"Mater, hold still!"

"Naw, I don't wanna wear it! It itches too dang much!" The sounds of a revving engine engine were heard.

"Well, if you'd just hold still until I get your tow hook through the right hole, then it wouldn't itch!"

Lightning rolled over to his friend's scrap yard, confused as to what the three were doing. Jack had told him that he couldn't see what they were doing, and Lightning was getting worried when he heard Jack shouting.

"There, you're done, Mater." Jack said with what sounded like a sigh of relief. Mater barreled out of his scrap yard, wearing what appeared to be a set of green suspenders, odd-looking hubcaps and a hat.

"What are you wearing?"

"I'm wearin' Materhosen!." Mater replied with a giant grin. Lightning laughed, then asked if Mariana and Jack were ready yet. Mater shook his roof from side to side, almost making his hat fall off.

"Come on, you guys, it's almost time to go!" Lightning called around his fake fangs. He had gone over to Ramone's a few hours earlier and was a pale white, with drops of 'blood' running down from his roof, and also from the corners of his mouth, where his fangs poked out. Mariana came out, painted blue with a darker line running down the middle of her roof and trunk. She had a roofband with antennae on it attached to her roof, and giggled when she saw Mater.

"You look silly, Mater." Mater grinned and tickled her hood with a tire, making her giggle.

Jack came out, wearing a dreadlock wig with beads and a few feathers in it, along with a tricorn hat (A/N A hat like Jack Sparrow's).

"Arrrgh!" Jack announced triumphantly, brandishing fake pistols.

"A pirate! Cool!" Lightning replied, grinning and baring his fangs at her. "I am Vlad the Vampire! I vant to siphon your gas!" He announced, chuckling evilly. Sally drove out of her lobby, her paintjob also pale white, and sporting slightly smaller fangs than Lightning's. "Ah! A perfect victim for gas-siphoning!" He exclaimed, turning around to greet her.

"Yeah, okay, Vlad. Are you three ready? The party starts soon." Sally asked, looking over at Mater, Mariana, and Jack and smiling.

"Yeah, we're ready!" Came three replies.

"Great! Let's go!"

The group drove over to Flo's, where the others were all gathering also.

Red shyly waved to Sally, dressed as the Grim Reaper, his scythe in his side ladder. Sally called hello to him, smiling.

Flo was dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, and Ramone, who was parked beside her had painted himself like a devil, complete with an 'S' shaped tail on his trunk, flaming three-pronged pitchforks on his doors, and flames across his hood.

Sheriff was wearing what appeared to be a cowboy hat with a sheriff's badge on it as he chatted with Sarge, who was wearing raggedy tires, his paint was slightly scratched, and he had a tattered old top hat on his roof, the top almost all the way ripped off, so it looked like the hatch on a submarine.

As always, Fillmore was close by Sarge, wearing a dreadlock wig slightly similar to Jack's that he had placed a red, green, and yellow crocheted hat on top of.

Lizzie wasn't wearing an outfit, presumably because she had forgotten about the party, and Luigi was dressed as a banana, while Guido was wearing a long sheet draped over his roof so it obscured his body, with holes cut in it for his eyes and forks.

The party was underway quickly, and half an hour passed without anyone noticing that Doc wasn't there. The townsfolk knew that parties weren't his favorite, so he usually steered clear of them.

The lights at Flo's began to flicker on and off irregularly, and Mariana looked up at them worriedly. If they went out, she'd start panicking, and she knew it. She was deathly afraid of the dark, and she had told nobody but Mater after he made the unknown mistake of leaving her while he went tractor tipping with Lightning one night.

'She had woken up at midnight, and found the area pitch black. She had backed out of the shack and tried to scramble into the nearest corner she could find, but she didn't see the fence and ran hoodfirst into it with a loud clang, which had awoken Jack. Jack had looked around the area worriedly, then heard Mariana whimpering with pain and fear. She had gone to get Mater, and he had come back as fast as his tires would carry him. Mariana had heard him enter his yard, and she had raced straight for him, clinging onto his fender fearfully.'

She looked up at the lights a few minutes later as they began to flicker more quickly.

Suddenly, with one last flash, the lights went out, and plunged the whole town into darkness, since nobody else had bothered to turn on their lights. Mariana gasped fearfully, and looked around desperately. She couldn't see anything, since the moon had gone behind a large cloud.

She backed up, her eyes shut tight, and backed into someone. They picked her up, and she screamed in panic, wriggling like a fish as they held onto her more tightly, trying to not drop her.

"Calm down, you'll be fine." She heard a low male voice say to her, and she froze in panic. Engine revving wildly, she tried to remain still so whoever was holding her so tightly would set her down and she could flee. Her plan worked, and she was placed onto the ground gently.

She sped away, down the road towards the courthouse. She flew right past it, not even noticing the way the road curved. She soared through the air over the curve, and she tried to turn herself onto her wheels, like a cat, instinctively. She landed on her wheels hard, and pain shot through her axles, but she kept running from the darkened town. She crashed directly into a wrought-iron fence, and bounced off it. She felt her way through the blackness using the fence as a guide, and soon reached what she thought was a gate. She didn't see the sign over the gate that read "CEMETERY", so she entered the gate, and turned on her headlights.

I know it starts out crappily, but I promise you that it does get better. This one I wrote about a year ago over the summer, so that's why it sucks. :/ Anyways, I don't own Red, Fillmore(who was dressed as a rasta car XD), Sheriff(who was dressed up as Sheriff Buford T. Justice from Smokey and The Bandit), Sarge(who was a hobo xD), Doc, Lizzie, Luigi, Flo, Ramone, Lightning, Sally, Mater (Is wearing a reference to another one of my favorite movies ;D)! I wish I did though... Anyways, hope you guys like this story! :D Check ya later, Liz