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Carbine couldn't listen to Niv explaining about the Biker mice to Jessica, so she decided to leave for the closest Freedom Fighter base, or actually the headquarters to feed her hungry son. Soon after the feeding was done, she made sure Felix was alright before she left back to her friends. While she walked, she tried to get him back to sleep, but he might have sensed her being tense since she had a feeling they weren't alone when she headed to one of the empty corridors that led towards the exit.

"So.. You dared to come back.. Which one are you.." She said as she lifted her hands to cover her son even if she had her back towards the follower. "Please Carbine.. Let me explain.." A male voice answered, getting her only to whip her tail as a sign of anger while she didn't even dare to turn her head to look at him.

"It's me Carbine.. Your.. Yours truly.." The Male said, which got Carbine's eyes to water up. He chose words that she had always found a bit romantic when he used them in a specific way to her. It made her turn to look at him a bit, carefully to not show Felix to him, to see he was wearing a large hood over his head like Xander had used when she had met him during the Sand raiders attack. But she could now tell he was really no one else than Throttle, her loved one who had woken up from death.

It took a moment from Throttle to notice what she was holding in her arms, but when he realized it was a baby sling, his eyes widened immediately and he took a step towards her fast. "What?!" He was about to say but his mind got totally messed up that he couldn't get any reasonable word out of his mouth. "Stay right where you are.. Don't come any closer.." Carbine growled and turned her back again to him so he couldn't see the baby at all.

Also Felix's little baby sounds confirmed to him that she was really holding a baby, as much the little boy made sure to her mother that he wasn't asleep yet which got her to sigh a bit. "Carbine.." He started but got her only to hiss at him. But before she managed to say anything, he hurried to talk. "Is that baby mine?" Throttle asked, not knowing what or how to feel. "How do I know you won't explode again?" She said with a hurtful tone in her voice, which got him to drop down his ears.

"You don't know how much it hurt me.." He started and couldn't even imagine how much pain she must have gone through. That has always hurt him the most ever since he had to do what he had to do. He never wanted to hurt the female he has always loved and adored the most. "Well I'd guess so.. Since there were even your 'organs and antennas' left at the battlefield.." She growled while covering her son's ears. She petted him gently as a way to try to get him to stay calm and sleep.

"Is that baby mine? I mean, ours?" He asked, and during that moment, even if he wanted so much to talk to her and explain everything to her, he wanted to know more about the baby. "You caused me serious traumas.. I don't want it to happen to him.." Carbine answered, while petting her son calmly to try to get him to sleep. Felix's quiet sounds got Throttle's ears moving sharply while his expression softened as he tried to figure out the baby's expressions and feelings. He would have wanted to get to know the little martian properly and more likely right away, but as hard it was to stay there, he had to show his respect to Carbine.

"So it's a boy.." Throttle sighed with a smile on his face that didn't get Carbine's expression to change as she took a peak at him over her shoulder. "Yes.." She said but growled immediately he tried to get closer to them. She even had her tail a bit up and ready if needed if he didn't stay back. "Carbine.." He started but got her to start to walk away. "Stop.. Go away.." She said while he started to follow her. "You can't keep me out of my child's life!" He hurried to say with a slight panic in his voice that got Carbine turn to look at him the way he could now see the baby at least a bit better even if she tried to cover him. He noticed Felix's fur color being the same as his. He didn't see much of his head but a few strands of darker, almost black, hair could be seen under the baby sling and Carbine's hands. "So you are sure the baby is yours?" She asked, getting him to growl but chuckle. "Well that's rather clear.." He nodded towards the baby, which got her to chuckle this time.

"Oh well.. Have you already forgotten your twin? Who you were about to tell me, perhaps.. ever?" She answered coldly which clearly hurt him. "Come on.." He sighed but it got her only to chuckle again. "Oh he's a talented dancer.. Even stripped at my bachelor party! Before those weddings which after YOU exploded like it would have been any kind of everyday basic!!" She shouted while covering her son's ears even if he started to feel a bit distressed. Sounds he let out got Throttle worried. He didn't want him to feel distress, scared or anything bad or hear about his parents fighting, meaning he was his father, wasn't he?

"It wasn't that simple.. But- Stripped for you? Xander?! What?!" Throttle gasped and growled immediately he realized what she had just said. "Oh that's just a minor point.." She groaned, which got Throttle to growl. "Did you cheat on me with my brother?!" He shouted, getting her to take a step back that got him to try to calm down. The situation was about to get out of hand and this wasn't the way he wanted to talk to her. The Only thing that kept Carbine maybe a bit calmer was her son, otherwise she would have let her rage out immediately they met. "You dare even to ask.. Of course not.. I loved you from the bottom of my heart!!" She shouted and was clearly about to cry.

Her words got Throttle to gulp deeply and it seemed like his words got stuck in his throat. "You love..d?" He managed to say which got her to nod. "I loved.." She answered and continued petting Felix calmly as he started to calm down too. He seemed to start sobbing but calmed down when his mother did too. "But you don't love anymore?" Throttle asked and it felt like his heart would stop beating and the floor would disappear under his feet right there. She didn't say anything as she turned her back to him.

He felt tears filling his eyes when he tried to repeat his question. "Don't you love me anymore? .. C-.. Carbine?" He asked and felt so much pain it was hard to not let the tears fall to his cheeks. "It's not that simple.." She said which got him to walk in front of her. "Tell me.." He said but got only her to turn sideways so he couldn't see Felix or more likely he couldn't see Throttle. "What you did traumatized me.. Even if you knew what had happened in my past.." She said as she noticed Throttle looking at the baby boy. Tears dropped to his cheeks which he wiped away and sniffed. Carbine felt close to crying too since she saw him crying and the whole situation felt terrible.

He took his hood off and had his ears dropped down. "Is there a small scar on his jaw, or.. No, Carbine you must focus on being angry at him!" She thought even if she could feel her heart beating when she saw his face properly again. He had changed a little bit, but not much. He was still there. He was actually there. He was alive. Even though he might hope to be dead if considered the level of her anger.. "Like I said.. It isn't that simple.. Everything about this hurts me too.." He said, trying to make eye contact with her, but she turned to look away, with the way she still saw side eyes that he couldn't try to touch either of them. He saw her being alert the whole time, which got him to sigh and not try to touch the baby even if he would have wanted to. Not only her expressions told him that but also her body language, especially her tail position and movements. While her tail was a bit lifted up, his was calmly down and behind his feet as he put his hands inside pockets to let her know that he wasn't going to touch him without her permission which she could easily notice was difficult for him.

"Well it didn't seem to be a problem at all.. Like you'd have done the dishes as the everyday bas- But wait.. None of you Biker Mice even do dishes. Even exploding is more natural!" She growled, making him snort. "Don't be inordinate, Carbine!" He tried to defend himself, but it only got her more mad. "Inordinate?! Me an inordinate?!" She growled and walked around him to head to the exit. Throttle took his hands off his pockets as he also talked with his hands. He was nervous too, as much as he was afraid of losing them both. He knew he had a lot to lose when it came to Carbine but now he even had a son, about whom he had no clue about at all. "What can I say that doesn't make you mad.." He said, trying to fix the situation. If there was anything that could still be fixed..

"So.. Probably nothing.." She answered coldly and wiped a tear or two away from her other eye. "What is his name?" The tan furred male asked when Felix showed signs of distress again. But instead of answering, Carbine just tried to get him back to sleep. "What is my son's name?" He repeated, making her turn to look away like she didn't even see him there. "You are dead to him.. You have not been in his life for even a single moment.." She said coldly but still hurt. She tried to not break down right there. She was angry at him, but also hurt. She was sad, confused but also maybe a bit relieved, right? Mostly confused. Definitely at least confused.

"Do you think I did it by free will?! I didn't know you were expecting my child!" He raised his voice which got her to growl. "Don't wake up my son.." She said, making him sigh. "Our son.." He said that made her turn to look at him coldly. "Who forced you to do it then? You could have denied.. We had just gotten married and were coming back from our honeymoon! Our honeymoon, Throttle!" She started and was about to continue while thinking about the whole thing, but he spoke over her. He could see it was hard from her to not cry, but she was clearly angry too. "During which our son got his beginning.. It must have been.." He said as he tried to count time back, but while he was away on another planet his sense of time had got messed up.

"How long did you know about that?!" She started as she tried to figure out what was going on. He couldn't have done anything like that all by himself, could he? If so, who else had been in part of it.. "Carbine, don't.." He said but got her only even more angrier. "Answer me!!" She shouted while covering her son's ears as he woke up and was about to cry. "A couple of weeks before our wedding.." Throttle said and turned to look down at the ground. Hearing that made her snap.

"COUPLE OF WEEKS?! And you told me nothing?! You got married to me, made a vow to me and we had our honeymoon in Jupiter! And you didn't even dare to mention, after that you have that, what it even was, some kind of mission or so, where you're going to fake your death?!" She shouted which got him to shout back at her. "Well in the middle of our wedding should I have told you that? Or during our wedding night?" He said but only got her to cry now. It made him feel even more horrible. Last thing he ever wanted to do was hurt her. Their shouting also got Felix to cry which made Throttle to calm down and not shout anymore.

"I'm sorry Carbine.. That was really rude.." He sighed while looking down at the ground. She tried to prevent her body from trembling, which was hard too. "It surely was.." She sniffed and calmed down confused and scared Felix. She had to share a short connection with their antennas to help him to calm down easier, to tell everything was alright, as much as she just could while feeling herself still pretty much the exact opposite. "I couldn't tell.. I would have wanted.. But.. I wasn't allowed.." He said, getting her turn to look at him again. "Who told you so? You? One of the toughest Biker Mice from Mars" She asked which actually got him to chuckle. "It's nice to hear you still think that way.." He said, almost smiling but her expression was far from that. "Don't change the subject.. But it hasn't changed.." She said as she looked away from him when he turned to look at her again.

"It hasn't?" He said with a smile but her words got him to drop down his ears. "No.. You are a good soldier.. A Freedom Fighter.." She said while gently fixing her son's position and the baby sling. "But? That's it?" He said and when he didn't get an answer, he turned to look down again. It took a moment from either of them to say anything. "You don't love me anymore.." He said and felt pain in his chest. "I didn't say that.." She said without hesitation that got him to turn to look into her ginger colored eyes.

"Carbine.. I'm still that same mouse you fell in love there at the training grounds.." Throttle tried to convince her while looking at her. He was also worried about how all of this affected the baby boy, but also he couldn't describe how happy and confused he was when he saw him. Was he really a father? "Are you really? You see that mouse wouldn't have exploded into the air and faked his death just like that.." Carbine said coldly, but it was clear that she was also very hurt.

"That mouse hadn't grown yet.. He didn't know what was threatening Mars. What was threatening his family.." Throttle answered, which got Carbine turn to look at him again after gently kissing Felix's head. Seeing her caring so much about the boy made him feel warm on his chest, but mostly he felt horrible for what he had done. He just wished he would have a chance to fix their family and everything that she and he had ever had. "Are you trying to sa.. Are you telling me that you did that for us?" Carbine asked while finally getting Felix to start to fall asleep. She could feel his tiny body relaxing as he calmed down and had even his small tail curled inside the baby sling. She had at least her other hand on his back the whole time as she kept petting it gently. "Yea.." Throttle said and as soon as he had said that, she answered. "Bullshit.." She spitted out, but when he tried to say something, she spoke over him.

"Just married male rather explodes all over the red ground of Mars than faces the enemy together with his female.. Since when you have been so gutless?" She said with her voice full of hate. Throttle was totally speechless. He just couldn't say anything. Not because of that he wouldn't have permission to do it, no, it was that she was so angry he didn't know what to do or say to solve the situation.

Soon after that Carbine turned her back to him again. She was about to leave, but then ended up talking to him without looking at him at all. She just looked at her son with tears filling her eyes again. "I can still remember that day very clearly.. It was the most horrible day in my life.." She said and lifted her head up to try to prevent herself from crying, which Throttle could tell without being able to see it. Her body movements told everything.

Throwback to that day

"Let's kick those fish faces butts who interrupted our honeymoon.." Carbine had growled as she hit her other fist against her other hand just before the whole spaceship got hit by the enemy, she fell on the floor and along with her new husband, they had to prepare to the fight earlier than it was originally planned, meaning that Throttle had to leave to the battlefield earlier, to help the spaceship to get safe for landing. She would join him later after getting checked in the hospital for possible pregnancy.

"Go.. I'll be right behind you.." Carbine had said before kissing his cheek. "I'll get you safe.." He had answered which got her to nuzzle her nose to his and share a quick connection with their antennas as the way to tell they loved each other very much. He hugged her tightly before kissing her powerfully. She kissed him once more before he ran to the vehicle storage.

"Open the hatch.." Carbine had demanded while turning to look over her shoulder. A Tear rolled to her cheek when Throttle checked him being ready before sending her a flying kiss. He put his helmet on while the pilot got confused and argued about the spaceship being not on the safe level yet which caused her to slam her hand on the button. "It's tail whipping time.." She smirked when her husband prepared his bike's bat wings to join the fight underneath them. This was all part of their back up plan they made during one night in Jupiter.

It didn't take much time from the spaceship to land on the ground and Carbine to get to the hospital with the pilot's help. The pilot managed to land even closer to the hospital than originally was supposed to, but also far enough to not expose the underground hospital either. It was a big help for Carbine who rushed immediately inside to get the fastest appointment possible. Luckily there was one canceled appointment, so she didn't have to wait for a long time. And since some time had passed from the wedding night, even if they had had sex many times after it too, and it was urgent to get the information immediately, the doctor took the blood tests too just in case but the ultrasound told everything needed. She was pregnant.

"Congratulations! And blessing for the new life" The doctor had smiled warmly at her before handing her a towel to clean her stomach. Even if the news were the ones she and Throttle had hoped for, she was still in shock. She was really pregnant. She was pregnant. She was a female general in the middle of the war, and she was pregnant.

"Thank you.." She said as she wiped her stomach clean and got permission to get up and fix her clothing too. After that she got the information that was needed, and next she should go somewhere safe and let the forces deal with the battles. But still, she knew she couldn't wait to tell the news to Throttle. She must have told Throttle that she was expecting his child. "Are you seriously risking your baby's life, General? The Father can wait. And you can too. I'm serious. I can't allow you to go to the field" The doctor said, getting her to shake her head. "No, I must go.. I'm careful and I have the best team on Mars with me" She said, but didn't mention that she had to join them alone, not knowing about the distance and how long and dangerous it would be. If she told the doctor that, she would probably inform the higher ranked generals about her to force her to stay inside and safe. New life must have been protected since during the war, a lot of martians got killed, and even before that females were honored and protected, now it was even more important.

"I wish I could say that I heard nothing, but unfortunately I can't" The Doctor started to say but when they were about to grab their radiophone, Carbine hurried to take it from the table. "General Carbine the Wife of Throttle!" The Doctor gasped and was clearly surprised. "Fine. I won't go. But please do not inform anyone about my pregnancy. I'll tell myself" Carbine said before she handed the radio back. "Of course not. Professional secrecy protects patients. But if I see any reason that a parent is putting her child in danger, I must inform the higher rank about that. It can be done not directly too" The doctor explained, getting her to nod before she thanked them again and got permission to leave.

But right after Carbine had gotten out of the doctor's appointment, she felt like someone would have hit her head as she realized the news more properly. She walked slowly along the corridor of the underground hospital while thinking how much the news would change her and also Throttle's lives. The next ten months would be something neither of them had ever dealt with. It would be a huge challenge that would continue the rest of their life, but they would be together and soon there would be three of them in their little family.

During her walk, she was thinking that even with her past and the earlier news of that she'd have problems getting, or maybe she'd never get pregnant at all, she still got. And she was so deeply in her thoughts that she didn't even notice that there were a few generals checking themselves too when they walked past. She hadn't seen them at first since her mind was too busy to handle the news she had just heard from the doctor. She was pregnant. She was expecting Throttle's baby. Like they had always dreamed of. But then..

"The Elite is in trouble?" One of the generals said after answering the radiophone. Hearing that got Carbine to twitch her ears and slow down a bit. She had lifted her other hand on her stomach while thinking about the new life growing inside of her when she had noticed someone else being in the same corridor too with her. "Ain't that the Biker Mice?" Another general said, which got her to gulp and tighten the grip of her shirt a bit. "It is! But shouldn't they be alright dealing with Plutarkians? I mean.. They got captured once but.." Third one said while the one with the radiophone got more information through the lines. "They are fighting against the leader of the Plutarkians! Princess Niv is with them! We need to hurry! Inform all the forces that are capable of going there!! There's a major attack going on!" The General said before they started to run past the light gray furred female towards the exits while radioing as many forces as possible on the way. She just stayed there for a moment to think what she had just heard. Then, she realized it.

"Stilton.. No!!" Carbine gasped while squeezing her shirt with her hand. She could feel the fabric of her shirt as much as the baby probably felt her being scared and tense, loaded with negative emotions, even if the baby was still very small there. "I know Throttle would get angry immediately when he hears that I got back to the fight while expecting you.. But.. I need to go.. I need to help your father.." Carbine said while looking down at her stomach. She rubbed it gently before starting to run to the vehicle storage too. She didn't care whose bike she'd take but her husband needed help at the battlefield now. "Rest can wait. I have ten months to rest, but now Throttle needs my help" She thought in her mind while she freed her hair from a ponytail she wore to the appointment to not get tangled to her long black hair.

Even if the planet's future needed to be thought too and the new life would be the most important to be protected, there would be nothing to protect if the Biker Mice lost the fight with other fighters. "Throttle.. Honey.. I'm sorry for risking our baby now, but I know you'll understand.. Just stay safe, I'll come to help you" Carbine thought while getting a motorcycle ready in the storage before she left to drive towards the battlefield by following the other generals that left before. But for some reason, they turned to go the other way instead of heading straight there. She got that going to the enemy's rear was probably a better idea, or maybe there were other forces they needed to get to join them, but she couldn't wait or find that out. So she just drove straight away there. And it didn't take much time till the female general saw a group driving in front of her. It was princess Niv and the Biker Mice, with her own uncle.

Soon Carbine got a couple of enemies to face, she signaled to the princess about her arrival, Throttle and Stoker got shot off their bikes by the enemy, Throttle also knocked Vinnie off his bike, Modo and Niv had hard time defending them and the whole situation got turned over fast. And when Carbine got rid of those enemies, she didn't notice new ones approaching her when she got a chance to head to Throttle. She wanted to tell him the news as fast as possible, and since she was there, he thought she wasn't pregnant. He noticed the enemies following her before she did and even if he thought she hadn't got the news they had been waiting for, he had to concentrate on defending his wife.

"Carbine!!" He shouted and sped towards her. He tried to get her to notice the enemies behind her. "Throttle! I'm p-.." Carbine started to say to him while smiling at him, but then she saw him driving past her before she finally noticed the enemy too. The View got her eyes to widen when she saw her husband heading towards them alone, even if in the corner of her eye she saw Vinnie heading towards there too to help the tan furred commander against the enemies while Modo, Stoker and Niv were stuck on another fight. But when she had just turned around and was heading there too to help him, there was a loud explosion suddenly of which a pressure wave got her to fly a tens of meters up in the air while screaming loudly.

"Carbine!!" Niv gasped and headed straight towards her to try to get her before she would smack to the ground from the high. She only managed to soften the general's landing by wrapping her mechanical tail around her, but the speed caused her to lose her grip, meaning that Carbine fell on the ground and rolled over a couple of times. Luckily not that hard than she would have without Niv's help. Her bike got crashed during that, meaning that she would have also had pretty minimal changes to survive. She hadn't hurt her head though but it still had caused her to go unconscious for a one or two minutes, not for a long but still for a moment.

She was laying on her stomach when a few minutes later an evil laughter woke her up. Stilton was laughing and cheering for something when she was about to close her eyes again. She heard motorcycles' and the enemy vehicles' engines growl all around her but couldn't tell which was which one. Was her friends closer to her or was it the enemy, that she wasn't sure at all. It got a moment from her to get the dizziness clear from her head after waking up. For a moment she had seen everything double and the place was moving even if she was laying still, but then she noticed the princess running to her and there were just one of them instead of two. The Bike behind the princess still seemed to be a double but soon she got the focus back on her vision.

"Carbine wake up! Are you alright?!" Niv dropped onto her knees next to her to check if she was alright. Her elbows and knees looked pretty bad as well as her whole body hurt. But for some reason she didn't feel any specific pain or couldn't tell where it did come from. She just felt pain all over her. "I.. I think I am.." She said while trying to get up with her hands, but then she saw the horrifying view in front of them when the sand whirl had fallen back down after the explosion. Throttle's motorcycle was in thousands of small pieces while the evil laughter filled their ears. She just stared at the view and she couldn't say a word. Then she heard Vinnie talking when he had got to the females.

His expression told them everything needed, but his words felt like a knife or a laser shot straight to her heart. He couldn't face the general's eyes but they could still tell he was crying which they didn't see him doing often. And that alone told that something very horrible had just happened. When Carbine turned to look at him slowly, she felt like she would fall down even if she was still laying on the ground while leaning against her hands, her upper body a bit up from the ground. "I.. I failed to save him.." Vinnie looked down and a bit away from them while crying. Carbine's eyes just widened before she felt her whole body starting to tremble. The Love of her life had just died in front of her eyes..

It took some time for her to start to hear someone shouting her name a few times. She saw nothing but blurry and the only thing she could do was just to look forward. Someone helped her up from the ground while her name was being shouted before she felt someone hugging her tightly. It had been Vinnie who had been hugging her and crying.

"You are hurt pretty badly, we need to get you to the hospital!" Niv said while checking Carbine's wounds after helping her to get up with Vinnie's help. "Carbine.. Do you hear me?" She asked which got the light gray furred female to turn to look at her emotionless. Then she felt Vinnie ending the hug which got Carbine to turn to look at him. "At least her trembling stopped.." He said, which got her to turn to look at herself. She was covered in blood, but then she realized it wasn't mostly her own blood. It was her husband's blood..

"We need to get ourselves out of here!! The Enemy is not backing up!" Stoker shouted just before Niv and Vinnie helped Carbine to sit on Vinnie's bike. But when they tried to help her to sit down, she refused. She just stared at the horrible view in a shock, not understanding much of it. All over the ground was blood and small pieces that once were a black Harley Davidson. There were also torn pieces of tan colored fur, black leather and entrails. One antenna there, an ear here.

Soon she felt something else too than just the pain. She threw up. The View was so shocking for her that it caused her to empty her stomach completely right there. Niv lifted her hand on her back while Vinnie started to shoot towards the enemy to cover them. All of them were in shock but they had to get out of there, since the enemy didn't seem to retreat either.

After Stoker's command, Modo drove to his friends to help them to get Carbine to move. "Carbine ma'am, are you alright?!" He asked worriedly while Niv helped Carbine to wipe her mouth to a tissue she handed to her. Even if he didn't get an answer, it was clear. "We need to get out of here! Retreat 51!" Stoker shouted when joined them too to defend them with Vinnie helping him as much as he could. He was grimacing and biting his teeth together as he was crying. It was hard to fight but if none of them defended their little group that had taken a major damage, they would just be an easy target there and none of them would survive.

"No" Carbine mumbled but no-one seemed to hear her. Niv and Vinnie tried to get her to sit behind Vinnie again, she slapped both of them and pushed them away. "NO!!" She shouted from the top of her lungs that all of them turned to look at her. "Carbine, we need to..-" Stoker started just when Niv threw up too. She started to tremble too after realizing the view properly now too.

"NO!!" Carbine shouted again while shaking her head. She felt heavy tears running down her cheek and soon she saw nothing through them. Modo lifted his hands on her shoulders this time, but she pushed them away and started to run. "Carbine!" Stoker shouted as he tried to defend his niece from the enemies' shootings with Vinnie's and also Modo's help. They had to cover her to not get hit. She just had a feeling that she had to go to Throttle. She had to find him and help him.

"No!" Vinnie growled when Carbine got shot to her ankle, ending up falling to the ground even if she tried to continue. She fell straight to Throttle's blood and fur. Vinnie and Modo just shared a considered look as they continued defending them and Carbine. She just cried there on the ground and screamed on the top of her lungs that got all of them to feel so bad that it hurt. A lot. She shouted Throttle's name as her body was trembling when she grabbed a piece of his fur into her hand.

"Throttle.." She barely got to say as she felt like choking. She couldn't get up, she just cried there while others moved closer to her to defend her better. Enemy didn't let them go too easily, which made getting closer to her harder than during any other fight. Soon she found the commander's star-shaped earring laying there on the ground near one of his red scarves. She recognized it to be the one he always wore around his neck. He had got that from his mother he never got to know, which brought some memories back into her mind, and during that she fainted.

When she hit her head to the ground as she fainted, Stoker got more worried about his niece who wasn't anything that she had used to be. It was even difficult to recognize her to be her. He started to run immediately to her while still shooting towards the enemy. "CARBINE!!" He yelled which got some kind of reaction from her. "Did you get hurt badly?!" He kneeled down to her while Niv commanded Vinnie and Modo to defend them. "We don't have much time! These fish faces won't leave us alone even if they took one of us!" Vinnie growled while he was still crying and so was Niv.

When Carbine lifted her head up to turn to look at her uncle, she saw that he had been crying too. As Modo had been too. He still was. All of them were crying. Carbine had never yet in her life cried as heavy tears as now, and this much. They didn't stop even if Stoker lifted her a bit up so he could hug her tightly. They just hugged for a while, but when the enemy got a chance to get closer, he had to end the hug. "We need to go.." He said and he could still feel that Carbine was trembling when she shook her head.

"No! I won't leave him! I can't!" She cried but then she noticed her uncle trembling too. "We need to take him to the hospital!" She shouted before she saw him shaking his head. "There's nothing left to do, Carbine.." Stoker said, which got her to turn around to look at him again. Vinnie and Modo just looked at each other, ears down and crying, before they saw Niv biting her lower lip as she continued shooting enemies' vehicles to slow them down. They continued helping her while Stoker tried to get Carbine to move. But even he didn't manage to do it.

"Take her.. If we don't leave now.. We'll all die.." Stoker said as he got up to join Niv so Vinnie and Modo could lift Carbine up from the ground. "NOOOOO!!" She screamed while crying when Vinnie lifted her up from the ground since Modo had to go back to help the married couple since Stoker almost got hit on his other arm. "Carbine we have to go!!" Vinnie shouted but it only got Carbine to start punching his chest while crying.

"I'll make sure this will be taken care of during this day.." Stoker said even it was clearly hard to say out loud, which made Carbine turn to look at him. Soon she realized what he had meant. "NOO!!" She cried while she tried to get up by herself but then she felt Vinnie's tail tightly around me. "Release me or I'll cut it off!!" She shouted but he just shook his head while crying. When he got her to sit behind him on his bike, she noticed Modo picking something up from the ground before Vinnie started to drive away right after Stoker and the princess. Niv was in shock too and everyone could clearly tell she probably wanted to throw up again.

When they finally got back to the Freedom Fighter's headquarters, Vinnie carried Carbine to one of the resting areas that was empty and gave some privacy for them. On the way she just kept punching him while crying and shouting. He was crying as well but not because of the general's punches. He was crying for the same reason she was crying too. Like Modo, Stoker and Niv did too. All of them were in shock, weren't they..

Back to this moment

"You don't know how sorry I am.. It was the worst day of my life too!" Throttle said while wiping tears off his cheeks too. "Are you? Are you, Throttle, for real?" Carbine said quietly since she felt all of the shock and trauma again in her body. She didn't know was it worse or that he was actually alive and standing there behind her. For what she had to go through that kind of horrible thing?!

"I am.. I can't even describe how bad I feel.. How sorry I am.." He said, but this time it didn't take much time from her to answer. She sniffed, wiped her nose and snorted. "Would you do it again?" She asked, which got him to twitch his ears. Did he hear correctly? "Oh, that the situation would be the same as back then?" He asked and then saw her nodding. "I would.." He answered, even if he knew she wouldn't like the answer.

"You are not sorry.." She snorted while being surprised but also disappointed. "I am!! My heart got broken that day!!" He raised his voice, but it only caused her to do the same. "Oh your heart?! What do you think I might have felt that day?! I was just coming to tell you that I was expecting your baby when you suddenly exploded!! Following that I flew into the air and without Niv's fast reaction, I would have more likely lost our child too! I thought till that day you three macho mice appeared back on Mars from the Earth that our son is the only thing that was left from you!" She cried out loud, mostly yelling, trying to hold back her tears and actually managing to do it since she focused more on her anger.

"You said it.." He sighed which got her a bit confused. Her ears movements told him that but so did her expression too. "What?" She asked while lifting her hands on her son to pet him to keep him sleeping since shouting woke him up from his nap. "Our child.." Throttle was about to smile at her, but his words got her to snort and growl. "You are such an earless bonehead.." She growled before he finally answered her.

"It shouldn't have affected you.. I mean like that you would have hurt the same.." He explained, which got her to lift her other eyebrow up a bit. She looked a bit sarcastic but also confused. "Oh? You mean that husband's exploding should feel like nothing?" She said, getting him to sigh this time. "I didn't mean that.. I meant that you shouldn't have been that close to get flown into the air and get hurt yourself.." He said, but her next words got him to move his ears downwards.

"You mean this is now my fault?" She said, making him also frustrated since the conversation didn't go the way he had planned.. Which wasn't actually surprising if thought about her nature. "I didn't say that.." He said, a small moment of silence followed after it which got broken by Felix who started to feel distress again, getting Carbine to focus on to calm him down and to lift him up from the baby sling to her shoulder. Throttle followed her every single movement that was especially about the baby martian that looked exactly like him.

"Does he know about me?" He asked, and nothing more, he would have loved to get the baby in his arms and to hold him, to get to know his son. "That you are dead.." She said, breaking his happy thought immediately. "Nothing else?" He said, with a disappointed tone in his voice. But when Carbine didn't answer him, he could see from her that she had told the baby something about him. He had no idea what to say, so he ended up sighing deeply again.

"Who forced you not to tell me?" She asked, but this time he stayed silent. Instead of answering, he took steps closer to them to try to get close to his son, but only getting her to prevent him doing it. She prepared Felix into the sling again to be ready to leave from the corridor and the headquarters.

"I can't tell.. Not just yet.." He could just say, while being hurt that she didn't give him a chance to get closer to the boy. He sure knew why, but it didn't take away the fact that it hurt. "You can't or you don't want.." She said, her back facing him again. "Carbine.." He said, which got her to turn around. "Who was it?" She asked, trying to remain calm for her son. She kept petting his back as she waited for the answer she didn't get. She could sense something big in the whole thing since normally Throttle would have told her everything, wouldn't he? He hadn't even told her about his brother, so what else he must have been hiding?

"I only want an answer to that question. Then I'll leave.." She said seriously while noticing that Throttle was crying since he wiped tears under his specs. He was afraid more than anything that he had lost Carbine completely. She was so close to crying again too, which made her turn her back to him again. "ANSWER ME! WHO WAS IT?!" She just shouted, not being sure if she should turn around or keep her back facing him. She wasn't sure about anything, but when he finally answered, she felt like someone would have torn her whole spine out of her back with ice cold hands.

"Ask a mouse who you call your uncle.." He said, causing her to gasp in shock before she could finally get her body to move and to leave the corridor as he just stayed still. Before she was at the doorway, Throttle took a step towards her, but ended up turning around. But before neither of them could leave the corridor, Felix took a peak over Carbine's shoulder since she had made the sling to keep him there better than on only her chest level. Even if he was still a baby, he could still recognize Throttle from what his mother had shown him through antenna connection.

Understanding something about it or not, he reached his small hand toward the tan furred male before he let out a small baby sound that got him to turn around immediately. "Daa..d!" They could hear from the sound reminded of, which got Carbine to cry even more before she lifted her son back to her chest level. Seeing and hearing that got Throttle to feel so much pain it was so hard to walk away from them. As much as she was crying, he was crying too, but they weren't the only ones. After Carbine lifted Felix back to the baby sling at her chest level, he started to cry too. Would the couple have any chances anymore to get back together? Would they ever be a family they had always dreamed of having together?

In the same day's evening, at the highly secured prisoner hospital

A Half year later from Stoker and Niv's visit to the highly secured prisoner hospital where somehow Dan had attacked into Stoker's mind during the brainsearch, the brown furred male had ended up in a hospital, later vanished from there and was still unfound, Dan got a new visitor, this time outside the glass wall that was in between the visitor space and the cage where the very dangerous prisoner was held. There were many guards the whole time after the accident, even if this time the visitor wasn't a royal.

"Father..?" Mericy's voice was trembling almost as much as her body was too. She didn't know what or how to feel, but for some reason, she felt herself scared. Her voice got the prisoner's ears to twitch as a sign of hearing, but there wasn't that kind of reaction as should be if a long time missing, or thought to be dead, father, who had always cared for his children, hears the voice of his child. That didn't hurt her as much as the fact that what he had done. She had been there for a moment before she managed to say anything. It was hard to cope with what she was seeing in front of her. Her father, being alive. Even if he didn't look like one she remembered him being when she was little. Dan's, or Mace's, mutation seemed to be hardly controlled, so most of the time he looked like a rat kind of creature like he had been for many years already. No-one was sure if he could ever return to a martian mouse again.

"Father.. Do you hear me?" She asked, looking down the ground before lifting her head up to look at him again. "Are you even.. Dan.. my father.." Mericy thought in her mind, but then turned her head away to not ask it out loud. She knew the answer. The News from Stoker and Harley about him had been shocking and she had heard from her mother, Adira, about what had happened recently, but it had taken over a few months to come to visit the male she had always thought to be dead. And still, she just couldn't believe this being real.

"I can't believe my own eyes.." She sighed deeply after some time had passed and during that neither of them had said anything. She just kept looking at him, the ground, all over the visiting space, her own hands and feet before looking back at him again, then the ground again. It felt like more than a half an hour, but for real it was more likely a few minutes that just felt longer. In her mind, Mericy thought it felt like forever, but she knew she didn't have even an hour for the visit, so it couldn't be more than just a small moment.

"Blue eyes.. Light blue eyes.." Soon she heard someone saying, and by a quick look she could tell none of the guards talked, which got her to turn to look at the cage again. "Mericy has light blue eyes.." The Male said as he moved slowly as much the chains just let him, which wasn't much. "Father?" Mericy asked and then saw him turning to look at her. "Mericy?" He said, getting her nod and wipe a tear of her other eye. "Yes.. It's me, your daughter" She said and lifted her hand on the glass wall, but then saw a guard glaring at her to take it down. It got her ears to move sadly down but after obeying she just kept looking at the prisoner while rubbing her hands gently together to try to get her to calm down. She felt a bit nervous and she was also thinking about her own children who she didn't want to bring there with her. She hadn't even managed to tell them yet, since she and Adira had agreed that they shouldn't know yet. Maybe they'd tell them after they knew more about Dan's situation.

"Mericy.. How.." The Male that looked more like a rat again than a martian mouse, said with a voice that almost sounded like a growl. The changes that he had gone through, didn't only affect his outer form, but also to his voice and his mind, but like Adira had noticed it during her visits there, Mericy saw it too that part of the real Dan was still there. They hadn't completely lost him, had they?

"Do you see me?" Mericy asked carefully, and got a growl that sounded almost like "Yes" since he couldn't nod properly. He had been waking up from stun for a while, since a couple of days ago he tried to attack one guard from three who had been making sure the chains were correctly on their places after another try to break free from them. "How.. How are you.." He growled, which got her to bite her lower lip and hold back her tears. "You.." He continued but couldn't finish his sentence because of his current state.

"How am I an adult, is that what you are trying to ask? Well.. Some time has passed since last time I saw you.. Before I heard that you're dead.. What on Mars, father?!" Mericy growled irritably, but it was hard to keep looking at the male. She felt so hurt but also angry. "Is it some kind of habit from martian males to fake their death at least once in their lifetime?!" She thought in her mind even if she knew about the accident that had been an accident, right? "I.. I'm.." He tried to say, but it was clearly hard, mostly because of stunning, but also because of that he recognized who had came to visit him. His own daughter. His firstborn. Mericy.

"What.. You are what?" Mericy bit her lower lip while growling. Her body was trembling and her eyes got filled with tears. "I am.. sorry.." The words got her to blink her tears to fall down immediately to her cheeks but after that the crying stopped. She was about to gasp, but couldn't. She wasn't sure if she heard him correctly, but she was in a shock. She was so surprised, and she wasn't the only one. The Guards listened to them surprised too and one of them wrote some things down before reporting about it to someone through the radio connection.

"W- What?" She asked and got him to repeat his words slowly before he just growled loudly again which sounded more beast-like than a normal martian mouse kind of behavior. Was he in pain because of the stun or chains or was it more mental pain? Did he regret anything or was he just bored to be there in the huge cage? "Father.." Mericy turned to look down the ground before she got up from the seat she had been sitting on during her visit there. "No.. Don't. goo.." The Male growled while still looking at her after the growl that had got him to lift his head up towards the ceiling. She was about to turn around but hearing him talking got her to turn to look back at him.

"Even Adira's visits have not got the research this far. He hasn't talked much during the last half year. Nothing that would prove us that there's still a martian mouse inside of him. Only, a vicious rat kind of behavior.." One of the guards close to her said before another one talked. "Meaning, nothing that would show any kind of sympathy or empathy towards others. Only, negative stuff and multiple tries on attacking guards and doctors. He has never cared if someone comes or leaves the space either.." The Guard explained, getting Mericy to sigh deeply. She wasn't sure if she wanted to hear that but she understood why it was important for her to be there. She had heard from the guards when she had come there, that Niv had informed them about when they had been on their way back to Mars, he had reacted when the crown princess had mentioned his family, especially his children. And Mericy could still remember her father caring so much about her and her little brother before they had lost him when she had been eight. He had been a gentle and loving male but now there were no signs left from that.

She nodded before she sat back on the seat again, this time only the edge of it as a sign that she wasn't staying there for a long time anymore. "Why are you sorry?" She asked and got the guard close to her to nod at her which got her to nod back. But there was a long time before there was even a sign of answer from the male since after her question, he just growled and turned to look away. "I.. hurt.. many.." He growled which got the guards to talk about something that Mericy didn't hear.

"You did! You hurt my friends! And us! Your family!!" She started to shout but got glared at by the guards. She didn't care. She wanted him to know that she was hurt. That she hated what he had done. But also.. Did she want him to know that she was afraid? For that, she didn't know the answer. "You hurt your family!" She repeated while crying at the same time. "I.. Did.." He said but before she or anyone could say anything, a door behind the visitor's space made a couple beeping sounds before it opened and a big, gray furred male dashed in with another guard that entered calmly to the space.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Modo growled as he walked fast to the glass wall to lift his both hands to it by almost slamming them against it. "Modo?!" Mericy gasped while noticing that the one of the two guards that talked with her changed a swift with the one who came with Modo. The Door got locked again after the guard left the space before a few guards told Modo to calm down. His eye was glowing red and he was full of hate, but Mericy could see him being also confused, which was understandable. "You're probably hurt too, little brother.. Like I am.." She thought in her mind as she sighed and just looked at her gray furred brother.

She hadn't met his brother after he had gone missing, as later known to the planet Earth for a mission, so she was very happy to see him. Not only to hear from everybody else that he had saved Mars with his friends, but also to see him after a long time. So much had happened lately on Mars too, and she'd have wanted to talk with him properly. Some things he'd probably not like as much as other things.. And she didn't only mean this shocking news.

He really had been away for so long, just got back to Mars and then got to know that the father he had lost when he had been four years old, was alive, mutated and hurt many mice that were important to him. He didn't know what was more shocking about that, but he surely knew that he felt mostly anger towards the mutated rat from who he didn't see his own father at all.

"Modo.. Modo!!" Mericy hurried to get up and walk to her little brother who just growled at the prisoner while leaning against the glass wall with his hands. He felt pain in his right shoulder but didn't care about it. "Modo!" Mericy raised her voice as she lifted her hand on his back that got him to turn to look at her. His ears got dropped down and when she opened her arms to him, he hugged his older sister immediately. He had missed her too, and now he needed his older sister to get through whatever this even was. The siblings surely needed each other, but they also needed their mother to get through this together. "I know.." She sighed, not knowing what to say or do to help him to calm down, but when they ended their hug, she saw him still being angry.

"I heard from Vinnie what happened! That rat hurt Harley!!" He growled and turned to look towards the cage again. The Male inside of it just turned his head away while Modo's eye was glowing red again. He had come there immediately after meeting Vinnie and Harley who both told him everything that had happened. It had been obviously hard for Harley and from his mother he had got to know where he should go and he'd also find his sister there if he went there right away. "He kidnapped her and hurt her! He even hurt Niv, our crown princess!" Modo growled and slammed his mechanical hand to the glass wall which got the guards to point their guns toward him to make him to stop that, lift his hands down and take a couple of steps away from the wall. "He's in shock! Please don't.." Mericy stepped in front of his brother to get one of the guards to nod, to tell something to the other guards to make them calm down too and focus on the prisoner, before the guard told the siblings that there was not much time left for visiting anymore.

"That rat kidnapped Harley!! Do you even know what he has done?!" Modo kept growling while looking at his sister. Her nodding got him to calm down a bit since he was more surprised about it. "I heard some time ago.. Before you came back.. But before you say anything about why I or mother didn't tell you, we didn't know how! And also we didn't want to shock you before we knew what was going on with you.." She explained which got him to nod understandingly. "I'm not angry at you or mama.. But to him, yes" He said and nodded towards the cage. "I know.. What happened to Harley was terrible! Without Niv we would probably have lost her.." She sighed miserably as she turned to look towards the cage too.

"She's my bro's female.. Even if their thing seems complicated.." Modo said and had his ears dropped down again. "Of course you care about her! I don't even doubt that.. But how are you feeling? He's our father.." She asked, but Modo just managed to start with "No" when the male in the cage talked again, which got them to turn to look there. "Modo.." He said with a growl-like sound. "He remembers us.." Mericy said while looking at Modo who had a distressed expression on his face. She could still remember that he had been more in shock when they had heard the news of the terrible climbing accident. He had cried so much she and Adira had been afraid that it would affect him so much he would never be the same again.

And now there the siblings were. Meeting their father after over three decades. Feeling the pain of loss again they remembered feeling back then when they were little. But this time with a lot of confusion and horrible news that made things more complicated that it would have been just a happy reunion.

"So what.." Modo growled while trying to hold his tears back. "I know you are in pain.. So am I.." Mericy started but got him only to glare at her. "That rat isn't our father.." Modo growled while it was hard to turn to look at the cage again. "Mo.. do.." The Male growled and Mericy's ears moved as she wasn't sure if she heard a bit of sadness in it. "Modo.." She sighed as she lifted her hand on his left shoulder but he just shrugged it away. His right shoulder was still hurting and the movement made him grimace. "Are you alright?" She asked and got him only to snort. "Am I alright? Clearly not, sis! Just look over there to find the reason!" He growled, making her drop down her ears.

"I know.. But we are in this together.." She started but got him to shake his head. "No.. I disagree with that.." He said and soon continued after taking a deep breath. "She's more my friend than yours.. Vinnie's my bro.." He said while looking at her again. "But we are family" She smiled gently and the male's voice got them to turn to look at him again. "F.. Family.." He said while looking at the siblings, then mostly Modo as he noticed his mechanical right arm. After that Mericy and Modo saw it too. Dan also had a mechanical right arm.

"We are not alike!" Modo growled at the male, but then felt Mericy's hand again on his shoulder. "You can't deny the facts Modo! We are family even if the situation is what it is!" She started but got her hand shaken off again. "Don't try to make me feel sympathy towards that rat!" Modo growled, making her growl too. "I am not!! I don't accept what he has done either! It was terrible! But don't you want our father back if we'd have a chance?" She asked, making him flinch for a moment.

"Family.." The Male said as he broke the moment of silence between the siblings. "I want.. my.. family.." He said which got Mericy's eyes to fill up with tears again. Modo didn't know what to say or feel. Neither did she, before she took his mechanical right hand in hers to pat it gently. "We are siblings. We shouldn't fight with each other during hard times.. We are in this together, Modo.." She said, making him sigh and drop down his ears before he hugged her tightly. "Sorry, Mer'.. But I still.. I.. I don't know.." He said, and got an understanding nod from her.

"Modo.. Mericy.." The Male growled as he looked at the siblings ending their hug. "He seems to remember us.." The Gray furred female said while noticing that a guard was taking some notes again while talking to someone on the radio phone. She could tell that as they were there the research of Dan's state got further, but she couldn't say how or what was going to happen next. But when Modo was about to say something, a guard entered the visitor's space.

"A call for Modo. It's important" The Guard said, which got Modo and Mericy to turn to look at each other. "What could be that important someone calls me here?" Modo asked, getting his sister to shrug even if she had a hunch about it when they left the visitor's space so he could answer the call in a safer room for it, that was actually in the long corridor that led to Dan's cell. It was under the ground and along that corridor weren't any other prisoners' cells. But before they left, Mericy turned to look at their father one more time.

"Mericy.." The Male in the cage said while looking at her again. "Father.." She said sadly, her ears dropped down again. "Modo.." The Male said as he turned to look at the gray furred male's back as he walked away without looking at the prisoner again. That got Mericy to sigh and turn to look down as she crossed her arms tightly in front of her. She didn't know what to say or do, but then she turned slowly around to follow her brother who had already answered the call that was waiting for him.

"What?! She's in a hospital?!" He gasped and turned to look at Mericy who joined him while the guards locked the doors to the cell. Some of them stayed in the corridor while most of them did their job inside the cell. "Is she alright? She's what?! Oh mama.. I'll be there pronto!" Modo said before thanking about the call and handing the radio back to the guard. Mericy just made a concerned look before he ran along the corridor to the exit. She turned to look towards the cell's door while thinking about their father before she thanked the guards and hurried after her brother. Who had called him and who had got into a hospital and why? Was Jessica alright?