Aerrow poked his head up and looked at the blinking red light across from him. Slowly he stood up and slid out of the bed, while ruffling his rusting hair. This was the second time in the night, and he was starting to get a little cheesed off about it. Not as much as she had when he'd insisted on the tracking bracelet, though.

"Aerrow! I am not a bloody dog, who has to be kept on a leash so you know where I am!!"

"Lypix, someone could kidnap you again. What if it was the Dark Ace?"

"I don't care if I am! I hate people thinking they know everything about me, and that includes my location!"

"Lypix..." He'd tried to say, but she'd cut in with a final comment, "This isn't a prison Aerrow, stop acting like it is."

Then she'd stalked off, passing sensors which had set the blinking alarm off again.

Grumbling, he picked up his small blades and set off down the hallway. About three yards in though, he saw this wasn't a false alarm, a large hulky talon blocked his path, Aerrow's heart rose slightly in his chest as he thought about how far away Lypix could have been taken by then.

Obviously not far enough.

As the Talon growled slightly, a big blast erupted from the end of the corridor, swallowing the Talon and spitting him out at Aerrow's feet. He looked up, and saw an electric blue haired girl, dressed in a black tank top and black shorts, her pyjamas.

"Lyp..."

"You gonna play the knight in shining armour now?" Lypix sarcastically shouted, before disappearing into a different hallway.

Aerrow sighed and set off to wake the others.

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But the Talons hadn't come for Lypix. They'd come for an unfinished conquest of Master Cyclonis.

Piper.

Midnight slipped past an agitated Lypix and down the debris stricken hallway. God, he was glad Lypix couldn't see him, last time he'd seen her, she'd let James and Anastasia do the handiwork, but he knew she'd be just as willing to help out.

"This one." He stopped as Aerrow opened doors and shouted in each one to different people. He seemed to shout softer into one room, and he mentioned Piper's name.

"How soppy" Midnight thought, "Why would anyone be attracted to that?" He shrugged it off, Krysitan's just probably weren't into being smothered, probably preferred to have the bad ass guys looking after them. At least, it worked okay for him and Ka.

Now that was a source of irony. He'd opposed Lypix when they were children, and now dated her alter ego. What a funny world this was.

Three boys walked past him, a blond haired one, a big beefy one and a Merb. Midnight supposed it was clear for him to enter. Cautiously he walked towards the sliding door that led to his prize.

Before he could reach it however, she walked out looking very sleepy, copper eyes and startled blue hair sat on top of her head. He couldn't take her in the hall, he had to get her unconscious in her room.

In one fluid action, he reached forwards with his invisible hand to clasp her noisy mouth, with the other he pushed backwards into the room. Crashing to the floor she tried to call out, but he hit her head. Hard.

Looking up he observed it was an odd room, a bunk bed sat on one side with two discarded beds. A desk housed multiple half finished experiments and a several crates of crystals sat on the floor with piles of notes stacked on them. A wardrobe bursting at the seams with clothes, not all Piper's either. Slowly he realised this was Lypix's room as well. Why had she chosen to live in this when she could quite easily live amongst the palace of Cyclonia? He shook his head. Chaos and disorder. Midnight guessed it was because of the lack of room on the Condor, but he laughed quietly in his mind at the richness of Cyclonia. What a rabble these Sky Knights were.

Midnight placed a necklace containing an invisibility crystal around Piper's neck and lumped her over his shoulder. Time to go.

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"Lypix." Aerrow moaned over the rabble of shouting and Talon fire, "Come on."

"Oh? Like the time I told you this flipping bracelet is a bloody waste of time?!? Should I ignore you like you did then?"

"She's probably just tired, you keep setting the sensors off." He replied angrily.

Lypix hit a Talon in the head, "Well sorry! I've never slept that much, you just seem to be more aware of it now I have a flipping leash!"

"Calm down you two, we need to clear these Talons away from the bridge and get the Condor out of here." Finn sighed, everyone was sick of the arguments now.

"Easier said than done." Aerrow muttered darkly.