Ch.9: Stolen Soul, Burning Tears
Holley's eyes widened in horror at the sight of what Mater had become. The once friendly tow truck had been transformed into a deadly looking black, three-hooked tow truck, with glowing green eyes, yellow flames, and spikes pointing out of his wheels.
"Mater no!" Holley cried.
"Mater yes" said Gear, grinning at Holley's discomfort " I must congradulate you Finn for finding such a willing tool for my plans. With this tow truck's overwelming strentgh, I shall break into the space lab's nuclear core, and reduce all of England to a radioactive wasteland,"
"Not if I have anything to say about it," said Finn, charging at Gear.
However, as the silver spy car charged at Gear, he suddenly pulled to to a stop when the evil Mater cast out one of his tow hooks and caught Finn from behind. Holley ran up to help Finn, but ended up getting hooked as well.
"Well done Mater" said Gear, removing the tarp in the center of the room " now place them in this machine,"
Without hesitation, Mater did as Gear ordered, and soon finn and Holley found themselves strapped on a gaint, circular platform. Two horns curved inward from the platform's sides, pointing right at Finn and Holley. Grinning, Gear pressed the red button to activate the machine. A countdown clock soon appeared, counting down from three minutes.
"It was so nice playing with you again" said Gear, flashing Finn a wicked grin before turning to Mater " let's go!"
"Yes Master," said Mater, hooking his tow hook under Gear and blasting both of them off with his rocket boosters.
"Mater," cried Holley,as soon as the tow truck disappeared out of sight.
Finn could imagine how much pain Holley was suffering through right now, but needed to keep his mind focused on a way for them to escape. The two horns above above them were starting to spark with energy, and in seconds they would be flashed fried.
Suddenly, Finn eyes landed on the high-tech tube were Gear had done Mater's improvements. Using his grappling line, he aimed at the cutting laser, and with a little luck, managed to wrap his line around it and pull it back.
Once he had the laser is his possession, Finn carefully aimed at his straps and used it to cut himself free. Next he cut through Holley's bonds and told her to fly. As she took off in jet mode, Finn attached a grappling line to her, and they both escaped from the warehouse just an electrical explosion tore the whole building apart.
"Whew that was a close one" said Finn, then looked to Holley " now let's go get Mater!"
"Hah" laughed Gear, as he Mater strolled through the nuclear plant, passing the knocked guards " this is just to easy,"
A security car saw the two villians approaching the nuclear reactor core and pointed his gun as they approached the door.
"Stop! You can't go in there!" he yelled.
"Mater" said Gear, looking to the tow truck " if you would,"
With that said Mater launched his three grapple hooks, attached them to the police car, and slammed him againist the wall. Something slid off the security guards next, landing right near Gear and Mater, it was a key card.
"Why thank you Sir" said Gear, taking the key card and using it to open up the door leading to the nuclear core " you're to kind,"
As Gear and Mater crept into the Nuclear chamber, Finn and Holley finally arrived at the nuclear plant, passing all the passed out cars on the way.
"They must have gotten inside the core" said Finn to Holley " come on!"
Once the two spy cars passed through the doorway leading into the core, both couldn't help but gawk at the sight. A big roundabout catwalk covered the edge of the room, and a container holding a massive green glow stood poised at the center.
From their current position Mater and Gear could not be found, and it was impossible to tell which way down the catwalk they went. As much as Finn hated to admit it, he and Holley had to split up.
"Radio once you find them," said Finn, taking off to the left, while Holley took the right.
Finn had driven just about ten yards down the catwalk when he finally spotted Gear standing at the controls to the nuclear core. The black car was already busy tapping in the commands to overload the core.
"Gear!" shouted McMissle, darting towards his enemey.
"To late Finn," said Gear, typing in one last command, allowing the flashing red alarm to echo through the plant.
"Ten minutes before this place blows up McMissle" said Gear, smiling evilly " I sugguest you start heading towards safer ground,"
"Not a chance," said Finn.
"Then stop me if you can," said Gear, and with that said he and Finn charged each other and began to fight.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the plant, Holley was having no luck in her search and was about to turn around when suddenly three flying hooks came soaring at her from behind. Shocked, Holley just barely managed to dodge the deadly missles before they implanted themselves in her frame.
Turning around, just in time to she the claws retract back to their owner, Holley's widened in fright when she spotted the now evil Mater. The glow in his green eyes displayed no mercy as he drove towards Holley, poised and ready for attack.
Holley was tempted to go reaching for one of her guns and fight back, but she didn't want to run the risk of killing Mater. Even if Gear did take him away.
She backed up as Mater drew closer, thinking of any plan that she could, until she noticed something strange about one of the headlights on Mater's frame. The right front headlight was blinking red in the middle.
"So that's what Gear did to Mater" thought Holley, sudden realization dawning " he implanted a virus into that headlight,"
Thinking fast, Holley pulled out her tazer gun and aimed it at Mater, as the tow truck got ready for another charge of his hooks. Simontaneously, both Holley and Mater fired their attacks at each other, hoping that they would work.
One hook pierced Holley's bumper, while the other pierced her side, but the third one once the tazer wires made contact with Mater's frame, shocking the tow truck to pieces.
The device that Gear had implanted in Mater, exploded into a million fragments, driving the tow truck into a daze. As Mater swung around trying to regain his senses, the tow hooks attached to Holley's frame swung her towards the nuclear core.
Soon, the purple spy car found herself smashing through the glass to the nuclear core, and plummeting to her radioactive death.