Life's Second Chance

Startled

Within a moment time seemed to freeze, as the replay of the vanishing figure traversed across the Martians' minds. The last image they saw of Agent Ray..was her smiling and waving up at them before the tanker exploded- and here she was now about four years since that day standing right before their very eyes. 

Throttle and Vinnie seemed petrified. Charlene who was caught off guard by the reaction of the biker mice, also seemed stunned as she turned to look at her boys who stood with their jaws hanging. Modo's cybernetic eye teared up as he was the first to make a move and wrapped his big arms around the girl who seemed to flinch under his touch. "You're alive!" cried Modo.

Charley, Vinnie, and Throttle all exchanged looks before uttering a harmonious, "You know her?" before turning to Modo and the surprised looking girl.

~*~

Rei was completely traumatized it seemed. Her eyes widened to such an extent all she could do was just stare into the grayness that surrounded her. Almost as if her sense of touch remembered something her mind had completely forgotten, her arms hooked round the center of the tall figure in a hug making the tall buff other hold her all the tighter. Then all at once, when her reddish brown eyes lit on Charlene Davidson, the girl seemed to snap back into reality and pull away from the grey hulk. "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

Modo's happy expression was soon wiped away at the question as he looked at the girl who he rescued all that time ago. "Don't you remember? It's me Modo."

Rei's reddish brown optics dropped to the hands that clapped around her small ones, and after a slight pause she pulled away, "Easy buddy, " she commented before whipping round to the hyper tunes of Vinnie who'd bombarded her with, "What happened sweetheart!? We thought you-" he was cut off by the very panicked Charley who still didn't know how her guys knew her childhood friend. And by the reaction the girl was wearing it was obvious Rei was in shock. "GUYZ!" Charley broke, before whipping Rei back inside and pulling the girl into the kitchen of the living quarters of the garage. "Look I can explain," she began as she tried to calm the stunned Rei.

"Shoot," Rei stated her voice still in disbelief. "Please explain to me why you have an infestation of over grown rats in your garage," she added "-with weird red horns!"