While Blaze, AJ, Starla, Darington, and Zeg are going for a drive at the park, Stripes finds a photo album in a tree which has pictures of them when they were little. Blaze, AJ, Stripes, Starla, Darington, and Zeg then remember their first ever race together, back when they were little monster machines and a kid with BIG dreams of becoming racers! Along the way, they and the viewer meet Crusher for the first time. Meanwhile, Crusher meets Pickle for the first time and they quickly become best friends. Pickle cheers for Crusher, but this results in him having his very first string of bad luck. He also learns the word cheating for the first time.