Wingo woke up to darkness. He didn't know where he was or what he was doing there. He started to freak out, backing into things, smashing into the things, the works. He was so confused and afraid that he forgot that he had headlights. Instead, Wingo tried to find a wall to hold onto in the darkness, but he couldn't find it.
Doc Hudson had just had a good cup of oil at Flo's and was heading back to his office. He opened the doors to his office to discover a frantic and confused Wingo running into things and knocking things over. "Calm down boy! Calm down!" Doc yelled, rushing over to him. Soon enough, he was able to calm Wingo down. After he did so, Doc switched on the office lights to find it in shambles. He tried to keep himself under control and said quickly, " Take a seat boy," and pointed to a big and long beanbag like chair in the middle of his office. Doc started to clean up a little and Wingo laid down on the beanbag chair. It was soft and squishy under his tires and he happily sprawled his body out on it. Doc came over and parked himself in front of Wingo. "Well, how do you feel?" Doc asked.
Wingo looked around at first and then looked at Doc. "I feel fine. I don't remember much, but, I remember the truck coming at my face, and that's it. But I'm O.K I guess," Wingo said.
"That was one hell of a crash you lived through. I never seen anything that bad or had to repair a car's entire front ever in my life. You are just VERY lucky." Doc smiled at him and Wingo nodded back. "Now what I really don't understand is why you taunted Christine."
Wingo shyly looked at Doc. "Well, it was really Boost's idea, and kinda mine. She was just getting some gas at a local gas station off of the interstate and so were we. She was kinda funny looking to us, she had on the ugliest looking necklace we had ever seen, and she had on a really funny looking puss face. So, Boost and I started to make fun of her, and then DJ and Snot Rod joined in. She didn't like that very much and she started to threaten us, but we didn't listen. She told us she would beat us up and all that, but we told her she was a girl and girls are too sissy to beat up tough guys like us. Boy we were we wrong. She all of a sudden she swung her big fins right at Boost and he went flying across the gas station. Now we knew she meant business. She attacked all of us and we blamed her for it. When you guys found out it was our fault coughSnot Rod cough , you said you were taking us somewhere to be punished. But I'm not sure where. I never got the message." Doc explained to Wingo his punishment and he sighed. "Guess that's what you get for messing around with Christine, huh?" Wingo said sadly. Doc nodded.
"She's a car with a lot of horsepower and wit and she doesn't like people messing around with her. At all. She had a rough past and we are trying to improve her future, hopefully it will work. Boy, she is a messed up car. She's lucky she's got Mater." Doc sighed.
"Does her past involve her powers?" Wingo asked.
"Yes. Every power she has deals with what happened to her past. I won't say anything about it; she will have to tell you herself. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go get you some food and some oil. Stay here," Doc ordered as he drove out of his office.
After Wingo had a quart of oil and a hamburger, Doc told Wingo to follow him outside. He did so and looked at the area around him. He saw Lightning and Sally sharing some oil at Flo's V8 Café and he watched as Mack drove into the gas station. He called out to Flo for some oil and she rushed over to him for assistance. Wingo heard music blaring out of Ramone's House of Body Art and Mater calling out Christine's name from his shop called Tow Mater Towing and Garage. Red was watering some flowers and Luigi and Guido were putting white wall tires on a Chevy Trail Blazer in their shop. "I've seen all these shops before in Radiator Springs when I was there. How did they all get here?"
"Well, we were all taken to Earth and we needed to make money. So, we all just rebuilt our shops here just like they were back at home. Well, except for Mater. He's got a garage now and works on not alive cars and has a towing service. That's the only change," Doc replied. "Ah! Here we are Wingo! Your new home!" The two went behind Casa Della Tires and there was an impound, and the other tuners were inside it.
"WINGO!" yelled out Snot Rod when he saw his friend and he jumped up and down in excitement. Boost and DJ looked up and they started to jump up and down also. Doc pushed a button and the impound gate opened. He shoved Wingo in and he pushed back down on the button and the impound gate closed. Doc let out a short laugh when he saw the tuners compacted in the small impound.
"Have fun boys!" Doc yelled and disappeared out of sight.
"Glad to have you back buddy!" Snot Rod said happily and nudged Wingo with his tire.
"Yeah! We thought you were a goner back at that speedway!" Boost said. "But you pulled through, which was pretty incredible."
"Yeah. I guess. I don't think I even remember it hurting," Wingo replied.
"Yeah…its good to have you back man. Good to have you back. The only reason I don't like you back is that there is no room in this impound. I'm squished over here," said DJ. Wingo gave him a look, but he realized that DJ was right. He couldn't move hardly at all and he dreaded the next time Snot Rod would sneeze he was so close to him.