A/N: Believe it or not this entire story is the first one i ever wrote so apologizes if it is not very good.

Adventures at Piston Peak

Chapter 1: Day at the base

It was a beautiful autumn morning at Piston Peak air Attack. Maru had just finished giving the three musketeers, Drip, Blackout and Avalanche a tune up which was a good thing as they had been making a lot of noise. Most of the noise had been unnecessary and now they were having an extra noisy game of soccer with the girls, Dynamite and Pinecone. Windlifter was somewhere around the base away from the smokejumpers game and Cabbie was listening to old music on his radio. Blade and Nick were who knows where in the park on spot fire patrol while Dusty nickname from Dipper 'Dustmuffin' was trying to hide from Dipper and her chatter. Crow was up a tree so she did not get hit by the ball that did not stay on the runway. Cloudy the horse/Pegasus was napping in the middle of a heli-pad and I was sitting lean up against Maru's garage half asleep as I was still adjusting to our new lives as firefighters and I woke up earlier the usual, winding up a ball of blue wool when the noise got louder.

"DID YOU HAVE TO" Avalanche hollered.

I walked into the hanger to put my wool away.

"I didn't mean to" Blackout protested.

"You do it every time!" Drip complained.

"WOULD YOU TURN IT DOWN A FEW NOCHIS?" Cloudy yelled and went back to napping.

I walked out of the hanger I shared with Dusty, Crow and Cloudy to see Blackout with a not so round bouncy ball caught on his saw blade.

"That's the second time he has popped it this week isn't it?" I asked.

"Yes it is" Dynamite answered with a sighed.

"No surprise" Crow said as she climbed out of the tree.

"I'll see if I can get Maru to fix it again" sighed Pinecone as she used her rake to free the 'flat' ball from Blackout's saw and take it to Maru who was quite happy to fix it as he had nothing else to do.

Suddenly the sound of helicopters echoed around the base. Crow and I looked up to see Blade and Nick about to come into land.

"Um, Cloudy you might want to move now" I said eyeing the underside of Blade who was about to land on top of her.

Cloudy grumbled something and moved off the heli-pad but unfortunately her tail ended up on the other heli-pad and Nick landed fair and square on top of it. When Cloudy yelped Nick jumped back in surprise and Cloudy whirled around to glare at him.

"Since when have you been allowed to land on my tail" Cloudy half-asked, half-demanded but Nick was too surprised to answer her so he just got a glare.

I slapped my hands over my mouth to try and stop my snickers and giggles but they still escaped. Cloudy whipped around to glare at me.

"You think that's funny don't you?" Cloudy asked sarcastically giving me a funny look with her head coxed on one side.

"NO, Maybe, YES" I burst into peals of laughter when I said yes.

Cloudy took a deep breath and tried to remain calm.

"I'm not going to yell. Instead I am just going to grab her AND POUND HER INTO A PULP! COME HERE YOU!"

I yelped and took off running with Cloudy hot on my heels. Crow rocked with laughter on the side of the runway. Thankfully I was a fast runner so I managed to lock myself in our hanger before Cloudy caught me. She spent the next three hours trying to cox me out before giving up as I just sat in my aria that was just one point seventy four meter from the back with a non-see through curtain stretched across the front painting my backdrop. I was the only one who knew what was on it. The reason I used the back of the hanger was because I was using a large white sheet that was twelve meters long and six meters high as my canvas. All I did was sit there continuing drawing my picture and listen to music on my computer.

When I came out Cloudy and I would not stop being cheeky to each other until Blade gave us a well-earned telling off which we deserved.

"Just another day in paradise" Nick teased with a grin.

"Don't you start Lopez" Blade growled.

Nick just pulled a face at Blade before hopping off top speed.