Charlie rushes past the mice and into the arms of Tiko. "Oh, you finally made it." Tiko smiles and hugs Charlie back. *I ran into a little trouble.* "Are you O.K.?" Tiko punches Charlie in the shoulder, *I'm a tough girl, nothing I couldn't handle.* Tiko looks at the biker mice and smiles. "So, you guys are the Martian mice Charlie keeps telling me about." The mice smile at her, and Vinnie puffs up his chest. Tiko chuckles and whispers to Charlie, *There men alright.* Both start to laugh but the mice just look confused. "Anyways, Tiko this is Throttle." Throttle steps forward and shakes her hand. It's soft and feels like silk, he looks shocked. "What's the matter, you look surprised." "Oh sorry, it's just, I thought a fighters hands wouldn't be so soft." Throttle blushes when Tiko smiles at him. "Even though I fight a lot, I am still a woman, and a woman's skin is precious to her." Tiko turns to Modo, "you must be Modo." Modo shakes her hand sheepishly, "how did you know?" "Charlie described someone big and strong, yet gentle as a teddy bear. You are definitely both so I am guessing you are him." Modo blushes deeply and looks at his feet. "That makes you Vinnie." "That's Vincent 'Vinnie' VanWham, the baddest mammajamma this side of the asteroid belt." Throttle and Modo shake their heads. Tiko smiles again, "someday I am going to have to test that handsome." Vinnie smiles even more and winks at her. Tiko turns to Charlie, *I can see why you like him.* Charlie blushes as she remembers her confession to Tiko about her feelings for Vinnie in her letters. "T-chan, right now your old room is filled with equipment and paperwork, so you can sleep in my room with me." *It will be like when we were kids.* Charlie smiles as her memories of their childhood comes to mind. "I am sure you are exhausted, do you want to take a nap?" Tiko picks up her back-pack and sword (wrapped in cloth and in it's sheath). "Actually I feel fine, although I do want to take a shower." "I will have dinner ready in about 15 minutes." *Plenty of time, your not making tomato soup again are you?* Charlie growls and throws a pillow at Tiko, who dodges and runs to the bathroom laughing. "What was that about Charlie?" "When we lived here together, I cooked tomato soup once, I made a huge mess and destroyed the kitchen. She asked if I was making it again." The biker mice chuckle at the thought of Charlie battling a pot, while tomato soup is boiling over everywhere. Charlie growls again and heads for the kitchen, Modo and Vinnie following behind. Throttle goes to Tiko's bike and looks at the exterior. Definitely a babe's bike. It looks like it's loaded with weapons, but how come it didn't make any noise while running it's engine? Throttle reaches to touch the paint, but he feels a shock and suddenly the bike comes to life. It turns to him and pulls out it's blasters. Oh Shit. Throttle backs away, closing his eyes when the bike is about to fire. *Butterfly, stop.* The bike looks at her owner and turns itself off. Throttle turns to give Tiko his thanks, but when he looks at her his mouth drops open. She is wearing orange snowboarding paints that hang loosely on her hips, showing off her silver belly-button ring and firm stomach. She is also wearing a tight white tank-top that has thin straps. Throttle would close his mouth, but the sight of her hard nipples through the tank-top is a little to much for him. "Hey bro, what was all the shouting about?" Modo, Vinnie and Charlie walk into the garage. Modo and Vinnie's mouths drop open. All three mice have the same thoughts, light my fire. Charlie just laughs at the sight of the mice. *Charlie, do you think maybe I should go put a bra on?* Charlie shakes her head, *No way, make them suffer.* Tiko smiles at Charlie and heads for the kitchen behind her. The mice still have there mouths open and are frozen stiff.

*I bought this matching set of bikinis for us, they are black with silver writing on them. On the thong bottom, it has the words 'Peeping Tom' on the front in Japanese. On the top it has 'Squeeze these'." Charlie chuckles at the thought of the biker mice being able to understand what it said. *The mice sure would enjoy squeezing our breasts, that's for sure.* Tiko smiles as the biker mice enter the kitchen. Modo tries to sit next to Tiko, but Vinnie darts past him and gets there first. Modo's eye flashes red and he is about to hit Vinnie when Tiko interrupts by moving from the seat. She sits at the head of the table, opposite of Charlie. The mice blink their eyes, Vinnie is now sitting by Throttle instead of Tiko. Modo has the other side of the table by himself. Charlie chuckles at Tiko decision. The mice act unusually polite at the table, handing things to Tiko, who thanks them. "So Tiko..." "Please call me T." "O.K., T, what kind of bike is that? The only kind of bike that responds to it's rider that I know of, are Martian bikes." Tiko smiles at Throttle, "is was a gift, from a friend in Japan. He brought it to me when I first got there, and activated it infront of me. I instantly fell in love. I love my bike back home, but having a ride that responds to you is a plus." "When you first got here, we thought you were a thief, your engine didn't make a sound." "I had my engineers at my enterprise design a motor that doesn't make a sound, how sneaky would I be if my bike wasn't silent as well?" Their conversation is interrupted when Vinnie let's out a huge belch. Charlie just smacks her forehead, while Tiko starts laughing. Modo, wanting to cover-up Vinnie bad manners, changes the subject. "So, what does all the writing on the bike mean?" Tiko stops laughing and has a hard look on her face, then it softens as she sees the reaction of the mice. "It says *chocho sukoshi*, it means little butterfly." The mice all grimace as they remembered that they are not suppose to mention that nickname. "I named it after Charlie, it's the nickname I gave her." The mice look at each other and then at Charlie, she has a stern look on her face, Modo mentally kicks himself. Tiko notices their expressions. Charlie must of told them about her nickname, but they are not asking about why I named her that. I doubt Charlie told them the whole story. To put the mice and Charlie at ease Tiko gives a general answer to the question they want to ask. "I named Charlie little butterfly' because of a story I heard when I was in Japan. It was about a butterfly who was understanding and gentle. The story reminded me of Charlie. I named my bike after her because she reminds me of Charlie. Someone who listens to me and is their when I am lonely, but is a spitfire all the time as well." The mice laugh at that, but Tiko and Charlie exchange serious glances, Tiko smiles, and eventually so does Charlie.

The mice are in the living room watching a movie, while Charlie and Tiko do the dishes. "Sorry about this Tiko, but the guys are not the best of housekeepers." Tiko smiles happily at Charlie, "it's no biggy, I had to wash my own dishes in Japan." After the dishes, the girls head to Charlie's room. Before they get through the door, "are you two going to bed already?" The mice look at the two, a sad expression on their faces at the thought of Tiko going to bed already. "No, we were just going to catch up on a few things, and she has some stuff to give me." Vinnie jumps up in enthusiasm, "you mean she brought gifts?" Charlie glares at Vinnie, "not for you, how would she know what you guys like and don't like." Tiko coughs a little and Charlie turns to her, "actually, I did get them gifts, I just went off what you told me about them. "AWESOME!" All three mice run into Charlie's room, Tiko and Charlie look at each other in amazement, frozen in place. The mice see the girls still in the doorway and grab them with their tails. "Hurry up you two, we want to see what we got." Tiko walks to her bag and starts to rummage threw it. She pulls out a thin, yet long box. "This is for you Charlie." Charlie squeals in delight, she quickly opens it up. There is a smaller box on top of some tissue paper. She starts to open up the little box when Tiko interrupts. *Wait Charlie, that one contains the bikini.* Charlie looks at the guys and gulps. Vinnie impatiently complains, "are you going to open it or not?" Charlie sets the smaller one on the bed and lifts up the tissue paper. She gasps as she sees the dress inside. She holds it up to herself and twirls around with it. It's a Chinese style dress, the same color as her jade-green eyes, with silver dragons imprinted all over it. It has an open back, but a front that goes up her neck. It hugs the chest and waist very tightly, while the length falls to her ankles, it has a slit on the right side that goes up to her hips. Charlie also sees matching silk slippers, chopsticks for her hair, and jade earrings. Charlie hugs Tiko tightly and they both giggle. *Vinnie is going to love it Tiko.* Tiko smiles wider, "go put it on." Charlie runs to the bathroom to try on her new dress. With her gone, Tiko then takes out Throttle's gift. It's a tiny box. Throttle opens it to reveal a little case with two circles on it. He screws one open and sees a contact in it. "Charlie told me about your eyes. They are special contacts that will enhance you vision, they can also adjust your view like binoculars. You will be able to see hundreds of feet away, plus they enable you to see perfectly clear in the dark." Throttle looks at Tiko seriously, "Thank you." Tiko gets a warm feeling in her stomach but ignores it, "if you like them, I can have more made for you, just in case you misplace these ones. I can also have them made in certain colors if you like." Throttle smiles at Tiko and goes to the mirror to put them on. Tiko then pulls out box about the shape and size of Charlie's. "This is for you Modo." Modo groans, please don't let it be a suit. When he opens it, his face looks like a little child's at Christmas. "Wow." There is an assortment of weapons inside, weapons that can be put into his bionic arm to enhance it's strength and power. "I can put the new modifications in tomorrow." Modo blushes at Tiko, "Thank you, but how did you know what would work with my arm?" "Charlie sent the configuration and basic prints of what your arm was made of and how it was put together. I had my engineers work on a way to enhance the weapons system." Vinnie was about to ask where his gift was when Charlie walked out of the bathroom. The mice again had their mouths wide-open, and were whistling. Charlie did a couple of twirls, revealing her slim legs, Vinnie almost lunged for her, while Modo blushed at the sudden thought that entered his mind. *Butterfly, you look gorgeous.* Charlie blushes and poses again. Her hair is up with the chopsticks, while some is falling down to form her face, the dress brings out the color of her eyes, the mice are entranced. Throttle, trying out his new contacts, focuses in on Charlie's legs. "Whoa..." All heads turn to Throttle who just has a silly grin on his face. "Man, when you said magnify, I didn't know you meant MAGNIFY." Tiko laughs as she sees Throttle entranced with Charlie's legs. Tiko then takes out a large box, her gift to Vinnie. She hands it to him and her tears it open. "YESSSS..." Vinnie starts dancing around the room holding a leather jacket with some kind of writing on it. "What does it say bro?" Vinnie looks at all of them and quickly spits it out. "Man... she got me a leather jacket from a Metallica concert, with all their signatures on it." "There's more Vinnie." Vinnie looks to Tiko in surprise. He looks in the box some more and sees a lift-time subscription to Play-boy. Vinnie blushes deeply and quickly hides the subscription in his pocket. He turns to Tiko in surprise. "Charlie said you like girls, so I got you America's finest." Throttle, Modo and Charlie turn to Tiko, in return she says to Charlie, *Playboy.* Charlie busts out laughing. Modo and Throttle just shrug. "I also got tickets for all of us to watch the Metallica concert next week, front row. (Everyone) "Yessss..." They all cheer in approval, the mice look at each other, I love this woman.