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When Throttle was wandering around the desert, his arm wounded, and his whole life shattered till it was safe to come back, he noticed some kind of town or village on the horizon when he was searching for one to fulfill his food sources. Seeing the village got him to try to walk faster even though the pain was killing in his arm. Modo patching it had been just a first aid, but the medicines didn't last for long and he wasn't a proper medic either.

"A Village.. Finally.. Just a few more steps, Throttle.. Then you'll get food.. Just.. Hang.. On.." Throttle said to himself while his steps were getting weaker and weaker. He saw the village getting closer and closer but not close enough. Soon he saw his vision falling and the ground getting closer instead of the village before his head hit the sand of the desert and he passed out. While being passed out, he felt someone dragging or carrying him somewhere.

At first he hoped that if it was a saber squid he faced there all alone and passed out, he hoped that the end would come fast and with as little pain as possible, and before he would even wake up to not feel anything or at least much of it. But when he finally woke up, he noticed that he really woke up, instead of seeing the Paradise in front of him. He got his specs, which had been transformed to look white instead of black with taping, back to his face, to find himself in a room.

"Uh? Where am I.." He mumbled and lifted his other hand on his forehead as he sat up on the bed he noticed laying on. He felt no hair on his head which got him to groan and remember his new looks. Also his face was still a bit swollen from Vinnie's punch, which the bruises were healing slowly. "Right.. But the question is, who saved me? How did I get here? Who has seen me? Did I already screw the mission?" He thought to himself before moving his legs over the edge of the bed to feel the floor against his feet. He took notice that the bed or other furniture had seen better days, but somehow the place still felt comfortable, and safe.

"Does anyone know I am here? Or who am I.." He thought before noticing one other thing too. His dark red hoodie was folded onto a seat next to the bed he was sitting on, and by that, he saw clean bandages on his wounded arm. "W-what.." He mumbled and then carefully stretched his arm to see that it didn't hurt that much anymore. Someone had taken care of his wound too while he had been unconscious. But who?

After a moment of trying to remember anything from the desert after facing the ground, Throttle got up carefully and put his hoodie back on him. He lifted the hood over his head before walking to the door, or where there was supposed to be one, but instead of a regular door, there was only a ruptured curtain that he moved aside to see more where he was and maybe even that who had helped him.

"Oh you have woken up?" A Martian child smiled at him immediately he saw the tan furred male walking out the small building that Throttle thought to be just a room. "Yea.. But umm.. Can you tell me where I am?" He asked while rubbing his face with his unwounded hand, but instead of getting any answers, the kid just laughed and ran away with a broken ball he had come to pick up in front of the building. "Hey wait!" Throttle was about to hurry after the young boy, who seemed to be about 7-10 years old, but the kid was faster than him and disappeared from his sight sooner than he could say anything more.

"How are you feeling, young male?" He soon heard an old male mouse's voice talking next to him which got him to turn around immediately. "No need to get startled. You are safe in here" The Old male said, getting him to nod and sigh deeply. "Where am I? Who am I thankful for helping me?" Throttle asked, getting a smile as the answer when the old male started slowly to leave. "Is everyone in this village avoiding me like some kind of disease?" He thought in his mind as he rolled his eyes and left after the old man. "Hey, please. I want to know" He said, getting the male lift his head up to look at him under his eyebrows. He was walking slowly with a crooked walking stick and he looked annoyed after his last sentence.

"Why such a rush, young male? You should be resting" He said calmly before the broken ball got back and the same kid ran after it with a younger martian girl. "Kick the ball to us, stranger!" The Boy shouted at Throttle who felt the ball rolling against his other boot. "Mico! Don't talk like that to our guest" The Old male growled at the kids who dropped down their ears immediately and moved their hands behind their backs. "It's alright.. You don't even know who-" Throttle started but then saw the old male shaking his head. He was much shorter than him and was walking the way he leant forward to lean on his walking stick. He must have been over 70 or 80, but seemed to be sharp with his mind.

"You'll tell us if you want, young male. But we don't need to know if you don't want to introduce yourself" He said, making Throttle smile and nod at him respectfully before he turned back to the kids who were still waiting for their ball. They were too shy to get it themselves since it was right next to Throttle's feet, but were still curious to whisper something together. "What takes you so long, Mico?! Rosemary?!" Another kid shouted before two young boys ran to the boy and girl. "They just showed me some fine tricks! There you go" Throttle smiled before kicking the ball back to the boy named Mico, who cheered up immediately and got the ball with his foot talentedly.

"Thank you, mister!" He shouted before the kids waved at him and ran away with the ball, laughing happily together. "How can they even play with that? It has barely even air in it.." Throttle asked but when he turned to the older male, he saw that he had already disappeared. "That old male is fast with his movements.." He sighed and started to walk around the small village to see the answer himself. It was a very poor village near the mountains where everyone still lived happily together. And since Mars had not got water back yet, the only clean thing in the village so far seemed to be the fresh bandages on his arm.

Even though Throttle had lived in poor conditions too in the orphanage, he was surprised how happy the small village seemed to be even if there was barely even food left and the kids seemed to play happily even if Throttle saw them being underweight. He dropped down his ears as he squatted down to touch a dry straw that once used to be grass. The Village needed help, but they had still helped him who they knew nothing about and had been found unconscious in the desert.

He also knew he must not stay there for long. He was an extra mouth to be fed, along with their own citizens who barely got food even for themselves. "The Village has seen better days, but.. Maybe things are better on the other side of Mars" A Young female said as she slowly approached Throttle who turned to look at her after hearing someone talking to him. He got up from the ground to smile at the comer, who was shorter than him, light weighed too like the kids earlier, and he thought her age was somewhere between the ages of Carbine and Rimfire.

"Actually there isn't.." He was about to say but then remembered his mission. "I hope so too.." He said and didn't even try to ask for the third time where he was. No-one seemed to tell him for some reason, which he saw odd, but.. "May I ask.. Where are you from?" The Young female asked, getting him surprised. "Umm.. Far from here.." He just said, rubbing the back of his neck at the same, getting her to chuckle and move her ears a bit as a sign of slight blushing. "I can see that.. From what I saw the rags our healer carried out from her place, you have gone through alot" She said, making him confused. "Huh?" He asked, since he didn't understand much of what she said. She was talking with some kind of accent from another area of Mars, which Throttle didn't recognize. Seeing that got the female only to laugh and whip her tail behind her feet. By that he realized that the martians he had seen there so far had either brown or gray fur, or mixed with both.

"Sorry, I mean.. Your accent isn't familiar, but did you just say a healer? Like a nurse or doctor?" Throttle asked, and got a head shake as an answer from her. "Nurses and doctors are only in towns and cities.. We have only our healer in our tiny village" She smiled but then heard an older female growling at her. "Don't tell our things to a stranger and get back to work, Chelin!" The Female growled and made sure her hair was tied tightly against her head before carrying a basket in her hands to another small building which had a curtain too on the place where a door should have been.

"Sorry.. I.. I should really go.." The Young female, Chelin, said with a shy smile before taking the broken broom she had had been carrying, that Throttle noticed just now, with her before she hurried to clean outside the building where the other female had gone. "It's okay.. Can you tell me where I can find that healer? Or the mouse who helped me? To get to know how I got here.." He said but then saw the young female to look the other way from him since they could hear the female growling from inside the house. "Alright.. Sorry.. I.." Throttle was about to say but then decided to let them be alone. He wasn't the right male to judge them at all, but still he saw the behavior weird. He had faked his own death and couldn't tell the village anything from himself that was true. At least he was thankful for their help.

Soon when Throttle started to walk around the village again, he saw many kids playing on a small pitch kind of area with the same broken ball he had seen earlier. There were two broken baskets as the goals, one for each team to try to kick it over with the ball to get points. Or that was what he got from looking at their happy playing before he heard one younger girl's shouting "It's Luna!! Luna is back!" which got all of the kids to stop playing and run towards where the sound came from. "Mmh?" He wondered before deciding to follow the kids since he saw some other mice gathering there too, to the front gates of the small village. And by that, he saw that there were maybe somewhere in between a couple of tens to few tens of martians living in the village, which wasn't much at all.

"How have you been treating our guest when I was away? I hope you have been gentle" A Female said as she entered the village through the gates and petted the kids' hair when they ran to the older female over her fifties. She had a hood over her head just like Throttle, but when she took it off, she saw the male standing right there with the villagers. Throttle saw her having blond hair that had been tied to a braid against her hair like the other female's hair who had been grumpy to the younger female. By that he also realized that all of the females' hair was tied almost the same way, only the young girls in the age of kids, had their hair free.

"I see he has already woken" She smiled at one of the kids, the girl who had been playing with the boy named Mico, who pointed at the male to her. "Take these to my place, please. Thank you kids! There is something for you too in the basket" The Female smiled gently to the children who started to carry her two bags and a basket inside a small house while she walked to the tan furred male.

"What are you doing up? You should be resting. You are not in that state yet that you should wear yourself out" The Female said as she wiped her long skirt clean from sand and dry hay. "I'm feeling alright, thank you" Throttle said and smiled at her before showing her his wounded arm as she was about to turn away to leave. "Did you help me? No-one is answering my questions here.." He said gently, making the female turn back to grab his arm to fix the loosened bandage. Even if being underweight, which was bothering the village, she had a rather strong grip. "I did.. I found you from the desert unconscious.." She explained and then turned to look into Throttle's eyes while still holding his arm in her hands.

"How can I thank you for that?" Throttle asked, making her blink once to wake her up from her thoughts as she was looking carefully at Throttle's appearance. "Maybe by saying it.." She smiled and then let his arm go, getting him feel his cheeks a bit warm and chuckle. "Oh right.. Thank you. Luna, was it?" He said, getting her to nod. "You're welcome. What questions did you have in your mind? Maybe I can help you" She said as she gestured to him to follow her back to the building Throttle had woken up. She lifted the curtain up for him even if it still touched his head since he was taller than her.

"Umm.. I hope so.. Everyone seems to be a bit grumpy at me when I ask where I am.." Throttle explained, making her sigh and start to prepare something from dried herbs she had stored in a broken cabinet. "The villagers aren't crumpy.. I see you have already met Madam Zunia. She is like that to everyone" The Female said gently, making him nod at her. He turned to look around for a moment before turning to look back at her.

"I see.. Also that you aren't asking my name either.. The Old male said that you don't need to know if I don't tell, but-" He started while following her doings with his eyes. "Our elder is right. You tell if you want. Kids might be nosy but we adults respect your privacy. You are wounded, I guess traveled far away, and gone through a lot. All you need to do here is rest" She smiled and then gestured to him to sit down so she could change his bandages and put some herb salve she just made on it. She also put some of it to his swollen jaw too which got Throttle to blush a bit. He could see her looking at him directly, but she didn't ask anything about his wounds. She just took care of him.

"Thank you.. When I get better, is there anything I could do to pay back your help?" Throttle asked, getting her chuckle and shake her head. "You are a tough male, aren't you? Our village would be happy to get you to be one of our villagers, but I see you are just passing by" She said and nodded at him understandingly when he dropped down his ears. "Yeah.. I can't stay for long.. But I see you are not letting me go yet either, so maybe I can help you some way" Throttle said while nodding towards a some kind of racket that was leaning against the table where she had prepared the herbs in a mortar.

Seeing what he meant, got her laughing. "Mico and his friends forgot that here! It's not what I am keeping you here with. You have a good sense of humor, young male" She laughed and patted his head, or the hood actually, which he noticed to take off. "It's alright if you want to keep it on. You are a handsome male, which I saw Chelin noticed too. But don't you worry. We understand, you are a wanderer, like you said before waking up" She explained, making him confused and worried about what else he had probably said in his sleep.

"I did?" He said, afraid again if he had screwed the mission. "Yes, only that. But if you really are that willing to help. Maybe you could ask something to do from our elder. He lives in a building, two behind this one, but can often be found wandering around" She smiled, getting him to chuckle. "I get your point.. Thank you Luna.." Throttle answered politely, receiving a nod from her as she wrapped another bandage on his arm. "Rest here for a couple of days and then I might let you help him.. Alright?" The Female said, making him chuckle again. "Alright.. But if this is your place, where are you going to sleep?" He asked, not wanting to take her only place to himself. "This is what we use for 'a hospital', or as we say the healer's cottage, to treat anyone who needs the healer's help. It's easier to find here. My place is further from here" She explained, making him nod before she left to get him some food from another building.

When Throttle got something to eat, he insisted on sharing it with the female after noticing it was the food that had been meant for her. "You should really eat all of this. I can manage" The Female said as they sat on the edge of the bed and on the seat that had been next to it since there weren't many other seats or tables in the building. The building was small and there wasn't much furniture which Throttle could guess to be the same with every other building too.

"Same here. I don't want to be a burden to your village.. But may I ask, is this all of your food you get here in the village?" Throttle said as she was eating, but his words got her to stop and sigh deeply. "Usually not. It's very dry here, drier than usual.. And.. Umh.." The Healer was about to say but then lowered her ears down as she turned to look away. Throttle sensed that something was wrong, even more than just lack of food and other supplies.

"And? You can tell me.." Throttle said and gently lifted his hand on the female's palm, making her startled and turn to look at him with a slight fear in her eyes before she blinked to look normal again. "Maybe I can.. But Madam Zuria will get mad at me for doing it.." Luna started and continued after Throttle nodded to encourage her. "We had more food than this even though Mars lost its water.. But then those.. Sand raiders.. found our village.. And they have been taking our food as payment for letting us live peacefully here.." She explained but then looked at the way she was about to start crying at any minute. She was holding her tears while Throttle twitched his nose and growled at what she had just told him.

"That's not fair.. You had your village here before" Throttle said instead of his own thoughts. "Sand raiders are just scumbags that need to be driven away!" He thought but then bit his teeth together to not tell too much about himself or what he knew. "Fair isn't the way the world goes.. Unfortunately" Luna sighed and then tried to smile at the male, but couldn't. Instead, she wiped a tear away while Throttle thought that earlier outside of the building they were now, he had noticed a cellar which was probably used as a food storage. "Once.. When one of us tried to fight back so at least our village's children could get enough food to eat.. A Young girl got lost.. She never came back from the mountains.." She continued and took an old looking fabric tissue from her pocket to dry her tears to it.

"What happened to her? Did they.. take her?" Throttle asked and gently petted the back of her palm to try to calm her down. "We don't know for sure.. But I know that.. That girl is a talented climber.. I taught her" Luna said sadly. "I'm sorry.. I hope she gets found alright.." Throttle said and then thought about the situation while finishing eating. "I can try to change things.. When the sand raiders come here next time" He thought but then thought about his mission. Could he do it? He could get exposed and then everything would be ruined. But he couldn't let the village that has helped him starve and be treated like that. He couldn't leave them in trouble.

Throttle thanked Luna for the food before he obeyed her and rested the rest of the day. He thought of any possible ways to help the village, but when he fell asleep, he had a dream about Carbine. The next day Throttle walked around the village to find himself a quiet place where he could sit down and record a note with his recorder. But then, instead of recording a new note, he remembered his latest recording that he started to listen to. He wasn't quite sure anymore when he had recorded it, but he remembered doing it in the desert. He closed his eyes for a moment to let the memory take him back to that certain moment.

"Commander's log. Slight wind swings weak branches of a dead tree. A tree that once filled the whole planet. Before the Plutarkians attack.. For why I am wandering here, instead of being by my wife's side. It's a day, hundred and something.. I have no clue about time anymore. I can only guess that I lost track of time weeks ago, but I'm not sure if I slept a couple of days full some time ago. The only thing I know is that.. I miss Carbine. The Wife of Mine.. The Commander's log ends.." Throttle said and got up from the dead tree laying on the ground in the memory. He wiped off a tear from the corner of his eye before he took his specs off completely for a moment.

He turned to look straight towards the Sun, to only see bright light which got him to snort and put the specs back on. Even looking somewhere else was no use. He saw nothing else than brightness. And after that memory, Throttle opened his eyes and continued walking around the village while remembering Carbine's will to help him when he had lost his sight during the Plutarkian war. "I've adjusted your helmet's polarizing control" Carbine had explained after modifying his helmet to help him to see in the Alternate Post 14.

At first Throttle had seen only blurry but that hadn't got Carbine to give up on helping him. "No go, Carbine.. Look, babe.. I appreciate what you do.." Throttle heard himself sighing in another memory while walking around. "You haven't even begun to appreciate what I can do, babe!" Carbine had smirked at him while adjusting the helmet to be even better for him. "I'm adjusting for whiteout visibility.." She had said just before Throttle smiled immediately he saw the light gray furred female again in front of him.

"Mm.. Hey there beautiful!" Throttle had smirked as they both smiled at each other before Carbine had sat on his lap to hug him. "Well, here's looking at you handsome" Carbine had leaned against his shoulder, and like back then, it got Throttle to sigh deeply now too. "Thank you babe.." He repeated his own words as he turned to look at the sky. For a short moment he saw Carbine in the sky, or her face's figure smiling at him in a small dry cloud that was wandering around like he was. The cloud's shape reminded him of her, but soon she disappeared and there was only that cloud, slowly moving in the sky. "Anything for you, Throttle" He heard Carbine's words in his mind as he felt a tear rolling down his cheek. "Anything for you.. Anything.. for.. you.." He said in unison he heard her voice repeating in his mind. Carbine's will made him even more stronger. "I can't give up.. I am returning to my wife's side.." Throttle swore in his mind before a voice got him to turn around.

(Author's note: Like in the picture below.

Credits about the picture to the original creators of the series.)

"You seem to have a lot on your mind, young male. Everything will get better" That old male Throttle had talked earlier in the village was standing behind him before he walked next to him with his walking stick. "For you. For Mars. For all of us" The Old male said while tapping the stick against a tiny rock before he sat on an outdoor seat. And by that Throttle noticed they were close to the place the kids used for playing, a small pitch.

"Am I that obvious?" Throttle said while looking at the old male who carefully looked at the tan furred male's appearance. He rubbed his jaw before tapping the seat next to him. "None of us is that complicated as you might think at first. We have Goddess on our side, and by that, we all are connected" The Old male said calmly, getting Throttle to sit next to him. He saw the old male being wise and he gave good advice about life to the young wanderer, but Throttle also found something familiar in that old male, which made him feel more calm in the village and during his mission. "You might be right.." Throttle smiled while they at first heard but then saw the kids shouting as they ran to the pitch to play with the broken ball again.

A Few older kids were playing hide and seek around the buildings to get the younger ones to play with them too. Soon the game changed and all of the small village's kids made up a new game by combining the rules of hide and seek to the ball game they were playing at. Throttle saw it being rather close to the game he had also played with his friends as a kid, the Rat of the Sanctuary. And also by remembering it too, but also by looking at the village's kids who seemed to be happy even though the village's conditions weren't the best, he felt himself melancholic but also happy for them. The kids seemed to be safe and happy here. They knew nothing about the horrors of the war that had been so close to them or what it was like to be part of it at such a young age.

"Is there anything I can do to help you? Luna mentioned that maybe you'd have something for me to do.. I want to pay back that your village has helped me" Throttle said after a moment of silence of just looking calmly at the playing kids. "Typical.. So typical.." The Old male sighed before slowly getting up from the seat. "Are you going to disappear again? Please.. I want to help" Throttle said but then felt the end of the walking stick against his shoulder. "You young martians always have to be doing something. Always so busy and hectic" He said at first before continuing. "Come with me, young male. I have just a fine job for you and your muscles" The Male said and then formed a slight smile at the male, who smiled back and nodded at him before following his slow steps.

"This is not what you should be doing! I said a couple of days at least, not barely even one" Throttle heard Luna shouting at him after an hour of chopping wood and carrying them to the pile behind the old male's small house. "I'm just helping a bit" Throttle smiled and then saw Chelin giggling and smiling at him next to the healer. The Young female moved a strand of hair behind her ear before she shyly waved at the male who wiped some sweat off his forehead. Throttle just smiled back at her before lifting some chopped wood on the pile. That seemed to be enough since Luna rolled her eyes at both of them while Chelin sighed at him.

"No! This is too much! In your condition!" Luna said and walked in front of him as he was about to continue chopping. She stopped the swing of the ax to get him to look at her. He took notice that she was limping a bit, and then realized whenever he had seen her walking, she had always done so and was walking a bit slowly too. He lifted up his other eyebrow while looking at her. "How so? I have rested.. I have energy to do this-" Throttle was about to say but then saw the light gray furred female crossing her arms as she looked directly in his eyes. "You end up in the hospital if you continue like this! And the closest is too far away from here that you'd get there in time! ... Chelin, dear.. Please go tell the elder that the woodwork is finished. Now" Luna said, getting the young female to sigh and obey to leave. That got the healer to take a step closer to the tan furred male with a serious expression on her face.

"You are this close to getting a permanent heart disease" The Female said and had her thumb and index finger almost touching each other in front of Throttle's eyes. Hearing the news got Throttle's ears twitch and him to gulp. He had no clue how serious the situation of his chest pain could be. "As a healer and with these conditions, I can't help you much with that.. Even if I wanted to. I am sorry" She said and sighed, but then continued. "That's why I told you to rest. The reason for you passing out in the desert is not only that wound in your arm that needs medical treatment by a real doctor, but also your heart and lack of sleep." She explained and made sure he was surely listening to every single word she said.

"Resting in your condition is absolutely essential. But when you leave, you should go to a real hospital. If that doesn't get treated medically right, I'm afraid you won't live as long as our eldest" Luna said seriously, but even if Throttle believed her, he knew that with the mission he couldn't be seen at any hospitals. He knew what could be the cost of not going to the hospital, but he was there for the mission and for Mars. It was the risk he had no other choice but to take.

"Do you have any phones here? Or any way to contact.." Throttle asked after thinking, making the healer chuckle at him. "Hey. We might live in the middle of nowhere, but we are still connected to others too. Come" She said and walked him in the building where the grumpy female, Throttle had seen earlier, was living. Luna convinced Madam Zuria to lend the village's phone to Throttle and by that he could contact someone securely, who not only would but also should help him.

The Phone was barely even ringing and the healer said that on good days it worked and other days it didn't, but then after a rough start, it rang properly a couple of times. "General Stoker" A Voice answered on the phone, which got Throttle to try to hold back his tears. Even if Stoker was the brains behind his mission, and the reason for all of this, he also missed his mentor too. It had been a long time since Throttle had seen or heard anything from his own life or his loved ones. Even hearing Stoker's voice got him emotional, but also his news that was shocking not only for him but also for his mentor too.

Back to the current time, at the royal palace:

"Mother!" Niv said formally as she entered the throne hall. The hearing of Dan's case was about to start in the royal palace. "Crown princess Niv" The Queen greeted her before she closed the large doors behind her and walked in front of her. "I got your call and arrived as soon as I could. Stoker's niece and a friend needed help with babysitting. I got to call help so I could come here. But I am here now, mother. Shall we begin?" Niv spoke formally to her mother who nodded at her formally.

After the shock of seeing Stoker walking in the middle of the hearing and giving her first statement, the hearing had officially begun. "Crown Princess Niv. You are telling me that Dan Arlen Mace the Son of Matheo committed crimes on our planet Mars and on asteroid Ceres. You are welcome to continue, my daughter." The Queen spoke and looked at her daughter, who was just a moment ago, ready to give her statement, but then had been totally confused and speechless as she was looking at her own husband, whose doings she didn't know as much as his wife she should.

"Y- Yes.. Mother. Like I began my statement. I witnessed the crimes Dan Arlen Mace the Son of Matheo committed. On Mars and on the asteroid Ceres. He was thought to be dead for decades ago, but then found in the asteroid, completely living and there was no doubt about it. Should we start about his crimes on Mars or on Ceres?" Niv asked formally and turned to look at her mother. But instead of the Queen, Stoker spoke. "On Mars" He said formally and nodded at his wife to continue as the Queen did the same and gestured to her to continue.

"On Mars, after the tragic accident which got everyone thinking he was dead, he was known as Mace, a Martian who claimed to be born on the planet Ceres. As a part of some kind of group that he claimed to be sent there, that was then taken over by plutarkians, who later on came to take over Mars too. When he appeared as Mace, he first showed up on General Carbine, to warn about plutarkians. He didn't ask for help, he only warned about the threat. He got into the Martian army forces soon since he seemed to be trustworthy. But during the Plutarkian war, he kidnapped Harley, my younger sister. Harley Juliana Lily-Ivy the Daughter of Darius, who I rescued from Mace in the asteroid Ceres after finding out that there were not any planets in the name of Ceres and that it was actually an asteroid. From there we come to his crimes on Ceres, since during the Plutarkian war, I was in a coma and I can't give a complete statement about his crimes during that war. My information is based on what I have heard from the mice I trust and what I saw from my husband's, Stoker's, memories when he showed me during the antenna connection what had happened during the time of me being in a coma." Niv spoke formally and then took a break to let her mother think about what she had just said, before she nodded at her again to continue. She and Stoker were silently listening to everything Niv told. Stoker was standing still while Her Majesty was sitting on her throne, her arms resting on the arm rests.

"The List of his crimes on Ceres is long. When I landed on the asteroid with a martian spaceship during my search for Harley, I saw someone moving there that led me into a tunnel that ended in an underground cave. And there I found out that someone was Mace. The First crime I saw him committing. He had a fur coat on him that was made from Harley's fur!" Niv said and started growling immediately she remembered her realizing it there.

"Where's Harley?!" She had shouted, but got him only to laugh evilly. "Are you blind, princess?" He had grinned while gently petting a cloak made from brown fur that covered him totally. Her eyes had widened when she recognized the color. "NOO!!!" She had shouted and then came back to the current moment from the short memory. "That is very devastating. Go on.." The Queen sighed and gestured to her to continue even if she saw it was hard. Listening to it was also shocking, not even talking about experiencing it.

"He did not only take her fur and harm her in many horrible ways during the years she was being kidnapped and kept there. In the cave, there were also Martian Blue Horn Ox's flowers, which released some oxygen into the cave to keep her alive, but also released poison into the air. Harley was badly harmed and in a horrible condition when I got there. She was kept there for many years against her own will or any changes for escaping, proper food, water or other sources for living and health. She was barely even flesh and bones and was barely alive. She was weak and tortured in horrible and traumatic ways." Niv told and felt herself very emotional. She tried to hold it together but then saw Stoker walking to her to give her a tissue.

It was a small gesture, but meant a lot even if they needed to keep their roles in the Royal hearing. She was about to say 'thank you' but then just nodded before continuing as she should. "Mace did not only commit his crimes on Harley. He also threatened me, the Crown Princess of Mars, by threatening that he'll tear my mouth off as we fought, and during that fight he wounded me, he cut my hair, he kicked me to get me so hard I got lack of breath, he cut my side with his sword while I got poisoned too by the Martian Blue Horn Ox's flowers since my helmet had got broken during the fight" Niv explained and then took a short break as the Queen informed two minutes break. It took a long time for Niv to go through everything that had happened on that asteroid.

"Are you ready to continue?" The Queen asked while looking at her older daughter with a worried expression on her face. "Yes.." Niv said and then took a deep breath. She looked at both her mother and her husband before she continued. "He talked about my and Harley's worth and babies.. He said that they'd be strong.. His plans were unclear at first. At one point he talked like he wanted to have babies with me or Harley, but then.. I found out his intentions were more than that. When I was getting my sister out of the asteroid, Mace said something that got me to think about the possibilities of him being Dan. He said things only Dan had said to me many years ago. And I know Dan personally quite well since he was the master of mechanical body parts and he made all of my mechanical tails before this one I have nowadays. I knew him by being his customer, but also personally. I knew he was Dan, by the words he said, but also the fact that he had a mechanical right arm like Dan had. And then the thought came to my mind, what if Dan was alive? I first doubted it too, but time was running out. I had to make the decision whether I'd leave him there to die, as he got badly wounded during our fight and the cave was collapsing, or take him with us. He started to talk about my older daughter Spitfire, as he earlier talked about my younger daughter Snow, and by the way he talked about Spitfire, he convinced my thoughts more about him being actually Dan. Both of my daughters are missing, and he was talking the way he knew where Spitfire would be" Niv explained while noticing that Stoker was looking the other way for a moment before turning to look back again.

"I made the decision and saved us with my Royal necklace and its emergency coding. During the flight back to Mars, Mace, or Dan, continued talking about Spitfire, but he also showed signs of remembering his own children, Mericy and Modo" Niv said and then thought. "He was such a pain in the ass the whole flight!" but knew she couldn't say it out loud, which got her to rethink her words. "He was a very unpleasant guest to fly, and it was difficult to-" Niv said but then Stoker lifted his other hand up to get her to stop. "Are you telling me that you flew all three of you across space while being deadly wounded yourself too?" Stoker asked, getting her to nod as the answer before continuing to give her statement. "Wow.. I have an amazing wife! I surely knew that before too but still" Stoker thought but then got back to listening to her.

"Mace gave me more proof that he was Dan, during the flight back. Somehow, he knew about what I have done in my past that included one of my nowadays late friends, Lucas, and me as a sniper. But then.. He told me and Harley his reasons for everything he had done" Niv said and looked at her mother. "And what were those reasons?" The Queen asked while going through everything her daughter was telling her. "He was asking the former princess to help. Or that he took Harley to ask for help, if I may correct my words" Niv continued and then felt herself thirsty but knew that there was still much to go on.

"Help? For what?" Stoker asked, even though he knew the answer. It was part of the official hearing to go everything through again. "'When I got to Earth with Spitfire, I transformed into a rat so badly I never got back to my Martian form.. It's because the tetra hydro carbons got into my bloodstream.. Not just affecting me by touch..'" Niv repeated the words that the male had said to her in the spaceship, just the way they were. "Tetra hydro carbons?" The Queen asked and got an explanation from Stoker while Niv took a break for breathing.

The Explanation left her thinking, like everything else too during the hearing. The Queen must come up with the decision within the following days. "Go on, my daughter. I know this is much, but the three days will be busy" The Queen said, making Niv nod and continue, telling all the rest at the same. "We had a short discussion in a good manner. But during it Harley got to know about what her actions in her youth caused. 'Because of them.. You both know who has been after you ever since Harley did what she did.. They would have gotten to know too much..' He told me when I asked why he ended up cooperating and answering my questions. Then we had to tell Harley about the Heralds of the Goddess, and what they were after. Dan managed to tell us that he was at the secret forces to keep Harley safe when he had gotten to know that Harley and I were sisters. He was saying something about after the accident before sunlight turned him to a beast and he attacked me. He was going to kill both of us but again, remembering Modo and Mericy got him to stop. Mentioning Adira didn't seem to be enough, but his children were. We got back to Mars safely and in the end, I came to that thought that Dan was an agent not only for us but also for Jeff since he helped him after the climbing accident from where they both survived even if the whole Mars thought Jeff had been the only survivor. Jeff became one of the Great Three Leaders of Mars and Dan got to know the most secret information about the royal family. Dan was a double agent, but somehow he didn't remember everything. And later on Mars, he attacked Stoker, my husband, during the brain search in the Highly secured prison hospital when Stoker and I visited there. My, the Crown Princess Niv's, statement ends. And by my title, I, Crown Princess of Mars, convince that I only speak the truth in my statement." Niv said and then heard Stoker talking.

"He was actually a triple agent" He said and got the Queen to lift up her eyebrows and look at him the way to continue. "He also worked for Plutarkians. Or more likely for one of them, Lawrence Limburger, with an undercover name Deep Pocket. One of my soldiers, Commander Throttle, who has lately stepped down from his title, found it out during the Plutarkian war." Stoker explained formally even if it wasn't actually his turn to talk with the official pattern. "This is a lot to go through. Thank you for your statement, Crown Princess Niv. And thank you for your information, General Stoker" The Queen said and then asked Stoker about the time. "He should be sentenced to death. His crimes cannot be accepted or punished any lighter way" Stoker added after telling the time to the Queen. "I.. Somehow don't think that's the right thing to do.. But.. This takes a lot to think" Niv said, making the Queen nod and think something silently for a moment before talking. Stoker looked at his wife confused but couldn't say anything since the Queen spoke.

"This case is indeed, very special, very serious and really one of its kind. I have never heard that in the history of Mars, anything like this has ever happened. The Following three days are important. I must think this through completely and during these days, I am going to also hear his family members once more, even if Stoker has done all the hearings already earlier. Adira, Mericy and Modo are needed to be heard at least once more, and then in the end of the final day, I make the decision, whether Dan Arlen Mace the Son of Matheo shall live, with the punishment he gets for his terrible crimes, or he will be punished to death. But now, Crown Princess Niv, and General Stoker. Shall we have a break and have something to eat? The Day is turning into the night of the first day, during which we heard the Crown Princess' statement. During the nighttime, we eat and rest. During the daytime, all of the time goes to the hearing." The Queen said and got both of them to nod and agree with her formally.

The Queen announced the first day to come to its end and all three of them left to eat in the royal dining room where the dinner was just ready to be served. During the night time, neither of them barely got to sleep, especially Niv, who couldn't stay in her bed since her mind kept her awake and restless. And when the Queen ended the day of the hearing, it really meant its end. Every single thing to be said about it, needed to be waited till the next day since the nighttime was dedicated for resting and eating, even if minds might still be busy about the case, meaning that Niv got up from her bed and went for a walk to think about the case in peace.

Niv had chosen the royal garden to her place to think about her decision about Dan's judgment. She had chosen a very special place for thinking alone. She was sitting with her legs crossed under a natural gazebo which was made from white marble and during the glory of Mars it had been covered with vines and other very beautiful plants that symbolized royalties, the Queen and the Goddess herself. Now there were only dry vines but the place still felt magical. It was like a sanctuary or a shrine to the Goddess, which Niv saw valid for her decision making since she needed to make a decision that affected many lives of Martians, not only hers and her family members but others too.

Normally she didn't meditate much, but now she had a feeling that she should and it would help her to get to know the answer. "He should be sentenced to death. His crimes cannot be accepted or punished any lighter way" Stoker had said which Niv heard in her mind during her start of meditation. It got her ears to twitch and her to tilt her head and pinch her eyelids close tighter.

"He is Modo's father.. Stoker is partly disqualified on this since he is Modo's mentor and Modo is his foster child" She heard the facts in her mind when she lifted her head up the way her face was facing the sky even if she still had her eyes closed. She rested her arms on her knees and relaxed them while rolling her shoulders a bit. "The Execution.. is the only option in this case.. No." She thought in her mind but then the word "No" started to echo in her mind like it had done during the first day of the decision making since the whole process took three days and was very hard and challenging for the royals.

She saw her mother nodding in her mind when she had disagreed with the talk about execution. And now in the garden of the Goddess, the feeling was even stronger. She still had her eyes closed when she felt the wind blowing slightly to her fur. She could hear some nighty animal sounds around but she concentrated on the meditation and her thoughts to the male who had hurt her and many of her loved ones. "HARLEY?!" She heard her own voice shouting in the Ceres when her sister had shouted her name and warned her just before she had attacked the male. Harley was tied to chains to the wall inside of a cage that was built inside the huge rock Niv had been climbing on. She was in very bad shape and seeing her like that got Niv's blood boil even now in the garden.

"That's it.. My little princess.. Your sister's hair has been very delightful.. Kept me warm in this horrible little piece of asteroid.. Sadly it took you so long to find us!" The Male laughed and the memory flashed roughly in her mind as she was growling alone in the garden. "You are a disgusting piece of shit, Mace! What did you even want from her?! I don't buy that you don't know who she truly is!" Niv growled then and now repeating her own words in the garden too while in her memory she had prepared her gun for the upcoming fight.

"You stole her hair and her fur for a bloody cloak!! I'll make sure you'll never leave here. This place will become your last.." Her own voice echoed in her mind while she saw flashes from the fight. Every attack, hit or punch got her head to tilt while her eyelids moved. "Say goodbye to your sister!!" The Male's voice echoed in her head before she saw a bright flash of Harley. "NOOOO!!" And the next she had lost her mohawk and pieces of her hair fell on the ground of the asteroid. "You.. You bloody piece of shit!! Do you know how long it took to grow this beauty?!" She growled in her mind while the scenes kept flashing in her mind.

"Let her go then.. I'll stay if you let her go back to Mars.." She heard in her mind. She felt her heart starting to beat a bit faster while she kept breathing calmly. Her shoulders felt tense and tight as she was growling at the memory. "And alarm the whole army and royal guards after you? Hah! No thanks.. I'll keep you both here and we shall see how strong the babies will be.." The Male had said, and she did know the list of his crimes was long. But still, something inside of her told otherwise. "KEEP YOU DIRTY HANDS AWAY FROM MY FAMILY!!" She had shouted and even threatened to kill the male there. Would it have been easier back then? But then..

"You surely won't.. None of us will.. Not even a rebel like you who ruined everything.." The Male had said, and when she heard her own answer, the words kept echoing in her mind. "A rebel like you.. A rebel like you.. A rebel like you.." She heard before seeing a flash from her own youth. "But who is this young gentleman? I see he wouldn't come here otherwise.. A Boyfriend?" The Male smirked in his own clinic where Niv had come to change her mechanical tail, the first time Stoker had been by her side there.

"D- Dan? No, impossible.. He's dead!" The View changed back to Ceres before she saw his face in his clinic again. "Heya! I'm Dan!" He had smiled and handed his hand towards Stoker to greet him. He had always been so loving and caring.. He had always been there for his customers.. And for her.. "No way.. He is dead.. Has been for many years!" She heard her own voice talking while her ears moved sharply like she heard the voices and sounds coming around her.

"Who? What are you talking about?" Harley's voice asked in her mind. "Only one person on Mars said those words together and has been the only master of making mechanical body parts.. How can you be even alive.. Dan?!" Her own voice answered her while she saw the familiar face of Dan in her youth, doing his regular things and preparations in his clinic while she was waiting for her new tail. She felt herself so safe and comfortable there. "No.. Mace's a rat! Have you gone mad, Niv?" Harley's voice kept talking before she heard the male talking. "You really are something, princess.. You really are.. But too bad that means your end!" and by that she could tell the male was totally different from what she knew from her youth. "A rebel like you.." She heard in her mind for the last time when she opened her eyes fast and noticed she was breathing fast for all of a sudden. She got up silently from the ground and walked back inside to try to get some sleep, if it was even possible.

The Day two

"My son is in the hospital and I had to come here.. He is fighting for his life" Adira said about midday during the day two of the royal hearing. In the morning the Queen started the hearing again officially and she, Niv and Stoker had a talk about what they had got through on the first day. On the second day, the family members of Dan would be heard once again, starting with Adira, his widow.

"Adira Kielo Elena the Widow of Dan. You are being called here in the hearing of your husband, Dan Arlen Mace the Son of Matheo, who has committed very serious crimes, after being thought to be dead in the climbing accident that happened over 30 years ago. Present are Her Majesty, Queen Erica, her oldest daughter, the Crown Princess Niv, and I, the following Commander in Chief, Stoker. The Hearing shall begin." Stoker announced formally and soon the Queen asked Adira a few questions. Her voice was powerful but kind, and she was looking directly at the female, who was about the same age as she was.

The Queen asked, did Adira know Dan survived from the accident and that he was alive, was she aware of Dan's plans to work as a triple agent and to kidnap Harley. Then she gave her time to answer before continuing. "No I did not know, your Majesty. I remember the day clearly when I got a call about that accident.." She said and lifted her hands to her heart. "I still remember the feeling in my heart. I was devastated, heart broken. It was horrible to tell my children, my dear Mericy and Modo, that their father had passed. At such a young age. Mericy was 8 years old, she understood a bit of it but it was harder for my sweet little boy. Modo was only 4 years old and he didn't understand why his father didn't come home anymore. I was heartbroken. My children's sorrow made my own grief worse. We were a happy family. A loving and caring family who helped anyone in need. I had no idea that my lovely Dan was working as any kind of agent. I only knew he made prosthetics for martians, especially mechanical tails for the Crown princess. It lasted till the day of his death. And by that, I swear I knew nothing about his intentions about kidnapping Harley the Daughter of Darius." Adira said and then answered a few other questions Stoker made before he had to leave to call to Mericy to come to the hearing. In the morning Niv informed her mother that Modo was prevented from attending the royal hearing since he was in the hospital and was having serious health issues. Those were almost the only reasons that were allowed to not attend the royal hearing.

"Yes. I, Adira Kielo Elena the Widow of Dan, convince that I only speak the truth as I give my statement." Adira said calmly, even if she felt nervous and worried. Soon Stoker left to make the call and in an hour Mericy walked in the throne hall as Adira's hearing was told to be on break by the Queen. Adira was about to leave the room when Mericy walked in. "Your Highness! May my mother stay for a moment? I have found out information that I'm not sure if it affects this hearing. But I need to hear more about it from my mother" Mericy insisted after bowing at the Royals and greeting them with the official manner. The Queen remained silent for a moment before answering. "Adira, the Widow of Dan, you may stay. Stoker will walk you out after this" The Queen said powerfully, making both of Dan's family members walk to the spot they were supposed to be during the hearing. Mericy was supposed to be sitting, but stayed standing and let her mother sit down instead after Stoker's approval.

"What is that information you meant, Mericy?" Stoker said formally while looking at Niv who looked at him before they turned to look at the mother and daughter. "In the hospital where my brother, Modo, was taken, we got to know that my brother was born blind! I never knew about it, and it seems like neither did Modo. Our father, Dan, gave him a surgery when he was a baby. And I'd like to know from our mother, what all of that was? Does this affect our father's judgment?" Mericy said, getting Adira to turn to look at her surprised, nearly shocked. Hearing that surprised also Stoker and Niv, whose eyes widened immediately. "Is this essential for the hearing, Your Majesty?" Adira asked after turning to look at the Queen. "Answer your daughter's question." She said and sounded serious. They must not leave even one rock turned around in this kind of case. If there was anything that would affect Dan's future and turn the decision all the way around, they should know about it.

It took some time before Adira answered. She sighed deeply before starting to talk. Mericy turned to look at her immediately she even said a word. "When Modo was born. Over thirty years ago. His eyes weren't working as they should have. The Doctors weren't sure what it was, did he see anything at all or where the problem even was. They did many, many, many examinations, and we were running out of time. There was a chance that it would have affected Modo's brains and antennas, and there were still no answers found as to what had caused the problem in his eyes. Till today we don't know what it was or if it is heritable, but Dan and I, mostly Dan, made the decision about the surgery. He did it to Modo when he was still just a newborn, before he could remember anything and also for that he'd adjust to his new eyes faster. We thought it was no harm, since Modo got his sight and saw everything normally after the successful surgery. The Doctors saw it being almost like a miracle. Dan saved his son's life." Adira explained, getting Mericy to lift up her other hand on her mouth during the explanation while the others were shocked too.

"Why did you hide that from Modo?" Niv asked but then heard Stoker talking. "Irrelevant question. Doesn't affect the hearing" He said and got her to turn to look at her husband. "Wouldn't you want to know? You are his mentor" Niv said but then the Queen spoke. "This must be talked through later. Our schedule doesn't have time for additional topics. Do you have anything to add so far, Adira, or shall we get to Mericy now? Well then. I'll hear you again Adira. Stoker will walk you to the corridor where the guards will make sure you won't leave or contact anyone" The Queen said while getting Adira's polite answer. Stoker walked her out before it was Mericy's turn to answer the same question her mother was asked earlier.

"I had no idea my father had survived. I was 8 years old when my mother told me our father had passed! I was a child!" Mericy started but then got Stoker to growl. "Your language, Mericy." He said and got her to turn to look down while sitting on the seat this time. "My apologies.." Mericy said and then got the Queen's permission to continue. She also gave Modo's statement as much as she knew he'd agree with her. "I was a child. Oldest of my parents. My little brother, Modo. He was heartbroken when he heard the news. So was I. I cried for so long.. I.. I wasn't sure if there would ever be a happy day anymore. But it was worse for my brother. Maybe because at first he didn't know what it meant. What it means that someone dies. He wasn't even born yet when we lost our grandparents. I remember meeting one of them before passing, so I knew what it was like. But losing a parent.. Especially as a child, it was heartbreaking. I tried to help my mother with Modo. I tried to support him, but it was hard. I was also just a kid. So by my young age. I had no clue that our father would be alive, or that he'd be an agent or his intentions on kidnapping Harley. During the war I, as a chef, was working temporarily in the military kitchen to cook food for the forces as one of the chefs, but I had no idea that that Mace would have been our father. I never met him personally. I sometimes heard his name, and maybe he was there in the cafeteria with the other soldiers before the Freedom Fighters were formed, but like most of the soldiers, I didn't know who they were. Of course I appreciated them but during busy days when they were protecting us, fought for Mars, and when they ever got a time to have something to eat in the base's cafeteria, they showed us, the chefs, mostly just many hungry mouths to feed. We concentrated on our work, to get them fed, instead of who they were, where they were from or anything like that." Mericy explained and got the Queen to nod and gesture to her to take a short break.

"As a child. How close were you to your father? Would there have been any changes that he would have told you anything about his plans?" Stoker asked fast and then continued. "As a chef in the cafeteria, did you ever listen anyones talking? So there would be a chance that you'd know something that would help your father now?" He said, making her shake her head. "No. As a child I was close to my father. I loved him and he always made sure to me and my brother that he loved us. He was never even close to that he would be a bad mouse! He surely protected his loved ones. For example when I was being bullied in school. He got it to stop fast by talking with the other kid's parents. He never hurt anyone. I was and still am devastated to hear what he has done. It is so hard to believe that from our father." Mericy said and then took a breath before continuing to the next question.

"During my shifts in the cafeteria. I mostly didn't listen to the soldiers' discussion, but sometimes I involuntarily heard something. It was regular talking that anyone would talk. About life in general, relationships and how the food tasted on the day. But I also heard that some talked about the military clothing, and how they missed their families. Once I even had a few minutes to talk with a soldier who had got out of the hospital after losing a leg. He was visiting the base and he wanted to change a few words. But it was only that he thanked us the chefs personally. He was a nice soldier who always thanked for the food with the others. There wasn't anything I'd say that included even a piece of fur from my father." Mericy said and got the Queen to ask a question this time.

"I got to know that you visited your father in the Highly secured prisoner hospital when you found out he was alive. And that your brother, Modo, came there too. Tell us about that" The Queen said, getting her to nod and take a better position as she started answering. "Yes, Your Majesty. When I met my father, Dan, there in the Highly secured prison hospital, he wasn't the same he used to be when I was a child.. I.. I saw my father there, he is alive. He even said that 'Mericy has light blue eyes..' and said yes when I asked if he saw me. He was really there even if from the outside he didn't look like my father. But from the inside I knew he was him.." Mericy said and then started to feel her emotions taking over her. Stoker walked to hand her a tissue which made her nod at him as thanking him.

"I am.. sorry.." She heard Dan saying during her visit, which she told sobbing to the Queen. "I was obviously angry at him for what he had done.. So I shouted at him. But when I was about to leave, he didn't want me to go. He said that he had hurt many. He knew what he had done. He didn't hide it. But when I got him to admit that, Modo came. Our father recognized both of us, but my brother was too angry and devastated, too much in shock, to feel any kind of sympathy. He was angry at our father while I felt more sorrow and disappointment, even if I was angry too. I don't accept what he did, nor does Modo. It is truly terrible, but I.." Mericy said but then started to cry even more. "I want.. my.. family.." She heard her father's voice talking in her mind which got her to turn to look down as she was crying.

It took some time from her to turn to look back at the Queen. "I am aware that after that a phone call interrupted your visit. Have you visited your father after that?" Stoker asked before the Queen let her have a short break to catch her breath, but she just couldn't. "No. I haven't visited him since that.." She managed to say but then bursted into tears. "Please, Your Majesty! I know what my father has done! But please, don't kill him!! Don't sentence him to death! We have just got him back since we all thought him to be dead! I know my brother thinks the same even if he was too angry and devastated to show it there in the Highly secured prisoner hospital! I am terribly sorry for what he did to Your Daughters. To Harley and to you, Crown Princess Niv. His crimes are horrible and unforgivable, but he is in the end, our father! He is a loving and kind mouse!" Mericy cried out loud that it got Stoker to finish the hearing on her part.

"I think we have heard enough from you. Do you, Mericy Aria Jacey, the Widow of Haf, convince that everything you said in your statement, your and your brother's, is only the truth?" He said while she was still crying loudly. She blew her nose into the tissue and tried to get herself to calm down. "I.. I.." Mericy started and Niv turned to look at her mother. She felt sympathy towards the female which the Queen understood, but instead of her, Stoker talked. "Mericy the Widow of Haf!" He said and got the gray furred female to be a little startled at first.

She took a deep breath and with a shaking voice, she managed to talk again. "I, Mericy Aria Jacey, the Widow of Haf, convince that.. Everything.. I said in my statements, both my and my brother's, is nothing but the truth." She said but then got to repeat it in one sentence since crying broke her voice a bit, making it unclear. After that, Stoker walked her out the throne hall. "Mericy dear!" Adira hurried to hug her daughter when she got out of there. "Mother.." Mericy cried while Adira glared at Stoker who showed no signs of sympathy. "Adira. The Queen wants to hear you again. For the final questions. Mericy is able to go home. This is finished from her part" Stoker said but got a growl as the answer as Adira was hugging her eldest child.

"Don't you have a heart, Stoker?!" Adira growled but then the guard walked to the females and the General. Seeing that got Niv to turn to look at her mother before running out the throne hall and to the long corridor. "That is enough to get you in trouble too, Ma'am" The Guard said, which Stoker agreed. "Enough!! Guard, back to your duty. Stoker, in the throne hall! NOW!" Niv growled at the males who turned to look at the Crown Princess. "Yes, Your Highness. My apologies" The Guard said and left. "Niv.." Stoker started but then saw her pointing him in the direction. "I'm not repeating myself" She said and then walked to the females. Stoker sighed but obeyed his wife.

"My apologies. May we continue, Adira? The Schedule is busy." Niv said and then handed another tissue to Mericy who was still very devastated. "I wouldn't want to leave my daughter like this" Adira said, which got Niv to call a servant there who walked there with another guard. "Mericy will be taken care of. You can have some relaxing herb tea till hearing from Adira's part is finished. Then you may leave together" Niv said gently but then heard Stoker saying something against it. "Shut your damn mouth, Stoker!!" Niv shouted over her shoulder and then helped Mericy to leave with the servant and the guard. "Thank you, Princess. You are so kind. May the Goddess bless your life" Both Adira and Mericy thanked her before Adira walked with her back to the throne hall.

The Hearing of Dan's family members started about midday, but it ended very late in the evening. When Mericy was heard, Adira got to eat in a small room while a couple of guards kept looking at her. And the same was with Mericy when it was Adira's second time since she was the closest to Dan. Rimfire and Rhea didn't need to be heard since they had never met Dan and Stoker was sure of it. One time Rimfire fighting against Mace during the war wasn't enough to get him to be heard. The Biker Mice were heard during the earlier hearings that Stoker did and passed the information on to the Queen. Stoker's hearing had already been held too, but he would still be in an important role, even if he was partly disqualified at the same.

During the hearings when Niv found out Stoker was part of it, there was no time for asking where he had been during the birthday of the Biker Mice, since the meeting for the hearing was so official and important that there was no time or space to solve any relationship problems. And the nighttimes were also busy for the hearings, meaning the resting and eating. Only the eating was done in the same room, but the rest of the time they spent the night time in different rooms, to make sure they got to be alone and not to talk about the hearing or anything about it.

During the night, like the previous one, Niv had walked back to the garden and to the same place she had been last time too. When Adira had finally left with Mericy by Stoker walking them out, after a long day, the Queen and the following Commander in Chief had gone to eat while Niv left immediately to the garden to think and make her own decision. Which got her to sit back to the same position and sigh deeply as she closed her eyes. She knew this time she couldn't eat before she thought things alone and in peace.

She continued meditation and this time, fell sooner into the darkness, lightness and her own memories. "You are a perfect little Martian without any additions to your body.. You wouldn't recognize me as I'm worth nothing to your kind! But.. Your sister here.. Your sister here has always treated me well. She has always been my client.. My most loyal client.. But then she changed my handmade tail to some scientist's work!! How dare you betray me?!" The Male's voice shouted in her head which got her to twitch her nose first.

"I didn't betray you.. You were dead when I got to a horrible accident.. With your help I would probably never have gone to a coma, not for that long.." She heard herself saying also in her mind but also in real life too. "How are you even alive? Why are you doing this? Why.. How.. are you a rat?" Harley's voice asked in her head before the male answered. The whole time Niv saw only black and darkness in her mind, but sometimes flashes from her sister and the male.

"Simply, I survived.. So did Jeff and we made a deal.. By helping him, he became one of the great three leaders of Mars! With his help, I got to know the most secret information about the royal family! That's right, girls.. But you see.. During the accident, I fell straight onto some pink diamonds.. Tetrahydro carbons, if we are more specific! They hit my spinal cord and got all the way to my bloodstream, but they got to affect me after I got to the planet of Earth and the daylight there is very much different than in Mars.. And how I got to the Earth, you ask.. Well that's also quite simple, as simple as my traveling company.. Spitfire truly reminds me of you, Niv.. Even if she looks pretty much like her father, her own aunt and.. Your mother.." He said, making her growl. "He is the only one who knows about Spitfire.. Stoker was about to get that information from him but he did something to hurt my husband.. Without him.. We are still as far from our firstborn as we are now.." Niv thought while the memory kept running in her head.

"That's right.. I saved your daughter and she's alive.. But if you let me die in here.. You'll never see her again.. Because I'm the only one who knows where she is" The Male's voice said in her mind. "He might be bluffing.." Harley said next but then in Niv's mind the memory formed a bit differently. She was looking straight into the male's eyes, and she really saw something familiar in them. They were also the same shade of bluish-green that she had seen on the male she had thought for a long time to be dead. They were Dan's eyes.

"Am I, princess?" The Male said and Niv had trusted her inner voice back then too. "We'll be leaving together.. With you" She had said while her sister had been shocked about her decision to take the male with them from the asteroid, instead of letting him die there alone. "Are you serious?!" Harley had growled while Niv stood behind her own decision. "You'll get your punishment when we are safely back on Mars! But for that we need to leave from here, the Ceres!" She had announced and soon had to save them from the collapsing asteroid. "'Ker.. Code 7682" She heard her own voice saying as she sniffed and wiped the side of her nose. "Only an idiot saves their enemy.." The Male said and still acted very dangerously towards the females. All of them were injured but then the vision changed back to black. "C- Children.." He said while Niv tried to think about her decision. Even if Modo and Mericy were not young kids anymore, they were still his children. "Adira.. Mericy.. Modo.." His voice said in her mind as she saw a tear rolling down his cheek slowly. 

Then her mind got back to that he knew so important information about many things that must not be let go with him to his grave like some others should. "That's what I thought.. But remember.. I'm a sniper. I always hit wherever I aim.." She had said before hearing him talking again. "Oh right.. Letting Lucas go was surely something a real sniper would do.." The Male said which brought more memories into her mind. "I had my reasons to take Harley away.. Not just someone.. A Former princess.. And.. to ask for help.. When I got to Earth with Spitfire, I transformed into a rat so badly I never got back to my Martian form.. It's because the tetra hydro carbons got into my bloodstream.. Not just affecting me by touch.." She heard him explaining while feeling the shivers going down her spine since she knew where this was going.

"Because of them.. You both know who has been after you ever since Harley did what she did.. They would have gotten to know too much.." His voice said, but then the view changed again. This must have been the hardest decision to make in her life. And she knew as a Queen what she'd become some day, there was only more to come. "You both shall die!!" The Male shouted while Niv kept her face looking very calm during her meditation. At some point her eyes opened for a moment, but she only saw what was in her mind, instead of the garden around her.

"NO!! Mace, Dan, stop! We know you are still there!" Harley shouted in her mind which had the whole chaos inside of it, but outside she looked so calm and relaxed that one couldn't believe what she was going through in her mind. "Say hey to your father for me.. In paradise!" The Male's evil laughter echoed in her mind as she just took a deep breath. "The Paradise.. The Paradise.. The Goddess.. Goddess please. Help me to make the right decision.." She begged in her mind as she turned to look up the way her face was facing the sky again, but she still kept only seeing what was inside her mind, a total darkness. By then, her eyelids got closed again.

"You are not getting away from us.. You are facing justice and get your punishment from this!! Your children surely are going to be ashamed of you!" She heard herself saying and then saw a flash from the fight in the Ceres instead of the spaceship. The discussion was from the spaceship while she saw herself jumping and climbing on the rocks in the cave while the male was trying to attack her. "Modo.. Mer..icy.." He said, making her take a deep breath again. She felt her chest rising and then going back down again slowly.

"Yes! And your wife! Adira!!" She said and soon saw herself standing in front of her mother in the throne hall one day ago. But the voices were once again, from inside the spaceship. "It seems like.. You were an agent for us.. But.. Since you helped Jeff, it makes you a double agent. You worked for both sides.. Gosh why can't our citizens just behave and live happily together.. We are the same species and barely even survived after the war with Plutarkians" She said as she opened her eyes. "He was actually a triple agent. He also worked for Plutarkians. Or more likely for one of them, Lawrence Limburger, with an undercover name Deep Pocket" Stoker's voice spoke this time in her head. "Why is this so damn hard.." She sighed deeply as she looked down on her hands that were resting on her knees, but then felt a wind touching her other shoulder that it got her to turn to look at the sky again.

"You are not alone, my Child. You are beloved, Nivaranda" She felt someone talking in her mind but it felt like it was coming from somewhere else. "W- What?" She started at first but then had a feeling that what her innerself told was right. "What should I do?" She asked but didn't get the answer. "Does it hurt?" She heard Stoker asking in her mind instead. "I have done it plenty of times.. It doesn't hurt and it won't take long!" She heard her voice saying, which got her to repeat it out loud. "I have done it plenty of times.." She said before remembering Stoker fainting when Dan got her tail changed. The Tail that should have been the last, but instead of it she now had a tail that was made by Karbunkle instead of him. "How dare you betray me?!" Dan's voice shouted in her mind before she heard his calm voice.

"He is here for the first time. Relax Niv. He'll wake up soon. Just sit there and wait for your tail to feel alright, I'll lift his feet up. Both of you will be alright" He said and smiled in her mind which got her to smile now too. "Relax Niv.. Relax Niv.. Relax.." She heard him saying many times during her appointments for tail changes. He was one of the mice that got to call her without any titles, just by her first name. And she had always liked him and his attitude when she had been younger. It was so hard to believe that it was the same mouse that had later kidnapped her younger sister, tortured both Harley and herself, and later hurt her husband Stoker..

"What should I do.. Goddess.. Please help me.." She said and closed her eyes. But unlike earlier when she had seen only darkness and black in her mind, she saw a light forming which made her feel like she felt nothing but peace in her body and mind. She took a deep breath in the night between the second and the third days, and she knew what she had to do. But first. She had to eat. "None of the important decisions are made with an empty stomach.." She said even if she already knew that she had made her decision. She got up from the ground, wiped her pants clean and walked inside, with peace in her mind and relaxed body.

She knew who had been talking to her, which got her to smile when she walked to the large dining room where very late dinner was already served and waiting for her since the three days were meant for decision making and the nights were for eating and resting. It was a very official and very holy process to make those kinds of important decisions. But she had to wait till the morning to talk with her mother, who had already gone to sleep.

The Day three

On the third day, Niv walked again in the throne hall like in the first day. She was wearing the same formal clothing during the whole hearing and her hair was on her regular snow white mohawk. The Queen was already sitting on the throne, wearing her formal clothing, meaning the Queen's crown, cape and long dark red dress. Her brown hair was on a bun as she usually had her hair tied and her hair had some gray stripes as a sign of her old age, while Stoker had his hair on his regular ponytail. He was wearing his formal uniform with all of his medals, symbols and titles when he entered the throne hall a bit later than Niv who just walked to her spot in front of dais where the thrones of the Queen and the Commander in Chief were.

"Good morning, Your Highness and Crown Princess, my love" Stoker said, bowed deeply at both of the females, and then out of the formal protocol, he kissed Niv's cheek, making her smile and take his hand for a second to hers before letting go as he walked to his spot next to the Queen. It was a small gesture but it made Niv feel loved and important to him. "Good morning, Stoker. Stay in the protocol. This is the third day" The Queen said gently but understandingly while smiling at both of them. "Of course. Are we ready to begin?" He said before both of them nodded at him. It took a few hours from the morning to the noon from Stoker to go through everything they had gone through so far.

As an exception, he had to make one phone call with the Queen to call to Modo in the hospital to confirm that the statement Mericy gave for him was correct. Modo was able to talk for a few minutes which was enough for now. During that a couple of guards visited him to make sure there was no-one else in the room and to give him the phone which would be used in the call to be sure about the highly secretive connection. When the statement was confirmed by Modo himself, the Royal hearing could continue to the third day, meaning the judgment.

"Mother.. Since we have now gone through everything during the last two days, I have something to say." Niv said politely a few hours later. She had been looking down for a moment before turning to look back at her mother. During that she remembered what had happened during the night between the second and the third day. "You are not alone, my Child. You are beloved, Nivaranda" Niv had felt someone talking in her mind but it felt like it was coming from somewhere else when she had been in the garden. She knew her mother had also been in the Sanctuary during the night, to get closer and listen to the words of the Goddess, but the voice who had talked to her, hadn't been her mother's.

The Queen had been in the Sanctuary during the night to get closer connection to Her, while Niv had chosen the garden to be her place for meditation, to be closer to nature. There she had heard someone talking to her, but no-one had been around even if she felt the presence. "What should I do.. Goddess.. Please help me.." She had said and closed her eyes. But earlier she had seen only darkness and black in her mind, the next she had seen a light forming which made her feel like she felt nothing but peace in her body and mind. She took a deep breath like she did now too, as she knew what she had to do as she looked at her mother, the Queen.

"Speak, my daughter. What do you have on your heart?" The Queen said warmly while she looked like the Royal hearing had given her at least a couple of gray stripes more on her hair, and that her mind was running very busy even if outside she looked very calm. "I have a strong feeling that Dan shouldn't be sentenced to death." Niv said and got Stoker to turn to look at her immediately. "What?! Niv?!" He gasped and was totally surprised. They all knew that earlier Niv had partly agreed with Stoker. They all knew that from all of the crimes he had committed, Dan should be sentenced to death. But since there were more circumstances, they had to think about it more and be absolutely sure about the decision.

"Last night. When I was thinking about my part of the decision. I heard someone talking.. I searched for answers from the Goddess, and I am sure I heard Her. And even if I know he should be sentenced to death. That's the only proper punishment via Martian laws, but I still have that feeling. I have that feeling over my own opinion. And I think I should listen to that feeling" Niv said and had a very serious expression as she looked at both of them. Stoker was completely speechless, while the Queen took a moment to think before she nodded at her firstborn.

"That was surely a message from the Goddess. The Instinct of the Queen is awakening in you, Niv." She said gently while Stoker stayed silent and just listened to the females. He knew that even if his opinion was listened to, but since he wasn't yet the Commander in Chief, he was there only to listen and follow the hearing, whatever the result was. "But mother.." Niv started to say but then felt herself biting her lower lip. "It's about my own sister.. She deserves justice. I'd want to punish him the worst way possible! But something inside of me tells me otherwise" Niv said and was about to cry because of the frustration she felt. She felt like she was only seeing a deadend, but then, she felt her mother's hand on her shoulder.

"I know your pain, Niv. Harley is my daughter too, as much as you are. And I can't forget that Dan has saved your life too." The Queen said after pulling Niv into a loving hug. Niv hugged her mother before she heard her words that got her to let go of her. "He made all of my mechanical tails, before this one. And without him.. I wouldn't probably have survived and be here now." Niv said and then saw Stoker lowering down his ears. He turned to look down at his own mechanical tail that was resting next to his feet before turning to look back at Niv when the Queen spoke.

"There was no-one else who knew how to make them. He was in the beginning of his career in his twenties when you were born. He learned his skills from the master, who was already deceased some time ago before we got you. He, Dan, was and probably still is till today the only master of the mechanical body parts on Mars. To my knowledge there hasn't been anyone who would continue his career." The Queen said, making Stoker talk now. "So if we sentence him to death, and Niv or I lose our tails somehow.." He said and got them all silent before the Queen nodded but didn't say anything.

"These tails are not made by him either. But he is the only one who knows about Spitfire, even if he knows too much about some other things too" Niv pondered the options and the whole situation. "If it wasn't up to our daughter, the next Crown Princess after you Niv.. I.. I would still sentence him to death. I don't see other options in this. His crimes are unforgivable." Stoker announced but then saw the Queen turning to look at him.

"If Darius was here, he would say the same as you, Stoker. I know he would agree with your opinions. You have grown so much. You will be a fine Commander in Chief when it's time." The Queen said, getting him to smile and bow deeply to her the way he held his right fist over his heart to show her respect. "I am honored by your words, Your Majesty." He said but then saw Niv's serious expression. "You are seriously dooming our daughter too at the same, Stoker? And us." She said, making him sigh deeply.

"His brains can be searched before his death, and also before it we can force him to teach somebody to build mechanical body parts." He said which got her to glare at him. "And who is going to do that? We know what happened to you when you tried that. You are not volunteering to do that again and we are not dooming anyone innocent to all of this to do it either. Not to brain search, not to be taught." Niv said and got him to lift up his other eyebrow. "Then how are you going to get him to talk about where Spitfire is? He is too cunning nowadays to let us have that information too easily. Besides, he is very dangerous. There is no prison on Mars that would be safe enough to have him. This is that serious case, Niv. We must consider the safety of Mars first. Even if it means that we might not ever get our daughter back. I know you know that." Stoker said and got her to sigh.

"You are right. Even if it hurts. It hurts so much in my heart and my whole soul that we'd lose Spitfire forever along him. I am willing to protect Mars. It is my duty as the Crown Princess." Niv said and turned to look at her mother who stood up from her throne. "I have heard enough. Along with the statements of Adira Kielo Elena the Widow of Dan, Mericy Aria Jacey the Widow of Haf, Modo Jackae Daniel the Son of Dan, Harley Juliana Lily-Ivy the Daughter of Darius, Stoker Vanir Kai the Husband of Niv, the Crown Princess Niv Johanna Mirai Zera the Wife of Stoker, I, Erica Belle Henrietta Isolde the Queen of Mars, by my title of the Queen, I have made the decision with help of the Crown Princess, about the case of Dan Arlen Mace the Son of Matheo." She announced and the Crown Princess and the Commander in Chief listened to the decision before the preparations of the final part of the Royal Hearing, which was the judgment where the decision would be told to the appropriates.

It would take place in the third day's evening, and then they'd all get to know if Dan shall live but be punished another way or be sentenced to death. He had committed such horrible crimes he should have absolutely been sentenced to death, but since the other circumstances which were that he told he knew the location of the lost princess, Spitfire, he had protected Harley in her childhood and also saved the life of the Crown princess Niv by making her the mechanical tail when she was born, the outcome wasn't that clear. He was the only master of the mechanical body parts that would still be needed in Niv's and Stoker's, especially Niv's, lives, wasn't he?

The morning after the Royal Hearing

"Since Stoker isn't here anymore, I inform you, Princess Niv. As we know what I had to do and because of that, Carbine is on sick leave even though she's also on maternity leave. We talked and came to the solution that I am stepping down as well from my duty as the commander. I need to concentrate on my family, Carbine and Felix and also on my own health. And I don't care what any of you think about this. We and especially I have made the decision. Thank you for listening" Throttle had informed his friends and the Crown Princess Niv in the surprise birthday party after he and Carbine had talked privately. Now, Throttle was sleeping peacefully in a bed and saw the discussion in his dream.

Sleep was what he really needed now for his own health, and it had also been long ever since he had seen a dream last time. And like last time, he was also now dreaming about Carbine.

"I think it's the medication.. But also the whole.. thing.. I'm not alright, Throttle" Carbine had said and dropped down her ears while looking down at the floor. "Seeing you like that makes me really worried.. I want to help you, Carbine" Throttle had said as he walked to lift his hands on her biceps. There was a moment of silence before she lifted her head up to look at him and nod. "At first I wasn't sure if I could take part in this party at all, but I wanted to do it for you. But now.. I think.." She started, getting him to nod at her to get her to continue. She felt herself so vulnerable but she knew she could show it to him.

"I think that.. I'm losing myself.. And I'm afraid that if I don't get myself back alright.. I can't continue as a general.." Carbine started to cry which got Throttle to pull her into a tight hug. He felt devastated to hear that, but he knew what she was going through. He also had something important to tell her. "Babe.. I am here for you. I am so sorry for everything you had to go through.. I might not be able to change everything but I am here to help you now, and I am not leaving you" He said and hugged her tightly as she cried against his chest. "What if I lose my sanity? What if I can't even be a mother to our son and end up in a mental health hospital? For losing myself.." Carbine cried but then felt him lifting her head up from her chin to get her to look at him.

"You are not losing yourself. I won't let you. And we'll get every possible help for you if needed. You are going to be alright" Throttle said and then kissed her gently as she hugged him back. It was one of those very rare times when Carbine's touch was very careful and vulnerable and she felt herself so scared. He was her biggest support and both of them were happy that he was back there for her.

"I don't know what would be the right solution for this.. I don't know who would know, but.. I need to be by your side more" Throttle said as he wiped her tears away while she cried against his hands on her cheeks. "What do you mean? You are still a Freedom Fighter. You have your duty.. I am on maternity leave first before your paternity leave.. It would be more difficult for Felix if we had it at the same time and then suddenly the daycare starts.." Carbine said but then saw him smiling gently. "We have three years before the daycare. And if taking care of you, Carbine, means that I should take a break from being a commander, I'll do it. I'll do anything for you" Throttle said, getting her surprised and her eyes widened a bit.

"You? Stepping down from your title? But you know what that means.. You might not get it back.. And.. We don't know how long it will take for me to heal.. If it is even possible.." Carbine sighed miserably and felt horrible. Were both of their careers on the line now? Were their careers over? Could they ever get back to work again? "Then I don't get it back if the superiors see it that way. If taking care of you means that I am retiring in my 30s, then I am. At least I am the happiest mouse when I get to be by your side" Throttle said but when she was about to say a thing against it, he spoke again.

"No. Don't say anything.. I'll do it. I'll help you, darling. You need to concentrate on resting and taking care of yourself. I'll help you with that and Felix. I'll help you with everything. I won't leave you ever again" Throttle said and then felt her pulling him down from his scarf into a kiss. He answered the kiss and closed his eyes for a moment. After the kiss, she sighed deeply and looked into his red eyes. "I already know that you'll do anything for me. You did that when you caused me that trauma.. By saving us.. Which.. Uhmm.. You know what I think of that.. But.. What I am trying to say is.. Yes.." Carbine started and felt trouble trying to put her thoughts into words.

"Yes?" He asked and then felt her gently rubbing his jaw before kissing him gently again. "I need your help, Throttle.. If you really want to stay with us at home, wherever it even is.. I accept that.. I want you to be by my side" Carbine said, making him drop down his ears too, and by his expression and body language, she saw he had something to say too. "I.. I have another reason to step down from my title too.. Carbine.." He started, making her look at him worriedly. He walked her to sit down on a couple of seats before he sighed and turned to look back at her.

"The Cost of my mission is not only our marriage or your mental health.." He started but then turned to look away, which got her even more worried. "Throttle? What is it? What do you mean?" She said but when he didn't say anything, she grabbed his both hands in hers. "Throttle you are scaring me! I can clearly see something is not right. Tell me what it is!" She said and got him to turn to look back at her slowly. "I am not alright either.." He said, getting her to drop down her ears and just look at him, to wait for him to continue.

"What do you mean?" She managed to ask, and received a sigh as the answer. "Sometimes I have that horrible pain in my chest.. That I think.. I think I'm having a stroke.. Or something" He said, getting her to gasp and lift her other hand on her mouth. "Throttle.." She said but then he continued. "It started after I faked my death.. I felt so horrible.. I was grieving for you.. I missed you so much I couldn't sleep. I suffered from so bad lack of sleep and then got chest pain that one healer in a village, which I think I should tell you in better time since it's a long story, told me that it's very close that I don't get permanent heart disease.." He said and then turned to look down. "W- What?" She gasped and didn't know what to say. What he just told her made her speechless. She was still broken even if she was also happy for his return and now the newest news was devastating. But then after a moment, he heard her getting up from her seat and walking to lift his head up to look at her by holding his jaw with her hand.

"I.. This is so much.. I.. I don't know what to say.. But I know you too well, Throttle, so don't hide it from me. Why are you ashamed of it?" She asked as she looked at him into his eyes that started to water. He turned to look away to wipe his tears away. "I'm.. I'm afraid that you don't see me the same way anymore.. As macho and heroic as you have seen me.." He said but then felt her hugging him tightly. "Throttle.." She sighed and didn't let him go.

"You are scared of things like that? Oh babe.. I also see many other things in you than just that! Of course you are my hero, but I have also seen your emotional side in you. You are so much more than just a hero or macho mouse. That's why I love you" She said and felt him crying against her arm she had wrapped around him. At first he had nodded at her but then her words had meant so much for him that it had made him cry. It took a moment from both of them to realize what she had actually just said to him. "W- What.. You.. You love me?" He said uncertainly and turned to look at her in her arms. That got her to realize also what she had said, and that she had meant it.

"Yea.." She said and felt close to cry too. "You said it for the first time after.." He sniffed, making her smile shyly. "Yea.. I guess I did.." She said, not knowing what she should say. She turned her head away for a short moment. "You love me? Seriously?" He asked and looked at her, and only her. Then she turned to look back at him, her eyes watering. "I love you.. I love you Throttle!" She cried as she couldn't deny it anymore even from herself, getting him to cry more. "I love you too Carbine! I love you so much!" He cried as she wrapped him in a tighter hug in her arms. The position was difficult for him to hug back but he did as he just could and wrapped his tail around hers too.

There it was. The confession from Carbine that she really loved him after all. It had been difficult to say for the first time after the horrible mission, but once she had said it, maybe half accidentally, she realized how much she really loved him and how true it was. It had never been unclear that Throttle loved her, but hearing it back from her was the best news for him after a long time.

Then, after a moment of crying together for the words of love, they turned to look at each other to laugh a bit before Throttle wiped his tears away. Carbine let hers run down her cheeks as she felt that he was the male she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, even if he had done horrible things despite his own will. "It's alright to cry.. I don't see you differently, Throttle. It's the exact opposite" She sniffed and then freed him from the hug and turned to look at him better.

"Babe.. What have I done to deserve a female like you? Because sometimes I feel like I don't.." He said, making her sigh and tilt her head a bit. "I may not now hear the same cocky male I met in the training grounds, but you do deserve me. Even if you took part in that mission. I love you and I guess one death faking isn't enough to change that, even if it could be" Carbine said and then felt him pulling her to sit on his lap as they both wrapped their arms around each other.

"I understand if you want to leave me.. I'm just a wretch who didn't choose to fight by his wife's side.." He said, making her shake her head. "Don't! Don't say that. Don't you dare to call my husband a wretch.. Because he is not. He is the exact opposite from that" Carbine said and then pressed her forehead against his as she had her both hands in the back of his head. "I am sorry.. For hurting you.. For everything I have done.." He said and looked down till she made him look back at her. "It takes time to forgive you and your actions.." She said but then he cut her off. "I can't forgive myself for what I have done to you.." He said, getting her to look into his eyes. For a moment she thought about what she would say next. The whole situation was one of its kind and very serious. She was about to say "You are not the one who is to blame for that" but then something else came to her mind. "How bad is your health right now? I want you to tell me more about it" She said and nuzzled her nose against his for a moment before placing a gentle kiss on his forehead as she moved his hair a bit away.

Throttle sighed deeply and felt another tear rolling down his cheek before she wiped it gently away. "Take you time, babe.." She said calmly and all he wanted to do was just hold her there on his lap. He felt safe and loved when she was around. She really was his everything. And that's why he needed to be honest with her. "When it was safe enough, I had to go to the hospital to get checked with Stoker's help. Once I had to call him to tell about what the healer told me. So far my heart is alright.. Or stable.. If I get my sleeping fixed, I might survive without medication or surgery.." He said, getting her gasp again as she got up from his lap so both of them got up from the seat.

"Surgery?! Is it really that bad?" She said, getting him to continue as he saw her being very worried about him. She walked a bit around the room before stopping to turn to look back at him. "It would be.. It's about a broken heart.. For what I had to do to you.. According to Stoker, we are meant for each other. And all this.. is about companionship.." He explained as he lifted his hand over his heart. "Throttle.." She sighed and didn't know what to say. She lifted her hand on her forehead while not being sure how to even feel right now. But after a moment, she walked back to him.

"A bit weird or cliche to hear that from him but.. I think he is right about that. We are meant for each other" She said and then pulled him a bit down to kiss him, getting him to smile finally. "We are. I love you Carbine" He said and then kissed her back after lifting his hands to the back of her head. At first Carbine had been in a shock when she heard his news, but now she seemed to calm down.

"I love you too.. And like you help me to heal, I will help you to heal. For ourselves as individuals but also for ourselves as a couple and for Felix's sake." She said, and then felt him pulling her tighter against him as he growled and kissed her passionately. "I will.. And now.. I want to be inside.. of you" Throttle growled and leant to start to kiss her neck. "Throttle?! We are at the party.. where we should go back to.." Carbine moaned and soon found her being walked against a bed where Throttle gently laid her on her back to crawl on her.

"Are we? Are we really, babe?" Throttle smirked and then they both saw them being in their own bedroom in their house where they had moved together instead of being in the base anymore. "Why are you still talking? To me, you are always the Commander.." Carbine said and that got Throttle to take off his leather west off fast and toss it to the floor. "Well that's a turn on.." Throttle grinned and felt Carbine's back getting lifted up as he continued kissing her neck and getting down towards her chest before taking her shirt off. "Throttle.. Umh.." She moaned which got him to growl and moan too. "Carbine.. Yes.. Moan for me babe.." He said as he continued kissing her neck and breasts passionately before nibbling them a bit. "Throttle.. Throttle?" He heard again which got him to lift up his head. "What?" He moaned but then saw Carbine looking at him completely normally. That got him to open his eyes to find him in that same bedroom, all alone.

"Are you awake?" He heard Carbine's voice coming from somewhere else while he put his specs on him. "Yea? At least some part of me.." Throttle thought while looking and feeling himself pretty hard after the dream. "Yea babe!" He shouted and then saw her walking to the doorway. "I'm happy you finally got to sleep.. You were quite restless last night.." Carbine said, making him sigh. "Last night? Babe.. I'd continue my dream right now in here" Throttle winked but then heard a baby crying. He saw her still being broken but also happy about his return, but the feelings were very mixed since she also felt anger towards him and the mission. And at the same time, she was worried about both of their health. The couple just tried to cope with the situation and see how things turned out. Both of them wanted to try and give a chance to their relationship after all. They loved each other but knew they still had a lot to talk about. "You haven't been the only one who has been restless. I think Felix finds this place weird.. He might have gotten used to the base.. Could you help me with him?" She asked before Throttle looked down and then back at her, getting her to notice his problem.

"Throttle.." She blushed and lifted her other hand on her mouth. The Moment felt like it would have happened right after their honeymoon if everything went how it should have gone. "I was dreaming about you.." Throttle winked and laid on his back before they heard Felix crying again after a short break. That got Carbine to sigh and walk to kiss him on his cheek before she was about to leave. "No! That is not enough!!" Throttle growled and wrapped his tail around her waist to pull her back, making her almost fall on the bed. "Throttle!" She screamed and laughed, making him wrap his arms around her to pull her on him. "Felix needs us.. Mmh.." Carbine said and then moaned when she felt him kissing her neck after moving her hair away. Even she couldn't deny how she had missed him and how much she enjoyed the moment. "I need you more.. He might fall asleep soon.." Throttle murmured against her neck, but then felt her hands on his chest before she pushed herself up, getting him to groan.

"I'll be back soon. I need to get him back to sleep. Then I'll help you, I promise" Carbine said before kissing him passionately. She left the room to get Felix back to sleep, which got Throttle to sigh deeply and lay on his back to wait for her. "Typical.. So typical.." Throttle rolled his eyes and chuckled, but when it seemed to take too long to help him, he got up from the bed and put on a t-shirt and boxers before walking to look at what was taking her so long. She was just about to leave the room where Felix was temporarily sleeping while moving back to their house was still a bit unfinished, when Throttle walked there and she almost bumped at him while tying her hair. It got her almost to scream but then she felt his hand on her mouth before he moved it away so he'd kiss her silent.

They had got back to their home just in a couple of days and some boxes with the stuff they had in the base were still waiting to be unpacked, meaning that it was their first nights and mornings there with their whole family. During that Carbine had shown a different range of emotions from sadness, happiness, worry and anger to other emotions, but he understood her. The Situation wasn't easy and she was still on her medication. Some moments or days were better and some not. But ever since Throttle had told her about his health issues, a bit later from the moment when he told he was stepping down from his title, Carbine had at first been in a shock but both of them promised to take care of each other, for them and for Felix.

"What took you so long?" He whispered and then grabbed her hand to pull the hair tie out of her hair. "What are you doing? Give it back! I had to feed him but now he is asleep. Throttle!" Carbine growled but only saw him grinning. "Have it free this time, babe" He said before leaning to kiss her as he held her jaw with his hand. "Umm.. Throttle" Carbine moaned while Throttle pulled the door closed with his tail to let Felix sleep in peace as he walked her back to their bedroom. But before heading there, when she kissed him back, a loud thump was heard when they pressed each other against the door as they started to kiss wildly.

"Yes.. Say it.." He growled and had to walk her to the bedroom and close their bedroom door too, but then saw her lifting up her other eyebrow. "What?" He asked as he placed the hair tie on a shelf. "A shirt? Really? Since when?" Carbine chuckled and got him laughing. "Oh that's what's bothering you? I thought it would help to hide this.." He said and then lifted his shirt up to hold it up with his teeth, to show her the problem that had risen up again, and also his muscles he made sure to look more tighter than usual. The shirt got lifted up the way it formed a triangle to show all the goods he knew she couldn't resist. It got her to lift her hand to her mouth to cover a bit of her jaw dropping down as she blushed and couldn't take her eyes out of him. He had a flirty expression on his face before she sighed and bit her lower lip as she looked into his red eyes.

"T- Throttle.." She sighed as he wiggled his eyebrows at her. "You like it?" He smirked and then winked at her, making her walk to him to lift her hands on his lower stomach muscles. "I love you" She said before kissing him and letting her hands travel down, making him close his eyes and moan before kissing her back. Soon he felt her taking a tight grip on the edge of his boxers as she started to walk him to their bed. "I love you.. too!" He said, the end of it already lying on the bed as Carbine pushed him there before climbing on him.

"Even if the morning had a rough start, I find.. this.. a good morning" Carbine purred as she carefully rubbed him which got him to moan and lay on his back on the bed, but when she was about to pull his boxers down, he flipped them so he was now on her. "I'll show you good morning babe" He grinned as she almost screamed but then remembered Felix sleeping in the other room. "We have to be quiet.." Carbine whispered as Throttle threw his shirt off like he threw the leather west in his dream. "Oh screw that! I want to hear you enjoying" Throttle smirked and then licked his lips as he saw her shirt a bit wet. Seeing it made her blush and cover herself fast.

"Hey, babe.. I find you extremely hot and sexy. Don't hide it, any of it" He said and then kissed her which got her moaning and nod at him. "If Felix wakes up, with your tent up or not, it is you who goes to put him back to sleep. No buts" Carbine said as he moved her hair away so he could kiss her neck passionately, not caring if he left marks there or not.

"Yea yea.. Just give that butt, to me, babe.." He murmured against her neck while she curled her back a bit. He let his hands travel along her body before he found out properly that she was already ready for him. "Mmh! Throttle!" A Loud moan escaped from her mouth as he felt her wetness before licking his fingers. He growled in pleasure too before Carbine's shirt found itself on the floor as well before her pants and their underwear. "Gosh I have missed this!" She moaned as he had himself positioned and started bumping inside of her while kissing her neck and nibbling her breasts. It got her to groan a bit of pain before another moan escaped her mouth when she felt him sucking them.

Her hand found its way to his hair while the other one traveled to his back while both of them were moaning in pleasure. Soon Throttle's moans turned more into growling as he looked into her eyes while her breathing got heavier. "Throttle.. I want you.. To kiss me.. Mmh! Now, babe!" She moaned before she had to close her eyes. "Yes, my love.." He moaned as he fastened his movements, getting her moan louder and to move both of her hands to his back to dig her nails on him, which got him to groan loudly before attacking her lips with his. She opened her mouth again to let his tongue in as they both felt some drool along their jaws.

"I love you so much.." Throttle said as he kept the rhythm he saw her enjoying after curling her back more to him. "I love you too! Mmmh.. Harder.. Just there.. Now.. Mmhh! Do.. not.. stop" Carbine moaned and closed her eyes again after kissing him and feeling him to hit the right spot. "Here? There?" Throttle grinned which got her to grab him roughly from his jaw to look into his eyes. "Don't you dare!!" She growled, which got both of them laughing before Throttle winked at her and started to bump faster and harder right there she told, getting her to scream in pleasure and dig her nails back to his back while he lifted her legs up more with his hands before moving them to her hips. "Carbineh!" He moaned while tangling their tails tightly together too. Both of them were moaning so loudly he had to continue kissing her when they climaxed and breathed heavily, their foreheads against each other.

"That.. That was amazing.." Throttle sighed deeply as he slowed down a bit as Carbine lifted her other hand back to his hair. She was speechless which got him smirking and to kiss her again. "Honey.." She moaned soon before connecting their antennas. "Is it easier to talk this way? Are you that relaxed?" He said which got her to tighten her grip in his hair to get him to groan in pleasure. "You are teasing me on purpose.." She said through the connection as she felt a loving kiss. "But you like it, don't you?" He grinned and then gently rubbed her sides to make her feel more loved. "I do.. And I'd like to have another round after a short break.." She sighed and then kissed him lovingly. "It would be my pleasure" Throttle said, but soon they had to break the connection as they heard Felix crying again.

"Were we that loud?" Throttle asked as he slowly pulled out to let Carbine sit up. "I don't think so.. But who am I to tell.. You made me feel so.. amazing" She blushed and then kissed him as he leant closer to her. "Same to you.. I guess we were a bit.. He can't be hungry again, can he?" He asked while she was about to sit up on her knees. "Mmhh.. I am dripping on my thighs.. Could you go?" She blushed, making him sniff the air and grin. He licked his lips which got her to punch his shoulder and blush. "Throttle!" She pushed him towards the doorway which got him to drop down his head and laugh. "Alright, alright. I'll go. But just wait here.. And I'll make you finish again" Throttle gave her his sexiest grin before pulling his boxers back on to leave to check on their son. "Oh you surely will.." Carbine sighed deeply as she dropped herself on her back on the bed, but before she managed to close her eyes, she heard Throttle running to the bedroom with Felix in his arms.

"Felix feels hot and doesn't respond!" Throttle said, which got Carbine to get up fast as he gave the little boy in her arms. "What's wrong?!" Carbine gasped but soon felt it too. Felix felt hot and he wasn't making any kind of contact with anything or each of his parents as Carbine held him in her arms. "I don't know. I'm sure he has a fever! But.. Hey Felix! Felix, dad's here!" He tried to get him to look at him but with no results. "We need to take him to the hospital! Call an emergency spaceship!" Carbine cried and tried to get any kind of contact with their son who felt so weak with all of his little muscles. "Is it a stroke? Could it be? First Modo and then our son.." Throttle wondered as both of them were sick of worry. "Throttle!! Call already!!" Carbine cried loudly in panic as Felix couldn't even seem to lift up his hands or hold them up with a bit of help. Something was terribly wrong, but what would it be?

Throttle ran to call for help while Carbine cried worriedly and heartbroken, her son in her arms when a thought came into her mind as she lifted her head up from her son's forehead to look at her husband. "Why is everything going terribly wrong when I get to be happy even for a short moment?! First our relationship had troubles because of Scabbard.. Then Throttle's mission ruined the beginning of our marriage and now this, when we just got back together and started a happy life as a family.. Am I cursed or something?!" She thought while tears kept running down her face as they got dressed up as fast as they could, everything ready and left for the hospital. The emergency spaceship barely even touched the ground before leaving towards the hospital, Throttle holding Felix in his arms while Carbine looked out the window to see their home getting further and further away. If she was cursed, could she continue with Throttle after all? Would Felix get alright and what was wrong with him?!

At about the same time at somewhere else

"I promised you, the Commander in Chief.. And I'll always keep my promises.." Xander thought to himself while he stood silently in the position, not moving even an inch. He had his gun prepared as he aimed towards the target. Then he took a deep breath to calm down his nerves, he heard a voice talking in his head and he saw a very specific memory in his mind. "The Bartender is on our side. He did his part of the plan very well and it wasn't anything dangerous that was on her drink" The Commander in Chief explained to the white furred male in the bar many many years ago.

"The Search has been ongoing for too long, but it's now finally over. Thanks to you two" He had seen the Commander in Chief saying and nodding formally, making both Vinnie and Harley smile and nod back to him. When they had left outside after Sergeant Scabbard had got caught, the Commander in Chief walked to the bar counter. "Your usual, Chief" Xander smiled and handed him a drink he had just shaken and threw into the air. "You did well, Xander" The Commander in Chief said before thanking him by lifting the glass into the air and drinking it.

"I'm just an ordinary bartender. Who just doesn't tolerate that kind of behavior at all.." Xander said modestly while cleaning the counter. "But what if you could be more than just an ordinary bartender?" The Commander in Chief said, getting him to lift up his other eyebrow as a sign of confusion before he continued. "What if I want you, to work for me?" He added, making his eyes widened.

"That would be an honor. But how? What kind of job are you talking about?" Xander said, making him smile and turn to look away for a short moment. Then his memory ended as he heard someone growling again before the sound of huge claws got pulled out.

"I want you to be my special soldier" He heard the Commander in Chief saying in his head while he was ready to shoot the target. But then someone else growled, getting the other one to back up first for a moment as they started arguing. "I am forever thankful for you, Commander in Chief Darius" He heard his own voice saying from a totally different memory than the first one.

"Mice are driving me crazy!!" Someone growled that got Xander to smirk as he swung his tail once behind his feet. "Oh you are right about that, my friend" He thought to himself while aiming again to make it correct while the target kept moving. "I promise you Chief to get your granddaughter back to her family.." Xander said quietly while he was about to pull the trigger that made a red laser point on the target before his shot.

Everything happened silently, fast and unexpected. Xander pulled the trigger and the shot flew right to the back of the target's neck while he shot another one. They lifted their other hands to the back of their necks to see a dart looking like a needle there, just before both of them fell to the ground unconscious. During that Xander hid in the shadows but when he heard them collapsing, he ran to the child that was still crying.

"Alright, little one.. Let's go home.." Xander whispered as he moved the gun behind his back to lift the toddler in his arms. "Shh.. Shh.. Everything is alright.." He whispered as he hushed the child while turning to look at his unconscious targets. His eyes widened for a moment as he realized something. "I have to warn the Princess.." He thought in his mind and gulped as he looked at a gigantic, over two meters tall, muscular cat like a creature. The Second was much shorter, a little chubby, but he couldn't do any kind of research or anything when he heard someone coming to the space where they were. "Alright.. Let's whip some tail, little one" Xander smirked under his mask as he tickled Snow from her stomach a bit to cheer her up. He got her to stop crying and grip his jacket tightly as she hid her face against him. Xander held her with his other hand while he pulled his gun back to another as he started to run out the place. He took notice that other cat-like creatures had copper like armors on them which made their shooting much harder.

"Oh crap!! These shits won't fall that easy! Is this already over before I get her out of here?!" He thought in his mind when he had to use his tail and the gun to fight against the soldiers by punching and other ways while making sure that Snow didn't take any hit. "Get them!! Cataclysm wants the kid alive!" One soldier shouted as Xander stopped for a moment to count how many they were after getting one knocked out. "Twelve against one.. This is really a hard one.." He thought as he had to choose another way to run away from the soldiers. "Find the Assistant Supreme Commander, Hannibal T. Hairball! Report about the intruder!!" He heard another shouting as he ran along the corridor before he had to bow down when a laser flew right next to his head.

"Alright kitty cats.. Let's play hard to get" He grinned before jumping through a closed door and breaking it to get away from a deadend in the corridor. Snow started to cry again in his arms which made sure his location was known in the whole place. It made him a bit frustrated but he understood the little child. She had been kidnapped for so long and the Goddess knows what else she has gone through in an unfamiliar place. Not forgetting how scary everything had been and still was.

"You are soon home and safe, little one.." He managed to gently rub her back during a short break during which he found his Martian glider he had come there with. But there was one problem. It was behind a very strong glass window that he should break through while holding the princess in his other arm. He tried to kick it and punch it with his gun but without a proper grip, he couldn't use it for shooting. He heard the cat soldiers running towards him before he saw the first ones entering the small room. The Glider was outside of it, right behind him as he stood up to face the enemy.

Xander thought for a short moment while Snow was still crying in his arms. She was so scared and her little body was trembling when Xander narrowed his eyes behind his full face and head covering mask. "Come and get me!!" He shouted, and dodged just in time when the enemy opened the fire to shoot him. He squatted down fast to cover Snow with his body as the window got shattered, but when he was about to jump out the window, someone bumped him really hard, making him fall on the ground and drop the Martian Princess and his gun from his hands as he groaned loudly in pain.

Princess Snow was crying from the falling but at first sight Xander saw her being alright. He couldn't be completely sure of it but hadn't much time when he was already lifted up in the air. "Gaahh!!" He gasped out of breath but then faced the two meters tall cat that had more muscle than Modo. He was even taller than him too, not even talking about Xander who was a bit shorter than his own twin brother. "Are you going somewhere.. mouse?" A reddish gray furred male cat growled as he lifted Xander in the air like he weighed nothing.

"Gah!! This cat has muscle for a whole village?! What kind of creature is it?!" He thought in his mind and groaned before growling at the enemy. He had to get himself free to help Snow before anyone else would get to her. Seeing her crying on the ground got him to turn his face back to the enemy. "What are you going to do? You are not getting anywhere from here!" The Gigantic cat growled, and smelling his breath wasn't part of Xander's plan, which got him to kick straight to his jaw to make him let go. "I'm getting out of here and definitely not missing your ugly face!" Xander said as the cat groaned loudly and Xander landed on his feet, pretty unstable after a backflip. But that was the moment the enemy used as an advantage.

"Tell me who's ugly, after this!!" The Cat shouted just before scratching Xander straight to his face, making his mask fall off and hit the ground as he fell on the ground as well. The scratch was so strong it made him fall roughly and roll over a couple of times. He managed to see the cat's brown boots before he got lifted into the air again. Just in time he managed to cover his face with a scarf but it wasn't actually his biggest problem. The Smaller gray furred cat ran into the room to get crying Snow while the massive reddish brown furred cat was about to throw him out the spaceship door he just opened to get rid of the stowaway.

"You should make your last wish, mouse.. Because no-one survives from space without oxygen! And this spaceship doesn't like any rats!" The cat whose name Xander got that it must have been Cataclysm from the earlier, growled loudly while Xander had troubles even having his eyes open. His face was hurt badly and the scarf was turning red all over from his blood. "Oh I'm not the one who makes last wishes here, Pukebreath.." He growled while he felt blood running along his face which wasn't the best feeling for the moment or at all. He didn't have a long time, he had to do something to get her out of there but at least he was happy to see that the gray fur ball had troubles holding Snow since he was small too and the toddler didn't seem to be a big fan of him, which made him grin a bit even if the pain on his face was close to get him unconscious.

"Just hang in there, little girl.. I'm gonna get ya.. I am your grandfather's soldier.. And I won't let either of you down.." Xander thought in his mind while tasting his blood in mouth. Then he felt Cataclysm about to throw him out the door when he wrapped his tail around his neck to prevent him from doing that. It gave him a chance to wrestle himself free this time since the cat had trouble breathing for a moment. "You little-!!" Cataclysm growled loudly which made Snow even more scared. She was terrified of the big, loud and angry cat like a creature which made Xander growl, and immediately he fell on the ground again, with his tail he took his gun fast that had been laying on the ground and managed to shoot Cataclysm straight to his shoulder.

"Gaahh!! Claw troopers, get him! Don't let him get out here! The girl is the only one I want alive!!" The Massive cat groaned in pain while holding his shoulder for a moment and dropped down on one knee. He managed to press the alarm on the spaceship that caused the cat soldiers to head to the room immediately, but the short moment was enough from Xander to get weakly but fast up from the ground and head to the gray furred cat.

"Give the girl to me.. Now. The Next time I won't ask nicely" He growled and pointed the gun straight to the Hairball's chest, making him gulp and drop the toddler on the ground as he lifted his paws in the air fast. Snow ran immediately to Xander's feet before he quickly lifted the crying and scared girl in his arms, covered her in his jacket and then ran to the broken window that led to a small storage kind of room where he had managed to get his glider into. He managed to do all of that and also dodge lasers the enemy soldiers shot at them, a few of them being very close ones. "As much as this was interesting, we are.. out!!" Xander announced as at the same he did the formal military greeting for goodbyes, and with a single moment of a blink, he and the princess were gone. He heard a loud groaning from Cataclysm, as he flew away as fast as he could, exploding the glider's way out of the spaceship while the cat troopers were shooting towards him, and to the shadows to get out of the sight of the huge spaceship outside of the planet of Mars.

The Glider was different from the usual ones. This one looked like a bit of a small spaceship since it had a space since neither of them had helmets on them, which made it look more like a small plane kind of glider. "Phew.. That was fun!" Xander sighed deeply as he pulled down his hood and the scarf to reveal his face to the little princess who was still crying. He knew his bloody face was probably not helping at all. He tried to wipe or tap it once with his sleeve, but after grimacing in pain, he ended up leaving it the way it was. At some point he still felt it bleeding, but some of it seemed to be at least a bit calmed down. "Shh.. It's alright. It's alright. Everything is fine. You are soon home" He tried to hush the little princess and after a moment, she had stopped crying and was tasting her own hand while looking at Xander who had to concentrate on flying for a moment.

"Now, should we go home, Snow?" He smiled and handed her her teddy bear which got the young princess to laugh and clap her tiny hands together before reaching out to have the familiar stuffed animal back to her. "Oh I know.. You have missed that.. Many have missed you too" Xander smiled and gently petted her hair messy with his hand while flying the glider with the other one. He was sitting on the pilot's seat while the little girl was sitting on his lap since he had no time to place her on the seat behind him. She felt herself safer half way inside his jacket, meaning it was open and wrapped around her. She felt warm and safe in his warmth which made Xander feel better too, even if the pain on his face was making concentrating on flying and everything very difficult.

When Snow was hugging her beloved plushie, Xander smiled at the view before concentrating back on the course. He tried to think of anything else than his own wounds. He wasn't sure how bad he looked, but for now he didn't even want to know. The amount of blood and the pain told him enough. The Main thing was that he had succeeded in what he had gone there for. He had saved the princess.

"Mission accomplished, Chief" Xander smiled at himself before taking a deep breath when he made sure the course was back on Mars. He was wearing dark clothing along with the mask, the scarf and the hood which had covered his face and head completely. He had put the scarf on the small place on the side between the uplifting door and the pilot's seat before taking off his gloves with the help of his teeth. It was a little hard while he had to fly the glider at the same but also keep the little girl in her place.

After that he made sure the autopilot would get on if he didn't react to the flying in a couple of minutes as he should, since he started to be a bit concerned about being soon unconscious too from the loss of blood. And doing that with the high tecnologic was a bit easier without gloves on the way. He wasn't completely sure how the landing would go with him flying or with the autopilot, but just getting back to Mars alive was the most important thing.

Xander was almost always wearing gloves in his hands. In his military clothing he had a pair of long brown gloves, but this time they were different. The gloves were almost completely black but the fingers were red and the red area went over his knuckles and the red part could mostly be seen since his sleeves got over them and they were attached to the gloves with a string on his middle fingers so they wouldn't be on the way while shooting but would also cover his fingers.

His mask he lost during the fight had also some red details and both of them had a symbolized meaning. They were his sign as a sniper and as the special soldier of the late Commander in Chief. "As long as I am carrying my name Xander. Which means defender, I defend Mars and its Royals.. Even with the cost of my own life.." He said while trying to fly as fast and hidden as he could while being wounded badly and some blood was still running down his face as the dizziness was about to take over him..

"Should we go after them?" One cat soldier asked after Cataclysm got up from the ground to collapse on a chair while still holding his shoulder when the glider disappeared into the shadows. "No.. We might have lost the brat, but this isn't over.." The Gigantic cat growled and then hit his fist roughly onto the controller table next to him. He let out a loud growl as a sign of being annoyed and angry since the martian had won, which got the soldiers to take a few steps back, but then another cat walked fast into the room.

"The Spaceship's security cameras got something interesting from that intruder.." The Cat grinned and sat on the edge of the table while swinging the blond furred tail. Seeing the comer got the gray furred cat purr and walk closer to the comer who handed a picture to the reddish gray furred male and pressed a button to get another picture to form on the monitor. The Shorter male hurried to look at the picture too but was clearly more interested in the comer. "Doesn't he look like one of the chased mice.. The Trophy mice.. What were they called.. Umm.." The Cat grinned and then leant forward to trail one long nail along the gray furred male cat's jaw, getting him to grin and purr again.

"Ain't those the Biker Mice?" Hannibal chuckled and got Cataclysm growling loudly as he looked at the picture the female cat handed him. "..From Mars!" He growled and crumpled the picture in his hand as he stood up and turned to look at the monitor where was a picture of Xander just the moment after his mask got broken. It had been seconds before he had got his face covered with the scarf but it seemed to be enough for their technology.

Cataclysm threw the picture of the Biker Mice over his shoulder in the corner of the room to get his claws out right in front of the monitor and Xander's face while leaning against the controller table with his other hand. He started to laugh while the female cat jumped down from the table. She walked slowly to stand near him, and then swung her tail cunningly behind their feet and had her hands confidently on her waist. "I will get my revenge.." Cataclysm grinned and then clenched his hand into a fist that covered Xander's face. Thoughts about revenge seemed to cover the pain in his shoulder as he looked at the enemy who had managed to hurt him and mess up their plans. "Let the chase begin!!" He announced growling, making the female smirk and laugh evilly along with him and the gray furred male cat.

Putting anyone else in danger wasn't part of Xander's plans, but were the new cat species only after the Biker Mice, since they had mistaken Xander as Throttle or why had they kidnapped Princess Snow in the first place? Was the whole planet of Mars in danger again? How would they survive from it if they were?