Holley and the Phantom Chapter 6: More Danger
We drove through the corridors, calling out McQueen and Finn's name. Finally on the tenth call, we heard a muffled cry in a locked door on the right.
Mater broke down the door, and we found what we were looking for. McQueen and Finn, looking scared to death, were bound and gagged in thick black cords in a death trap. Finn was on a conveyor belt leading to a crushing machine while McQueen was dangling from above a huge pit filled with some sort of black ooze. They were both connected with a long cord wrapped around Finn and it also held Lightning up.
Suddenly Phantom's voice came up on the intercom.
"I see that you've gotten the third key love, now you'll face another hard quiz, sorry I lied but I just couldn't resist. Let me explain this interesting trap, when the conveyor belt starts, it will pull Finn towards his doom, and while it does that the rope holding McQueen will slacken, dropping him slowly to a huge pit of tar. You will need the keys in order to save them, but you must also find the keyholes to put them in, and they're not in plain view. Oh, and if you try to untie them, you will be electrocuted by their cords. Good Luck!" and with that, Phantom signed off.
Just then the conveyor belt moved, and soon Finn was slowly moving towards the crushing material, and as he was McQueen was slowly descending towards the pit of tar.
"Quick Mater, we have to search around the machine." I said.
We both searched franticly for the keyholes, but nothing was found. Then I decided to look under the conveyor belt, and I low and behold, I found three keyholes which had colored dots above them. (A red one for a heart and two gold ones for a star and orb.)
I crawled under the conveyor belt and quickly put in the keys, but the machine only slowed down. Then a small opening popped up and out of it fell another small key, this one was blue with a squiggle on it.
I looked for another opening and found it, but it was at the top of the machine, and without my wings I couldn't reach it.
Then I had an idea.
"Mater, try and reach the key with you tow cable!" I called to him.
I gave him the key and he nearly missed but still got it up there, but still the machine wouldn't stop.
"Try and turn it with you hook!" I said.
Mater hooked onto the key and turned it, and with a loud groan the machine stopped.
We both breathed a collected sigh of relief, now all we had to do was to untie McQueen and Finn without getting electrocuted.
Suddenly I heard a noise from inside a wall and inside was all of my spy equipment!
I gladly took out my computer and processed the data of the cords. I found out that there were blue chips on it also which made them electric, and in order to deactivate them I had to neutralize it with another electronic device.
I grabbed my Taser and carefully aiming, shot at the cords.
It worked and we untied and ungagged McQueen and Finn. There was ecstasy and hugs all around.
"Oh Holley, I thought that you were… oh I could never forgive myself if something happened to you!" Finn tearfully said.
"I'm alright Finn, now did you see Phantom?"
"We did, but only for a second, before we could get to him we got knocked out by Mater."
"Finn, I'm so sorry, I was being controlled by some sort of blue chip."
"It's okay Mater; I knew it wasn't your own fault."
"Okay then, but how did you get here?"
"Well Mater wanted to see the last place you were at, so he ran away and we had to look for him. We surprisingly located him in the ocean." McQueen said.
"Oh right I remember, we were called out to one of the old oil platforms in the middle of the ocean that the lemons used." I said. "Right, so we decided to use a submarine and discovered some sort of underwater globe with tubes inside it. We snuck in and saw Phantom, but then we got knocked out by Mater and the next thing we knew we were tied up in that death trap.
"So you don't have any idea who Phantom was?"
"No not really, but we still need to get out of here."
"Right, let's go."
Just then we heard a yell coming from outside the room.
We decided there was no choice but to follow the sound of it and went off.
. . .
We followed it as it grew closer and closer, and at last we came to the source of it.
It was from a room with a large TV screen, and inside was Phantom. He seemed to be talking to another car that had a German accent. I tried to descramble that voice but just like Axelrod's voice it was too sophisticated.
"I hope that everything has gone according to plan Phantom?" The voice said.
"Yes it is, I've set up a trap for them all. When they are finished with the final quiz, they will try to ambush me, but I have an instant paralyzing gun and when I fire it at them, they'll be disposed of forever."
"Good, now my revenge plan is almost complete."
While they were still talking, we formulated a plan. McQueen would be in plain view and drive away as fast as he could. Then Finn and Mater would use their grapple hooks to grab Phantom and then I would Taser him.
Just when Phantom signed off he saw McQueen, just like the plan, he drove as fast was he could and when Phantom started to chase him, Finn and Mater grabbed him and I used my Taser to knock him out.
"Okay then Phantom, who are you and why would you do this?" I told him.
I took off his mask, and found that he was some British car I never saw before.
But apparently Finn had, because he gasped in disbelief and looked shocked.
"No… you… LELAND TURBO?!"