No Honor in Darkness
A/N I don't own Storm Hawks. Yup, another Harrier fic. I've never actually seen a fanfic revolving around him though, so I decided to write one.
Harrier opened his eyes slowly and groaned as his head began pounding. Where was he? How did he get here? Memories came rushing back to him. Terra Rex was being invaded by the Cyclonians! Wasn't he out there fighting them back a few moments ago? Why was he just sitting down? He tried to stand only to find that his arms were chained behind him to the wall.
"No," he hissed as a sudden realization hit him.
"That's right, ponytail boy. You're my prisoner now." Harrier looked up to see golden eyes staring at him triumphantly.
His muscles bulged as he strained against the chains, trying to rip them from the wall, or to slip out of them, which ever came first. A sudden wave of dizziness and nausea hit his and he closed his eyes. He felt so weak... What had happened to him? Opening his eyes again, he looked down at himself. His armor had holes in it and blood was flowing freely from his body in three separate places. He recalled receiving those wounds while fighting the Cyclonians, but he didn't recall becoming their prisoner. The Rex Guardians had been winning, hadn't they? His eyes widened as another realization hit him. They quickly narrowed into a glare directed at the women whose gold eyes were staring at him from in front of the bars to his cell. "You hit me from behind! Have you no honor? You're nothing more than a coward!"
Ravess walked calmly to the door of his cell and entered. She knelt down in front of the Rex Guardian, making her eyes level with his. She wanted him to see the triumph in her eyes, to make him feel the bitterness of his defeat. "Honor? Look where honor has gotten you, Sky Knight." She smiled at him. "Honor, and your Code are a waste of time. Your honor got your pathetic terra taken over!"
"Terra Rex will escape your clutches," Harrier replied evenly. He refused to let his anger show. "It is written in the Code that those with honor shall always prevail!" He felt her slap before he actually saw it.
Her golden eyes glinted. "Terra Rex will be destroyed then. Where will your honor be then? You'll be nothing but a disgraced Sky Knight, who couldn't even protect his own terra! You'll be stripped of your armor and people will spit upon your memory." She drew closer to him, her eyes and smile still triumphant.
"It is your memory that people will spit upon, Honor-less Cyclonian! Terra Rex will never be destroyed! Not while my squadron and I still draw breath!" His blue eyes glared directly into her golden ones. His defiance clashed against her triumph.
"And who's to say that your squadron still draws breath?" Ravess replied.
The defiance in his eyes finally cracked a bit. "You... No! You didn't kill them! Honor always prevails! There's no way a group of cowards like you could have defeated my squadron!" He glanced away from her eyes a moment. "Honor always prevails," he repeated softly to himself.
"We defeated you, didn't we? We defeated the great Harrier, Sky Knight of the Rex Guardians. if you couldn't defeat us, how could your squadron? Because they had honor? Is that it? Their honor blinded them! The very thing that you said would keep them alive is what caused their deaths!" Ravess drew even closer with a sneer on her lips. "It was my brother Snipe who killed the last of your squadron. It was that pathetic girl. She begged for my brother to spare her. She pleaded, she said she'd do anything for him to spare her life. Anything," she repeated so that the Rex Guardian didn't miss what she had implied.
"Elizabeth," Harrier breathed. He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to collect himself. He would never allow the enemy to see his tears. "No! You're lying!" he bellowed. "My squadron would never grovel before you Cyclonians! They would meet death with honor! Just as I would."
"You..." Ravess rested a hand on his armored chest. The other fiddled with the straps of his armor. "You will not die in honor. You will die in disgrace! You will beg for us to spare your pitiful life! Your honor will be stripped away and tossed aside like old newspaper!" She ripped his chest plate off and threw it with a clang into the corner of the cell, as if it was his honor.
"No one can take my honor away," the Rex Guardian breathed. His voice sounded weak, but it strengthened as he spoke. "Especially not an honor-less Cyclonian like you! Honor isn't something that can be thrown away like newspaper! It's a part of me! A part of me you'll never be able to understand! Part of me you'll never be able to touch!"
Ravess brought her hand back as if to slap him again, but instead rested it on his cheek. "Do you know why you still live, Sky Knight?" She pushed his head so he stared directly into her golden eyes. "You live because I wish it. Because I want to watch you suffer and squirm. I hold your life in my hands. I can do with it anything I please. Anything." He could feel her breath on his face and he struggled with the chains again, wanting to push her away. He hated her with every fiber of his being. Hated her and wanted to see her dead by his hand.
Ravess laughed in his face, pleased to have finally gotten the reaction she wanted. Anger, hatred. It was all very fun to watch in a prisoner. "Hate me all you want, Harrier, but I'm the one who controls your life now. Not your honor, and not your pathetic code."
