Money McQueen

* Pre-Conversion
* Post-Conversion

Racing Drones

> "*time to earn that money*" - Money McQueen
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**Money McQueen**, also known as **Lightning McQueen**, **RD-McQueen**, or **Montgomery McQueen**, was a Piston Cup racer for Rust-eze Racing, until he got invited to the Acceledrome to race for Dr. Peter Tezla. Later, he became a drone for Gelorum.

## Personality

Lightning is kind, positive, courageous and brave, and enjoys having fun and spending time with his friends, especially Mater. And carries some traits post-conversion, however, due to the stilted nature of speaking that came with the conversion, he cannot express them very well.

## History

### Backstory

Towards the start of his racing career, McQueen raced under sponsorship of Smell Swell Deodorizer. However, he was dropped from the label in favor of another young racer named Sammy Smelter, whose poor racing fit the image of Smell Swell better, according to the representative who fired McQueen.

Mack, who had overheard McQueen's termination, approached the young hotshot and offered to take him to Boston to meet for a job opportunity with Rust-eze, who had been looking, with little success, for a new spokescar. During their trip, McQueen and Mack became fast friends. Upon their arrival in Boston, Rusty and Dusty Rust-eze offered a sponsorship to McQueen. Though he was initially hesitant due to the sponsor's humiliating demeanor, McQueen agreed as long as Mack could become his transporter.

McQueen's racing abilities eventually garnered the attention of the Piston Cup Racing Series, and he became a rookie in the championship's 2005 season.

### Invitation to the Acceledrome

Sometime after the 2017 season, Dr. Peter Tezla invited McQueen to the Acceledrome. While he was hesistant at first, he ended up accepting the invite and came to the Acceledrome along with a fish, and a few world race drivers.

### Working for Tezla

Once the first realm opened, tragedy had already struck, as Alec Wood had been lost in the realm. The Monument & Waffle realms came and went, taking Dan Dresden with Monument and Darwin Watterson with Waffle, other realms came and went after, taking more drivers along the way. McQueen seriously began to ponder the idea to quit working for Tezla, but he had to race in the Warped Realm. Unfortunately, due to some freak accident, he ended up flipping all over the place, wrecking... and getting lost into the realm. He was picked up by a RD-J1 sometime after the crash.

### Converted into a Drone

After being picked up by the RD-J1, he ended up in the Racing Drones HQ, and was taken to the highest builder in the city. He was then converted into a Drone, becoming **RD-McQueen**. The change altered his brain and speech heavily, causing him to be unable to comprehend most things, form sentences properly or express many emotions, limiting him heavily. A good example would be him calling Gelorum, 'gaelrum'.

### Working for Gelorum

He began working for Gelorum, as a second right-hand man. Although, he is not seen doing much. He did however deliver the Alolan Sandshrew to Gelorum after the Mike Realm.

### Pepsi Realm

In the Pepsi Realm, McQueen entered the realm, with a pack of 9 other Racing Drones behind him. Later in the realm, he is seen again, chasing after Mike Jones, charging up an energy ball as Mike attempted to speed away, which he failed at. Trying to chase after Mike, RD-McQueen spun out and crashed into a nearby fence.

Later later on in the realm, RD-McQueen became neck-and-neck with Mike's Sandshrew, as one of the RD-02 ended up revealing itself as Accelium, as it now became a three-way neck-and-neck toward the portal. Despite his best efforts, however, he ended up getting 3rd in the realm, behind Accelium in 2nd and Mike's Sandshrew in 1st.