Zoom-Zoom

Zoom-Zoom is a movie that serves as MF Bunko J's 25th anniversary tribute and merger with Mazda and other company to make 1 New Group, MF Brands, launched in July 2027.

Summary
Set in alternate universe, the neighbor's club was killed by the corrupt Student Council president and his cronies. 5 years later, their neighbor was a heart for revenge.

Plot
Set in Earth-1920, 2017, Tsurugi Kurobane was the neighbour of The Neighbours' club and their fan. He was befriended them since summer. The leader, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji and Suzune Horikita notices him to be waiting until their exam ends, as their promotion to Class A next month.

Later, after the exam ends, Class D get a perfect scores for their promotion mark. But, Horikita's older brother, Manabu, who is the corrupt student council president, works together with Class A, Class C, and his assistant, Akane Tachibana to steal their perfect scores to zero score. 3 days later after the exam results correction, after Manabu and his cronies' plan was succeeded, their revelry is interrupted by the Neighbours' club who accuse them of stealing their exam score and bribing the teachers to alter the score. Manabu tells them to their face that is exactly what they did, and there's nothing he can do about it. Ayanokouji and Horikita tell them that they studied better, and will take the lot of them to court. The club storm off to get the authorities involved.

The Neighbours' club are discussing their plight with Inspector Jiro Shijima at the police station. They go over all the details, and Shijima makes a call to the Student Council members. He learns they are still at the Student Council room, so they go off to confront them with the evidence. Much to Ayanokouji's dismay, he finds out that Shijima is on the bankroll of Student Council, and will be on hand to both kill the Neighbours' club, and to make sure there is no investigation into their death.

The club don't agree with their plans, and start kicking their asses. After a fairly well-done fight, They manage to escape outside to their Mazdas. Their plans are foiled when the Student Council members come outside and start smashing their Mazdas up with various blunt objects. Once the windows are gone, they then start hitting the club and eventually knock them out. Shijima tells them not to kill them this way. They need to make it look like an accident. They decide to push their car into the lake with them inside.

As the car sinks below the surface, The club wake up and stares at the Student Council members through the back window. Manabu taunt his sister to claims that she is not his sister anymore while the other Student Council members taunt the Neighbours' club, and congratulate themselves on a job well done.

5 years later, Tsurugi is now a 20-year-old man who accepted by HSBC Tokyo. On the first day of his job, he falls in love with a rich girl, Yuzuko Misaki, who later also feels the same for him. One day, he discovers and recognizes Ayanokouji and Horikita's car, Mazda RX-8, immediately. He somehow pools money and buys it at 5000 yen.

Tsurugi wants to update the car that reminds him of Neighbours' club. Little does he know that, he has also brought back his old friends, whose souls are trapped inside the car. Tsurugi's family and boss aid his cousin in repairing RX-8. It is totally revamped into a car more advanced than Mazda's design, and Tsurugi decides to rename it RX-9 to honor his old friend's memory.

That night, Neighbours' club's spirits possesses RX-9 and rolls off down the driveway on his own. He makes his way to Katsuragi Mansion, Plot 7 (thanks for the sign!) and lies in wait as a white car pulls up to the house. Two of the villainous Class A students Kouhei Katsuragi and Alice Sakayanagi (who is pregnant) get out of the car and Katsuragi begins speaking on his cell phone. RX-9 overhears (not quite sure how, he has a noticeable lack of ears) The Katsuragis' travel plans for the following day, and also notices a sticker for Tsurugi's cousin's garage on his car. RX-9 waits until Katsuragi and Sakayanagi go into Katsuragi Mansion Plot 7, then he inches up and breaks both headlights on Katsuragi's car.

We get a rather well done transition from RX-9's blazing headlight to an arc welding torch. Said torch is being wielded by Tsurugi's cousin's employee, who is on duty at the garage. Tsurugi's cousin instructs him to go to a customer's house and tow his car back to the garage. Then, a familiar white car shows up at the garage to have some headlights replaced. RX-9's headlights "open" and he "watches" Katsuragi pull into the garage. Katsuragi explains what he needs to have done, and Tsurugi's cousin tells him that breaking glass is a sign of good luck. The only reason I mention this is because of Katsuragi's reply, "If this were possible, then I would have lived in a glass house, and would have messed with every crazy man carrying a stone."

This is good stuff, people.

Soon thereafter, Katsuragi's car is all set, and he and Sakayanagi are off on their road trip. He seems to be taking a leisurely pace, and is literally driving down the middle of the road. We hear a car honking and trying to pass, so Katsuragi lazily slides over to one lane. The honking car zooms past him, and he takes up his former position in the center of the street.

The camera stops following his car for a moment to show us a rapidly moving plume of dust whipping down a dirt road not far from the paved one.

Katsuragi's car which is again doing 35 mph in the middle of the road. RX-9 gets right on Katsuragi's back bumper and starts honking his horn. Katsuragi sighs and moves over to one lane and allows RX-9 to pass. Not long after RX-9 takes the lead, he slows down and gets in Katsuragi's way. Irritated, Katsuragi begins honking his horn and gesturing in an angry fashion. RX-9 moves over as if to let him pass, but as soon as he changes lanes RX-9 blocks him again. This continues for a while, with various car chase clichs playing out (forcing people off the road, nearly hitting trucks, etc). Inevitably they pass a road construction crew, and RX-9 must go up onto two wheels to avoid the equipment, and to thrill the audience.

RX-9 gets up close and begins ramming Katsuragi's car as the chase gets faster and faster. We then come to another moment that seemed out of place. Okay, RX-9 is clearly attempting to kill Katsuragi, so the natural thing for him to do now is to pull over and help a busload of stranded kids. The chase takes them past what (at least to me) resembles the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile without the bun. RX-9 stops chasing Katsuragi, and backs up to push the bus out of the ditch it has slid into.

As the bus drives away with the merry and thankful children safely on their way, RX-9 sends them off with an exhaust smiley face that winks at them!

Okay, what were we doing... oh that's right, murdering the married couple. Katsuragi pulls up to a closed railroad crossing gate and breathes a sigh of relief. A quick check in the mirrors shows no sign of the scary red car, so he begins to relax. The oncoming train blows its whistle, startling Katsuragi and Sakayanagi and making them tense again. He has good reason though, since RX-9 has caught up and is presently ramming into his trunk again. Each time he is hit, his car is pushed up closer to the tracks as the train passes by. Eventually RX-9 gets Katsuragi's car far enough up on the tracks that the rear end begins being shaved off by the passing train. However we run out of train before Katsuragi's car can be completely destroyed, and he manages to get off of the tracks.

Katsuragi gets out of his seriously damaged car and pulls out a pistol. He puts several rounds into the windshield of his antagonists, then moves in close to get a look at who was driving. When he opens the door, he notices that (gasp!) the car is empty! The door closes itself, causing Katsuragi to panic and run back to his car. As he does so, RX-9 revs his motor again, then performs a stunt I'll admit I've not seen before. RX-9 swerves sideways and begins doing barrel rolls along the ground to slam into Katsuragi's car. As one might imagine, this is just as hard on RX-9 as it is on Katsuragi's car. However he has enough moxy left to pull around and slam into Katsuragi's car one more time, sending it improbably airborne and exploding when it lands. Scratch two corrupt high school alumnis off the list.

After a moment of quiet as it seems RX-9 is catching his breath, we see the severely dented and broken RX-9 begin to repair himself (why yes, exactly like Christine did). Once his repairs are complete, we have a resounding song of "Zoom-Zoom-Zoom!" from the soundtrack and RX-9 drives away.

Later in the day, we see a group of Futo detectives and police officers at the scene of the explosion. Detective Shotaro Hidari and his partner Philip Sonozaki are on the scene, and thinks that this is more than just an accident. After his subordinates hassle everyone the crime scene investigator comes over to report that there were two sets of tire tracks, and not is all as it seemed. Shotaro seems pleased with himself about his hunch, and sets about beginning the investigation.

From the autopsy they can determine that it was Katsuragi and Sakayanagi in the car, so they go to their house for the funeral. Shotaro questions Sakayanagi's parents about any possible enemies that their daughter may have had, but they tell him that she didn't have an enemy in the world. Mio Ibuki and Kakeru Ryuen (The Class C alumni) come in and speak with the detectives. We are also introduced to Ryuen's young brother Josuke Ryuen, alias Jojo, to whom every little fact becomes "the latest news." This is a joke that wears out its welcome quite quickly. Shotaro tells them both that if they can think of anything that would help in the case, they should let him know immediately.

There is some rather pointless discussion about how they should not be too broken up about Katsuragi and Sakayanagi's death, since all they were were fraud partners, and they should get on with their lives. Oh, we do learn that Manabu and Akane are out of the country at the moment. This may or may not be important later, so just file that away. They all depart the funeral to get ready for their new year celebration that evening, leading us to our next musical number which I feel may have been mistranslated for the menu on the DVD.

This goes on for some time, but we do see the Class C alumni arriving at the club and joining in the festivities. RX-9 takes notice of their arrival. He overhears Ibuki telling the manager of the club that she left her family at home, and hoped she had some friendly ladies in the club for her tonight. Equipped with this news, RX-9 starts up and leaves the parking lot.

While the party rages into the night, RX-9 pays Ibuki's mother a little visit. He pulls up outside the house and starts revving his engine and honking his horn. Somehow these two sounds get louder and louder, seriously distressing Mrs. Ibuki as well as breaking lots of windows and impossibly shorting out the lights. Panic-stricken, she calls the club to tell Ibuki what is happening. She tells her to get the plate number and call the cops, and she'll be home as soon as she can.

As this conversation takes place, RX-9 leaves the house and heads back to the club. He manages to get there in time to block Ibuki's path as she heads home. Annoyed that the road is blocked, Ibuki gets out of her car and goes up to see what's the matter. After pounding on the door gets her nowhere, Ibuki opens the passenger door and leans in to see who is driving.

As most of us can say, this is not a good idea. RX-9 closes the door and traps Ibuki inside. RX-9 begins speeding around the road, hitting bumps and making sudden stops so that Ibuki is slammed around the inside of the car. RX-9 stops and opens the glass door on his back, and Ibuki tries to get out through it. The door starts slamming down onto Ibuki's head, then the whole car begins spinning violently around.

RX-9 decides he's had enough playtime and drives out to the lake where the Neighbours' Club are submerged five years ago. He opens his door and swerves to launch Ibuki out of the car. RX-9 reverses to get some room, then runs into Ibuki very hard, flinging her (with two very broken legs) into the water.

Ibuki splashes around for a minute while screaming for help. RX-9 contentedly sits on the shore and revs his engine at the rapidly drowning girl. Eventually, Ibuki slips beneath the surface and does not come back up. Three down, four to go.

The next morning finds us at the lake where Shotaro is getting the facts. They have recovered the wallet, and learn that this is Mio Ibuki. Shotaro starts putting the pieces together: Mrs. Ibuki had reported that her daughter had not returned that night and that there had been a car at her house making a lot of noise. He tells his deputies to get the report about the car and see who it is registered to.

An undetermined amount of time later, we see Tsurugi and Misaki arriving at the office. Shotaro and Philip are waiting for him, and tell him that they're going to take him to the police station to ask him a few questions. Shotaro mentions there's been a murder, and they have reason to believe he may be involved.

In an odd turn of events, they arrive at the station in RX-9, and Tsurugi is driving Shotaro and Philip there! As they pull up to the front door, Ibuki's family comes out of the station. They see the car and immediately flip out. Mrs. Ibuki starts accusing Tsurugi of killing her daughter, but they pull her off of him and take her away. Inside the questioning begins. Police Officer Ryu Terui thinks it odd that Tsurugi says he doesn't know Ibuki or where his house is, yet his car was there, and his license number was reported. The CSI guy comes in and confirms that RX-9's tire tread matches those found at the various crime scenes.

Tsurugi tells them that he's done nothing wrong, and has alibis for each case they're talking about. Terui tells his underlings to get on the phone to HSBC and check out Tsurugi's story. Outside the office, we hear a disturbance. Ryuen has arrived with Jojo to see what's going on. Ibuki's family tells them they have captured Tsurugi and that he was the killer. Ryuen bursts into the office and starts threatening Tsurugi. Terui tells them all that this is not their investigation and has them removed from the office. As they are leaving, we see Tsurugi's family as well as six or seven other people arriving at the station.

Terui asks Mr. Kurobane if he knows Tsurugi. Mr. Kurobane says that he does, and implies that he thinks Terui is an idiot for even thinking that Tsurugi would be capable of murdering people. Terui asks him if he could account for Tsurugi's whereabouts on the day of the first murder. Mr. Kurobane says that Tsurugi was running an errand for him in the bank company that day, and his car must have been parked at his office since Tsurugi wasn't driving it. Mickey and the other people all then state that they were with Tsurugi at the nightclub the night of the second murder. Much to his chagrin, Terui admits that he doesn't have sufficient rights to detain Tsurugi at the station, so he is free to go once everyone has made an official statement.

Outside, Ryuen is trying to console Ibuki's family. Jojo informs them that the "latest news" is that Tsurugi and his pals are all coming out of the station. They conveniently stand in front of Ryuen's group and confirm their trip to Osaka in two days. As they take their leave, Ryuen vows revenge and kicks RX-9 in the rear bumper. This awakens the Wrath of RX-9, and he retaliates by angling his tailpipe upwards and blasting Ryuen in the face with a cloud of thick, black exhaust. This amuses Jojo, and he comments as such.

Well, we're getting sidetracked from all the killing. I think we also need a little extra drama to spice things up. We cut to Misaki's house where the phone is ringing. Misaki puts the caller on speakerphone and is happy to hear that it is her cousin calling. One thing we should point out - we have yet to hear Misaki's family name. Just so happens that she is the evil Student Council President Manabu Horikita's cousin. She tells him of her weekend plans, then runs outside where Tsurugi is sweetly and loudly blasting RX-9's horn.

Misaki asks Tsurugi to get her door for her since she has applied Mehendi to her hands and doesn't want to mess up the artwork. Tsurugi is impressed and helps her out. Now, Misaki's a little crafty. Since her hands are useless for a while, she takes advantage of her situation to escalate the flirting a bit. She comments that the wind is blowing her hair into her face, and asks that Tsurugi tie her hair back with a scarf. Oh, and the scarf is wedged into her back pocket, below her rather elaborately laced little vest shirt thing she's got on. Tsurugi takes his time getting the scarf out and tying it carefully on her noggin while RX-9 hurtles down the road at normal cruising speed.

RX-9 takes notice that Tsurugi is not watching the road, and starts steering for him and avoiding the oncoming traffic. Said traffic is honking and making lots of noise, but I guess that is one challenging scarf to tie since Tsurugi doesn't look up for a moment. Pleased with her first attempt, Misaki begins Phase 2. She begins to squeal and wiggle around in the seat, complaining that she has an itch. We get about a minute of "nope, lower, lower" etc until Tsurugi is poking her back just above her waist. She gets a sly grin on her face and pays him an odd compliment, but that's just what he needs to put the moves on her.

Now, I can understand being distracted by a pretty girl who wants attention, but I think out of a sense of self-preservation I would at least stop the car before making out with her. Tsurugi throws caution to the wind and starts smooching Misaki without even tapping the brakes. Bear in mind, he is not aware that RX-9 can steer himself, so this strikes me as pretty irresponsible. But whatever. RX-9 takes the wheel again while Tsurugi and Misaki "tell secrets" to each other for a while. He even goes so far as to flatten himself to get underneath a semi-trailer that is blocking the road. Very nice!

As often occurs, Tsurugi is so endeared by this display of affection, he can only truly show his happiness in song.

After the kids are done singing, we are jerked back to reality by a monstrous traffic jam. RX-9 stops short and slides sideways to fit snugly between two giant trucks. The police are on hand to sort out the mess, and who should be among them but Inspector Jiro Shijima? RX-9's headlights go wide with the realization that another of his prey is on hand. Shijima comes over and asks Tsurugi a few questions about his unique vehicle, then accuses Tsurugi of using his flashy car to transport drugs. He orders Tsurugi and Misaki out so he can search for heroin.

Shijima has Tsurugi open the trunk, and he leans in to have a look. RX-9 is having none of this and slams down the lid onto Shijima's neck. After some Winnie the Pooh-styled comedy involving several grown men trying to pull Shijima's stuck head out of the car, they manage to get the lid up to free him. Angry and wounded, Shijima tells them to get lost. As a parting gift, the mysteriously dexterous tailpipe makes another appearance and pulls Shijima's leg out from under him.

Tsurugi and Misaki finally arrive at the engagement party and are led off by their friends. RX-9 wastes no time in getting back to business and pulls out of the parking lot as soon as Tsurugi is out of sight. We see Shijima driving down the road in his white Jeep (and sporting a neck brace). RX-9 spots him and takes off after the Jeep, while the exciting chase music we enjoyed as Katsuragi was stalked rolls in on the soundtrack.

RX-9 gets to bumping the Jeep off the road fairly quickly this time and waits patiently in the middle of the road as Shijima gets out on foot. Shijima approaches RX-9, and orders Tsurugi to get out or else he'll kill him. As he draws his gun, RX-9 begins to drive backward, keeping distance between them. This goes on for quite a while, leaving them several hundred yards away from the Jeep. Shijima grows tired of the little game and fires a shot into the air. At this, RX-9 stops and lets Shijima get close.

Shijima goes to the driver's side window and orders him to open up. RX-9 lowers the window to reveal the empty seats, and the predictable "oh gosh I am frightened" response arrives for the third time. Shijima does what any sane man would do, and walks to the front of the car so that he's right in RX-9's path. RX-9 begins to drive forward while Shijima runs backward as fast as he can. After stopping for a herd of goats and cows that have wandered onto the road, Shijima manages to make it back to his Jeep only to have it pushed down a hill by RX-9 and then explode.

Back at the engagement party, things are winding down. Mickey and his bride-to-be are escorting the guests out to the parking lot. In a brief moment of tension, we are shown that RX-9 hasn't made it back to the event as of yet. Tsurugi and Misaki helpfully keep their backs to the empty parking spot until the last second, when RX-9 rolls into his spot. With that bit of stress aside, it's time to check in with Ryuen.

Ryuen and Jojo are seated outside, hearing the latest news from Futo detectives. Philip mentions that Inspector Shijima has been killed, and the connections are starting to fall into place. All of the recently murdered people were former associates of Ryuen's, so they feel he has reason to be alarmed. They offer him police protection and strongly suggest that he take them up on the offer.

This leads to several minutes of comedy material involving Jojo and Ryuen. Some of it is pretty funny, but it might be a little tedious for me to describe how they spend the next few minutes of screen time panicking and chasing each other around the house. The image to the left here is a good example of the routine, so just have a look at that for about four minutes and we're nearly there!

The chase scene ends with Ryuen implying that Jojo was not much brighter than a donkey. Jojo is weary of such malicious epithets, so he sets out to prove his worth by intercepting the killer before he can reach Ryuen. The next day finds Jojo with a Jeep load of cohorts waiting outside the college campus where they have tracked RX-9. Jojo calls in an anonymous tip to Tsurugi that Ryuen will be taking a trip to a nearby city soon, and would be vulnerable to an attack. Tsurugi doesn't know what he's talking about, but the ever-vigilant RX-9 is within hearing distance of Jojo's Jeep and makes a mental note (if a car can do such a thing). As Jojo explains the rest of his cunning plan to his friends - that being they will follow Tsurugi as he moves to kill Ryuen and eliminate him before he completes his task - RX-9 pulls out from behind them and makes his way to the highway unnoticed.

We cut to the open road where Ryuen is congratulating himself on making it out of town unscathed. Jojo calls him to tell him of his plan. Ryuen notices a few tactical errors in Jojo's reasoning and angrily disconnects. He spots some thatched huts not too far from the road and decides he will spend the night in one until the threat blows over.

As he approaches the huts, one of them begins to shake back and forth, then actually begins to slide along the ground towards him! Ryuen hightails it back to his car and speeds off down the road with the hut in hot pursuit. The hut is not large enough to cover the tail end of the RX-9 sticking out of the back, but this goes unnoticed by the terror-stricken Ryuen.

Somehow RX-9 throws the hut onto the top of Ryuen's car. After some careful braking, the hut is dislodged, and the proper chase begins. Once more for emphasis, we have the victim noticing that there is no one driving the deadly red car, and he freaks out. He does manage to maneuver RX-9 into striking a light post and buys himself a little time.

Back at the campus, Jojo notices that Tsurugi and his father are coming out of the buildings. They all crouch down behind his Jeep to watch them head out. Tsurugi notices that RX-9 is not in the parking lot, and worries that if something happens again he will be blamed for it. His father says he will drive him to the police station so he can file a report and hopefully avoid blame. Jojo sees them head out, and hops back into the Jeep. In his excitement, he drives off before his buddies can get in, but this fact goes unnoticed for quite some time.

Back at the chase, Ryuen is forced off the road near a little rest stop area. After a few threatening advances, Ryuen seems doomed. However, a small boy playing with a beach ball wanders between Ryuen and RX-9, forcing RX-9 to halt his advance. Ryuen notices that RX-9 won't hurt the boy, so he picks him up to use as a human shield. Up until now, Ryuen had been more of a comic relief character, but this officially elevates him to human slime status.

RX-9 backs up and pulls out of the lot, so Ryuen drops the kid and runs for the phone booth.

At the police station, Tsurugi and his father are seated in Terui's office explaining what's been happening while Jojo listens outside. As they are talking, Ryuen calls Terui's office. Terui tries to explain that Tsurugi isn't trying to kill him since he's sitting right in front of him. Ryuen tries to explain that no one is in the car, but is less than coherent since he's noticed RX-9 is coming back towards the rest stop. As he screams into the phone for Terui to save him, RX-9 plows into the booth and claims another victim.

That night, Akane Tachibana (now an Asian-American supermodel) comes home to Japan and she wants to hitch a ride to minimarket. Later, RX-9 comes to agree. Akane thinks that RX-9 has an autopilot system. Arrived at minimarket, Akane goes shopping. After that, something strange in RX-9. He crashed at the minimarket and smashed Akane and destroys the minimarket. Many of her fans are scared of her death. Tsurugi and his father arrive and are interviewed by News Channel about his innocence. We get a quick scene of Tsurugi and his father as they wonder aloud who it could be that is taking Tsurugi's car and committing these crimes, but they give up wondering and just go home. Thanks, movie!

We cut to Tsurugi and his father walking up his driveway at home. He notices that RX-9 is back in his parking spot, so he runs inside and calls Shotaro and Philip to have them come and check the car. When he arrives, Shotaro and Philip ask if there are computer systems or robotics inside that might control the car remotely, but of course, there are none. Shotaro asks Tsurugi's mother if she heard anything when the car was brought back, but she did not. Shotaro and Philip are visibly frustrated and accuse Tsurugi of giving his car to someone else and somehow forcing them to commit the murders. Tsurugi's mother is furious at such ideas, and points out that if the car had been out smashing into buildings, shouldn't there be some sort of damage to RX-9? She gets rather insulting to the detectives, but they do back down. They settle for chaining RX-9 to the ground until they can sort things out. Tsurugi promises that RX-9 will not be involved in any more cases of wrongdoing, or else he will bear the blame for all five incidents.

We have a short montage of Tsurugi hammering giant spikes into the ground and running some good-sized chains through the spokes of RX-9's wheels to hold him in place. I got to thinking about this. Tsurugi built this car basically from scratch. Shouldn't he know a more reliable method of ensuring RX-9 was immobile? How about disabling the ignition? Draining the fuel tank? Removing a tire? Perhaps I am overanalyzing again. On with the show! Oh, before the scene ends, we are treated to another stirring rendition of "Zoom-Zoom-Zoom!"

Well, let's lighten things up here. Over at Misaki's house, Manabu comes home from his college trip a day early to surprise his cousin. He promises to go to meet Tsurugi's family and announce that Misaki is welcome to marry Tsurugi. In the meantime, he wants to go and see his old friends.

Over at Ryan's house, Jojo brings Manabu up to speed on the state of his old pals. He tells Manabu that all of them were killed by the same car. That car happens to belong to the Neighbours' Club's neighbor. He warns Manabu that if word gets out that he was an old partner of the others, he'll not live very long.

That afternoon, Misaki and Manabu arrive at Tsurugi's house to meet the family. RX-9 notices them pulling up and glares at them with his headlights. The initial meeting goes well, with everyone getting along famously. That is, until Manabu notices Neighbour's Club's picture on the mantle, and puts all the pieces together.

Manabu experiences a vivid hallucination of Tsurugi explaining that he only pretended to love Misaki to get him to come home from his trip so that he might kill him as he did the other partners. Manabu snaps out of it and complains of not feeling well. He quickly gathers up Misaki and says goodbye. When they get home, Misaki stops him at the doorway and demands to know what the heck is going on. Manabu tells her that all she needs to know is that he does not want her to marry Tsurugi, and that's the final word. Misaki defiantly tells him that she's going to marry Tsurugi no matter what he says, and stomps off to her room.

Thinking quickly, Manabu puts a plan into motion. He has Jojo call Tsurugi, impersonating his father, and tell him that Manabu is taking Misaki away to London with him so they cannot be married. He tells Tsurugi to come over right away and save her!

The ruse works, and Tsurugi tells his family what's going on. They tell him that they will come too, in the hopes of convincing Manabu that this is a mistake. They run off to catch a cab, leaving RX-9 all upset. He scoots back and forth until he manages to break free of his chains and speed off to Misaki's. RX-9 being the somewhat faster car gets in the lead, and notices a roadblock and detour sign. He follows the sign and heads off the paved road. After he disappears, Jojo emerges from hiding and clears the fake roadblock. Oh no!

RX-9 finds himself in an isolated location facing down Manabu. Manabu challenges Tsurugi to get out of the car and face him, but RX-9 lurches forward to run him over. Manabu dodges, and Jojo rams into RX-9 from behind in his Jeep. The blow forces RX-9 over a small cliff, where he lands in a million pieces on a beach below.

Jojo and Manabu go back to the house and congratulate themselves on a plan played out to perfection. Unfortunately, they hadn't counted on Misaki hearing them. She bursts into tears and goes out to see for herself. Down at the beach, Tsurugi and his parents survey the wreckage and wonder how the heck RX-9 even got there in the first place. Misaki finds them there and tells them that her cousin engineered this little "accident." Manabu was apparently hot on Misaki's heels since he's now standing next to them and punching little Tsurugi in the head.

Things break down into a general melee at this point with everyone tugging on everyone else's arms and slaps being thrown about with wild abandon. Then Manabu commits the ultimate crime and throws Tsurugi's parents down. Their head glances off a rock in the tumble and they're out cold on the sand.

Manabu throws Tsurugi onto his boat which happened to be moored nearby. As he takes them out into the water, he tells Tsurugi that he is going to kill him just like he killed his neighbors. He binds Tsurugi's hands and throws him overboard.

Tsurugi is more buoyant than Manabu anticipated and keeps bobbing back up to the surface. In a fit of anger, Manabu begins to poke Tsurugi with an oar to get him to stay under. Back on shore, RX-9 begins to twitch his individual pieces and starts rebuilding himself. As this is happening, Tsurugi's parents wake up and stare in amazement as all of the scattered pieces start sliding along the ground and flying together, transforming them into an Autobot.

Once his transformations are complete, a brilliant light from Heaven beams down into the robot, and his flashy blue eyes of RX-9 coalesce behind the wheel. He looks out at Tsurugi's parents who are astonished at what they're seeing. RX-9 gives them a smile, then transforms into a submarine.

Out on the water, Tsurugi has finally stopped struggling and begins to sink deeply into the water. RX-9 plows himself right into the ocean. RX-9 dives deep into the water and maneuvers under Tsurugi's inert form. RX-9 then begins to ascend through the waves. RX-9 somehow transforms into a jetski to hold Tsurugi securely in place, then begins to drive across the water to head towards Manabu's boat.

This chase goes on for a while, with some terribly exciting music thumping along on the soundtrack. RX-9 rams into the boat, causing Manabu to fall overboard and become ensnared in a fishing net. RX-9 then "drives" over Manabu who ducks underneath to avoid the blow. He is successful in doing so, but RX-9 catches the net Manabu is still stuck in with his tailpipe and begins dragging him around. He finally transforms into a robot, and slings Manabu up onto the beach, where Tsurugi regains consciousness.

Tsurugi is a little surprised to see RX-9 in his robot form. After sharing a warm smile with each other, RX-9 turns his attention back to Manabu.

As RX-9 shoots Manabu with his laser cannon in 9 times, Manabu is badly injured. At that moment, Misaki arrives with the Futo detectives, so RX-9 stops shooting. He opens his mask and revealed himself as the Neighbors' club on the monitor screen on RX-9's face in front of the amazed onlookers.

As Suzune Horikita is inside RX-9's monitor screen, she walks over to his evil brother Manabu, who begins begging for his life. He pleads for mercy, but Horikita asks if he was shown mercy when the roles were reversed. She asks Manabu if he ever considered how the Neighbors' club's death would affect Tsurugi and his family. She tells Manabu that she could have killed him out on the water, but he wanted to make sure that everyone knew that Tsurugi was not the one killing everybody so instead she brought him to shore.

Manabu takes this opportunity to confess to the Futo cops and everyone else all of the crimes he committed against his young sister, and he sobs for forgiveness. After Manabu's sins was forgiven by RX-9, he continues crying and rushes over to Terui and asks that he be arrested. Terui cuffs him and tells him (basically) "this is what you get when you screw people over."

With the business side taken care of, it's time for RX-9 to say goodbye. His screen changes to Ayanokouji and stops to speak to Tsurugi's family and tells them that if there is a rebirth, then the Neighbor's club will one day be reborn as the Kurobane's new family members. Then, the Neighbors' club say sorry to Tsurugi that they couldn't be with him as he was growing up, but he is happy that Tsurugi's cousin could build such an amazing car. He also advises Tsurugi that the next time he takes Misaki on a drive, not to take his hands off the wheel. With that, the alarm rings, RX-9 closes his face mask and says goodbye to the Kurobane's family, and transforms into a spaceship to go home to their new home planet, Cybertron.

As RX-9 arrives on Cybertron, everyone on the shore looks at him with dazed expressions.

In a mid-credits scene, Tsurugi and Misaki had a marriage ceremony. Meanwhile, in Cybertron, RX-9 becomes the Autobot Espionage and Optimus Prime renames him/her into Road Rage.