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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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⸻ WIP
In which a driven and charismatic racecar driver with a cocky attitude and a thirst for victory falls in love with a confident and ambitious athletic trainer with a sharp mind and a fiery personality, each pushing the other to their limits both on and off the track.
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Lightning Mcqueen was at the top of the world. Racing against friends and new racers was an amazing feeling. Everything was great until a new racer show up. His name? Jackson Storm. After he show up, everything in the racing sport started to change. Racers, teams, sponsors and the public.
((So I saw a pic about Storm and then I discover fanfics about Storm and Lightning and totally ship them. Sadly there isn't many fanfics of this two so I'm making one myself. This fanfic take place at the beginning of Cars 3 since I think the movie was a bit rushed. Also I will be changing the age of some characters.))
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- Part 1 of Ceraunophile
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The Seekers' group chat from "Hide And Seek Was A Bad Idea..."
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The Car From Another World by neorenamon
Fandoms: Cars (Pixar Movies), Mach GoGoGo | Speed Racer
01 Sep 2024
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Montgomery "Lightning" McQueen runs into a car he's never seen before with crazy gadgets he never could have imagined before. A car with no memory of existing before coming to Lightning's world. A car followed by enemies and allies from another universe. But they have one thing in common: The love of the race.
This happens after the first Cars Movie, but may include elements of Cars 2 and Cars 3 in later chapters.
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The night Lightning gets taken to California, everything falls apart for both him and the people he had to leave behind.
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“It’s not Lightning, by the way” the kid nearly whispers, picking at the frayed hem on the ankle of his sweatpants.
Doc turns to look at him fully, “What’s not?”
“My name.” He doesn’t make eye contact, refuses to even let Doc try to catch his blue eyes, “Harv had me change it when I started racin’ with him.”
Doc knew Lightning probably wasn’t the kid’s god given name. He’d been around racing long enough to know the different monikers often helped give the racer a break from being the racer when they wanted a second away from it all. He hadn’t known Lightning to share that desire. Lightning McQueen was written in all the court documents from their first meeting, on every check the kid signed to revitalize the town, even the kid’s credit card held the moniker. He’d assumed somewhere along the line, the kid had changed whatever his birth name was to his chosen name. Never really felt the need to question it.
“It’s Montgomery.” Lightning whispered.
Or; Lightning may have bitten off more than he can chew with his new found fame. He thought he was ready to be THE Lightning McQueen, but will he ever not be Montgomery?
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- Part 3 of Real Tough Kid
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"So… What are you doing for Christmas…?"
The question was simple, but it felt foreign to Lightning as it rolled off his tongue.
He'd never had to ask something like that before. For as long as he could remember, it had always been him and his mom doing their own Christmas thing on their own terms.
But now…
After his mom passes away, a young Lightning finds three new ways to celebrate the Christmas season with very mixed results.
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- Part 9 of Get Your Kicks (On Route 66)
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"Hi, Sheriff... fancy seeing you here," Lightning said and smiled sheepishly. Stay cool. Stay cool. "Beautiful weather today, isn't it?"
Sheriff huffed. "Save it, hot shot. You're in a heap of trouble. Where did you get that car anyway?"
Or: Lightning gets pulled over by Sheriff for speeding. Sheriff is not happy to see that it’s Lightning behind the wheel. And even if the boy tries hard he can’t get around the consequences. And all that with his new sports car which he got today.
Aka: Doc has to pick up his kid from jail
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- Part 2 of McQueen’s Adventures
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When he made it up the steps by the wheel — where someone he didn’t know the name of was steering back to the mainland — the cheers reached his ears in a way he knew should keep his heart pumping, a smile on his face . . . but it just sounded like noise. And, yeah, they were cheering for him, something he wanted for so long, but it wasn’t right. Maybe it was the eerie calmness of the water, or maybe it was the bleeding gums that greeted him at every turn.
“Ladies and sailors!” the brothers shouted, voices cutting into the night. “We give you, Ramiel fucking Malkah!”
or, i decided to make lightning mcqueen an illegal racer (pirate-esque)
OR, i had a very fun idea over the summer and got encouragement
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in which doc discovers some things about his protégé, and lightning discovers he finally has people who wont leave him.
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- Part 1 of vroom drabbles
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This is the version where Cars that instead of vehicular sentient cars, were instead humanized, and this focuses on Lightning McQueen’s background and backstory since it was confirmed in Cars 3 he was born in 1977 which makes him above in his 40’s in our real-world. This is where the story focuses on the background of NASCAR racing and its legacy and impact on the automobile culture. This will be McQueen's journey to becoming a famous racer, and the trials that come along his way before he paved his path and becoming the first rookie on his way if he can win the Piston Cup in 2006.
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This story takes place in an alternate universe after Cars 2: The Friendship Bet where Lightning McQueen beats Jackson Storm using drifting. Now, Lightning McQueen, Jackson Storm, Cal Weathers, Bobby Swift and Brick Yardley are friends and pull funny pranks on each other. Until one race, a new rookie enters the race. This rookie is a female and calls herself a "one-woman show" and reminds Lightning of his past self. Can Lightning McQueen prove this rookie that winning is not everything there is to racing? (Note: Cruz Ramirez was never a trainer in this universe and there will also be references to the actual Cars 3 Movie). Cars does not belong to me. It belongs to Pixar and Disney. All of the other sixteen next generation rookies in the second chapter are my OCs from Cars 2: The Friendship Bet. Please do not read this story until you read Cars 2: The Friendship Bet. Five more OCs will be introduced in this story.
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- Part 2 of Cars(Alternate Universe Series
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Doc thought Lighting McQueen was full of unshakable confidence and hot air.
He was wrong.
Lightning thinks he's nothing but a fluke and undeserving of his success.
Doc shows him he's wrong.
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“You’ve got a lotta stuff kid. You ain’t a fluke.”
“Then why can’t I stop myself from believing I am?”
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- Part 1 of Maybe He Can
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SIDELINED: A New Beginning by IrishScottDragonGirl
Fandoms: Cars (Movies), Planes (Movies)
25 Jan 2020
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Lightning McQueen is starting on his second racing season in the Piston Cup series and all is going well until an accident occurs.
**A new chapter every comes out every Saturday**
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- Part 1 of Life and Times of the McQueen Family
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“-And the last thing he expected was... Lightning McQueen!” “Y’Know I don’t think anybody expected this!” “The rookie sensation came into the season unknown, but everyone knows him now!”
A ghost town and a red racer get their last chance.