The animation studio that is symbolized by a Luxo Lamp owns Cars.
Holley is waiting with the various makes and models that make up C.H.R.O.M.E's freshcar class. They all are sharing the same feeling of anticipation and excitement nearly everyone gets on their first day of school, even more so as this is their first day at the world-famous C.H.R.O.M.E training academy.
"Carlotta Modena," the head teacher calls out. The emerald green Ferrari drives up to the stage to receive her schedule and room assignment, just like the cars before her have and the ones near the end of the list will. Soon, the head teacher has reached the end of his list. "You may open your envelopes now recruits."
The sound of ripping paper fills the auditorium as the fifty-odd new agents-in-training open their envelopes, eager to see what their schedules are and whom the will be rooming with. After a few moments of silence as they scan the documents enclosed, the room erupts into the level of noise of your average high school cafeteria as the cars compare schedules and look for their roommates.
"Hey Holley!" Kim yells over the din as she approaches the purple Jag. "What's your room number?"
Holley glances at the papers in front of her. "Ninety-five. What is yours?"
The SL Coupe 2.0 grins. "The same! They have four cars to a room so we'll have two other girls with us, but at least we'll know each other."
"Capital!" Holley smiles. "Shall we make our way to the dorms then?"
"Sounds good to me. I wonder who else is going to be in our room?"
A short drive across the C.H.R.O.M.E academy later, Holley and Kim have located room 95 in the girls' dormitory building. Kim tries to use her front tire to open the door, but finds it locked.
"Do you have a key?" she asks Holley.
"No one gave me one," the Jaguar responds, somewhat confused.
"Hm…"
Holley looks around, looking to see if a key has been left near the door or hidden somewhere around the door. Upon close inspection, Holley notices that there seems to be a faint line tracing a medium-sized square on the wall next to the door. Curious, she gently pushes in the middle of the square. A slight click is heard before a panel moves forward and then slides upwards, revealing a tire-print scanner.
"Badical!" Kim says. She lifts her front right tire off the ground and places it on the scanner. Another click is heard and the door unlocks and then a hiss as it opens of its own accord.
Once inside, the two cars look around at what is to be their home for the next few years. It is a fairly simple room with little decoration, off-white walls, four mattresses on the floor with light blue covers and a navy blue carpet. Holley drives over to the large window on the opposite side of the room from the door.
"Wow, look at this view Kim!" she says. Kim drives over to look. They are lucky enough to have a room that is high up enough so as to provide a clear view over the ten-foot wall surrounding the top-secret campus. The two cars have a spectacular view of the green fields, and a little farther away a forest, surrounding the area.
"Is someone there?" a voice comes from a side room. From the room, a dark-purple, nearly black, Maybach Exelero comes forward.
"Oh, hello! You must be one of our other room mates. What is your name? I'm Shiftwell. Holley Shiftwell," she smiles.
"I'm Violet Carr. You're that car that figured out we had to jump, right?"
"Well, Kim is actually the one who knew. I just had the presence of mind to tell everyone else before I jumped out," Holley says, teasing the Coupe.
Kim grins sheepishly. "I'm Kim Pontible. Are your from the U.S. too?"
"Yeah. Metroville, Michigas. You?"
"Middleton, Pennsylminivania."
"And I'm from London if you couldn't tell by my accent," Holley smiles. The three cars hear the door hiss open to admit their fourth room mate and turn to see who it is.
"Hello Carlotta!" Holley says. "Feeling better?"
"Much," the Italian car smiles. She notices the fourth car in the room and introduces herself, as does Violet.
Then, a knock is heard at the door.
"Well, who could-ah that-a be?" Carlotta says. "There is only-ah four beds in this a room!"
Holley drives over to the door and quickly figures out how to open the door. The door opens to reveal a yellow-orange 2000 Saturn SL2 and a small, pink Fortwo Coupe Pure with buckteeth and whiskers perched on the top of the SL2's cab.
"May I help you?"
"Yeah, uh… Is there a car named Kim here?"
The SL Coupe 2.0's green eyes go wide at the sound. "…Ron?" she says in disbelief as she drives towards the door from the window. As she approaches, Holley backs away to allow the two cars to see each other.
"Hey KP…I brought you some flowers," the Saturn smiles and turns his front wheel to show Kim a dozen roses.
Kim's response is to give the Saturn a kiss on the lips. "I thought you didn't get accepted!"
"Someone dropped out at the last minute. Apparently, I was the first choice if someone did just that."
Kim smiles, her eyes lighting up. She turns to face her room mates. "Everyone, this is my boy friend, Ron Stoppable."
The Fortwo, in a high-pitched voice says. "Hello?"
"And this is his pet Fortwo, Rufus."
"Hello Ron," Holley says. "I'm Holley Shiftwell." The other cars introduce themselves as Ron comes into the room.
"How come I didn't see you on the plane?" Kim asks. "I mean you were there when I got on the plane, but I didn't see you get on…"
"I actually got the call half an hour after you left. Some car in the next country you were stopping at decided not to go. They sent a jet over a few hours later to get me," Ron explains.
Kim smirks. "Did they make you jump out, too?"
Ron blushes. "Yeah… I jumped out too close to the woods though. You know the rest."
Kim laughs. "Oh, I have a few ideas!"
About an hour later, Ron leaves to find his own room and get settled in though with the promise that he will visit often. After he leaves, Kim places the roses in a vase that she had found in the mini-kitchen area and puts it on the nightstand next to the bed that she had chosen.
Later that night after the four cars had spent some time getting to know one another, Holley is wide awake. She looks around at the three other sleeping cars, all wiped out from the long day. But Holley cannot seem to fall asleep. Nerves, excitement, anticipation, call it what you will.
She quietly drives off of her mattress, careful not to wake anyone, and makes her way to the window. Pushing back the curtains, she looks out at the night sky. It is a cloudy night, so the sky looks like ruffled velvet with millions of luminescent diamonds dotting the black expanse.
It dawns on Holley that she doesn't know what country she is in. The jet that had carried the cars to the academy hadn't made any announcements regarding their location and after they made their last stop, the windows had been darkened so as to not allow them to see any landmarks on their way to their destination.
They sure do take security very seriously here… Holley thinks to herself. As she stares out at the night sky, eyes starting to feel heavy, the Jaguar starts to think about the future, her future. How in just a few short years, she'll be an agent of C.H.R.O.M.E, assisting on various missions.
Maybe I'll even assist in bringing down a ring of criminals bent on world domination… Holley chuckles to herself as she makes her way back to her bed. Who knows? Maybe I will one day assist one of the top agents of C.H.R.O.M.E… she thinks as sleep finally comes.
A/N- Per request/idea of Funkywatermelon, Ron is now part of the Carsverse! I'm not 100% sure how much Kim, Violet, and Carlotta will be like the characters that inspired them. Carlotta, in PotO, is an Opera singer from the late 1800s. I may make her a great singer (and maybe an interest in a certain car named Ubaldo Piangi?) but that is to be decided (along with if Violet has superpowers or not!). If you have an aspect of one of them that you would like to see in the story, let me know in a review!
As you know, school has started up again! To that end, I won't be able to update my stories as often as I did over the summer. I will try to at least update one (or more) of my stories on the weekends.
As always, please leave me a review! Thanks to all of you who have already reviewed my story!