21 of the 100 Challenge. Just some random, silly nonsense of the Storm Hawks on vacation.
"Note to self. Learn how to duck."
Piper glanced over at that remark, eyes narrowing in annoyance. "It's your own fault." She snapped, before looking away again.
"For the last time, it wasn't me!" Finn desperately looked around with his throbbing black eye, hoping someone could back him up. Yet as Aerrow, Junko, Radar, and Stork all resumed boarding the Condor in silence. "Aw, come on guys!"
Piper made a low, nearly growling sound, as she began to storm inside. "You know, I wouldn't be so annoyed if you just apologized."
"For something I didn't do?!" He groaned, throwing his hands up in the air in frustration. "I mean, yeah, Piper, you look good in your swimsuit, but - "
"Amazingly, that does not help your case." She retorted, her voice laced with poison.
As they entered the hangar bay, Junko walked over to his miserable companion, and offered a sympathetic pat on the shoulder. "We don't think any less of you, buddy."
"I didn't do it!" Finn shouted, pulling away from the Wallop's touch. "I didn't even have a camera on me!"
At this, Piper turned around, her hands on her hips. "I heard a camera click, and I saw the flash. You're the only one with a girl obsession!"
"You know, the way you fangirl over Starling could say otherwise - "
"GUYS!" Aerrow shouted, having grown far past annoyed with their childish antics. "Can you knock it off? We came to Terra Tropica to relax, not to fight. I don't want this to turn into something uglier." Radar nodded, making his own little noises in agreement.
Both tried to object at the same time. "But Aerrow - "
"But nothing. Let's get some rest, and forget it ever happened, got it?"
All he got were uneasy grumbles. Junko tried to cheer Finn up some more, the both of them heading to the kitchen to eat down their troubles.
"I'm going to my room." Stork casually added. "All that sun exposure added another rash onto my delicate skin. If something isn't done soon, the entire floor of the Condor will be littered in dead skin flakes."
A dead silence was met to that. He took it as a sign, and walked away.
Piper frowned, and then shook her head. "What a creep…I can't believe Finn took a picture of me in my bathing suit. He knows I feel insecure about my body."
Aerrow shrugged one shoulder, even though his face showed exasperation. "He was denying it pretty hard…Maybe he didn't do it."
She crossed her arms with clear irritation. "It had to be him! I know the click and flash came from where all of you were hanging out. Who else would it be?"
Aerrow decided to give up for now…there was no talking to her when she got like that. Though he was rather curious himself…
…As the two walked, neither of them noticed Stork's room, with the door wide open. Nor did they see him opening a small closet, taping a small picture along with many others.
Although Piper, in what she considered a brief lapse of hearing, thought she heard a certain Merb start absolutely purring…
End.