Chapter 9

"Throttle!" Stoker snapped as he rushed to catch Lex when she fell unconscious and was sliding from the bike. "I want you and Modo get that bitch out of my sight!"

"Wait what?" Throttle snapped out of his shock. He had difficulty's to understand what had just happened.

"Take that bitch to the cold room at my ship's cargo!" Stoker ordered.

"Are you gonna take her back to the mars?! After what she did to her?! And tried to do to us?!" Vinnie asked in disbelief. "Are you fucking nuts?! She doesn't even deserve anything like that!"

"Even though I don't approve what she did, she is a martian mouse." Stoker grimaced. " And what the hell are you two still doing there? Get to work! Vinnie, go help them and bring me the first aid kit from the infirmary."

The trio snapped to a movement and left to get a stretcher to carry Carbine's body to the ship.

"And Rimfire go get me a clean towels and water, and make it fast. These rags won't last long!"

"Charlie come help me!" Stoker kept ordering as he started to help Lex.

"Charlie! Snap out of it!" Stoker ordered as he noticed that Charlie was in shock, tears flooding from her eyes. "She's dying! I need your help!"

Charlie just stood there so Stoker took a small metal slug from the floor and threw it to Charlie's forehead.

"Ouch!" Charlie woke up.

"Get your cute ass right here and help me!" Stoker ordered again.

"Oh! Lex!" Charlie whispered as she limbed as fast as she could next to her. "I'm so sorry!"

"Take this and press it against her shoulder wound! We need to stop that bleeding!" Stoker shoved her few clean rags. "Luckily it's clean cut and didn't damage any important organs. But this one at her waist is bad!"

"Is she going to be alright?" Charlie sniffed from her tears.

"I don't know. It's too early to say. I can't see anything from that blood." Stoker grimaced. "But if it's as bad as I think it is, we need to get her to the mars!"

"Why mars? Why not in our hospital?" Charlie exclaimed.

"Because human race don't even know anything about our weaponry, nor heal it's wounds." Stoker said.

"Stoker this ain't working! She's bleeding to death!" Charlie was horrified as she watched when Lex's blood pumped from the wound of her waist when Stoker switched the bloody rag for a clean one.

"I need first aid kit now! Where the hell that kid is?!" Stoker muttered.

"He's coming. I think I hear his footsteps!" Charlie carefully took her hands from the wound and looked at it and sighed from a relief. It wasn't bleeding anymore.

"How is your thigh?" Stoker asked when he saw Charlie's bloody broken jeans.

"It's fine. It doesn't even hurt much anymore." Charlie answered as she gently caressed Lex's hair.

"We should still look at it after guys get's back." Stoker sighed and changed the rag again.

There was blood everywhere and he started to fear that Lex wasn't going to make it. Her pulse was weakening.

"Please Lex, don't give up just yet!" Stoker pleaded as he looked at the small blood covered beautiful woman in front of him.

As the guys got back at the garage, they silently started to lift Carbine's body from the floor.

"What the hell happened to her?!" Modo cursed. "I wouldn't have even been able to imagine anything like this to happen! I thought that she was unbreakable!"

Throttle just stared at Carbine's body. He knew that Carbine was capable for much, but this... It was beyond from his mind.

"Excellent Vinnie! RIMFIRE! Come help me and Charlie!" Stoker shouted and made Throttle and Modo jump.

Charlie felt something weird to happen but she thought that it was just that she was going to a shock. Her body started to tremble and she tried to force it to stop.

"Charlie, take a rest. You look pretty bad!" Stoker said . "Vinnie, patch up Charlie's wound."

"But I'm fine..." Charlie tried to protest.

"No you're not. Vinnie, do it."

"On it coach." Vinnie said without any usual humor in his voice.

Vinnie started to wipe most of the blood to see how bad the wound was and by the blood it seemed bad. But when he had cleaned it he found something else.

"Rimfire! Give me a green bottle from the kit!" Stoker ordered. "And that yellow one too!"

Rimfire rummaged the kit for a second before he found them and gave them to Stoker.

"Good." Stoker thanked. " Take that rag off when I say so! And be quick!"

Rimfire watched calmly when he opened the green bottle and took a clean rag again.

"Now!"

Rimfire took the rag off and instantly Stoker poured something purple powder to the wound and pressed the clean rag to it.

"Rimfire. Hold this a while." Stoker ordered again took a quick glance to Charlie and Vinnie. "Are ya okay Charlie?"

"Don't mind about me!" Charlie sighed as she pressed her shaking hand to her mouth as she stood up and leaned her back to a tool shelf. Vinnie went to change the water.

"Are you sure? You don't look so good ma'am." Rimfire looked worriedly at her.

"I'm fine. Just little shaky, I guess." She muttered.

"Oh shit." Stoker cursed as he saw when Charlie collapsed to the floor and took the tool shelf down with her, causing the tools in it to rattle against the floor. They watched when she started to tremble aggressively unable to help her, 'couse their hands were fully occupied with Lex.

"Oh fuck!" Stoker cursed again. "Vinnie! Better get back here, NOW!"

Her body started to grow and re-arrange her bones once again. Loudly. And painfully. There came cracks and snaps from her with accompany of her screams.

What's happening to me?! Please stop already!

Her fur started to fade to snow white as her snout grew a lot longer. But her teeth. Well let me say that I'd wish that she won't get a sudden urge to try them on me.

It felt like it took for a long time before the pain eased and she could move again. But something felt strange.

When she stood up, she saw Stoker and Rimfire down on the floor. Way down. And then there was Lex. And blood all over her. Blood. Blood. BLOOD!

Huge rage and thirst grew inside her and she couldn't control herself. The beast, who she was now, attacked and herself, in somewhere middle of it, screamed in horror.

Vinnie was in shock. The happenings in front of him was way too much even for him. To see his friend to transform something like Charlie was now, was horrible. But to see her to attack against her best friend, who was unable to protect herself, was something else . Luckily that was the point to him to snap out and rush to keep Charlie away from Lex.

He tackled her right before the beast was near of the trio and he ended to wrestle with her. He didn't even know how he did it, but somehow he made it to keep her under control. His muscles ached from the pressure, but he had to keep her still or she might hurt someone she loved.

But then his grab slipped and the hell was on the loose.

"RIMFIRE! GO HELP HIM NOW!" Stoker yelled in horror when the wolf attacked again. He tried to cover Lex if the wolf, for some reason, could get through. "Don't let her come here!"

Rimfire jumped up and rushed against the beast. But he got too close to her so he gets a snap from Charlie's teeth's.

"Watch out!"" Stoker shouted.

"Yaiks!" Rimfire yelped. "Charlie-ma'am, please calm down!"

Surprise, surprise there didn't come that reaction he hoped.

"Are ya okay, rookie?" Stoker asked.

"I'm fine. It's just a scratch." Rimfire sighed. "Vinnie! Let's chase her to that corner! It's easier us to keep her still there!"

"Good thinking kid!" Vinnie was surprised. "How didn't I think of that?"

"What the fuck?!" Escaped from Throttle's mouth, when he saw something huge and white with a soft fur, in one of the garage's corner, Vinnie and Rimfire on top of it and a sight of himself came to his mind when it looked at them when they came there.

"Whoa! Where did that...? Is that Charlie?!" Throttle felt how his jaw dropped to the ground. "What the hell happened?!"

"She transformed." Vinnie peeped with widened eyes as he struggled to hold his advantage. "We saw her to transform. She's a oversized white poodle!"

"You ass that is a wolf!" Stoker snapped. "Can't you even see the difference. Throttle, try to calm her! She definitely is not herself right now!"

Throttle shoved his own feelings aside and started to slowly get near to the wolf, avoiding sudden moves. "Hey beautiful... Calm down girl. You know we won't hurt ya."

The wolf was eyeing him with a doubtful look in her eyes and a low growl came from her chest.

"Oh Charlene, don't be like that. Just calm down so we can help you." Throttle tried to convince her. "Just calm down, we know that you didn't mean to hurt Lex. Vinnie is going to let you go now, okay?"

The wolf started hesitantly to relax, so Vinnie and Rimfire loosened their grips from her and took their arms off and, right after that, backed away.

The wolf stood up to her full size. She was even taller than Modo for heaven's sake! She was at least seven feet tall from the ground to her withers, and when she raised her head up... Yeah. She was huge.

Charlie started to growl at Throttle, but when he kept talking with a soft murmuring voice, she started to relax a little.

But when the wind brought a sent from Lex's blood to her nose, she lost it again.

She attacked again, but that time Throttle was the one who was in her way so she ended to on top of him his arm in her jaws. Though she didn't bite him hard.

Throttle winched from the pain and cry escaped from his mouth.

His blood in her tongue made her to drop his arm and he fell down to the floor. She backed her tail between her legs and she cried out loud.

"Don't worry honey. I know you didn't mean to." Throttle still tried to sooth her down as he pressed his wound against his chest, but she knocked him aside as she escaped from the garage. "Charlie!"

"Marvelous!" Limburger laughed out loud. "KARBUNCLE!"

"You called, your smelly disgustingness?" Karbuncle rushed to Limburger's office again.

"Call to the Hunter. He has a work to do!" Limburger was feeling lucky and he liked that feeling.

Charlie ran to the woods, and she was almost being hit by a truck on the way, few blocks away. She was so confused and angry to herself and so hurt.

How could I hurt him? I'm horrible person and I don't deserve him!

There had happened so much recently in her life that she felt that she couldn't hold herself together anymore.

She felt a huge desire to let the animal in her to overtake her mind so she wouldn't have to think anything. To escape her feelings. To send the selfcontrol to hell. And so she did.

She ran miles and miles away from the city as fast as she could. She felt the cooling wind and rain in her fur and the first time for months she felt that she was totally free. Free from pain, feelings and for everybody's pity for her. And she liked it.

She started to forget her human life. Her garage. Lex. The guys. And Throttle. Until there was only the freedom.