Authors notes:Yay! Finally done with the second chapter and I know we haven't had any romance yet, don't worry its coming Im a demisexual myself so I have a little trouble with characters instantly falling into lust, I like a slow build myself and I like to focus heavily on the emotional part of things first So I'm probably going to be moving a little slower then some when it comes to the hanky pankey aspect of the story but when it does get there I plan for it to be Hot! Hot! Hot! To be honest I was mostly using these first few chapters to introduce my Oc chair and give a little background on her before I try my hand at shifting Character views in future chapters.
Disclaimer: And now the Disclaimer drum roll please I don't own Bmfm. If I did Charley/Vinnie would have been married long ago and would have had like six impossible hybrid kids by now. That being said I do own my Oc Chair and the story is mine, as well as any spelling or grammatical errors held within it. I make no money from this and it is for entertainment purposes only.
Chapter2 (Introducing the fast and the Furry)
The first thing Chair became aware of was a bunch of hushed voices she couldn't quite make out around her. The second was that there was something hard digging painfully into her back right below her shoulder blades.
Chair felt her center of gravity shift slightly as the world began to come back into focus, and she started to pick up on some of the conversation happening around her.
"Lay her down over here" a feminine voice (Charley) said .
Chairs head swayed slightly as she felt herself being moved forward and realized someone was carrying her so whatever was digging into her spine must be a hand or an arm.
(Gad what are they wearing a gauntlet or something) Chair thought irritably as another painful jolt passed through her.
"What happened is she alright?" Manuals voice thought Chair groggily as she felt herself being settled gently against a cool flat surface.
(Tile? I'm back in the store) Chair thought, as her conciseness tried to wade through the fog that seemed to have taken over her mind.
"I think she's just a bit shaken up" a raspy voice answered cutting into the pea soup that was currently Chairs mind. Someone lifted Chair's head up slightly and slide something soft underneath it.
Chair felt like she was on the verge of remembering something important as she tried to make sense of the conversation happening around her.
"I say we get while the getting's good, before sleeping beauty here comes to and starts asking questions" another voice with a higher pitch joined in.
(The rider of the red bike) Chair thought hazily, as memory fragments began to come back to her in no real particular order.
Whatever it was had to do with the parking lot…and a fight with motorcycles .There had also been a giant with abs like a Greek statue and a murder?
Then something had unwound itself from around that women Charley's waist. At first she'd thought it was some kind of seatbelt, only it wasn't. It was attached to the bikes rider and moved like a snake or a tentacle. Only it had fur? Which made it look more like a...
"TAIL!" Chair shouted.
Shooting up only to crack her forehead against the helmet covered face of the Buff behemoth currently bent over her.
"Ouch! Dammit!" Chair swore vehemently holding her abused skull between her hands.
"I think that might be a bit of a moot point there Bro" the deep voice of the first biker Chair had encountered added dryly
Giving a pained groan as he lifted up one hand to brace against the side of his helmet .From were he currently sat sprawled on the floor across from Chair after the force of her blow had knocked him of balance.
Chair blinked owlishly at him for a moment feeling her mouth opening and closing like a beached fish .Before looking at the fur covered appendage stretched across the ground next to him. (Tail) her brain supplied helpfully.
Chair sat there another minute as she tried to wrap her mind around the reality of that thought only snapping out of it when the male in front of her made as if to stand.
Darting forward suddenly and startling the large male by grabbing the appendage and yanking it towards her chest.
Chair felt the muscles in the body part in her grip pulse slightly under her hands the grey fur covering it warm and velvety soft under her fingers as she stared at it in shock, Her sense of touch further confirming what her eyes could already see.
Chair Blinked slowly a few times before looking up at the male in front of her.
"Tail" Chair said again calmly an oddly blank look on her face, as she looked into the visor covered face directly across from hers.
"Uh yeah the male" said cautiously with the same tone of voice one used to talk an animal out of attacking or a person off a building ledge.
"People don't have TAILS!" Chair said a hint of hysteria painting her voice, while tightening her hands forcefully around the limb in question.
"Owe! With all due respect ma'am, I'm not going to ether if you don't let go!" The male said flinching slightly as he gently pried the abused body part out of Chairs suddenly nerveless fingers.
"You have a tail" she said again.
"I think we've already established that" the rider of the red bike said from his position leaning against the register counter .
"You!" chair said turning slightly towards him and lifting a hand shakily to point in his direction.
"YOU HAVE A TAIL!" Chair said again voice steadily growing in volume.
"What is it with you earthlings and repeating things?" the red bikes rider said turning to address the petite auburn haired women next to him.
" Earthlings?" Chair said turning dazedly towards the women.
(Charley) chair thought.
"Is there an echo in." The red bikes rider started to say only to be cut off by Charley's index finger being held an inch in front of his helmets face visor.
"Don't even go there." Trust me I speak from experience when I say that you three are a lot for anyone to take in. Charley said poking him in the chest repeatedly as she spoke.
Chair watched the exchange between the two for a moment longer, before turning her gaze slowly towards the biker with the raspy voice,
Who had remained silent during the entire exchange meeting a visor covered gaze further hampered by a pair of dark sunglasses.
"Will someone please tell me, what the hell is going on?!" Chair said a bewildered note creeping into her voice.
"Well I suppose there's no point trying to keep it under wraps anymore. Seeing as the cats already out of the bag, figuratively speaking that is." The male in front of her said reaching up to remove his helmet.
Chair felt her brain blank for the second time that day as she gaped up at the male across from her without his helmet.
"I don't understand" she whispered.
" I'm being held hostage by giant gophers?"
"Mice ma'am" The tan furred male in front of her said.
"What?" Chair said continuing to stare at him with wide eyes.
"We're Mice ma'am" the behemoth next to her answered. Climbing to his feet and removing his helmet, before bending down to help chair to her feet.
"Mice?" chair repeated dazedly as he gently gripped under her elbow and helped her to stand.
"From mars" added the red bikes rider removing his helmet as well.
"Mars?" Chair said turning towards him in time to catch him gesturing in her direction with an I told you so expression before staring pointedly down at Charley .who simply rolled her eyes and angled her upper body slightly away from him.
"I don't understand. Your?... Your Biker mice from mars?!" Chair asked looking back at the raspy voiced male for conformation.
"By Jove I think she's got it" the greyed furred male next to her said with a smile.
" But I do think you've got a few of the facts scrambled there ma'am. We're the good guys." He said with a chuckle Hesitating at the blank look Chair gave him in return.
"What my Bro is trying to say is we didn't take you hostage Ma'am" finished the raspy voiced male with sunglasses.
"Sooo ?what you're trying to telling me is, you're all a bunch of six foot rodent do gooders from outer space with tails and…and antennas!" Chair finished glancing up at the grey giant next to her and focusing in on the red on top of his head.
Chair half shrieked the word antenna's as she darted forward to grab him by the cheeks and pull him down to her eye level so she could better study the appendages sprouting from the top of his cranium.
"Uh ..Ma'am!?" the male said a slightly panicked and exasperated edge creeping into his voice.
Chair blinked realizing that she'd inadvertently pulled him down to boob level while examining his built in deelyboppers.
Feeling his cheeks warm under her palms as the male desperately tried to keep his eyes averted from her cleavage.
Chair immediately released him feeling her own cheeks pinkening as she watched him beat a hasty retreat across the room.
(Probably' in the hopes of avoiding any more sudden lunges or awkward groping on her part) Chair mused before trying to turn her thoughts back to the conversation at hand.
"You expect me to just believe that after seeing you kill that man outside and reveling your big secret to me."
" you're going to let me go as if nothing happened!" Chair said her voice steadily rising to a pitch that had the mice around her flinching in pain
"YE-OUCH! Quite a set a pipes you got their doll, you mind dialing the volume down a notch" the white furred male said digging into his ear with his little finger.
"and just what do you mean man we murdered? what murder?" He said a confused look playing across his face.
"The man you threw into the wall bleeding all over the place…"
"at least I think he was bleeding" chair said slowly trailing off towards the end With a thoughtful expression on her face.
"I think she's referring to our resident walking Oil spill" The tan male in sunglasses said.
"Who greasepit? Lady We didn't kill him heck we barley gave him a proper smack down before sending him and his goon squad on their way back to old fish lips" The white furred male said .
"Fish Lips?" Chair repeated a bewildered expression crossing her face.
"I think it might be easier if I just show you rather than risk causing any more confusion." the tan male in sunglasses said, drawing Chairs gaze back to his own as he quickly moved towards her his long legs clearing the distance between them in a matter of seconds.
Chair took a step back looking up at him nervously, quickly scanning the room in desperation her eyes moving over the group surrounding her,
Including Manual and finding no help there before focusing back on the male in front of her.
"Relax its not going to hurt" he said a slight smile quirking his mouth up at the edges as he leaned forward suddenly.
Chair closed her eyes while thinking (this is it! Goodbye world! This is the part where they do you in just like in those old gangster movies!) Chair scrunched her eyes shut tighter Only to have them fly Open almost instantly as she felt something brushing against the top of her head, In next second Chair felt the entire world around her fall away.
What felt like hours but was only a matter of minutes later Chair found herself staring up at …Throttle with a somewhat shell-shocked expression.
Before looking around and finding the others she now had names for as well her gaze briefly touching an resting on Modo's mechanical arm and Vinnie's face plate before coming back to meet the leaders Throttles eyes through the lenses of his glasses.
Chair wasn't completely sure she would have believed what he had just shown her even with the whole Vulcan mind meld thing. But she honestly didn't think anybody could fake the depth of emotion she had felt underlying the events he had narrated as they were unfolding before her.
That more than anything served to convince her it was real. That all of this was real and not just some whacked out dream brought on by malnutrition and heat exhaustion.
"Alright" Chair said taking in a deep breath.
" I believe you" she said looking up at Throttle.
"So happy to have met with your seal of approval there Sweetheart" Vinnie said sarcastically.
"Play nice Vinnie .If we didn't have the miens for deep space travel yet we might have a hard time taking something like this in too." Modo said having moved a little closer, but still a cautious step or two shy of easy reach from Chair.
"Charley-girl didn't have this much trouble accepting the truth when she met us for the first time." Vinnie said bringing his hands halfway up for emphasis.
"That may be Throttle said with a chuckle but not everybody can be like our Charley" Throttle finished with an affectionate smile.
"That's the truth" Modo said warmly.
"Well that's true you are one in a million babe. Beauty, brains, amazing skills on a bike you're the whole package sweetheart." Vinnie said grinning down at the mildly blushing red head next to him.
"Just like yours truly" he said gesturing to himself with his thumb the grin splitting his face morphing into a smug smile.
Caught off guard charley stared at him blankly a split second before leaning forward with an almost flirty smirk.
"Vinnie" charley said sweetly reaching up to rub his cheek affectionately causing the white mouse to blush visibly through his fur.
" I'm starting to become concerned your developing a foot fetish with how often you keep putting yours in your own mouth" She finished giving the same cheek a little shove before walking over to stand by Modo.
Chair watched the exchange between the two with a bemused expression. There was some obvious tension there even to someone as new to the group as herself.
But she already had enough for her over taxed brain to try and process without trying to add that to the pile as well.
"Might want to take a step back there bro your new friend looks like she might be thinking about getting handsy again" Vinnie said looking towards Chair and Throttle while absently rubbing his cheek.
"I am not!" Chair said adamantly.
Quickly tucking her hands, which had been twitching slightly while she was looking at Throttle's ears behind her back.
"I still don't understand something though" Chair said with a distant thoughtful look on her face while biting her lip before looking up at Throttle "Why?"
Taking in Throttles puzzled expression she added
"I understand you're the good guys and everything"
" but why tell me?"
" I mean why bother explaining at all? Don't the more people who know your secret put you at risk?"
She said looking around the room including everyone with a gesture of her arms.
"You're not exactly the first person to find out about us there doll, but a big Part of it was just bad timing yours to be precise."
" You picked a hell of a place an time to take a dirt nap." Vinnie said with a shrug.
"Wrong place right time sort of thing" Throttle added with small gesture in Chairs direction.
"And we couldn't just leave you laying out there" Modo said looking chair in the eye.
" Besides it's not like Ole fish face doesn't already know we're here" He said shrugging the shoulder of his mechanical arm.
"But this guy can't be the only person you guys need to hide from" Chair said having been given a brief rundown about limburger and the plutarkian invasion during Throttles little walk down memory lane.
Chair stared into all four faces in the group quizzically, before coming back to rest on Throttles " I mean aren't you afraid?" she asked.
"Afraid? Of What?" Throttle said with a puzzled tone.
"I don't know!" Chair said, throwing her hands into the air.
"That I'll tell someone else like the police or a reporter or something?" Chair finished with an exasperated shrug.
"For that matter where are the police?"
I know the area seems pretty deserted, but you can't tell me that after that many explosions nobody bothered to call them."
She said turning to stare out the store windows at the slightly rubble ridden but otherwise empty parking lot in confusion.
"First things first" Charley said with a grin.
" If you want to try explaining to someone reporter or otherwise that there are giant talking mice from mars protecting the back streets of Chicago on laser shooting Motorcycles, be our guest."
" In fact I would love to be a fly on the wall for that one." Charley said with a chuckle.
"As to your question about the police" Charley started trailing off with a sad sigh.
"That's probably a number of things limburger and his bribes being at the top of the list."
" The rest being the current state of the neighborhood itself, tied in with how close we are to the pits."
" It's a rough area even without Limburgers goons adding to the mix." Charley finished shrugging her shoulders a troubled look on her face.
"Charley's right about that, Sardine breath is responsible for a good portion of this places sorry state but he's not the only baddie in this section of the windy city's pond" .Vinnie said while watching Charley's face.
His tail suddenly cracking forcefully against the side of the counter Startling Chair and causing her to jump a little.
"Well that explains why my apartment was so cheap" Chair said dryly looking away from the parking lot.
" But I can't be the only person to have accidently stumbled into one of your battles."
"you honestly mean to tell me that no other bystanders ever noticed the tails or the fur for that matter." Chair said looking back at them a curiously.
"People see what they want to see" Throttle said on a Shrug.
"And even if they did notice who'd believe them" He added cocking his head to the side a wry smile curling the edges of his mouth.
Chair wasn't sure it was as simple as that but she didn't exactly have a counter argument.
(besides even you thought Modo's Fur was some kind of muscle shirt) a little voice in the back of her head said.
( Turns out he was just topless and built like Hercules) she thought wryly. All three of them were Chair noted trying not to obviously ogle anyone.
( Geeze they build 'em big on mars) thought Chair as she took in all the surrounding muscle.
"Take a picture Sweetie it'll last longer" Vinnie said smugly when he caught her trying to look at him out of the corner of her eye.
Blushing Chair turned away coughing and stared at the ceiling like it was suddenly the most interesting thing in the universe.
"You boys ever think about investing in shirts?" Chair asked continuing to count cracks in the tiles above her head as Charley openly laughed to the left of her.
"Depends you ever try being covered in fur during 90 degree weather?" Modo asked with a good-natured teasing tone to his voice.
"Point taken" Chair said temporarily breaking her staring contest with the ceiling to smile over at him.
"Look I hate to call it quits, since being checked out by women is something I live for an all."
" but I got a lunch date with a dog and cooler of root beer Waiting on me" Vinnie said stepping towards the door.
"Vinnies got a point" throttle said with a smile we've imposed on Manual long enough.
Chair looked over in Manuals direction with a guilty twinge having nearly forgotten he was even in the room and realizing at some point he must have turned the stores sign from open to closed for them.
So they could continue with their conversation without risk of interruption or discovery.
"It is no problem my friends it is the least I can do for you after your help to rescue me and Open my grocery store" Manual said with a dismissive wave.
"Speaking of Groceries I believe these are yours" Modo said picking up a somewhat crumpled paper bag from the floor next to the door and handing it to Chair.
"OH! Thanks I had almost forgotten" Chair said her stomach choosing that moment to announce its displeased state with a sound reminiscent of an angry Jaguar.
Chair found herself starring down into the contents of the little sack with cheeks that felt like they were burning.
"Sounds like part of you remembered" Throttle said with a chuckle.
" I think it's time we went on our way and let you get back to what you were doing before we arrived" He finished.
"Wait!" Chair said angling herself away from Modo to face Throttle stepping towards him a dozen questions running through her mind with no answers.
(Nessun rimpianto/No regrets) Chair thought glancing up towards his head the echo of her Grandfathers voice helping her to settle on a course of action.
They struck her as the ride off into the sunset and never look back type.
So chances were pretty good she wouldn't catch more than a glimpse of them again even if she did run across them.
(So it's now or never) Chair thought moving forward quickly before she could change her mind. Thrusting her grocery sack into a startled Throttle's hands, and standing on her toes.
Years of practicing demi pointe helping her balance while making the action quick and precise.
Chair reached up quickly before she lost her nerve and commenced rapidly tweaking his ears her fingers ruffling through the surprisingly plush fur before she let go dropping back down.
Chair smiled up into Throttles stunned expression noticing that his glasses had slide halfway down his face reveling his eyes as he continued to stare at her in dumbfounded shock his mouth slightly open.
"Thanks for that" Chair said brightly over her shoulder as she turned and headed for the door.
Followed by the sounds of Charley, Modo and Vinnie's laughter,
as Vinnie choked out the words " I told you. You were standing to close bro." in between laughs.
Chair hesitated a thought occurring to her right before she started pushing open the glass door
"My Keys!" She cried turning back suddenly
Chair found herself Suppressing a chuckle as all three mice stopped their teasing and took a few hasty steps back out of reach.
Charley on the other hand burst out into another bought of hysterical laughter at the reactions of all three males.
"Did anybody happen to see where I dropped my keys?" Chair asked her lips twisting into a worried frown as she looked at the group in front of her.
"OH! Here I picked them up when we brought you inside" Charley said reaching into her jean pocket before tossing them towards Chair.
Catching them one handed Chair shot the red head a grateful smile.
"Thanks" Chair said genuine relief filling her voice as she stared down at the keys in her hand.
"What don't have a spare?" Vinnie asked with a playful grin.
"Something like that" Chair said running her thumb across the keys to her Great grandfathers studio as they all headed out the door into the bright sunshine.
"I'm not sure your door will open properly after getting sideswiped by that tire" Charley said with a serious expression as she stood beside Vinnie on his red bike.
" If it starts giving you trouble you can bring it by my shop and I'll see what I can do for it" She said meeting Chairs eyes.
"Shop?" Chair asked looking at the younger women curiously.
"Oh I'm the resident Mechanic"
" I own the last chance garage a bit further down the way from here" Charley said with a Grin.
"Mechanic-Smanic!" Vinnie cut in swinging an arm around Charley's shoulder.
"Charley girl here's a grade A genius when it comes to mechanical devices an gizmos of any kind. "
"If she can't fix it, then she'll rebuild it better than new"
" We're talking fully equipped rockets, super chargers and lasers!"
" You just name it, our girl here's got some serious skills." He finished proudly giving Charley's shoulder a little squeeze before letting go.
Earning a smile and an eye roll from the blushing mechanic as she looked over at him.
"I'll uh? Keep that in mind if I decide I ever want to invade a neighboring country I guess" Chair said with a small laugh.
"Thanks for the offer" Chair said warmly to Charley.
Before glancing around "and it's certainly been …interesting meeting all of you" Chair said with a smile.
"I guess this is goodbye" Chair added as she managed to pop the door of her truck open with only a little more effort than usual.
"Goodbye" Charley said as, she settled on the red bike behind Vinnie while he wrapped his tail securely around her waist.
"Oh! And Chair!" Charley called over the roar of the red bikes engine.
"Welcome to the neighborhood!" Charley yelled with a grin as they peeled out of the parking lot.
"Nice meeting you Ma'am" Modo said with a warm smile climbing onto his own bike, giving a wave with his mechanical hand as he rode out after the couple ahead of him.
"You take care now" Throttle said as he pulled up next to her.
"And remember" he added reeving the engine of his own bike.
"Ride Free Citizen" He yelled before tearing out after the others.
Leaving Chair alone in the parking lot next to her open truck door grocery bag in hand staring after the retreating riders as the disappeared into the distance.
Thinking about how much her Grandfather would have enjoyed meeting them.
"Well Gee-gee" Chair said out loud as she watched them vanish over a nearby hill.
"If you're watching from heaven you must be highly entertained at the moment because today has been more than a little weird for me."
"You would have absolutely loved it" Chair finished sadly as she turned to climb into the truck.
Setting her groceries in the seat next to her before wrestling the door shut again Chair paused thoughtfully caressing the keys in her hand fondly again before finding the one for the ignition. .
(Today would have been right up his ally) Chair thought pulling out of the parking lot.
"Bikers and Martians and Bad guys oh my!" Chair said softly with a laugh.
As she rolled her window down to let the cool air pass over her and through her hair. Finally on the way back to her apartment.