Outside a Chuck E Cheese, a delivery girl arrives to drop off supplies, catching her eye was the sight of Hayabusa sat at a bar as another girl sits next to her, both women have a black glove on opposite hands, Hayabusa standing out like a sore thumb with her black leather cat suit and red leather jacket while the lady next to her looks like a mother with her cream sweater and sensible lounge pants.
"Couldn't you have picked a more quiet place? I've already been mistaken for a cosplayer" Hayabusa scowled.
"Would it kill you to wear something other than fetish grade leather, I only picked this place because I couldn't find a babysitter and my son wanted pizza" the mother replied.
After an awkward silence, Hayabusa started talking.
"What made you decide this?" Hayabusa asked
The other girl's drink was giving off steam before it calmed down, the delivery girl noticed this.
"Ayami" Hayabusa scowled as her own drink froze up.
"My son is starting to ask questions and in the future, I'd rather he didn't follow my path, the most obvious question is this" Ayami removes her glove to reveal a mechanical hand, Hayabusa didn't flinch but the delivery girl watching was shocked realising that it's the real Blazing Rose.
Hayabusa removed her glove to reveal her own mechanical hand.
"You have the memories of your previous incarnations, in fact you kept restarting the timeline until you got what you wanted even if it meant locking me out and creating a new Nasu" Hayabusa put her glove back on.
"Yet I'm still destined for pain, at least in this timeline I have a choice and no one is pushing for me to come back" Ayami but her glove back on.
"This Metro challenge will determine who controls it once and for all, even if it's in the hands of people like Senki, Kara, Misao the Helkins or even Maria, I'd like to avoid the wars of the past, I'd rather not be forced out of retirement to fix it anymore, and if it does, you're welcome to stop it" Ayami signals her son to leave.
Hayabusa was relieved to finally leave, still wondering how any civilised person can like mascots, death staring the mascot as she leaves.
After Ayami leaves, the delivery girl follows her, a call on her phone shouts out the name Zoe as she turns it off, it was a long drive but Zoe was determined to see Blazing Rose.
Her journey ends at a block of apartments next to a mountain race track, this was the Gear Club, a private club for high ranking racers, a cousin of Zoe's is a member.
Zoe eventually got to Ayami's apartment and went down on her knees and when Ayami answered.
"Please Blazing Rose, teach me how to race!"