As Shadow was hiding inside his sponsor's tent, he overheard people outside discussing the upcoming race between McQueen, The King, Chick, and himself.
"Ah, how embarrassing..." thought Shadow as the mouth of a truck appeared at the door of the tent.
"Is anyone in there~?" said a voice with humor.
"What's going on, Tom?" asked Shadow, his eyes half-closed.
"McQueen, King, and Chick have already left, and Chick and McQueen are competing to see who will be the first in California to talk to Dinoco," explained Tom, sticking his head into the tent.
"Well, do you want us to go?" asked Shadow, stepping forward to leave the tent.
"Yeah, but I'd like to take a break on the way," said Tom, following Shadow as he climbed into the trailer.
"Embarrassing..." said Shadow as the trailer door closed.
"Well, he'll never change," said Tom, hanging onto the trailer.
"I can hear you," said Shadow as Tom started driving.
Tom hit the road under the watchful eyes of about thirty journalists.
1 day later
"Hey Shadow, there's a road that leads to a small town, and if we go there, I can rest," asked Tom wearily.
"Sure, if you want. Let me know when we get there," said Shadow as he fell asleep.
In a remote village, a dirty red car can be seen driving slowly, held back by a large machine.
"Seriously, I'm a famous race car, I don't deserve to be treated like this," said the red car as a tow truck looked on.
"Well, he's going pretty slow for a race car, HAHAHA," laughed the brown car.
"What's going on, Martin?" asked a blue car.
"Oh Sally, what's wrong?" said Martin with a smile.
"I'm fine, so how's it going?" asked Sally, before being interrupted by the sound of a truck.
Looking in the direction of the noise, they saw a black truck with golden patterns on the hood.
"We have a customer, we have a customer!" shouted Sally as she went off to put each car in the village in their place.
In a small garage, an old blue vehicle heard the noise and decided to go out to see what was happening. As it went out, it saw a truck with a race car trailer, which made it growl.
The truck stopped in front of everyone with a tired look on its face, then stopped to let the car out of the trailer.
Vroom, vroom.
The car's engine purred as it started slowly, revealing a deep black color with small gold markings and a golden number 27 on the doors on both sides.
Stepping out of the car, it looked around to see where it was before noticing a red car with a large machine attached passing by.
"McQueen..." said the black car in a lazy tone, catching the attention of the red car, which turned out to be McQueen.
"Shadow..." said McQueen, squinting his eyes.
"Hahahahahahahahahaha, look what I see, Tom," said Shadow, laughing as Tom followed him.
"Haha, stop laughing and help me get this disgusting thing off, I need to get to California quickly to talk to Dinoco," said McQueen with a fake laugh.
During this scene, everyone in the village was watching them with squinted eyes, wondering if Shadow would help McQueen before he finished the street.
"Excuse me, princess, why does he have to fix the road?" asked Shadow, looking at the blue Carrera.
"Huh... Me?" said the blue Carrera, looking around.
"He destroyed our entire street and was judged for his crimes, now he has to fix everything," said an old blue race car at the door of a small garage.
Seeing the car coming towards him, Shadow's eyes widened in surprise at the familiar car that had just arrived, before immediately pretending he hadn't seen it.
Then he looked at Carrera for an explanation.
"Uh... it happened like Doc explained," said Carrera, glaring at McQueen.
"Well, good luck McQueen," said Tom before turning to leave the town.
"Wait, don't leave me here, there are only crazy people here!" said McQueen as everyone stared at him.
"You'll get used to it," replied Shadow as he headed for the exit.
"Uh... where are you going, Shadow?" asked Tom, looking at Shadow.
"I'm leaving, I don't want to stay here," replied Shadow.
« Je suis désolé, mais tu as promis que nous nous arrêterions dans un village pendant un moment pour que je puisse me reposer », dit Tom en s'arrêtant à côté d'une pompe à essence.
"... Alright," said Shadow as he moved to stand next to Tom.
Upon hearing this, the whole village was happy, except for McQueen and Doc Hudson.
Then the hours passed with Shadow lounging around; he hadn't moved from his spot since he settled in, leaving most of the villagers puzzled.
"Finally, I'm done!" shouted McQueen as everyone came out of their homes to look at the road, which was...
Worse than before, which made everyone angry.
"It's not my fault I'm a race car," said McQueen in defense.
"You're a race car? Then let's race, you and me. If I win, you'll go back and fix the road 'properly', but if you win... you leave," explained Doc, looking at McQueen before glancing at me.
"If I win, you leave and never come back, but if you win, you can stay as long as you want," said Doc before heading towards a dirt path.
McQueen quickly followed, and Shadow looked up in the air before following him to the starting line where they lined up side by side.
"I hope you're ready, old man, California is mine," said McQueen as a little yellow car named Luigi waved the flag to signal the start of the race.
Vroooom!
McQueen took off, leaving a lot of smoke in his wake.
As the smoke cleared, we could see that Doc and Shadow had stayed at the starting line.
"Oh, you didn't speed off to win the race," said Doc with a hint of surprise.
"No," replied Shadow curtly as he watched McQueen crash into a cactus at the second turn.
"Ohhh," they all said, watching him with painful expressions.
"Martin, go get him, please," said Doc.
"Alright," replied Martin as he walked off.
"Okay Luigi, restart the race, this time we're really going," said Doc as he revved his engine.
"
"Okay," said Luigi before starting to wave the flag.
"Go!" shouted Luigi.
Hearing the signal to start the race, Doc immediately took off, followed by Shadow.
Doc accelerated to top speed while Shadow struggled to stay behind.
Shadow was glued to Doc and followed him like a shadow, never letting go. Doc, who was leading the race, was surprised to see that Shadow was perfectly matching his every move, never reducing or widening the gap between them.
As they reached the turn where McQueen had crashed into the cactus, Doc drifted through the corner to avoid hitting the cactus.
As everyone watched Doc with a confident look on his face, thinking he had won the race, he saw a shadow pass in front of him, making the exact same drift as he did.
Vroom!
As Shadow stopped the drift, he suddenly accelerated and rushed to the finish line at an incredible speed, meaning he had won the race against Doc.
When Doc reached the finish line, he looked at Shadow in shock as an image of an old friend of his appeared in place of Shadow