal. When traversing further down the realm, they encountered RD-L1's RD-08 ahead of them. After an exchange of tactics between Adam and Kyle, Adam and Mike went through the left path while Kyle and Blake took the right path. Mike and Seared Tuner were one of the last drivers to exit the realm.

### Water Realm

With the new morphable treads and EDRs, as well as the Swamp and Cavern accelechargers, the Teku and Metal Maniacs drivers prepared themselves for the Water realm. Before leaving the acceledrome, Adam has passed the Swamp accelecharger to Mike in order to use its power when needed. Upon entering the realm, Mike and David were in the rear as they and the other drivers continued their descent to the track. Upon reaching the platform and the barrier having activated, they drove on to the exit portal. As Mike drove on, he heard what appeared to be a sputtering engine next to him and saw Rip Rod's engine releasing smoke and slowing down. Just as he was planning to take action, they already passed over a part of the track which was composed of water, but Rip Rod ended up sinking to the waters upon reaching the tube. David was fortunately able to get back to the acceledrome thanks to the EDR, however injured he became upon return. The drivers take a sigh of relief as they continue on and encounter a split in the path, with Boss Hoss, Hammerhead, Synkro and Seared Tuner taking the path leading to the surface while Monoposto continued deeper into the sea.

As they kept on, they passed by an underwater coral reef that impressed Mike aesthetically as he recorded it for his website while Blake and Kyle raced off to the end of the tube, where they reached the surface and are bound for the exit portal. As they raced to the finish, the Racing Drones have arrived and attacked the drivers. Blake noticed this and tried to warn the other drivers, but as the RD-L1 activated the Slam Ram Hyperpod, it was too late as the drone fired its ram, launching Seared Tuner, Synkro and Hammerhead in the air. Mike then used the Swamp accelecharger and saved himself by creating a path back to the track. Mike returned to the acceledrome before the other drivers, but sadly couldn't win the realm.

### Cliffside Realm

Upon entering the Cliffside realm, Mike was as carefree as he always is, despite the circumstances. As he, Kyle and David tackled the loop and entered the first turn, he got blindsided by the approaching drones and was nearly bumped to the rear of the pack. At Adam's orders, he and Kyle took off in order to prevent the drones from getting another victory under their belts. As if by tradition, Mike played music on Seared Tuner's sound system as he raced off. As the race kept on, he was disappointed at the fact that there isn't a Wi-Fi connection in his car when he wanted to listen to new music from the internet, making him raise the volume of his current music higher. As Seared Tuner and Synkro kept on, Twin Mill III and Hammerhead was catching up and was even seen on their rearview, followed by a warning from Blake regarding a sweeper in the lower track. Just as they heard that, they spotted said sweeper, which made Kyle take action by using the swamp accelecharger. Mike followed him on the root-based track further down the realm, thus avoiding the sweeper, but not its drones. What Mike didn't notice is that the sweeper deployed two drones before taking its last turn and one of then latched on to Seared Tuner's underside, damaging its nitrox tank in the process. Mike turned and jumped off the track to reach the bottom, thus slamming the drone to the track and driving off. Just as he was going to use the nitrox to pass a pair of drones, Synkro scraped its body in an attempt to knock Seared Tuner off the track. Fortunately, Seared Tuner was knocked out of the track and was freefalling to the bottom, forcing Mike to use the EDR to escape, Seared Tuner was not rebuilt after this.

## Features

* Grappling Hook- The Grappling Hook (also known as the Grappler Claw) is a universal device used mainly by the Teku & Metal Maniacs. The tool is very versatile, being used as a way to save yourself, save other drivers, sabotage other drivers, hitch a ride with other drivers, or even as a substitute to brakes

* Jump Jets - Engineered from Tezla's Wave Ripper technology, this mod lets racers make long jumps without a ramp, or hover over obstacles.

* 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.