thekeyboardplayer
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Behind every great superspy team is a petty group chat.
Or: Holley is new. She's read the manual for every possible situation out in the field, but she's very unprepared for the chaos that awaits behind locked phone screens.
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- Part 1 of Don't Forget the C.H.R.O.M.E. Finish
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Finn watches movies that his friends--I mean coworkers pester him about, then reviews them online and receives mean comments. That's it.
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- Part 2 of Don't Forget the C.H.R.O.M.E. Finish
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Finn would never kill a tree (and get caught) by thekeyboardplayer
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies)
01 Oct 2025
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It’s a perfectly nice day, but Finn is too busy being accused of vandalism to enjoy it.
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- Part 1 of KP's Carstober 2025
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Now semi-retired from the Piston Cup, Lightning McQueen continues to enjoy life and love. He feels like the luckiest car in the world: a wonderful wife, a child on the way (plus a baby shower), and a whole town to support them.
He’s so lucky, in fact, that he is given unpredictable alien superpowers with which to defend Earth from its own supervillains.
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- Part 2 of KP's AUs
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My first Whumptober attempt. Not sure if I completely understand the rules but let's roll 😎
There are four main storylines and a smattering of standalones. I'll note which ones are connected as they are posted.
On Thin Ice: An avalanche traps Finn and a rookie inside an Antarctic volcano, while Holley goes to save them.
Brainwashed: Finn's captors attempt to turn him into a sleeper agent.
Guardian: Lightning is forced to become a superhero and it's not very fun.
Assassin: Exactly what it sounds like 🫠
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What the spies are up to outside of the movies. Semi-canon, always chaotic
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Cars 2 Expanded Universe by thekeyboardplayer
Fandom: Cars (Pixar Movies), Planes (Movies)
01 Mar 2024
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All my works where familiarity with Cars 2 is required, and familiarity with Planes is preferred. Canon-compliant, but mainly this timeline is defined by a few of my HCs that I won't always use. Think of these as mild fix-it fics.
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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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01 Nov 2025
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"I Look In People's Windows, Transfixed By Rose Golden Glows." by madness_on_the_milano
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies)
03 Oct 2025
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Whumptober '25, day three
Prompt - isolation and found familySeries
- Part 3 of Whumptober '25
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03 Oct 2025
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"I don't want to," he says, still feeling a little bit manic from earlier. "Call it a night." He'd been playing it in his head all day and can't figure out what he did wrong. He wants to try it again. "Let me go to the track."
The sheriff starts, blinking at Lightning. "The track?"
Lightning groans low and tries not to throw a complete hissy-fit. "Yes, the track. The dirt track. The one from earlier. That track."
or; during lightning's first week in radiator springs, he and the sheriff have a late night conversation
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- Part 14 of weathers family farm
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03 Sep 2025
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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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27 Aug 2025
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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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26 Aug 2025