Through The Fire And Flames
*I am making time/forcing myself to do this.
*This is chapter 5, there are 3 left!
*Personally I suck at writing battle scenes but you get the frustration and such across when you see how I have written it.
*This is my longer chapter(which is why is took me so long to get this dude up and running) AND I HAD THIS ALL TYPED AND ITS JUST DECIDED TO NOT SAVE!!! So I went through an F-it period of mourning.
*You all know what to do when you're done reading. R/R I HEART you all!
*As always my lame ass owns NOTHING(except my few characters). If I did I would not be typing this and I would have had the 2006 series taken off the air and the original one put back on.
Chapter 5: Valley Of The Damned
When they got back to the garage Vinnie and Modo had everything packed up and ready to go. Vinnie and Modo were wrapped up in talking about things with Charley that they didn't even notice that Lina and Throttle had come in.
"Hey Lina-girl where were you?" Vinnie asked as he looked at Lina for a second before turning back to Sweetheart.
"We were just talking Vinnie." Lina replied as she went over to Nightstorm and gave her a once over.|
"Um, Miss Lina, we were wondering if we could take your ship back to Mars? Ours didn't survive when we landed here." Modo asked obviously embarrassed to admit that they crashed it when they first landed.
"That's fine. It needs to go back anyway and I think Carbine would want it back in one piece." The blonde haired martian said as she sat on Nightstorm and looked at Throttle.
"It's all your call Throttle. I may be commander, but I don't know everything. You get us to Mars, I'll get us to Stoker, Rimfire and Carbine."
Throttle gave Lina a shocked look, but nodded in affirmation." Only if you are next to me." His comment shocked Vinnie and just earned a smile from Modo, Charley and Lina.
"Jeez bro, just kiss her already and make it official!" Vinnie yelled from his spot on Sweetheart.
Vinnie's outburst earned a glare from Throttle and a laugh from Lina. " I...uh...well Carbine and I just broke up." Throttle stammered stumbling over his words.
"Oh for crying out loud am I going to have to do everything here?" Lina taunted as she walked over to Throttle and pulled him down to her level and kissed him properly. This earned the obvious shock from Modo and Charley. For once in his little life Vinnie was wishing he could get his hands on a 'take-charge' kind of girl. Lina gave Throttle a coy smile before going back to Nightstorm. "Enjoy that tiger, I don't know how many more of those you'll get."
Throttle gave Lina a smile before climbing back onto Lady. "Let's move out!" He yelled as he rode out of the garage followed by Vinnie, Lina. Modo and Charley riding behind Modo.
"So Lina-girl where's your ship that you brought here?" Vinnie asked looking back at Lina.
Lina gave him a smile and flicked a switch on Nightstorm to make the ship materialize.
"It's right in front of you Vinnie." Lina replied as Vinnie stopped at looked at it.
"Now that was not here a minute ago." Vinnie said as he gave the ship a look mixed with disbelief and confusion.
"Of course it was bro, you just didn't look hard enough. Modo taunted while Lina opened the hatch so they could load their bikes.
"It's okay Vinnie, a lot of people are blind." Charley said as she gave Vinnie a sympathetic pat on the back and got on the ship.
"You guys are mean!" Vinnie complained as he loaded Sweetheart. The others already had their bikes loaded and were waiting for Vinnie.
"Okay guys, take a seat. We are leaving Earth." Throttle declared as he started the ship up and took off back to Mars.
No sooner had five minutes passed, Lina was reaching for the communicator. "Lina V to Stoker, come in."
"Go ahead Lina V." Stoker replied over the radio.
"Where's our rendezvous?" Lina asked as she gave Throttle a wink.
"Brimstone Valley. Carbine, Rimfire and I are heading towards the pass now." The older mouse said as Lina got a shocked look on her face.
"See you in five." Lina ended the transmission. "Just land somewhere Throttle!" Lina yelled as she went back to Nightstorm.
"What...where?" Throttle asked as he looked around.
"Find a place!" Lina demanded as she looked at Vinnie and Modo who gave her a crazy look. "What? We leave as soon as the ship lands. There's no time for games now." As soon as the ship was on the ground Lina opened the hatch and took off followed by Modo, Vinnie and Throttle.
"Remind me to thank Stoker for the sudden rendezvous." Vinnie said as he rode up next to Lina.
"No need to punk. You're playing our game now." Stoker replied riding up on the other side of Lina earning another cool look from Vinnie. "You ready for some sand raiders Lina V?" Stoker asked as he gave Lina a wink.
"I will be once..." Her sentence was cut off by someone landing behind her. " Rimfire and Carbine join us." Lina finished as she saluted Carbine in a greeting.
"Lina there are thirty sand raiders up ahead. Let's do this!" Carbine exclaimed as she charged ahead with Stoker close behind.
"Rimfire, pick a side." Lina looked behind at him for a second.
"Which side?" He asked as he instinctively reached for the right.
"You know what's in both sides. Do you feel like hand to hand or long distance?" Lina countered as she held her right hand back to him waiting for one of her weapons to be placed in it. Her hand closed around cold steel. "Lasers, good choice."
"If we would have been closer I would have picked the left side. What do you say Lina, I'll take the left side and you take the right?" Rimfire asked as he leaned forward to grab the right handlebar.
"I think you have a good idea." Lina smiled as she took her hand off of the right but kept it on the left handlebar and started firing at the oncoming sand raiders.
"Now where did they learn that?" Vinnie asked no one in particular as he took out some sand raiders.
"Lina taught him Vinnie. After you guys left for Earth she taught him everything Torque taught her and then some." Carbine explained as she rode up next to him. "Most of the Freedom Fighters thought she was crazy taking a then eighteen year old kid into battle, but when people saw how well they worked together, they shut up immediately."
Vinnie looked at Carbine in shock. they had just held a normal conversation. That was when he noticed a sandraider that he had missed aiming for Carbine. "Carbine move!" Vinnie yelled as he swerved Sweetheart around taking a hit in the chest.
Carbine cursed her own blindness and took out the offending sand raider. "Vinnie get out of here now before you die!" Carbine yelled as she gave him a direct order.
"Carbine, escort him to the base where we're meeting the scientists. We can clean up here." Stoker said as Carbine took off with a nearly unconscious Vinnie following on Sweetheart.
Throttle and Modo finished off the rest of the sand raiders and met up with Lina and Rimfire. "Good shooting kid." Throttle said as he gave Rimfire an approving look.
"Thanks. I had a good teacher." He replied as he gave a nod towards Lina.
"It almost makes me kind of want to have kids now." Modo said as Charley gave him a smile and a kiss on the cheek.
"Yeah the kid's earned his keep." Stoker smiled at Rimfire and ruffled Rimfire's hair.
"You're awfully quiet Lina." Throttle mentioned as he gave her a concerned gave him a small smile.
"I'm fine, now that I've had some fun its time for a few hours of chill time." Lina replied as she took off ahead of him with Rimfire still riding behind her.
"She's unpredictable kid, once you think you have her figured out she will do something to shock you." Stoker said as he looked at Throttle.
Limburger sat at his desk drumming his fingers in annoyance. Greasepit sat in the chair across from Limburger wringing his hat in his hands in fear. "Tell me again my dear Greasepit, why did you not kill her like I told you to?" Limburger said sweetly as he glared at the bumbling man.
"She stepped on muh foot and duh leader mouse threatened me with death." Greasepit explained as he continued messing with his hat.
"Oh oh you forgot to say that her eyes were green instead of red!" Fred exclaimed as he popped up next to Greasepit.
"Green?!" Limburger bellowed as he flung several things at Fred and Greasepit. "Only one family has those eyes. They were the first ones to realize that Mars was sold out to Plutark. How could they still be alive? We killed them all." Limburger paced around his office nervously.
"Can I explain something?" Karbunkle asked fearing a beating.
"What, Karbunkle?" Limburger replied glaring at the skinny scientist." We would have killed them all if the grey mouse with long dark hair didn't protect the girl and send her away." Karbunkle ducked just in time to miss a chair heading his way.
"A year and a half Karbunkle, and you just now bring that to my attention?" Limburger yelled furious with this revelation.
"But your cheesiness, Lina Allister is no longer on Mars." Karbunkle replied as he searched his computer for a match.
Limburger looked at the computer and almost threw it at Karbunkle's face. "Did the name Lina VonGillern ever stick out to you?"
"Not a bit actually." The scientist replied instinctively ducking.
"Well it does to me!" Limburger yelled as Fred and Greasepit fled the room.
"Get one of my ships ready, I go after her myself!" The Plutarkian demanded as he picked Karbunkle up by the collar and threw him out of the room.
Lina pulled into the pulled into the base only to be greeted by a frantic Carbine. " Lina you have to help Vinnie, a sandraider got him in the chest!" Carbine said in one breath as Lina looked at her in shock.
"Carbine, how long ago was this?" Lina asked as she took the medical bag Carbine had in her hand.
"An hour, two at the most." Carbine replied as she led Lina to the room where a delusional Vinnie was laying on the bed.
The blonde haired mouse looked at Carbine with a fiery demeanor as she slammed the door shut. "Tell me immediately next time. I was a medic before I was a fighter." Lina scolded as she looked through the bag. "Get everything away from his chest while I go get warm water and towels." Lina left the room in a furious mess that no one told her sooner about Vinnie's injury. It was almost ready to rain fire until she saw a familiar looking brown haired female mouse walking down the hallway. As she came closer Lina recognized that calm look she had on her face and her hair was the thing that gave her away. "Harley!" The blonde haired girl yelled as she ran the remainder of the hallway and pulled her cousin into a hug. "How did you get here?"
"I escaped soon after I killed Mace. It took me almost a year to get back here." Harley pulled away and looked at the slightly smaller girl. "Look at you Lina, you're no longer the little girl who was a field medic early on." The brown haired girl gave Lina one of her infamous smiles. "Come on Vinnie needs us." Harley turned and went to go get the water and towels.
Lina just stood there in shock for a minute. Harley was alive and well after being taken hostage. She turned and went back to the room Vinnie was in.
"Lina what took you so long? Where's the stuff you were going to get?" Carbine demanded as the door opened and another female mouse walked in. "It can't be…it's not possible." The dark haired mouse was speechless as Harley calmly sat down and began wiping the dried blood away from Vinnie's chest wound.
"Carbine, I'm going to ask you to leave the room." Harley said as she pulled out a syringe filled with clear liquid. "Here Lina, he's a big boy, we'll need two." The brown haired mouse handed the other mouse another syringe filled with the same liquid.
"What is that stuff Harley?" Carbine demanded unmoving from her spot.
"It's bradykinin, a pain suppressant, but it burns like nobody's business for a few minutes when you inject it." Lina replied as she moved to sit on his legs so she had access to his other shoulder.
"Carbine, if you insist on staying, get over here and talk to him." Harley said as she got ready to give him the shot.
The martian general took her advice and sat on the bed next to Vinnie and held his hand. "Look at me Vinnie." She said as she turned his head towards her.
"Hey beautiful, what did I do to earn the privilege of having you three around me?" Vinnie asked obviously trying to make light of the situation.
"Ready Harley?" Lina asked as she looked at her cousin.
"He wha-what are you doing to me?" Vinnie yelled as the two injections were jabbed into both his shoulders(if you want me to be technical…you can call it deltoid!).
"Just chill cutie, the worst part's over." Harley said as she gave Vinnie a smile.
"Now for the next two minutes you will be in immense pain before you don't care anymore." Lina explained unmoving from her spot on his legs.
Harley then took a towel with a liberal amount of antiseptic on it and held it over his wound. Vinnie winced but never said anything to her."Do you guys go through this a lot?" Carbine asked as she never let go of Vinnie's hand.
"Only with bradykinin. It's the only thing we have at the moment." Harley replied as she bandaged his chest up. "You guys go do your military thing. I'll sit with him until it wears off." The brown haired mouse told the other two as she sat in the chair next to the bed.
Carbine looked at the now sleeping Vinnie and got up from her spot. "I'll be back later Harley. Let's go Lina." Carbine told the blonde haired girl as she climbed off of Vinnie's legs.
Lina and Carbine walked out of the room only to be greeted by Throttle and Stoker. She gave them a smile, "He'll be fine, he's a tough kid." Lina said as she looked at them before walking away only to have Throttle grab her hand and stop her.
"That's not what we were wondering, we knew he would be fine. It that or is that not Harley in there with Vinnie right now?" Throttle asked as he looked into her eyes.
"In my heart I want to believe, but I know better. If by chance that is Harley, she will remember how I got Nightstorm." Lina replied as he eyes got a stern look in them. "If she doesn't remember that, then it isn't her." The blonde mouse said as she let go of Throttle's hand and walked away with Carbine.
"You coming Stoke?" Carbine asked as she looked back at the older man.
"Fill me in later. I'm going to talk to Harley and draw my own conclusions. Stoker told them as he went into the room and just stood by the doorway for a minute. "Harley?" He asked tentatively as he looked at the female mouse sitting in the chair.
"Yes Stoker?" She replied unmoving from her spot.
"How old was I when you were born?" He asked not trusting her for one second.
"You were six."
"Okay so you got one right." Stoker relied as he stayed in his spot by the door. "What about Lina, who did she marry, Harley?" Stoker asked his voice taking on a more stern tone.
"Carbine's brother, Torque VonGillern." Harley replied as she stood from her spot and faced Stoker. "He died four months later and gave Lina Nightstorm so she could escape. Did I answer all your questions, Stoker? Or do you still think I'm not the real Harley?" Her voice was laced with malice as she confronted looked at her for a minute and noticed only one thing different, she had green eyes. The Harley he remembered had ruby eyes.
"You're fine for now." He replied as he walked out of the room.
Harley sat back down in her chair and put her head in her hands. "I'm sorry but almost a year in a Plutarkian prison is enough to make anyone desperate for freedom." The female mouse just sat there and cried.
~Stormey~
*Oh for the love of god I felt bad for not getting this up sooner. I have the whole completed thing just sitting in my rrom chilling and I was thinking about how I can't wait for you guys to see how this things plays out so I came back and typed this long ass thing.
*I do have a slight still in progress backstory on Lina that I am working on. It is mostly focused on the quadrangle of Rimfire-Stoker-Carbine-Lina but as I said, work in progress. I just hope to answer some questions in it though like Rimfire's crazy protective streak over Lina and anything else you guys might want to know.