Out Of Control

Modo was glad for the distraction. When he told Lola about the prison camp, he didn't go into any details. He couldn't bring himself to tell her about the horrors he saw. Everytime he thought about it, he shuddered.
What he faced as he was marched down that cellblock shackled in chains and fetters would forever haunt him. The screams. Blood spattered on the walls. Stenches of dried blood mingled with sweat permeated the prison.
The smell of death was in the air. He remembered being chained and working on a rock quarry with other prisoners during the day then locked in a cell at night. His chances of escape looked bleak. Till he saw Throttle and Vinnie. They disobeyed orders by leaving their unit to rescue Modo. They were captured by Plutorkian soldiers and locked in the same cell with Modo.
It was then they hatched a plan.

He and his bros were taken to Dr. Carbunkle's lab. They were tired and near starving from very little food. They were also scared. They had no weapons. The three mice were being strapped to gurneys. In spite of this, Throttle was calm and alert. He was looking around for a way to help his bros.
Vinnie began fighting the guard who tried strapping him down. He kicked him. Another guard stunned him with a tazer staff. Modo and Throttle looked on helplessly. It looked like there was no hope till Carbunkle came with a bionic arm. He put it on Modo's amputated stump. Modo felt a trigger and squeezed it. Laser fire shot out blasting a canister of chemicals. For the first time, Modo felt a ray of hope. He aimed his bionic arm at Carbunkle and fired.
Carbunkle fell against the wall. He then freed himself and his bros.

"Man, that felt good!" He exclaimed.
"Yeah!" Throttle cried out, fist in the air.
"What a rush!" Vinnie crowed.

The thought of escape energized them. Plutorkian guards rushed in with weapons drawn.
Modo fired at them knocking the weapons out of their hands. Throttle and Vinnie used their tails to grab the weapons.
"Back to action!" Vinnie said.

Throttle went to a window and looked out. More guards were approaching. They saw their bikes chained up outside. Throttle shot at the chains.
The bikes were freed.

"C'mon, bros! They just called out the calvary and I just saw our ticket back to Mars!"

The mice jumped out the window. They put their fingers to their mouths and whistled. The bikes leap into the air and caught them. They rode towards a large airship. They rode on board. Throttle clicked a few buttons on a control panel. "I think this is how it starts." He said,"Hold on to your helmets, bros!"
Vinnie and Modo strapped themselves into their seats. The ship ran down the runway. Plutorkian guards were firing at the ship. Bullet holes had hit and ripped at the ship. In spite of this, It dove into the air leaving Plutork for good.

"Well, isn't this cozy." a voice interrupted his thoughts. Modo and Lola turned around to see Limburger and twenty of Limburger's goon squad behind him.
Before they could react, the goons overpowered them pulling Lola away. One of the goons had put a strange collar around her neck. Lola struggled in his arms.
"Lola!" Modo called out. "What'cha gonna do now without your sweetie, rat?" One of the goons jeered.
"Rat? You're talkin' trash!" Modo shouted, flushed with anger and eye glowing red. Suddenly Modo jerked backwards and fell out.
"Modo!"Lola cried out, hand to her mouth.

Dr. Carbunkle walked behind and around his body carrying in his hand what appeared to be a hyperdermic needle.
"What've you done to him?" She questioned. "Just a simple tranquilizer, my dear. Your friend isn't harmed. He'll sleep for an hour." He replied.

"You murdered my family!" Lola said, staring angrily at Limburger. Eyes glowering.
"That's right, my dear. I did. Doesn't that make you angry?" He asked, teasingly.
"My...family...you killed them!" She said, doubling over with pain as she began glowing and transforming. She was now the hideous blob-like, multiple tentacled multiple eyed monster. The collar had also doubled in size with the monster's form. A red button began glowing.
The creature stopped moving. "Now, my hideous creation, you'll take orders only from me." Dr. Carbunkle said.
"Yes, master." The creature replied, in a monotonous voice. "Boss, you didn't really polish off dem meeces, did ya?" Greasepit asked Limburger.
"Of course not, you idiot, I was making her angry so she'll transform into a monster. Now shut up!" Limburger murmured back.
"Excellent, Carbunkle, now I'll be able to steal all of Earth's water and soil without any interference from those moldy mice. Ha Ha Ha!"

Meanwhile Throttle, Vinnie, and Charley got a visit at the Last Chance garage. Stoker had flown down on a Martian airship. Everyone was relaxing and drinking root beers.
"Hey, Stoke." Throttle asked, "Root beer?" "What brings you to this neck of the woods, coach?" Vinnie said, sipping his root beer.
Stoker waved off the root beer.
"Where's Modo?" He asked, looking around.
"On a date." Throttle replied.
"Oh, yeah? Any one I know?"
"Believe it or not one of our own people. A girl named Lola." Throttle replied.
"'Hmm. Name doesn't ring any bells. Afraid this isn't a social call."
"What's up?" Throttle asked.
"Found a girl matching Harley's description." He replied.
Vinnie spat out his root beer showering Stoker with a rain storm of soda.
"Say what you need to say, punk, don't spray it!" Stoker retorted.
"You found her? Where?" Vinnie asked, ignoring him and grabbing his shoulders. "On Mars. Where else? Anyway, someone from Martian Command reported seeing her in Rat Hole City." "Rat Hole? That's where the Nomad Rats live." Throttle said.
"This was found." Stoker said, pulling out of his pocket a green hair scarf. "That's Harley's! She wore it the day Mace took her." Vinnie said, excitedly.
"Any sign of Mace?" Throttle asked Stoker.
"None. It's believed he disappeared into Rat Hole City." "Was Harley with him?"
"Don't know."
"We have to go there!" Vinnie exclaimed.
" I wouldn't advise it, punk. Our guy barely escaped with his life. Those rat people would eat a mouse alive if he set foot in their town uninvited."
"Harley could be in trouble! She needs our help!" Vinnie shouted.
"Vinnie..."Charley said, giving him a sympathetic look. He instantly calmed down. She knew how he felt about Harley.
How he regretted not being able to protect her from Mace. "Bro, we gotta be careful this is not some trick. Those stink fishes could've put those rat faces up to setting a trap for us." Throttle said.
Suddenly there was a beeping sound. Throttle and Vinnie looked at their bikes and saw blinking lights. "What's going on?" Charley asked.
"Distress signal from Modo's bike! He's in trouble!"Throttle exclaimed.
All of the mice and Charley put on their helmets and rode off down the road. "My bike's bringing up the coordinates. It'll lead us right to him." Vinnie said, briefly eyeing numbers on a visual screen on his bike.

Modo opened his eyes and struggled to get up. He remembered where he was.
"Lola..." He murmured, "No..." His bike was laying down next to him flashing a red light. His bike sent a distress signal to Throttle and Vinnie.
"Good work, Lil' Hoss." Modo said, "I see my bros."
"Modo!" Throttle called out. They rode right next to him and got off their bikes as Modo began getting up.
"You okay, bro?" Vinnie asked. "Limburger and Carbunkle took Lola!" Modo exclaimed, straightening up his bike, "We have to get her back!"
"Oh no!" Charley said. "Where'd they go?" Throttle asked.
"AAAAAAAH" someone screamed. "Does that answer your question?" Stoker asked.
The mice looked in the direction of downtown Chicago. A giant blob-like monster with tentacles was destroying buildings and people were running away in a panic. Many of them were screaming. Limburger and Carbunkle were using a device that had a giant rubber hose connected to it to vacuum up the debris and soil from the destroyed buildings. They already had a vat filled with water from Lake Michigan and now they were filling a vat with soil.
"Soon all of Chicago's natural resources will belong to Plutork. Ha Ha Ha Ha!" Limburger cackled.

"We've gotta stop that monster from turning Chi-town into a wasteland." Throttle said.
"I just have to get close to her. I can get her to listen to reason." Modo said.
The mice began riding towards the creature. "Now, Lola, finish them."Carbunkle said.
"Yes, master." Lola replied, in monotone, then extending her tentacles. Laser fire shot out. The bikes flew into the air in different directions. Tentacles struck the ground splitting it. The ground shook nearly knocking our heroes off their bikes. Suddenly tentacles wrapped around the bikes while the mice were on them. They struggled to get free.
"Lola, no! Don't do this!" Modo cried out to the creature. "It's no use, you moldy mouse. That's to my little submission device, your girlfriend is now my unwilling slave forever. Ha Ha Ha!" Carbunkle cackled, as he pointed to the collar around Lola's neck.
"Really?" Modo smiled, firing at the collar, severing it off. The mice watched gleefully as it hit the ground and burned up. Lola's whole form shook.
"Modo?" She asked. She quickly put them all down.

Limburger seeing the jig was up tried to flee. Lola got in front of them.
"Let there be light!" Vinnie cried, throwing one of his flares at the absorb device. The blast released the vat containing the soil while Lola picked up the vat containing Lake Michigan emptying its contents back into the lake. She saw Limburger and Carbunkle run towards Limburger Plaza.
An idea hit her.

"We're safe, Doctor."
"Uh, I wouldn't be too sure, Your Rottenness." Carbunkle said, as a giant wave of water came towards Limburger Tower sinking it beneath Lake Michigan. "Ah ha ha ha ha! Wipe Out!" Vinnie laughed.
"Well, looks like you mud puppies are keeping stink fins in check."Stoker said approvingly.
"And intend to keep it up till he's away from Earth and Mars." Throttle replied.

Lola then transformed back into her Martian mouse form. Stoker couldn't believe how pretty she was.
"This is Lola? My dear, may I say you wear denim well." He murmured, taking her hand and kissing it.
"Now don't be gettin' too friendly, Stoke. She's already spoken for." Modo said, expertly taking her hand out of Stoker's and into his. Lola giggled and smiled.

"Speaking of Mars. Bro, we gotta go there. Stoke says he found Harley." Vinnie told Modo.
"Harley? You sure?" Modo asked.
"Bros, bros, we don't know for sure." Throttle said.
"Who's Harley?" Lola asked.
"A friend of Vinnie's. She was our unit medic during the war. She disappeared. We haven't found her since."Modo explained.
"Did she go into hiding like my family did? If so then you have very little chance of finding her."Lola told them,
"Many of those who went into hiding were discovered and sent to Plutorkian slave labor camps."
"She didn't go into hiding." Vinnie said, "She was military and she had no family."
"There could be a chance she's still alive." Lola assured him.
"The only way to really tell is to go to Mars." Throttle said.

Stoker was sitting behind the wheel of his airship. The mice were boarding the ship. Modo helped Lola on board. Charley hung back.
"Good luck, guys." She said, then to Vinnie in a low voice,"'Hope you find what you're looking for."
"Ride free, Charley." He told her. "Back at you, wiseguy." She smiled.
"We'll be back before you know it, Charley-girl." Throttle said, smiling. "Biker's honor." Modo said.