Edit: The weird thing is I distinctly remember this story being one of my better works.
So I guess that just means it's not as cringe worthy as, like, CHROME Academy.
Still needed a lot of work GEEZ
Hey, everybody! So, here's the second idea for my new story. :) Hope y'all like! Told ya it'd be submitted soon! ;D The first chapter is a little confusing, but that's the point xD lol you'll hopefully understand at the end ENJOY
"Dad gum, Finn, what is goin' on!?" The British spy exclaimed.
"I have no idea. I think it has something to do with Zündapp's new invention." The rusty tow truck replied.
Finn McMissile and Tow Mater were discussing something after a mission. Something had happened, and they had no idea how to fix it.
"Well... What the heck is we gonna tell Holley?" Finn asked.
"We can't tell her anything yet." Mater answered.
"Yeah, she'll done be weirded out!" Finn agreed.
"For now... We need to try to talk like each other."
"Well, dad gum you've been doin' a mighty fine job at me!" Finn exclaimed. "Good idea..."
"So, Mater," Mater began explaining. "No 'dad gum,' no 'shoot,' no 'purdy,' no 'ain't,' say complete words, no talk about the Ghost Light, no flirting with Holley, no—"
"Dad gum, this'll be harder than I done thought..." Finn interrupted, and Mater glared at him. "Uh... I mean... Uh... What do you say instead of 'dad gum'?"
"You could try 'blimey'." Mater suggested.
"Uh... Blimey, this is going to be difficult."
"Brilliant!" Mater exclaimed, and Finn raised an eyebrow at him. "...dad gum, that was great!" Mater corrected, and Finn smiled.
The two thought for a moment.
"This is going to be difficult." Mater sighed.
"Dad gum, you said it..." Finn agreed.
"Let's go."
"No, no, I ain't ready!" Finn complained.
"Mater, Holley will come looking for us." Mater convinced.
"Fine..." Finn grumbled, and the two cars drove off.
"And Mater?" Mater glanced over at his friend.
"Yeah?"
"Absolutely positively no tractor tipping."
Despite their situation, Finn smiled sheepishly at this rule.
...
"Morning, Flo." Mater greeted the show car/café owner the next morning.
"Mornin', honey! Hey, something wrong? You ain't drivin' backwards this morning!" Flo pointed out with a humorous smile.
Mater laughed, almost nervously. "Uh, done takin' a break." He joked.
"Aright, then." Flo laughed. "The usual for breakfast, hon?"
"Yeah, thanks." Mater smiled.
"Mater?" Asked a voice behind him. Mater reversed and turned around to see Lightning McQueen, his best friend and famous race car.
"Hey, buddy!" Mater cheerful said.
"Mater? You're never up this early, what's up?" Lightning asked laughing.
"Uh... Well, I..."
"Oh, I got it..." Lightning smiled. "You didn't go tractor tipping last night."
"Dad gum, that's right." Mater grinned.
Just then, Holley Shiftwell, Mater's secret agent girlfriend, drove into the café.
"Good morning, Mater!" She said, kissing her boyfriend on the fender. "I saw the weirdest thing this morning..." She said.
"What?" Mater asked, curious.
"Finn was still sleeping when I got up!" She grinned, astonished. While she went on talking, Mater seemed to space out, deep in thought.
"...Siddeley, because I mean... Mater, what's the matter?" Holley asked, taking a break from her story once noticing Mater's dream-like stare.
"What?" Mater asked being pulled out of his thoughts. "I'm just... Yeah, I'm gonna go see Finn, if that's okay..." He said before speeding off.
"What's up with him?" Lightning asked looking after him.
Holley frowned after Mater. "Something, that's for sure. Both Finn and Mater have been acting strange lately..." Holley glanced over at Lightning.
"Wanna get to the bottom of this?" Lightning asked.
"I've wanted to for the past few weeks. Ever since the two of them got captured..."
"Hey, come on." Lightning told her and started driving across town.
"Where are we going?" Holley asked.
"You okay if Sally gets in on this, too?"
"Not at all. Just as long as we find out why they're acting different."
...
"Okay, tell us everything." The motel owner, and McQueen's girlfriend, told Holley.
Holley took a deep breath. "Okay. The past few weeks have been, well, odd for me. Finn and Mater have been acting... Different. I can't really describe it, but, Mater seems more quiet, and… Polite. Finn seems more... Well, into fun. And it could be my imagination, but why does Finn look jealous, o-or angry, even, whenever I've given Mater a kiss on the fender?"
Lightning and Sally exchanged confused looks.
"And Mater seems to be talking to Siddeley more than usual... Usually he just goes over to say hello, but they've been having conversations. Worried conversations, if you ask me...
"Anyway, it all started when I had to go save Finn and Mater from Professor Zündapp. The two oafs got themselves captured." Holley explained, before launching into the full out story.
"Holley, relax. We can handle this. If anything goes wrong, CHROME will send you to help us." Finn had told her right before he and Mater boarded Siddeley. "But I doubt that will happen." He added with a wink.
How wrong he was.
After Holley had snuck into Zündapp's new lair, Finn and Mater were tied in chains and hanging from the ceiling. Mater kept looking up and down as if he expected gears from inside Big Bently from above we're going to drop him to the grinding gears below.
Holley had to leave the room for a moment while she found a better hiding spot. While she was out, she heard Finn and Mater cry out in pain.
Holley quickly found a spot and drove back in. She gasped to see Finn and Mater unconscious, smoke rising from their frames. Zündapp was parked in front of them with Grem and Acer and his latest invention, which she assumed he had just shot.
"Did it work?" The German weapons maker asked his henchman, the orange AMC Gremlin, who was working the device.
"Not sure..." Grem answered examining the machine resembling a gun.
"Well, I'm sure of one thing." Holley spoke up, revealing her presence. The three Lemons looked up and gasped. "I'm getting those two out of here alive." she confidently said, then sped down.
Grem and Acer aimed their guns at her, but Holley knocked both of them out with one shot of her electroshockers.
Now, Zündapp was scared and tried to flee the room. She aimed her electroshockers at him, and he screamed and tried to get away more quickly.
"Move and I shoot my actual gun." Holley threatened.
"Y-you don't have an actual gun." He stuttered.
Holley answered him by taking out the gun she recently added after the World Grand Prix mission.
"Release them." She ordered, motioning to Finn and Mater.
He did, and Holley put parking boots on him, Grem, and Acer, called C.H.R.O.M.E. to take them away. She then took Finn and Mater to Siddeley.
Mater was first to wake up.
"Holley?" He said aloud, then his eyes widened and claimed his tire over his mouth.
Holley giggled. "Mater, what's the matter?" At this, his eyes widened even more.
"M-Mater?" Mater echoed.
"Yes... Dear, what's the matter?" She asked, now concerned.
"...n-nothing." He seemed to decide. "Where's, uh, Finn?" He asked.
"Right there." Holley answered, motioning over to the other side of Siddeley. When he saw Finn, his eyes widened more than Holley thought they could go.
"Mater, dear, are you alright?"
"Yes... Uh, yeah." He answered.
"Mater, are you sure you're feeling alright? No, 'dad gum,' no 'yur purdy,' no... Mater-like things said..."
Mater hesitated for a moment, then said, "Well shoot, Holley, I'm fine. Why don'tcha done get some sleep?"
Holley smiled. "That's my Mater." She kissed his fender, and settled down on the empty side of Siddeley.
When she woke up, Mater was explaining something to Finn.
"Good morning." Holley smiled at her friends. The two of them stopped talking, looked over, and nervously smiled at her.
"Mornin' Holley." Mater replied.
"Good...morning, Holley." Finn almost struggled to say.
"You two are acting strange..." Holley observed.
"Strange? Us? No..." Finn grinned. "We perfectly—ow!" He exclaimed as Mater hit him in the side with his tire. Finn cleared his throat. "We're perfectly oka—ow! Fine!"
Holley looked between the two of them. She opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by Siddeley.
"Holley? We're arriving in Radiator Springs, miss."
"Thank you, Sid." She nodded.
"We'll done catcha later, okay, Miss Holley?" Mater said as he and Finn drove off once Siddeley had landed.
"Um... Okay..." She replied, but they had already driven off. "Okay…?"
"So... I'm still trying to get to the bottom of this." Holley sighed, coming to the end of her story. "Finn even called CHROME HQ and asked for vacation time for the time being."
"And did they grant him it?" Sally asked.
"Of course they granted him it, according to them he's "Mr. Most Dedicated Spy."" Holley frowned.
"So... What do we do until then?" Lightning asked.
"They have to tell me eventually... Especially because I know they're hiding something. I just don't know what..." Holley finished.
"Either they're playing with you..." Lighting began.
"Finn would never do that." Holley shook her head.
"Or Zündapp's new invention..."
"What?"
"Do you think maybe he made a body-switcher... Thing?"
The three of them were silent for a moment.
Holley looked deep in thought. "Considering this is Zündapp we're talking about... That's completely possible..."
Dun dun dun... Wow, long first chapter. So very uncharacteristic of me. But you enjoyed it, you know you did...;)
Here's the bummer: This story isn't going to be that many chapters long...
So, ya like so far? Review? :3