Alternating Current chapter 1

by Littleredtoyota/Ninjalinda

A/N: I do not own any characters from the Pixar movie Cars. I do own my own characters; Rafael, Fluke, Linda, Agneta, Voltz, Titania, Fahrenheit, Maximo, Sleipner, Galvani, Faraday and Louis.

I do not own Sønnico, I just work for them. Any likeness to real persons or events are just a coincidence, and a product of my imagination; NOT REAL.

Alternating current

By: Little Red Toyota

Chapter 1:

The big white Mitsubishi woke up slowly. Even before he opened his eyes, he knew there was someone else in the bed with him. A bit groggy, he tried to remember what happened last night, which girl was it this time? How much had he been drinking? Had he been drinking at all?

Voltz rubbed his windshield as he rolled over to stand up. He hadn't been drinking last night, it was just Wednesday, and he never drank during the week. Showing up at work not being sober was strictly prohibited. He didn't remember being on a date either. He turned to look, his eyes following the soft curves of a bright white female Toyota Hilux, her blue vinyl's with the company logos was barely visible under the blanket, but he didn't need to look at them to recognize her. He could pick her out from a crowd of hundred Hiluxes…

He sighed and rolled over again, staring into the wall. She must have come while he was asleep, she had her own key after all. He hadn't asked to get it back after she dumped him again. It had been the third time she had left him for another guy. He growled low. How long did she plan on staying this time?

He wouldn't admit it to anyone but himself, but it hurt him badly each time. He loved her deeply, but he was tired of her being so unstable. It teared his heart apart each time she found someone better, someone she rather wanted to be with. This time, he would claim his key back. He didn't want to be the one she was with when she didn't have anyone else.

"Voltz?" her soft voice felt like a stroke from a feather. He loved how she said his name, and he hated it at the same time. How it made him soft and weak…

He turned around to meet her stare, with an blank expression.

Titania reached a tire towards him. He ignored it. She had hurt him one time to many. He just kept staring at her as if she was a stranger to him. Facinated, he saw how her body started shivering, and tears forming in her eyes. She was a master of manipulation, used to get what she wanted by using various tecniques, but now he didn't feel anything by her fake cry.

"Grow up, Titania… crocodile-tears don't work on me anymore!" he mumbled, causing her to cry even more. He just watched her, until she had calmed down again. She looked up at him with wet eyes.

"I'm so sorry, Voltie… I should never have left you." She whimpered and clinged to him.

He cursed as he felt how her hug made his pistons rush, like he was a teenager in love for the first time. He didn't push her away, but he did not return her hug either.

Titania let go of him and dried her tears. "I promise I'll never leave you again…"

Voltz snorted. "Titania… please spare me. I've heard that one before!" he rolled his eyes.

"But this time it's true!" she insisted.

"Yeah… sure… like all the other times." He looked away. His face was like carved in stone. "Seriously… why should I believe you this time?"

Titania looked down, she didn't have a good answer. She had never expected Voltz to reject her. How could he? He always took her back!

Voltz shook his hood, taking her silence as an answer. "May I have my key back?"

Titania gasped. "You… you're throwing me out?" her eyes widened.

Voltz rolled his eyes. "Titania… you have an own apartment. Go live your life as you want it, but this time it's without me. I can't take anymore. I'm tired of being your rebound guy… I want to be THE guy." He reached out a tire. "Key please…."

Titania's tire trembled as she dropped the key, then she dashed off to the bathroom collecting all her stuff. She was not able to stop the tears rolling. This was totally new to her, nobody had ever rejected her before. Angry and frustrated she wiped her tears and threw some of his stuff into the wall. Then she left his apartment without even looking at him.

Voltz layed down in the bed and stared into the wall with an empty look, his tire was still holding the key. How should he be able to go on without her? He closed his eyes and sighed. There was no answer, he just had to. She was not meant for him, she seemed to want everyone else, but him. The best he could do was to try getting over her. Though it would be hard since they both worked at the same company.

He pulled the blanket up, so it covered him totally, hiding from the world.

*

Fluke had gone early to work, he sat in his office, looking at some technical drawings over a new project they was going to start on in just a few weeks. It was hard to calculate how much materials were needed. He had figured they would need about 7 kilometres of normal powercable. Still there was a lot to find out…

He looked up as Titania came bursting in without knocking, she sat down right inside the door.

"Good morning, sis….?" He started.

"Shut up, bro!" she yelled hiding her face in her tires.

Fluke shrugged. There was no use in trying to talk to her when she was in that mood. He turned back to the drawings. She would talk when she was ready. It usually didn't take long.

"Voltz threw me out!" she blurted out.

Fluke rolled his eyes. There she go again, he thought as he looked at her sideways. Expecting her big brother to go and fight for her, like he used to. He had been beating the snot out of many of her exes in the past years. He had sworn not to do it again, and had started to go to anger management. He had anger problems, he had to admit it. And mixed with a car on his size and with his strength, that could be dangerous. He had almost killed one of her previous boyfriends. It was after that, he has realized he needed help. And now, Titania was trying to spoil it.

"Say something!" she continued as Fluke remained silent. "He threw me out of his apartment and took the key!"

Fluke turned completely to face her. "Well… what did you expect? Seriously…?"

Titania was caught off guard. "Wh… what do you mean?"

"You treat him like trash… how long did you expect him to be fine with it? If I were him, I would have been fed up a long time ago…"

Titania's face started to turn red in anger of being scolded by her own brother. He was supposed to offer her a fender to cry on!

"Sis…" Fluke drove a bit closer. "You cheat on him… you leave him for another guy… and when the relationship with that guy don't work out, you go back to Voltz… expecting him to be waiting for you like a faithful dog! Girl… he has been waaaaay too patient with you!"

"Brother…" she growled and opened her mouth to say something, but was silenced before she spoke.

"Titania, you carry his heart in your tires… don't drop it to the floor too many times. Sooner or later, it will break." Fluke said and turned back to the drawings.

Titania chewed on her lip, letting the words sink in. Slowly realizing…. "It's too late…." She whispered.

Fluke didn't look up from his papers. "It's never too late… but you need to grow up, and become more ready for a relationship before entering one. Don't rush. But it might be too late for you and Voltz. He won't wait forever…"

The last sentence made Titania break down totally, crying like a baby. Fluke handed her a tissue. "If it's really Voltz you want… why do you keep cheating on him?"

"I… I don't know…" she whimpered. "I guess… I took him for granted. He always took me back…"

"Even he has his limits, you know…"

She just nodded and wiped her hood with the tissue. She squeezed her eyes closed and took a deep breath. Then she felt her brothers soft tire on her side.

"Take your time now, sis… don't rush anything. Live your life and find out what you want. But stop playing with others feelings…"

With a deep sigh, she leaned on him, closing her eyes and crying on his fender, while his tires stroked her carefully. "I'll try, bro…"

*

Titania had gotten the extremely fun and interesting job of cleaning up in the backyard storage. They used to clean it up once every years, right before the summer party. She didn't really look forward to the summer party now that Voltz didn't want to see her anymore. On the other hand, the whole company would be there, so there would be enough others to talk to. Even the guys from the Tele-division used to come.

She caught herself in smiling as she stacked the cable-rolls on top of each other. Maybe the summer-party wouldn't be so bad after all. With 150 other employees here, it shouldn't be any problem to avoid Voltz.

"Get away from me! You're disgusting!"

Titania turned towards the angry voice. Fahrenheit was driving down the ramp into the backyard, followed by a pretty upset Sleipner. What was it now? Those two had been fighting a lot lately. She shrugged. Well, mostly it had been Fahrenheit fighting. Sleipner was just standing there, listening to Fahrenheit's ranting with tears in his eyes.

She looked after Sleipner who spun around and drove inside, probably to go lock himself up in his apartment. Maybe she should go talk to him later? They had grown up together after all. And Sleipner was the only one living at the HQ, so he would probably not mind having company.

"That guy is making me sick!"

She jumped. Fahrenheit had snuck up on her without her noticing it. She swirled around and backed a few inches, making some distance between them. He was studying her body again with a greasy smile on his bumper. She shuddered, but tried to act like everything was fine.

"And why…?" she mumbled.

"He and I was in town a few days ago. We were at a pub and was supposed to check out the girls… or so I thought." He rubbed his bumper. "I was talking to this gorgeous piece of metal, when I turned around to tell Sleipner I was going outside with her for a while. And then I find him sitting there, hitting on a boy!"

"And so…?" Titania shrugged. "He's bisexual. What's the big deal?"

"Doesn't that make you want to hurl?"

"No, why should it?"

Fahrenheit hissed as he spun around and drove out of the backyard. Titania frowned and turned back to doing her job.

*

Sleipner had joined Voltz and Fluke in cleaning out the three offices beside the storage. It hadn't been done for a while, and there was a lot of old papers and documents to go through.

Sleipner held up a old photo. "Look… isn't this how the HQ looked back in the late 50's?" he smiled. "It sure wasn't big back then…"

Fluke leaned closer to look. "You can clearly see the old structure of it still, if you look close enough while driving through here now. Back then it was a factory too, you know. There was a big production of toasters, water-boilers and waffle irons and other household appliances. I think people still think of those things when they hear the name Sønnico. They were wellknown for the quality, and they lasted forever. My mother had a waffle iron that was over 30 years old…"

"Wow…" Sleipner smiled by the story. He loved to hear about the company's glory days. "But we started out as we are today, right? With electricians?"

"Yeah, Sønnico was founded in 1910 and started out as a small electric company." Fluke said and opened an envelope, reading the document inside.

"1910?" Sleipner's jaw dropped. "That means…"

Voltz looked up from a cardboardbox. "Yes, Sønnico is 100 years this year. I guess you can say we work in a pretty old company."

Sleipner put the photo back into the box he had found it, but still had a dreamy look on his face, imagining how the world was in 1910. "It's a bit weird to think of… Sønnico was founded the same year as Roald Amundsens South Pole expedition… It feels like an eternity."

"For most people, it IS an eternity…" Voltz mumbled reading through a document. "They don't know how old Sønnico is, but they know it has been there forever. I met an old man at a retirement home I worked at, and he was surprised to see my uniform. "Does Sønnico really still excist?" he said to me. He told me that he remembered back to the early 30's, when Sønnico had a shop downtown. He was just a kid back then…"

Sleipner smiled wider. "I don't know with you guys, but it makes me kinda proud to work in such an old and well-known company." He looked out the window. "It has survived two world wars… the stock market crash and the depression… wow… imagine what stories we could have heard if this building could speak!"

"The building is not as old as the company." Fluke stated. "I think it was buildt in 1957."

"It's still pretty old… and these documents… I found one dated back to 1945!"

"I think that is the oldest one you will find. All of the older papers got lost during the second world war… a shame, since a lot of the company's written history was thrown away with those papers."

"Guys… look at this…" Voltz held up the paper he had been reading. Sleipner and Fluke leaned over to him to read.

*Secrets, mysteries and hidden gold

Sønnico's HQ does a treasure hold*

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sleipner wondered.

"There was a key attached to it…" Voltz narrowed his eyes and held the little gilded key up to the light.

"I wonder what it's for…" Fluke studied it too. "There are hundreds of doors in this building…"

"Not as old as this key…" Voltz muttered.

"Good point…"

Fluke looked down, resting his eyes on a stain on the floor, while thinking. Only Sleipner was working his way through a pile of papers and documents. The two older cars was trying to figure out where they had seen old doors.

"I think we have about 10 to 15 doors left when we exclude all the new ones…" Fluke finally stated.

"Let's check it out when we have time." Voltz suggested. "We need to get done with this first."

They all grabbed another cardboard box and kept going on with their work. But the key and the strange riddle kept swirling around in their minds, like an annoying bee.

To be continued….