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 12:

Voltz and Sleipner had gone up to the attic to look for more clues. If there was any place they could find anything at all, it would be up there. Voltz picked up an old babushka-doll and looked inside. Empty. The smaller dolls were probably lost after many years. He put it back.

"This place could need a nice clean-up anyway…" Sleipner stated as he put the boxes they were done looking through into shelves. His eyes fell on a small hatch near the floor, in the corner behind the shelf.

He narrowed his eyes and leaned down to see better. "Hey, Voltz… look!"

Voltz came over. "Try to open it…"

Sleipner grabbed the small ring that was attached to it and pulled. The small lid was too narrow for any of them to fit into, so he put a tire in to feel if there was anything inside it. His tire bumped into something square. He grabbed it and pulled it out. It was a small box.

He blew the dust off it and took the top away. There were old, faded photos and papers in it.

Sleipner read a note, that looked newer than anything else in the box. "The next clue can be found where the remains of the past still can be seen." He read, and scratched his roof thoughtfully. Then he looked down at the photos in the box.

Voltz took them out and looked through them. "It's that church again… and the door with the key in…" then a photo caught his interest. "Look at this, Sleipner…"

Sleipner held the photo with awe. "It looks familiar… where have I seen this before?"

The photo showed some kind of roof, and a door… with the same key in the lock. The roof looked somewhat very familiar.

Voltz rubbed his windshield, then it felt like a puzzle-piece fell into place. He grabbed Sleipner's tire and pulled him with him. "Come!"

Soon they stood in the lunchroom, looking at the old photo's of how the HQ had looked and been rebuilt through all the years. The oldest photo showed a very characteristic roof, looking like a saw.

Voltz held the photo up towards the picture. "See?"

Sleipner nodded. "It must be it… but… this building has been rebuilt so many times, there is almost nothing left of the old shape…"

"Just almost… something is still left…"

"Not the roof…" Sleipner slumped low.

Voltz smiled and blinked. "Come on… I'll show you something."

Sleipner followed curiously. What was he up to now?

Voltz led him up to the roof-top balcony. "I'll show you my favorite place. I often go there to think…"

Sleipner stared in horror as the L 200 climbed over the fence around the balcony. "You're not going to jump?!"

Voltz turned around and smiled. "No silly… come!" he jumped down from the fence and landed on a wooden surface.

The younger Hiace followed a bit insecure about leaving the balcony and go to the parts of the roof where there was no fence. He dared to take a look over the edge. It was four floors… Four floors down to the hard concrete… A fall would be fatal. He swallowed and drove after Voltz.

Voltz had stopped at the edge on the other end. He pointed down. "Look…"

Sleipner looked. There it was… the old roof, from the first building. "The remains of the past…" he mumbled.

Voltz smiled as he jumped down on it. He looked back up at Sleipner. "You coming?"

The Hiace followed, a lot more enthusiastic than he had been just half an hour ago. They didn't have to search long before they found the door they had seen on the photo.

"We found it!" Sleipner yelled happy and jumped up and down with glee. "We made it, Voltz!" he jumped on to the L 200 and hugged him.

Before he even knew what happened, he was sent flying over the roof until he crashed into a small wall. "Ouch! What the hell did you do that for?!"

Voltz came after him and helped him up with a shameful look on his face. "I'm so sorry, man… Are you ok?"

"I'm fine! But why did you do that?! I was only going to give you a hug!" Sleipner whimpered as he rubbed his roof after it hit the wall.

"I… have a problem with others hugging me. Especially men…" Voltz looked down, as if he suddenly remembered something painful.

Sleipner stood up again and looked at him. "Why?"

"I don't think you want to know…"

"I wouldn't ask if I didn't want to know…" Sleipner tried to catch his stare, but the Mitsubishi's stare was nailed to the floor. "I'm your friend… you can talk to me, you know."

Voltz looked like he was seriously considering telling him. He shook his hood.

"You know, Voltz… sometimes it helps to talk to someone about things that bother you. If you keep it inside you all the time, it will slowly eat your soul away."

Voltz nodded silently. Sleipner carried a lot of wisdom with him, despite his young age. What he said was true… his soul was pretty damaged already. He had always kept things to himself.

"If I tell you this… you will never want to see me again…" he mumbled and looked down from the roof at the cars passing by on the street down there.

Sleipner shook his hood. "I will never turn my back to any of my friends… no matter what!"

"You don't want to know this… believe me…"

"Voltz! Now you're making me worried… what can possibly be so horrible that you think I would throw our friendship away?" Sleipner watched the older car as he drove closer to the edge.

"If you're really sure… but don't blame me if it make you sick…"

Sleipner just nodded and motioned for him to start telling.

Voltz smiled, but the smile did not go up to his eyes. It was more like a grin.

"You're either very stupid… or a very good friend…" he started. "What I'm going to tell you now is so ugly, so repulsing and disgusting… you will probably never be able to look into my eyes after I'm done…"

Sleipner swallowed hard, but nodded, letting Voltz continue…

To be continued….