Ch.10: Revelation And Propsal
"Mater!" yelled Holley as she continued to fall.
The sound of his girlfriend's voice instantly broke Mater out of his tizzy, and he started pulling back on the two tow hooks attached to Holley's frame. Once his girlfriend was back on the catwalk safe and sound, Mater instantly drove up to her, and apologized for his henious deed.
"Thanks Holley," said Mater, giving his girlfriend a kiss.
"Your welcome Mater," said Holley with a blush.
Suddenly, the flashing red alarm sounded out throughout the entire nuclear plant. Holley's eyes instantly lit up fear.
"Oh no!" she yelled, driving off " we got to help Finn!"
"I'm right behind ya!" said Mater, chasing after Holley.
Meanwhile, Finn and Gear were locked in the middle of a fierce battle. Both enemey cars were locked in dead wheel-to-wheel combat. Finn shot a few of his karate moves towards Gear, but the black car dodged and countered with some moves of his own.
The fight was edging them nearer the nuclear core, and away from the controls. Looking at the green energy flowing inside the tube, Finn could tell it wouldn't be long until the whole city of London would explode in a nuclear blaze.
Catching the spy distracted, Gear rammed into Finn's side, pushing the silver spy car closer and closer to the nuclear.
"Time to join your family Agent McMissle!" hissed Gear.
Finn's eyes went wide at the mention of his family, and pushed back in anger. Driving Gear into the opposite wall with amazing strentgh. Gear was stunned at Finn's new found strentgh, but wasn't going to a little thing like that intimidate him.
Shooting two wires out of his front fenders, Gear attached them to McMissle and shocked the spy car with over a million volts, making Finn collaspe on the ground, completely drained of energy.
Drawing a gun from his side, Gear looked wickedly down at Finn, smug at seeing the spy car so helpless.
"I could just wait the last two minutes and let the core blow you to smitherins" said Gear, pointing the gun at the helpless Finn " but I can't wait to watch you personally die,"
With that said, Gear was about to pull the trigger on his gun, and end Finn's life once and for all, when suddenly three tow hooks flew out of nowhere, knocking away his weapon, and attaching to his frame.
His red eyes glowing in anger, Gear turned and looked at the no longer evil Mater. Even though the tow truck still had the modifications Gear made to his design, it didn't take Gear long to notice that control device he had implanted was gone.
The answer as to why the piece was missing came when Holy Shiftwell sped into the room and headed for the controls. Less than a minute remained before the nuclear core would erupt, so Holley hacked fast.
Ten seconds! Nine seconds! Time was running out! Finally typing out a last few keys, the nuclear core began to flow in reverse, steadily heading back to it's regular state.
"Whoohoo!" shouted Mater " way to go Holley!"
Holley blushed at Mater's adoration.
"Well done Miss Shiftwell," Finn weekly smiled.
"Hey what's happening to you?" said Mater, looking at Gear.
"Degage!" shouted Gear, shocking both him and Mater with a powerful shock of electricity.
"Ow!" yelped Mater.
"Mater!" said Holley worriedly.
What came next was a shock to them all. That little jolt of electricty had caused all the changes Gear had made to Mater's body fall off like woodchips, leaving him back in his old, rusty tow truck form. Although there were still three hooks attached to his tow cable.
The shock also broke off Gear's clever disguise as well, revealing an orange and black frame underneath. Finn and Holley both gasped in reconigtion. Finn's long time arch enemey had really been Commander Raptor!
"You look surprised," laughed Raptor weakly.
"Commander, why?" asked Holley.
"Revenge what else?" said Raptor " Gear was my brother before he went to jail. Working to get money for us by any means nessacary. So what if he tear apart a few cars to do it, the sacrifice was nessacary,"
"But then" said Mater, confused " how'd you get a job as a spy?"
"All part of my plan" said Raptor with a grin " first of all, I infiltrated the training academy to find out who the head director was. When he was alone, I killed him with one of my brother's own tools, and convinced the higher-ups to give me the job as head director,"
"From that position, I had complete knowledge on each and every spy, and the power to control their missions. I read up all about the World Grand Prix case, and figured Mater would be just the key for my plans. So I fired Finn and Holley, making them go to Radiator Springs,"
"Then you gave the Hope Diamond you stole from London to Bubba and had him frame Mater just so you would have an excuse to pick him up," said Finn with distaste.
"Yes" said Raptor " I knew that you and Holley would come running back to London to prove his innocence, so I contocted a scheme to get you two out of the way. I stole Mater away from his cell as Gear, then showed the other agents my pre-prepared security tape of you two committing the crime, which ended up with you being thrown in jail,"
"So when you left to file a report on our capture" said Holley " you were really slipping back into your Gear guise, to do your little 'improvements' on Mater,"
"Yes" grinned Raptor " and I did a good job, if I do say so myself,"
"But why'd all the stuff fall off after you shocked me?" asked Mater, looking at the black metal scattered on the floor.
"A failsafe just in case Holley and Finn managed to escape the warehouse explosion and turn you againist me" said Raptor, wirggling at the three hooks caught in his frame " however, I didn't plan on activating it this late,"
"Well" said Finn, finally recovering from his shock treatment " you'll have plenty of time to think of a new plan, behind bars,"
Minutes later, Mater, Finn, and Holley found themselves back at the British Intellegence Agency with a captured Raptor dragging behind them. Finn was pleased once he saw General Gastank standing in the middle of the lobby talking to one of the agents. When the General's eyes landed on Finn and his little he immediately demanded some answers.
Quickly, Finn explianed the entire story to the General, which ended with him looking angrily at Raptor, who was still hanging helplessly by Mater's hooks.
"Take him away!" shouted the General to the other agents, to which they quickly responded.
Once Raptor was out of sight, the General turned back to Mater, Finn, and Holley.
"Well done you three" said the General " I'll make sure you're all rewarded for this. But right now, I think it's time you give those folks back in Radiator Springs a call, and inform them what happened,"
Mater and Holley instantly drove off to tell of what happened to Radiator Springs, General Gastank looked over at Finn with a pleased smile on his face.
"Agent" said the General to Finn " let's talk about your premotion,"
The people of Radiator Springs were overjoyed when Holley and Mater gave them the call. Even more so when they heard that Mater's name had been cleared.
"That's great buddy!" said Lightning " we can't wait for you to get home!"
"Ya'll didn't have to much trouble while I was gone did ye?" asked Mater, over the line.
"A little Bubba trouble" said Sally, standing next to Lightning " but the Shieriff is keeping him under lock and key. And with the evidence you just gave, we can hold him for longer,"
"Why? What'd he do?" asked Mater curiously.
" He tried to take your job man" said Fillmore, rolling up onto the screen " and even had the nerve to wreck your shack,"
"He what!" shouted Mater, angrilly " why that no good rustbucket...,"
As Mater drove off a little miffed, Holley ended the holoscreen converstation, and went to cool her boyfriend down. One subtle kiss was all that was needed to drive the angry torrent away.
"Ah" said Mater, a little embrassed " I'm sorry Miss Holley,"
"Mater" said Holley " you have nothing to be sorry for. You saved my life back at the nuclear plant, and for that I am eternally greatful,"
"Yeah" said Mater " but if Raptor hadn't been controlling me in the first place, you would have never been in danger. After all that, how can ya, you know, still love me?"
"Because" said Holley, pushing up againist Mater's side " you're the most loyal, honest, and funny tow truck I know,"
"I thought I was the only tow truck you know," said Mater, grinning back.
And with that said, both Mater and Holley laughed themselves out of the communications room, and drove out to find Finn. Locked wheel-to-wheel as they went.