Ok, quick update on what's happening now then I'll write some more Unknown.

The hospital fucked up royally and literally killed Velma. (my childhood best friend's mom) Her heart stopped, and for a while they couldn't get her back. Robin (my friend) had to be sedated, heavily, because she couldn't stand seeing her mother dead in the ER.

So finally the doctors managed to get Velma's heart to function again. However she was unable to breathe on her own and suffered some brain damage. She was in the ICU for almost a week and Robin has decided that since her mother is going to die anyways that she'll get her out of the hospital and bring her home.

Where Velma will die.

I've been asked to go to the house and help with Velma just in case Robin needs to go to work or something. So I'll let you know when I start that. But I got to see them both today and Velma was really out of it and tired easily so we left after a few minutes so that she could rest.

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A few years later-

Modo had gone to a cave with Vinny and Momma Maverick after the first siren had started to blare it's warning. Startling the whole household from a dead sleep just in time to escape before their house- for reasons that were still unknown to them- went up in a maelstrom of red orange flames and posionous gases.

Momma was sitting over in the corner, crying about the loss of their home, while Vinny knelt down in front of her trying to comfort her while Modo stood at the enterance of the cave, peering out into the suddenly baren wasteland that had once been his childhood home. Wondering where Throttle was and if she was okay.

She hadn't been in bed with him when the siren had started blairing so he could only assume that she was somewhere outside the house when it went up. But with all the posionous gases being released into the air from under the ground, he had no idea if she was still alive and kicking or dead.

The wind suddenly kicked up and Modo hissed and yelled, "Gas masks! Now!" As he grabbed the mask that he'd lain down a little while ago and started to put it on when he heard the distant screetch of metal before something large and metalic hit the ground somewhere beyond the cave.

He slipped the mask on and grabbed his pistol and tossed it to Vinny then grabbed his father's gun and checked the amo. The crystal chamber was still good for another few shots but after that he'd have to find a new focusing crystal or the gun wouldn't work anymore.

He clicked the chamber closed and glanced over at his brother and mother to make sure that they had listened and were wearing their masks. It's a man's duty to protect what is most precious to him. And that crash couldn't have been just anything. No, by now Modo had figured out that there was something serious going down and since he and his family no longer had a home and one of his siblings was MIA then he needed to go and see if the crash site could yield some answers.

"Momma, Vinny, I'm going out to see if I can find anything to help us figure out what's happening. You two stay here-"

"Wait! What about Throttle?" Vinny asked with a somewhat panicked look on his face. Modo gave him a blank look, for once at a loss about what to say.

"If she's out there and alive...I'll bring her here." Modo promised before saying sternly. "You just shoot and kill anything that you don't recognise as me or Throttle. Got it?"

"But what if Throttle comes back and I accidentally shoot her?" Vinny looked like he was about to cry. Modo knew what he meant, he'd be stupid not too. After all Throttle was a morpher. What if she had changed her shape to survive the present conditions?

"Listen to me Vinny, Throttle isn't stupid enough to show up in a form that your likely to shoot. If she comes here, she'll come in a form you recognise." Modo said as he walked over to his mother and younger brother and quickly gave them both a hug, thinking that this may be the last chance he ever got to do so then quietly made his way to the mouth of the cave and boldly stepped out into the open and started walking.

He took several steps away from the cave and felt the ground shake violently under his feet, causing his heart to leap up into his mouth and his stomach to twist into knots as he looked back at the cave. It looked like it was still in one piece- which was good considering that he doubted that he'd like what he found if the cave had just collapsed on his family.

Being the next to the last of the Maverick clan wasn't particularly something that he was looking forward too. Still... He saw Vinny peek out of the cave and sighed in releif. They were okay. For now. His mind whispered, forcing him to turn away and move onward despite the fact that he wanted to go back desperately.

He needed answers about what was going on before something else happened to his family.