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This is an alternate version of what could have occurred in Cars 3 if Lightning had reacted differently to Storm. In the actual film, he makes peace with the fact that it's simply the age of the next-gen racers, coaches Cruz, and becomes a mature mentor.
However, what if he never matured?
What if he became bitter the officials allowed Storm to compete with him despite Storm being a newer, different design to him?
What if, instead of moving past his anger, he allowed it to stew, and started plotting revenge?
What if he went to an extreme and took advantage of the lax Piston Cup regulations to finally have the #95 beat Storm?
What if he was willing to compromise the safety and the integrity of the Cup just to prove a point?
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Before there was Lightning, there was Monty. Growing up in a small town with no family and no hope, dreams of someday leaving Alabama and becoming a pro racer seemed impossible.
Until he met Harv.
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Making friends is hard, but it's easier with the right people
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You're my Mirror... Staring Straight Back at Me by JediMom2021
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies)
09 Dec 2025
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Doc had a routine.
The same one everyday.
Hearing the sharp knock on his front door at 7am and listening to Sheriff shout his name was certainly not part of his routine.
"Dammit." Was his only thought.
Or.. Doc's POV of Cars
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- Part 1 of Beauty in Broken Glass
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This was going to be great, Lightning thinks optimistically, giving his girlfriend a big kiss on the lips.
A road trip with his mentor, his… something.
It was definitely going to be one for the books.
If only he knew what would happen, maybe then he would have told Doc to suck it up and take a damn plane instead.
(Or the one where Doc and Lightning road trip to the first race of the new season. Somewhere along the way, Lightning gets sick) (And then Doc gets sickerrr - Lightning has a lot of feelings about it)
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- Part 2 of Beauty in Broken Glass
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Post-canon.
After all's said and done, Lightning McQueen and Jackson Storm cross paths outside the track, and curiosity cuts deeper than either expected. Rivalry blurs, questions linger, and nothing feels simple anymore. -
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I'm Lightning. A race car driver who got lost. I don't quite know how it happened. One minute I was in trailer, the next they accused me of destroying the road. It's all so crazy.
(Or: Cars as Lightning. With additional development of Lightning's scenes and backstory.
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Lightning's abusive father dies. It hits him harder than he would have ever expected it to, and it stirs up old memories that he thought he had long buried. Doc and the RS crew help him navigate this new season as he takes a leave from racing to deal with the trauma that's finally catching up to him.
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- Part 4 of Find Yourself
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When Doc comes home late one night, he’s surprised to see all the lights out. And sure enough, Lightning is nowhere to be seen. Where could this kid have gone?
Comfy-vember day 11
Prompt: Starry nightSeries
- Part 11 of Comfy-vember 2025
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McQueen is tired
Since he can remember the only language of affection he received was abuse, first his father, he wasn't a bad father but when his mother left them everything became horrible, he started to drink and luckily for him he looked too much like his mother, his father barely saw him in his drunken state and didn't hesitate to hit him, although he wasn't such a bad father when he was sober, I would just prefer him to be like that always.
then Harv arrived
Harv was much, much worse, there was never a moment in which he wasn't a good person, there was never a moment in which he didn't receive a reprimand from his manager who ended up being his tutor, how lucky he is, his father next to Harv was Jesus himself, his skin has multiple scars that show it, his father at least never left him physical scars
In the end, he was alone in a world where you have to be strong to survive, at least he was fulfilling his dream, running towards making his life less bad
and he thought it would be like that until he got lost in that crappy town
and it was the best thing that ever happened to him. -
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By the time he had gotten past 9pm, he was too exhausted. He sent Doc a quick apology text, promising he would be there tomorrow. He had plugged his phone in beside the bed and gone to sleep.
Paul Hudson had passed at 11:14pm, Tuesday, February 17th.
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Doc passes away. Lightning spreads his ashes. He never got to say goodbye.
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- Part 31 of June’s Whumptober 2025
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(Humanized Cars) Whumptober 2025
A collection of one-shots or short series and short AUs.
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Doc dies.
The entire town grieves, and on top of it all, every single one of them comes down with a nasty case of the flu all at once.
Except for Lightning, because Lightning never gets sick.
But then it starts to snow.
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Lightning is having one of the worst weeks of his entire life. He copes by shoveling snow.
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He swallowed thickly, “That’s, erm, that’s–”
When he couldn’t get the words out, Doc frowned but not unkindly as he gently placed the box down. “Son,” that nickname had certainly taken Lightning some time to get used to. Even now, it made him feel fuzzy; the warmth that bloomed each time Doc used it gave Lightning a sense of belonging, “if you don’t want to talk about it, that’s okay.”
“No, no, it’s fine, it’s just,” he bit his lip, worked the skin between his teeth before finally admitting the truth, albeit very quietly, “my mom’s ashes are in there.”
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Whumptober day 28: Constellation
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- Part 5 of Hummus' five days of whumptober 2025
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Mcqueen esta cansado
desde que tiene memoria el unico lenguaje de cariño que resivia era el abuso, primero su padre, no era mal padre pero cuando su madre los dejo todo se volvio horrible, empezo a beber y para su suerte el se parecia demaciado a su madre, su padre apenas lo veia en su estado de ebriedad no dudaba en golpearlo, aunque no era tan mal padre cuando estaba sobrio, solo preferiria que estuviera asi siempre
despues llego Harv
Harv fue mucho, mucho peor, no habia momento alguno en el que no fuera buena persona, no habia momento en el que no recibiera una reprimienda por su manager el cual termino siendo su tutor, que suerte tiene, su padre a lado de Harv era el mismo jesus, su piel tiene multiples cicatricez que lo muestran, su padre al menos nunca le dejo cicatricez fisicas
al final, estaba solo en un mundo en donde tienes que ser fuerte para sobrevivir, al menos estaba cumpliendo su sueño, correr hacia que su vida fuera menos mala
y penso que asi seria hasta que se perdio en ese pueblo de mala muerte
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thirty-one snapshots of the author throwing whump onto lightning mcqueen (or others) because don't we just love to see it!
warning, there are a lot of car crashes.
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- Part 5 of "under the hood, you and I are the same"
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The second thing that caught his eyes was the label printed in bold across the box: “Zero Sugar.” And just like that, his heart had stopped beating.
Why had Doc bought zero sugar? He closed the fridge, quickly moving towards the full length mirror that Doc kept in his room. He stepped in front of it, carefully observing his body in every angle of the light. Lightning’s breath hitched.
Doc didn’t think he was getting fat, did he? He hadn’t bought zero sugar because he thought his protege was putting on too much weight and he was embarrassed for him?-or-
Lightning struggles with food.
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- Part 19 of June’s Whumptober 2025
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Yes, Lightning had just been fired by one of the most lame and unknown sponsors he had ever heard of. He could almost laugh, if he wasn’t in the middle of…whatever this was.
Or, how Lightning started working for Rust-eze.
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Two car crashes. Over 50 years apart. Yet the aftermath is all too similar.
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Hud struggles after the crash. He struggles to live normally. He struggles to get back where he was only for the world to have moved on without him.
Lightning struggles after the crash. He hardly knows who he is anymore. He feels like a failure. All his friends have fallen apart with him. He doesn’t know how two fix it.Two different lives. Two different stories.
Prompt: Forced Retirement
Oh boy :)Series
- Part 13 of June’s Whumptober 2025
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His hair was too grown out. It had been a couple months since the tie breaker race. A couple months since he'd crashed in a random town in the middle of nowhere Arizona. A couple of months since he had found himself a family in a place that he never would have thought he would like. Let alone stay in.
And red was starting to poke through his roots.
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Lightning has naturally red hair. It’s coming back through. He has an internal crisis over redying it blond. Doc helps his kid.Series
- Part 12 of June’s Whumptober 2025