*bows* it was an honor for everyone to read my first true story. *whispers*hey, what about life rings take 2? ;)
'Cars'=Pixar
Now… the fight continues….
Life Rings
Chapter 14: Never test Fate.
Alice stood tall and strong, her ring shined brighter than anyone had ever seen before, no fear was present in her eyes, only determination. "What are you waiting for?" She raised her voice to her father, Jack, "Are you the type of man that's all bark and no bite? Come on Jack! Fight like a man!"
Jack snapped his head back as his lip curled into a hiss. "My have you changed Alice." He snarled, "But you should know better than to piss off your own father!"
Alice felt her anger boil over, "What kind of a father are you Jack?!" She felt herself snarl back, "A father wouldn't kill his own children! A Father would heal your wounds, not afflict them! A father…" She caught her breath as she looked back at Doc… "A father loves you, a father protects you, a father would do whatever he can to make you stop hurting, and will do whatever he can to save your life." Doc's eyes quivered back and forth as his lip trembled slightly. 'Don't do this' he mouthed the silent words to her.
She swallowed her own set of tears back as she darted her eyes away from Doc's. She couldn't look at him… She had to stay strong for this… or at least look like it. Her heart was breaking along with her engine slowly being sliced by a death plate… She didn't have much time.
"Jack! Come on! Fight me like the Sadist you are!" She raised her voice, trying to provoke him to fight.
But Jack paused and froze under pressure, which Alice didn't expect from him. His eyes were wide as he looked at the ground… was he really a coward?
"You Coward!" She shouted, "What happened to the strong and mighty? The 'superior' being? Come Get me Jack, I know you-" She coughed violently, making her choke on her words. Jack's grill curved …
"By the looks of things I don't need to do a thing." Jack smiled as he rolled over to Alice.
Alice gritted her teeth, trying to suppress the pain. She opened her forced, closed eyes from her coughing as saw the concrete floor glitter with oil… she was losing too much time.
"You want me to fight?" Jack whispered from her side, "When you're already slipping away from underneath my tire?"
Alice swallowed the horrible metallic taste down and cracked a smile, "Why? Afraid you'll lose?"
Jack laughed, "No, quite the opposite my dear."
In a flash, Alice felt a force crushing her door in and sending her a crossed the room. Tires locked on impact as they squealed, leaving thick, heavy tread smoking from the heat of the friction. Alice grunted as she rose on her tires again. A smile cracked on her grill.
"Shut up!" Jack yelled at Alice's inaudible thoughts, charging at Alice again at full speed. You didn't see him, or hear the roaring of his powerful engine, all you saw was Alice's body flying a crossed the room. Her body smashing into one of the light tubes that came out of the support beams, and finally ended on the floor under the raining sparks, in a crumpled heap.
Jack came back into view, painting heavily and his eyes rippled with energy, his tires shaking. This was hard for his body to adjust too. He wasn't made to run at such high speeds, or read minds. His body started to tremble with this newly found stress, he wasn't sure how long he could use the gift until his body would finally give out.
Then his thoughts snapped on his attention on that sound… that awful sound!
His eyes widened as he turned slowly, trying to find the source of that horrid sound…
Among the shower of sparks, a disfigured, unpainted frame rolled out…laughing.
"stop it!" He said as that laughter grew in strength.
"SHUT UP!" He screeched as he took off after her, blurring in with the background, smashing Alice multiple times. Sending the crippled body to the other side of the room…laughing.
"STOP IT!" he shouted at the laughing frame.
She got up, laughing… her oil oozed out from her lips, the frame disfigured and broken…but she got up…laughing…
"What the hell is so funny?!?" He demanded for an answer for his daughter's full hearted laugh.
She coughed oil from her airways as she stumbled, getting a little woozy. "That you actually believed that this is all I'm going to do. Stand here and take your beatings?"
She laughed a single laugh, "Oh Jack, if only you knew." She smiled as her ring traced a circle of light around her eyes. And like that, she disappeared.
Jack gasped, "what…WHAT!?!?!"
"You don't like it when things don't go your way, do you?" a voice brushed up against his side.
"What?" He flashed around him in a panic…nothing.
"oh come on Jack, fight!" the voice taunted him, this time coming from behind him.
He whirled around again….nothing.
"Who's the coward now?" Jack taunted back, smiling at his own little plot.
"Oh no Jack… Quite the opposite."
Jack panted as he spun around, again… and again…. Nothing… "Well?!?" He demanded, "Where's the-" He stopped, his body trembled as it suddenly slammed up against the wall. Then rose up and smashed against an invisible force that didn't show mercy. Jack mangled frame slowly fell to the ground… but never hit it. That force kept smashing into his frame, until Jack finally hit the floor. The force left the strongest blow for last… in that final blow you heard the spin chilling sound of snapping parts as Jacks body flew to the darkest side of the room with a sickening thud.
Alice appeared out of thin air and smashed to the ground, a shout of pure pain rippled through her oil filled lungs as she landed too with a sickening thud. Oil pooling under her frame…
"Alice!" Doc and Sheriff cried simultaneously, as they both ran with pure adrenaline coursing threw them.
The disfigured body wheezed it's shaky breaths... "Doc… get mom and get..out." She coughed the oil out of her airways, "I can't hang on much longer…"
Doc shook he head violently, "No. No I can't do that Alice…W-Why didn't you listen to me?"
She cracked an eye lid, "Doc… it's hard to…explain… " She took a ragged breath, "I did it to protect everyone…'cause…" she swallowed, "Everyone here is what I have for family… I will die to protect you…" She smiled, " but promise me one thing Doc…"
Hudson felt his heart dying as well, "Anything Alice…."
She took a ragged breath, "Take good care of my mom… for me. Tell her those stories that you…told me when I was in the clinic. She'd like those…"
Doc nodded, his face was stone, but his eyes watered, "I swear on my life."
"this isn't over!" the dark figure appeared from the shadows, fully alive, and fully pissed. "I will kill you! if it's the last thing I'll ever do!" He quickly blurred into a straight away towards the huddled group. It was coming too quick for anyone to react, Doc did the best thing he could do, closed his eyes and braced for impact… he was surprised when it came… it didn't hurt. It was a little bump actually which caused something to splatter on his hood… and a blood curdling scream was heard behind him.
His eyes shot open to oil spotted his hide and Kendal taking the blow. The wounded from before oozed just enough that when she was hit… it splattered anyone near her…
Alice screamed in agony as she shut her eyes… the oil from her mother must of sprayed not only on her hood, but into her eyes… making them burn… making her blind.
"I can't take this!" Doc shouted to the world, his confidence shooting up into the sky. "Back off Jack!"
Jake smiled as insanity took over for his common sense, his body was split and broken, as oil pooled from where he stood, he was finished, but Jack couldn't see that."You'll all die!" He said as he charged after the group, Kendal would receive the majority of the blow. Doc was livid…
"Enough!" He shouted as he felt as though adrenaline pumped through his system as he held Kendal, trying to take most of the impact. His eyes burned as he zone his eyes at Jack charging after them, Jack was closing in the gap that separated the two…
Then the oddest thing happened. Jack couldn't have hit them any more dead on, his crushed body would of easily taken Hudson's fender off … but Jack was the only one that was damaged… his frame ricocheted a crossed the room one more, leaving a trail of oil and scuff marks to his… broken body.
Doc looked over at Kendal, her wound was starting to heal… but that was the only mark that was on her features… nothing else.
Quinn took off towards Doc, "Doc! Are you-"Quinn's eyes widened "Doc… y-your eyes!"
Doc snapped his head back, "What are you talking about?"
Quinn blinked a few times, "Your eyes are purple!"
Doc shook his head, "My eyes have always been a crystal blue."
Aero nodded, " Yes but Doc, you are gifted… with the gift of protection."
"I have protection as a gift…" Doc whispered as he felt his heart sank… he looked back at the crumpled heap that lay in its own oil. His eyes sparked with tears, "and it came too late …" the burning that he felt in his eyes before disappeared, as the only burning he felt was from the tears threatening to spill over his lids.
Doc rolled over closer at the non moving Alice, as his heart shattered. "Alice?" he asked weakly as he rested his tire on her frame… her cold, still frame. Nothing moved, not a single sign of life.
"Alice…" He clenched his teeth to keep his composure, "You did good kiddo… and I'm proud."
He took a deep breath and sigh a trembling one. His emotions were heavy to bear as he kept them bottled up, "I don't care what your father said… You are an amazing daughter…" he felt his frame shake… "I –I…" He couldn't form the words; his mouth just wouldn't Core operate. He could only hope that the heaven can hear him inaudible words…'I love you…'
A single sob was heard from Doc's said as he turned to see Kendal's strong face starting to break down before him. Doc raise a tire towards her, "Come here."
Kendal buried her face into Doc's frame, as her sobs were muffled by the cobalt paint that covered his hide. He closed his eyes, hiding his own tears. He would have been able to handle the grief just fine… but the sound of pure agony from a loving mother struck his emotions even harder.
"S-She's gone… isn't she?" Quinn pulled up alongside the crumpled heap, as the tears already traced trails down his hood.
No one answered…
Sheriff gritted his teeth as he glanced over at Jack's body… broken in two … "Alice got her wish," he whispered to himself, "He won't harm anyone any longer.
He rolled over to Aero and gave him a weak nod.
"I think it's time to bring Alice home."
Aero sighed a painful one as he let the rings awaken in his eyes, " let's bring her home…"
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*she felt like she was flying. Not like Jack clashing with her side kind of flying, but she felt… free. She liked this new feeling of life without pain.
She opened her eyes to a blinding light, causing her undeveloped eyes to slam shut again… nothing hurt, not even her eyes burned from the tremendous bright light… 'wait…'
She opened her eyes again, this time prepared for the bright light. The symbolic pearly gates glisten with pure righteousness… She swallowed "heaven…"
A 2 tone blue thunderbird appeared out of nowhere behind the pearly gates, "Alice?" She asked as she reached up on the gates. "Alice! Oh God Alice!" she screamed as she reached up to get a better look at the Mustang.
Alice blinked slowly, "Rachelle?"
The sister behind the gates smiled, "Alice… Jack finally got to you too." her smile became sheepish.
Alice shrugged a sly smile came a crossed her face, "I guess you can say that."
Rachelle raised a frame, "Oh if only I still had my gift, I would totally be raiding that mind of yours!" she smiled a very warm sister like smile. "I missed you sis. But I wish that I wouldn't have meet you for another… well… a while."
Alice shrugged again, "It's alright, I …ah… died… of good causes."
Rachelle nodded, "As he predicted. You're quite the hero, or so I hear."
She raised an eye frame; "You've heard of me from 'him' like…"Alice looked up to the skies, then back at her sister.
Rachelle laughed, "Alice, God is over here." she pointed with her tire behind her. "You're in heaven."
She felt something in her chest... her heart would have stopped for a second at the sound of that fact… if she was still alive. Now it was just… hollowness…
Rachelle chuckled, "It's hard at first, but you can start a life here. And I'm sure God would love to see you! He's quite the artist; you should see some of his art. It's quite breath taking."
A red roadster custom with black sides appeared alongside Rachelle, "Hey Elle, We need you back at-"
He paused as his hazel eyes widened, "Alice! Oh Al! How ya doing!" He paused, reconsidering that statement, "Ahh… well What's happening?... It's good to see-…" He chuckled, "Hi!"
Alice chuckled, "Zeb, it's been a while."
Zeb nodded, "it has, but now since we're dead, we got like an eternity up here to catch up on good times."
Rachelle shook her head, "this is why he is not on the welcome committee."
Alice chuckled, "I've missed you guys."
Zeb smiled, "Well, what are you waiting for?" the Gates opened slowly towards Alice, as heaven welcomed her in with open arms…
Rachelle held a tire out, "Come on Alice, time to go home."
Alice froze…'this is it.'
Zeb nodded, "Come on! It's Amazing! You'll love it!"
Alice felt her lip quiver, "Bye mom…bye Radiator Springs…" Her eyes pooled with tears… "Bye Doc… thanks for everything."
She looked up, her family sat before her, waiting… She swallowed as a single tear fell off of her frame. "Good bye…" the tear fell to the cloudy floor… but that's not where the life of her tear stopped.
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Clouds are not solid, so when a droplet falls on to them… they fall through.
A droplet of sadness fell from the sky as it traveled down towards a little group of cars, taking their vow of silence for the death in the middle of the group.
There, that little single tear from the heavens, finally ended on the roof of a single cobalt blue car. He eyes shot open at the sudden coldness hit his roof. "Alice…" he breathed as he looked over at the crumpled heap. The oil stopped draining out of the poor lifeless victim as it gave it last breath…
Sheriff rolled over with Aero, "Doc, I think it's time to go home."
Doc couldn't stop staring at her, "Hang on, I want to do something first. Just, for a Doctor's sake."
Doc rolled closer to the body as he laid a tire on her side as he started timing for a minute.1…2…3…4
He closed his eyes, knowing that this was pointless. By looking at her horrible disfigured frame and the pool of oil… she was gone.
35…36…37…38…
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Alice froze at the gate… something on her side burned... almost like someone was holding a torch to her side.
Rachelle raise a eye frame, "what's wrong Alice?"
Alice swallowed as she looked over at her perfect painted side, "my side is burning."
Rachelle nodded, "That just means someone is touching your body, don't worry it'll go away."
Alice raised a frame, "I thought you're not supposed to feel pain when you're dead?"
Rachelle shrugged, "I don't know, we could ask-"
Zeb seemed to cower, "Um… Elle he's kind of right there."
Behind them came a pure white figure that radiated that brilliant light. You couldn't tell exactly what he was… the light was just so… bright.
"Alice" His deep voice was kind and wise as he seemed to chuckle at Alice's expression. " I've seen a lot of potential in your bright mind."
Alice bowed her thanks, "Thank you sir."
"However, it seems you've come here later than what I had predicted."
Alice raised her head slightly, "Late? I do not understand."
He chuckled, "Your gift is a wondrous thing, just barely keeping yourself alive until Hudson Hornet saved your life."
She blinked in surprise, "I was suppose to die that night?"
"My child," a smile was present in his voice, "the future is not quite set in stone. And the wondrous gifts that you have make the future even more uncertain. You, and your family… mostly your mother."
Alice blinked, "My mother?"
A loud thump rippled through her body, making pain shake through her frame. She fell on her tires as the pain didn't subside.
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Doc's eyes shot open as he stopped at 57… it was faint, but he swore something moved. Doc swallowed as he felt his own heart ripple with hope. He started counting again, just to be sure… 1…2…3…4…5…
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Alice looked up, "Lord what is happening?! That's causing so much pain!"
God seemed to bow, "Thank your mother for me."
Alice looked up at him, fear in her eyes, "Lord I-"
Another horrible thud in her frame… actually under her hood… it was so powerful it*thud*
Her whole frame collapsed onto the ground, as her eyes started fussing out the figures. *Thud*
The pain was… too much… *thud*
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He stopped, he felt them…3 more… he swore on everything that he was raised by.
Doc swallowed his eyes wide. "I don't believe it."
"Don't believe what?" Kendal's voice was tired sounding as she rolled up by his side.
Doc grabbed her tire as held her tire against the same spot he had felt it, he started mentally counting again.
Kendal's eyes widened, "that's impossible. How can that be possible?"
Doc eyes lit up. He wasn't dreaming it at all. "Let me see again." He replaced her tire with his, the rhythm was weak, but there... *thud*…*thud*..*thud* .*Thud*Thud*Thud*.
"She's alive." Doc spoke with clarity as his adrenaline started pumping. "She's alive!" His doctor instincts started kicking in as he got everyone to give him space. He opened her mouth to remove anything that might cause her to stop breathing, reshaped some broken parts so that it wouldn't affect her breathing. Nothing was bleeding so that was one thing that was marked off of his list. He went to check her pupils… when her eye lids fluttered open.
Doc smiled widely as she coughed out what ever irritated her airways as her eyes opened. Her normal Violate eyes… had a new ring… a white ring… her mother's ring.
Alice cracked a smile, "Mom…God says thanks…" she whispered out as her snow rings looked back at Doc, "Doc… I have to thank you too…"
Doc smiled as his eyes pooled with tears, "Why?" He asked as he was over whelmed with emotion.
Alice closed her eyes, "Both of you made God confused."
Doc chuckled, which at this point almost sounded like crying as he couldn't believe his eyes, "Welcome back Alice…" He swallowed hard as tears streamed down his features… "Welcome back…"
This had SOOO many ways to end it! I had to change this soo many times! *sigh*