I stink at coming up with titles, but since this is the only bit of writing I've gotten done since February I decided to go ahead and post it without a title, maybe if I get some reviews it'll motivate me to get writing again.

This is my first Biker Mice fanfiction and I'm always really nervous about getting things right when I start writing for a new fandom, so if I get any details wrong let me know. I've only seen the first season, a hand full of episodes from the second season and Once Upon a Time on Mars from season three, so I'm sure there will be stuff I don't know. If anyone knows where I can find the rest of the series online please let me know, I'm desperate to see the rest of it. Or if anyone has it on video and would be able to make copies for me, I'd be more than happy to pay for them.

"Steph, where is Dannie?" Courtney asked her sixteen year old cousin as she came out of the house to start the evening chores.

"She's upstairs in the cow barn, we found some kittens up there and she fell asleep watching them," Stephanie replied from where she was sitting, reading, under the large maple tree in the front yard.

"Go wake her up and have her help you shove a few bales of hay down for the cows while you're up there." Courtney told her.

"Okay," Stephanie replied as she set her book on the porch then ran to the barn.

Just as Courtney was starting to set up the milking machine in the barn Stephanie came running down from upstairs, a look of absolute panic on her face, "She's not up there anymore, she's gone."

"Maybe she woke up and went out to play, or went into the house without anyone noticing. Go check the house and ask grandma if she's seen her, I'll check the other barns." Courtney told her, somehow managing to sound calm and collected even as she inwardly started to panic herself.

Dannie was five years old, she and Stephanie had, only few months earlier, lost both their parent's in a violent house robbery. Stephanie had been at a sleepover, but Dannie had been home when it happened and had probably only survived because her mother had told her to hide behind a pile of boxes in her closet. She had stayed there, hiding for about an hour before she finally came out, only to find her father dead and her mother barely clinging to life. Her mother had gotten Dannie to bring her a phone to call 911 and had managed to cling to life until the police and ambulance arrived and Dannie was taken out of the house. Unfortunately her mother's reassurances that everything was going to be alright had resulted in Dannie refusing to believe her parents were dead. She had repeatedly said that her mom had promised never to leave her and she wanted to go look for her parents, even if she had to do it by herself.

After a thorough search of the house, all the outbuildings and the woods immediately surrounding the farm they had still found no sign of her.

"I'm calling the police," Mary, their grandmother said as they all regrouped on the front porch.

"Alright, I'm going to get a flashlight and keep looking in the woods, Steph, stay here with grandma," Courtney said.

"But she's my sister, I need to help look for her," Stephanie insisted on the verge of tears.

"I know, but I've spent a lot more time out in the woods around here, I won't get lost, you could and if you got lost then we'd have to send people out to find you when they could be looking for Dannie," Courtney told her.

"Alright," Stephanie relented.

Just as they started to head into the house they heard an engine approaching and saw a motorcycle pulling up the driveway. As it got closer they could see the driver was only using his right hand to control the bike and had a small figure curled up in his other arm.

Courtney ran out to the driveway to meet him, Stephanie right behind her with Mary following as quickly as she could with her cane.

"I believe you lost this ma'am," the driver said as he carefully passed a sleeping Dannie to Courtney.

"Thank you so much," Courtney said barely able to hold back tears of relief, "Where did you find her?"

"About a quarter of a mile east of here, marching down the side of the road like it was nothing. She's a stubborn little thing, took a while to convince her to let me bring her home," he told them.

"I don't know how we can ever thank you enough, we were so worried." Mary said.

"It was nothing ma'am; as my old gray furred mama use to say 'if you put children first, there's always a chance for a brighter future'" he told her, "Now I should get going and you should get that little one into bed," he said before turning his bike around.

"Wait," Courtney said, "you probably just saved my cousin and we don't even know your name."

"It's Modo," he told her before he took off down the driveway.

"Well at least your mystery biker has a name now," Stephanie said as they got back downstairs after managing to get Dannie into bed without waking her, "not sure if it's a first name or a last name, but at least we have something to call him."

"Yes, and was it just my hearing going or did he say his mother had gray fur?" Mary asked as they walked into the kitchen.

"That's what I heard," Courtney said, "then again I think it looked like he had fur too, it was too dark and the porch light too dim to be sure though."

"So you really think he's not human?" Stephanie asked as they started to get out some leftovers for a quick dinner.

"I don't know, I could swear I've seen a tail on him at least a couple of times." Courtney replied.

"How is it again that you first saw him?" Stephanie asked.

"It was several months before you came to stay here, right after I moved in to help grandma with the farm. I was out checking the fences when I noticed this biker sitting out in the cow pasture. At first I thought he must have been up to no good and was about to head back to the house to get grandpa's shot gun, until I realized it looked more like he was just talking to the cows. A little while later these strange purple creatures showed up, uprooted a tree and threw it at him. He must be pretty strong, one of the cows was next to him and he just shoved it out of the way of danger like it was nothing, but he was pinned by the tree. I ran for the house, called the police, but by the time they got here the only sign of what had happened was the uprooted tree and of course I made the mistake of telling them about the purple things and they thought I was making it up.'

"About a week later I saw him again, just relaxing on his bike by the river and fishing. I've seen him probably close to once a week at least since then, usually near the woods or river. A few times, like the first time you saw him, he's been on the ridge above the cow pasture, apparently watching us. I'm never able to get very close and if I try to get close enough to get a better look at him he seems to hear me coming and leaves. Considering the facts that I've never seen him with his helmet off, I'm pretty sure he has a tail and that whatever attacked him was definitely not human, I doubt he's human either." Courtney explained.

"Well, whatever he is, he saved us a whole lot of worrying, maybe even saved Dannie's life if she was clear out along the road," Mary said.

"I'm hungry, can I have something to eat too?" Dannie asked from the kitchen doorway.

"Told you she was starting to wake up," Stephanie said to Courtney before turning her attention to Dannie, "I don't know, as badly as you scared us I'm not sure you deserve any dinner."

"I'm sorry, I promise I won't runaway again," Dannie said, tears starting to rim her eyes.

"Of course you can eat then," Courtney said as she scooped her up and carried her over to the table, "but you have to tell us all about the guy on the motorcycle who brought you home."

"He was really nice, he didn't even try to make me come home, he just asked me where I was going. I told him about mommy and daddy, he said I wasn't going to find them because they're already here, I just can't see them anymore, but I still need to be good and make them proud of me. I said I didn't believe him and he said he was just a little bit older than me when he saw his daddy get killed. When he was older he was all alone fighting a bunch of bad guys and he heard his daddy's voice tell him to turn around and he did and there was a bad guy right behind him, if his daddy hadn't told him to look he would have gotten killed. So maybe mommy and daddy really are here and I told him he could bring me home," Dannie told them before taking a bite of the food Stephanie had given her, "Oh and he has a metal arm with a gun in it," she added a moment later.

"A metal arm with a gun?" Mary asked.

"Yeah, I asked him about it and he said he and his best friends got hurt really bad fighting some bad guys and that's how he got a metal arm," Dannie replied.

"Did he ever take his helmet off?" Courtney asked.

"No, but he's all fuzzy like a kitten," Dannie replied.

"I guess that confirms the fur, now if we could just find out what he is and where he came from," Courtney said.

"Well maybe now that we've actually gotten to talk to him he won't run off every time we get close to him," Stephanie said.

Unfortunately Stephanie had been wrong and the next couple of weeks went by without any change, Modo continued to show up, but also continued to leave as soon as they got too close to him.

On a particularly hot day Courtney had promised to take her cousins to a nice deep slow spot in the river to go swimming as soon as their chores were done.

Now the two girls were racing each other down the path along the bank of the river while Courtney tried to keep up with them, but finally gave up.

"You're not allowed to go in the water until I catch up with you," she called after them.

"We won't," Stephanie called back as the two girls disappeared through the trees.

A couple of minutes later Stephanie came running back, a mischievous grin on her face that Courtney had long ago learned meant she was up to something absolutely rotten, although she hadn't seen it since before the girl's parents had died.

"What are you up to?" Courtney asked.

"You'll see, hurry up, but be quite," Stephanie said as she grabbed Courtney's hand and practically dragged her along.

"Where is Dannie?" Courtney asked.

"She's keeping an eye out incase he comes back," Stephanie replied.

As they came out into the clearing at the edge of the river Courtney spotted Modo's bike, his helmet was sitting on the seat, but there was no sign of him anywhere.

"Is he around here somewhere?" Courtney quietly asked.

"I haven't seen him yet, but I'm sure he wouldn't have gone far, not without his clothes," she said pointing to a rock near the river where Modo's clothes were stacked.

"Please tell me you're not thinking what I think you're thinking, because there is no way I'm going to let you steal his clothes," Courtney said.

Stephanie's grin grew then she suddenly darted away before Courtney could stop her, a moment later she returned with his clothes and hid them behind some bushes, "You said you wanted to find out what he is didn't you?" she asked.

"Yes, but, what if he's naked, or get's angry at us?" Courtney asked.

"I left his towel over there, that'll cover enough until we can get a look at him, then we'll give him his clothes back," Stephanie said, "Now we just need to get that helmet, we don't want him sneaking out without us noticing, obviously it's hiding something if he never takes it off," she said as she headed towards the motorcycle