McQueen Car Siblings Series: Book 1-The Ultimate Team

The Usual Friendships

"Come on, Cruz, Blazer! I'll show you round the track." said Tiranne.
"Should we race?!" The green racecar asked her.
"Not here, on the road to the Wheel Motel is best for racing for a new beginner." Tira said nodding at the sheriff he winked at her respectfully. "We don't race on the main town roads less it's purposefully closed off for that specific kind of event, Blaze."
"I can't wait to do that." said Blazer. "I've always wanted to see this place, I still can't believe your McQueen's daughter, you're really pretty."
"Ha-ha-ha! You can't be serious!" laughed Tiranne. "I'm nothing too special. Speed's a newer model card."
"I like antiques better." stated Blazer. Tiranne and him were soon on the track.
"The Sheriff and I will watch the kids." said Cruz. "I think it's best if you and Sally start getting to know Jackson alone first. You're both the reason he decided to come along after all."
She drove beside the Sheriff after the other two kids.
Blaze was a smart driver.
"Have you been on a dirt road before?"
She asked noticing he didn't just start driving.
"Yes, when my Dad's not looking." sighed groaning Blazer. "I have to sneak out so often to practice myself because his training style drives bolts up insane. He can get so annoyingly irritating."
"You love your Father, don't you? I can tell you love your Mother. I saw the way you smiled at her. It is the same way I smile at my Mom Sally." Tiranne asked a really important question to Blazer.
"Yes, I love them both. I'm not sure my Father loves me back. He doesn't have to coach me I want him to see me race if he can. But he's so ashamed of his past humiliation he doesn't want to return to any racecourse ever again. But I don't think I can get that into his head that I really do want him there."
"Oh?" gasped Tiranne. "He's that stubborn?"
"Yeah, he is, that's what caught the attention of my Mom, it wasn't the luxury model of car he happened to be despite being stubborn he didn't have as a dirty an attitude as Chick Hicks."
"I believe everyone would race better if Chick Hicks got fire from His news career," responded McQueen's daughter. They were coming to the big bend Lightning fell off three times in a row when he first discovered it in Radiator Springs.
"I don't like to mention this but I am nervous about that turn." He whispered. "Oh, gosh! I never said that to anyone before not even my parents!" He rolled his eyes he didn't think he said that aloud.
Tiranne laughs lightheartedly. "That's okay. My Daddy says the best way to learn what's going on inside our car parts is to race the wrong way first so we can instantly tell us if something inside us is amiss. And if you do lunge headfirst into a cactus you won't need a wash. The cactus spikes are enough to rub any mud right off us."
"I guess we might have two lovebug racers in town," said the Sheriff to Cruz.
"You think they're flirting?" Cruz said surprised.
"Look for yourself, those eyes say it all in both of them." The Sheriff admitted. They had not heard that Tiranne found out Blazer really wanted his Daddy to come see Him race to prove he actually did love him. And that was what really impressed Blaze about Tiranne. She had sense to ask deep questions he never thought about asking her even. And she was reading him well. While he didn't master that scary turn right away and neither did Tiranne.
They both laughed about their mistake.
"I can't wait to mess up on a rainy day when there's nothing but mud, man those Cactus hurt, but they are sure ticklish."
"I know. Cactus are worse on tires than the rest of the vehicle. Speaking of slippery conditions did you at the end of every professional race track there is a drag slip and it is always slippery after a sudden rain because it got wet." Tiranne told him still laughing with him.
(When McQueen his first drives back to get the King you can see two different colored fabric streaks next to the finish line right before it as he moves out of the way that is the drag slip it has a glossy shine against the asphalt that is what Tiranne's talking about)
"Well, what do you think went wrong that time?" She quizzed him.
"Maybe I was too loose in my sides," He said. "But that rush of wind was great all the same, Miss McQueen."
Tiranne blushed and side bumped him.
"What about you what when wrong with your drive?"
"I think my tires need a rotation adjustment they've been more wonky lately. Isn't it amazing you can feel what's wrong by doing the wrong thing first?"
"Yeah, it's more precious than gold."

"Look, Lightning McQueen, I wanted to say I'm sorry to you, I was being stupid when we raced together, and thanks for the tires for the entire family of mine."
"You're welcome." answered McQueen. "It's what Hudson would have wanted me to do. The only Father figure who was really truly there for me, Jackson Storm."
"What happened in your family?"
"They hated my goals of racing disowned me and never spoke to me and in my school I had picked out a very bad race car as a friend and he turnt tail on me and stole what I wanted to win. You didn't. We have room to make room for you if you make room for us willingly. I don't wanna ever feel that hurt ever again. And I don't want anyone else to feel it either again. Doesn't matter if they be a race car or not. Radiator Springs my new home will be a place for both to mingle in the honest ways, Storm, including you."
Then there came such a high pitch laugh and shout from Cruz the other four cars were like.
"What's all the hubbub?" inquired McQueen.
"Lightning McQueen and Jackson Storm you better get over here." Cruz snapped. "Your kids may have just become girlfriend and boyfriend!"
"What are you talking about?!" asked Lightning.
"Still same old clueless Stickers as ever!" teased Sally.
"Hey! I do have actual headlights now Sally!" McQueen retorted back at his wife quite immediately.
"That's not possible!" exclaimed Jackson Storm.
"Won't know if it's true till we go and find out!" spoke Hindrance.
And they joined Cruz and the Sheriff watching them kids on that dirt track.
Tiranne was singing her usual track song to keep her head. "Tighten up, and be tight with your push on your turns or you'll in the tulip field of thorns, loosen up  like a fluffy cloud and breath when the turn is done. Keep your eyes where you wish to go wherever the track might lead. Focus on the finish line!"
"Did your Dad teach you that?"
"What do you think?!"
"I don't remember teaching her that song, Sally?!" gasped Lightning McQueen.
"I do, you said it all the time while training her. And you were so used to using Cruz's advice about the fluffy cloud logic who else would put that line into a song but the car who became her crew chief?!"
"Man! I am already getting so forgetful!" Lightning slapped the side of his hood with his right tire.
The two racers were so close together you might consider it a side hug.
"I ain't never seen my son so happy."
stammered Hindrance.
"You're really good, Blazer, even despite the simulator training you were raised with."
"Old racing vets told me better to slow down watch and learn they show way more than they can tell." Blazer replied. "You're a fine great lady racer. I'd be glad to race you anytime, Tiranne McQueen."
McQueen and Storm could easily see it it was making Tiranne shake from her tires up when Blazer Storm said her name to her.
"Well, I'll be darned. The sheriff was right, Cruz, they're flirting!" agreed Lightning McQueen.
"I can't believe this!" exclaimed Jackson Storm but he couldn't deny what he saw down on that track in his son's eyes watching Miss McQueen run the track by herself. Then he'd run it by himself and she'd tease him gently making him laugh and then gave him good advice and instructed him about what might feel wrong too.