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Bill just looked at her, a grin at war with his sickened expression as he recalled what was in her trunk. "Wh-what happened to you?"

"What happened?" Clutch asked, missing out because he didn't have eyes. "Chris! I need eyes," he yelled.

CD pokes Clutch with a small badge, and her cameras allow him to see out of her right camera as she looked at 54.

''I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.'' 54 yowled, annoyed.

Clutch flinched at the sudden contact and then honked his horn in laughter. "54...where did you go?"

Bill was highly amused and at last, Chris made his tentative presence. He was still pale, but he smiled at the paint job.

"I like it, 54. I think it suits you."

54 screms. ''I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DARK PURPLE! DAARRRKKK!!!!'' She shouted, core spazzing out.

''See Clutch? Thats how my cameras work. Though your seeing out of of my right side one.'' CD inquiired.

"Well whatever carwash you went to was obviously a painting service." Chris murmured. He was trying hard not to remember what had transpired earlier. "We can get you repainted; it won't be too hard."

Bill nodded, confirming Chris' statement.

Clutch "ooh"ed and "aah"ed over the camera. "Can you fix her after you get me cameras?" he asked Chris. "They're amazing!"

CD temporarily switch his view to both of her cameras, leaving her blind for a bit. This allowed him, however, to also see himself and CD hereself and her '45'.

54 still had a fit, engine freezing over in her fits.

"Ooooh...I think 54's going to blow a gasket." Clutch commented.

Bill grabbed a fire extinguisher and unloaded it on 54's hood. "Hey, calm down, 54. It's just paint; it can be changed. And I'd rather you didn't explode in my garage."

Chris chuckled under his breath.

54 through a fit more until her engine gave out and jammed, shutting her down.

CD giggled, then frown. ''She shut off....'''

Chris and Bill exchanged a look before looking at CD and asking: "Is that a bad thing?"

Clutch fell silent, wondering what would happen next.

Within a few mere seconds 54's engine exploded into flames from getting jammed, sending her core flying into the roof. The hood was blown to bits, and luckily the bomb rolled out. It was a fake nuclear decoy bomb. But her front was blown to shreds, leaving only her back and such intact. Though the front was now blazing furiously on fire. Oh dear.

CD yelped, almost driving into reverse.

Chris winced and ducked as his father let out a string of curses and another blast of fire extinguisher fluid.

"I just fixed this garage and this was exactly why I wanted to keep her outside!" he finished, breathing hard. "Clutch, tow her outside."

Clutch didn't disagree as he reversed and lowered his tow cable. Chris hastily attached it to 54's bumper and Clutch pulled her out.

The core goes falling and lands on CD's hood after CD got her cameras back to working so she could see. Once it landed the two cores reacted violently together through the hood until the shard vanished and CD blacked out, hood singed where the shard had been. She didn't explode, but the core was whole now, though it was white with a blue crack-shaped addition from 54's core.

54 herself remained dead to the world, her core missing, and her cameras blackened.

Chris stared at CD, not sure what had just happened. "Uh, CD? You okay there? Dad? You don't have to worry about the roof anymore...

Bill muttered an oath as he had followed Clutch and 54 outside. "What do you mean I don't have to worry about the roof?"

"Well, um, you may not have to worry about 54 either," Chris added, pulling on gloves to look more closely at CD's core. "I think 54's core just welded itself to CD's."

CD starts to stir, cringing a bit. ''Urrgh.....'' She groaned, the two cores still violently together, cracking loudly. CD now had one blue eye and one brown eye, and was extremely dazed after her system had installed anything new 54 had in her core. The two cores were fighting. The personalities so different that they couldn't be together.

"One sec," Chris muttered, grabbing his laptop. He noticed almost immediately the change in eye-color and he wasted no time in hooking his laptop up to CD. "Alright, talk to me, CD. What's going on?"

Data appeared on his laptop, scrolling, and Chris frowned. "Oh... oh no..."

''What...Is it?'' She asked, still dazed, the two cores still violently fighting. ''54's core landed on my hood...Then I blacked out after my systems restarted to update. Now the two are so different that their reacting badly to be put together. Gack....'' She choked, wincing again. 54 was wide awake, and was not happy at all to find herself in her sister's core. She was trying to destroy it.

A frustrated groan escaped from Chris as he recalled why the data looked familiar and yet at the same different. "It's just that your update corresponds with the fusing of your cores, and now the data that pops up is a cross-contamination of both data streams. So not only am I seeing yours, CD, but I'm also seeing 54s. And right now, it doesn't look at all pretty."

A sensor beeped on his laptop and a warning sign popped up. "Furthermore, it looks like your core is going supernova. Can you cool it down? Or do we need to use up another fire extinguisher?"

Clutch disengaged his tow cable and rolled back in to hear the last part. "Do you need me to hook in with them? I might be able to-"

"No!" Chris said sharply. "The last thing I want to do is get your data mixed with theirs and contaminate all three of you. Two is quite enough, but thanks, Clutch." Clutch harrumphed and rolled back a foot.

CD cringes again, and tries to cool the spazzed out core. But failed as the reaction escalated, sparks starting to shoot out violently and singe the engine. The bolts holding the cover in place were seared out of place as the engine block struggled to process the data. 54's shard was easily visible. But trying to remove it from CD's core would be pretty hard even with the outline visible.

The engine stuttered violently, the heat damaging it. ''Ack....Can't cool it....'' CD choked, strained.

Bill reappeared with another fire extinguisher, which he loosed on the smoking, steaming engine. For a few solid seconds the only sound was the "Whooosh" of the extinguisher.

"I'm gonna need to stock up on more of these," Bill muttered when he paused to see if there had been any change.

Chris reached in for the key to turn off CD. Really, why hadn't he thought of that sooner? With the car off, the engine couldn't stay hot and the AI core(s) would have to cool down.

He suceeded in turning CD off, as she fell deathly silent, eyes shut. The engine slowly cooled down as the cores got soaked and ceased sparking.