The following day
Sunday
Safehouse A

I had been shopping online; actually I had placed the order last week, while in New York, but with a slight amendment, when I had got back to Chicago.

Four large packing crates were delivered to Safehouse A, early this morning. Yeah, my courier delivers on a Sunday and at three in the morning!

I was with Dave, who I had forced out of bed, to come and help me.

I checked the crates and first of all and opened the one that was for me!

After a bit of unpacking, I finally had parked in front of me, a brand new motorcycle! The Alpine White, BMW R 1200 GS Adventure motorcycle looked cool. This was to be my own personal transport, for when I was Mindy Macready. The motorcycle was pre-fitted with a pair of aluminium panniers, an aluminium top box and a tank bag. I was really looking forward to taking this out, both on the road and off...

"If it isn't the blades, it's the damn motorcycles! You look like your're gonna have a damn orgasm, right there!" Dave commented, dryly.

I ignored him, I was far too excited.

I checked the next three crates and ignored the second one, leaving it for now and we pushed it to the back of the safehouse. Dave and I unpacked the other two crates, covering the contents with a pair of tarpaulins.

I drove the BMW back home, followed by Dave in the SUV.

There would be a lot more space in the garage at home, once Marty moved out and took Speedy.

Later that afternoon, Dave and I took Chloe down to safehouse A.

I thought that Chloe felt something was amiss.

"What's going on?" Chloe asked, cautiously, as soon as we got out of the SUV.

"Scared Shadow?" I teased.

"Hell no!" Chloe replied, confidently.

"Right, the other week you complained about riding on a bike with me," I growled.

"Do you really blame her?" Dave asked, grinning.

I ignored him.

"Well I thought it was time that you learnt to ride!" I said, pulling the tarpaulin off the first item.

It was a Honda CRF100F motorcycle, in red and white.

Chloe was speechless.

"Think you're up to it, Chloe?" I asked, smiling.

"I..." Chloe tried.

"Look if Kick-Ass can learn to ride, any asshole can!" I stated, ignoring the look of annoyed disbelief on Dave's face.

"I can do it!" Chloe finally said.

"You will learn on this little thing; it has no power and can't be used on the road, but it will be easier for you to learn on, especially when you come off and you will! Now, once you successfully learn to ride this thing, then I will move you on to the next step..." I said, pulling off the next cover.

"Fuck!" Chloe said.

It was a Honda CRF250L motorcycle in slate grey and navy blue. This motorcycle had a licence plate: 'SHADOW'.

"This one is road-legal and more than twice as powerful. Keep up with this bike and then you can look at something sportier!" I said. "Late birthday present!"

Chloe said nothing, but then threw herself at me and hugged me so tightly I couldn't breath. I literally had to prise her off of me.

"Thanks Mindy, you really are wonderful!" Chloe said, smiling. "I can see why you love her Dave!"

I felt myself blushing badly!

That evening
West Ridge

"That seemed to go down well!" I commented to Mindy.

"I think she's really looking forward to it. It was a good idea to get her Mom's permission first though!"

"Just what we need... Another damn psycho on two wheels! What did Dr Bennett say?"

"Well, she said that Chloe is determined to break her pretty little neck somehow, so why not let her break it by coming off a motorcycle, at speed!" Mindy replied.

That same evening
Morton Grove

I was annoyed!

I had asked one simple question and they all yelled at me!

'NO!'

Why is that the one word people, always, say to me?

I only asked if I could join Fusion!

They all behaved like I wanted to borrow a gun and kill somebody!

I was very annoyed, so I had asked Mindy one simple question...

"So Hit Girl, how old were you, when you started slaughtering people?"

"Not old enough!" Mindy had replied.

So that was the end of that!

I will admit that I did enjoy the day. Firing all those guns was totally awesome and for my Chloe to help me was even better!

Talking of Chloe, I did get a big shock when I saw her combat suit; I mean, I knew that she had got hurt in New York and I had seen the wound while the dressing was being changed; Chloe never knew that I was watching. The wound was pretty horrific, to say the least! But seeing the damage to the armoured suit, was a bit much! I knew that the suit was designed to stop bullets, but these two bullets cut straight through the armour, the flesh of Chloe's shoulder and then back out through the armour again! Chloe could have been killed and then I would have lost the one person in the world that I respected the most.

I had tried to talk to Chloe about the wound and the damage to her combat suit, but she refused to talk about it. I kept asking, but just when I thought Chloe was about to hit me, she just quietly asked me to drop it and that she would tell me about it, when she was ready.

I was very young, but I knew that being a vigilante was very dangerous and any of them could get hurt, at any time, or worse!

Two days later
Tuesday

It was Abby's birthday.

I had spoken with Marty and suggested he find her a suitable gift. That gift would also be a big thank you for her work, with Fusion. Marty had managed to find the latest and the hottest laptop, he could find for Abby and it cost over seven thousand dollars!

I officially made Abby a full member of Fusion, she had definitely earned it! Dave had explained that she seemed a little nuts, at times, including putting comms on Sophia!

The team was now looking very good!

There was still a lot of training to do and I was itching to get back out and start fighting, but we still all had some recovery to do. Chloe's wounds were healing nicely, under the care of her Mom and the rest of us were getting back to normal. In the interim I had Kim to train that was when she wasn't glued to Marty, at the waist and lips! I wondered if they were fucking yet?