Chapter 10: Setup
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"Nice try, Mater." Finn told him, referring to the gun idea after the two lemons had disappeared.
"Dadgum!" The guns rotate out again, spin. Mater watches as the spinning barrels slice into the ropes, do some damage. "Dadgum! Dadgum! Dadgum!" The computer responds with each "dadgum." The barrels continue to spin, cutting through the ropes. The ropes break away and Mater falls right toward the whirring machinery.
Christina cried, "Mater!" as though she hadn't just been tortured for several minutes.
Mater quickly whips his tow cable around, hooks a pipe and tosses himself to the ramp with a heavy thud. He doesn't hesitate. "I gotta get you all out of there!"
Christina shook her hood. "There's no time. McQueen needs your help, Mater."
Shaking his hood, Mater despondently says, "But I can't, I'm just a tow truck."
"It's up to you. Go to the pits and get everyone out. You can do that." Finn encouraged.
"What about you guys?" Mater asks, scrunching his windshield in worry.
"We'll be okay," Finn promised him, hoping he would just listen and leave.
"Go and get some more dents, Mater," Holley told him.
After Mater disappeared, Holley hopefully asks, "So we'll be "okay"? Really?"
"He wouldn't have left if I'd told him the truth." Finn explained, referring to the death trap before adding, "Being killed by a clock. Gives a whole new meaning to "your time has come."
At this mention, Holley seems to perk up, gets an idea. "Time. That's it!" She spies a gearbox below them, at least twenty feet down. Holley fires her electro shockers but they miss their target. She recoils them back.
"What are you doing?" Christina asked, curious.
"Trying to turn back time. If I can just reverse the polarity. . ." She fires them again. Direct hit! Holley juices the gearbox with high voltage. The clock stops. It then begins to reverse itself.
Christina and Finn and Holley's wheel now rotate away from danger.
"Good job! Quick thinking, Holley!" Finn congratulated her.
Finn, Christina, and Holley are now moving in the opposite direction, toward another gear and it's going much faster. They're seconds from a crushing death. "Oh no!" Holley cried in terror.
"Drive!" Finn instructs loudly. The trio drive, fast as they can with full force as Finn cries, "Burn rubber!"
They drive harder, separating bumpers with just enough room for the descending gear to snap their ropes! Their tires spinning, they all launch off. Finn and Holley in opposite directions, land hard on opposing platforms. Christina and Finn land next to each other. As Finn and Christina squeal around to Holley's side of the clock Finn said, "We've got to get to the course. Calculate the fastest way to-"
Christina and Holley pop wings out of their side's, cutting him off. "Done."
"Miss Shiftwell, you too?" Finn asked, impressed.
Shaking her wings proudly, Holley says, "They're standard issue now."
Smiling, Finn remarks enviously, "You kids get all the good hardware."
They turn to leave when they stop, see something. It's an air filter on the ground. "Oh no. That's Mater's." Holley says, seeing his name written on it.
"I knew his escape was too easy." Christina moaned, their mission to stop him even more urgent.
Finn bursts out the front doors of Big Bentley speed off as both Holley and Christina smash through the clock face, careens into view flying over the traffic. "Mater!" It's Finn over the radio. "Mater, listen to me. The bomb is on you. They knew you'd try to help McQueen. When we were knocked out they planted it in your air filter."
Mater snorts, blowing his air filter cover off. Cross-eyed, Mater sees the explosive device attached to him. He looks up. An Allinol container hangs ominously over his head. "Uh-oh."
Zundapp is revealed to be furiously hitting the detonation button as both Christina and Holley drop into view just beyond the glass. Then they pop out their guns and aim them at him. Freaked, Zundapp does a 180 and smashes out a plate glass window, lands on a ridiculously large balloon tethered to the ground, and speeds off. The Lemonheads watch, baffled, as Zundapp drives away.
Finn speeds into view, in time to see Zundapp turn a corner out of sight. "Christina, I'll get Zundapp, you and Holley help Mater."
Christina, still in the air, turns and replies, "Got it!" Farther up the track Holley and Christina thunder past.
Finn skids around a corner and sees Professor Zundapp, speeding toward docks along the Thames where a combat ship waits. "Hurry, Professor!" the boat calls.
On Zundapp with Finn gaining fast, he accelerates. Suddenly he's been tethered by Finn with tensile cables now attached to his rear end. Zundapp screams like a little girl. "Do you really think I'm going to let you float away, Professor?" Finn reels him in. Zundapp spins his wheels, caught. Suddenly Zundapp miraculously, inconceivably, gains traction. Now it's Finn's wheels that are spinning. On the combat ship, the electromagnet has been turned outward and switched on. He's pulling Zundapp and Finn in with the magnetic force. He pulls out a laser, targets it at Finn's windshield.
Finn, tires squealing, loses more and more ground to the boat. Zundapp, the "rope" in this tug-of-war, buckles under the tension. "Give it up, McMissile!"
Finn releases a mess of bullets, grenades, and other weaponry into the air. The magnet sucks it in quickly like a black hole. It all sticks to the magnet, right next to Finn's bullets. They're bombs, grenades, rockets and one little detonator with a flashing, beeping light. Off the boat's RNX. An explosion festoons into the air, visible over the rooftops.
Christina and Holley suddenly wing into view. They see Mater and McQueen, speeding up the street. "Mater, stop!" Christina yells at him.
"No way! You could get hurt!" Then she looks over, catches a glimpse of Grem and Acer, bearing down on them from a side street. They're going to broadside Mater and McQueen.
"Oh no," Holley said for she noticed it too. On Mater and McQueen. They're not aware of the impending impact. Christina drops from the sky, hits the pavement, skids into the path of the lemons and deflects them. They flip over Christina, Mater, and McQueen and sail into a pub where they skid across the room and slam into the bar, knocking a row of beer mugs to the ground. Grem and Acer are pulverized by the bar patrons.