Lightning starts to race again

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Plot:

Lightning is enjoying being Cruz's crew chief, but wants to race again. He enlists help from Cruz, who will be willing to give him lots of practice. So Cruz takes Lightning to Thomasville, and Lightning learns how to become a great racer again.

Characters:

Lightning McQueen

Cruz Ramirez

Smokey

Cal Weathers

Bobby Swift

Brick Yardley

Reb Meeker

Ponchy Wipeout

Jackson Storm

Chick Hicks

Mack

Mater

Sally

Darrell Cartrip

Bob Cutlass

(TBA by Fernanxa)

### Transcript

(Lightning is sleeping when he dreams of winning an 8th Piston Cup)

Dream:

Darrell: Lightning and Storm, down the front stretch!

Bob: It's gonna be close! Lightning for the win! He wins in LA, and broke the record of the championships!!!

Darrell: I can't believe what I just saw!

Lightning: YES!!!!

Cruz: Way to go, Lightning!

Mater: Woo-hoo!

in real life:

(Mater goes to the Cozy Cone, to see lightning talking in his sleep)

Lightning:(talking in his sleep, whispering) Yes, yes, I won!

Mater: Morning, Lightning!!

(Lightning shouts)

Lightning: AH! What happened?

Mater: You were talking in your sleep again! Shoo, you do that every morning!

Lightning: What was I saying?

Mater: You were whispering to yourself saying, "Yes, I won!"

Lightning: It was all a dream!

(comes out of Room 1 with Mater, they drive towards the town road)

Mater: What were you dreaming about?

Lightning: Racing. I was winning my 8th Piston Cup. Breaking the record of the championships.

(Bobby, Cal, and Brick arrive) [Reb and Ponchy will come later]

Bobby: Hey, Lightning! How's your morning going so far?

Lightning: It was nice, I had a dream I was winning another Piston Cup! I think I know what to do.

Cal:(drinking oil) What are you going to do?

Lightning: I think I want to start racing again. Get the feeling of it, ya know?

(sees Chick laughing in the back)

Chick: You. Start racing again? (laughs some more) This could be the start of my new show! Want to know what it's called?

Lightning: What?

Chick: LOSER CAM! I'm even recording it right now!

Lightning:(getting shown from RSN Camera) Wait what!

Chick:(taking a photo) Smile!

(light flashes on his eyes, causing him to close his eyes on the picture)

Chick:(looking at the picture of Lightning) I’m posting this on my Carpage! Ha-ha!

Lightning:(with a low tone, lowered eyes) Really Chick?

Chick:(drives out of town with RSN forklifters carrying camera supplies) Yup, this is going to be so good!

Bobby:(to Lightning) Hey don’t worry about him.

Cal:(to Lightning as well) Yeah, if you want to race again, we’ll support you!

Lightning: Thanks, I know just the car who could help me!

## The training

*Lightning seeks out Cruz and they meet at Willy’s Butte. Cal, Bobby, Brick, and Mater follow Lightning to Willy’s Butte as well.*

Lightning: So we’re going to train here Cruz?

(Cruz comes, hooked on a mini hauler full of supplies)

Cruz: No, we’re going to Thomasville! I called Mack and he’ll be taking us!

Lightning: Ok. Let’s go, gang!

(Cruz, Lightning, Mater, Cal, Brick, and Bobby head back to town)

Lightning:(reversing to get in Mack) I’ll be back before you know it Sally!

Sally: Love you!

Lightning: Love you more!

(Guido and Luigi come in the hauler)

Luigi: Make room for the tires)

(Guido comes, carrying stacks of tires)

Mater:(to Lightning) Don’t forget to call me!

(Lightning, Cruz, Guido, and Luigi are in Mack, while Cal, Brick and Bobby go in their separate haulers)

Lightning: We’re clear to go Mack!

Mack:(honks his horn) Thomasville, here we come!

*All the haulers go and leave……………... with a mysterious car following them…..*

## On the way

(Reb and Ponchy spot their haulers and surprise them by following them, the mysterious car has taken a different route)

Lightning:(examining outside) Do you see two cars following us?

Bobby:(from phone) Those aren’t *any* two cars...

Cal:(from phone) It’s Reb and Ponchy!

Brick:(pulls down his hauler’s window) Hey guys!

Ponchy: Hey, Brick! We've come to help Lightning!

Reb: We’d love to help him start racing again!

Lightning: This is awesome, Cruz!

Cruz: We have your friends helping you! This is gonna be great!

## Thomasville

(all the haulers park outside Thomasville Raceway when the cars get off to the entrance)

Mack: Ok, we have arrived.

(The “Flashback” Soundtrack plays, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78tZ07leVo]) Note: only the Flashback soundtrack

Brick:(notices Doc on a board) Hey look, it’s your crew chief, Doc.

Lightning: It’s good to see you, Doc.

(they both drive away and all cars, even Guido and Luigi head inside the speedway)

*(Lightning and Cruz are on the track while everyone else is in the stands)*

Lightning:(he talks while Luigi helps Guido put new tires) So Cruz? What do you have planned for me?

(Cruz pushes a button to make the mini hauler open up)

(she takes out a tiny box and grunts)

Lightning: How is that tiny box so heavy?

Cruz: I made it be heavy so it can be an exercise for you.

(she gets the box done on the ground)

Cruz: Let me just attach these rope things on yourself…. Ok. Your job is to pull the box with all the strength you got. The point of this is to increase your strength and stamina. It’s kinda like pulling Bessie like you told me!

Lightning:(determined) Ok, let’s give it a go!

(Lightning starts pulling and grunting, the camera shows different parts of his body pulling, but he stays in place)

Cruz: Are you… ok?

Lightning:(grunting) Yes, I’m fine.

Chick: Even I can do better!

(Lightning gasps, he got scared)

Lightning:(not looking back) Chick? Did you follow us here the whole time?!

Chick: Yeah, I decided to follow when you were heading out of town.

Lightning: Yeah, whatever. Just don’t get in the way. Cruz is trying to help me train.

Chick:(scoffs) Well good luck, Lightning! (drives out of the raceway and doesn’t show him) You gonna need it!

Reb:(from the stands) Just forget him Lightning, we’re here to support you!

Lightning: Thanks guys.

Cruz: How about we start with something else?

(Smokey comes and drives in)

Smokey: Hey guys, Cruz told me that you were coming here on the phone! (turns to Lightning) She said that Lightning is going to start racing again!

Cruz: Yeah, he really wants to race again.

Lightning: We’re trying to train here but none of it is going well.

Smokey: Hmm, I have an idea. Why don’t you come with me? We can also talk about some new strategies you can learn.

Lightning:(to his friends in the stands) We'll see you guys later!

Bobby: Ok, see you later, Lightning!

(Followed by Smokey, Lightning, Cruz, Guido, and Luigi head to the local pub)

## Local Pub

(they hear the Cantina Band in the background)

(Guido and Luigi drive over to the forklift band)

Smokey: I want to show you something, Lightning. Follow me

(Lightning and Cruz follow)

Smokey:(rummaging) I want to show you a video of Doc in his past. A race when he made history.

(Smokey inserts the video in a tv and plugs in a wire)

(the video turns on, showing black and white screen)

(shows a bunch of racers zooming on an old race track)

*Announcer:(on tv) And here they come in the final stretch! It's River Scott for the lead followed by Junior Moon, and LeRoy Heming!*

*(shows the racers zooming on the final turn)*

*Announcer:(on tv) Oh wait! Here comes the Hudson Hornet. In 4th, now in 3rd, he's in 2nd, he finishes in 1st! Oh my goodness! He's done it! The Hudson Hornet wins his 3rd Piston Cup!*

*(shows the crowd on tv cheering while Doc does a celebration by spinning in circles in the track) [like in NASCAR]*

*Pit reporter:(to Doc) What do you have to say about winning your 3rd Piston Cup?*

*Doc: Well the thing is you shouldn't lose hope, you just need to keep trying and things will work out. This takes a lot of hard work becoming a great champion, but it's not impossible.*

*Pit reporter: Thank you.*

(Smokey turns off tv)

(Lightning looks down and then looks at Cruz)

*Doc:(in Lightning's head, echoes) You shouldn't lose hope, hard work becoming a great champion, it's not impossible.*

Lightning: Thanks Smokey.

Smokey:(pats his fender and all 3 drive outside) Anytime

Cruz: Guido! Luigi! Let's go!

(Guido and Luigi speed outside)