Lightning slowly opened his eyes, expecting to see the walls of the cozy cone motel.
Instead, he saw a half open 2-car garage door, and heard a loud smacking noise.
"UH…."
"Nom- What? Nom-"
"What the…"
"Ah, Lightnin'! You're up! Careful, don't hut yourself…." Lightning tried to get up, only to be presented with a sudden shock of fire-y pain.
"OWWWW…ARRGHH!!!"
"You see, that's what I mean."
"I still can't be dreaming…"
"So that means you're awake. Good…. Because I really don't think that I'm dreaming…."
"Can you… explain in an orderly manner…Ellie…?"
"Well, I was at a concert….. I play guitar…. And I needed some air, so I go out into this alley, and I see this totally totaled car hooked up to some purple tow truck. The truck read, "Kiki's Towtruck Service", and I knew Kiki and I went to go find her, and –gasp- -nom- and-"
"What are you eating?"
"Toast."
"You're chewing with your mouth open."
"Oh, I do that so my mouth doesn't catch on fire."
"Right. So, can you give a brief summary of how I ended up… you know, crashed…" Lightning trailed off and closed his eyes. Talking too much was hurting his right side…
"Well, how did you get here?"
"I- I don't care…. I know how, but- I just want to stop hurting, stop sounding like a baby, and go home…."
Ellie tilted her head to look at the racecar sideways. "Well, how 'bout I get you into drivin' condition, then we can go down to Rick, the town mechanic, besides me, and we'll get some new tires, I'll craft ya a new spoiler, like the ones in Nascar, and I'll get Rick to whip ya up a new paint job. Hows 'at sound?"
"Wont the town be freaked at the sight of a talkin' car?"
"Oh, I fixed that already! Watch this…."
Ellie walked over to Lightning's left side and stopped at his window. She took her index finger and traced it along the edge of his window, starting at the top. The edge, where her finger had been, began to glow purple. Then, with a quiet airlock unlocking noise, the window slid open.
"What did you just do?!?!"
"I opened your window!" Ellie stated proudly.
"WHAAAHHUUUHH??!?!!???!?!!!?" In his surprise, Lightning combined "what" and "huh", which made the sound of a duck being run over by an 18- wheeler.
"Yea, and there is this big red button on your dashboard (which is covered in gauges, knobs, and switches), and when I push it-"
"DON'T-" Lightning began to shout, but it was too late.
His windows and windshield cleared, and became blank glass. His mouth vanished and he stood erect, unable to move himself until his engine was started, just like any other car.
On the computer screen inside the car, words began to appear.
Ellie ducked her head through the open window to see it.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST DO, YOU… HOW COME I CAN'T TALK?!?!? WHY CAN'T I MOVE?!?!?!?!!? HHEEEELLLLLLLLLPP!!!!!!!!" The monitor read.
"Calm down, you're fine!" Ellie exclaimed.
"So, I'm still alive…" The monitor cleared then read.
"And you look like any normal car, and yes, I can read the computer screen. Cool, huh?"
The monitor wrote one word: "-smirk-".
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"LIGHTNIN' WHAERE ARE YA?!?!?!"
Mater was racing around pell- mell, screaming, crying, and searching for Lightning under rocks and behind cactuses…. Like he had been for the past 4 hours.
"Mater, stoooop!!" Sally complained. She, like everyone else in RS, had an awful headache…. And heartache. And of course, Mater wasn't helping them out.
The town was filled with cops, the media, and fans, all shouting and searching…. Pointlessly.
Its been like this for the past… forever. I just wish my Stickers were back… so this madness would stop… so life would go back to normal… Sally wished.
They all did.
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NOTE: PHEW!!!! All done!!! Hope you like it; this was off the top of my head…. Sorry 'bout the gap in updating…. I've just been busy on Deviant Art!! XD
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