Chapter 7

"Yo! Coach!" Rimfire shook Stoker awake. "We're going to scoreboard. You coming? The girls have a girls night tonight so they're kicking us out."

"Wot...?" Stoker mumbled. "What did you say?"

"Are you coming to scoreboard with us?"

Stoker tried to shake the fog from his head and thought at the small, but loud, group of freedom fighters, in a small scoreboard and a lousy movies. It was obvious that it was the tonight's plan.

"Umm. Nah. I think that I'm going to my ship and try to get more sleep." Stoker yawned.

"Your loss. Later coach!"

Stoker muttered something and fell back to sleep.

When Lex came back to the garage she saw that Charlie had prepped them some snacks to eat.

"Charlie, come give me a hand so we can start sooner." Lex shouted. "Nice hoop by the way. Is it Throttle's?

"Sure. What's left to do?" Charlie rolled he sleeves. "And yes. It is. He wanted to give it to me. I don't know why though."

"He loves you. That's why. I guess as a promise ring, if you know what I mean. But to the car. Nothing much. We can't safe this thing so I don't wanna spoil too much time for it. I told that guy that, but he's as rotten from his head as his cars body." Lex grimaced. "All we can do anymore is change its oil's and its radiator needs replacing. I guess that gives it few more miles to go."

"Good. I'll talk to the customer when he is coming to get her." Charlie chuckled and started to work. "Maybe I can hit some sense to his head."

Couple hours later they had done their work and were sitting on the couch in their PJ's and Lex had poured them a shots from the tequila.

"I got a few whites too. And something extra so we won't cut short with drinking." Lex grinned.

"I guess we're getting drunk then. Sounds like a plan!" Charlie rise her glass. "For us and our little escape from the ordinary!"

"Couldn't say better my love, couldn't say better!" Lex greeted and licked the salt from her hand, shoved her shot down from her throat and sucked the lime slice.

After Stoker was kicked from the couch by Charlie, when Lex was out, he went straight to his bed in his ship. He felt himself so tired but because of the lack of a proper sleep he just didn't fell asleep right away.

He felt how his eyes were like an desert, hot and dry and full of sand. And his tongue was sticking to his palate.

Oh fuck... Do I really have to get up? What the time is?

With a sigh he stood up and slouched like a zombie to the cooking corner and drank water straight from the faucet. After that, he fell back to bed and few minutes later he was back at sleep.

"What are ya thinkin' bro?" Modo asked when he had followed Vinnie to outside. Her had noticed that Vinnie had been quiet for a while, obviously something what was pretty alarming, and sat down next to him on top of the scoreboard.

"Nothing much." Vinnie said as he watched when the sun went down.

"I can see that somethin' is botherin' ya." Modo didn't give up. "You haven't been this quiet since Harley -"

"Nothing is wrong! I'm totally fine!" Vinnie snapped at Modo. "Just... Live me alone."

"Okay bro. You know where to find me, when you're ready." Modo said and went back in.

"This movie stinks!" Rimfire cried and tossed the tv with a pillow. "Who the hell did pick this up?"

"Your dear uncle." Throttle answered matter of factly.

"Oh." Rimfire grimaced. "It still stinks."

"What stinks?" Modo said when he returned from outside. "What happened while I was out?"

"The girl got know that her sister's loved one made other girl knocked up and is, the guy I mean, now penniless and getting married with a third chick, which is rich. So the hell is on the loose." Throttle said boredly.

"Seriously uncle-Modo! How in the heck did you pick something like this?" Rimfire couldn't stop himself for asking.

"What? What is wrong with this?" Modo rolled his eye. "Stop whinin' child. The deal was that everyone can pick somethin' what he wants to watch. And this is mine. Deal with it."

"Lousy fucking Jane Austen with her god damned sense and stinking sensibility..." Rimfire muttered under his breath.

"Did you say somethin', kid?" Modo asked darkly.

"Nothing. I said nothing." Rimfire gave up.

"You know. You never told me what happened when they got you." Lex slurred to Charlie so it was hard to her to translate it but she managed. Though she was as bad shape as Lex so maybe it helped a little.

Charlie got flashbacks from the happenings. How Grease-Pitt had touched her. And all that pain! She started to feel a little panic attack.

"You don't have to talk about it if you feel that you're not ready, Cie." Lex said softly.

"I know. It was horrible I say you. Horrible." Charlie took a long swing her wine bottle. They had already destroyed the first tequila bottle and multiple milkshakes. "They cut me, stab me with injections and took samples from me. Without anesthesia. And that leaking oil disaster..."

"Oh honey..." Lex started but got no chance to continue.

"Please don't. I need to say this out loud. They used me as their little guinea pig. And he." Charlie felt hot tears run from her eyes. "He touched me as he... And if the guys wouldn't come at that time , who knows how far he would have gone...! I couldn't move or say a thing. I..."

Charlie started to cry hard and Lex took her in her arms.

"Well that sucked." Lex blurred and tried to lighten a little. "I know that it is hard to recover from something like that. Though that mice thing of yours is something I hope I won't have to go through myself."

"What do you mean with that?" Charlie sniffed.

"I mean is that fur itchy? And I guess that I would be stumbling to that tail all the time." Lex chuckled. "Though you look really pretty. And you have Throttle."

"No. what you meant with that 'you know'?" Charlie tried to squint at Lex but still she saw her in two. "And please stop swinging!"

"I don't swing!" Lex exclaimed. "Well maybe little. But so do you!"

"No I don't! Whoa!" Charlie said as the same she swayed off the couch. " Ouch! Oops. Maybe I did. But don't you try to change the subject!"

"Oh. Sorry. What was the question?" Lex laughed.

"What did you meant with that 'you know'?" Charlie rolled her eyes and climbed back to the couch.

"Without any specifics lets just say that I have a rough past. There happened something years ago. And that was the reason I quit my job." Lex grimaced and lifted her PJ's shirt and showed her back to Charlie.

"Oh no! Honey why you didn't call me!" Charlie took her to a tight hug and felt the fog erase a little from her head. "What happened?!"

"I... You know that I'm an orphan. So let's say that my foster parents weren't as lovely as they seemed. I didn't tell this anyone until now."Lex bit her teeth together.

"But... We've been friends for years now. Why you didn't tell anyone?!" Charlie was amazed.

"That doesn't matter. All I care right now is that you will be alright." Lex said firmly.

"But tell me one more thing. Why you quit from your job, what happened?" Charlie demanded.

Lex started to feel her eyes burning. "I lost a lot of my men in our last mission. They were all killed 'couse I couldn't get them safety. My past caught me."

"Shh... Honey. I know that it wasn't your fault." Charlie tried to sooth her friend. "I bet you did all you could for them."

"No. I knew than we shouldn't take that mission. But I let my boss to talk me to it." Lex tossed her empty bottle to a trashcan, she obviously missed it and the bottle broke to the wall and chattered to the floor, and opened the last tequila bottle. "And then I decided to keep moving. I was about half year on the road before I came here."

"Whoa.. You should have told me."Charlie sighed. "Maybe I could have helped you."

"No. You have your own demons to fight." Lex muttered.

They were in silence for a while and drank raw tequila in their turns.

"Lex... Umm... Did they do something... Umm... Sexual to you?" Charlie asked when she was almost unconscious while she was leaning against Lex's side. "How someone can recover from anything like that?"

"That was easy." Lex slurred badly and folded her arm around Charlie's waist. "They don't."

Then they both passed out.

Stoker was shocked. And was seeing red. How in the hell did that son of a...! Arrrrggghh!

Stoker had woke up for a while ago and couldn't get any sleep anymore so he had decided to go check how the girls were doing. He didn't mean to eavesdrop, but when he had heard Lex ask about that what happened, he couldn't stop himself.

And he knew what had happened. Aw man! I need to apologize from Throttle!

He peaked from the living room's corner and saw that the girls were sleeping so he sneaked silently to the kitchen and took few bottles of root beer and grabbed a bag of munchies before he retreated back to his ship to think all he just had heard.

At morning, when the guys stormed inside of the garage, they saw Stoker tinkering around something.

"Mornin' coach. What r' ya doin'?" Modo asked curiously.

"Umm... Nothing. Just a little project of mine." Stoker blushed.

"Whoa! What's that red thing in your face, old man?" Vinnie smirked cruelly. "That ain't your color oldie!"

"Well someone has forgot that this 'old man' has saved that someone's ass way too many times." Stoker lifted his eyebrow to Vinnie's words. "What's itching your ass?"

"Mind your own business." Vinnie muttered ashamedly and headed to the living room. "Whoa! Ain't that the hottest sight or what!"

Everybody went for look what had caused that reaction from the white furred pain in the ass and saw that the girls were still sleeping on the couch.

But I guess that the way how they slept was the reason. They were sleeping in a spoon position, Lex was in front and Charlie's arms were around her waist. Charlie's tail had twined around Lex's thigh and she was snuggling Lex's neck.

"Who died in here?" Rimfire sniffed the air. "What an earth did they take?!"

"I don't care, I wanna know what happened here!" Vinnie grinned. "And all details including!"

Throttle and Modo eyed a little to the surrounding and saw all the empty bottles and splinters all over the floor.

"I'll say!" Modo wondered. "Did they have a fight or somethin'?"

"No. Just lousy aim." Stoker grinned. "Tough I don't wonder 'couse they drank a lot!"

"Umm. Guess we should make some coffee." Throttle chuckled for the sight. "They'll gonna need it!"

"Yeah. And maybe some aspirin too!" Rimfire grinned.

"Ouuuu!" Charlie moaned. "My head! Lex this is all your fault!"

"God damned woman! Don't yell!" Lex held her head. "Where is my saving knight in white armor when I need him?"

"Black, white. I don't care even if it's pink, someone give me some painkillers!" Charlie muttered.

"Here." Stoker came when he heard their whining and gave them each a glass of something funny looking liquid and left after he had said. "Take this and and these pills and you're back to alive in no time."

"Oh fuck. What is this?!" Lex eyed her glass doubtfully.

"Who cares, if it works?" Charlie moaned and took her pills to her mouth and swallowed them with the funky stuff as she squeezed her nose.

"Oh well. I guess I have ate much worse things at my missions." Then she was a good little girl and did what she was told to and lied back down. "If this really works, I'm gonna marry him."

"No you don't, if I get him first!" Charlie swore.

Half an hour later Stoker went back to the living room to check how their girls were hanging. And naturally there came four mice right after him.

"What's up sweethearts?" Vinnie grinned.

"Throttle. I'm sorry but we are over. I'm going to marry Stoker." Charlie said calmly as she crawled next to Stoker and twined her legs, arms and tail around his leg.

"WHAT!?" Throttle's jaw hit the ground as Stoker Rimfire and Modo laughed.

"No way honey! Belive me, this is my man!" Lex announced as she too came and twined herself as the same.

"I can share with you." Charlie offered.

"Deal." Lex smiled happily.

"Oh hell no!" Throttle tried to keep his poker face up. "You're mine missy, so get your ass right over here!"

"Noooooo!" Charlie laughed as Throttle started to tear her from Stoker's leg and because of that they made him fall to the floor.

Poor Lex who was caught under him so her face buried against Stokers stomach. And she was laughing hard and her tears made Stoker's shirt wet.

"Sorry gorgeous. Did I hurt you?" Stoker laughed as he rolled off of her and helped her up. But because she wasn't ready yet, she ended straight to his arms.

"No. I just need to clear my head a little." Lex saw black dots everywhere so she leaned her head to his chest. "Just give me a sec."

"Take your time, babe." Stoker slowly put his arms around her to support her.

"I think that maybe you should lay back down, sweetheart." Vinnie suggested. This is so not fair!

"I'm fine Vinnie. You don't need to worry." Lex smiled under Stoker's arms before she stepped out from them faint blush on her cheeks. "Now. We had been fooling around for today, so beat it so I can go to my work."

"Don't you think that you should keep it light for a few hours before you heed back to work?" Modo asked worryingly.

"Oh please. It's just a hangover." Lex rolled her eyes. "Besides. If I don't work, you don't get your parts to your bikes."

"She's right you know." Charlie said. "We are barely managing to keep this garbage open. So go do something manly stuff."

"Do you mind if I stay here? I have things to do with my own project at ship." Stoker asked from the girls.

"Sure Stokes. We know that you can behave so you won't be our way." Charlie grinned and winked her eye to him.

"Did ya hear that guys?" Vinnie said sarcastically. "And I thought that you like when I'm around."

"Yeah. Right." Charlie chuckled. "When you're around, we are too busy to clean that mess what you leave after you, so we Don't have any time do our own work!"

"Hmph. Fine. I now when my accompany is not wanted." Vinnie smirked and jumped on his racer. "See ya sweethearts! You'll miss me!"

And then he left with a wheelie and the others followed right behind him.

Somewhere deep down under the Chicago.

"Your cheesyness, we are ready to our next step." Said one particular wheezing sounded mad doctor. "my calculation says that miss Davidson's body is ready to finish her next stage transformation. It should start in a few hours."

"Marvelous! Now I shall have my revenge!" The purple suited smelly gangsterish man was delighted. "Now, set the control device to activate when her transformation is complete."

"Umm... Your hideousness, I need to remind you that we didn't manage to get that in her brains. That was the last step which was disturbed by those wrecking rodents."

"Ah... Yes. I knew that this would not be that easy..." Limburger sighed depressingly.

"No, no. Don't worry sir. Even if we don't have any control to her, she is a huge danger to the persons who are near of her."

"Oh! Really?" Limburger straightened up and drummed his fingertips together. "This looks like I do can have my revenge after all!"