Happy Holidays everyone! Christmas is just around the corner so I'm writing a christmas based fan fic ^_^ This also means Aerrow in Wonderland is being put on hold for those of you who are reading it sorry :/ Anyway hope you enjoy this fic its probably going to have about 3 chapters and they will all be out before christmas day

Disclaimer: I don't own storm hawks!

"I should return in roughly a week, just keep the terra in order and make sure things run smoothly"

Thats all he had to do, she wasn't asking him to camp in the wastelands, or act nice for a week. No he just had to make sure the terra was just as she left it when she returned. How the hell did it go so wrong for him? This wasn't how it was supposed to be, he was her most trusted talon. Whom she would trust her life with, and now he's left her...and pretty much every other talon on the terra (including himself) without a home. And the cherry on top of his fantastic stunt was that this all happened a week before christmas.

So now here he was, waiting for his Master to discover the disaster and eventually come find him in this drafty homeless shelter. Where they serve soup with no flavour, have seats that crumble beneath you if you shift around on them too much, and to top it all off his companions are Ravess, who continues to argue with him about whos fault it is and Snipe who is just a moron.

Not being a generally happy man anyway, the Dark Ace was rapidly losing his temper in this shit hole that he was destined to spend christmas in. Damn karma.

It was early morning christmas eve, he had spent too many days walking through the cold streets just to have something to do, and staring at the dull ceilings at night in an attempt to fall asleep on the cold stone floors. If the temperature didn't keep him awake, Snipe's obnoxious snoring would. He needed miracle...yeah too bad Cyclonian residants didn't have a good chance of getting those.

The Dark Ace was sitting at one of the small tables with Ravess, when Cyclonis arrived at the tiny holding of homeless people. She stood in the doorway, the wind blowing in from behind her. She stood there completly still, her eyes shifting to scope out the building for her deliquints. Dark Ace had never felt so afraid before. He used to find himself being highly amused when the others were punished, but now that he himself was in their shoes, well he sure as hell wasn't finding it funny now.

His heart skipped a beat when she had finally picked him out from the crowd, her eyes piercing into him like daggers. His stomach felt all twisted and churned, his gaze met hers, he didn't dare look away. It felt like forever for her to get to him, the suspense was terrible.

She stood before him, he felt so small beneath her, and that wasn't just because she was standing and he was sitting.

There was a huge silence between them, as if neither knew what to say. Dark Ace wasn't sure whether he was supposed to make the first move and apologise, but from his spectating experiences this was rarely the case. Thoughts of what foul verbal abuse she would spit at him were whizzing through his head. And there were so many. He imagined she would say something like: 'do you have any idea what you've done! I asked you to do one thing and you couldn't even do that!, you pathetic excuse for a man! Sending you straight into the wastelands would be giving you too much mercy.' Panic was beginning to drain him of imagination until eventually words that haunted him hung in his mind. 'Excile, death penalty, castration'

She finally spoke, he braced himself "Dark Ace" her teeth were grinded shut as if she was holding herself back from screaming in his face, "would you mind telling me, where my terra is and why a huge cloud of pollution has now replaced its position?"

Dark Ace opened his mouth a little, not knowing where to start, his eyes were wide with worry. "Well Master..."

"And since you're explaining this I don't suppose you could tell me why I am now actually asking you this in a rancid little soup kitchen? Because when I said keep my terra in order I didn't exactly expect to return from my long journey to then find that I must engage in a scavenger hunt for my 'trustworthy' commander"

By Atmos she was milking it.

He decided to tell her the truth and nothing but, it would only make things worse to lie.

"Well I won't bore you with the details" If it was possible her expression grew more infuriated at this friendly comment. He swallowed his pride and took a deep breath. "But I was in your crystal lab making sure none of your machines were acting up...which you did request that I do" The commander could read on her face that this wasn't going well. Then it happened, he hoped it wouldn't, he prayed that he could keep it together but alas though he regretted to admit it, panic had over ruled him. Which resulted in his story being blurted out in a one breath, quickly said ramble.

"Then Ravess came in compalining about some random shit that I didn't really care about and she could tell I didn't care so she stormed up to me and started moaning in my face and you know me I'm not a tolerant person so I started to argue back! Then there was some pushing involved I accidently nudged her breast she saw this as a rape attempt and pushed me away in result of this I accidently stumbled back and pulled a lever down which resulted in your big machine to malfunction! eventually the walls, ceilings and floors started to crumble away reallly fast so everyone fled the terra as quickly as possible and well being the devoted talons that me Ravess and Snipe are we didn't exaclty have proper homes to retreat to so we resolved to moving here until the terra is rebuilt...and yeah thats pretty much it." He inhaled a huge amount of oxygen which he direly needed since he was nearly spazzing out on the floor from nerves and lack of breathing from his explaination. His crimson eyes had now moved from looking at her to staring shamefully at his wet muddy boots.

Despite being furious with her Commander she couldn't help but feel a little pity for the man, his eyes were filled with sorrow and his facial expression was a mixture of embarrassment and guilt. She hated that she was beginning to lose the need to punish him, but he was like a puppy who had ripped up the carpets and when you go to yell it looks up at you with those gorgeous, tearful eyes that make you melt with pity for the poor little thing.

'Oh well' she decided 'its not the first time hes failed me and his excuse does seem genuine'.

"Very well" Cyclonis finally said to him "I can see that you are well aware of your mistakes and are filled with regret, although I won't let this go, I won't punish you" His eyes were wide with amazement, she didn't seem mad at all! He didn't get too excited though it was probably just because the dungeons had fallen to the wastelands.

Dark Ace could barely restrain his smile when he caught a glimpse of Ravess' mouth, it had practically fallen to the floor from shock. 'Oh yeah I'm still her favourite!'

"Thank you for understanding Master, I assure you I will make it up to you" Her faithful servant bowed his head.

Deciding that she had made a big enough impression, she finally sat at the table with her talons.

She was already bored how the hell the Dark Ace managed a week without hospitilising someone was beyond her.

So this was how christmas for the Cyclonians was going to be spent. In a room which can only be described as making blizzaras feel like terra sahara.

All four of them usually spent christmas their own way, the way they liked it: alone. They didn't even try to see each other on christmas day and that was how they liked it.

Cyclonis usually spent the day playing around with crystals, she wasn't trying to make a break through she just like to mess around. This was really the only day she could relax and act well a little childish. So she was pleased that people left her alone, it wouldn't do her reputation any good being seen in such high spirits.

The Dark Ace declared christmas 'lie in day' in which he could wake up at ten in the morning rather than bright and early seven. After he woke up he took things slow, and eventually when he felt like doing something he would head for the gym and work out for a bit. Later in the evening he would fly to a terra and pick some loner woman who was just as bored with the holiday as he was and take her back to his to celebrate christmas another way.

Ravess got up, opened presents she had bought for herself, played the violin for a bit, would enjoy a meal she would prepare for herself then spend the rest of the holiday at clubs and bars.

Snipe would wake up and devour any left over fast foods he found lying around on his floor, then spend the whole day travelling to different restaurants eating meal after meal then leaving without paying the bill.

But unfortunately this year it was not meant to be.

The time was just past lunch time and it was still christmas eve. Why did time seem to drag its feet more with each extra hour they spent here?

The sibling were sat at a table with Cyclonis. Cyclonis found herself forcing spoon fulls of the purtid soup that was displayed for them down her throat. Snipe was shovelling two bowls of the stuff into his mouth, after one sip Ravess felt sick so she pushed hers to her brother. The Dark Ace had gone to the bathroom.

Then suddenly something caught all three of the Cyclonian's eyes. They appeared at the door way and walked in. The implication of sharing and kindness was showing on their faces. They were glowing with warmth and happiness. There stood before everyone were six angels...oh no wait it was just the storm hawks.

"Oh terrific as if things couldn't get any worse the Storm Hawks had to catch us at our very worst!" Ravess cpmplained as the new arrivals headed to the owners to offer help.

"Maybe they won't notice us" Snipe managed to argue in between a mouthfull.

What a surprise, Snipe was wrong. As the blonde hawk had spotted them and was now signalling which direction they were in to the other five. The squadren gave a look of surprise and slight amusement that their foes were sitting in a place like this. Aerrow lead the team towards them. However the amusement soon turned to concern as they began to take in the actual state their enimies were in. Filthy. Cold. Starving.

Before they even properly reached them Aerrow asked "Cyclonis what are you guys doing here?"

"Why aren't you on Cyclonia?" Piper asked her face and voice filled with worry. Although they were enemies the Stork Hawks couldn't help but offer charity to those who genuinly needed it.

"Oh what a marvolous idea!" Ravess sarcastically commented "how stupid it was of us to decide to spend the holidays here! Lets all pack our bags and head back to Cyclonia!"

"Duh Ravess we can't do that. Cyclonia blew up remember and our stuff went along with it." If looks could kill, Snipe and his ghost would have been shot into oblivion as Ravess and Cyclonis glared at the idiot for making their situation worse.

"Dude...thats awful! And at christmas time too...oh well better luck next year"

"Cmon Finn" The leader encouraged "we can't just leave them like this"

"Why not! After the misery they've caused us throughout the year, why can't they suffer throughout christmas?"

"If you ask me its the least they deserve" Stork added.

Aerrow and Piper were disappointed by their team mates terrible attitude, but managed to convince them that helping was a good idea. After a huddled discussion between the squadren the storm hawks had came to a decision.

Piper was voted to ask the Cyclonians about their idea. "Um...I know this is kind of awkward but, would you like to spend christmas with us...on the condor?"

"WHAT! FORGET IT!" Ravess and Snipe excalimed together. However Cyclonis seemed a little intrigued by this idea and was giving it some thought. The storm hawks patiently awaited thier reply.

"Oh for fuck sake what are they doing here?" Dark Ace had returned and was now standing before everyone. His voice was a little dry from lack of food and water, and he held himself a little weakly, which made him hate the fact that he had to present himself this way before his nemesis. Damn it was embarrassing.

Ravess stood up to grab the Dark Ace's full attention "Its absolutly ridiculous Dark Ace! Can you believe that they actually just invited us to live with them on their ship for the christmas holidays!"

"Really?"

Aerrow looked a little embarrassed as he answered Dark Ace, he began to see how dumb the thought of them living together really was.

"Oh thank Atmos for that lets go!" There wasn't a worthy word to describe the utter shock that had been slapped on everyone's face. Had he gone mad? The ruthless Dark Ace jumping at the chance to live with Aerrow and his team!

Ravess finally managed to gather some words together "...I...you...what! How can you be serious please tell me you're not serious Dark Ace!" She put emphasis on his name to remind him who he was and what he was agreeing to. The Dark Ace was annoyed at the response he got from everyone.

"I'm tired, I'm hungry, I need a shower and that strange woman over there keeps staring at me so yes I'm going to join the storm hawks on the condor!"

"Well if the Dark Ace feels that it would be wise to go then I will too." Cyclonis announced

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Well there we are the first chapter if you liked it please review!