Chapter seven
Throttle un-tide the bandana from around his neck, he pushed it into his side trying to stop the bleeding, he wasn't going to let Vinnie know how bad it was, they'd worry about it later once they had gotten out of her. "Which moon do you think we're on Bro? Throttle?" "I don't know there's too many to narrow it down; it could be any of 74" "Man that stinks!" the door slid open and light filtered into the darkness, both Throttle and Vinnie got to there feet, a plutarkian was stood there, a smile swept across his face, "it looks like we have to biker mice in our cells, how wonderful" he sounded like Limburger but limburger was on mars awaiting trial. "Rat's!" the plutarkian called 8 rats came down the corridor and stood at the door. "Take these two to my ship" he ordered, the rats moved into the room. "Vinnie you said you wanted to go again" Throttle said, "oh yes!" the two mice charged at the on-coming rats, they started a punch up, by the time there were done the 8 rats lay on the floor and both mice had 4 blasters each. The plutarkian didn't move, as they approached with the blasters, they both had blaster in there hands and the other two were stashed in there belts.
They walked out of the darkness; Throttle pushed his blaster into the fishes face. "your gunna help us get out of here" he said with a growl, the plutarikan smile "or course gentlemen on the condition that you turn the disgrace Limburger over to me, a trade it seems fair" "a plutarkian has never kept his word, what do you want with the stinky fish Limburger?" Vinnie asked as he pointed another blaster at the blue scaled humanoid "I'm his jailer and executioner" the fish said simply. "How do we know you wont double cross us?" Throttle asked "of course I'll double cross you, in fact I already have" both Throttle and Vinnie felt blasters at there heads, "drop the guns gentlemen unless you want your tails mounted on the wall" they did as they were told, the other blasters were taken out of there belts. "Follow me gentle men" the fish walked Throttle and Vinnie we're pushed by the ones holding the guns to there heads, they had no choice but to follow the stink fish. He led them to a ship which was parked just out side the metal building, he walked up the cargo ramp the mice were pushed up to, they moved through the bowls of the ship until they got to the personal rooms, the plutarkian moved into an office and sat down behind a desk. The mice were pushed in and the door was shut behind them, the ones with the guns to there heads were still there, the mice were pushed up to the desk.
"it was interesting finding you here, after all you are legendary, your also pests which need to be exterminated! But if we do that your mussel bound giant grey friend would probably take us all out, or rather as many as he could before getting him self killed, so then the question arises what are we to do with you two?" "You could let us go" Vinnie suggested with a shrug. Throttle rolled his eyes behind his green field specs. "no that is not an option, you are more trouble than you are worth. So I could leave you here waiting for a rescue that will never come from the Martian resistance with is about to be eliminated by my mad doctors new toy, or I can have you killed, though that is too easy, or I could put you into the games on plutark and watch you get killed slowly by other prisoners we have there, that seems the best idea out of the three, because of how annoying you have been to us over the years, you have impressed me so out of those three choice do you want, to rot here, die quickly right now, or slowly on plutark" the two mice exchanged a look before returning there gaze to the fish behind the desk.
"your giving us the choice, why?" Throttle asked sceptically. "I told you, you have impressed me, and taking down, my brother was the best thing that has ever happened to our family," "your Limburgers brother" Vinnie said as he realised why this fish reminded him so much of the fish that they had sent to mars for his trail. "Unfortunately yes, but this what you would refer to as the runt of the litter, and trust me we are glad you stopped him from embarrassing us so you answer gentlemen" "we're fine here" Throttle said looking over his glasses. "what about you" "if Throttle says here, then here it is" Vinnie said with a shrug "how sad, I thought you take the games idea, I would have like to see that, very well, take them back to the cells" the fish said taking a big fistful of worms from a bowl on the table and shoved them into his mouth just as the mice were pushed out of the door. "Weird" Vinnie said once they were being pushed down the cargo ramp. They were returned to the darkness. Throttle didn't say any thing until he knew the guys with guns were gone. "Now I wonder if they'll notice" he said completely confusing Vinnie "huh. Notice what bro" Throttle put his hand into his pocket and pulled out the keys as he did so the jingled and clanged loudly. "The keys, how did you get them? When did you get them?" "some things you'll never know Bro, when the other prisoners are put back into there cells later, we'll be getting out, the rats wont be on guard duty so we could find our bikes and weapons and blow this joint" "I like it!"
Throttle put the keys in his pocket then grabbed at his ribs, they had started bleeding again, and the laser blast hit him pretty hard. "Once out of here how are we gunna get back to mars?" "Well, the fish had a ship" "we'll be shot down as soon as we get close to mars" "or we'll crash the ship, either way we'll be on the ground" "how many ships have we crashed bro?" "all of them" "I didn't think we we're that bad" "well we are so, if we get shot down the freedom fighter will search the ship and find us, we'll get yelled at and interrogated before we can find Stoker and find out what he knows about Modo," "and if we crash?" "Same thing" "what did you think about the stink fish saying the resistance was going down?" "Don't believe a word of it Bro, what ever Karbunkle has done will be stopped by the Martians, there not about to give up now, not after every thing we've all been through, besides we left mars in good hands" "who's stokers or Carbines" "both"
Karbunkle was sat in his lab onboard the moving ship talking to his new employer, Mist was stood by the wall waiting for orders. "Don't screw this up or I'll make sure you vaporised!" the fish yelled over the video com before the screen went black. "I need to get a new job" the mad doctor said to him self, the vid' com beeped and a plutarkian fish appeared at it. "we are now entering Mar's atmosphere, Doctor they haven't spotted us yet, what are your orders?" "set us down then sit back and watch as my marvellous machine kill the mice once and for all" Karbunkle laughed then turned the vid com off. "time to do your job, eliminate all the mice on this pitiful planet" the Dr yelled Mist's body moved through the ship to the cargo bay and then out onto the Martian terrain she didn't need to moved her telescopic eye sight focused on two mice which were heading in there direction. And four bikes.
Charley had stood by the window for a long time trying to figure out a way to help the guys when she spotted some thing coming closer to mars. "Modo what's that?" she asked he stood up and came over to the window he stared to the spot Charley had pointed to. His eye glowed red as soon as he recognised the shape "it's a plutarkian science ship" both Harley and Stoker came to the window as well. "We'll Modo how about we great them then kick there scaly fins off our planet" Stoker suggested Modo nodded "Guys if it's a science ship Mist might be on it, please don't hurt her" Harley begged "don't worry Harley ma-am if your young friend is there we'll help her not hurt her" "Charley look after Harley until we get back would ya?" "course, be careful guys" the males nodded before heading to the garage where they had left there bikes. Rimfire spotted them, "is there some trouble do you need help?" he asked "thanks Rimfire but we got it, go look after Charley and Harley, there in Charley's room" Stoker said "please let me come I want to help" the 18 year old mouse begged "Rimfire go to Charley" Modo said his red eye was still blazing "fine" the young mouse said before moving through the base.
"He's a hand full Modo" Stoker side as he straddled his green fighter bike, Modo got on Lil Hoss and revved the engine, the other bikes next to him revved as well eager to help in any way they could, the rock moved away Stokers bike roared away first Followed by Vinnie's red racer them Modo and Throttle's chrome and black bike. The four raced each other across the red sand to see which one would make it to the ship first; the red racer was in the lead as usual. Leaser shots came at them as they got closer a figure was stood out side the ship shooting at them, the bikes dogged the shots, mostly, one hit the tire of the red racer bursting it, the bike skidded to a holt then fell on to it's side more shots came at them as they got closer, Stoker, Modo and the three bikes fired at her, Modo stopped as soon as he so her form, it was just a kid, a Martian kid that was firing at them. "Stoker, Bike's don't hurt her, it's the kid" Modo shouted. Stoker focused his old eyes on the shooter he realised to late, that it was the kid. His bike fired the shot hit the kid in the shoulder she didn't budge, just continued to fire. Another shot hit her target, on the front of Stokers bike an inch higher and Stoker would be down and out.
Mist wasn't watching the fight she was thinking about what Karbunkle had told her about what she really was; it was pushing her into depression.
^^^^ "I know you know young mouse" he laughed at the Mist who had been dragged back to his lab after she helped Harley escape. "You're the mouse baby I first experimented on when working for the plutarkians, your more machine than mouse. You died during the surgery when I couldn't revive you I got rid of you, I guess being dead dint stick, here you are 14 years later. His voice sent shivers down her spine. The rats held her still. Kabunkle moved being her and touched the base of her neck something activated and she lost all control over her body^^^^
She should have really been paying attention to the fight, when she did she could only see one mouse and two bikes the red racer was still where it had fallen, the dark Tan mouse was still firing at the ship along with the black and Chrome bike she looked, her body didn't care where the other mouse had gone it was to busy firing shots at the dark tan one. Modo moved up behind her and grabbed her fore arms; her body squirmed under the giant's mouse's grip. Modo crushed the leaser cannons that came out of her forearms. Stoker, the black and Chrome bike and Modo's bike moved into the ship firing at the plutarkians.
Mist twisted out of his grip and punched him in the gut it had no effect and she couldn't shoot any more, he grabbed her wrist and turned her into a head lock, her body struggled fiercely with his grip. "I promised Harley I'd look after you kid" the name Triggered some thing inside her, for a moment she stopped struggling, "She's safe" the girl managed to gasped before she lost control once again. Modo realised that the girl had lost control once again because she was fighting again. "yes Harley is safe, she said you save her, that was very heroic of you" Stoker and the bikes came out of the ship at that moment. Stoker looked at the kid in the head lock and then at Modo, who shrugged his metal shoulder. "the Dr wasn't there, the plutarkians have been killed, Vinnie's and Throttle's bikes we're very brutal. We need to get back to base so we can figure out how to free the kid from the mind control" "when I mentioned the promise I made to Harley she was free for a moment, I think Harley might be the key to freeing her" "ok do you think you can hold her?" "Not the way she's struggling, my bike could drive it's self but I couldn't say balanced, and keep her still" Stoker sighed and moved over to his Bike, he pressed the button that was connected to the Com, "Rimfire, are you there?" "Yeah Stoker I'm here, what do you need?" "Is the prisoner transport vehicle in working order?" "Yeah it was fixed yester day. Why?" "Can you bring it, we have some one who is causing problems we need the van" "I'll be there in a 5" Stoker turned the com off.
"did your mum explain what was happening between Rimfire and Carbine" "yeah, and I have no clue how to get Rimfire back to his senses. Was there any thing that could tell us where Throttle and Vinnie are?" Stoker shock his head, the girl stooped again her hand moved into her pocket, she pasted it to the grey mouse. He took it from her. "I know where they are" she gasped again before losing control once more, Modo returned the eye patch to his face then they both looked at the struggling kid, she was so caked in dirt that they couldn't tell, what colour she was or even how old she was. "I think we just got our first brake" Stoker said there was an engine sound and a van came into view it was driving madly. And came to a skidding stop. Rimfire climbed out. She looked at the girl, even though he couldn't see her properly he was immediately intrigued. "Who's this uncle Modo" "some one who needs our help, but is also dangerous at the moment, the crazy Doctor had used his technology to mess with her mind" "oh" Rimfire opened the back door Modo dragged the girl over to it, and he pushed her in, he slammed the doors before she could leap out. Modo climbed on to his bike, as Rimfire returned to the driver's seat. Stoker sighed a moment before getting on his bike, the four bikes and the van roared through the desert towards the base. Rimfire turned on the com so he could talk to Modo.
"Uncle Modo, I need some advice" "what about?" "There's some one that I like, I don't know how to tell her" "who is it?" "She's kind of older than me and involved with some one, but it doesn't seem like its going to go any where" "who is it?" "General Carbine" "Rimfire she's to old and if Throttle found out he'd string you up" "I just want some advice, Uncle" "your 18 Rim she's bordering on 30 that's a lot of years, you should find some one your own age, who is a good person, no offence to the general but you can do much better, there are a lot of better women out there, the general doesn't actually care about any one, she cares about command and being charged, nothing else, she not the right person for you find some one else" "what if I can't" "you will" "you haven't Uncle" Modo went silent he sped up his bike.
The rock moved aside as they got closer they parked up. Vinnie's bike has been towed back to base. Modo didn't say any thing he just stood by his bike waiting for stoker to get of the com, he had called a mechanic to fix the tire and the wind guard on Stoker's bike. Rimfire didn't think, he opened the door to the van. There was no movement he popped his head around the door. She was sat in the back corner breathing heavily. "are you ok" he asked her, she shock her head, "don't like the dark, spent to much time in the dark" she gasped. "Uncle Modo" Rimfire called Modo came over to the van. "You can come out" he said. Mist moved slowly to the door. She stooped before she came out of the door. "Mr Modo please don't let me hurt any one" Mist begged before leaving the van. "I wont let you hurt any one" he said steadying her "promise" "yes" Mist nodded, when her breathing lightened Modo knew she had lost control again his grip tightened on her arm. "Where should we put her? Where she won't hurt other people or her self" "well first she needs a doctor" Rimfire said pointing to the bleeding wound on her left shoulder. "lets go, Modo keep a tight hold on her, Rimfire find some decent cloths for her to wear, those rags aren't going to last long" "ok" Rimfire sprinted away Modo led Mist through the base she wasn't struggling but she wasn't in control of her self any more. Stoker and Modo moved quickly through the base. "I'll let Harley know, you keep the kid safe" "will do Bro" Stoker nodded took on last look at the kid then turned down the corridor which led to the living quarters, Modo continued to the infirmary.
"hello Modo what can I do for you if this is about Harley she left with Stoker earlier on" "no Ma-am this isn't about Harley this young mouse is injured and needs patching up, Stoker wants her to be checked over to make sure she is ok" Modo said telling half of the truth. "right bring her into Harley's empty room" the doctor led the way into the now empty room, Modo shut the door behind him. "You'll have to wait out side Modo" "she's a bit wild and could be dangerous Ma-am" "I can understand that Modo dear but this young mouse is female you cant be in the room" "oh right, just be careful ma-am, Mist the doc is going to help you" he said reluctantly releasing her before leaving the room. "Is your name Mist?" the black furred doctor asked. Her hair was a shade lighter than her fur and it hung down her back in long curves and curls. She had a white lab coat on it was open showing her freedom fighter uniform, which matched every one else's uniform in this place. Mist nodded, "ok Mist my name is Doctor Ceran what I'm going to do is give you a physical check up as well as fix that shoulder of yours what happened" "Stoker shot me" she said in a weak voice "Stoker really" "Yep"
Modo watched the clock hands turn, his Nephew calling his name caught his attention "hey Uncle Modo I got her clean cloths like Stoker asked" Rimfire was about to walk into the room, Modo stopped him and Knocked. The Doctor came to the door and opened it a fraction. "What is it?" she asked "we have clean cloths for Miss Mist, Ma-am" Modo said the doctor opened the door a little more and took the cloths from Rimfire then shut the door once more. "you don't just walk in on a lady when she's being looked over by a Doctor she could have been un-clothed" Modo said warningly to Rimfire "oh I didn't think, sorry. Who is she any way?" "The kid?" Rimfire nodded "a prisonor from a plutarkian slave moon, she save Harley and she knows where Throttle and Vinnie are so I'm looking after her until this is all over then we can find her family" "is she under the mind bender beams control?" "Either that or some thing similar." "What's her name?" "Mist" "is there any thing else I can do to help her Uncle Modo?" "I don't know you'll have to ask her once she comes out" "ok. What do you think she'll look like once the dirt is gone from her?" "Like any other teenage mouse girl. Why?" "No reason, just curious"
At that Moment Stoker appeared with Harley and Charley, the two women had become great friends. "What has the doctor said?" Harley asked concerned "nothing, there still in there" Modo said with a sigh, the door opened and the doctor came out. "Well I patched up her arm, and did a psychical, I'm a little shocked at what that kid is. How much do you know about her" "she had weaponry in her arms" Modo said "she can run really, super fast and has a lot of strength" Harley stated the doctor sighed "I've never seen any thing like her, ever it's a miracle she's alive at all" "what do you mean Dr Ceran?" Harley said "Inside that mouse a living metal has been grafted around her bones, strengthening them, it's been growing as she has. Its been pumping her full of chemicals which have increased her strength, speed and reflexes, there's a device which is attacked to her brain and spinal cord at the base of her next, that's what is taking over her body. The blasters in her arms had been crushed so I removed them, she doesn't need food or liquid to survive, she has a built in generator which absorbs sun light which she runs off of, her eyes are cameras in a way, they have different modes, zoom, night vision, heat sensors things like that, her hearing has been altered but I'm not sure how, or what too" every one looked at the doctor. "Wow, how long has she been this way?" Harley asked finally braking the silence "as far as I can tell since she was two" "who'd do that to some one so young?" Rimfire said "Karbunkle would" Modo growled, his eye was glowing red and his breathing was heavy with anger. "Modo, are you ok?" Charley asked, the big grey mouse turned and set of at a run, none of them had every seen him run, not even Rimfire. The door opened and a Tan furred curvy teenager stood there wearing clingy freedom fighter cloths, and black high heel biker boots. Her hair was dark brown and straight.
"Did you tell them every thing?" Mist asked in a weak voice. "Nearly, one more thing" the doctor said. "I'm dieing" Mist finished in her weak voice. "So we have to free the slaves now and save Modo's Bros," She said leaning on the door frame. "Modo just ran off, he's in a bad way" Harley said, "which way?" Mist asked Stoker pointed, Mist stood up straight then ran down the hall, at super speed towards the garage area. "She's beautiful" Rimfire said gazing after her, he hadn't realised he had said that out loud. Mist jumped in front of Mod's bike before he started the engine. "Mr Modo, please don't" she gasped "Mist ma-am" he said she nodded her voice was still weak. "I know what type of mouse you are Harley told me all about you. So I know how angry you get when bad stuff happens to kids, but if you go after Karbunkle, you'll die because your not thinking straight, then who's gunna rescue your bro's please don't do this Mr Modo" Mist fell before she hit the floor Modo grabbed her he had gotten off his bike quickly. "are you ok?" "I'm dieing, once the device in my neck is activated at first it controls me but if I fight back like I have been doing it releases toxins into my brain killing me slowly, so we don't have much time, we have to go now before its too late, please" Mist begged in her weak voice.
Modo supported her as they walked back through the base. His eye had stopped glowing. "you win kid" he said before they made there way back to the waiting area of the infirmary "there not here, they went looking for you two, Charley I think that was her name, the human told me to tell you if you came back to go to Stokers office and wait there for them, because that's where they are going to meat back up" "ok Thank you Dr" "wait Mist, there might be away to help you, it could kill you though as well, so don't unless you have no other option, an electrical jolt to the base of your neck above the device it will either short circuit the device or kill you instantly" "thanks Doc," "oh and one more thing, you have an admirer, young Rimfire" the Doctor said with a smile. Modo led Mist to Stokers office; he sat her down on a chair. "How are you feeling?" "Tired, drained and I have a head ach the size of Mars" Mist admitted. "I hope Throttle and Vinnie are ok"