The biker mice arrive at the garage early, eager to see Tiko again. As they pull up they can smell pancakes, bacon, eggs and orange juice. There stomachs growl and they run into the kitchen. They see Charlie putting the food on the table. The biker mice sit down quickly, but notice there is only four plates. "Hey Charlie, where's T?" Charlie smiles and nods her head in the direction of the back of the garage. "What's she doing back there?" Charlie sits down and puts some pancakes on her plate, "she's working out." The mice run ninety miles an hour to the back of the garage, Charlie just sits there and growls. First their starving, now they can't go see T-chan fast enough. Mice. Charlie decides to join them out back. When she gets out there she laughs at the biker mice's expression. She is practicing kempo. "What on earth is that?" "It's kempo." Vinnie turns to Charlie, "what's kempo?" Charlie chuckles, "it's a form of martial arts, a way of fighting when you are in hand-to-hand combat. You guys are so used to riding your bikes, you haven't seen much of this kind of fighting I guess?!" Throttle shrugs, "we used our bikes a lot, but we know how to fight with our fists." Charlie smirks, "not like this, it takes years of training to learn control and precision." Vinnie, being cocky, "I bet I could beat her." Charlie groans, great, now he's done it. "Wanna try Vinnie?" Tiko has stopped her workout and is smiling at Vinnie. She has athletic tape over her hands, wrist, ankles and feet. She is wearing only a sports bra and a pair of skimpy boxing shorts. Vinnie strides up to her and smiles. "I'll dance with you anytime doll." Throttle turns to Charlie, "he's going to get his ass kicked isn't he?!" Charlie nods.

The fighters are about 15 feet apart, Vinnie is just standing there, confident that he can beat her easily. Tiko is in a relaxed fighting stance. She smiles as she realizes this is a lesson he needs to learn. "Anytime your ready sweetheart." Tiko gets an evil grin on her face and jumps into the air, she is coming down with her leg infront and plans on kicking him in the chest. Vinnie sidesteps the move and is going to grab the back of her bra straps with his hands, but is kicked in the chest by her other leg. He stumbles back, surprised by her speed. Tiko charges Vinnie, striking at him with a series or kicks and punches. Vinnie back flips in order to stay out of her reach. Tiko, realizing he won't hit her, decides to antagonize him. "What's the matter, not mouse enough to hit a woman? Afraid I might bruise you pretty face?" Vinnie stands at Tiko shocked, man, she is asking for it. Vinnie charges Tiko who drops to the ground and knocks his legs out from under him, Vinnie lands flat on his back. Before he can get up, Tiko is on his waist, her hands holding his wrists above his head. "Gotcha." Vinnie smiles, "You can get me anytime." Tiko laughs and gives him a peck on the nose, she then whispers into his ear, "your not mine to take." Vinnie, confused by her answer, stays on the ground while Tiko walks over to Throttle, Modo and Charlie. "That's some of the weirdest fighting I have ever seen," Modo admits. "I am surprised you have not seen Charlie fight like that." Tiko turns to Charlie, *I seem to always be on a bike. It took me forever before I could get them to let me even join the fights.* Tiko frowns, *men, they think they can protect us by babying us.* Tiko walks into the garage with Charlie. The mice just look at each other, "one of us is going to have to learn Japanese." At the breakfast table, Charlie and Tiko are in conversation, but the mice can not understand because they are speaking in Japanese. "O.K. that's enough, I hate not being able to understand what you are saying." Tiko smiles at Vinnie. "Would you like me to teach you guys?" The mike look at each other and shrug, "sure." "Lesson 1, you would say, yes please, which is *hai, dozo.* The mice repeat the words and smile as Tiko nods her approval. They practice some Japanese for a couple of hours. "Tiko, where would you like to go today?" Tiko thinks for a little while. Where would that fish guys goons be? Who am I kidding, I don't want to work today. I'll ask Charlie tonight about that fish guy. "How about near a park or someplace peaceful?" Charlie smiles, "I know a great place." Charlie packs a basket, while the mice grab their cameras, "we definitely need to get some pictures before she leaves." Tiko approaches Modo, "do you want me to modify your arm at the park or here later tonight?" "I left the weapons at our place, we can go there after the park and do the modifications there." Tiko nods and runs upstairs to change. *Tiko, are you putting on your bikini?* Tiko laughs from Charlie room, *no, it's not warm enough today. I'm throwing on a pair of jeans and a tank-top.* Charlie jumps on Vinnie bike, while Tiko comes down stairs and gets on hers, her sword on her back. "Don't you ever take that off?" "No, you never know when there might be trouble." The mice smile, "Let's ROCK, (all together except for Tiko), and RIDE!" They depart the garage, all but Tiko not noticing that they are being watched. While their cameras spy on us, I in turn will spy on them. Tiko smiles as they head for the park.

Limburger tower. "Greasepit. Where are the recordings of that new female at the garage?" Greasepit digs into his pocket and pulls out a video tape. "Here you go boss." Greasepit goes to hand Limburger the tape, but it shoots out of his hand and hits Limburger in the face. "Greasepit, my dear boy, YOUR DRIPPING ON MY CARPET!" Greasepit jumps into his bucket. "So... Sorry boss." Limburger turns to his television screen and pops in the tape. He sees scenes where Tiko is fighting Vinnie in the backyard, polishing her bike and having conversations with the mice. Limburger smiles to himself. "Karbunkle!" Limburger drops his desk to the lab. "Yes you creme cheesiness?" "I need a controlling device for a certain female." Karbunkle smiles, "you want to control that female mechanic?" Limburger laughs, "it appears they have a new residence, a woman from Japan, the best part is that she is a martial artist with a bike just like the Martian ones. If we can get her on our side, she will be able to crush the mice easily." Karbunkle walks to his desk pulling a small looking chip out of one of the drawers. "I so happen to have a controlling device here. You plant it under the skin, in the back on the neck, you can then control their every thought and move with this remote." Karbunkle hands Limburger a remote the size of a notebook. "Excellent my dear doctor, excellent. Now to set a trap."

The streets. Vinnie is trying to impress Tiko by doing flips and high jumps in the air. Unfortunately for him, she is to busy talking to Throttle to notice. "Let me get this straight. These fish people attacked your planet and stripped it of it's natural resources?" Throttle frowns as his memories flood his head. "Yeah, they go around the universe stripping planets. The one here in Chicago, Lawrence Limburger, is constantly bothering us and Charlie. We seem to be fitting him every other day, but we don't mind, we get bored easily." Tiko smiles at Throttle, He is handsome, and has a voice to die for. Now that I know why the mice fight the Pluta... whicamacallits, I can leave them alone. All I have to do is ask this Limburger about Tamagawa, all do that tonight. Tiko looks up and sees a beautiful park, she smiles as she remembers how simple things were when she was young. "Here we are." "Oh, it's beautiful Charlie." Tiko and Charlie set up a picnic blanket, while the guys play catch, well actually it's more like a rougher version of keep-away. "So T-chan, is Chicago how you remembered it?" Tiko shrugs, "to be honest I don't remember a lot about Chicago. I have a lot of memories of you and I, but not about the landscape. It a lot different from Japan." The girls continue on their chatter, while the guys devise a plan. "O.K., we sneak around the bushes behind them, and when they are not looking we tackling them." Modo looks a little confused, "what do we do after we tackle them?" Throttle smiles, "anything we want, personally, I have a itch to tickle something soft." The mice smile as their thoughts turn a little nasty.

Charlie doesn't even notice the guy sneaking up on them, but Tiko can hear them perfectly. *So basically, that's how I first met the mice and...* Charlie stops talking when Tiko puts her finger to her mouth. *The mice are trying to sneak up of us. I say, when they jump over the bushes, we spray them with shaken up rootbeer.* Charlie starts laughing at the thought of sticky mice. *Great idea.* The girls poke tiny holes on the top of the soda cans, and shake up two cans each. They continue on their conversation, acting like they don't notice the guys. Suddenly the guys yell and leap over the bushes, but to there surprise no one is there. "Looking for something." The mice look up to see Charlie and Tiko, armed and ready. "Runnnnnn." The mice turn to run but are dosed by rootbeer before they even get moving. The girls are laughing so hard they have tears running down there face. "Oh my god... that was... was priceless." The guys however, are standing about 20 feet away, looking very mad and very uncomfortable. "To you two have any idea how awful it feels to have sticky fur?" The girls look at the guys and bust out laughing again. "That's it, let's get them." The mice charge the girls, totally checking them unawares. Charlie, who was laughing the hardest tried to get up, but was tackled by Vinnie. "Gotcha sweetheart." She tries to get out from under him, but he has picked up a soda can, and is pouring it on her chest and face. "Vinnie... I'm... going to... kill you." Vinnie just keeps laughing and stares into her eyes as he holds her down. She stares back at him, Vinnie leans down to kiss her, but looks up suddenly when he hears Modo scream. Both Charlie and Vinnie laugh as they see Modo drench and sitting in the water fountain. "Tiko, your in deep trouble." Throttle is in a standing about 20 feet from Tiko, both are smiling and waiting for the other to make a move. "Yeah know babe, normally I make the first move, but in this situation, I think I want you to." Tiko just smiles wider as she see Vinnie and Modo approach. Charlie yells to Tiko from the blanket, "Tiko, run, their ganging up on you." "I never run from a fight." At that the mice charge Tiko, she just stays standing until they are a few feet away. Suddenly she crouches and leaps over their heads, but to her surprise, Vinnie's tail grabs her foot and she starts to fall to the ground. Using her momentum she lands on her hands and flips her legs ahead of her, sending Vinnie over her head. "Nice try handsome." Tiko turns to Modo, who lunges for her. Instead of jumping into the air, Tiko falls onto her back and as Modo flies over her, she grabs his chest armor and uses her leg to launch him into the air even higher. With a thud, Modo lands next to Vinnie. 'That's two down." Tiko then turns to Throttle, but he is nowhere in sight. She drops quickly and sweeps the ground behind her with her leg. Throttle jumps over it and has landed behind her again. She flips forward and grabs his arm with her legs, intending to flip him over her, but he charges her and grabs her waist with his tail, pulling her to the ground with him. She struggles under his grasp, but finds herself unable to lift his weight. "Tag, your it." Throttle smiles down at his catch. Tiko smiles back and stares into his eyes. "So what do you plan on doing with me?" Throttle leans down to her ear and whispers, "anything you want." Tiko groans softly at the thought of his naked body. Throttle chuckles as he realizes his effect on her. "Tiko are you O.K.?" Tiko smiles at Charlie, and gets up with the help of Throttle. "Yeah, these guys are like stuffed toys, just as soft too." They all laugh and head towards the now soaked picnic blanket. "Well, I don't think we will be sitting on that." Tiko walks to her bike and pulls out a blanket, "I have an extra one." They all sit down on the new blanket and enjoy lunch. Well, except Throttle and Vinnie are still sticky all over.

Limburger Tower. "Is your trap ready yet Karbunkle?" Karbunkle nods enthusiastically. "Why yes, I just finished it. All we have to do, is wait for night when the biker mice go home, we then grab the mechanic and set her in this box. We will leave the door open so that the ninja woman will walk in and they will both be trapped. When the door closes they will be instantly knocked out by gas, we can then do to them what we want to." Limburger starts to laugh out loud, My plan can not fail.

The scoreboard. "Whoa guys, what happened here?" The mice had totally forgotten again about Carbine's engagement and Throttle reaction to it. "I uh, wrecked the place when I got a CB message from Carbine." Charlie looks shocked, "is everything all right?" Throttle sighed, "she is getting married to another mouse called, Stargazer." Charlie looks taken aback, Carbine must not of wanted to wait any longer for Throttle. "Are you O.K.?" "Yeah, but I wrecked the CB, do you think you can fix it?" Charlie picks it up and starts examining it. "I don't know, you smashed it pretty bad." Tiko walks up to Charlie and looks at the CB. "Yeah we can fix it, I have some parts on my bike we can use to patch it up. Charlie and I will work on it, while you guys can work on patching up your place." Vinnie gives Tiko a look of disgust, while Throttle looks ashamed. "Man, Throttle this is your fault." Modo punches Vinnie's arm. "Shut up, you have wrecked this placed for even smaller reasons." Tiko turns to Charlie, *who is this Carbine person?* Charlie gets out her tool kit and sits down next to Tiko. *She was Throttle's girlfriend back on Mars. I guess she got tired of waiting for him.* Tiko watches Throttle for awhile, and then starts fixing the CB. Later that night, they all sit down to watch a movie, while Tiko puts the modifications on Modo's arm. "There we go, all done." Modo moves his arm around a little, "it feels lighter." Tiko smiles, "yup, the parts are all especially made lightweight. I also put in a saw her above the blaster. So if someone chains your arm, you'll be able to cut threw it." Modo hugs Tiko and thanks her. Now would be a good time to visit Limburger. *Charlie, I am going to make a call to Japan, I need to get an update on my stocks and how my employees are doing.* Charlie turns to Tiko in surprise, *why not do it tomorrow? It's late and I want you to stay.* Tiko smiles sweetly at Charlie, *It may be 11 p.m. here, but it's 4 p.m. in Japan.* Tiko gathers her things to go and waves bye to Vinnie and Modo. *I will see you at home Butterfly.* Tiko then gets on her bike and rides out of the scoreboard and into the field. There she sees Throttle on his bike sitting there. Tiko rides up to him and can see that he is crying. "Throttle, what's wrong?" Throttle looks at Tiko and chuckles a little. "It must be these contacts, their making my eyes water." Tiko smirks at Throttle, "your an awful liar. Are you upset about this Carbine person?" Throttle turns from Tiko and looks into the sky. "I guess I always thought that she would wait for me, she knows what I am doing here is important, I... I needed for her to know that I wanted to be with her and that I was lonely too. I guess you would have to meet Carbine in order to understand what I mean. She is a great fighter and tough like you, but she can be so gentle sometimes. I guess that's what I fell in love with." Tiko gets off her bike and walks up to Throttle, he stands up and hugs her tightly, crying into her shoulder. "Shhhh, shhhh, please don't cry, your not alone, I'm here, and so are your friends. Shhhhh." Tiko sits on the ground and rocks Throttle, Man, I didn't think any of these mice would ever cry. So much for seeing Limburger. Tiko keeps holding Throttle, while Vinnie, Modo and Charlie look out of the scoreboard at them. "Man, Throttle never cries, and all of a sudden he sobs on her." Charlie hits Vinnie, "he is upset over Carbine, and when someone actually offers to talk to him about it, of course he is going to be upset." Modo stares and can see how comfortable Throttle is in her arms. "Maybe T will be the best thing for him, I just hope he doesn't fall in love." "Why not bro?" Modo gives Vinnie a "well duh" look. "Because she will probably leave for Japan soon, which will break his heart again." Vinnie slumps a little, poor Throttle, I know that if Charlie ever left my heart would be broken. Just then Vinnie reaches out and touches Charlie's hand. She looks at him and smiles. Vinnie smiles back and the two hold hands as they watch Tiko and Throttle.

Later that night. "Are you ready to go Tiko?" Tiko sits up from the couch and stretches. "Yeah man, I'm beat." The mice say their good-byes and Charlie jumps on the back of Tiko's bike. Remembering the biker mice's yell early that day, Tiko yawns, "Let's rock, and sleep." Throttle throws a pillow at her as she rides out of the scoreboard laughing. "So bro, did you enjoy being in her arms?" Throttle turns to Vinnie with a serious expression, making him shrink back. Then Throttle gets an evil look, "you bet I did. You have no idea how soft she is. I would think she would be hard and rough since she has so much muscle. But her skin and body feels like silk. One think about these earth women, the feeling of skin definitely has it's advantages of fur." The mice all laugh together and head for bed.

"So Tiko, you never made it to a phone, huh." Tiko smiles as she remembers holding Throttle in her arms. "That's O.K. the alternative was definitely worth it." Both laugh at her comment. "I just hope I don't get to attached. I am still committed to going back to Japan and my sensei." Charlie sighs, she remembers the time when the mice left for Mars, she missed them so much, especially Vinnie. "Throttle definitely likes you, and he is especially sensitive because of his breakup with Carbine." Tiko suddenly gets a hard look on her face, they ride the rest of the way in silence. They both take showers and get ready to go to bed. Charlie practically passes out as soon as her head hits the pillow. Tiko goes downstairs to talk to her bike, not noticing that Charlie's window is being opened.