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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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After the accident, Jackson loses all trace of Lightning. His search leads him to Radiator Springs—where he unexpectedly meets Lightning again under a different identity.
An AU rewrite of Cars 3, with major changes to the movie’s plot.
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- Part 1 of Cars (Translation)
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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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"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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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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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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Based on the AO3 list of Kinktober prompts
Various pairings, characters are not humanized.
ooops I never finished this sorry
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Occurs in an alternate universe where McQueen never replaced himself with Cruz and ended up losing to Storm. Also, this takes place in 2024/2025 because I just had to do this ;-;
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It’s the 2017 next gens 7th-8th year on the track, with Jackson Storm still being the long reigning champion. Just how long will that last when the only model of his kind, Acer Racecliff, enters the track?
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After seeing the success of their previous model race cars, Next Gen decides to make more, with more improved speed and aerodynamics, which are projected to come out in 2027. However, one comes out in 2024 instead.
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Lightning McQueen只想问三个问题：
第一，什么是omega？
第二，什么叫Jackson Storm是我alpha？
第三，这到底是哪？？
cp：Jackson Storm（abo世界）/Lightning McQueen（普通世界）【斜线有意义】
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- Part 9 of Cars
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A collection of short stories and misadventures revolving around Lightning McQueen working with Doc Hudson in the Ornament Valley Mechanical Clinic.
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Learning to Fly by BubbleBunns_16
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies), Planes (Movies), Planes: fire & rescue
21 Jul 2025
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After his big crash of 2016, Monty "Lightning" McQueen, veteran racer is forced out of the Piston cup league. Not wanting to become the next Hudson Hornet, McQueen tries to prove he still got it but it seems they have already moved on. Desperate to find a new meaning in his life, McQueen turns to the sky.
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The Radiator Springs group chat was *supposed* to be for emergencies and reminders. Now, with Lightning in town, its turned into something other than formalities: chaos, found family, more chaos, and a sprinkle of emotional healing.
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- Part 3 of "under the hood, you and I are the same"
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“Do I even have to say it?”
“No. Actually, I’d appreciate it if you didn’t say anything at all.” Lightning grimaced.
Or, Lightning deals with the consequences of not listening to Red.
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A human-reader girl lives in a world of living cars. In each chapter, she develops a special, friendly bond with one of them.
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He's been in Radiator Springs for just over six months when Lightning chances a glance at the calendar that Doc hangs up on their fridge.
The thing is color coded too- because knowing Doc: of course it is.
Blue means a race day, green means training down at the Butte, and the yellow days are the rest days that Doc insisted he take in order to not burn himself out from it all.
He freezes mid chew when he spots a lone space in June free of any color.
This upcoming Sunday.
More specifically: Father's Day.
Lightning has one of those, one rotting away from booze in Nowhere, Alabama. One he would prefer to forget most days. And now he has a Doc. He's not exactly sure what he's supposed to do with that knowledge.
(Or the one where Lightning struggles with the fact its fathers day and Doc is absolutely born to be Dad-shaped. Shenanigans occur as our resident racer figures out how to show how much he appreciates his Mentor.)
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More Doc/Light oneshots!
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- Part 2 of Doc/Light one shot books
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Doc just couldn't shake this cough. Three months of nearly hacking a lung up and he made the executive decision to break down and see his doctor. Lightning's worried glances only seemed to grow as the days dragged on without a resolution.
He knew eventually it would catch up to him.
You didn't make it to sixty five years old without some sort of health problems causing a fender bender in life.
He should be grateful he hadn't had any issues earlier in his youth, what with the amount of packs he used to smoke from ages 15 to... well now.
Seeing the CT scan results, he kind of wishes he had listened to Smokey when he grumbled at him, "Those things will be the death of you kid."
(Or Doc faces his mortality, has some 'fun' procedures, worries his adopted son, and tries like hell to finally kick the smoking habit)
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I don't know if it ever ends. It slows down then it starts again. by JediMom2021
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies)
01 May 2025
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It all started with a zipper.
Growing up as poor as he did, whatever meager food he managed to squirrel away was never enough. His old man would sooner spend whatever money he made on booze instead of groceries for his own son. The fast metabolism he was born with didn't help maintain whatever weight he had managed to gain either.
So when Lightning slipped on one of his only pairs of jeans to head to Flo's with Doc, he realized something.
The zipper was stuck.
Well. Fuck.
(Lightning enjoys eating Flo's delicious food a little too much in Radiator Springs. He handles it okay- as in not handling it well at all. Thank God for Doc.)
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Lightning pushes himself to finish fixing the road quickly with Bessie and suffers from a serious heat stroke when ignoring all other needs to get the job done.
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“Speed,” he grinned, slipping on his helmet. “I am speed. Float like a Cadillac, sting like a Beemer. Ka-chow!” he snapped his fingers and winked at Sally. “Just watch me win this race, baby.”
“I hope you lose,” Sally shot back before thinking about it and wished she hadn’t said it. There was no sense in encouraging that sky-high attitude of his.
“Aw, you don’t want me to leave, do you? Sorry to disappoint!” and he swung himself into his car in one smooth move.
*You don’t want me to leave, do you?*
Sally realized with a start that he was right. She didn’t want him to leave. And she had to admit to herself that it wasn’t just because she wanted him to finish fixing what he had destroyed. It was because he had brought color and life to a town that was dying. Even as arrogant and impossible and destructive as he was being… he had already helped them… and he didn’t even realize it. But no, she wasn’t being completely honest… there was something more than that… wasn’t there…? Something wrapping itself round her heart somehow… She shook her head. Impossible.
(A re-write of the original Cars film, humanized. Mostly from Sally's POV)