Here is chapter 8 yall, sorry it has taken me so long, I had it on my written on my computer when it crashed months ago. After that I got discouraged, but thanks to all of the positive feed back I have gotten it gave me the drive to re-write the chapter. Hope yall enjoy and that its everything that you all hoped it would be.

Rod looked up toward the voice coming from the shadows. He strained his eyes to see who it was, as he gazed into the shadows he became aware of the fact that he recognized the voice. Then the car rolled out of the shadows, Rods face turned from one of worry to a smirk. "I thought I would never see you again man, you scared the oil out of me." He laughed, "what if C.H.R.O.M.E. catches you here?" He gestured to the red car that sat gingerly in front of him with a smile on his face. "well old chap, after you saved my life on the oil rig I figured I owed you the same, so when my sources told me that you were here I assumed that if "I" knew then the Lemons had to have heard the same thing." He gave Rod a serious look, "Rod, you know you are in danger." Rod slumped low on his axles, his eyes to the ground. "yes, I do" he sighed. "well in that case I will stay here and guard you." The red car said with a big smile. Rod's eyes snapped up to meet his. "Leland, are you sure about this?" Leland nodded, "Rod I would not be here right now if it weren't for you, it's the least I can do." The two cars smiled and nodded to one another, acknowledging that they had a mutual understanding of one another. Soon Rod's eyes became heavy as he nodded off to sleep with Leland Turbo standing guard over his sleeping form.

When Rod awoke the next morning Leland was gone and nurses were bustling about him working on unhooking Rod's monitors. One of them noticed that he was awake and stopped to "Mr. Redline, glad to see you're awake. We are moving you out of the ICU today and into a recovery room, you will be getting a roommate, his name is Finn McMissile." Rod's eyes widened, "No!" he whispered under his breath. 'if he finds out who I am he will turn me in to the CIA' he thought to himself. Rod did not want to go back, he would never see Maxine again. He waited for the nurses to leave. "When Maxine gets here I'm making a break for it," he whispered.

Back in Finn's room he was just waking up to nurses setting up the room for the new car. He looked at all the cute nurses rushing about, "good morning ladies," Finn said with a charming smile. "good morning Mr. McMissile." They replied cheerily, then Holley drove in to the room, "good Morning Miss. Shiftwell" Finn called across the room, "morning Finn" replied Holley. Then she noticed all the giddy nurses and realized what was going on, she rolled her eyes, "oh Finn you dog" she laughed. "can you blame me?" as he flashed her the same charming smile. Holley laughed as she shook her hood.

Back in Rod's room he was becoming impatient. 'where was Maxine? She was normally here by now.' As soon as the thought crossed his mind the door opened. "Maxine! We need to go!" "what? But you're not better yet." he said. "I'm fine" he said in a low voice, "Rod what's wrong?" "I just need to get out of here" he rolled off the lift his IV pulled off and he proceeded to drive out the door. He stopped next to Maxine, "you can ether come with me or not, that's up to you." She nodded and fallowed him out of the room. They drove slowly down the hallway trying not to attract too much attention when they were stopped by a voice calling to them. "oh, Mr. Redline! Your heading to your new room so early" called a nurse. Rod didn't turn around, "um… yeah" he stated as he began driving again. The nurse watched Rod as he passed right by the door to his room. Rod had been deemed a flight risk, so when the nurse saw him pass his room she knew something was up. "Mr. Redline, you passed your room!" the nurse called. At that Rod took off with Maxine trailing behind him. "Rod!" she shouted, right then an alarm began to sound, "CODE RED! CODE RED! CORRIDOR FOUR!" screamed a voice over the intercom. Rod rounded the corner and slammed right into one of the Tahoe security guards. He began to back up slowly, 'not again' he thought. "Back in your room!" the guard growled, Rod knew that he could not do that, he was not being taken back to the CIA. He looked back and forth trying to find a way out as he slowly began to back out of the hall way right into another security guard. "OW!" he shouted as he turned around to see another guard holding an empty syringe. 'NO!' Rod thought as his world turned to black. The last thing he herd was Maxine screaming his name.

Rod's eyes fluttered open, he looked around franticly as he tried to move, but he found that not only was he heavily drugged, but he was also restrained by a parking boot, "Damn!" he stated groggily. Finn sat quietly as he observed the other car struggling with his restraints. 'what a peculiar fellow' though Finn. Rod settled down once he realized that he was being watched, "um… hi" he said nervously. "hello" Finn nodded with a big smile, "so what are you in for?" he asked the blue muscle car. Rod gave him a strange look, 'he doesn't know who I am' as a feeling of hope washed over him. "um… I'd rather not talk about it…. It was, um… a bad accident." Finn looked at Rod, "oh" he stated as he looked away, Rod quickly jumped in to conversation as to not look to suspicious. "so what are you in for?" he stated nervously, Finn perked up a bit ready to answer, but then realized that he could not actually answer, but he thought he would give it a try without divulging too much information, "well I'm here on vacation to find an old friend and I got into a bit of a scuffle along the way." Rodd looked over Finn, he was still pretty banged up, his roof was all dented and the sweet smell of antifreeze lingered in the air, 'He got all banged up looking for me' thought Rod, he felt bad but if Finn knew who he was then he would take him back to the states for sure. Rod was deep in thought "SO!" boomed Finn, startling Rod, "May I ask why they have you restrained?" Rod had been dreading that question, he didn't know how to answer, except as vaguely as possible. "um… I'm a flight risk." He had decided that honesty was going to be his best bet right now. "uh huh… but why? This place is not that bad, and the nurses are very, very nice." Finn wore a big grin, "well, uh… I have uncontrollable paranoid out bursts." Rod said while looking at the ground, that wasn't a total lie. Finn looked at him for a moment, "well, that's and odd reaction from a Muscle car" he said while narrowing his eyes, "oh! My name is Finn by the way, Finn McMissile. What's yours old chap?" It was the moment Rod had been dreading the most, he paused for a moment. "I, I'm, Rooo… Rocky" Finn knew he was lying but he decided to play along, "well it's very nice to meet you Rocky." Suddenly the door flew opened and in drove a cherry little magenta car. "Good morning Finn!" "Good morning Holley! Come here and meat my new roommate, Holley this is Rocky, Rocky this is Miss. Holley Shiftwell." She looked at him with wide eyes. "Finn is…?" he cut her off, "yes Holley, this is ROCKY." She looked back at Finn, then back too "Rocky" who was smiling nervously. She shrugged he fenders and drove over to Finn, she was sure he must have a good reason for playing along with Rod Redlines cover up. By that point the drugs in Rods system had begun to take a toll on him and he could no longer stay awake and before he knew it he was sound asleep. No sooner that he was out Holley leaned closer to Finn and whispered, "that's Rod Redline" "I know, but he doesn't want us to know who he is for some reason." "well why not?" she asked. "I don't know, but he's not going anywhere with that boot on so let's just play his game for now." Holley nodded, "okay" she was not so sure about this but she had no choice but to fallow Finn's orders. A doctor entered the room not long after Holley and began checking on Rod. Finn looked at Holley, "excuse me doctor?" "why yes Mr. McMissile, what can I do for you?" "I was wondering about my roommate, he's been asleep, what is his name?" "this is Mr. Rod redline" "may I ask what happened to him?" the doctor paused, "I can't tell you many details but he was in bad shape when he arrived" Finn and Holley both winced, "thank you Doctor." Finn nodded to him, he smiled and drove out of the room.

Holley stared at Rods sleeping form, he looked so gentle, she could not believe that she was looking at the CIA's top agent, and a car that had even been thought of as the best agent in the world, it was a harsh reality that it could happen to anyone no matter how good of an agent you were. Finn noticed her watching him, he wondered what she was thinking about, and he then began watching him as well. Rod's body jerked every now and then, and Finn wondered why he was trying to hide from them. Soon it was getting late and visiting hours were almost over, "well Finn, I will see you tomorrow. Keep an eye on him okay." "okay" She smiled at him, "night Finn!" Good night Holley" he smiled as he watched her cruise out of the room. No sooner than she left a nurse came in to the room, "all right Mr. McMissile lights out." Whispered the nurse as she flipped the switch with her tire. "okay, good night" he nodded to her. She quietly rolled out of the room, and then Finn was all alone, but he was soon sound asleep like Rod.

It was late into the night when suddenly Finn woke up with a start, he heard something. He scanned the darkness searching for the source of the sound when he stopped, then turned slightly to his left and flipped n his head lights. In front on him was a red car with squinted eyes, cowering from the bright light. "Leland!?"" shouted Finn, the red car gave him a sheepish grin. "hello Finn, how are you old chap?" Finn began to stutter, "Le, Le, Leland, but I, I saw you… you were dead." "well, actually Rod here was put in charge of interrogating and disposing of me, he requested the assistance of a red pacer, oh I don't remember the ol' boys name, but once we were alone he knocked him out, I changed my disguise, and we threw him in the crusher." "but why didn't you come back to C.H.R.O.M.E.?" Finn's voice was full of hurt. Leland looked at the ground and shuffled a tire, "well, I guess I saw it as a way out, I'm just tired and I wanted to try and live a "normal" life." He sighed, "I'm sorry Finn." Finn looked him in the eyes, "it's okay Leland, but why didn't you tell me? And more importantly, why are you here?" "well, I didn't want you to get into any trouble if anyone found out that I was still alive and that you knew about it. And I'm here because Rod risked his life to save me and it's because of me that he was discovered, they had cameras, they saw what he did, then they tried to kill him and up until yesterday they thought he was dead. I found out that he was still alive and knew that he was in danger so I came here to protect him until he is well." Finn sat with a blank stare just trying to take it all in. Then he spoke, "I see, he doesn't want me to know who he is so he can be free too." Finn's voice trailed off. "you guys make me sound so weak and helpless" came a voice form the shadows, causing both cars to jump. Leland spun around to face Rod, "I see your awake now Mr. Redline." Stated Finn, Rodd looked at the ground and sighed. "you weren't fooling me for a second old chap." Finn said with a grin. "so I guess this means you will be taking me back to the states?" "Not unless you want me to." Rod looked up at Finn with a smile, "as far as I know your dead, and thank you for saving my old friend and partner." "no problem man" Rod said with a big grin on his face. "I do have one question though… Why did they restrain you?" Rod smirked, "well I was trying to avoid you, but it was not my first escape attempt. The first time I made a bid mess and tried to fight a security guard right after my engine transplant." Finn Winced, he had not realized that Rod was injured that badly. Rod noticed Finn's reaction, "yeah, they strapped me to a dyno and forced Allinol in to my gas tank then used that camera on me. I'm lucky that Maxine found me or I would be dead right now." "who's Maxine?" asked Finn and Leland almost simultaneously, rod smiled, "the first car to ever actually care about me." Finn smiled, "well I hope to meet her someday." Then Rod realized that Maxine was with him when he had gotten caught, 'what happened to her?' he wondered a little worried. "well, she was with me when I was caught this last time, I hope she's okay…." His voice trailed off as his breathing became heavy and his eyes became heavy. Leland noticed that Rod didn't look very well, "Rod, are you okay ol' boy?" Rod lifted his gaze a bit, "yeah… they have me cuffed with a boot… and they have me on a sedative to keep me here" he said wearily, Leland shook his head and Finn looked puzzled. "that seems a bit over board." he said, just then a slick black car rolled in to the room. "well, well, well…" the car hissed slowly, "I believe I just hit the jack pot." Then the three cars herd the sound of something whistling threw the air, and three pinging sounds as the objects hit there mark. Rod felt pain searing threw his left fender, he looked at Finn and Leland, just then the room began to spin. Leland lunged towards the intruder and rammed the black car, as he backed up for a second ram he got a good look at the black car who was smirking at him. It was then that Leland realized who the car was, he gasped "Autobond!" and Finn gritted his teeth, Leland backed away when he felt a slight pain in his right quarter panel, he looked in his side mirror to find that a chrome tranquilizer dart had painfully ripped into his steel quarter panel. He then looked in Rod's direction, who was out cold, then at Finn who was struggling to get off of the hospital lift. He then felt nauseous and his vision was becoming blurry, but he continued to back away from his assailant. He was painting heavily when he suddenly felt himself bump into the wall, 'oh drat! I'm out of room' he thought as he gritted his teeth, he sat there glaring at Andre. Then Leland glanced at Finn who was still on the hospital lift, his eyes were closed and he was breathing heavily. 'Finn is almost out, this is not good' Leland thought to himself when his thoughts were interrupted by a sly voice, "well, looks like you're the hold out." Andre smirked, Leland only continued to glare at the sleek black car, though he could hardly see, or stay up right on his tires for that matter. Andre began to drive towards him slowly as Leland tried to back further away, his rear bumper was now pressed firmly against the wall, he knew what was coming, Andre raised his rifle towards Leland. Leland turned his fender to him, excepting his fate, then came the "ping" sound of metal going through metal, fallowed by a short period of pain then agonizing darkness.