43: Civilians
Author's pov:
"Is this really necessary? There's still some Plutarkians to fight against!" Throttle groaned while the general literally pushed him inside a building that was once been a hospital, but was faced bad bombings during the war. "Yes!! Your shoulder has taken a hit thrice! Not even mentioning your other wounds and what the others have gone through! Now, get inside!!" Carbine growled, making the male chuckle and start to walk now properly. It surprised the female, getting her to almost fall over, but he got her just in time by wrapping his tail around her waist to lift her up.
"Right right.. You just want to get your own wounds checked but don't bother to go alon- Ouch!!" Throttle smirked but then rubbed his antennas the female had pulled while her other eyebrow was twitching. "Be careful with your words, Throttle.. Even I wouldn't shoot in the dark when it comes to her!" Stoker laughed, but then helt sharp glaring on his back, making him gulp and hurry inside the building. "This way!" He hurried to turn right to the corridor where he pressed a tile in a wall, which revealed a hidden staircase that led under the ground.
"Wow! That was cool!" Rimfire smirked curiously while they followed the general to the staircase. "What is this place? I thought this hospital was abandoned after the building got attacked.. There's barely anything left anymore!" Modo wondered while looking at the walls that looked untouched. But when they got downstairs a few tens of meters under the ground, they all saw the answer. There was almost a full hospital under the ground too! But now mostly for the evacuated civilians, since the bigger hospital, similar to this when it came to the underground levels, had taken most of the injured and patients. There were many many patients too, but the evacuated civilians had just come there for checking or to hear some news from the field, while being moved to somewhere more safe since their evacuation center had got attacked too.
"I just don't understand your fussing, Carbine.. I'm alright! Have you even got your own wounds checked either?" Throttle groaned after their group had signed in at where the forces would be taken care off. They were all at least a bit surprised how well everything was organized down there. "N- No.. Not yet, but-" Carbine mumbled while walking back and forth in a large room where they had been told to go to wait for nurses and doctors. "And you forced me to come here! Uh, I can't believe you! Don't even think that we'll leave here before you get checked too!" He growled, making her turn to look at him. "Why are you like this?! Shouting at me and arguing for nothing when I just try to take care of you!" She growled back at him, making him sigh deeply while turning to look down at the floor. Then he turned to look at Vinnie who just sat on the floor and looked paralyzed. "Just think what he has gone through and ask me again.." He said, making her sigh while crossing her arms. She turned to look away while starting to sob, making him get up from the seat he had been sitting on, to walk to hug her from behind.
"Oh Carbine.. I'm sorry.." He sighed while kissing her head, making her turn to him and bury her face in his chest. "Harley's my friend too! And now she's gone.." She started crying, but then they heard a silent growl near them. "She's not dead.." Vinnie said while looking at the floor with an empty expression. "She isn't.. And we're gonna save her.. But we need to get ourselves healed first.." Modo said, making them all sigh and nod. "What's the plan Stoke? Huh, Stoke?" Throttle said while they turned to look around. When did the general leave them and where did he go?
"Hey! Is everything alright here?" Said a nurse then while walking to them with another nurse who greeted them too. "Just some wounds here and there.. But have you seen General Stoker? He was there right here with us.." Throttle said, making the nurses turn to look at each other before turning back to them. "No, my apology.. But let's check your wounds now!" The Nurse smiled, making Carbine's eye narrow before she turned to look at Throttle who nodded at him. The Nurses knew more than they told them.
"Here.. Try to eat at least something, ma'am.. It makes you feel better" Said a chestnut furred female with platinum white bob cut and green eyes, at the other side of the large room that looked actually more like a hall which was sectioned to smaller spaces with curtains and temporary movable walls. "Thank you dear! You are so sweet and caring.. But I have lost my appetite.. I haven't heard anything from my son who's fighting on the field.. Even my 16 years old grandson's there too.. Her son actually.." Adira said while nodding to her daughter, a 34 year old gray furred female with dark brown hair and light blue eyes. She handed the food she had got, to her, but she just shook her head while leaning against her hands, her elbows on her knees.
"Where did Rhea even go.. I swear if she sneaked her way to the field too I'll lose my last cell of sense.." The Female said, making the chestnut furred female shake her head. "No-one has left here so far, ma'am.. My twin sister is part of the team that takes care of who leaves here while another team takes care of who arrives here.. What's your daughter's name so I'll ask if anyone has seen her?" The Nurse said, making her sigh deeply and lift her head, but then she gasped loudly. "Rhea!!" The Gray furred female said, making Adira cover her ears a bit. "Mericy dear.. We hear it with less volume too.. I have not yet lost my sense of hearing.." She smiled warmly, but then Mericy shook her head.
"No! She's over there! Rhea!!" She said while getting up and walking to the temporary doorway of their little booth. "Mom! There you are! Gosh this is like a maze.. But you won't believe what I just saw!!" Said a light brown furred female with long blonde double braided hair and light blue eyes as her mothers. "Rhea dear.. What have we told you about respecting other mice' privacy?" Adira sighed, making the nurse smile at them understandingly. "No, it's not that! On the way, trying to find my way back here from the bathroom, I saw uncle Modo and Rimfire!!" Rhea said, making all of their eyes widen up. "Modo?! Rimfire?! Where?!" Mericy gasped while they all got up and started to follow the 14 years old female who had turned around right away and started to run the way she had thought she had just come since it looked like the same all around there.
"Wait for me, dear! My knees are not that young anymore!" Adira panted while trying to keep up with them. "Please! Hey! The Checking isn't finished yet!" The Nurse ran after them before they all finally saw the booth where the Biker Mice and the others were. "Uncle Modo!!" Rhea gasped before dashing in and running straight away to the gray furred male's arms. "Rhea?! Where did you come?!" Modo was more than just a bit surprised before he heard another familiar voice talking too. "Well hello to you too, little brother.." Mericy smirked before walking inside too. "Oh mama! Mericy! And.. Mama!!" He gasped while getting up from the seat he had been sitting on while the nurse was checking Vinnie now. His checking was already done while the other nurse was now checking Throttle's eyes after checking Carbine being alright.
"Oh my.. Thanks to the Goddess you are alright, my dear son!" Adira started to cry when she hurried to hug his son while Mericy dashed to hug Rimfire who was still waiting for his turn to get checked. He hadn't got any visible wounds so he could wait a bit longer. "Rimfire baby!! Don't you ever scare me like that again!" Mericy started to cry too while she was about to squeeze her son in her arms. "Mom.. I.. I can't breathe.." He mumbled, making the female let him go before she started to check him herself. "Are you alright?! Got hurt anywhere?!" She fussed, making Rhea start laughing. "Oh if I was you, I wouldn't laugh, young lady!!" She growled at her, making Rimfire laugh now. "I heard all the way to the field that you have been more troublesome than I!" He laughed, making his younger sister smirk while crossing her arms.
"I would have joined you but you left without telling me when we were sleeping! I have tried to find a way to sneak out but.." She laughed, but then saw her mother glaring at her. "If I find that mouse from whom you have learned that kind of behavior, I-!!" Mericy growled but then heard some coughing from behind while she saw her brother looking at blushing general Carbine. "What does she have to do with this? I also know it couldn't be Haf since he passed away when these two were 5 and 3, but-.. No.. Wait.. You're their nanny! Carbine!" She said before remembering who the female was. "Hey Mer.." She chuckled awkwardly before seeing the female start to head towards her, making her hide behind Throttle when the nurse had finished his checking. He would meet the doctor later for his eyes which meant that he should stay there until then.
"What? Our fearless general is hiding from a mother of two?" Throttle laughed while seeing his female hiding behind his back when Mericy headed straight towards her. "Throttle please hide me.." She mumbled, making him cross his arms while laughing. "Sorry babe.. Usually I'd do that of course but this is your very own mess to deal with.." He smirked, making her growl before she heard Mericy talking again. "I was just about to hug her after such a long time when we saw each other last! But.. Wait.. You're their nanny.. Did you teach them that behavior?!" She gasped, making the general want the ground to swallow her right there, but then she heard Rhea talking. "Actually some army basics! But Rimfire learned more than me!" She said, making her brother laugh while their mother's eyes just widened. "Army basics?!" She started to chase the general who started to run away from the booth. "Over six years!!" Rimfire added, making the adults start laughing while Carbine was running for her life. "Thanks kids! Where's your loyalty now?!" The General shouted at them, making both of them laugh and hit a high five with each other with their hands and tails like a secret handshake between siblings.
"Just wait till I get you!!" Mericy shouted while trying to reach the general, but then they heard someone yelling at them. "THIS IS A HOSPITAL, NOT A SPORT FIELD!!" Yelled the chestnut furred female, making Modo now finally realize who she was. "J- Jessica?!" He gasped, making the female smile at him after seeing two of the females stop chasing at each other. But when she turned her back to them, they continued right away, making her sigh deeply when she heard it. "Saph.. Two runners, left from booth 27F.. Heading your way.." She said to the radiophone she was carrying in her nurse vest. The Military had finally got the new uniforms for the nurses since there had been a lot of problems getting them.
"I'll head there, pronto!" Sapphire answered through the radiophone, making Throttle chuckle while he was chatting with Adira and the children now. "How.. What.. When, where?" Modo stuttered while looking at her. "I was surprised how long it took you to notice me!" Jessica laughed before walking to hug him tightly. "So good to see you! Where have you been all this time? Are you alright? New haircut? Looks very beautiful!" He smiled, making her blush and nod. "Thanks.. Had to do something that separates me from my sister.. And I swore to her that if she cuts her hair too, I'll be bold then! But otherwise I'm fine.." She laughed, making him chuckle. But before she was about to answer his other question, they heard Sapphire talking.
"Two escapees. One mother and one general!" She laughed while having a rather tight grip from the back of the females' shirts, making the others laugh while Carbine looked very much awkward and Mericy looked like she still wanted to choke her. Then the mechanic, who was now a guard in the hospital too, dropped them to the ground, making Carbine run immediately behind Throttle again. "Alright! Talk that through later! Enough here.." Jessica laughed before growling at them. "Sapphire, you are here too? Glad to see you both alright!" Modo smiled, making her just nod at him while seeing her sister glaring at her.
"We just got here this morning.. It took two days to get all of these civilians here since the evacuation centre got under attack.. Needed to get somewhere more safe.." Sapphire explained, making all of them nod at her. "Modo, my dear.. These females are both so sweet and kind! Why haven't you married either of them?" Adira said while hugging both of the identical twins, making them blush while Modo chuckled awkwardly when he rubbed the back of his neck with his right arm. Then they finally realized his situation. "Oh Modo!" Jessica sighed before walking to him. "It's.. It's alright.. I did my duty as a Freedom Fighter.. Would do it again if it saves you all.." He said before the female hugged her again, making Adira clap her hands together while sighing lovingly. "We're dancing weddings soon! I can hear the wedding bells already!!" She got so happy, making Mericy chuckle while Modo just didn't dare to crush his mother's dreams. But then Jessica did it..
"Actually, Adira ma'am.. We've been on a break during this war.. We have had a lot of troubles.." She explained, making the old gray furred female gasp. "What?! I thought I raised my son well!" She was in shock, while Jessica glared at her sister who understood to leave back to her duties. "Well.. It wasn't never up to Modo! My family has been the rock in the boot.." She sighed, making Modo smile understandingly to her. "So.. These two might get cousins someday after all?" Mericy said while messing her children's hair, making them groan under her arms. "Umm.." Modo blushed so badly while looking at Jessica who blushed as much too. "Well, maybe not yet.." She stuttered, making Throttle chuckle. "Alright, enough with this hearing! How are you Vincent?" He said, making them turn to look at the white furred male who got out of his checking while looking down the ground, his hands stuffed in his blue jeans' pockets.
"I'm fine.." He just mumbled while still being clearly out of this world, before feeling Throttle's hand on his shoulder. "We're here for you, bro.. We will find her, I promise!" He said, making him sigh and nod, but then they turned to look at Rimfire. "Miss, have you heard about General Stoker? He came here with us, but then we haven't seen him ever since" He asked politely, making Jessica's heart almost melt. "Well someone has been raised to be polite!" She smiled before taking her radiophone out of her sleeve. "I thought I saw him fast earlier, but I'll ask from the others.." She said before walking out of the booth to let them talk with each other and also to concentrate on the call better.
"Stoker.. Yes, the silver star general.." She talked to the radio phone, before someone grabbed it away from her hand. "Hey!!" She gasped, but then saw Stoker standing there. "Just don't say anything.." He said coldly, making her gulp before he handed her radiophone back. "False alarm.. I found him.." She just said to the phone before putting it away. "That's what I thought.." He smirked before entering the booth where the others were, making them greet him loudly and happily. She just stared at his back, her eyes narrowed when she rubbed her jaw. "Well that was weird.. And suspicious.." She thought before noticing a card's corner from the back pocket of Stoker's pants. She recognized it and left right away without saying anything.
"Heyy! Stoke! Where did you go? Almost thought you left back to the field without us.." Throttle smirked when they saw their mentor entering the booth. He greeted the females first politely before turning to the males. "Had some general duties.." He started, making Carbine turn to look at him but he lifted his other hand up a bit. "Above your ranking.." He said, making her growl and sit back on the seat she had been sitting on like they all. Only Stoker stood there, but it was alright for him. "And I also got my wounds checked on the way.. Sorry if I made you kids worried" He smirked, making the males chuckle, but then he saw Vinnie just being all silent.
"Hey Punk.." He sighed while sitting on the floor next to him and lifted his other hand on his shoulder. "Hey.." Vinnie groaned before sighing and leaning against his hands. He sat with his legs crossed, his elbows on his knees. "I heard some news that you would be interested to hear.." Stoker said, making all of them turn to look at him. "About Harley?" Modo asked carefully, making Mericy and others from his family a bit confused since they didn't know who they were talking about. "Did you find her?!" Vinnie's eyes widened, but then he sighed deeply when he saw Stoker shaking his head. "No.. But she and Mace are now wanted and every force has been informed. We even got one hint already, but it led to a dead end.." He explained, making Throttle smile. "But that's still big news! Thanks Stoke" He smiled, making the general nod before getting up from the floor.
"I'll ask around about the situation here now. Take care of yourself" He said before leaving, but then he felt someone's hand on his shoulder. "Is everything alright? What's the situation on the field?" Carbine asked when he turned around to see his niece. "So far calmer after these heroes unplugged the Tug Transformer" He smirked, making the males smile and nod to him. "But there's still forces out there, trying to get the rest of the fish faces to leave.." He explained, making Modo lift up his eyebrow. "Are they finally giving up?" He asked, getting the general shrug. "Not sure, but their leaders left this morning with the Armada.. That's what I'm gonna ask around now if someone as high ranked as me knows more.. There's a certain brainwashing case that kept me out of our situation.." He growled before leaving. "Stay here! So I can find you easily!" He shouted while saying goodbyes so far by lifting his other hand up, making Carbine sigh and get back inside their booth.
"Come on here.." Throttle lifted his arm up so the general could sit next to him and he could have his arm over her shoulders while she wrapped her arms around his waist. "What a handsome couple" Adira admired, making them blush while turning to look at each other. "Thank you, Adira ma'am.." Carbine smiled at her, making her smile. "Please call me just Adira! I practically raised Throttle too with Stoker.. He's like a son to me" She smiled warmly, making Throttle smile at her too before whipping a tear away from his cheek.
"What could we do now while being here?" Rhea broke the silence, making Rimfire turn to look at her sister mischievously. "You two aren't going anywhere without an adult with you.. Generals Stoker and Carbine are out of count for certain reasons!" Mericy growled, making them laugh. "How about eating? This young lady Jessica was about to bring us food before Rhea came to tell she had seen you. Since when have you all eaten last?" Adira suggested, making Mericy gasp. "Right! Our meals!" She said, making Throttle chuckle while turning to look at her.
"I'm pretty sure they didn't get wasted.." He said before he got up from the seat, making the general growl since she would have preferred him staying there next to her. "Let's head to the cafeteria, I saw a sign that said it's one level below" He said, making them all nod and start to head there. Mericy wrote a note to the nurses where they had gone, just in case that someone would be looking for them. Mostly it was meant for Stoker since the nurses had the radio phones with them, and the general had exactly told them to stay there. But if asked from the Biker Mice, the word "here" would mean the whole building, or town or even the whole planet! Not even mentioning that their vocabulary didn't have the word "stay" in it..
Stoker's pov:
"Planetarium extraction in 9 minutes" Said the female voice from the speakers when Rimfire dashed into the labs to get me and Harley out of there. "We're ready now.. Let's head to the bikes!" I shouted after stuffing something inside my vest's inner pockets before the young male had come there. I saw Karbunkle had disappeared already which made me roll my eyes while we ran out of the lab to the storage where I had gotten the bikes when we had come here. "Are you sure that will work?" Harley asked while sitting on her bike.
"It has to.." I said before taking two bags from the storage space of my bike. "You two head to the volcano to help the others! They left the longer way so you'll be there in time if you use this shortcut I signal.. Now.. To Harley's bike" I said while sending the coordinates to her bike. "Aren't you coming, General?" Rimfire asked, making me turn to look at him. "I will, but I need to head to the others so they'll get there in time. We have just 8 minutes left, so go!!" I said, making him sit behind Harley before they drove away. But instead of heading to the others like I had said, I headed in the opposite direction to drive as fast as possible.
"C'mon! This is the only way left anymore.." I thought to myself while slowing down in front of a ruins that still showed that the building had once been a hospital. I pressed a tile on the wall before I drove inside a hidden vehicle elevator. And once I got down the underground levels, I parked my bike before running fast inside. "Nurse!!" I shouted when I saw one walking on the other side of the corridor, making her stop right there. Luckily she recognized me, making her start to walk fast towards me.
"General Stoker? Why such a hurry?" She asked, while I pulled something out of my vest. "I don't have much time, but take this to her! It should work, I measured it from her sister's tail!" I explained fast while handing her something that reminded of a disk but was made from metal. "What is it?" She said before gasping once it opened to its full length, revealing it being a mechanical tail, like the one I had now.
"Where did you get this?" The Nurse asked while trying to hold the tail in her hands that was swinging now furiously around. "Let's just say it's not Dan's.. But it should do its work! I gotta go now! Say 'hey' to her from me!" I said before running back the way I had just come, while I saw from the corner of my eye that the nurse hurried fast away too with the mechanical tail in her hands. If there wasn't just minutes left to save the planet, I would have followed her, but if it really worked and I was there instead of preventing Mars from becoming the new Plutark's moon, I would face the doom right after she wakes up and finds out.. And if that happened, brainwashing wouldn't have been the most horrible option to choose from!
When I got back to my bike, I headed back to the elevator before driving as fast as possible to the Biker Mice that were heading towards the Darcy Volcano. "Hey Old Timer! Where were you? You know this ain't a good time to have a nap.. Remember we have one Tug Transformer to unplug?!" Vinnie joked, making me smirk once I finally reached them. "Had just some unfinished business.. Thanks for waiting for me even if there was no need to take an actual detour, but now let's save Mars!" I shouted, making them howl before we all started to sing loudly "It's tail whipping time!!" when we finally saw the volcano and Harley and Rimfire were already there which made me a bit relieved. But I'd be much happier if my other plan worked too, even if Mars ended up being the Plutark's new moon after all.. For now we needed to just try our best and hope it was more than just enough!
Author's pov:
In the hospital
The Same nurse the general had met just a while ago, walked from one patient's room when another nurse walked from the next room to the corridor. Along that corridor were just a few rooms for special, long lasting treatment needing patients, for example like coma patients. And both of these patients had been in a coma for a very long time now. That was also the reason for the underground hospital to keep running there even during the war. Since the Martian beliefs said that it's better chance to wake up from coma if the body stayed as much the same place than it was possible. Moving it would make the waking up and brain work much harder. Which meant also that the staff needed to stay there too to take care of these kinds of patients. The Upper levels that were on the ground had got badly damaged, but the levels under the ground were completely alright and could be used also for an evacuation center not only for the civilians but also for the staff of the hospital who couldn't leave from there for a while, otherwise the place would have been exposed to the enemy.
"How horrible.. Father and daughter in the next rooms, not knowing at all about each other or what has happened lately.." Said the first nurse, who Stoker had met. "Indeed.. When you said the doctor is going to check them?" The Other one said, making her turn to look at the clock on the wall. "Under an hour now.. But do you think that tail would have any effect on her?" The First one asked, making the other one sigh deeply. "Honestly I'm not sure.. 14 years is quite a long time.. Even the father has been in a coma for a few years now.. It's a miracle if either of them wakes up.. Especially her.." The Nurse said while they continued walking along the corridor.
"I agree.. There's always hope.. But the talent of how to use brainwork and antennas has a big part in this.. According to that belief, her body has been very closely in the same place most of the time, while his body had had to be moved quite a lot from the beginning when he was found from the arena, and moved to this hospital from the other after it had gotten destroyed.." The First one said before they got separated to check the other patients. But neither of them saw that inside the other room the first nurse had checked, a female Martian moved her hand.
"Who has been in a coma for 14 years?" Thought a creamish white furred female after opening her eyes while noticing that she was leaning on some kind of bed. In the label on the end of the bed, was written a name under a title. Her name was Niv..
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