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 2:

Maximo and Voltz were standing on the ramp at the back of the building, smoking, early in the morning. Fahrenheit came stumbling through the gates, in the last minute as usual. Maximo shook his hood as the Navara approached them, lighting a smoke too.

"Mind if I join you guys?"

Voltz shrugged and took another drag. "I don't really care…"

"Sure you can, Fahrenheit." Maximo said in a lot friendlier tune than Voltz.

They all remained silent for a while, just enjoying the chill of the morning, watching the world outside the gates slowly come to life. A seagull landed on the rooftop of the nearest building. An escavator was starting a long day of work in the neighbor-yard. Other than that, the morning was peaceful and calm.

"Well… this one was my last." Voltz said as he finished his sigarette.

Fahrenheit raised an eyebrow. "You're quitting?"

"Yeah." was the short reply from the older Mitsubishi.

Fahrenheit couldn't hold back a laugh. "And you really think it's that easy to quit?"

"Yeah."

"Well, it's not! You really think you will be able to quit smoking for good?!"

"Yeah."

"I tried! And it's not that easy! It's not like it's just to say "I quit" and then everything is over…"

"Really…?"

"I have tried more than once, Voltz! I always fall back to old habits. I have only been able to stay away from the smoke for a few days."

"Then you have not wanted it enough." Voltz gave him the pack of sigarettes. "You can have them. I won't need them anymore."

Fahrenheit took it. "Ha! You'll fail before the week is over!"

Maximo shook his hood over the bickering, but he couldn't help a smile curling up on his bumper. It was always like this, the younger cars were always having small fights with each other, but nothing serious. In the next moment, they could be seen driving side by side, laughing together.

"I won't fail." Voltz insisted. "I have made up my mind. Smoking is a waste of money, and it's bad for my health. Why the hell should I pay for doing damage to my body?"

"Good point…" Maximo muttered.

Fahrenheit opened his mouth to say something, but shut it again, not coming up with any good answer. He put the pack of sigarettes in his console.

Voltz stretched his body like a lazy cat. "Time to get to work…" he mumbled and went inside at the same moment Sleipner came out. Fahrenheit crinkled his hood in disgust and turned away. Sleipner lifted his hood with a snort and drove past him, down the ramp.

"Uhh… Good morning?" Maximo said with tons of questions in his voice. Sleipner mumbeled something in return as he drove through the gates and continued up the street.

Maximo rubbed his roof. There was sure enough intrigues in the company…

It was Friday-night, most of the workers in the company was gathered in the backyard for the summer party. As usual the admins were not there, but nobody really missed them. There was even rigged a dancefloor, with a DJ controlling the music and the lights, like a disco.

Titania was sitting at a table together with Nina and some other cars from the Tele-division. There was three girls working for Tele, and she didn't see them so often as she worked in the Electro-division, so it was fun to have a chat when they had the chance.

As she heard Voltz' name mentioned behind her, she pitched her mirrors in that direction to listen.

"Isn't Voltz here tonight?" someone asked.

"No, I think he mentioned that he had a date…" another car replied, Titania recognized the voice as Rafael Redline. The red corolla used to hang out with them from time to time, as his brother once worked for Sønnico. He had been to each summer party the last 4 years. This year it seemed like he had brought a girl with him. A small, black Tesla with green and yellow tribals. Titania decided to find out more about her later. Right now it was other things that was swirling in her mind.

A date… Titania didn't expect that news to sting so much. She looked down, not even noticing that Nina tried to tell her something.

"I… got to go get some more to drink…" she muttered and drove inside, heading straight for the gym, where she locked herself up in one of the toilet-stalls. Leaning against the wall, wanting to cry, but her eyes were dry. She just felt so empty. Totally empty. Her mouth was dry as sand, she leaned over the sink and let the water run, drinking when it had turned cold. Then she splashed some into her face, hoping it would help her clear her thoughts.

Voltz had a date… he had forgotten about her already. The realization made her whimper. She put a tire in her mouth and bit it to prevent herself from making more noise. She didn't want anyone to hear her and start asking questions. Finally, she felt a prickling feeling on her windshield, but she squeezed her eyes shut, forcing the tears back. Voltz was not worth crying for!

She stared furious at herself in the mirror. "He is not going to see me cry over him!" she hissed and slammed a tire on the blank porcelain of the sink. Then she lifted her hood and drove back outside to continue the party.

"So… nature called, Titania?" Fahrenheit asked as she met him on her way back through the narrow corridor.

"Uhum…"

"You and Voltz broke up?" he asked.

"Yes, and I DON'T want to talk about it!" she hissed and tried to get around him.

"Would you like to go out with me tomorrow? Just dinner…?"

"No!" the last thing in the world she wanted, was to go out with Fahrenheit.

Fahrenheit shrugged. "Never mind… I was just trying to be friendly… I have enough girls to choose from, you know."

"Good, then choose one of them!"

"I have no idea how they get my number, but sometimes girls that I have never even met call me and ask me out…" he smiled. "I guess I am irresistible… and rumours of my skills in bed spread fast. You don't know what you're missing, girl…"

Titania rolled her eyes and finally managed to get around him, she drove to the door before he managed to say more. For some strange reason, it seemed like Fahrenheit had a lot of luck with girls at the same time she had bad luck with boys. She shrugged and sat down at the table along with Nina and Isabella.

Voltz sighed and rested his hood in his tires, trying to ignore the growing annoyance. Was this girl ever going to stop talking?!

He looked up, studying her. Good looking, but that was all. Her brain seemed totally sandblasted. And she was way too easy to get… that made her boring.

He mumbled something he hoped was a good answer and turned his front towards the window to look down on the street. Right now, the party was going on at the HQ. This was the first time he wasn't there. He pictured all his co-workers, dancing, drinking… having fun. Was Titania there? Maybe she had invited someone… a boy maybe? One of those she preferred over HIM…

He didn't realize he was clenching his jaws together before his teeth gave off a gritting sound. He pulled himself together and turned his attention back to the girl. She was looking at him with admiration in her eyes. Was she expecting an answer to something? What had she been talking about?

Voltz pushed his half-eaten food away and stood up. "I'm sorry, I have to go now… thanks for a nice evening, Mirelle." He said, hoping he remembered her name correct.

She also stood up, looking disappointed. "Already? I was hoping… maybe you could have come home with me and shared a bottle of wine…"

"I think that would have to wait until next time… I don't feel so good." Voltz said and pretended to have a stomach-ache.

"But… we will meet again, right?" she begged.

"Sure…" he replied, even though everything inside him was screaming out a loud NO.

"May I have your phone-number, so I can call you? A lot of boys say they will call me… and never do…" she said and looked down.

"Of course…" Voltz took a piece of paper and noted down the number quickly before reaching the note to her. "There you go…"

She looked at the note and smiled. "Thanks…" she lifted her hydraulics to the maximum to reach up and give him a quick kiss. "Talk to you soon!"

Voltz turned around and drove to the exit, hoping she didn't see the sly smile on his bumper. One thing was sure… she would NEVER talk to him again. But she didn't know that… yet…

Should he go to the HQ and see if the party was still alive? He chewed the question a bit. No… Titania would probably still be there… and he didn't want to meet her right now.

Slowly, he started on his way home, just wanting to empty a bottle of vodka until he was not able to think anymore, and then go sleep.

"Please get away from me!" Rafael yelled and tried to push the clingy girl away. The peach Honda had been after him for over a year, trying to split up him and Linda. He was getting really tired of it, but she just didn't accept no as an answer, and kept stalking him.

Linda pushed her rough. "Get away from my boyfriend, Agneta!" she hissed.

Agneta hissed back, trying to hit her with her tire. "YOU can go away and leave us alone… we'll have a nice night together!"

Linda growled as she took one of Agneta's tires and bit it as hard as she could.

"AHHHH! Damn you, bitch!" Agneta kicked out with her rear-wheels, still not letting go of Rafael.

"STOP IT!" Rafael yelled, trying to get both girls away and calm them down.

Fluke had been watching the fight for a while now, and felt extremely sorry for the poor corolla caught in the middle of a chick-fight. He sighed, put his beer on the table, and drove over.

"It's enough now, thank you…"

Agneta screamed in rage as the big Hilux grabbed her and pulled her away from Rafael. His tired were holding her tight. "Let go of me you freak!"

Without thinking she buried her teeth in his tire, biting all she could.

Fluke bit his lip and groaned, but he didn't release her. The small Civic squirmed in his tight embrace, cursing and yelling in rage.

Linda smiled. "Thank you, Fluke…" she said as she drove away together with Rafael. They settled down by a table at the other end of the backyard.

Fluke looked after them, but kept holding the wild Honda. "Shhh.. calm down, girl…" he said friendly.

Agneta got calmer by his soft voice, and stopped fighting to get lose, instead she started crying silently.

"Now, that's better…" he said and stroked her a bit to calm her.

Agneta had her eyes fixed on Rafael, but stood still. Suddenly she bit him again in another attempt to get lose.

"Ouch! You little b…." Fluke didn't finish the sentence, but tightened his grip around the small car. "Come on… let's move away, so you don't have to see them." He forced her to drive with him around the food-tent, getting Rafael and Linda out of their view. Agneta started to spit and hit his hood repeatedly as they moved.

Fluke was boiling with anger, feeling how her spit slowly flowed down his air-intake and hood. "Great…. Just… great…." He hissed.

"I will rip your engine out if you don't let me go!" Agneta screamed as she bit him again.

"And I will bend you over this table and abuse your body if you spit on me again!" Fluke yelled back, getting a few looks from some cars around a nearby table.

Agneta went pale, realizing she would have no chance if he really wanted to do it.

"You're such an ass! I hate you!" she sneered at him.

"Nice… I love you too, dollface!" he sneered back.

"That's great! If you love me, let the girl of your dreams go right now! Or else…."

"Or else WHAT…?"

"I'll crack your nuts!" she yelled and tried to give him a solid nut-kick, but failed since he held her too close to his body. "AAAAARRRGH! DAMN YOU!"

Agneta wriggled and tried to push him away. "Let me go, you big white pussycat-doll!"

"No way! You'll just go straight back to bother my poor friend, Rafael!" Fluke hissed and bit her sideview-mirror lightly to provoke her more.

"Oww! What the fuck…" she collected up a lot of salvia in her mouth and spit it straight on his windshield. "Eat this, asshole!"

Fluke tried hard to stay cool. "I never beat girls… but you sure make me tempted to!"

"Oh yeah? Try it! Come on… hit a weaker girl you coward!" she provoked.

Fluke ignored her as he pulled out some cable from his toolbox.

"Let me go! You smell!"

"Weird… nothing smelled around here until YOU showed up…" Fluke closed his toolbox.

"Ohh… big white boy tries to be funny, huh? Let me go right now!" then she realize he is tying her up with the cable. "Hey hey hey! You're going too far! Stop it or I will scream for help!"

"Everyone around here can witness that I do this in self-defense, smart-ass."

Agneta looked around and saw the cars around them nodding, it made her feel very uncomfortable. "And what do you plan to do now?"

"I'm going to tie you up with this cable, what does it look like?!"

"What?! No… let me go!" she wriggeled and yelled.

Fluke tightened the cable and placed her on the middle of the dancefloor. "As you wish…" then he left and drove back to the table, sat down with his beer again.

Agneta looked around at the cars looking at her, blushing in embarrassment. "Hey, seriously! Untie me and let me go! This is not funny!"

"I find it quite amusing…" Fluke muttered and took a sip from his beer.

Agneta felt the anger fade away, being replaced by total sadness and despair. With a deep sigh she gave up, and just let the tears roll, crying of humiliation.

Maximo looked at her, and back to Fluke. "Dude…?" he pointed at her.

Fluke shrugged and went back to her. "Had enough now?"

She didn't answer, just stared out in the air. Fluke grabbed the cables and looked at her. "You're gonna be a nice girl now?" he held the cables while waiting for her answer.

The small Honda sniffed and nodded.

"No more spitting, right?"

"Just… take the cables off…" she whimpered.

Fluke untied her, and she didn't waste the time. Quickly she stood up, driving off the dancefloor, crying.

Maximo glared at Fluke with and expression which showed big dismay with his younger boss. "That was really not necessary!" he said and shook his hood.

"Oh… believe me! It was!" Fluke snorted and drove back to his place.

Maximo just shook his hood again, finishing his beer.

Fahrenheit nudged Fluke with a smile. "I think you did the right thing! Why did you even bother to release her?"

Maximo nailed Fahrenheit with his stare. "Fahrenheit! Please…"

Fahrenheit shrugged. "I just think she deserved it…"

Fluke looked at him to answer his question. "I guess I am turning soft…"

"And what does that mean?" Fahrenheit wondered.

"I mean… ohh nevermind…" Fluke took another sip from his drink.

"You fell in love with her?" Maximo couldn't resist to ask.

"No… but I think she is cute. I like them wild."

Maximo just looked at him, like he didn't know what to say. Fahrenheit on the other hand had started to laugh. "Oh, man… nice joke! YOU and Agneta?!" his laugh could be heard all over the backyard.

Fluke shrugged. "I guess I spoiled my chances by tying her up like that…"

Fahrenheit waved a tire in the air. "Forget her, man… you need a girl on your own size, not a little bug like her…"

"You always say that size don't matter, Fahrenheit… You're taking it back now?" Fluke looked at him sideways.

"Come on… think about it. You think it would be right? She's tiny…"

"And so?! What would the problem be?!"

"Never mind…"

"Not until you tell me what you think would be a problem with my size!"

"It's ok, man! Just take a beer and forget what I said!"

"Fine!" Fluke hissed and drove to the bar to get more drinks, secretly looking around, hoping to spot a little, peach Honda.

To be continued….