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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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"Hey Doc, you might want to come down to the station," Sheriff suggests to him over his clinic's phone.
"There's some suits here asking for you specifically, said they dropped by your house.”
"What do you mean people with suits are looking for me? Why would they need me? You're the Sheriff." Carefully pulling the next looping stitch through the small laceration on the little boy's arm.
"Yeah.. well they have some official looking files with them, so I would hurry up what you're doing and get here before they sniff you out at your clinic.”
Finishing another stitch, he grumbled, "Give me ten minutes and I'll be there, just stall them Mike. You're good at that."
Mater's green eyes lit up as he ripped the ruby red lollipop out of Doc’s hand.
(Or the story where Doc raises Lightning from the very beginning. Some things change, some things will stay the same. Buckle up!)
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- Part 1 of Bio Dad AU
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Doc Hudson never thought a simple drive would lead to him adopting a baby he found in a burning car. But life likes to throw curve balls every now and again.
A small series of one shots in which Doc raises Monty 'Lightning' McQueen and confronts the joys of parenting and his past. -
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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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The snake struck out. Cal quickly whipped his hand back, forgetting where he was. His balance slipped as he cursed in fear. The snake didn’t bite him, but he was falling. Sliding down the rock, trying to catch his grip on anything he could. He could feel his skin tearing as he got caught on the rock side. His feet and hands scrambled for any sort of grip before he hit the ground. He could hear concerned shouting from above him and beneath him.Cal lurched forwards, trying to take hold of the rock wall.
His face smashed against a ledge that was jutting out. Pain exploded through his mouth and Cal screamed, his body hitting the floor with a sickening thud. He instantly curled around himself, the wind knocked from his lungs. His body was burning all over from the cuts and scrapes, but nothing was as bad as his face. His entire mouth was throbbing in excruciating agony.-or-
The boys and their crew chiefs decide to go on a camping trip. It can’t be that bad… right? Wrong.
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- Part 18 of June’s Whumptober 2025
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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
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Lightning’s upbringing had been hell. He had gone from foster him to foster him. His foster parents sucked.
Harv sucked.
Everything had sucked. These years had left him with some habits.
Habits that didn’t appear until 2 months after the tie breaker race when Lightning has an awful day.-or-
Lightning relapses and Doc picks up the pieces.
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- Part 7 of June’s Whumptober 2025
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After a recent win, Cal, Lightning and Bobby are celebrating well after their crew chiefs had retired for the night. They get their hands on some cigarettes. And after being stupid for about 10 minutes, it ends up biting them in the asses.
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Cal coughs so bad that he cracks a rib and they have to wake up Doc in the middle of the night for help. Great.Series
- Part 4 of June’s Whumptober 2025
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You're my Mirror... Staring Straight Back at Me by JediMom2021
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies)
01 Oct 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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Pinching his nose, he asks, “What the hell is this? It smells awful, dude.”
“My special drink, buddy! I made it myself, and it is goo-hoo-ood!”
Taking another whiff, he coughs when the medicinal smell reaches his nose. “Does Doc know you brought outside alcohol to a racing event, man?”
Mater cackles, slapping a hand over his knee. “Hell no, McQueen. Come on, just try a sip, it’s good. You’ll like it.”
(Or the one where Lightning accidentally drinks moonshine for the very first time) (Things don't go very well)
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slow down you crazy child, you're so ambitious for a juvenile by P0ET
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies)
25 Aug 2025
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Lightning McQueen has always believed being a racer means pushing past the pain...until his knees remind him otherwise. From starting as a one-man show to collapsing mid-race in front of his crew when he ignores the warning signs, Lightning’s career is marked by a pain he can’t outrun.
But it’s also marked by the people who step up for him one way or another: Mack, Doc, Cal and Bobby, and soon, the whole town. In both big and small gestures, they teach him that asking for help isn’t weakness. It's a part of life.
(OR; a series of connected snapshots about Lightning's chronic knee pain and how he learns to let others in.)
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- Part 4 of "under the hood, you and I are the same"
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In their first season together as a team, Lightning and Doc take on the home track of Chick Hicks at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Except "Lightning" McQueen appears to be absent from the track. But it's fine, because "Bulldozer" McQueen can get the job done in his place. (Uh, maybe.)
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Sometimes the silence was heavy. Heavier than Lightning knew how to carry on his own. But Doc didn't mind.
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- Part 2 of Find Yourself
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You're In My Blood I'm Not A Lonely Man by LiteraryDragonRK880051
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies)
15 Aug 2025
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Riding high off his latest win, Lightning runs into the last person in the world that he ever expected to. His dad.
He didn't even know that his dad had been released from his latest stint in jail. He certainly wasn't expecting to be confronted by him in this world.Now, his new family learns about a past that he tried so hard to forget.
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- Part 3 of Find Yourself
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"I think we need to take a trip to the Emergency Room, see a doctor," Doc says at the same time Lightning exclaims. "You're a doctor!"
"Just want to make sure nothing is wrong," his mentor says in a calm rational tone that doesn't do anything but make him more ansty. "We can go quickly-"
"It's just gas Doc," he claims. "Really bad gas, I'm totally fine."
"Light-"
"Do you know what I'm feeling right now?" He demands. "Exactly, you don't- so please stop assuming."
It's more aggressive than Lightning usually gets with him, but there is no way in hell he's being toted off to some fucking hospital; especially not for some asshole Doctor, who's not Doc, to just laugh at him for over-reacting about some nuclear level gas pain.
No fucking way.
(Or the one where Lightning gets an appendicitis and is super duper in denial about it- good thing Doc is there to talk some sense into him!)
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Fire In Your Lungs & Lightning In Your Veins by LiteraryDragonRK880051
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies)
07 Jul 2025
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NASCAR racing isn't just about driving fast. 42 cars fighting to move up, lap after lap, inside, outside, inches apart, but never touching.
It's also about being able to undo all of your safety restraints, shut off all of your systems, and GET OUT when your car erupts into flames.
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While Doc is out of town tending to his own business, a Cup employee backup mechanic botches Lightning's repairs.
Doc flies home to clean up the mess.