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Chapter 4

Mind, Blood, and Video Connections

"Poor Taylor." Lightning sighed sitting in front of her. It had now been 5 hours since he had found out about Taylor's connection to Chick. Doc sat in the corner, sleeping soundly, as Sally did the same in another corner. Mater had gone home a while ago. Sheriff sat in the front room to keep watch, but judging by the loud snoring coming from in there, he had fallen asleep. Jaden stood next to Taylor, watching as she now slept peacefully.

"I know. I can't believe she's the daughter of that Bat Rastard." Jaden sighed as he rolled up to the counter to look at the paperwork. "It's 11:00, and she still hasn't waken up yet. I wonder how long these blackouts usually last." he said writing the time down on the sheet of paper.

"I just hope that she isn't really related to him. She doesn't deserve to be treated like that." he said as he sunk lower on his suspension. 'Taylor, please wake up soon...' he thought as he closed his eyes.

'I have to wake up in the morning.' her voice rang through his head.

As soon as he heard that, his eyes shot open, and stared wide-eyed at her. "Jaden,..." he said keeping his eyes on Taylor at the same time. Jaden turned around, and gave him a questioning look. "Did you hear something?" Lightning asked, slowly tearing his eyes away fom her, to look at the young doctor.

"No..." he shook his hood. "Why?"

"Nevermind, I think I'm just really tired." he said yawning, as he rolled over next to Sally, and quickly fell asleep.

Jaden watched him, until he knew he was really asleep. Then rolled up to Taylor. 'Taylor, you know to be more careful! Nobody knows about you and your telepathy! You told them you would tell them later. Not even Doc knows about it!'

'I know! I'm sorry, I had to. He's really concerned about me though! I couldn't just let him not get any sleep all night, just because he's waiting for me to wake up!'

'Fine, but be more careful next time, ok?'

'Okay. Night, Jaden. You don't need to stay up all night waiting for me to wake up. You and I both know that I'm fine. So, go to sleep.'

'Night, Taylor.' He thought as he rolled over next to Doc and fell asleep in no time.

July 2, 2011

Lightning woke up to find everyone else still asleep. Sally leaning against him, and Taylor still out. He looked at the clock to see it was now 6:50 A.M. on Saturday. He quietly rolled out of the room, to see that Sheriff had already left for the morning shift. Mater now sat in his place, reading his magazine: "Tow-sational!". "Morning Mater." Lightning said as he rolled towards the front door.

"Mornin' buddy!" Mater whisper-yelled, as he followed Lightning.

"How did you sleep? Cause I didn't sleep very well." he said as they drove to Flo's.

"Not so well either, ah was too worried fer Holley, an' Finn, an' Taylor! I can't believe such a sweet li'l girl like that could be Hicks' daughter!" Mater yelled, forgetting that everyone else in town was still asleep.

"Mater, shush! Not everyone is awake, you know!" he said as they drove slowly up and down main street. "Besides, not everyone needs to know just yet."

"Sawry," he said.

They spent a few minutes in silence just randomly driving around town, until they were near Sarge and Fillmore's yards. It was 7:00 A.M. now, and Revielle started playing as Sarge raised his flag. Lightning and Mater stopped in their tracks as they heard the song echo through the valley, and halfway through the song, Jimi Hendrix version of 'The Star Spangled Banner' started playing.

"Will you turn that disrepectful junk off!" Sarge yelled rolling over to the road in front of his hippie-neighbor's yard.

"Respect the classics man! It's Hendrix!" Fillmore yelled in Sarge's face.

"Why don't you both just shut up!" Taylor yelled, appearing out of nowhere.

"Taylor! You're awake!" Lightning said turning to her.

"Awake and alive! Although, I have bad memories from that blackout. Just a question, how bad was it?"

"You were screaming." Lightning said as nice as possible.

"Yeah, that's a grade 10..." Taylor said, while turning her attention back to Sarge and Fillmore. "Sarge, Fillmore. Do you know what you've done this morning?" she asked rolling up to them. They both shook their hoods. "Well, you two just woke me up. And, you know what happens when I get woken up on Saturday, at 7:00 A.M.? I get angry!" she yelled. By this time, almost the entire town was surrounding them. Taylor's eyes now shone a dark gray, instead of their usual pretty blue. "And when I'm angry, it's usually about that one thing. Other than that, Chick Hicks makes me mad. Now, all I ask is that you either don't argue really early on the weekends, or you don't play your 'morning-wake-up-calls' until later. Am I understood?" She said rolling towards them, until she was in both of their faces. Both of them backed up, and for once since any of them could remember, Sarge was actually showing that he was afraid. They both nodded vigorously. "Good." she smiled the sweetest smile, as her eys turned back to their normal blue. She turned around to look at the rest of them. "Now, if anyone needs me, I will be going back to sleep." She said as she drove through the middle of the crowd.

As soon as she was driving down the road, and about to turn into Doc's clinic, Sally stopped her. "Wait, Taylor!"

Taylor turned around to look at Sally as she drove towards her. "Yes, Sally?"

"You can stay at the Cozy Cone if you want?"

"Really? That wouldn't be too much trouble for you?"

"No, right now Stickers is the only one staying there."

"Alright, thankyou." Taylor said following Sally to the motel.

"What was that about?" Jaden asked as he rolled up to Lightning, Mater, and the still stunned Sarge and Fillmore. Everyone else already gone to Flo's for breakfast.

"I don't know, I guess she just really likes her sleep on the weekends." Lightning replied.

"I know we all hate Hicks, but what was up with her talking about him?" Sarge asked, coming out of his stooper.

"Uh..." Lightning stuttered, looking at Jaden for help. But in return only got a small shrug. "She hates him too, I mean, who doesn't? Right?"

"I guess." Sarge shrugged as he and the other four drove slowly down the road, to Flo's. "Ya know, for a 14 year old, she sure does have a lot of guts."

"Yeah..." Lightning, Mater, and Jaden agreed. The five of them soon rolled into the lot with everyone busy with conversation.

"Thanks again, Sally." Taylor said as Sally handed her the key to Cone # 2.

"No problem. Later, if you want, me and Lightning can show you around." Sally said following Taylor to her cone.

"Ok. I think I'll get settled in here first and then go over to Flo's. And then we can go on that tour of town."

"Ok. Well, see you later." She replied driving off to join the others.

As soon as she was gone, Taylor rolled into her cone and shut the door. Making sure the coast was clear, she pulled out her iPod, iPhone and laptop from a concealed compartment from in her side, and put them on the side table. She opened the computer, and turned it on. As soon as the desktop popped up, she saw that she had a videochat request. She clicked on the button, and up popped the image of a purple Jagaur XJR-15, that was sleeping in a dark room.

"Hey! Wake up!" she whisper-yelled.

The car's eyes shot open as she looked around frantically. Her eyes rested on the holograph that popped up. "Taylor! Why did you have to wake me up now? It's three o'clock in the morning!" The british Jaguar whispered.

"Sorry, I forgot about the time difference. When are you coming home?"

"Well, we are currently on our way back to RS. The mission went well. Just a few minor cuts and bruises. How's Mater?"

"He wishes you were here, and that you would have let him go with you guys this time."

"Well, this mission was about him, this time. That's why he couldn't come with us."

"I know that, but you need to tell him that. Oh, and by the way, you might want to keep an extra set of those rocket boosters you gave him."

"Why? Did he blow out already?"

"No, but he's pretty close to it. I think Jaden already fixed the burns he had when he and Lightning went to... You know, that place."

"Yes. Do you know why they were going there?"

"No. You might want to ask him when you get back."

"I bet that Lightning wore him out by racing off as fast as he could go, forgetting the problems Mater has with the rockets." she chuckled. "Well, we should be landing in about 3 and a half hours. We left Japan less than a half hour ago. When we got on, we both just fell asleep. I mean look at him," she said, moving the holograph to see a light blue Aston Martin DB5 fast asleep, the holograph moved back to the Jagaur. "He never sleeps like this! He usually would have been up by now, because of us talking."

"Well, you know him better than I do. So, you'll probably be here around 11:30 A.M., right?"

"Correct. We'll see you when we get there."

"Okay, bye."

"Goodbye." And with that, the holograph screen went black.

Everything looked like it would all be okay. Or so they all thought...

Little did the town know yet, a badly beaten little car drove into town...

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