Okay, nearly time for my fave part SO FAR... yes 'so far', that is all the parts in italics (not the author notes), guess what? BORROWED CHARACTER STARTS HIS APPEARANCE NEXT CHAPTER! I am so excited! Can't wait to see how you guys react to him, I love him!
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Susannah and Mater were driving down the road, happily talking to each other, Susannah slowly urged forward before speeding of playfully. From behind her she heard a thunderous 'bang', she turned around a blast of heat hit her like a cold winter's north wind and a ball of fire was a high in the sky.
"Mater," she muttered sadly to herself. As Susannah looked closely at the flame she saw the street racers emerge from the blinding light. She frowned unhappily and sped toward them. But just before she got to them, someone hit her in her side. She looked to see who it was.
"Lightning? Why did you hit me?" She asked in pain.
McQueen backed away repeating, "You're a murderer."
Susannah looked at him in disbelief and sped away weeping. It seemed that out of nowhere, the residence of Radiator Springs something that looked like an alleyway, Susannah stopped and looked at them all happily, though all she got in return was angry looks. As she opened her mouth to say something, but before she could speak a word, they began to throw every insult they knew at her, Susannah slowly passed them and was shocked to find Fillmore joining in as well. She continued to drive alone; she had lost her friends and the only place that she was able to call home.
She closed her eyes to stop herself crying even more. When she opened them again she saw Mack driving toward her at a high speed.
"Susannah!" A familiar voice called, she looked in the direction of the voice.
"Mater!" She called happily, on seeing him. She looked back in front of her, Mater continued to call her name, and Mack as getting frighteningly close. As they were a foot or so away from each other Susannah braked. Once she had come to a complete stop, she noticed that Mack was making no attempt to miss her.
As Mack closed in on her, she closed her eyes and yelled, "No!"
Susannah jumped awake to see Mater, who was looking at her as if he were concerned about something.
"Susannah, you're cryin'." He croaked.
"Oh, am I?" She asked, "I'm fine." She smiled at Mater, so he smiled back at her and backed up next to her. Susannah gasped at the breathtaking sunrise in front of her. The sun almost seemed a light shade of pink, around it the pink faded into a blue.
"Isn't it beautiful?" Susannah asked in a near whisper.
"Yuh, yeah sure is." Mater replied.
Susannah admired it for a moment before saying, "Why are you awake so early?"
"You woke me up," Mater answered, "you were sayin' somethin' 'bout Lightnin' hittin' ya, then you shou'ed mah name, then you shouted, 'no!'."
"It was just a bad dream." Susannah explained, she then added, "We should get back to town."
As they were driving back to Radiator Springs, Susannah was telling Mater about her dream. By the time she had finished, they had made it back to town.
"Oh well," Mater yawned, "I'm back tah sleep."
"Me to," Susannah said. She went to the Cozy Cone to ask Sally if she could stay there for a while, she looked into reception. Sally was still asleep. She drove to Doc's on the door of his garage, as she knocked on it, the door slowly opened. Susannah looked around before unsurely driving into it. The room was full of random things. As she turned to leave something unusual caught her eye.
It was a cup on the base it read:
Hudson Hornet
Piston Cup 1951
"What do you think you're looking at?" Someone asked.
Susannah quickly turned toward the door to see Doc and McQueen.
"Oh, err hi." Susannah said nervously, backing away into something.
"A piston cup for a guy named Hudson Hornet, 1951?" Susannah chuckled then commented, "Damn that guy is old."
Doc frowned at Susannah, who was laughing hysterically at the comment she just made and told her in a toneless voice, "I am the Hudson Hornet."
Susannah slowly stopped laughing and smiled in embarrassment.
"Actually, he won three," McQueen corrected.
"Three?" Susannah asked in shock. "Jeez dude, when's your next race?"
Doc sighed deeply before saying, "I don't race anymore."
"Why?" Susannah asked. Doc didn't answer her, but a light flickered on next to her. She looked unsurely at Doc.
"Have a look," McQueen said driving next to her.
Susannah looked at him with the same expression she had used with Doc; she then approached the light and looked horrified at a picture of a car, a very damaged car.
"Ouch," Susannah commented, "That's gonna hurt in the morning."
Doc drove the other side of Susannah, "That's me at the final of 1954."
"When you got better, why didn't you go back?" Susannah asked, not taking her eyes off the picture.
"Don't you think I tried?" Doc said, rather a bit too harsh for Susannah. He softened his tone and continued, "I tried, they didn't want to know anything about me. In them days, if you had a crash or went missing," He made a quick glance at McQueen, "that was it, you were never thought of again."
They spent a moment in silence before McQueen remembered something.
"Doc, how's Mack?" He asked.
"Mack's fine, he should be able to drive about tomorrow." Doc said driving out of the door.
Susannah followed shortly afterward when she got outside she waited for a moment for her eyes to adjust to the light, in front of her she saw the four street racers.
"What do you want?" Susannah asked in a sigh.
"You said we had a deal." DJ grinned.
"I didn't mean it…"
"Yeah, but we did." Boost interrupted.
Susannah drove away but they followed her, she tried going the other away but they still followed her.
"Lightning, could you come out here for a moment?" She asked backing away, her voice shaking.
McQueen stared at the picture of Doc; The King's crash speeding through his mind.
"Lightning! Help!" Susannah called.
He slowly rolled out of the door and Susannah almost immediately parked next to him.
"What is it?" He asked her, seeing that she looked like she was about to cry.
"Them!" She shouted angrily as the four street racers approached them.
"What do you want?" McQueen asked, his voice filled with annoyance.
All their eyes looked from McQueen to Susannah and back again.
Susannah rolled forward a bit, "What can I do to get rid of you?"
They all exchanged glances before saying in unison, "a race."
"Okay," She agreed rolling forward a bit.
McQueen looked around unsurely and said nervously, "I don't think it's a good idea."
Susannah ignored this comment and led the street racers to the Welcome sign, with McQueen silently following.
Once they got there Susannah gestured down the long road, "Down there and back again."
Wingo looked down the road before laughing at her offer, "You haven't got a chance."
"I'll countdown," McQueen said driving next to Susannah.
Susannah's POV
Lightning parked himself facing us… at least I'll be able to hear him this time! As I heard him counting down from three, I fixed my sight straight ahead and got myself ready to race. I suddenly heard him shout 'go' and I began to speed down the road, it felt like I had never been so fast, as the wind was hitting me it felt like I was on a roller coaster. I was interrupted from my daydream by someone pushing me to my left, I looked to my right side to see the dark blue street racer, I went faster to try and lose him but he wasn't going to budge. I was pushed to my right, so I looked left to see… Lightning! I was pushed to my left (again) I looked back to my right, the orange racer had joined. We drove down the road in a line. I got pushed to my right (yet, again) I looked to my left to see…
Mater?
I didn't think he had it in him! I looked ahead and noticed that the other two street racers had taken the lead.
"Go get a piston." Lightning joked.
I looked ahead and I felt myself getting faster. I was doing quite well until we had to turn around, I braked vigorously and turned to my right I continued to go, picking up speed. I began to think about mum, dad and Martin, where did they think I was? Did they know I was here? I was – once again – interrupted from my thinking by someone shouting, "Move, move out of the way!"
I concentrated on the road for a moment to see Mater coming toward me at a frighteningly high speed. When I totally snapped back to reality a swerved out of the way (using my silky skills) and I could've sworn that my side scraped against his. I continued to race down the road, the other two weren't that far away from me, before I knew it I had taken the lead and was passed the starting line. I braked as hard as I could to find myself bumper to bumper with Sheriff who at the time was frowning at me unhappily, of course, all I could do was smiled.
"I'm in trouble, ain't I?" I asked, not allowing my smile to drop.
"Yep," Sheriff said, toneless.
We stayed a moment like this until I realised what he had just said, then my sheepish smile faded. I heard Lightning and Mater come up behind me.
"Follow me," Sheriff said driving into Radiator Springs so I followed, he led me to a caged place. He gestured inside, so instinctively I rolled inside, not knowing that Sheriff was going to close the gate on me, I quickly turned around, Sheriff was gone, Lightning and Mater were looking at me strangely. I began to drive closer to the gate.
"Hey, guys, thanks back there," I said through the mesh.
"I did warn you that it was a bad idea," Lightning told me with a smug grin.
I felt like some sort of zoo animal, stuck in my enclosure, nothing to do, just pace up and down staring at the many wondrous faces day in day out. "What's going to happen?"
They looked at each other with blank expressions; they drove away without answering my question. I got as close as I could to the cage and shouted after them, "Aw, man, c'mon guys!" When I realised they weren't coming back I backed away and felt tears swelling up in my eyes.
"Hey."
I opened my eyes to see a green car. I drove up to the cage again, "Yeah."
"I know you want to get out," he said quietly, "I can get you out, you just have to promise me one thing."
I thought for a moment before answering slowly, "What do I have to promise?"
"You leave this town and never come back," He said.
I backed away and looked at the ground. I was desperate, but not that desperate…
Was I?
If I agreed to this then that would mean never being able to see any of my friends again. But on the other hand/tire (which ever way you want to see it) I could always sneak back in, change me appearance and my name!
"Okay," I agreed, without giving my plan a second thought.
"When you wake tomorrow, you shall be free," He said turning away.
"Wait!" I called after him. He turned around and looked at me, so I continued, "Who are you?"
He grinned at me before answering, "Chick Hicks."
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For those of you who care, I have decided that I am going to keep flicking peoples POV's, as third person can sometimes limit feelings and thoughts (plus I can write better in first person)... Reviews please, shall I stop saying that now, I think you get the idea.
