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"Flight A113 is now boarding. All passengers for flight A113 please report to gate ninety-five for boarding," a female voice says over the PA system at the airport.

Here we go… Holley thinks to herself as she drives towards the gate.

"Boarding pass please Miss," a navy blue Evora Lotus says to Holley.

"Oh, right. Here it is," Holley says as she shows him the ticket she has stored in her wheel.

The Evora scans her ticket. "You know, Volkswagen Karmann Ghia don't have radiator grilles," he says, seemingly offhandedly.

Holley smiles. "That's because they are air-cooled."

"Just so, Miss Shiftwell. You're cleared for entrance," he says.

"Thank you Sir," Holley says and boards the jet. Looking around, she sees a good number of cars already on the plane, many of them asleep as this had jet come all the way from the States before landing at Heathrow. Holley rolls quietly down the aisle of the jet looking for the row her seat is in. Arriving at the specified row, Holley sees that the way to her seat is blocked by a sleeping SL Coupe 2.0

"Excuse me?" Holley says softly, tapping the sleeping car with her front tire.

"Mmm…" the Coupe groans as she opens her eyes. "Oh, hi there! Am I in your way?" she says in an American accent.

"Sorry to wake you, but yes. I have been assigned to the window seat."

"Oh, it's not a problem," the car says as she rolls into the aisle to let Holley through.

Once both of the cars are settled, the Coupe says "So, we're in England now?"

"Well, yes. Is this your stop?" Holley inquires.

"Oh, you don't know? This jet is taking all of us to the Academy. We just have to make a few more stops before we're on our way," the reddish-orange car explains.

"All of these cars are C.H.R.O.M.E recruits?" Holley asks, looking around the jet once more.

"Yep. Every last one of us."

"Then perhaps I should introduce myself. My name is Holley Shiftwell."

"Don't you mean 'Shiftwell. Holley Shiftwell,'?" the SL Coupe 2.0 laughs.

"Perhaps," Holley chuckles.

"Anyway, I'm Kim Pontible. Nice to meet you Holley," she says with a smile.

"Likewise," Holley says with a smile.

A few hours, and quite a few stops in various countries, later the jet is completely full with cars from countries around the world.

"Ladies and gentle cars, this is your jet speaking. Let me be the first to welcome you all to the C.H.R.O.M.E team. The next few years will be a good amount of work for all of you, but it will be well worth it in the end. Speaking of training, it starts right about…now!"

An alarms begins to blare inside the cabin, startling all of the cars.

"What is happening?" Holley says, not really expecting an answer.

Kim smiles. "I heard about this! They make you parachute into the academy from the plane!"

"What?" Holley says, eyes wide in shock.

"Come on!" the SL Coupe 2.0 says. She drives off and Holley warily follows her down the aisle to the back of the plane where they see a couple of midnight-black forklift waiting. When one of the forklifts sees the two cars coming towards him, he quickly places a harness on the floor of the jet. Kim shows no hesitation as she positions herself over the harness so that the forklifts can put the loops over her tires to fasten her in. As soon as the harness is buckled the crazy, in Holley's opinion, car drives forward out of the jet with a resounding cry of "Yeeaaaaah!"

Holley just stares at the shrinking figure of the red-orange car, though she notices that they do seem to be right above a large building surrounded by a large green field. Glancing in her rearview mirror, she sees that most of the cars in the plane seem to be unsure of what to do.

"Everyone!" Holley shouts, making sure she is heard over the din of the alarm. "I believe that we have to parachute to the Academy! Come on, everyone to the back of the jet!"

"You're-ah kidding, right?" a green Ferrari says in an Italian accent.

"Actually," the voice of the jet says over the intercom, "She is correct. Consider this your… welcome present from C.H.R.O.M.E."

"Do we-ah have to right now?" the same Ferrari asks, paling a few shades from her emerald green color.

"It's that or attempt to do it while I'm doing barrel rolls," the jet replies, the smirk on his face coming through in his voice.

"Oh…" the Ferrari says, paling even more.

"Miss?" one of the forklifts says to Holley in a Cockney accent. "Are you ready for your parachute?"

"As ready as I'll ever be," she replies.

"Right then," he says. Soon, Holley is outfitted with a parachute and the forklifts have started putting harnesses on the cars who have formed a line behind the purple Jaguar.

Deep breath Holley… You can do this… she thinks to herself. She closes her eyes and drives forward into thin air. Soon enough, gravity starts to kick in. Don't look down…Don't look down… Remembering the quick instructions the forklifts had given her, she counts to ten before opening her chute.

Around fifteen minutes later, Holley lands on all four tires and quickly releases the parachute before a gust of wind can blow her away.

"Took you long enough," a teasing voice comes from behind Holley.

"Are you a professional sky diver or something?" Holley asks Kim.

"Not a professional, no. But I have done it before," Kim says a grin across her fender. "I can be a bit of an adrenalin junkie sometimes."

"Well, everyone else should be on their way d-" Holley starts to say but is cut off by an ear-piercing scream. Looking up, Holley and Kim see the green Ferrari falling from the plane.

"I hope they put her on a rip cord so that she doesn't have to worry about pulling it herself…" Kim says. Sure enough, the Italian car's scream is cut short as her parachute opens, slowing her decent.

"Well, we should probably start heading towards the Academy," Kim says.

"Let's wait for the Ferrari… I don't want to leave her alone like she is. Nerves do strange things to cars," Holley says, concern on her face for the emerald car.

Just a few minutes later, the Ferrari lands on the ground. Kim pulls the correct cord to release her from the parachute.

"Grazie," she says.

"No big," Kim says.

"Are you ok?" Holley asks.

"I've been-ah better," she chuckles. "Quite the welcome they give you here, eh?"

"You said it," Holley says. "What is your name? I'm Holley Shiftwell."

"I'm Carlotta Modena from-ah Porto Cosa in Italy."

"Nice to meet you Carlotta. I'm Kim Pontible," the American car says.

"Shall we make our way to the Academy now?" Holley says.

"Sure. It'll probably take the better part of an hour or two for everyone to get down here. Let's go!" Kim says. She smiles "Want to race?"

"Oh… I don't know… Onetwothree GO!" Holley yells and speeds off, Carlotta and Kim right behind her.

I sure am glad to have already made some friends. Holley thinks to herself. These are going to be an amazing couple of years…

A/N- I've had some more ideas for Holley's story so I have decided to expand on this former one-shot! The people who correctly guessed the inspiration for Holley's friends (Carlotta-Phantom of the Opera, Kim-Kim Possible, and Violet (who will show up later!)- The Incredibles) will be receiving their cameos in this story!

I'm still working on a story for Hudson & Hornet so please be patient with that!

I have also set up a forum for Cars fans to discuss anything and everything Cars called "Collision of Worlds." I know that there is a forum for this already, but the last post there was in March... Head on over to help build a list of 101 Ways to Tell You are a Cars Fan!

Thanks to Firehound427 for remembering what type of car Holley mentioned when meeting Finn to make sure he was her contact!

And, as always, PLEASE review! :)