Friendship races to victory (Human and cars story)

Mater and the ghostlight

One night, Mater has been pulling pranks on the cars, like pulling away flowers from Red as he is watering them, scaring Luigi and Guido by jumping out from behind their tires, scaring Sally by pretending to be a cone vampire attempting to scare Lizzie while she is sleeping, which this didn't work, misplacing Aggie's racing magazines, which this made her think she lost them, and making Fillmore replace his cans of gas by constantly adding more.

Everyone is gathered at Flo's V8 gas station as Lightning and Sally watched the beautiful night.

"Gosh, sure is a nice night." Lightning complimented.

Then, a can fell from a pile of cans got Sally's attention she saw the cans with tow cable behind them.

"It sure is a nice night." Sally made Lightning turned to the pile of cans, which everyone thought Mater was behind the pile of cans.

Lightning laughed as he approached towards the cans. "I sure hope Mater isn't waiting around anywhere to scare me, 'cause I'll freak out..."

Unexpectedly, Mater jumped out of nowhere and scares Lightning as he jumped back and crashed into the cans, which it turned out the cable was just from one of Mater's signs, making everybody laugh.

"If only you moved that fast on the race track." Doc chuckled.

"If I'm an editor, I better put that on the magazine." Aggie snickered.

"Oh, buddy! You look like you just seen... the Ghostlight!" Mater laughed.

"Mater!" The cars moved aside when Sheriff called him. "Don't mock the Ghostlight!"

"What is the Ghostlight?" Lightning asked.

Everyone went silent as they can't answer that question. Some were fear of explaining it, some didn't know what was it. Sheriff rolled forward to explain. "The Ghostlight is a glowing orb of blue translucent light that haunts these very parts."

"Nah, don't be too scared, buddy, it ain't real." Mater whispered to Lightning.

"It is real!" Sheriff exclaimed as everybody stopped and listened to his story. "It all started on a night like tonight. The song dogs were wailin' at the moon off Cadillac Range while the summer wind blew hot like the breath of Zozobra. A young couple was headed down this very stretch of the mother road when they spotted an unnatural blue glow, and all that was left were two out-of-state license plates. So remember: The one thing that angers the Ghostlight more than anything else is the sound of clanking metal."

While listening to the story, Mater's body started to tremble with rattling sounds as he tried to keep his body to stop trembling.

"As you head home tonight, keep an eye out." Sheriff warned as he narrowed his eyes on Mater. "The Ghostlight could be anywhere. Well, good night." He drove off.

"Good night." Everybody immediately drove off to their respective homes, leaving Mater in the dark.

"Uh, goodnight." Mater said as Flo's lights are off.

Mater became scared and slowly drove to his home. While there, he lose his only headlight. Soon, a glowing light approached Mater, and thinking it to be the Ghostlight, pleads for mercy. But it turns out to be a lightning bug (car version of firefly). Then, a blue light appeared behind Mater, and he started running in fear of the 'Ghostlight'. Then, Lightning, Guido, and Aggie appeared and exchanged successful glances as payback for Mater's pranks. Mater went into a blind panic, driving around in a frenzy. First going along the main road, then going through the tractor field (past Frank), then around Willy's Butte, and doing a lock-strafe move after that.

"The Ghostlight's gonna eat me!" He screamed in fear as everyone watched him driving around from the 'Ghostlight'.

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Later, Mater became exhausted from all the driving and running away from the 'ghostlight'.

"Ghostlight's gonna... strip my parts and... sell 'em on the computer auction web site..." He panted, until he got a glimpse behind him, and discovered that the "ghostlight" was only a blue lantern. "Hey, wait a minute..."

Everyone showed up in front of Mater and laughed at him.

"Shoot, I knowed this was a joke the whole time." He said as he dropped the lantern on the ground.

"You see, son, the only thing to be scared of out here is your imagination." Said Sheriff.

"Yup. That and, of course, the Screamin' Banshee." Doc added. "Well, good night!" He said before driving off.

"Goodnight!" Everyone followed him, leaving Mater in the dark again.

"The Screamin' what? Mater shivered as his body trembled again.

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This chapter was based from 'Mater and the Ghostlight', only with my OC around. I hope you like this version. Quite the same, only with additional scenes.