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Chapter ten
Lectorum closed his eyes and took a look into Spero's head. For a while, he saw nothing. He digged deeper. Suddenly, a memory appeared, but it was very misty. Like she had blocked curtain memory's. He saw a young Spero standing in the forest. A younger boy stood next to her. She closed her eyes with a concentrated look on her beautiful, young face. She raised her hands. The trees moved and the leafs shook. She focused on one tree. Slowly, the tree came loose from the ground. It rose hight into the sky. The little boy clapped in his small hands, very excited. Spero smiled, her eyes still closed.
"Higher, higher!", the little boy cheered and he ran closer to the tree. Spero concentrated, but suddenly something changed. The look on her face slowly turned into painful. She opened her mouth and screamed. Her eyes flew open, her beautiful purple eyes now bloodred.
"Paulo! Run!", she managed to say, but it was too late. Uge, purple flames came out of her hands. Paulo tried to run away, but he wasn't fast enough. The flames absorbed him. He screamed. Lectorum's eyes flew open. Spero looked at him.
"Now you know. He was my little brother. He died because of me. Ever since that day, I only use my powers for small things."
The mice looked confused. Lectorum quickly told them what he had seen.
"My dear Spero. You were so young. Probably just discovered your gift. Was there nobody who learned you how to use your powers? How to control them?", Lectorum asked.
Spero shook her head. "My parents did. Mostly my father. He had warned me that this could happen. Especially when I was in the first learning process. But I didn't believe him. I was stubborn. Thought I had it all under control. But he was right. And Paulo paid the price for my stubborness." She had tears in her eyes.
Lectorum gently took her hand. "I am so sorry this happened to you. But you were only a child. It wasn't your fault."
Spero looked at him with a sad smile. "Thank you, but it was my fault. I take full responsibility."
"What did your father told you about how to control your powers?"
Spero lowered her eyes. "I… I can't remember. I eh… I kinda broke down after what happened. I lost my way. I think I erased it all. Out of self protection. The only memory that is still there is the one you saw. But even that one is vague."
"Maybe I can find it back for you. Spero, I know I am asking a lot, but are you really willing to let everybody die? Your people? Our people? The Biker Mice From Mars? Can you live with that?"
Spero swallowed. "No, of course not. But let's just tell it like it is. If they all die, so do I. So, I don't have to live with it."
"But letting that happen is not who you are, right?" Lectorum asked, studying her face.
"No… no, it's not."
"Maybe I can help you. To find out how to control this. There must be a way. And let's just hope it's not only training. That is gonna cost too much time, time we don't have right now."
Spero hesitated, but then nodded. "I guess trying to find out isn't gonna hurt anyone."
Lectorum nodded and closed his eyes. When he got in Spero's head again, the first thing he saw was the same memory again. He tried to go back, but it wasn't that easy. Spero was right, she blocked a lot of her childhood. He concentrated and he suddenly saw flards of memories. A young Spero with Paulo, playing in the woods. Spero, sitting on the lap of a older man, her father. Lectorum focussed. He saw that her father give Spero a stone. Spero looked at it and laughed. Later, a flash of Spero throwing the stone in a closet in her room. He opened his eyes.
"It's not easy to get the memories back, but I saw something with a stone. Can you remember? Your father gave it to you."
Spero stared at him. "A stone?", she asked with a thoughtful frown on her face.
"Concentrate. Try to remember. I can't get it all back by myself. I need your help."
Spero nodded and closed her eyes. Lectorum did the same. The mice waited patiently. Well, except Vinnie of course. He never really had it in him to just sit and do nothing. Especially when he is knowing that outside a war is going on. He was wiggling on his chair. Violet smiled at him, to encourage him. He gave her little smile back.
Suddenly, Spero gasped and her eyes flew open. "The stone! I remember now! The stone helps me to control my powers." She looked at Lectorum.
"I always thought the stone only gave me a warning when danger was close. But it's more than that. I need to carry it with me when I use my powers to fight."
Lectorum nodded. "The stone belongs to you. He takes care of you. It's telling you how big the threats are and it helps you to control your powers. Where is it?"
Spero stared at Throttle. "I gave it to you, remember?"
Throttle nodded. "Yeah, I remember. But I don't have it here. It turned real hot when Daemonium came back, I needed to get it out of my pocket. So, ehm… yeah… It's still in our cave."
Vinnie took this opportunity to finally be able to do something.
"I will go get it." And he stood up.
Modo nodded. "I'm with ya, bro." And he also stood up.
Throttle smiled. "Let's do this bro's. Just like the old days. Just the three of us against a whole army."
"Aaaooww, alright!", Vinnie cheered. He kissed Violet. "Hold the fort, sweetheart. I'll be back!" and he ran to his bike. Throttle gave a quick kiss on Carbine's cheek. "See you soon, babe."
Modo hesitated and looked at Gaya, but he turned around and walked to his bike. Gaya looked at his back, feeling tears burning behind her eyes. But she said nothing. He had every right to ignore her.
Spero followed the three mice to open the waterfall. "Be careful out there."
"You know we will, Spero ma'am," Modo said.
Once outside, the mice stopped. Throttle turned to Modo and Vinnie.
"Modo, I'm sorry about Gaya. You do understand why I made the decision that she is out for now, right?"
Modo nodded. "Yeah, I do. But listen. When you were gone to look for Spero, Violet talked to Gaya. Gaya apologized to Vinnie."
"And I sort of forgave her. Well, it's more of a 'let's start over' thingy… thing", Vinnie added. Throttle looked surprised. "She did? And you forgave her? Well, that's new…"
Vinnie shrugged. "Yeah, well… What can I say? Never too old to learn, right?"
Throttle stared at him. Well I'll be damned… Vinnie was finally growing up. Well, sort of. On his own, unique way. He turned his gaze back on Modo.
"And what about you, big fella? How are you holding up?"
Modo swallowed. "I don't know… Really… I like her. I even think I love her. But she lied to me from the start. I honestly don't know if I'm going to be able to forgive her. I need time, but that's the problem. We don't have time."
"Just follow your heart, bro", Vinnie blurted out. His two bro's stared at him.
"What? It's just, the one thing I learned with the whole Charley/Violet situation is to follow your heart."
Throttle nodded. "He does have a point. That is so weird to say. But he does."
Modo sighed. "I know." He looked at the blood red sky. What to do, what to do?
Vinnie revved his bike. "Okay, enough with the mushy stuff. Let's do what we do best. It's hero time, bro's!"
Modo and Throttle laughed.
"Well, say the words, Vincent!", Throttle smiled.
Vinnie popped a wheelie. "Alright you mamma jammers! Let's rock… and ride!" and he sped away, followed by Modo and Throttle.
"Bro's, focus on the main task and that is getting at the cave in one piece! If somebody is standing in the way… Well, then you know what to do!" Throttle said into his helmet radio.
Vinnie laughed. "Yeah, whip some maturly tail!"
They drove through the forest. Suddenly, a blue ball exploded right before Modo. The grey furred giant could avoid the explosion right on time.
"Wow, momma!"
"They are coming closer into the forest", Throttle said. "Hit it, bro's!"
Vinnie looked around him while zigzagging between the trees. He saw the Glaciers everywhere where he looked.
"Looks like we are surrounded, bro's! They are everywhere!" Another blue ball exploded close to Vinnie. He fighted to keep his bike upright.
"Vincent! Do you still have those dragon glass bombs?", Throttle asked, while shooting at a Glacier before him. The soldier turned into dust.
Vinnie grinned. Oh man, this was going to be good.
"Yeah, about five of them!"
"Good! Vape 'em! We will be right behind you!"
Vinnie sped forward and he grabbed one of the bombs. With a slide and shrieking brakes, he stopped his bike and threw the bomb into the forest. He heard the ticking, Glaciers who tried to run away… BOOM! A huge explosion and dragon glass flew around in the distance.
"AAAAOOWWW! Eat that, you stupid ice clowns!"
He turned his bike and drove further. When they came close by the cliff, they saw that the armies had split up and were now searching in the forest. That made it easy for the bro's to drive straight to their camp. Thankfully, the enemy still had not discovered it. But it probably wasn't gonna take long before they did. Vinnie opened the door and Modo and Throttle drove inside. Vinnie quickly glanced around him and when he saw nobody, he closed the door and followed his bro's.
Once inside, they climbed of their bikes and pulled of their helmet. Suddenly, they saw a very familiar face. One they didn't expect to ever see again.
"STOKER!"
The old mouse smiled. "Hey there, mudpuppies!"
Vinnie pulled him in some sort of macho hug, while clapping on Stoker's back.
"We thought we lost you! What happened?"
Stoker pulled on Vinnie's ear.
"You don't get rid of me that easily, punk. Right before the ship crashed, I pushed Carbine away. I thought my days were numbered, but I guess it wasn't my time yet. The ship was so damaged, that a hole in the ship fell over me. Just gave me enough space to survive. I used my bike to come out, but that took me a while. So…. here I am!"
"Great to have you back, coach!", Throttle said, patting Stokers arm.
Modo nodded. "Yeah, welcome back!"
Stoker smiled.
"And where are you three up to?"
Throttle quickly explained. Stoker frowned. "So, this is one tough war to win, right?"
"Right", Throttle agreed. Vinnie waved it away. "We are going to win this. We are the best!"
Modo clapped him on the back. "Look who is all positive again. What happened? Feed your ego?"
"Hardee har har", Vinnie laughed sarcastic and punched Modo on the arm.
Throttle raised his hand. "We need to get going."
He walked over to the stone. It was still red, but not that hot anymore. He put it in his pocket.
"Alright, let's go. You coming Stoker?"
"No, I will stay here. I am getting way too old for this kind of fights. But I can handle things over here. No problem."
The mice said their goodbye's and drove outside.
When they jumped off the cliff again, they heard a loud thunder. The mice looked up and saw a huge, black cloud. The same one as before, but way bigger. When they landed, a huge lighting hit the ground.
"Uh oh…", Modo said. Right before them stood the Ice King.
"Okay bro's, let's play this nice and subtle. We could kill him right now, but we are not gonna do that. Let's play the 'I don't care and never will' attitude and after that, we will give him a warning. To let him and that stupid brother know they are messing with the wrong mice", Throttle whispered in his radio.
"What do you want, Ice breath?", Vinnie asked, leaning forward on his bike.
Rex came closer. "You think you can stop us, don't you?" His ice blue eyes looked at them. The guy was long and thin, but looked very intimidating. Not that the mice were gonna say that out loud.
"We are just fighting for what's ours now", Throttle shrugged.
Rex stopped a few meters in front the mice. "I wanted to see you from up close. To see who dared to stand up against us. But I must say… I'm kind of disappointed. And I feel no fear from you. We will win this. And you, my dear rodents, will die!"
"Yeah, yeah, been there, done that…" Vinnie said bored, stretching his muscles.
"Yep. Wauw. So not original…", Throttle yawned.
"My grey furred momma used to say; follow you own path and not the path of someone else. That will make you different. You really should follow up that advice, pal...", Modo said while studying his nails. The mice laughed.
Rex was first a little perplexed that someone even had the nerve to talk to him like that instead of shiver in fear. Then he narrowed his eyes. He quickly moved closer to Vinnie, since he was the standing nearby. He grabbed the white furred mouse by the throat and lifted him up.
"Not so funny now, right?", Rex laughed at the stuffy expression on Vinnie's face.
But then, Vinnie smiled back his most charming smile. He lifted up his feet and kicked Rex full in the face. He had no choice to let Vinnie go. Vinnie made a backflip and landed on his feet. Throttle threw something at him while Vinnie already was jumping to Rex. He caught the object with his tail and grabbed Rex. He snatched the object out of the grib from his tail and pushed it against Rex's throat. It was a sharp knife made of dragon glass. Rex screamed, since the material burned against his throat.
"I should have warned you that this mice got teeth", Vinnie growled.
Throttle stepped of his bike.
"I have a message for you and your brother. Tell him that the Biker Mice From Mars are in town and that the party is over. You got that?"
Rex nodded.
"Not so tough anymore, huh?" Vinnie took the knife from his throat and threw it in the air. Rex's blue eyes followed it. For him, it looked like time stood still. When it came down, Vinnie caught it and slammed it straight into Rex his leg.
"A little something to let you know we are pretty serious about this. And now, get the hell out of my face before I change my mind and slam that knife in your head", he said with a low voice and he pushed Rex away from him.
Rex was moaning in pain and anger, but had no other choice to pull back. He snapped with his fingers and in a flash of light, he disappeared. The mice laughed and cheered, high fiving each other.
"Man, did you see the look on his face?", Vinnie laughed.
"Yeah, I think we really made a good first impression", Modo rumbled, leaning forward on his bike from laughing.
"Yep. Good work bro's. Hope this will buy us some time", Throttle said, smiling.
"Why didn't we just killed him?", Vinnie asked while they drove back to Spero.
"My thought is that if we kill Rex, Daemonium is going to get really mad. And attack us immediately. We need time. I think we just bought ourselves a little. They need to check their strategy again."
"Makes sense. And they now know what happens when you mess with the baddest mamma jammers from Mars!", Vinnie cheered, popping a wheelie.
They made it back without very big problems. When you had Vinnie with his bombs… Well, let's just say that made things a lot easier.
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