Here is another chapter. ^^ Enjoy and don't forget the game (refer back to chapter 3 and 4)
Chapter 9 Traffic Court
The Radiator Springs Traffic Court will come to order!" Sheriff announced. Lightning had burst into the court room, still with the parking boot on. I was next to Sheriff watching Lightning approach the front. I did not join the others as I thought the group would not accept me.
"Hey, you scratched my paint! I oughta take a blowtorch to you, man!" The purple low rider angrily said.
You broke-a the road! You a very bad car!" exclaimed the little yellow Italian car. As Lightning by, the crowd moved out of the way.
"Fascist." Said the volks wagon van.
"Commie!" said the army jeep.
"Officer, talk to me, babe. How long is this gonna take?" Lightning questioned once he got to the front.
"Babe?" I thought aloud. Lightning was talking to Sheriff and he called him babe? Lightning should get what's coming for him.
"I gotta get to California, pronto." Lightning told Sheriff.
"Where's your lawyer?" Sheriff asked.
"I don't know. Tahiti maybe. He's got a timeshare there." Lightning answered.
"When the defendant has no lawyer, the court will assign one to him." Sheriff began then turned his attention to everyone, "Hey!" Everyone went quiet and laid their attention onto Sheriff. "Anyone want to be his lawyer?" Sheriff asks. Everyone moved back immediately but Mater.
"Shoot, I'll do it, Sheriff!" Mater piped up. Lightning looked toward Mater. Lightning sighed.
'Good. Lightning should get what's coming to him." I thought.
"All rise! The Honorable Doc Hudson presiding." Sheriff announced. The low rider took as a joke and rose higher. The low rider had looked at the little yellow Italian car.
"Show off." The yellow car said.
"May Doc have mercy on your soul." Sheriff warned. Just then, the door banged opened and I looked down the aisle. Lightning gasped as the door opened.
"All right," a male's voice began driving up the aisle, "I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter!" the car drove up to the front then to the judge seat. "I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot." I was getting scared of this blue Hudson that drove to the judge seat. I hid behind Sheriff scared out of my mind. I can't believe that Sheriff was another car that did not freak out. But when I think about last night, whoever the crowd was, was only worried. "I'm…" The Hudson began but stopped when he noticed McQueen. Lightning nervously smiled. "Throw him out of here, Sheriff." The Hudson demanded then noticed me but paid no attention to me hiding behind Sheriff. "I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed." The Hudson said.
"Yes!" Lightning said happily. I looked to the Hudson and thought he would also kick me out. Everyone was confused.
"Boy. I'm purty good at this lawyerin' stuff." Mater said. Just then the door opened and a new vehicle came in.
"Sorry I'm later, Your Honor!" came a female's voice. I looked down the isle to see a light blue Porsche driving to the front.
"Holy Porsche!" Lightning began in a love strucked way then thought aloud, "She's gotta be from my attorney's office." Once the Porsche reached Lightning, he spoke, "Hey, thanks for comin', but we're all set. The Porsche stopped then looked to him. "He's letting me go." Lightning told her.
"He's letting you go?" the Porsche questioned.
"Yeah, your job's pretty easy today." Lightning said, "All you have to do is stand there and let me look at you. Listen, I'm gonna cut to the chase. Me, you, dinner. Pi-cha-kow!" Lightning shun his bolt on his side to the Porsche and he blinded here. The cried in pain from the bright light.
"Please!" she pleaded.
"I know. I get that reaction a lot. I create feeling in others that they themselves don't understand." Lightning said then revved his engine. The Porsche was in pain. I immediately covered my ears.
"Quit that, Lightning!" I howled. The Porsche turned and saw me.
"Oh. You are alright. That is a relief," she said sighing with relief. I hid from her when she looked at me. The Porsche looked back to lightning.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I scare you?" lightning asks.
"Well, a little bit, but I'll be alright." Mater said.
"Ok," the Porsche began rolling her eyes then politely said, "I'm gonna go talk to the judge."
"Do what you gotta do, baby. But listen. Be careful." Lightning said, "Folks around here are not firing on all cylinders, if you know what I mean."
Mater shun his side view mirrors and said, "Ka-ching!" mater had blinded himself for a moment.
"I'll keep that in mind." The Porsche said then paid attention to the crowd, "Hey there, Mater."
"Howdy, Sally." Mater said.
"Hi, folks!" Sally greeted.
"Good morning, Sally!" every greeted back.
"You know her?" Lightning asks Mater.
"She's the town attorney and my fiancée." Mater explained.
"What?" Lightning said shock.
"Nah, I'm just kiddin'. She just likes me for my body." Mater said.
"Doc, you look great this morning." Sally began, "Did you do something different with your side view mirrors?"
"What do you want, Sally?" Doc asked.
With a sigh, Sally said, "Come on, make this guy fix the road. The town needs this."
"No. I know his type. Racecar." Doc said, "That's the last thing this town needs."
OK, I didn't want to have to do this, Doc, but you leave me no choice." Sally said then turns around to face the crowd, "Fellow citizens, you're all aware of our town's proud history."
"Here she goes again," Doc thought aloud to himself.
"Radiator Springs, the glorious jewel strung on necklace of Route 66, the mother road!" Sally began with her speech, "It is our job and our pleasure to take care of the travelers on our stretch of that road." Mater was playing with his spit out of boredom and make a bubble.
"Travelers? What travelers?" the green jeep asked.
"Ignore him." Said the volks wagon van.
"But how, I ask you, are we to care for those travelers if there is no road for them to drive on?" Sally speech as she came up to the yellow car, "Luigi, what do you have at your store?"
"Tires." Luigi said rolling his own tire.
"And if no one can get to you?" Sally asks.
"I won't sell any…" Luigi began as he realized something, "tires. I will lose everything!" Luigi began to cry and I walked over to him cautiously to help him calm down. Sally moved to the next car witch was a green blue female.
"Flo, what do you have at you store?" Sally asks.
"I have gas," Flo replied with pride. Mater and the low rider began to laugh. "Lotsa gas!" Flo said. They both burst out laughing at this. I saw nothing to laugh at.
"OK boys, stay with me." Sally said and the two stopped laughing, "And Flo, what'll happen if no one can come to your station to buy gas?"
"I'll go outta business and…" Flo started and also realized something, "We'll have to leave town."
"And what's gonna happen if Flo leaves town and closes her station?" Sally asks.
Everyone said this at once, "Without gas, we're don for!"
"What?" asked a model T in the background.
"So don't you think the car responsible should fix our road?" Sally asks.
"The only guy strong enough to fix that road is Big Al!" stated the Model T.
"Lizzie, Big Al left like, 15 years ago." Said the low rider.
"Then why are you bringing him up, you lemon?" asked Lizzie. I figured Lizzie had memory problems when she said that the low rider had brought up the name. I understood that problem as some old things tend to have bad memory at times.
"Oh, he can do it." Sally began, "He's got the horsepower. So, what do you want him to do?"
"Fix the road!" everyone said at once.
"Because we are a town worth fixing!" Sally said.
"Yeah!" everyone cheered. Doc honked his horn.
"Order in the court!" Doc announced and everyone quieted down, "Seems like my mind has been changed for me."
"Yeah!" everyone cheered.
"No!" Lightning and I said. I was now feeling bad. I stood up and walked to Lightning.
"Nice ruling," said the Volks Wagon van.
"Oh, I am so not taking you out to dinner." Lightning said.
"Dinner? Seriously, Lightning?" I growled. Sally laughed a little.
"That's OK, Stickers. You can take Bessie." Sally said.
"Man, you get to work with Bessie!" Mater said, "I'd give my left two lug nuts for somethin' like that."
"Bessie? Who's Bessie?" Lightning asked. I simply left the courtroom at this point because I was furious. I had to go steam somewhere where no one could see.