Racers restart your engine!

Chapter 7

When they got home everyone was shocked at how much they forgot he had and how he still had it.

"Don't ask cause even I don't know." Lightning said when he saw everyone's face.

"Welcome back to your real self. We missed you." Sally said.

"Now let's see who wins this time next if I do, then you officially have your racer back and if not, you have your real rookie back. But don't worry, I don't act like that again." Lightning said.

Lily was wondering why she wasn't as good as she started.

"Dad, why am I a little worse than I started racing?"

Doc and Lightning looked and frowned at her.

"Because the way you started racing by switching the winner of a race with you and Storm. You letting him win and him letting you win a lot." said Lightning.

"And we guess you have a bit more of your mom than Lightning in you there to." Doc said.

She looked at everyone who frowned nodding their head.

"You can still race but you aren't gonna be as good as Doc or your dad." said Fillmore.

She felt awful about what she did her first season. She nodded her head frowning.

"Don't worry, you don't have to be perfect to be a racer." Lightning said.

As the time went on Lily and Lightning trained and everyone was wondering if Lily was ok because she was being quiet. One day she was at Flo's having a snack when she saw her dad and Doc.

"After telling her that now I might be done for good to see if she'd like it." Lightning said.

"Ah she's just a bit surprised that she's more like her mom." Doc told him.

While she heard them talking about what had happened she was acting a bit too upset and wasn't thinking about how her dad would feel. When she finished her snack she went to Doc and her dad. Lightning opened his mouth when he heard something,

"Please don't stop dad I'm sorry I've been acting like that but I was just surprised. Please don't stop everyone from at the races to home missed watching you." she said.

He looked at her, "Are you sure because you were upset when we told you."

She nodded her head.

"It's more fun like this."

He smiled and said, "If you're sure."

"Yup!"

A week later Lightning, Doc, his crew and Lily were at the piston cup.

"Good luck rookie." Doc said.

"You can do it! You did it for me last season, you can do it for yourself!" Lily said.

And then it started, he had been coming up with new ideas for himself. He was on third place and it was lap number one hundred fifty two.

"How many laps are there?" Lily asked.

"Two hundred."

He had just gotten back and he was winning again.

"How ya doing? Because you look a bit sore." Doc said when he left.

"I'm fine don't worry Doc." he said.

He was on the last lap and was winning close to an old friend of his. Then before he knew it he won for the sixteenth time in his twenty one years. When he was done he went up and made his speech.

"For seventeen years I raced for me and won it thirteen times. Last year it was for Lily and this time it was for me. I thought it felt good to win last season, but it feels even better this time."

So he finished his speech, took his cup and went over to his team. They were all proud of him and Lily gave him a big hug.

"YOU DID IT! YOU WON BUT FOR YOURSELF THIS TIME!" she exclaimed.

"I guess you're happy I won?"

She nodded her head smiling. "It's a great way to start being back kiddo." Doc said. "It feels great to."

After the race they went to their room for a bit. The next day they were on their way home. Then when they got home everyone was glad he won.

"Thanks guys, not as easy as it once was. But me and Doc think I just needed a break. I don't know how I turned back into myself though. I find it a little weird because usually I would be sitting here icing myself. But I'm fine today."

No one could think of how or why it feels so good. As usual he went to go get looked at. Doc looked at him and thought of how he got back.

"I might have an idea of how you're coming back." said Doc.

"How?" asked Lightning.

"Because you were done so you took a break and then had to take care of last season for Lily. But you weren't hurt that time." Doc said.

He thought for a second and it started to make sense to him.

"That does make sense now, nothing had to be healed that time." he said.

So after that they decided to go race each other for fun. It was a close one as usual but Doc won this time.