Hello Everyone and welcome to my first Cars story so please no hate since this is my first time here in this archive. I was wondering what it would be like if Lightning McQueen had a brother-like friend (Apart from Mater) who raced alongside him and went on this amazing journey with him. I hope that you will like it. :)
I was sleeping peacefully in my trailer, when I suddenly heard a loud bang that sounded as if someone was trying to break into my trailer which was the last thing that I personally wanted to happen but I managed to keep calm.
I heard my friend Mark asking me if I was ready and I responded back that I was indeed ready and I clicked open the trailer door, before I eventually drove out of the trailer and into some reporters who had been waiting for me.
My name is Enzo as in Enzo Ferrari and I am a red Ferrari with a lot of horsepower but I prevent myself from bragging about it as I quickly noticed the crowd chanting my name which gave me a warm feeling as I answered some questions before I drove over to a good friend of mine.
His name is Lightning McQueen and we have been friends ever since we first met, which was ironically on a racetrack and we had a lot of fun racing against each other especially when it's just me and him on the track.
"Hey Lightning" I said as I drove over to him. "How are you doing buddy?".
"I'm doing fine Enzo" said McQueen who was smiling. "I am going to win that piston cup tonight".
"Not unless I win it first" I said as I smirked at him. "Since you know, that you are not the only one, who is racing".
"I know Enzo, I get it" said McQueen, smugly. "Don't get overconfident too soon".
"Actually, I should be telling you that" I said. "I want to make sure that you don't do anything foolish".
Lightning and I are also rivals, but in a friendly way since we love racing, while we also keep our friendship intact at the same time which can be very difficult sometimes especially when you are racing against your best friend but I guess you get used to it.
But I do have one small problem with him and that's his arrogance, since it does get me on my nerves sometimes and it is also his selfishness that also annoys me since all he ever talked about was winning the piston cup, while he used the saying 'there is more to racing than just winning' for the wrong reasons.
Sometimes, I wish I could hold a magic wand and cast a spell on him so I can take his arrogance and selfishness away from him but, as much as I really want one, I don't have a wand and I am a car so it would be really difficult to hold a wand anyway.
"Relax Enzo, I will be careful" said McQueen which I responded by rolling my eyes in response. "Besides this is Lightning McQueen you are talking to, I can handle anything".
"Oh yeah, right, as if" I said since I was getting very annoyed at his arrogant attitude. "Anyway, I will be off getting ready for the race, I will see you later Lightning".
"Bye Enzo, see you later" said McQueen as I drove away from him and towards my pit crew. "I promise not to do anything stupid tonight, you have my word".
I chuckled, knowing that was a lie since I know Lightning all too well and I knew that he was going to do something stupid, but for now I focused on finding my pit crew which was my first objective and it took quite some time but I managed to find them eventually.
They quickly drove over to me and we made sure that my tires were good for the track itself as well as making sure that I had enough gas for most of the race, before I went out with the other race cars including Lightning McQueen, for the warm up lap as the race was about to start.
I was driving behind an arrogant and selfish race-car called Chick Hicks who was in third position, while my friend Lightning McQueen was in second and, the legend himself, Strip "The King" Weathers was in pole position which he earned through qualifying.
We waited patiently for the marshal to wav the green flag and before we knew it, we were zooming around the racetrack while the crowd was getting very pumped up, which made me smile since I loved putting on a good performance for the crowd.
I managed to get pass Chick Hicks, who had been trying to ram me off the racetrack ever since we became bitter rivals but I wasn't going to give him that chance anyhow, especially when it's in the most important race of the season.
Lightning noticed me and he smiled at me which I returned, knowing that we were going to have a great time challenging each other for the piston cup, which we were all after, although we had our own reasons for doing so.
I checked down the inside before Lightning blocked me, which caused me to go round the outside of him but he once again blocked me before I managed to trick him in going to the outside again while I quickly went to the inside and zoomed past him.
The race continued to go on, even as all of the racers including me and Lightning, went into the pits for both gas and tires before we eventually got back onto the track to resume the exciting race that we had been showing to the crowd who were cheering in excitement.
I was now near the back of the pack, which I knew would mean that I have a lot of ground to make up and I did just that by managing to zoom past some race cars, who had been in front of me, before I was eventually driving behind Lightning, who was also behind Chick Hicks and the King himself.