A year later, Fillmore and Sarge were still seeing each other, and some new people were moving into Radiator Springs, such as 14-year-old Juan Joenns (Jones), who wanted to sell army surplus , mainly because his first dream as a soldier got crushed after his father lost his left leg, but now he had a metal leg;
Gavin Buckminster, who, like Fillmore, was big on anything organic or nature friendly and was hoping to become a hippie;
Aneil Jago, who was a Japanese-American who only spoke Japanese and Italian, so he had to have a translator and was training to become part of a pit crew;
Aneil's translator, Iralanda Camilo, only translated his Italian dialogue, but she was trying to learn Japanese so she can understand him further. She works in a shoe store owned by her mother, but she helps out Luigi in his tire shop every chance she gets;
Leo McKay was dreaming about being a race car driver like his mentor Lightning McQueen, but the best he could ride for now was his father's old motorcycle;
Kendra Gale used to be a valley girl in California, but just like her teacher, Sally, she wasn't happy, mainly because she had asthma and the pollen from the flowers there was too much for her;
Travis Mitchem was once a resident of Haiti, until the earthquake, then his family moved to America to meet with wonderful opportunities, but instead they wound up in Radiator Springs;
Amy Betts was a short, blonde girl who had something that made it difficult for her to walk correctly. When everyone first met her, she was using a walker to get around, but a few months later, she got these two canes like blind people use. She kept telling everyone that she'd be able to walk one day, as soon as she got here metal braces for her legs off, which she would get soon, but for now she just hung around town;
Trenton Garwood worked as an assistant to the town's new doctor, who was also his father, but he had time to hang out with anyone he could;
Kelly Watson was a Hispanic girl who helped out Flo in the V8 Café and was a good advice giver;
Sara Marcov was this one punk girl that normally chose not to help anyone and usually kept to herself; Harold Trillo was another teen who helped out everyone in every way he could, but he normally fooled around while doing it;
Yasin Mohamet helped Sheriff patrol Radiator Springs when he got a chance, but whenever the cop was asleep on the job, Yasin hung out with Juan and Travis;
Quinton Shen is a kid who loves to draw and paint, especially spraypaint. He watched Ramone do paint jobs on cars and hopes to do that as a career one day, or maybe graffiti in general;
Christopher Upton was the shy kid who recently moved into Radiator Springs. He had a big interest in flowers and trees so he helped Red with his plants from time to time;
And finally, there was Adam Edmund, who has the job of making everyone wonder why his aristocrat family moved to the small town and why they won't leave because after three months of them living there, the residents got pretty annoyed, but Adam liked to hang out with everyone and normally learned how to do their jobs.
If you put all these kids together, you get a disaster waiting to happen, because when off-duty, they cause a lot of problems from setting fire to cactuses to throwing firecrackers into Carburator Canyon. Leo liked to make his mentor, Lightning McQueen guess what he and his friends were up to each day.
"Lightning! Guess what me and the others are going to do today," Leo said as he ran into the café to his teacher.
Before McQueen could guess, Leo added "I'll tell you what we're going to use and then you could probably plan it out: two tennis rackets, a quail and a tennis-net."
Just then, Gavin ran up to the race car driver, "Lightning! Travis and Juan are playing badminton!" the hippie kid squealed.
"So? What's wrong with that?" Lightning had to know.
"Well, Mr. Racer, instead of hitting a badminton birdie, the two idiots are using a real birdie! A quail to be specific," Gavin explained.
"Gavin, you gave him the answer," Leo groaned.
Just then, the trio heard the sound of a quail ring out above them, which was odd because quails were considered flightless birds, so…
"15 love!" Iralanda shouted keeping track of the points in a notebook.
"(Why are they called love?)" Aneil asked in Italian.
"Not sure, I never knew that," Iralanda shrugged.
"Let's see if you can hit it this far!" Juan called out, before hitting the desert bird back to Travis with his tennis racket.
"Wanna bet?" Travis taunted, striking the bird on the rear.
"You know, in a majority of states in the U.S, using animals like this is a form of abuse. If you want to be adventurous while playing badminton, play with an anvil!" Adam sneered.
"An anvil! Good idea! I think Mater has one of those, come on, guys!" Travis lead the teens away to the junkyard.
"Hey! Don't your mentors need help with anything?" Lightning quickly asked before they did anything crazy.
The group of teenagers paused and thought over the question, then they all scattered in different directions to find their teachers.
"Works every time," Lightning told Leo and Gavin, who looked very amazed at the adult.
