{ Chapter 11 - All For You }
It was later than expected when KARR finally pulled up and playing "Staceys' Mum" full blast with Richard and Tristan singing at the top of their voices. KARR performed several doughnuts on the spot before stopping finally and letting both his passengers out. They both stepped out laughing but KARR couldn't help but notice a change in Richard. He seemed sad to leave, almost afraid but maybe that was just him. KARR kept silent whilst Tristan and Richard shook hands and parted ways. Tristan stood with her arms crossed as Richard opened the door and walked in, his head seeming to be hanging lower with each step and then the door closed. Tristan knew the "lessers" shared their accommodation with at least 5 others. Tristan scowled as the lights went on.
"Something's not right..." she muttered to KARR, laying her hand on the cars hood. KARR growled in agreement. Tristans' head snapped up as there was a sound of breaking glass and shouting.
"KARR. Get me external visual." she ordered quickly.
KARR did so and a screen flashed up on his hood and Tristan growled at the sight.
Richard was on the floor, blood streaming from a head wound, and holding his hand up to protect himself whilst several others ganged up on him. Some were drunk some weren't. Tristan didn't wait to see anymore. She vaulted into the drivers seat and KARR shot forward at just over 100mph, demolishing the door and most of the front frame of the house, his engine snarling like a Pitbull. Tristan vaulted back out of the window and sprang into the kitchen with KARR right behind her. He hadn't transformed back into regular mode so his spoiler was still up and sharp. Whipping out an automatic machine gun, Tristan took aim and fired and KARR had both his Gatling Guns out. He didn't aim he just fired. Tristan was furious. One man went for her and she jumped in the air squarely round house kicked him in the jaw, sending him into KARR's back tire. KARR ran him down before doing a 180 and taking off two heads and facing his side to where Richard was laying to protect him from the carnage.
Before long, it was over and KARR was basically having a bloodbath. He was covered in it. The red liquid dripped from his spoiler, wheel rims, wheel alloys, fender, bonnet, body and was sprayed on his windscreen and some of his windows where covered. Even his scanner ridges were dripping.
Tristan was faring slightly better even if her front was sprayed with the red stuff and her gun was covered in it. She looked at KARR's scanner ridges and shuddered.
"And to think a few nights back I actually licked those." she muttered to herself and went to stride forward but the sound of a gun coking by her head made her freeze although she was unafraid. The voice behind her was slurred with pain and maybe drugs.
"Give me one reason why I couldn't kill you." it said. Tristan rolled her eyes and then counted to three in her head before dropping down on an offbeat. KARR promptly shot him. Tristan got back up as the body fell dead next her and shot it again for good measure before walking over to KARR and carefully peering over his bonnet to see if Richard was still there. The man was curled up in a ball, shaking. Tristan smiled sadly to herself.
"Richard," she called quietly. "Are you still alive?"
Richards' eyes snapped open and he looked up, fear making everything. He nodded quietly and leant on KARR to get up. He was breathing heavily but the bleeding had stopped.
"How...how did you know? I thought you had gone..." he said slowly. Tristan patted KARR who opened his doors again and both people stepped inside, Tristan on the drivers' side, Richard on the passenger side.
"I had an idea something was going on, then I saw 'cause KARR gave me a visual and then...that happened." she said before whistling loudly and opening her door again. Bullet came tearing around the corner, jumped onto Tristans lap before pouncing into his seat on the back, turning around and sticking his head between Richard and Tristan, panting. Tristan patted him and rolled her eyes. KARR growled as well and Tristan sighed and patted the dashboard as well. KARR let out a rumble of amusement before shutting both doors and cruising out of the house.
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They were cruising at a steady 75mph and Tristan was tending to Richards cut on his head. Luckily, it was just that, the bone wasn't damaged at all. Tristan had carefully removed all the glass shards from around the wound and was just putting a bandage on it now. Bullet was asleep in the back and KARR was concentrating on the road ahead.
Tristan finished patching Richard head up and sat back in her seat with a sigh and stretched out, growling at the back of her throat and then reached out and turned the stereo on, the volume was quiet but loud enough so could still feel the bass surging through the car. The song was "Good Girls Go Bad" by "Cobra Starship". Tristen relaxed with a sigh and slid down the seat. She heard KARR chuckle deeply and tried not to think about the perverse thoughts that were probably running over his processor now. She noticed that her shirt had rode up over her belly button and pulled it down before turning her head to face the window, which was tinted, and felt her eyes beginning to droop. She would clean KARR up when they got back to the hanger. She was just falling asleep when Richard tapped her on the shoulder.
"Sorry Tristan, but where are we going?" he asked softly.
"The Palomino Mustang hotel, mate. You'll be staying in my room. Don't worry, you'll have plenty of contact with KARR and myself." she replied drowsily.
Richard nodded but had to ask the last question.
"One last question, where will you sleep?"
"In my backseats." replied KARR for Tristan was too far gone to reply. Richard nodded again in understanding and relaxed and KARR sped up, weaving through the traffic and heading for the hotel. His scanners were constantly on Tristan but flickered sometimes to Richards' sleeping form.
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Tristan awoke later that night in KARRs' backseat to the song "Isn't she Lovely" by "Stevie Wonder." For a while, she lay in silence, listing to it and then she yawned, stretched and then sneezed before curling up and pressing her back into the warm leather and yawning once more, squeaking at the end a little before shaking her head and laying it down and staring sleepily at KARR's dashboard and wondering how she got in the backseat. She stretched her shoulder by pushing them down and reaching out with her hands and stretching very much like a cat but without raising her rear but she did roll over and start twisting around to flex her spine, arms tucked in and legs in the air somewhat. She was glad that the windows were tinted, her private "business" inside KARR was something she didn't want leaked to the world. She sat up quickly as she heard a growling from outside and crackle of electricity and a yelp. She looked at the tinted windscreen and KARR's growl was very much audible, along with Bullets', who had been sleeping underneath KARR but had come out for a reason, it was a sound unnaturally close to thunder. She heard Thowras' voice faintly through the glass.
"KARR! For gods' sake, I want to speak to Tristan."
"Fuck her, more like! Well not on my backseats, sunshine." snarled the muscle car. Once more, his engine was off in his vocalised snarling was hellish. Thowra was clearly shaken by this.
"Not this time. I mean, no, no. KARR, oh for the love of....come on!"
"No!"
"KARR!"
"She's asleep anyway."
"She won't be for much longer."
"KARR!"
The muscle car fired up his engine and Bullet bared his teeth and stepped forward. Thowra stepped back.
Inside, Tristan reached forward and put her hand on KARR's central dash.
"KARR, darling, just tell him I'm awake but I don't want to speak with him." she said softly.
KARR relayed the message in a less than friendly fashion and when Thowra went to step forward, Tristan could see the electricity collecting on his scanner bridge, ready to fire and it looked deadly as well. KARR growled nastily.
"I'm already covered with blood, Thowra, getting covered in more, especially yours, will not be going out of my way..."
Thowras' expression was one of fear and fury before he turned and stormed away and KARR powered down, the electricity crackling and fading away and Bullet retired back underneath the car, melding into the shadows an away from prying eyes.
Tristan sighed and fell back against the back seats in pure exhaustion and went to curl up again but remembered the fact that she had no recognition of getting onto the backseats.
"KARR." she said sleepily "How did I get back here?"
"I tipped you back, of course. You were so tired you were a danger to yourself." he stated in a matter of fact voice. Tristan rolled her eyes as him and sighed in contentment as she felt sleep creeping up upon her body.
"G'night...love." she said softly before slipping into the welcoming darkness of the dream realm.
"G'night my dear. Sweet dreams." replied KARR in a low voice. As he spoke, the lights in the hanger were turned off one by one and the area was descended into darkness. KARR tinted the windows and turned the heating up a little but kept the air flowing around smoothly.
Once plunged into darkness, all that could be seen was KARR golden scanner bars and the red glow from his neon and part of Bullets' silhouette again the red light. All was silent and all was still.