Racers restart your engine!

Chapter 19

The next day they headed to Thomasvile. While they did that light was a little nervous that something was going to happen.

When they got there they saw Smokey standing there smiling.

"Hey Hudson, Lightning." Smokey said.

"Hey Smokey, long time no see." Doc said.

"I can see you wear your racing again."

"Yeah. It feels good. Anyway, Lightning, this is Smokey my friend and former crew chief."

"Nice to meet you." Lightning said.

"Hudson has told me you do good during training. Good. Since this is going to be a different and faster than you speed it's going to take a while to get it down."

"I try as hard as I can."

"Good. Now, let's go see the other three former racers shall we?"

So they headed to the restaurant and looked around for River, Junior and Louise. When they found them Doc was a little nervous about what they'll do.

"The Fabulous Hudson Hornet. Long time no see." River said smiling.

"Hey River, Louise, Junior."

"Hey Hudson." Louise said.

"Nice to see you Hud." Junior said.

"Lightning, these are my old friends. River, Louise also known as Barnstormer, Junior also known as Midnight."

"Nice to meet you. I've heard of you all. My dad told me about you what I was younger." Lightning said.

"So, you want to meet the person that was nice enough to give you his engine?" Smokey said.

"Sure." he said.

So they all followed Smokey. When they got there he looked at Doc and Lightning in shock.

"Lightning McQueen and Fabulous Hudson Hornet!" John said.

"Yes, this is John. He's the one that offered to switch engines with Lightning." Smokey said.

"Thanks. I don't know what would happen if you hadn't have done this." Lightning said.

"You're welcome. Your daughter is pretty good but you'll always be my favorite." James said.

"I've heard." he said.

"So, the surgery is tomorrow morning at 11:30 so why don't we all go get some rest? Hudson your old house is still there and we've been cleaning it Incase you come back."

"Thanks. Alright Lightning, I have a guest room so you can sleep there." he said.

"Alright."

So they all headed home and went to bed.

The next day at 11:30 Lightning was about to get his surgery done and Doc was worried.

While he got that done he paced. River, Louise, Junior and Smokey went with him.

"Calm down Hud! Jeez, we understand that you're a doctor but still!" Junior said.

"He's right. Calm down. He's lucky someone was nice enough to switch places with him." River said.

"I know, but this reminds me of myself back then." he said.

They sat there and waited.

A few hours later they were in Lightning's room waiting for him to wake up.

When he opened his eyes he saw them.

"Doc?" he said quietly.

"Lightning! How you feeling?" he said.

"Good. I can see you were worried about me?"

"You have no idea." Louise said.

River, Smokey and Junior started laughing.

"Oh shut up! How would you feel if it happened to your own racer? If I remember correctly you were worried sick about me!" he said.

"Especially Smokey." Junior said.

The three of them burst out laughing.

"He was forced out of your room every night!" Junior said.

"You'd be worried if that happened to your racer if you were crew chief instead of a racer." Smokey said.

After they calmed down they left to let Lightning get some rest.