Note from the writer: I do not own the Biker Mice, Charley Davidson, Lawrence Limburger or anyone/anything from the original Biker Mice from Mars -show. However, I do own Elina Harrinneva & her entire family, Toni Björklund, Nick, Clarissa, Carter ("Cart-man") & his home, Emily ("Milly"), Jimi ("Jimmy") Kattilakoski, the little kid Crisholm, Mitch, Sara, Sam (the brother of Sara), Charley the Afro-American man, Hawalps, JyvYork, Harriet Meltdown -street and Pine street plus towns EstChigo and River`s Hill. I do not make money with this story which bases on my dreams and imagination.

The Etseri "city" is a real name of a place, better known as "Ähtäri," however the acts that happen in Etseri doesn`t take place in the real Etseri and the places described in the story can`t be found from there. Therefore the appereance of the Etseri as it is described in the parts of this story are my creations and property of mine.

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Modo rode to a farm that looked very suspicious. He and his bros. Throttle and Vinnie and their ally, mechanician Charlene “Charley“ Davidson had heard from this noon’s radio news that industry tycoon Lawrence Limburger had moved away from Chicago to the countryside, to take a short break. He remembered how they had laughed to the idea of Limburger on a holiday on the countryside and how they had been sure that Mr. Limburger was planning something; something that was easier to do on the countryside without the risk that the Biker Mice would show up on the first minutes when they were thinking that they finally had faced the success.

The Biker Mice had started their bikes and headed to the countryside not extremely far from Chicago where Mr. Limburger had been told to be spending his holiday, after they had checked out the Limburger Tower which really had been empty if we don’t count in the necessary guards, secretaries, chemists and other necessary people.
Some time ago the Mice had separated each to his own direction to look for the signs of the appearance of Mr. Limburger and now Modo had come to a small farm that seemed to have been empty for some years at least - perhaps much longer that what they had been here on Earth. The road, if that could be called as “road“ when it rather was a bit grassy path, seemed to go across the small farmyard and continue further from between the small white-colored but a gray nuanced house that had very light blue nuanced window ledges and the old darkish reddish cowbarn that’s walls seemed to be like if you had touched them you would have gotten that old color in your hands like how sometimes happened with the old buildings that had been painted with natural colors, not with modern factory made stinky poison paints.
Modo got up from the bike and looked around himself. On the left from where he stood was a small field that hadn’t been used for years and left behind him continued a field that had been used on this year, he could see the sings that were left from the treshing. On the right there was small grass-area that seemed to lead to the garden that were behind the house. The house was right in front of him on the right side, about 5 metres away from him and behind himself, on the right side of the road he had rode, he saw an another treshed field. The neighbour was further, behind the big treshed fields, so if something would happen to him there wouldn’t be easy to get some help. In the house might be a phone but it had no use if it hadn’t worked. In front of him was the cowbarn behind the house and the “road.“ He wondered how it still stood up because it looked rotten completely.

He turned to his bike and told her to go hiding place to lean to the wall next to the grass-area and to be ready to ride away and get some help if he was yelling and needed it. Then after the bike had parked herself next to the wall he stretched himself to full length and looked around. He had suspicious feeling inside and he lifted his arm cannon twice to make sure it worked like it should. He kept looking around, searching the sings of possible threat and came to the other front corner of the house. He thought he had seen something in front of him on the right, behind the back corner of the house and turned his gaze to look what it was. Just then two characters that reminded Tunnel Rat very much jumped down from the roof of the cowbarn with a net. Modo let out a yell of a startle and tried to fight himself free but the electric shock knocked him unconscious and the two characters dragged him away from the road, inside the cowbarn.

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Two hours later a group of young adults, in the age about from 17 to 21 walked laughing and doing small malevolencies to each other towards the old house. A blondish kid, about 10-year-old, followed them sulking a bit because the older people`s ignorance. An older blond boy told the child to get lost once again.
-"Why I can’t come with ya?" The kid complained.
-"BECAUSE… Go home now, please. Don’t be stupid and follow us. Your mom’s probably worryin` where ya R!"
The kid’s lower lip quivered and it seemed like it would start to cry. An other person, a reddish brown haired girl sighed because she had fed up to the kid and its continuous complaining.
-"Oh, C`mon…"
The little child turned to the reddish brown haired girl and started to beg.
-"Please Elina, say that I can come with you…"
The reddish brown haired girl, “Elina“ snorted a bit irritatedly, quiet enough to make other people not to hear it. Then she stopped in front of the child and turned around and bowed bit, so her face was a bit closer to the kid’s and asked as nicely as she could in her condition that child to leave them:
-"Oh pleasee! Please, Elina, please! I don’t wanna goo-o!"
The kid begged heart-breakingly Elina to say that it was okay to come with them. Somehow the kid felt Elina to be somehow close, but the child couldn’t explain how that was possible. Like if they had been same family but the kid knew already from her name that they couldn’t be same family in the kid’s opinion. The kid’s family name was Crisholm but Elina`s was Harrinneva which was strange and horrible to pronounce with its strong “r“s.

Elina breathed deep out.

-"Please be so nice now and go home before yer mom starts to worry too much."
The first boy joined in Elina`s words.
-"Yeah, we don’t need crybaby kids like ya with us!"

The kid turned around and ran away to the direction from where they had come from. Some of the young people started to laugh a little evil laugh. A deep black haired boy sighed from relief and shook his head.
-"At least now we don’t have to worry `bout that kid. Well done, Elina."
Elina looked a bit amazed the deep black haired boy in the eye and she mumbled quietly:
-"Forget it Carter. Even if that kid was bothersome, I don’t see we did right. Couldn’t it have been done in a… nicer way?"

Carter shrugged.

-"Donno. Don’t really care…"
The blond boy who had spoken earlier responded instead of Carter and continued: “But at least I couldn’t have done this if that brat had been around...“ came to Elina and throwing his hands around her waist and tried to kiss her. Elina pulled herself away from the blond boy but the boy pulled her back into his arms.
-"Nick, please, stop it…" She grunted.
-"C`mon Elina! Whatzzup?"
-"Nick, let her away from yer arms if she doesn’t want that!"
Nick looked at the rasta-haired, fake blonde girl that had spoken to him and on his face there was a bit amazed look.
-"Emily, Milly, Milly… What’s botherin` ya?"

Carter stepped next to Emily.
-"Milly`s right, Nick. Let her go now."

Nick set Elina free from his hold and stepped backwards keeping his arms up and open.
-"Okay, okay, Carter… Whatever ya want…"
Then he looked to the other people.
-"Shall we go on or are we going to stand here the rest of the day."

Carter snorted but then they turned around and continued to walk to the old white house.

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Soon they came to the first front corner of the house. Emily knocked on Elina`s shoulder and pointed the tyre prints on the grass and the small pit that was close to the wall on the grass-area. Carter went to look it and he got surprised because it seemed like if a motorcycle had speeded up fast and rushed to that direction from where they had come quite recently, but not any biker had come from the house towards them when they had been walking on the road towards the house they were now next to. Carter didn’t know what to think and he noticed that Elina was looking the places oddly. He came to her and asked what was wrong with her.
-"I dunno… This place looks so familiar. So similar to my granny’s house… Doya know when this place has become empty?"
Carter breathed deep and shook his head. A third girl who had more reddish, a bit shorter hair than Elina`s and whose hair was a bit curly, came closer to Elina and Carter and whispered fast.
-"This house has been empty about 20 years. The old lady who lived here died after two years from her grand daughter’s disappearance. Maybe she didn’t disappear in the actual meanin` of the word but anyway after she had graduated from her senior high school and moved to JyvYork to start her studies in its university, after that no one has heard about her. Neither ´bout her boyfriend."
-"Eh… boyfriend?" Elina wondered if she had heard correctly.
-"Yeah… a biker. Ya remember that child we sent away. She’s this disappeared girl’s sister’s kid."
Elina’s eyes got widened but she kept listening what the other girl, Sara, was telling to her.
-"…The kid possibly thought we’re goin` to destroy it’s mom’s grandma’s house and everythin`… but I tell ya what. The girl who disappeared had same name as ya, Elina - she was Elina too. And she was a bit like ya. Brownish hair with a bit reddish nuance. Definitely colored, I’m sure `bout that. But she hadn’t had any boyfriends not until this biker."
Sara looked Elina and Carter in the eye to make sure they both had understood what she had told to them. Elina moved her hands to express that Sara should go on with her story and she was interested in to hear the rest of it.
-"Go on, Sara!" Carter craved.
-"What I’ve heard she and this biker had met on the summer before her last year in the senior high started, and that the biker was at least 30 already, in my opinion too old for her, but anyway they kept seein` each otha. Most often the biker came to pick her up from her home or school with his bike and then they rode away who knows where but not at least very far because she had her school and it’s been told that she was never away from the school because of her boyfriend anyway, but the weird part of their relationship was that her parents never saw the biker’s face or him without his full-covering biker-suit, neither they never saw him away from his bike. When he came to pick her up he always sat on his bluish-colored H-D-bike and when he brought her back home he never got up even to say 'bye'."

Sara kept a short pause.

-"Well, she graduated on the spring and kept dating this biker and one day in next August when her mom came from work, she found a note from the table that told she had taken all that was absolutely necessary with her and now moved to JyvYork but when her parents tried to visit her no-one knew anybody that named girl there and the principal of the university told that named girl had been taken to a student of this university but she had cancelled and posted a letter to the principal where she told she would give up from her student-place and that it was open to someone else. Everybody has doubted if she just ran away with the biker and the wildest rumors say that he even raped, robbed and killed her and then hid the body so well that it hadn’t been found yet!"

Elina`s heart beat faster from the excitement but she had suspicious look on her face and looked at Sara if she was a bit insane and then burst into a bit nervous laughter.
-"Oh C`mon Sara! Don’t be ridiculous! What if she was mad at her parents for some reason and didn’t let them hear `bout herself and then she either didn’t care to take contact to her parents or she totally forgot them. And besides if that happened `bout 20 years ago, I wasn’t even born then, so she probably has kids and is happily married - not necessarily killed and buried to somewhere!"
-"Yeah Sara, that’s just a story, don’t try to scare the stranger who don’t know this area’s history and habits."
-"OK, Carter. I just told what I’ve heard." Sara pretended to be sulking.
-"Come on guys are ya again starting yer stupid fights whether that’s true or not!" A brown-haired Clarissa shouted to her friends and walked backwards towards the cowbarn. She didn’t notice a character on the roof of the cowbarn that turned to ask from the other one behind him to throw the net on the kids or not. The other one shook his head slowly to the asker and told him that they were locals who should not to find out that the empty farm wasn’t empty. The first character was obviously very disappointed.

Mitch who had been quiet until now gave out a shout to Clarissa:
-"Watch out Clary, I’m gonna catch ya!" Then he speeded up his steps to run to catch Clarissa, who turned around and ran away giggling like a mad.
Sara and Carter ran after Mitch and Nick came to left side of Elina who was between the another front corner and the cowbarn on the “road“ and threw his right arm around her and gave a strong hug that turned her around that much that she saw two Tunnel Rat like people on the roof of the cowbarn.
-"Nick! Look out!" She pulled herself away from Nick just before the net fell on him and was saved from it when it started to turn to look like a thin neon-yellowish soccer player’s shirt. Somehow she realized that they had to get that “shirt“ away on him as fast as possible.
Emily who had come last, a little bit behind of Nick, shouted to Carter, Mitch, Sara and Clarissa:
-"Come on guys; help us!"
-"We gotta get this away fast." Elina hissed behind her teeth trying to pull the “shirt“ away.

With the help of the friends they got the “shirt“ away on Nick just before the “Tunnel Rats“ rushed from behind the cowbarn from the open “cattle doorway“ from a some sort of “shelter“ between the actual cowbarn and the barn next to it, to them to drag Nick in. But because Nick didn’t have the “shirt“ on they stopped and looked at each other disappearing fast to there where the had come. The young got scared and ran away a bit further but then they stopped. Mitch was really stunned.
-"What the hell those creatures were?! Over-sized mix-ups of rat and wolf?"

After the worst startling they all burst into relaxing laughter but Elina had some suspicious feelings. She looked the cowbarn and thought the things she had heard and seen. This place looked so much like her grandmother’s farm except that the sauna building was missing, granny’s closest neighbours were missing and here went a tiny path-like road trough the yard and at her granny’s house there didn’t go. The girl had been same-named as she, and she had had both parents and at least one sister while she had two older sisters who had moved away from home already and one 1-year younger sister. Plus this other Elina had had at least one granny alive like she had but she had also one grandfather alive too. This other Elina had no boyfriends when she had been about her aged but she thought this all might be just a big coincidence. But she also thought the dream she had once not very long time ago had. A tall, about 2 metres tall, gray-furred male mouse - who had cybernetic right arm and eye patch covering his left eye and who had worn some sort of blue biker jeans, black and dark purple biker boots, dark purple fingerless glove on his left hand, some sort of “bullet-belt“ around his left wrist and his upper body was covered with a piece of cloth that she didn’t know how to describe, it was a kind of chest armor - had appeared to her in a dream. The mouse had seemed to be very worried about something and told her that he feared that his bros, Throttle and Vinnie couldn’t be able to help him in the near future. She was remembering if he had said his name was Modo and he had seemed to be very worried about that what would happen to his bike Li`l Hoss if he would die before he gets any help. She remembered how she had tried to comfort the worried mouse-man and she was like if she had felt again the a few tears of apprehension when she had sat on her knees next to the mouse and snuggled his head against her chest in the dream. She remembered how just before she had woken up she had looked him in the eye and seen the begging look in his eye and how she had promised to help him if that situation comes.

Somehow she felt now was the time and that the mouse would be imprisoned there, in the cowbarn. Only one thing wondered her a bit: What he would have done in Finland and as far as in the countryside of Etseri-“city“? But why then Carter had called her a “stranger who don’t know this area’s history and habits?“ If they were in Etseri, she definitely wasn’t a stranger - everybody would have known her! Also she wondered why those girls and boys who she was with had English names. Nick if he had been a Finn would have been “Niko,“ Mitch would have probably been “Mikko,“ Emily most likely “Emilia“ and so on...
“Where the hell I am?! If Modo`s really there I must help him outta there and what else there may be!“

She bowed a little bit to make herself a bit smaller and started to run with long silent steps to the end wall of the cowbarn and stopped after she had reached it. She looked quickly to the direction she had come from and saw the amazed and questioning looks on her new friends` faces. She sneaked one metre forward staying close to the wall but not leaning to it because she knew that if she would lean to it, the back of her shirt would be deep red instead of that “old orange“ -colored with tiny red tulips. She peeped behind the corner and listened. No one seemed to move there. She sneaked fast, close the blind wall, coming to a doorway that she first thought to be the other side of the cattle’s doorway’s shelter from where the rat-creatures had rushed to them but when she peeped in she noticed there were wall on the other side a bit further from her. No one seemed to move there and she started to think if she had eaten something wrong that had made her to see rat-men and nets that turned to look like soccer player’s shirt and knock someone unconscious. She looked around and when she was sure no one wasn’t around to surprise her, she sneaked in to the cowbarn`s small corridor. She expected to hear some pigs` voices because there stank so badly. She looked in the shower-room from the first two parted door that’s lower part was locked but the upper part as open as possible.
She gave a quiet shout:
-"Modo?!"

No response but neither anything else that would have told that someone or something would have been in there.
-"Li`l Hoss?"

She called Modo`s bike even if she was sure she wouldn’t find it from there and even if it would have been there how a bike could have been able to let someone know she’s there. She listened again the surroundings and once she thought she had heard a quiet, painful grunting. She looked fast around in a fear that now she was in trap but relaxed a bit when saw no one around. After hesitating a moment she decided to go further in the corridor. In the wall, on right side of the corridor there weren’t any doors and she sneaked silently staying close to it and she saw an other old, yellowish -colored door that had lost it color long time ago, quite next to the previous door but at this time the door was in one piece - not in two parts as the previous one. In the wall to where the corridor ended there was a third yellowish door that one in one piece too. Both of the doors were open a little. She decided to check out the third door before the second one. She entered the room behind the door staying close to the wall. The room was empty if the trash-bags were left without counting in. The room seemed to be the official cowbarn room that hadn’t seen cows for at least 30 years. For all that she had seen inside the cowbarn, this room reminded her granny’s cowbarn`s “rooms“ the most. She heard weakly how above her, on the roof a person were scolding to at least two people, most likely because they had thrown the net on Nick even if they were told not to throw and make the locals aware from their appearance.

She breathed deep out and looked around and still couldn’t believe there wouldn’t have been more than those three people who were up there on the roof and she kept thinking all the time that this was some sort of trap. She looked around and rushed silently to the second door that she had missed earlier. She looked around, her heart beat like a bass drum, hard and loudly, and then she breathed deep and peeped in from the door.

Her eyes became wider and she had to cover her mouth not to make a single voice when she saw all the people there. On the left side of the door there were no one but on the left, in the middle-part of the wall there were three Afro-American men leaning to the wall with bleary look in their eyes. They seemed to notice that someone stood at the door but they were like if they hadn’t cared about that, even if their eyes stared blearily towards Elina. She moved her gaze from a face to face towards right and saw some women and four children even and they all seemed to have that same bleary look in their eyes. An older Afro-American man about one and half metres away from her on the right side of the door didn’t seem to have as bleary look in his eyes as the other people had. He lifted his head a bit to look better the comer who was better leaning to the door and the doorway than standing on her own feet. He saw how a single tear escaped from the comer’s right eye and he heard how she sniffed and swallowed her tears. He noticed that she was looking for someone special. And then he heard how she barely could even whisper a name.
-"Modo?"

Some of the people looked at her but not giving any response. They were too much and for too long been under the affection of medicines or something that had made them passive and their mind and eyes bleary. With the majority of the people there would have been a total miracle if they had even remembered their own name.
-"Where… is he? The biker with blue biker jeans and machine hand…"
Elina looked the people in the eye and no one seemed to show any sings of remembering such a person. Tears started to run from her eyes.
-"My God… Where is he? A tall, muscular guy…!"
She started to feel depressed. Their minds were taken away and they had been pumped full of the drugs. She had promised to help Modo if he would get in trouble and now she was absolutely sure he was, but she couldn’t find him to help him at all.
-"What youse lookin` fo` youn` lady?!"
Elina startled when she heard a man’s voice behind her. She quickly wiped her tears away and turned around to see who had surprised her. She startled a bit and stepped once backwards, into the room where the bleary-eyed people were. She tried to smile happily and pretend like if she had found that what she had been looking for.
-"Hi!" She greeted a bit stunned. “Sir, you. My friends told me there,“ she nodded with her hear towards the center of the commune, “that here is a new, tall, muscular and very handsome man working on this farm! I just wanted to find out were the girls just talkin` worthless rumours or does here really live a new handsome farmer. …And I gotta admit the girls were right but sir,“ she looked down to find something nice to say that would turn the gorilla’s mind upside down so she would get some time to do some research in all the rooms of the cowbarn to find Modo, “if I dare to say it aloud…“ she pretended blushing, “You Sir, are MUCH more handsome than what the girls told me!“

The tall grease-gorilla blushed deeply and took his red cap in his hands and looked his toes.
-"Dank you ma’am."
-"Miss, sir. I’m miss."

Elina pretended to be blushing too and was like if she had been looking the tip of her boots too. With a corner of her eye she looked at the older Afro-American man that didn’t have as bleary eyes as the other people had. She noticed he was pretending to have the bleary eyes too but when the grease-monkey didn’t look at his direction, he pointed with his left forefinger towards the closed door that were on the opposite wall.

The grease-gorilla turned around when he heard a car coming closer and rushed away forgetting Elina completely. The man obviously tried to say something. He had some troubles to move his mouth to create words and he opened his mouth wide often. He pointed again the closed door.
-"Thede… a moufe… …tall…"
Elina turned around and rushed to the door and looked around herself, the people on the both sides of the door, and thought once what if they just pretended and then stick a drug needle into her leg just before she enters to the room or what if there were more those rat-men waiting for too curious young girl rushing in. She looked the man in the eye once again and he nodded slowly to her and pointed the door once again weakly. She turned the key in the lock and pushed the door open and almost fell down when the door opened. About 2 metres from the door there were someone leaning to the wall. When Elina`s eyes got used to the darkness she recognized the character.
-"Modo!"
She fell on the floor next to Modo and took his face in her hands. Her eyes were full of tears that tried to escape on her pale white skin. She couldn’t help letting the tears falling from her eyes but she swallowed her cry, shook her head slowly touching and caressing Modo`s face with her hands. Modo didn’t seem to understand what happened or who the girl that had come in was and why she was crying. Elina spoke to him with a whispering sound:
-"Oh Modo, what they’ve done to you sweetie, yer eyes are so bleary!"
Modo concentrated all his strength to lift his hands. He grabbed onto Elina`s hands and tried to look her in the eye.
-"How…?"
-"Shhh Modo, don’t speak."
Elina got up and moved on the other side of Modo. She moved her left hand behind Modo and grabbed with her hand onto upper arm of Modo`s bionic arm.
-"Alright Modo, let’s get up! Please. I help ya. C`mon! Ya can do it! Concentrate yer strength to getting up."
Modo grimaced and grunted. It hurt to try to focus on to use the muscles that were pumped full of drugs. He lifted his right hand on Elina`s right shoulder and grabbed onto it. Then he grabbed onto Elina`s left shoulder with his left hand.
-"Do it, Modo!"
Modo grimaced and grunted again but he forced himself to get up while Elina tried to help him and pull him up.
-"C`mon! Yeah! Good Modo! Good!"
Modo`s muscles felt to be in fire and Elina`s shoulders and back were sore from helping Modo to get up. Now he was standing leaning his back to the wall behind him and taking support from Elina with his hands. They both were panting but Elina tried to hurry because she knew the grease-gorilla would come back soon when he would remember he had left Elina in the cowbarn where she could find Modo too.
-"C`mon Modo. Let’s get outta here."
Elina grabbed tightly from Modo`s waist with her left hand and grabbed onto Modo`s right hand and pulled it on her right shoulder.
-"Take support from the walls with yer left hand. O.K, let’s go!"

They had barely ended up to the door when Elina saw someone were standing in front of them. The comer looked suspiciously Modo at first but then he noticed the blue-gray helmet on the floor and picked it up and came to the left side of Modo and threw his right arm around Modo and grabbed onto Modo`s left hand with his left hand that held already Modo`s helmet.
-"Ok, let’s go! The girls are playing some time for us with Mitch and Carter. There came a big fat tycoon with his limo and when I saw that grease monkey coming from somewhere here I thought ya might be in trouble."
Elina gave a quick friendly and thankful smile to the helper.
-"Thanx Nick. We gotta help him too." Elina nodded towards the older Afro-American man that had helped her. “He’s in the best condition from these people and besides without him I wouldn’t have found Modo.“
Elina took Modo`s helmet from Nick and he gave a hand to the man who had helped her to find Modo and helped him up. She looked in astonishment how good shape that man was in.
-"I… pwetent… a lot…. Show… worse… than… I am…"

Nick looked around and listened.
-"Hurry, let’s go. They can’t hold the tycoon and his monkey there for a long time. They were talkin` about a bothersome vermin called 'Modo'."
Modo turned his head a little to Nick when he heard him saying his name. Elina looked Modo in the eye and swore:
-"They’re not gonna hurt ya, Modo. I`ll guarantee that!"

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Somehow they managed to drag Modo and the older man outside the cowbarn and further from it, behind the small forest that were close to the farm. They had come to a small open grass-field where they helped Modo and the older man down to rest. Elina and Nick were both panting heavily but they still tried to stay on their feet, to see better when their friends were coming to them. A bit later they heard them coming and then finally they could see them too. Nick breathed out deep from relax when he saw his friends were fine. Elina sat on her knees next to the giant mouse and wiped the sweat away from his face. The older Afro-American man, Charley, who had helped Elina to find Modo, lied on the ground and breathed very heavily.
-"He’s not gonna survive. Nick said quietly to Elina and nodded towards Charley."
When Clarissa, Sara, Mitch, Emily and Carter came to Nick, Elina, Modo and Charley, their eyes were caught straight away by Modo. Elina couldn’t understand why they had to stare Modo like if he had been a national biology museum’s main object.
-"What?! Why are ya staring at him? He has done nothin` wrong and he can’t affect to his appearance! What if he’s a bit different than us?! We all are different to each other! Emily, ya have blonde-colored rasta-hair and light blue eyes, Mitch ya have well-built body, dark skin and dark brown eyes, Nick’s blond and I’m so pale that I would go from a living ghost!"
Elina bowed closer to Modo to listen his breath how much calmer it was now, and stroke his cheek.

She heard how the others whispered furiously and had their silent conversation. She could pick up her and Modo’s names and she knew very well that they were talking about them, which made her to feel a bit sad. She couldn’t understand what was actually so different in them, her and Modo, except Modo’s physical look. She felt sorry for him because she saw from his well-built body that he was strong but now the mighty had fallen and he was weak and needed help sorely. She was also worried about Charley’s condition that seemed to have gone downwards since she and Nick had saved him from the cowbarn.

Someone coughed and everybody turned to look to the direction of the coughing and they saw that Charley had problems with breathing. Clarissa rushed to him to make him to feel even little better but she knew that even if she was a graduating nurse she couldn’t help this man much and Charley died on her arms. A fit of rage rose in her:
-"WHY YA DIDN`T HELP HIM?!! WHY YA JUST STOOD THERE LOOKIN` HOW THIS MAN DIES?!!!!"
-"SSHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Nick hissed. “Do U really wanna let the tycoon and his grease-monkey hear we’re here, not far from them and easily to be caught! I don’t know who they were but that man was just one of all the men, women and children there and they all were dazed! He was in the best condition and no matter what they were doin` there, they better not to find us!
Mitch came to Clarissa and put his hands on her shoulders comfortingly as she burst into furious sobbing and snuggled her head against his chest. Everybody was silent and sorry for the death of the man but they also were sure about that they couldn’t stay there any longer. They had to get help for Modo and get away from here before they would be found and imprisoned by those over-sized mix-ups of rat and wolf.

Sara picked up her mobile phone from her pocket and tapped her brother’s number.
-"Hey Sam. Could ya bring dad’s black van to Harriet Meltdown -street’s crossing in ten minutes? … Could ya come with someone of yer friends and jump in his car and leave the van to there - I`ll be there to waitcha. … Yes, yes… … No! … Good. … In ten minutes… Because here’s so many of us that we must take the van… Thanx, yer sweet brotha - didcha know that… (Giggling:) No, I won’t stop! … Bye!"
After she had finished her phone-call to her big brother, Sara turned around to tell that her brother would bring the van of their father but her should go to the crossing where she had told him to drive the car and she would come to pick them up after her brother would have gone far enough.

Emily was a bit thoughtful and blue.
-“We all can’t go to that van, there’s no enough space. And besides,“ she nodded towards Modo, “he weights at least 500 pounds.“
-"Nope." Nick corrected. “Can’t weight that much if I and Elina brought him here.“
Emily looked nick in astonishment.
-"You carried him?!"
Nick shook his head slowly.
-"Nah, we just dragged him on his own feet."

Emily was thoughtful again.
-"Anyway, he’s pretty heavy. A body-builder with a metallic arm… What he actually is? A lab-experiment of combining human and mouse genes which has escaped? Wow... and I thought the furthest stuff were cows with a human gene in their udders, which affected to their milking ability and the Dolly-sheep. They haven’t told anything in the Science-magazine about experiments to add some mouse genes into a human! But why the metallic arm then? I thought they haven’t been able to build a mechanic arm to a human being…"

Elina sighed from slight annoyance.

-"Modo´s not an experiment, he’s not even human… Just a bit human-like mouse I guess."
Everybody sighed except Elina, and Sara because she was already far enough not to hear what they said:
-"An alien?!"
Nick had supposed something like this but not exactly this when he had seen Modo for the first time in the cowbarn. Mitch recovered right after him.
-"A giant mouse? Is there more of them?"
-"Only 3" Elina responded. “All are males.“
Emily turned to a bit blue.
-"Then they can’t have babies…"

She was silent for a moment but then she shrugged and continued just sighing out:
-"Well, I guess they weren’t supposed to breed since they’re lab-animals…"

Elina was pissed off.

-"They’re NOT lab-animals! I said that already! They’re free, they have had their mothers and fathers - probably they have girlfriends too but I don’t know! Besides it’s not my fault if they’re mice. But at least I accept them unlike some other people…"
Then she turned her head angrily away from other people’s direction and concentrated to Modo trying hectically to find a way to help him to get rid of the narcotic affection of the drugs - whatever they were.

**********

After some time they had buried Charley and succeeded to drag Modo next to the bushes that were close to the nearest safe road; on the other side of the small grass-field where they had been. Emily had finally decided to be helpful and had run after Sara to get from her quick ride to her home where her car stood and she could come to pick up the rest that couldn’t go in the Sara’s father’s van. Elina had had to take a spray from her Scaldument-medicine because she had gotten an asthma attack because of her visit in the cowbarn. When they had noticed that Modo was going downwards and he seemed to have similar breathing problems as Charley had had, Clarissa had taken Elina's medicine pipe and given two sprays from it to him which now had seemed to be in real need and opened his bronchuses a little bit. Clarissa and Elina had counted that they probably could give the third dose if that would be necessary but then they shouldn’t give more and just try to manage a few hours until they could give more that medicine to him. Mitch thanked in his mind that the girl they had met today had had asthma and the medicines to that with her or they probably would have been less able to save the coughing giant mouse whose bronchuses were constricted, a bit like in asthma attack.

Sara was waiting them already with her father’s van and Emily came just after they had come to their meeting place. She told she had had some problems at first to find the keys of her car and then she had to pay a visit to the gas station and fuel the tank full that horrible expensive gasoline. After a short information exchanging they decided to let Clarissa and Elina to go to the van with Modo and Sara would drive it, and the rest: Carter, Nick, Mitch and Emily would come right behind the black van and that they would drive to Carter’s home that was closest but still far enough from both the farm and the curious people. Besides Carter’s parents were currently on two week’s holiday in Hawalps and he didn’t have any siblings so the whole house was in his use and no one would know that there had been taken care of a giant mouse.

**********

It was already early evening when they dragged Modo inside the house of Carter’s parents and took him to the bathroom. Girls made a hot bath for him while the guys tried to support his heavy body on his feet, until someone of them got an idea to help him to sit on the edge of bath-tub. Then all the others went outside from the bathroom except Elina, Clarissa and Carter, who was worried about how long would that mouse stay at his parents` house, - but then also Carter left the room and went to the others, leaving Clarissa and Elina to take care of Modo. Elina asked Clarissa also to leave them alone and told her she would get along with Modo and wouldn’t need any help now. When Clarissa finally left them Elina started to undress Modo for the bath, telling always what she was going to do and that he was now in safe and among the friends. Modo, whose mind had cleared up a bit, tried to help Elina with some more difficult parts like taking off his chest armor. When she was going to take of his biker “jeans“ he blushed heavily and first didn’t let her even try to open his belt. A bit amusedly she just responded that she knew the male anatomy well enough to give even a lesson about it, adding to it that most likely the male mice were quite similar-looking to human males, so she knew all that what he was trying to hide, and saying that she would look to another direction when his family jewelry would be unhidden if he wanted so. Modo smiled weakly to the way she pronounced the word “jewelry“ and tried to correct Elina`s a bit wrong pronouncing way but he noticed that his own tongue knotted easily too.

Unlike someone would have expected, his boxers were "broken white" with grayish nuance and the grayish nuance made them to look better against his gray furred skin. Modo slid himself to the foaming bathtub before Elina was going to help his underpants off. She couldn’t help laughing a little to Modo`s act but then she gathered all his clothes and filled a washing tub with hot water and some washing powder and sunk the dirty clothes in the tub to get soaked. Then she came back to Modo and crouched right next to the bath-tub where Modo lay, holding his right arm on the edge of the tub and sprinkling water on his knees with his left hand, with a bit absent look on his face and in his only good eye.
-"Modo?" Elina spoke with a warm friendly voice. “Would you please give me your underpants too so I can wash them too.“
From somewhere she dug up a bit motherly smile though she had no clue about being a real mother because she didn’t have any kids. Yet, though she had planned to live free forever, not letting any man tie her and put the wall to separate her from free roads and her dream bike, MotoGuzzi Nevada.
Modo tried to take off his underpants but his muscles were still burning and sore and he couldn’t take them off. Elina pulled her short sleeves as high as she could and then sank her hands in the bathtub, causing a shock to Modo. She looked him in the eye and told she’s just taking the pants off and nothing else, and this time they got them away. Then she got up and turned around to take the underpants to get soaked too and she couldn’t help grinning in her mind to the shocked look that Modo had had on his face when he had realized her hands in the tub catching hold of his meager hips.
She returned to him after changing the soap-water in the washing-tub and putting the clothes to get soaked again. She took a white-pink loofah from the shelf on the other side of the bath-tub, wet it and put some good-smelling soap to it and squeezed it a couple of times to make the soap to foam. Then she poured some water on Modo's head slowly and gently and started to wash him clean talking to him this and that with a softer voice than what she normally used and Modo closed his eye for short moments and enjoyed with full heart from her care but then he felt a stab of coyness in him and like a part of him would have told him not to enjoy how the youngish female creature took care of him so gently and let him be casualty little boy and didn’t demand him to be great warrior till the painful death.

**********

Meanwhile back at the farm they had escaped, an evil scientist, Dr. Karbunkle was making his twisted experiments with the dopey people and reporting the situation to his employer, the tycoon, Lawrence Limburger, who seemed to be angry to his employee.
-"What do you mean 'in other dimension where time goes in different way'?! I didn’t use the transporter you fibbing wage-worker! I came with my limousine!"
-"But your cheesy richness, I tried to explain it to You sir… There happened a rupture on the time and space line which mixed-up our world and one of its neighbor worlds, bringing us here instead of that place where we were going at first when the rupture happened. And now because on the time line is a path to here from our world it recognizes us to be the same who traveled trough the rupture before it closed behind us, the path opens always and brings us here. You don’t need a transporter to travel between these dimensions now after the path has been created as long as we come here from that same road."
Mr. Limburger was thoughtful.
-"Hmmm… Because it seems to recognize us, is it possible that we can use that 'path' forever or at least as long as we are on this planet?"
Dr. Karbunkle nodded.
-"At least as long we stay in Chicago, which brings an interesting thought in my mind…"

Mr. Limburger turned to be very exited.
-"Then it means we could mine Chicago and its surrounding areas upside down and transport everything to Plutark without the appearance of those infernally intergalactic idiot Biker Mice to contaminate my Earth-stripping plans!"
-"Splendid Your stinky blue cheesyness! What an imposing insight!" Dr. Karbunkle joined in his employer’s joy.
-"…Especially when I have one of them imprisoned there in the cow-house. The others have miles of the countryside landscape to look for their friend."
-"And when they will find us, their vermin friend will be dead for a long time. Which reminds me from that if we first want to make some experiments with that mouse, we should do them now when he’s still alive but not anymore able to resist and fight back." Karbunkle continued Limburger’s words.

Then Dr. Karbunkle bent down to a man that had been tied to the doctor’s operating table, to go trough of the affections of the new drugging material that they had used to these people. He cut open the man’s brains but the man didn’t seem to notice it at all. He hadn’t noticed the pain when Dr. Karbunkle had sawed his head open and neither now he didn’t notice how his brains were cut open for the doctor’s experiments. Mr. Limburger turned around and called Greasepit to him with a very angry tone in his voice.
-"Ya wanted ta see me boss?"
Mr. Limburger sighed giving in.
-"Unfortunately I had to lower myself to do that… Now could you go and bring that vapor-headed vermin to here for Karbunkle`s experiments."

Greasepit went out to bring dopey Modo to inside the main building of the farm for the experiments of Dr. Karbunkle, but he came quickly back.
-"Boss, Boss!"
Mr. Limburger, who had become absorbed in his own businesses, just waved his right hand to Greasepit, telling him to take Modo to Dr. Karbunkle.
-"But Boss!!"
-"Not now sonny…"
-"Boss, dere wasn’t dat mouse anymore… It was gone. Like: >>Puff!<< "
Mr. Limburger lifted his head up and turned to Greasepit, yelling furiously:
-"Trough my stinky Plutarkian toes and the skin between them, WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE`S GONE?!!!"

Greasepit looked astonished.

-"It wasn’t dere anymore. Neither the gyrl."
Mr. Limburger was almost boiling from the anger:
-"What girl?!!!"
Greasepit looked helpless to his boss.
-"Da red-haired…"
-"What “red haired?“"
-"I dunno…"
Mr. Limburger noticed how helplessly Greasepit looked and seemed to be really puzzled.
-"One of the locals that we saw earlier?"
Grasepit nodded.
-"Yeeh... Locals, but not dhose who were here on da yard when ya came. She was inside dhere." Gresepit pointed to the cowbarn.
-"WHAT?!! YOU IRRATIONAL IMBECILE LET THE LOCAL PEOPLE WANDER IN AND OUT OF THAT COW-HOUSE?!!!"

Greasepit joggled in front of his employer.
-"Not ma fault… If yer rats hadn`t thrown the net on a local boy they wouldn’t have found us!"
Mr. Limburger sighed deep and fell back his chair next to the desk in front of him and sunk his face in his hands and didn’t know to cry or not.
-"Why everything that first seems to go so fine, is destroyed by those ridiculous lucky-mice to whom the Miss Fortune seems to smile always! Why they always become rescued just before they seem to face their end? Why they just can’t get destroyed during our stealing and destroying operations…" He lifted his head up angrily. -“FIND THEM! Find that motorbike mouse and that girl!!"

**********

Modo opened his eye and looked the girl in the eye. Not until now he noticed how deep blue eyes she had and he smiled weakly to her, getting a smile back in a response. She poured some water on him to wash the soap away, and for funny enough - he actually liked when she did that.
Then she got up again and went to wash his clothes. She looked them and came to that result that at least the pants needed to washed with a machine, she wouldn’t get them clean enough just with her hands but at least the worst of the dirt had soaked away from them. She turned around to ask Modo if his pants were allowed to wash in the washing machine and if he knew better in what temperature. She told him to wait until she would come back and to his question about where she was going she just answered that she was going to put his pants to the washing machine and she would come back right after that. Then she went out of the bathroom calling Carter to show how the washing machine worked, leaving Modo to lie in the bathtub alone to clear up his thoughts. When she returned about a couple of minutes later she brought him glass of water and some fruits to refresh him before official dinner. Modo, who hadn’t been used to eat fruits quite at all, was surprised and looked Elina with a questioning look on his face but took a gulp from the water-glass she had brought. After little persuasion he ate a few of fruits that she had brought to him and then he drank the rest of the water that was left in the glass. He looked her in the eye with the look that told he was still thirsty. Elina took the glass but left the tiny platter where the fruits that were left lied, on a bench so close to Modo that he could take them if he wanted. He breathed deep and slid himself deeper in the water that had started to get colder. He exerted himself to sit partly on end of the tub and let the water drain from the outlet. He was sitting there when Elina came back without knowing what had happened and she blushed unintentionally when she saw Modo sitting on the top edge of the bath-tub covering his private parts with his bionic hand, trying to fix the way he was sitting or he would have fallen on the bottom of the almost empty tub. Elina giggled and turned around holding still a water pitcher and the glass in her hands.

After Modo had filled the bath-tub again with hot water and sank back in there, Elina ran the risk to turn around again to bring glass and the water pitcher to him. She poured the glass full of water and gave it to Modo who drank it empty with a few gulps. She took the empty glass from him and put it on the platter. She touched his forehead trying to find out if he would have had a little temper but came to that result that he probably didn’t have, at least that much that she would have felt it clearly. She looked the eye-patch he had covering his left eye. She asked if she could take it to be washed and cleaned too, so there wouldn’t stay any bacteria that could in worst case destroy his only good eye too or cause a blood-poisoning. After a little resisting he finally agreed to take it away, letting her to see a little that what was left from his lost eye even if he turned his face to another direction, away from Elina, so she wouldn’t see it. She took the eye-patch from him with her left hand but at the same time she turned his face back to her with her right hand, gently but knowing what she was doing, and forced herself to face the destroyed eye, but the years had done already much to make it better to look. She cleaned the skin around the destroyed eye with a wetted cotton pad extra gently, trying to avoid possible hurting of it. Her hand stayed a moment on his left cheek before she got up again and went to wash the eye-patch.

A bit later she came back to Modo and gave the eye-patch back to him and helped him to put it back to cover his left eye. Their looks met and they stopped to look each other. The primitive desire that the both species knew subconsciously, flushed over them forcing their lips to meet each other and join in the passionate kiss - to a kiss they both had never thought to be existing.

After they had separated from kissing each other Modo felt a bit guilty and they both blushed slightly.
-"Ah shouldn’t ‘ve done that. Should’ve keep m`self under control…"
-"What for?" Elina asked in a slight astonishment.
-"Yer… b-boyfriend… the blond boy?"
Elina burst in a little laughter.
-"Ya mean Nick? No…" She shook her head and laughed a bit. “I was grabbed here today, I don’t know how, and I don’t even know this place and these people in the actual practice, so how he could be my boyfriend?!“
Modo bent his head downwards and looked down. Elina had gone to clean up his chest armor and seemed to clean it up actively.
-"I… Ah thought ya`ve got someone…"
Elina didn’t know how to be or act. At the same time she would have wanted to grin and pronounce triumphantly that no-one had succeeded to tie her but she felt that if she would do that she would cause a bigger shock to Modo and make him think if she really was that kind of annoying slut as the boys from her next door and school had said about her. The words of her parents rose in her mind again and she had to fight against them. ”Damn Jimi!”

-"But I don’t happen to have. No ring to squeeze me slowly to the early grave like my sisters - no, I live and enjoy." Then her voice darkened: “…As much as a student who still lives with her parents can live and enjoy about her life…“
-"Eh… Ring?" Modo asked and was going to get up from the bath. Elina nodded a bit, almost invisible, and seeing him going to get up she left the chest armor to get soaked and brought him clean white towel.
When she was about to give the towel to Modo she happened to step on bath-soap that had dripped from the loofah when she had washed Modo, and she slipped, falling head ahead to the bath-tub where Modo still lay. The sound of splash was also heard in the living room where Carter and the rest where playing the Truth or Task while they had been waiting Elina and Modo. They rushed to the bathroom from where they had heard the splash and found startled Modo and coughing Elina who had swallowed the bath water a little. They saw she was getting up from the bath and water was running from her clothes. The sight was comical and they couldn’t help bursting in laughter when they noticed that there wasn’t danger anymore. Elina gave them a murderous “Let’s wait and see how hard you laugh when you do this too.“ -look when she recovered enough. Carter couldn’t help jeering a little at her but his sound was friendly and told he was just joking in a positive attitude:
-"Hey Elina, usually we take the clothes off BEFORE going in the bath!"

But Nick’s voice was colder and harder:
-"Or were ya just so horny that U had to jump in the same bath with that over-grown rat…"

Modo`s eye started to glow red and he was pissed off.

-"I ain’t NO rat and definitely not over-grown!!"
His laser cannon popped out from his arm and he pointed Nick with that. The girls next to Nick were horrified and took a couple of steps away from Nick, and Carter and Mitch tried to make Nick to cancel his words: this mouse-man was deadly dangerous when pissed off enough.
-"Nick, stop it! I don’t wanna blood on the walls." Carter snarled.
Elina looked horrified when she saw the cannon popping from Modo`s bionic arm and she stiffened when she felt him grabbing onto her shoulder and she almost fell back to the tub and she felt how Modo got up behind her taking support from her shoulder.

-"Ya don’t even know how to talk to the ladies." Modo growled to Nick and his eye still glowed red. “You’ve scared this lady enough,“ Modo looked quickly to Elina but turned fast his gaze back to Nick.
Though she was scared she lifted her right hand on Modo`s arm-cannon and presses it a bit in a hope it would go back inside the arm. Modo calmed down and the cannon slipped back in the arm but Elina held her hand still on it, until she pulled his hand on her chest and grabbed onto it with her both hands, pressing it against herself lovingly and a tear escaped from her eyes when she looked down to the hand she was pressing against her chest. Mitch, Clarissa and Emily went out and Carter tried to show to Nick the signs that he had better to go out too. Sara gave a quick judging look to Nick before she stepped outside the bathroom just before Nick. Carter looked to Elina and Modo and asked if they could manage alone for some time and brought two clean towels to them explaining that Elina could borrow some his mother’s clothes and deplored that there weren’t clothes for Modo because of his big size. He apologized Nick’s bad behaviour and wondered why he actually had behaved so childishly. He told to Modo that Nick was usually nice guy but if he became attracted by anything or anyone he wanted it for him no matter what it would cost and shrugging he stated that Nick had to be now attracted to Elina but she didn’t seem to be interested in about Nick. Then he left them mumbling something about that Nick could destroy the whole house if he weren’t there to stop him.

After Carter had gone Elina turned around and saw Modo standing behind her holding the towel in front of his private parts they both blushed slightly and smiled shyly and a bit embarrassed to each other.

**********

Some time later Modo came out of the bathroom leaving Elina to get undressed from her wet clothes. His fur was fleecy after bathing and short drying with a hair dryer. Meanwhile the washing machine had washed those of Modo's clothes that Elina had put there, and the chest armor was already dripping water on the line in the bathroom and his boots and everything else had been washed clean from the dirt.
He stepped into a dark room and he sensed he wasn’t alone and that someone had been waiting him to step trough the doorway of the bathroom and this room but he was too tired and weak to care about that. When he fumbled to find the light switch, a voice told him not to turn on the lights. Modo startled a bit when he realized it belonged to a woman and he blushed unintentionally when he remembered that he had only towel around him. He noticed now a shadow sitting on an armchair a few metres in front of him, leaning her chin slightly to her right hand.
-"Who or better what you actually are and where are ya from?" The shadow asked. Modo listened the voice if there was any signs of threat in it but it sounded more scientific, something that wanted to know the pure truth and nothing else. Modo was astonished from the question that couldn’t have been asked in the light and didn’t really know how to answer to it. Before he had succeeded to create some sort of answer in his mind the voice asked a new question:
-"What you’re doing here?"
When Modo was going to answer to that question the shadow asked her third and last question:
-"What is your relationship to Elina? Is she yer girlfriend and are ya the mysterious biker that the stories tell?"
Modo was perplexed. Why she asked those questions and what were the stories about a “mysterious biker.” He knew he was a biker - a biker who loved his bike very much but now he didn’t know where his bike was. Was she imprisoned too or had she succeeded to escape and to find Throttle, Vinnie and Charley ma’am. Was it possible that their reputation has reached people this far from Chicago already? Or was it possible that she was mixing up him to someone else or if she didn’t know any bikers personally but had heard a story about a biker who had been a bit mysterious, even unintentionally, and now meeting an actual biker she had remembered some stories that had been telling here and was now assuming that the biker of those stories was him.

The door behind Modo opened and when he turned around to look who was coming from there, he saw it was Elina who now unashamedly raised her gaze upwards, travelling first on his well-built stomach and chest muscles finally reaching his eyes, and he felt himself naked in front of her gaze that undressed him in his mind. A hot wave went trough his body when he looked the girl whose body was covered with beautiful light blue towel. It would have been so easy to take off that towel around her young body and let it drop on the floor and capsize her on the bed that was right behind him or even, like by stealth, graze her with tail from between her legs. When he realized what kind of unsuitable thoughts were spinning in his mind, he forced himself to give up from them and dump them so deep that they would never come back again and he blamed the dopey mind from bringing such abandoned thoughts in his consciousness but he didn’t know that the girl who stood in front of him had had a bit similar thoughts in her mind too. When Modo turned around to avoid from seeing the tempting female body he noticed that the armchair where the question maker had sat was empty and the girl had disappeared. Carter appeared to the other doorway that led to this room turning on the lights and brought some clothes to Elina and gave the biggest pants of his father to Modo hoping that they would be big enough for him and told that his father didn’t use them anymore since he had lost some weight but these he had been wearing when he had been at his fattest. Modo saw they were too short for him and there weren’t a place for his tail but Carter gave scissors to him and told him to make a hole for his tail; his father wouldn’t use these ever again and Carter told his father had saved them just to make a car waxing cloth from them even if they were still almost like just bought. Elina had to admit that Modo held scissors in a way that told him knowing more about needle-works than she, even if he was a male and still affected by the drugs, and she couldn’t help feeling a little stab in her heart. Elina took the clothes that Carter had given to her and went back to the bathroom to get dressed. Modo made the tale-hole carefully, following the directions of his mother very carefully. He looked around and thought should him put these pants on just here and now or would it better to wait until Elina would come from the bathroom and go to there to dress up because a thought that a few curious eyes would have probably followed him trough the key hole.

When Elina came out of the bathroom she noticed that Modo hadn’t dressed up yet and she realized that he had been waiting her to come out and letting him to go to change his clothing in the bathroom.

The fact that he didn’t have underpants bothered Modo when he pulled the pants on and it felt to him like if the joint would have scraped him a bit from between his legs. When he finally felt he couldn’t make these pants to fit on him any better, he came out of the bathroom and noticed Elina had been waiting him, leaning to corner of wardrobe. She eyed Modo´s new appearance in maroon and white -colored pants that covered his knees but not much below them about his lower legs, which gave a picture of a pirate-like appearance in her mind. She came closer to him and took his left hand in her right hand and started to lead him slowly to the kitchen. Modo sniffed the new smells and tried to find something familiar in this strange place and when they came to the kitchen he sat on a chair next to the dining table. Though Modo had used to eat mostly only hot dogs and to drink soda or root beer, ate he now the food that Clarissa had cooked with a good appetite and rinsed it with a bit cold water: he was too hungry to complain. Then after late dinner Carter and Elina helped him to the guest room of Carter’s family’s and there, on the bed to rest. Elina sat on the edge of the bed and took Modo`s right hand in her own hands and smiled to him slightly.
-"How are ya feeling now?"
Modo closed his eye and breathed deep out and opened his eye. He looked the ceiling but then he turned his gaze to Elina.
-"Fine… thanx, ma’am."
Elina didn’t know to laugh or cry.
-"I told ya I’m not married or even engaged."
She freed Modo’s hand from her hands and showed her left hand.
-"See. No ring. No man. I ain’t no a ma’am. Though for instance my parents don’t use their rings even if they’re married together."
Modo felt a bit puzzled at first but then he blearily remembered Charley, their Earthling female mechanician ally, telling that most often men and women who were married or had become life partners, had a ring in their left ring finger and usually women had two rings if they were married but one if they were engaged. Charley had said this “ring in the ring finger,“ from where came the name of the finger, was probably the most common habit to express that the person who wore a ring in his or her ring finger had promised to spend the rest of his or her life with someone who he/she loved and who usually loved him/her about as much. At least in the most ideal case. She had mentioned that there probably were some other ways also to express this too, but she didn’t know them. So, basing on what he had heard from Charley he made a conclusion that because this girl had showed a ringless hand and had said she wasn’t dating anybody she had to be free. He got up to sit, leaning his upper body to the wall behind the top of the bed and looked measuring this young female being, who sat on the edge of the bed that had been given to him for a place where to sleep. He missed a bit his top bunk in the Quigly Field’s score board but he missed even more his bros and bike. When he looked measuring the girl next to him, he also measured his own thoughts and how much he was ready to put in the game. Would he dare to tell her more about his bros and their task to stop Lawrence Limburger, a senior Plutarkian, from strip-mining this planet upside down like that fish had been doing back on Mars almost a decade ago? What if this girl, despite from saving probably his life, was working for enemies: perhaps to an other Plutarkian or the government of United States of America. And even if this girl would be safe would her friends be that too… Especially he was worried about the blond guy called Nick, who probably in his jealousy, would inform Lawrence Limburger and his goons about him and from where to find him. He yawned and decided to give up to the sleep but before he sank back under the covers he wanted to know would the girl stay somewhere close to him in the case that he would be asphyxiated at night like he was going to when they were on their way to the place where Sara had waited them with her father’s van. She smiled gently and promised to stay somewhere close but she thought she would probably go to sleep on the sofa in the living room. Just then Carter and Mitch came in carrying an extra bed putting it down on the floor, leaving a small distance to the bed where Modo lay. Clarissa and Sara brought the bed-sheets, quilt and pillow for Elina and put them down on the bed. Clarissa made inquiries about Modo`s condition and asked from Elina if she had her medicine with her. The look on her face told she had forgotten it on the edge of washbowl of the bathroom and she rushed to the bathroom making Clarissa to shake her head slowly, smiling slightly and to sigh:
-"Just like Emily when she strips off her science woman’s mask."
In Modo’s head something hit empty.
-"Eh… Emily?"

Clarissa nodded.
-"Yep. That fake blonde, braid-rasta-haired girl who makes the questions and wants waterproof explanations from everybody about everything…"
Modo shrugged weakly and responded slowly.
-"Dunno… Elina seems to be a more like a feet-on-the-ground -mother type." He kept a short pause. “Her children will be lucky to have a mother like her.”
-"Like her, what?" Elina, who had returned, asked from the doorway when she stepped in the room.
-"You." Clarissa answered to Elina’s question. Elina looked oddly them because she hadn`t heard their conversation. After Clarissa had explained briefly she just laughed dryly, half aloud to that comment. A bit sarcastically she mentioned that in the truth she was opposite to a good mother by being such an evil slut that she was actually, and that they had seen only her good side but if they would know her better they would see she’s a bitchy creature that the Earth shouldn’t carry on it, but because of its own mistakes she was still alive. They would notice what kind of trouble magnet she was.
Modo and Clarissa gave a bit amused smile and in Modo`s opinion she and Charley ma’am had a bit in common. This girl would dare to kick some evil asses but yet to be quite gentle and caring like she had been to him. He couldn’t explain why the picture of Throttle’s girlfriend Carbine popped into his mind but he guessed it was because she was the girl who could kick some movement even more to the army-guys` butts, even to sergeant Scabbard’s buttocks too.

Clarissa left them after Elina had given two doses from her medicine pipe to Modo. She told she had talked with Carter and that they all would stay there in the case of the possible complications. She was worried about that how much they could count on Nick, just like Modo had been too. She knew last time Nick had gotten attracted to a girl he had beat the girl`s boyfriend ready to be taken to hospital`s care. The guy had been normal, their aged young man but Nick had also destroyed his reputation. If Modo had been in his normal strength and condition, he could have been able to fight against Nick even with his appearance, not necessarily had to use muscles at all, but now when he was so much weaker it gave mental strength to Nick more than many of people could imagine.

After Clarissa had gone Elina brought the water pitcher to the night table next to the bed and a clean glass next to it in case that Modo would need some liquid at night. She smiled to him slightly and then she dug herself under the covers on the bed of hers, down on the floor, being aware from that Modo was looking at her all the time.
-"Good night, Modo."
-"G`night, Elina ma’am." Modo responded with a sleepy voice and turned on his back and closed his eye.
-"I`m not a ma’am…" She resisted grinning sleepily.

Elina listened how the sound of Modo`s breathing became calmer and calmer and a weak, tired smile rose on her face when she could hear Modo were sleeping sleeping already. She closed her eyes and fell in sleep too.

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Suddenly she woke up and opened her eyes in startle. It was dark in the room but she heard couching. ”Modo!”

She was up more quickly than she ever before had been.
-"Modo! … Modo! … Look at me! Calm down. Calm down, Modo and try to breathe normally. I’m here with ya, no panic."
She spoke with sure, calming voice that knew to be in charge now, to win the growing panic of getting choked in Modo.

After two glasses of water, two doses of the medicine that opened the bronchuses, sure, gentle and calming words and behaviour and a good moment of time, Modo reached some sort of balance and the asthmatic attack had turned to occasional fits of coughing. Modo leaned against Elina`s chest and tried to swallow the tears that had risen into his eyes. He took the eye-patch away from covering his left eye when he felt that he’s going to wet it with the tears. Elina told him it was O.K. if he cried and that she knew what it was to get a hard asthma attack for the first time at night and fear to death that you would die. She also told that she knew what it was if someone close to you had asthma too. Her younger big-sister, Anne, had it too and she remembered even if she had been very little when her sister had gotten her first night-time asthma attack and how she had feared to loose her then.
-"Cry Modo if it makes you feel better… I know it’s awful." She said snuggling his forehead against her chest and her left cheek gently against the crown of the head of his.

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From somewhere came the sunlight to his eye and Modo decided to open it. He noticed that Elina had fallen in sleep next to him and her hands were still around him. The look on the girl’s face seemed to be quite calm and a little smile rose on his face. He decided to put his head back on the pillow and sleep still a moment. His head and lungs and the rest of the body ached but he felt better than for a long time. He threw his left arm around her waist and pulled her a bit closer so she wouldn’t fall off the bed soon.

When he woke up again he noticed that Elina was awake already but he thought she hadn’t woken much earlier because she still was in the bed.
-"Morning, Modo…" She almost whispered when she noticed that Modo was awake too. She blushed and apologized that she had fallen in sleep in his bed but Modo said that he felt safer for some strange reason when she had been next to him. It felt a bit funny to her that small girl like she could make an over two metres tall biker feel himself safer but didn’t say anything.

-"How are ya? Feelin` any better?" Her voice was soft and still a bit sleepy. Modo noticed it with glad because sometimes he had wished he could lie down on the bed a bit later than normally with a nice girl next to him. He sighed in his mind. Here on Earth he had had quite a lot of time to think Mars and his bros, his life as a Freedom Fighter and before it and the wife he had had. He thought about should he tell to Elina that he had been married already but if they weren’t going to see after they would have gotten back to their homes, he felt it was useless to tell about it to her. It was possible that the girl didn’t feel anything else than compassion to a muscular biker who was too weak now to whip his tail seriously.
-"Fine…" He responded stretching the word.
She got up and Modo let her go but she didn’t go far, just to make her bed for the day. He got up to sit on the edge of his bed, clearing his thoughts. He didn’t know how it happened, did she read his mind or could she see from him but she came to him and told him to relax. She herself sat on her knees right behind him on his bed and drowned her a bit cool fingers on his shoulders and started to massage him. Lights and colors seemed to sparkle in his eyes when she handled his shoulder muscles hard but yet gently. It felt strange to him because it felt to him like if he had seen the sparkling with his left eye too that was lost in one of the worst battles against the Plutarkians when he had been almost 10 years younger.
-"Oh mama…"
After she had worked a good moment with his shoulder and neck muscles she ordered Modo to lie down on his bed and started to massage his back. From the way she handled him, Modo could feel that she wasn’t doing this for the first time. Always after little seeking she found the sorest places and tightest muscles making him moan from the pleasure and pain. He surely had underestimated this girl’s strengths and abilities, even if he had noticed that this girl had to be somehow special because she had at first seen him in her dream and then she really had come to rescue him dragging him out of the cowbarn with the blond boy. The legends about the friends that came to save someone after seeing the person who was going to need their help in their dreams, seemed to have base in the reality.
Modo couldn’t help enjoying the feeling he had after she had gone trough his muscles and now she was massaging his face with the hands that didn’t have much power in them anymore. His head rested on her lap and his eye was closed, letting him feel the feeling totally.
She was quite tired after the massaging but she didn’t let that come to visible in her appearance very much. Modo turned around on the bed making the bed squeak once menacingly and pulled Elina to rest right next to him. They fell in sleep again for half hour.

When Modo woke up he noticed that Elina was gone but soon she came back with his clothes that had dried during the night. She put them down on the foot of Modo’s bed and then she went outside to let Modo get dressed.

She went to kitchen where she met Clarissa and Mitch cooing. Blushing she mumbled “sorry,” and turned to go somewhere else but Clarissa noticed her before she disappeared.
-"Hey Elina… How’s that mouse-man? I woke up last night to his coughing but when I was going to enter to your room I noticed you had the control of the situation in yer hands already and I thought that because ya have own experiences about asthma attacks you could handle the situation by your own. Better perhaps if there wouldn’t be amateurs around you…"

Elina gave a slight smile to Clarissa.
-"He’s fine. Gettin` dressed currently…"

Clarissa nodded satisfied. She was sure that the worst had been passed now. Modo who had dressed up to his normal biker clothes now, came soon to the kitchen. He felt hungry but thought these people might not have any hot dogs, and probably they would look at him very oddly if he had said he’d like to eat a mountain of hot dogs. Instead he acquiesced to ask what they were going to eat on this morning. Clarissa said she had cooked porridge because she had thought Modo would need something healthy to eat; something that fills the stomach for longer time than for example corn flakes did. The amazed look on Modo´s face was worth of seeing.
-"Porridge? What’s that, Clarissa ma’am?!"
Clarissa winked him closer to the stove and lifted the cover of a cauldron and lifted quite thick brownish pap with a spoon closer to Modo so he could taste it; after he had sniffed suspiciously.

Clarissa noticed the suspicious look on Modo`s face.
-"Well, it may not smell and taste the best in this world but at least it is really healthy."
Modo’s rumbling stomach decided that this had to fit now or he should be left without any food until the lunch.

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Because it was Monday morning most of the young had to hurry to their working places, even Nick too and he didn’t have enough time to think about Elina or Modo. Emily promised to drive him to his work place because they worked in the same place but on the different areas of the same factory. Sara was the only one from the group who didn’t have a summer job, so she promised herself and her father’s black van in Elina and Modo`s use in order they could find Throttle, Vinnie and Charley.

Sara started the engine of the van and turned it on the road and the black van rolled beautifully in her hands. They drove all the roads that they thought Throttle, Vinnie and Charley would have ridden but when the day had turned to afternoon for hours ago and started to reach the evening already, they started to give up from the hope to see even tiny sign from the bros of Modo.

Modo sat in the empty back part of the van and sighed turning to look a small bundle, curling up to the hopelessness.
-"Nah… Useless… Sorry ma`ams but we ain`t gonna find `em eva… Who knows for how long Ah were dhere the prison of da Blue Cheese n` his twisted professor!" His eye started to glow and he hit his right palm to his left fist. They all were feeling disappointed because they hadn’t seen any signs of Throttle, Vinnie or Charley. Elina climbed to the back part of the van to console Modo. Sara parked to the bus-stop even if she knew she`d get fines if policemen would see them. She turned around on her front bench to look at her new friends who had disappointed look on their faces. Then she turned back to look in front, sighing deep but then a spot that grew all the time, turning to be three motorists with their bikes, caught her attention and her eyes opened in the hope:
-"Hey Modo and Elina look! 3 bikers!"
Modo`s jaw dropped when he used the zoom of his helmet. He could have recognized the bikes and the bikers from anywhere!
-"Ma bros! N´ Li`l Hoss!!"
The back doors flew wide open when Modo jumped out of the van and shoot with his arm cannon to get the attention of the bikers that had just passed them.

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-"Wouh! Someone’s firing us bros from that van we just passed!" Throttle yelled over the roaring of the engines of their bikes.
-"Yeah, if that someone makes even a scratch to my excellent body I´ll smash dog-food from that guy!" Vinnie snarled.

Charley rode Modo`s Li`l Hoss because it got less attention than an empty bike riding itself following the two other bikes and the other of those bikes would have been loaded with two people. They pulled the brakes to the bottom and turned around taking the weapons visible for the battle station. When they saw tall, brawny biker who had bionic right arm, standing by holding his hands on his waist, they could recognize him and shouted together:
-"MODO!!"
They rode to him and they could see the look on his face that smiled from the happy re-seeing and grinned with the style “Did ya miss me while I had great time?!” and “Ha! Got yer attention!"
-"Yep. That’s me. Modo grinned."
Charley got off from Modo`s bike to give it back to him.
-"Where you disappeared yesterday? We started to look for ya when Li`l Hoss came to our meeting place without ya?"

Modo was amazed:
-"Yesterday? Ah`ve been away probably weeks and ya talk about yesterday!"
Throttle shook his head.
-"No Modo. You’re wandering. Ya disappeared on yesterday afternoon. What happened ta ya?"
-"Yeah, did ya hit yer head or did the chicks daze ya too well?" Vinnie grumbled giving a noticing look to Elina and Sara who had come out from the van too.
-"I can agree with Modo." Elina cut the small fight. “When I found Modo yesterday from a cowbarn, he was in that kind of shape that told he had been mistreated for some time - not just a few hours."

Charley, Throttle and Vinnie resisted:
-"Can’t be possible!"
Throttle continued:
-"Remember we separated each to his own direction to look for the slime-ball Limburger, each to his own direction."
Modo tried to remember but then he shook his head slowly. Throttle continued:
-"It was 2 o`clock on the afternoon, yesterday, when we separated and an hour later yer bike came to that same place without ya."
-"…And about an hour later we were at the white abandoned house from where I found Modo." Elina continued Throttle’s speech and nodded towards Sara. “And I may have a clue to the question how this is possible.” She looked quickly everyone and sighed: “But ya would consider me nuts if I would tell it…”
-"What ya mean 'we would consider you nuts'?! Oh, come on! Tell it now!" Vinnie snarled.
Elina stayed silent and looked to him below her eyebrows.
-"I won’t tell it to you. But if you’re interested in, we found yer slime-ball Limburger."
Charley’s, Vinnie’s and Throttle’s jaws dropped.
-"WHAT?!!"
Elina looked to Sara.
-"Well Sara… Ya saw the tycoon himself. I got bumped to his grease-gorilla."
-"Greasepit! The bros and Charley said at the same time."
-"They had imprisoned Modo into a cowbarn and dazed with drugs that almost killed him to asthma attack!"
-"Asthma attack?" Vinnie, Throttle and Charley replied together.
Elina nodded deep and visibly.
-"Yeah, `f course I know what an asthma attack is; I have asthma myself!"
Throttle and Vinnie leaned further from Elina instinctively and even on Throttle’s usually calm face appeared a slightly startled look for a little moment. Modo came next to Elina and put his hands on her shoulders trying to that way calm her down. He noticed that the fearful reaction towards her asthma was something that she hated.
-"It is not catching…" Elina tried to swallow the disappointment and anger that the act of Throttle and Vinnie´s had caused.
-"Yeah bros, it’s not like flu…" Modo supported Elina.
-"So ya say bro…" Vinnie nattered. “But It’s Earthling disease! It may be catchy for us.” Modo gave to Vinnie a very hard look. Then he turned to both of his bros.
-"I say we go to pay a visit to that eel and make him pay from the crimes that he has done now. Charley and Ah weren’t the only victims of his!"
Throttle’s and Vinnie’s heads turned to Charley-girl who had first amazed and then really annoyed look on her face, and then they all looked questioningly and disbelieving to Modo.
-"What’re ya wandering Modo?! Charley`s there!" Vinnie snapped and pointed to Charley who stood next to him on his right side, with both of his hands.
-"Modo`s not wandering." Sara said. “There was a man that Elina and a “friend” of mine, Nick, saved from the cowbarn too and his name was Charley.

Charlene “Charley” Davidson had still a bit hurt look on her face.
-"Sorry Charley ma’am, my mistake. I didn’t mean ya." Modo apologized. The look on his face was really sorry.

The look on Charley`s face melted to be nicer.
-"That’s okay, Modo. I understand now. But why you talk about him in the past form?"
Sara and Elina looked to each other and sighed.
-"He died." Sara dropped making everybody silent.

After short silence Elina grabbed onto Modo`s right arm.
-"Modo?"
Modo turned to Elina and she continued looking him right in the eye:
-"I think it would be best if ya rest at least till the next morning. You’re still quite weak and the chain is always as strong as its weakest ring. If yer bros and Charley can’t rely on your strength 100-per-cently then there’s no meaning to start the battle if it can be pushed a bit further to the future."
Modo looked a bit sad but understood that the girl was right, yet he wanted to resits - show that they were wrong. He knew he needed time to rest now; he wasn`t strong enough yet, but he took a step towards his bike to climb on it. Suddenly he started to feel dizzy and before anyone could catch him he fainted, falling on the ground, but fortunately the helmet that was still on his head softened the hit that his head got.
-"Modo!!" Everybody startled.

Throttle and Vinnie lifted him to the back of the van, away from the road from catching the looks of bypassengers and Elina and Charley climbed to there too, to recover Modo. When he recovered his gaze wandered before it got caught by Elina`s and Charley`s faces.
-"What`s up, ma`ams?"
-"You fainted, Modo." Charley responded with soft voice. “You’re in a back part of these girls` van.” Charley nodded towards Elina and Sara.
-"Actually this is my dad’s van." Sara corrected.
-"We better take ya back to Carter’s home to rest. You’re not in fighting shape now." Elina said with steady voice.

Sara drove them back to Carter’s parents’ house and the bros and Charley followed them right behind them. Carter himself was already back at home. Sara let out a yell:
-"Hey Cart-man! We found the bros of that mouse-man: two other mouse-men and their human friend."
-"I saw ya already. I’m in the kitchen!" Carter let out a yell back.

Elina led the Biker Mice and Charley to the guestroom where they had slept last night and Throttle and Vinnie helped Modo to rest on the bed where Modo had slept last night, while Charley took off his boots. Elina sat on the edge of Modo`s bed and stroked his cheeks. Throttle, Vinnie and Charley noticed that, and they shared a look that raised one question in the air: was there something coming between their brother and this young human girl. Throttle winked Vinnie and Charley to follow him outside the room.
-"What now, Throttle?" Vinnie creaked.
-"Did ya guys see that how that girl stroked Modo`s cheek? I noted at the bus stop already that Modo was quite sensitive to the acts that could be interpreted as negative acts towards that girl. I admit I startled about her disease I couldn`t see anythin` abnormal in her appearance except that she’s so short. Charley-girl please, doya know what is that 'asthma'-disease?"

Charley shrugged.

-"Allergy? In TV at least these things have appeared together… Allergy towards for example some foods, animals - including mice…"
-"So what’s the point?!" Vinnie growled.
Throttle breathed deep and explained:
-"The point is Vincent that I’ve been thinking that could it be possible that there’s going to be brought forth a new relationship?"
-"Modo and that gyrl?! Oh C`mon, Throttle! Now you’re wandering too! I didn’t know here was a full moon now, it seems to be very catchy…"
-"Ha ha haa, Vinnie. Very funny." Throttle and Charley laughed dryly and sarcastically. Charley continued:
-"Throttle’s right, Vinnie. Nothing is impossible. The girl appeared to Modo`s life on a moment when things weren’t going by the manuscript and if we don’t do anything we may find a big mouse in love with his 'saving angel'!"
-"Charley-sweetheart, you’re day-dreamin`! That girl sees just a big furry animal and acts like little girls do when they find an animal that is hurted! Nothin` more. - Not even Rimfire would be her type!"
Throttle looked Vinnie firmly from behind his glasses.
-"Vinnie stop resisting against the fact, right? Remember when we were teens Modo dated for a short time a girl called Pestonina and later even got married with her?"

Vinnie swallowed.

-"That rat-girl?!"
-"Shhhh! No-one knew then Pestonina was actually a rat because she wore a mask, just like Mace did and she fooled everybody to think she was a mouse. She cheated Modo and about a month after their weddings Modo caught her accidentally in red hand with a rat. She didn’t wear her mask then so she revealed herself to Modo at the same time. Modo, whose heart was broken totally, went to get a divorce after long discussion about it with his mother, but before he could reach the authorities he heard that Plutarkians had attacked to their home-area and they had raped and then killed Pestonina after having their sick fun. That broke Modo`s heart so badly that not until Billie Munny made him almost falling for her."

Throttle sighed.
-"Luckily he found out quite soon what kind of lady she actually was. So what I think now..." Throttle looked to Vinnie who were about to throw his comment in the air, and told him to keep silent with his look. “…do we have a right to deny even short happiness from him. After all, we all know that Modo could give much to the girl he loves most. And besides I don’t think the age difference would be a problem. I s`ppose she’s about 24 - 26, so their age difference ain`t so bad. You remember the age difference of Stoker and Harley, Vinnie?"

Vinnie nodded.
-" `(f) Course I do!"
He gave a hard look to Throttle and thought in his mind: “Is Throttle loosing his sense! How could I have forgotten Harley and Stoker?! Especially since Harley was my first major attraction.”

Throttle continued:

-"Harley could`ve been Stoke’s daughter and if squeezing enough, maybe even grand-daughter! Compared to that, About 5 years is not bad, even between Earthling and Martian. If they get along well, alright. But tomorrow they must separate anyway. She must stay here and we must get back to Chicago after we’ve beaten Cheese Breathe once again. About Modo and that girl I’m sure they’ll forget each other very soon after separation."

How much more wrong Throttle could have been then.

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At the evening Nick paid a visit to Carter, wanting to know were the mouse and the girl gone already. Carter scrupled a bit at first but tried to be not showing it to Nick and said that he supposed that Modo and Elina were gone and told him he hadn’t seen them after they had left the house on that morning. When Nick was about to turn around and go away, he almost bumped to Elina. A wide grin rose on his face.
-"Finally." He sighed and came closer to Elina. She withdrew and tried to pass him close to the wall. Nick came even closer and put his hands on both sides of Elina, blocking her ways. She stared him with hard look in her eyes and tried to get away from him. Nick came closer and adhered to her upper arms and pulled her and her face to be on one inch distance from his face.
-"Now sweetheart behave and show gratefulness from that how I helped U at the farm and later. I know ya want me, I can see it from your eyes. Now when that giant-gerbil is not around we have plenty of time together."
Elina tried to avoid his gaze but he turned her head back to him. When he was about to kiss her she wrenched herself free from his hold but Nick grabbed to her sleeve faster than she had thought and pulled her back to him.
-"Nick! Let her go!" Carter shouted annoyedly when he noticed what was happening. Nick ignored his friend’s words and appearance and squeezed Elina against the wall and hissed:
-"Oh yeah babe, you were goin` to slip away without thankin` me! Now I teach ya what it means when you try to escape from my hands."
Elina gathered all her boldness and could bring a hard look in her eyes. “Yeah, come closer now - I kick ya on yer balls if ya do that!”
When Nick stepped closer to Elina she kicked him hard but didn’t kick to the right place because just then a grayish fist crushed Nick’s jawbone and flied him almost on Carter’s arms. The gray arms stretched to Elina and closed her in strong, gentle and comforting embrace.
-"Are ya alright Elina ma’am?"
-"Yeah Modo, I’m alright."

Couple tears fell on her cheeks and she dug her face against him. After she had calmed down a bit she lifted her head to Modo`s face.
-"You shouldn’t have bothered yerself, I could have managed all myself."
Modo smiled gently and a bit amusedly to Elina.
-"My momma taught me ta help the ladies when evil guys are harassing them."
Modo`s words made Elina smile slightly and she gave him a big hug. Then after she had freed her hands from around him and separated from his embrace, Modo turned to Nick putting his hands on his waist. Whole his appearance was brimming over the silent hatred towards person like Nick who tries to force other person to love and want the forcer against own will and feelings. Nick got slowly up waiting all the time Modo`s attack.
-"Are ya gonna hit me or stand there and stare the rest of yer life?!" Nick snapped.
-"Ya better apologize yer act from Elina. Only immature young man who suffers from strange form of Oedipus complex behaves like ya. She ain’t yer property and won’t ever become that!"
Like to verify that, Throttle and Vinnie appeared behind Modo.
-"Yeah, you better leave the girl for good and stop harassing her when big bro is around. And neither we like when a lady is mistreated by possessive guys." Throttle continued Modo`s words.
-"Ya have problems with yer manhood and ya try ta prove ya can get anyone anywhere at any time?" Vinnie teased.
Nick lifted his hands on his lower chest level and looked all the three mice.
-"Okay, okay. I’m sorry, Elina. I don’t know what went to me..." Nick tried to pretend regretting. He gave a fake regretting look to Elina and walked trough the Biker Mice to the front door and left the house.

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Inside the house Vinnie smiled widely.
-"Did ya guys see when I showed my Clint Eastwood look to him?" He grinned his so-called Clint Eastwood -grimace. “Man! He was sold meat after that and ran away like chicken!”
Throttle and Modo gave an amused laughter to him:
-"Yeah, yeah, Vinnie… In your dreams!" They both responded to him with a grin on their faces.
Modo yawned and his yawning made the other bros feel tired too. Sara had gone to her home already and sighing in his mind, Carter came to that result that he had to harbour the mice, Elina and Charley into his parent’s house for this night.

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The night was dark since it was the new moon tonight. All the mice, Carter, Charley and Elina were sleeping like logs. A single shadow sneaked close to the wall outside the house. It stopped at the front door and kneeled down and lifted a flowerpot close to it. The character picked up the key that appeared when the flowerpot was lifted up, and then put the pot back on it’s place and got up, looking around and making sure no-one had seen anything. Flashing a signal with a tiny laser-lamp that hanged from the bunch of keys the character gave the message to his friends that they could follow him now. The character at the front door showed the other ones to keep quiet or everything would be ruined, and turned the key as quietly as it was possibly. They stepped in and from the hallway they could see Charley and Throttle sleeping on the floor of the livingroom. Vinnie had conquered the cozy leather sofa. The character that had led the other ones inside the house pointed to the upstairs to the tallest, over seven feet tall, massive figure and started to climb the stairs ahead, telling at first to the ones who were staying in downstairs to wait two minutes in silent before doing anything.
The figure came to the upstairs and three other shadows followed him right behind. The character pointed to an other room whispering something quickly and quietly but then winked the other characters to follow him to the doorway of an other room. When they looked in they saw Modo and Elina sleeping like cute little babies. They grinned devilishly when they imagined the looks on their faces when they would have surprised them. Then the character that had led the others to the upstairs sneaked quickly and silently to the doorway of the room he had pointed. The character looked once behind before disappearing into the room. Taking a bottle and small cloth from the inner pocket of the jacket the shadow sneaked in the room and came next to sleeping Carter. The character opened the bottle avoiding to breathe the liquid that was easily ethereal matter and wet the cloth with the stuff. Quickly the character closed the cork of the bottle and put the bottle on Carter`s night table. He placed quickly the cloth in front of Carter`s mouth and nose and pressed it against his face. Carter woke up when he smelled the strange odour and felt the pressing against his face. His eyes were wide open and he saw a shadow that he thought to have short, light hair, before everything went black in his mind and he blacked out. The surpriser took off the cloth from Carter`s face and one of the other characters that had followed to the upstairs came to tie him while the one who had made Carter unconscious took the bottle and sneaked quickly to the other two characters that still waited him at the doorway of the guestroom.
The character took an other cloth from his pocket and gave it to the gigantic character that dripped grease on the floor - the one to whom he had spoke in downstairs, telling to press it against Modo`s mouth and nose right after he would have wet it with the liquid of the bottle. The hog seemed to have understood the orders even if it was clearly visible that his IQ was around 20 or perhaps even lower. The leading character looked quickly to the watch around his wrist and then they entered silently to the room where Modo and Elina were sleeping. The “leader” wet his cloth with the ethereal matter and then quickly pressed on Elina`s face. When she realized the pressure against her face and that she couldn`t breath, she tried to yell in the growing panic - before she blacked out from the affection of the matter.
From somewhere Modo could hear to his sleep the pent-up scream of Elina and feel a sudden drip of something liquid onto his nose. He woke up opening his eye just in time when the greasy character was to pressing the wet cloth on his face. He slid his tail from under the quilt around the character`s thick leg and suddenly pulled him upside down on the floor, just before the cloth touched his nose. He jumped out of the bed and saw how two of the Hard Knocks of Limburger carried Elina out of the room. He saw a fourth character too - that he recognized too well:
-"Nick! You bream`s servant!"
Nick picked up the gun he had held inside of his jacket and pointed with it to Modo.
-"Paws up, gerbil! - Or I tell the boys to hurt her…" He nodded his head slightly backwards, towards Elina.
-"NNOOO-OO!!" Modo screamed and assaulted to Nick. The memories flashed in his mind and the picture of the Plutarkians raping and then killing Pestonina appeared too bright in his mind. On this time he`d never let anybody hurt this girl who had taken care of him and to whom he owed his life now. The painful memories made his blood boil, making him ten times stronger than what would have been normally. He was also worried about his bros and Charley. Were they alright or not?

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Meanwhile in the downstairs Vinnie and Throttle had become surprised totally but Charley had managed to escape to the bathroom where Modo and Elina had shared their first kiss a few hours over a twenty-four hours ago. She looked around herself, knowing she was trapped and tried to find a way to escape from the Hard Knocks and the rat-like creatures. She tried to remember how the Bros had beat the Tunnel Rat but then she came to that result there was no use to try to remember that because the situation had been totally different. She even looked the window of the bathroom but she saw it was too small that even a thin girl like she couldn`t crawl outside the house trough it. Then she saw the other door that was on the opposite wall to the one from where she had entered the bathroom. She wondered how she couldn`t have seen it earlier and she even had thought about letting the goons come in and slip on the slippery floor that would have been made slippery with a bath-soap.
She stepped quietly to the other door and listened to find out if there were some people behind it. She didn`t hear anything and she opened the door a bit and peeped from the chink seeing no-one but hearing some voices coming to her, but the voices still were in the room that seemed to be next to the room to where this door led to. She thought this was her only chance to get a way and escape and she rushed in to the room and in there, to the thicker door that she knew inside of her to lead outside the house. She slammed the door close just when two rat-men rushed to that room and she ran far from the house as fast as her feet could carry her on the dry pine-forest terrain. Her subconscious banged in the back of her mind “Run, Charley! Run! They're right after you! Save yourself! Run!”

She ran like crazy and the only thought in her mind was to run far enough and quickly, and save herself.

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