'Come on, get it together Reno, you can do this. It's nothing to sweat about you could do this in your sleep. All you're doing is first blocking and then disabling the devices from the others. I didn't realize they'd all be here though. At least it'll make it a little easier. Because I'm not sure about the range of the signal. Alright, just a few more keystrokes.' Reno thought to himself as he scowled at the screen as he continued his work. He continued to work his code and then he was finished, everyone was free of Tobias. He sighed internally in relief.

Maverick kept his eyes on Tobias as he walked to the front of his car. "Tobias! It's time to settle things! You and me, no one else, one on one!"

Tobias smirked as he walked to the front of his car thinking over what was proposed to him. "I already run the crew Maverick, I have the numbers, money, and ultimate power, so what could you possibly offer me?"

'I'm sorry little brother, someday I hope you forgive me.' Maverick thought to himself as he continued to watch Tobias. "My life."

When Reno heard this his head snapped up from his computer, "What the hell?! Maverick! What are you thinking of sacrificing yourself for? Don't do this!"

Maverick ignored him as continued studying him, "Well? What's your answer?"

A malicious grin crept along his face, "An enticing offer Maverick. But I believe you have more to your offer. So you're seeing if I'm going to take the bait first before you tell me. Am I correct?"

"You know me well enough. So, again, what is your answer?"

"Alright, I accept. A one on one fight with you. Tell me what is extra to your challenge?"

Maverick gave a nod as he raised his fists slightly setting himself up for the fight, "No matter who wins everyone here you leave alone. The rest of the crew, my brother, golden boy, and his friends, as well as Dom and her crew. Everyone."

Tobias raised a brow as he continued to stand his ground, "You're asking a bit much."

"No, I think it's a fair enough request. You accepted the challenge, so then you have to accept the stipulations of it as well. Otherwise, everyone here will be drawn into one of the largest street fights this city has seen. But I believe you still want to keep the crew you have since it's incredibly hard to rebuild one from scratch." Maverick replied glaring at him.

"You're correct, it is such a pain to rebuild an entirely new crew from scratch. Fine, I'll accept your conditions, and since I'm being such a gentleman about it, I'll give you a few moments to say goodbye to your brother." Tobias sneered as he sat back on the hood of his car.

Maverick studied Tobias a bit longer, he then glanced across the way and caught Sage's attention. He sent a nod towards him and then turned around to walk to the passenger's side of his car. "Reno..."

His brother glared at him, "How could you?! Sacrificing yourself! You're out of your mind! You know as well as I do Tobias won't keep his word. Once the fight between you two is over he'll try to kill us as well."

"It's why I'm counting on you little brother. I need you to send the message out to the others here of what's going on, but if it looks like Tobias is going to win, I need for you to get out of here as fast as you can. Promise me, little brother, promise you'll drive like a bat out of hell."

"You can't make me promise! If he tries to kill you, I'll jump in and..."

"No Reno. You're not! You must promise me you'll stay out of the fight. You need to stay alive for Dom's sake. She needs you now more than ever."

Reno frowned at him in slight confusion, "What do you mean by what you just said?"

Maverick reached into the car and ruffled Reno's hair as he pulled his arm out and smirked, "I'm proud of you Reno with everything you've done with your life. I still need to hear you promise me you'll stay out of our fight no matter what."

"You're out of your mind, but fine. I promise." Reno replied in a defeated tone. He reached out and grabbed his hand, "You better not die on me. Promise!"

"I'll do the best I can to stay alive. But yes, I promise, I'll kick his sorry ass and make him pay for everything." Maverick replied as he pulled out of Reno's grasp. He walked away from the passenger door and made his way to the front of his car.

Reno frowned deeply when he watched his brother get himself set for the fight against Tobias. "Maverick..." As quick as he could Reno typed in his laptop to everyone's cell phones of what was going on. Once he saw the messages have been sent he set his computer down and slid into the driver's seat. He adjusted as he kept his eyes on the two as they were making their way towards one another.

People drew out their cells and read the messages they all received from Reno. The people from both crews understood what was happening and stood down.

Shaw looked at Yayoi with a frown, "What is this suppose to mean?"

"It's a street challenge. A one on one fight. No one is to interfere otherwise it'll turn out to be a free for all. Maverick probably thought this was the only way to keep Tobias from killing everyone."

"What?! Yayoi we can't allow this to happen! We have to stop them here and now!"

Yayoi grabbed onto Shaw's arm so hard it made him wince. "No! We can't interfere, if we do then the challenge is null and we all die. We stay put until their challenge is finished."

Shaw yanked his arm out of her grasp, "What makes you believe Tobias will keep his word? He's already shown he has no honor what so ever."

"I don't, but I do believe Maverick will make it out of this. It won't be pretty but he will survive and Tobias will be taken down along with the crew he ran. Once he's taken down as leader the crew will either turn themselves into the authorities or they will leave the city and never come back." Yayoi explained as she readjusted, "So just sit still and watch. I'm not exactly enthused about this either, but it's all we can do for now."

Shaw grumbled under his breath as he readjusted himself as well. He turned his attention towards the two as they were getting closer to one another.

"Sage..."

"I know Dom. But Maverick was the one who issued the challenge. We have to stand down and wait."

"You might want to explain to your friends what's going on, they might try to jump in or something."

"Right," Sage replied as he sent a group message to his friends which read stay out of it. This fight is between them and them alone. "Alright, they got the message. Knowing the others, they're not going to like it but they trust me just like I trust in them."

Dom glanced at Sage's friends behind them, and then back at him, "Pretty lucky to have found people who honestly care for you, Sage."

He gave a small nod, "They're great. But when this is all over don't you dare tell them I admitted such a thing to you."

Dom smirked a bit, "Why Sage, I'd never, well maybe..." But then her expression changed when she saw Tobias and Maverick were within striking distance. "Here goes nothing. Good luck Maverick."

Tobias and Maverick stared one another down, a wind blew threw which made the loose pieces of dirt rise and danced around in the air. Once it settled the two launched towards one another.

The first punch glanced by Maverick's chin. He registered it too late it was a fake when Tobias sent a second punch into his gut which made him lean forward as he peddled backward. "Oof." He winced a bit when he felt the pain churn in his stomach.

The shot to his stomach was a heck of a hit. Besides having the wind knocked out of him, he felt a major shot of pain in his gut. This he wasn't used to at all when he fought others before they tried for the face or kidneys, but the gut should have been more towards discomfort, not this much pain.

Tobias laughed as he shifted into position once more, "What's the matter Maverick? I thought you were tougher than this?"

Maverick growled low in his throat once he got himself back together again. He looked at his hand and noticed something glimmering. 'When did he put those on? Damn cheater! Brass knuckles!' He reset himself scowling at him, "Oh ok you want to play it this way, fine. You are such a cheater, using brass knuckles in a street challenge!"

Tobias shook his head as he kept his eyes on him. "Nothing was said about no weapons. You should have been a bit more explicit about the rules. Your fault. But if you can't handle it..."

"I can handle it just fine!" Maverick shouted as he took a lurching step forward he whipped his elbow around and drove the point into Tobias's jaw. He put his whole body into his strike as he tumbled backward but still staying on his feet. "A blow for a blow you bastard!"

Tobias glared at Maverick as he reached up and felt something hot and sticky running down the side of his mouth. He brought his hand up to his eye level and saw Maverick drew first blood. Lowering his hand he charged at full speed towards his opponent.

Maverick saw him coming and charged at him as well, equal change of swinging fists collided against one another. Hate-hardened fists beaten bruising tattoos across each one's midsections. Maverick's beatings were being felt deeper because of Tobias's brass knuckles, but it didn't matter, he had to keep going he made a promise to Reno and more than ever he intended to keep it. On the next pass, Maverick hooked his leg around Tobias and slammed him down to the ground. The two of them were rolling around and still punching at one another.

Tobias saw his opportunity and struck Maverick straight in the nose. Blood gushed out making his opponent bring his hands to his face. Tobias smirked and went in for another cheap shot but instead of connecting to Maverick's face, he connected to the ground instead because Maverick rolled out of the way just in time. Tobias and Maverick kept their eyes upon one another as Maverick lowered his hands from his face. He wiped his bloody hands on his jeans. Both of them were about halfway up when Maverick was the first to launch himself at Tobias in a full tackle. This time the impact was hard enough to knock the brass knuckles loose from his hand. Maverick released Tobias and got up to his feet as soon as possible. He ran to the brass knuckles and swiped them from the ground and threw them away from Tobias.

"I don't need them to beat someone like you Maverick!" Tobias growled as he scrambled back to his feet.

"Then you shouldn't have brought them in the first place if you didn't need them to beat me! Come on!" Maverick shouted back at him. He knew both of them were starting to be in a world of hurt. Neither one was holding anything back from their blows. But he was hurting more because of his injuries from the car crash all those years ago. The fight between them made them worse and Tobias knew it, he was counting on it. 'I have to end this quick. I don't know how much more I'll be able to take.' Maverick thought to himself as he kept his eyes on Tobias.

"Having problems Maverick? Are your old injuries catching up to you along with your new ones? Maybe I should be merciful and put you out of your misery." Tobias taunted as the two circled one another.

"Funny choice of words. You and mercy in the same sentence. You don't know the meaning of the word." Maverick seathed as he faltered a little.

"Then why are you stalling? Maybe I should end this now and give you a quick death?" Tobias inquired as he winced internally. He knew he too was not in the best of shape either. 'Even in the state he's in I'm surprised he's hanging on this long.'

"You know what Tobias. You talk too much!" Maverick said as he yelled and launched himself into a full body check jamming himself into his opponent at full speed. The extreme impact landed Tobias on his back and the two of them slid for a while across the loose gravel. Maverick put his arms on either side of Tobias and started to push himself up. But in midway of getting up, he didn't see Tobias gathering dirt into his hand and throwing it into his face. Maverick yelled as he yanked the rest of the way back and his hands flew to his eyes trying to wipe out the dirt.

Tobias took his chance and pushed Maverick off of him and staggered to his feet. He walked to the front of Maverick and started to kick into his midsection. Kicking, left-right-left and then another right slamming his foot up into Maverick's ribs. He grinned when he heard them crack and then he stumbled back a little with a grin on his face and breathing hard. "You lose, and now you will die," Tobias said as he raised his foot high, it was about ready to slam down upon Maverick's throat when at the last moment Maverick reached up with both hands and yanked his foot throwing Tobias off balance and back to the ground.

Maverick scrambled to Tobias's head and reached over, in one swift moment he yanked and twisted until the bones popped and a gruesome snap was heard. Maverick dropped Tobias's head to the ground and slid away from the corpse. Wincing in extreme pain Maverick looked over towards his brother. Breathing hard he raised a shaky fist with a thumbs up towards him.

Reno's eyes went wide when he burst out of the car and raced towards his brother. "You...Crazy..."

"Hey...I...Told you...I'd win." Maverick replied wincing in extreme pain.

Reno looked towards Sage and the others, "I need some help over here now!"

Sage and Dom raced out of their car with the others not far behind. Sage was the first one to arrive. "Maverick..."

"Hey, golden boy." Maverick started to say.

"Save your strength, you're going to need it. I'm going to call for an ambulance." Sage replied as he reached for his cell and hit speed dial for the nearest hospital. Once he was done telling them their location he put his cell back into his pocket. "They'll be here soon."

Dom studied Maverick as she moved to Reno's side, "What were you thinking?!"

Reno looked up towards her and took Dom's hand, "Now isn't the time to give my brother the riot act. I already did earlier. Let's have him rest for a while and then you can alright?"

Dom frowned at Reno and sighed, "Fine, but once he's out of the hospital he's so going to get it."

Maverick despite his injuries chuckled, "I deserve it I know."

Kento shook his head in slight amusement and then looked across the way when he heard engines starting and the other crew driving away. "Hey! Where are they going?"

"It's over, the crew is done Kento. Their leader is dead and they have no reason to stay. They'll leave the city and never come back. Just as what Maverick stated in the terms of their challenge." Sage explained as he watched the crew disappear.

Shaw frowned, "Wait, what about the chips they have implanted in them?"

"I deactivated every single one of them. They're free, we are all free. Once Tobias saw he couldn't blow us up he threw the remote down. It gave me enough time to block the other signals and deactivate the rest of them." Reno explained as he looked around.

Rowen smirked as he crossed his arms and gave a small nod, "Impressive."

Reno looked at him and smiled, "Thanks." He then turned his attention towards Yayoi and Shaw, "So are you two going to take us in?"

"No, we're not. You helped us take down Tobias and the crew is no more. But you'll need to leave after Maverick is healed. You won't be able to come back to the city, because if any of you do, then we'll have to arrest you." Yayoi replied as she studied the three and then turned her attention to her partner.

Maverick, Reno and Dom looked at one another and then back at Yayoi, "Fair enough detective." Maverick looked over at Sage, "Hey golden boy."

Sage gave him a small smile, "You don't need to say it Maverick. Everything is forgiven. We were all wrong and let things get out of hand. It shouldn't have gotten this far, but they did. People we care about were hurt and it isn't how we use to be. We never hurt anyone back in the day. We shouldn't have had to now. From here on out, we have a new future. It's up to us on how we'll live it."

Maverick laughed and then winced a bit, "It's alright. Even though things ended up the way they did, it was good to see you again."

"It was. Except if you want to see one another, call first." Sage replied with a shake of his head.

"Maybe next time, you can come and see us after we find a place to settle. Then we can have a rematch of our race." Maverick offered as he raised his hand.

"I'll still kick your sorry butt," Sage replied as he took Maverick's hand and shook it.

"Right, until then. You turned out better than I thought. I'm glad you and your dad patched things up too."

"Same. It was hard keeping it from everyone. Father and I will have some major explaining to do."

"Hey. The ambulance arrived." Ryo interjected as it drove up towards them.

"Well, I guess this is goodbye, golden boy."

Sage and the others watched as the EMTs carefully put Maverick on the gurney and set him inside of the ambulance. "How about a see you around instead of goodbye."

Maverick gave a nod as Reno and Dom were allowed to come inside of the back of the ambulance and ride back to the hospital with them.

Sage and the others watched as the ambulance rode away. "So, sis, what are you going to put in your report?"

Yayoi glanced at her brother and smirked as she leaned on her partner for support. "What else, what went down here of course. I'll just have to be a bit...Creative with the rest."

Sage smirked at her, "Think father will go for it? You know how he is with details."

"He'll have to. Because there's no way I'm going to rewrite it." Yayoi replied with slight humor in her voice.

Shaw looked at her with a raised brow, "Ha! What are you talking about? You'll end up reporting to me instead. I'm not going to do your paperwork forget it."

"Aww come on! You're my partner!"

"Partner, yes. Secretary, no. You can write your own."

"Fine, you win," Yayoi replied as she rolled her eyes a bit.

Shaw grinned, "Come on, I'm going to take you home so you can rest. What about the rest of you. Are you going home too?"

"I think so. We'll see you two around. Take care and get better soon!" Cye replied as he and the others watched the two detectives go back to their car and then drove away.

"Hey, before we leave. I just want to thank all of you for helping me out with this. I just wasn't sure if I should have brought all of you into this in the first place." Sage said as he looked at each one of them.

"No problem. You know we would have helped you out anyway no matter if you asked us or not." Rowen replied with a smirk as he and the others started walking to their vehicles.

"Do you think they'll come back, Sage?" Cye asked as he opened the door and started to get inside.

Sage thought about it as he was getting in the passenger side, "No I don't. I won't hear from them again. It's fine with me. They deserve to live their new lives. They have another chance to make something of it, and knowing them, they'll do just fine."

"Think you'll miss it? The racing I mean?"

Sage thought about it and then shook his head, "No, I'm done with it. Racing is definitely behind me now and I'm at peace with it. Let's go home."

Cye gave a nod as he smiled. He started the car and drove away with the others following.

As it is stated in philosophy: History has a way of delivering the right people in the right place at the right time. It's up to all of us to decide how to handle the repercussions of the past so they don't come back to haunt us later on in life.