(Here's Nick, sense getting asked where he is lol)
The door bell rang over and over. Lightning yawned and opened the door and glared at the familiar red headed cop. "Good morning Nick.." He growled a bit. Nick crossed his arms and got to the point. "Your mother again." "What? My mom is in bed.."."Than whose in my patrol car?" Nick asked and pointed. Lightning stepped out and looked at the car. His Mom. He sighed, rubbed his eyes then asked, "What did she do this time?" Nick glanced at her and the car. "Nothing really. I actually found her walking about while on my morning patrol. When I stopped and asked where she was going, she said she was looking for Peter Garcia. We don't have any Garcia's in Radiator Springs.. I looked it up."
Lightning slapped his forehead then thanked Nick anyway for returning his mother. Nick walked Minty up to the house. She was embarrassed and had the saddest frown. Nick left. Lightning walked his Mother inside and assured her it was alright. But you could see it in Minty's eyes. She was worried for herself and she felt like a burden to her son and his family. Lightning sat down with his mother and asked something difficult. "Mom.. Do you like living here? I mean, you are welcomed here for as long as you want! But.. Would you rather be someplace else?.. And not because you feel like a burden. I mean just.. In general. If you could live where you chose right now, would it be Radiator Springs?"
Minty fronwed and looked at her son. She placed a hand on one side his face. She smiled answering "I want to be with family.." Lightning smiled and nodded. "You're with me Mom." He said. Minty nodded. They sat there a moment. And this is when Lightning thought would be a good time to announce that his brother was coming. "Chad's coming here. Maybe not today, but.. He is coming. Sally called him." Minty sighed then asked "Does she not trust me anymore? It's okay.. I don't even trust myself Monty.." She admitted. Lightning wrapped an arm around his Mother and kissed her head. "I love you Mom. I'm not gonna dump you just anywhere or anything. Sally is worried I'm not thinking straight is all. Thinks Chad and I can figure things out together better than I alone."
Minty nodded a little. Then Lightning's phone rang. He sighed and picked up. "Hello?"
Lightning.. You better get to the academy.
"Bobby? What's going on?"
Just.. There's.. Just get out here. Bunch of crazy girls trying to well.. Oh my god, you gotta see this! For Real! Maybe their some the kids you kicked out, I don't know.
"Um.. What?"
Just get out here!? They got signs and everything!
"Alright, alright, I'm on my way." Lightning hung up and was a little confused. Shut the place down? He sighed then turned to his mother. He couldn't leave her alone. Lightning knew Sally was busy with that case and the kids and.. All he had left here was... Jackson.. Lightning walked around and toward the kid's room, when he passed the bathroom and heard the toilet flush. He stopped and the door opened. Jackson stared at Lightning asking if he had been standing out here because he doesn't trust him to piss now or something. Lightning glared a bit and explained "I have to go the school. Can.. My mom.." Jackson raised a brow then asked. "You want me to momsit? Seriously?"
Hearing Jackson say it made Lightning regret the very idea. "No." He answered. "I, um.. Can you come along with my Mom and I and sit in the car with her?" Jackson sighed answering "I guess.. You know, sense you've done so much for me.." He muttered it. Lightning snickered, but smiled. "Great, get dressed. We'll be leaving in twenty." Then walked away and left Jackson to hurry up...
Lightning, Jackson, and Minty pulled up to the academy to find a small crowd of young women and a few men. They did indeed have signs and were what seemed to be protesting of some sorts. It was odd. Lightning couldn't even think what these people had to protest or strike against at his academy sense the doors had just opened for transfer students only at themoment. Bobby had been taking care of place and helping Lightning while Heather had just come back to work. Bobby walked outside and motioned for Lightning to go around. Then Lightning's phone rang.
"Yes?"
Man go around back and pull in the garage. To many kids out here. And hurry up before they realize it's you or they will go up to your window.
"Bobby what's going on? What are they ranting about?"
Come on in and ill tell you. Hurry up man.
Lightning sighed and hung up before backing up and going around. Once parked inside, Heather closed the garage doors and Bobby went up to Lightning, Jackson and Minty as they got out the car. Immediately Lightning asked "So what is going on? I've barely opened the doors of this place." Bobby crossed his arms and explained "Mmhmm. Exactly! Those are the transfer students. Or some a them at least." "What?" Lightning was a little stunned. Jackson walked up and snickered a bit joked. "This has gotta be a thrill for you two. When's the last time you guys had a flock of girls screaming over you?" Bobby and Lightning immediately glared at Jackson with a judgmental and scolding glare.
"What's he even doin here?" Bobby asked. Lightning sighed and avoided that a little with "He's.. In training. So what exactly do the students want?" he asked his friend. Bobby tried not to laugh answering "They want protection and assured they will be safe around you and me and any other male here." "Excuse me?" Lightning asked. "Why aren't they safe?" Bobby shrugged answering "Well.. From what I got, you're an old perv who touches students and I look at them all like eye candy and their afraid of us." "Oh that is RIDICULOUS!" Lightning snapped. Jackson snickered muttering "Kinda true though.."
Both Bobby and Lightning glared at Jackson again. "Oh you to homo!" Bobby yelled and poked Jackson's chest! Jackson immediately growled and defended "It's not a homo thing! I just don't do GENDERS!" "Still kissed a dude.. I don't want none of your gay fingers touchin me." "OH! So the image of me kissing a man has you all don't tocuh me?! I've done more than kiss a dude MAN" Lightning then got between them, braking that up before it could really start.
"Look, let's talk to them." Lightning suggested. Bobby crossed his arms explaining "I have tried! They just keep screamin about how they should feel safe in the academy." "And they will. Come on, I'm gonma talk to them." Lightning exclaimed, then turned to Jackson and instructed. "You look after my mom." Jackson snickered and growled. "Oh no. I'm not missin this." Heather raised her hand saying "I'll stay with Mrs. McQueen." Minty immediately replied "Oh honey, it's Minty. Just Minty. No one calls me Mrs. McQueen dear." Lightning sighed, but Heather was probably better than Jackson. "Alright.. come on. But don't speak.. Please." He begged towards Jackson sho only eye rolled to that. Bobby smiled with a snicker. "You either Bobby..." Lightning mumbled, making Bobby glare a bit...
The three walked through the building and out the front entrance where they were greeted by many students chanting "We will not be touched! We will not be controlled!" and waving signs they made with glitter on them that read things such as, You can't touch us. We are not toys. We will not be influenced! We will not submit. Lightning recognized a few of the young ladies and honestly was a bit dumbfounded by this. Jackson was honestly humored by this and was trying not to laugh a little.
"Hey!.. Hey! What exactly is going on out here? Why aren't you all enjoying your break?" Lightning grabbed their attention. One young woman stepped forward and explained. "We couldn't just.. We are enjoying our break. We are demanding protection and assurance that all female students feel properly safe and protected against our fellow male um.. companions." Lightning was dumbfounded. That was the only word.
He cleared his throat before asking "And why don't you feel safe already? Has someone tried to.. Touch you? At the academy? The school?" The woman shook her head answering "Not yet. But we know in this sex pool that it is inevitable." "What did you just call this place?" Lightning mumbled in question, but he heard her. "We demand the right to feel safe!" She shouted. Jackson stepped in and scolded with a chuckle. "You can't demand a right sweetheart." The woman immediately growled back. "Ofcorse you'd say that. You're a man!" Lightning then agreed. "No, their right... They should feel safe within academy grounds. If that's all this is about, than fine. I'll have more cameras put up and some posters or somethin with help numbers, maybe even a self defense class. Alright?" "NO!" She shouted.
"You can't sway us with fancy posters! We demand the presence of a female in power! A male will not be superior over us!" One yelled! And typically, the other women agreed. Jackson crossed his arms and muttered. "Now that's just ridiculous.." Lightning sighed and explained "The academy belongs to me. There are just very few women drivers out there to teach and train, so it's a.. Man's.. Sport.." He slowed as he said that because he knew hw shouldn't have worded it that way. One girl snapped back with, "Well maybe if you didn't fuck them all, we'd have a woman's influence here." Bobby stepped in scolding "Oh that's messed up! Look! If you wanna speak to your mentor, mentors like that!? You can just leave! Don't come back!" Lightning rolled his eyes a bit and butted in.
"No, their right.. Look, I can have Sally come out if you just want a woman around to feel safer." he tried reasoning then texted Sally, but "No! We don't want any women you've manipulated and control to sway us to fall to our knees for you!" Oh that was ridiculous. Bobby butted in again, "Just make them leave! They gettin on my nerves! I'm gonna call the cops! NIPE, fuvk the cops! Somebody stop me!" Lightning held him back and tried with another woman. "Alright, Heather Swift works here already. I can make sure that any and all situations regarding women and safety you have be handled by"-"No. If anyone was manipulated the most, it was her. She's younger than some of us!" The young woman reminded. Jackson snickered and shook his head to Bobby. Bobby growled scolding "Whose side you on!?" Jackson opened his mouth, but Lightning stopped him.
"There are no sides.. I am not going to hire some ramdom woman into MY academy, just so you ladies feel safer. You are safe. No one here will or can do anything to any if you. I can work with each of you.. No, level.. Level with you all and I will put more cameras up and I can hire a self defense instructor. That should be plenty! Because I assure you all, you are safe!" "Until you decide to fuck us." One snarled. That really pissed Lightning off. He wasn't prepared or even knew how to handle this. Jackson stepped in asking "What exactly has Mr. McQueen done to any of you to make you feel unsafe?" The ladies looked at one another before the self proclaimed leader of the group answered for them. "He is obviously a man who takes what he wants, touches who he wants and that makes us feel unsafe."
'So he's not done anything?.." Jackson asked withholding a snicker. The young woman's brows lowered. "He took advantage of multiple women! He took advantage of Cruz Ramirez for God's sake! He's an old perv who likes young women. He looks at us like objects! And that guy, Bobby, is no different!" Bobby shook his head. This was the stupidest thing he had to deal with. Bobby turned to Lightning saying "I'd leave them be. Let them peacefully protest or strike or whatever demands and once their hungry, they'll leave." The woman immediately snapped back, "We will not leave until a woman is in charge!" Lightning responded with. "That's just not going to happen. You're right Bobby.. Come on." Lightning held the door open for Bobby and Jackson.
But Jackson snapped suddenly! "You know, you women can be just as cruel and manipulative!" The woman rolled her eyes and defended, "We are protective. We do what we must to survive this man's sport." Jackson laughed! "Ha!.. Wow. Just wow. You know, it's fucked up people like you that make so many things difficult for the normal ones around here." "You consider yourself normal?" She asked with crossed arms. One girl made goo goo eyes saying "I consider him perfect.." "Shut up Lisa." The leader scolded. Jackson snickered continuing "You tell me, have you lied to a man to get what you want? Ever? Have you worn something or used your body against a male gender? I'll bet you have! Because that's what psycho women like you do!" Bobby and Lightning glanced at each other a second there.
Jackson stepped closer to the woman and continued "I can tell you from first hand experience! Women are WAY more disgusting and manipulative than men!" Bobby snickered and stepped in adding "Yeah! You bitches need men to keep you domesticated!" Jackson's eyes widened then looked at Bobby saying "What? That is NOT where I was going with that.." The woman shouted at Bobby and Jackson back with "This is exactly what we are talking about! Men like you shouldn't be in charge of the young female students here!" She poked Jackson's chest. Jackson poked back yelling "You better get the fuck outa here with your crazy and stupid rebellion!" "WE WILL NOT BE TOUCHED!" Then sprayed pepper spray in Jackson's face!
Jackson immediately turned away and covered his eyes, groaning in burning pain! Sally ran up to him! Lightning didn't even see her pull up and was a bit stunned that she ran to defend Jackson like she did?! Sally turned to the girls and snapped! "What the hell was that for!?" "He-he.. He.." She was stuttering. "Answer me!" Sally yelled into her face! The woman trembled. Another woman answered "He touched her!" Sally turned towards that woman and yanked the bright green and purple glittered poster and ripped it in half.
"HEY!" The woman whined! "You are trespassing. Get out of here, all of you!" Sally ordered. One woman quickly corrected "We were transferred here. We aren't trespassing on our own school's grounds." "You are when and if the doors are closed. The place is closed to the public sense you are on break. LEAVE." The women all looked at each other. One snapped back "You can't make us leave! We aren't afraid of you!" Sally was furious and kneeled down to check on Jackson. "Lightning, take Jackson to the hospital." "But"-"NOW!" Sally ordered. Lightning didn't argue another word ans helped Jackson up and inside the academy.
"Bobby, stay with Sally." Lightning ordered. Bobby nodded once as Lightning left with Jackson. Sally turned back towards the women and asked "What is all this about!?" One woman stepped up answering "We demand a woman be placed in charge for our safety. Someome who McQueen and Swift haven't influenced into sexual favors or manipulated like Cruz." Sally's brows lowered in anger. She turned and grabbed Bobby's arm saying "Come on.." And pulled Bobby inside, shutting and locking the doors. Sally was furious. This was all because of Cleo. Cleo had to have done this! At least that's what Sally wanted all of this to be. But truthfully.. This was all Lightning's own doing, or rather undoing...