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An Old Friend Returns-Chapter 1
" Carbine looks really beautiful in her gown." Penella said, glancing at the happy bride dancing with her new husband.
"Throttle looks great, too." Charley remarked, watching Throttle twirled Carbine around.
"Hey, what am I, invisible?" Vinnie replied, annoyed.
"Don't tell you're jealous?" Charley smirked.
"Puhh! Don't be ridiculous. Throttle looks ok. 'Course not as good as Yours Truly." Vinnie grinned to himself. Then glancing at himself in mirror smiling his thousand watt smile. Teeth gleaming.
"Oh, brother! Is your ego out of control or what?" Charley groaned, rolling her eyes and walking away. Vinnie ran up to her till they were walking side by side.
Vinnie waggled his eyebrows at her. Charley shook her head and laughed.
"I see you haven't changed a bit since the day we meet." She said.
"I am what I am, sweetheart." He boasted.
"Vinnie is quite a character." Penella observed, watching them go.
"Don't tell me you got a thing for Vinnie?" Modo half-teased, hoping she didn't.
"You're kidding, right? I mean he's cute, but too high maintenance for me." She replied, then smiled putting her arms around Modo's neck, "Besides, I prefer the strong, silent type."
Relief flooded the gentle giant's face. While he loved Vinnie like a little brother, he wouldn't tolerate him with his girl.
"I don't ever want to lose you, Modo." She said.
''I'm not going anywhere." He smiled, warmly then kissing her. A long gentle kiss that took her breath away.
Life for the three couples was great. They knew as long as they had each other they could face anything. But they all knew they still had to fight to keep Mars free of any threats. So the morning and evening patrols of the vicinity were kept up.
...
"Going away again?"
Vinnie was in their quarters. He had just gotten dressed when he looked up to see Charley walking out of his bathroom, freshly showered and fully dressed.
"Morning, beautiful." He smiled, broadly, kissing her, "Carbine's called a meeting."
"That can't be good. Is it about what happened to Limburger?" She asked.
"We won't know till we get there." He held out his hand, smiling,"Shall we?"
She smiled back as she placed her hand in his. A faint flush appeared in her cheeks. Vinnie looked away as the same bright blush showed up in his face.
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"We need to find any leaks within security." Carbine told them during a meeting that morning, "How was someone able to set foot on our base with an explosive? And without our knowing about it?"
"Or there may be a leak within the Resistance." Throttle replied, "I mean, how did they know we had Limburger here?"
"What are you trying to say, bro? We got a stoolie in the midst?' Vinnie asked.
"If so, how are we gonna sniff the mole out?" Modo asked.
"By being alert and on our guard. Fish Bait knew something the Fish Faces didn't want revealed." Throttle replied, "That's why they bumped him off."
"Blown to smithereens. A rotten way to go." Vinnie said.
"Wonder what The Big Cheese knew." Modo said.
"We need to find out what that something is." Charley said.
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A helmeted Martian Mouse biker rode through Red Rim Pass. He carefully looked around. Then he stopped. He heard a rustling near the few bushes that were there. He took out his blaster. His hand was shaky.
''Come out slowly or I'll shoot!" He blurted out. A female Martian mouse stepped from behind one or the bushes.
"Trey, don't do this!" She said, walking over to him.
"Penella! What are you doing? Get out of here!"
"Stopping you from making a big mistake, little brother." She replied, "You must turn back now."
'It's too late. I can't go back. I can only go forward." He said, looking down.
"You'd forget me? Trey, you're the only family I have left! And what about our planet? Our parents died because of the Rot Fishes. Now, you want to make deals with them?"
"I know, sis. But I gotta do this. Some of the Plutarkians don't want to conquer Mars or any other planets. I've met them. They want peace. They want to end this war as much as we do."
"Since when?"
Penella and Trey stopped talking and looked to see Throttle followed by Vinnie and Modo walking up to them.
"Looks like your hunch was right, bro. We found our stool pidgeon feeding the Fish Faces info." Vinnie said to Throttle.
"No, you're wrong." Penella said, quickly, "He's no traitor. He's my brother."
"Your brother?" Modo said to Penella.
"I'm sorry, Modo. I should've told you. We were separated during the war. Then reunited on Mars."
"You're playing a dangerous game, son." Modo told him.
"Big guy's right. I've never seen a disloyal Plutarkian yet." Throttle said.
"Can say that again. I mean they do that gross Plutarkian greeting and like it! One time my bros and I were teleported to Plutark and we ran into one of those Reek Fishes and he tried to make me do it. There was this Reek Fish wiggling his nasty butt in front of me! I nearly puked all over! I wished I'd had some Clorox to scrub that out of my memory." Vinnie shuddered at the thought.
"Well, I told you to keep a stiff upper butt!" Throttle teased, laughing.
"Don't remind me." Vinnie muttered, looking annoyed while Modo snickered.
"You're wrong about the Plutarkians. A lot of them hate the greeting. They only go along with it to keep the High Chairman happy. He rules them with an iron fist! He made it a law that anyone who refuses to do it will be put in prison. They have to do it every time they greet each other." Trey explained, "They're really fed up with him."
"That's crazy." Penella said, shaking her head, "Why don't they overthrow him?"
"They're scared. They follow orders rather than give them."
"Did they ever tell you anything about their plans? Why Limburger was killed?" Throttle asked.
"All I know is they have a device capable of producing natural resources like water. Enough water to revive and restore Mars back to how it was before they invaded it.' Trey replied.
"No way! If they had something like that they wouldn't need to go around strip mining planets." Vinnie said.
"This could be a trick. Bait to lure us into a trap." Throttle said.
"Or they could be telling the truth. It'll be worth it if we can get this thing from them." Modo said, ''We'll be able to save Mars."
"I'm supposed to be meeting with some Plutarkian rebels here in a few minutes. And here they are!" Trey said.
Soon, a small strange Fish like vessel flew towards them. Everyone tensed up. Throttle activated his Nuke Knuckles. Vinnie lit up his flares. Modo aimed his bionic arm at the craft.
"You two get behind us." Modo told Penella and Trey. Penella stood next to her brother.
She looked as anxious as everyone else wondering if they were walking into a trap. She silently prayed they weren't.
The Plutarkian vessel landed a few feet from them. A side door opened and four lone figures stepped out. Their skin, that was green and scaly, matched the color of their eyes. They were very thin. Almost scrawny. They were dressed like the Freedom fighters. They began approaching the mice.
"Put your weapons down. We mean you no harm." The first one who appeared to be the leader said, arms lifted in the air, "I'm Finn."
''We'll keep them up if you don't mind." Throttle replied, distrustfully.
"Fair enough. I deeply regret what my people put Mars and every other planet in the universe through. We're not all like this. I can assure you." Finn replied.
'Wish we could believe that." Vinnie replied.
"Look, we're suffering just as you." Another Plutarkian said.
''Exactly, how are YOU suffering? You still have your planet. You destroyed ours! Our cities! Slaughtered our people like cattle! And now you have the nerve to come here like nothing's wrong?!" Vinnie screamed.
"Simmer down, Vin." Modo said, hand on his shoulder, then to Finn, "You understand why everyone here isn't happy to see you."
"You're angry. You have every reason to be." Finn replied, looking down.
"Ya think?" Vinnie replied, angrily.
"You weren't forced to flee your planet as we have." The other Plutarkian argued.
"But our people weren't killed or invaded." Said another Plutarkian, a female who spoke to the Plutarkian
"Gil! Zephrine! Let it be. Fighting amongst ourselves solves nothing." Finn told them.
"What do you mean you were forced to flee?" Trey asked.
"I was caught denouncing the High Chairman in public. He had been making us pay high taxes to fund his extravagant lifestyle. He lived rich while the majority of us lived in poverty. I was sick of it." Finn explained, angrily, "I also spoke against the Plutarkian greeting calling it stupid and below our intelligence. Guards surrounded me and I was put in prison. I was sentenced to death the next day. I would've died if not for my friends here." He said, smiling at his three friends who also smiled back at him, "They helped me escape. We came here a few days ago and met Trey here. We assured him we were harmless. We have been helping each other ever since."
"How? Sorry if I don't believe you, but why would you a Plutarkian help a Martian Mouse?" Penella asked.
"Because we hate this war and The High Chairman's plan to rule the universe as much as you do. I tried to suggest to Lord Camenbert other ways of finding resources without having to invade other planets and was laughed at." Zephrine replied, sadly, "He's too consumed with power."
"Too bad there isn't something that can create natural resources?" Throttle said, choosing his words carefully.
"Actually, there is. One of our top scientists created a device that can produce water and reproduce any species of plant life possible." The fourth Plutarkian said, "It's locked away in a lab on Plutarkian near the High Chairman's palace."
"We have to go there and get it." Trey said.
"That's why we came here to Mars. We need your help, Biker Mice." Finn explained.
Throttle and his friends thought hard about this. What if they were lying? Suppose there was no device? For all they knew this could be some ploy to get them off their guard so they could capture them and bring them to Plutark. They knew Plutarkians got promoted for that.
"I understand how distrustful you are of our motives, but I can assure you we mean no harm. I believe this belongs to one of your people?" Finn asked, taking out of his pocket a green hairband.
"That's belongs to Harley! She wore it the day she disappeared." Vinnie exclaimed, snatching it from him, 'Where'd you get it?"
"I'll show you." He said, walking away followed by the other three Plutarkians. The small aircraft flew away.
"Stay alert, everybody." Throttle said, getting on his bike. Modo and Vinnie followed suit. Penella got on with Modo. Trey rode with Vinnie.
They rode after it to a small cave and it landed near it. The Plutarkians emerged from the craft to the entrance of the cave. The mice rode up to it.
''Who's there?" asked a voice.
"It's us, my dear. We've come back and we brought friends." Finn replied.
A small figure emerged from the cave squinting at the morning sunlight.
"Harley?" Vinnie asked.
"Hi, Vinnie." She smiled.