Author's Note: Sorry for the wait it's just that i'm doing two stories at the same time so it's hard to think at the moment. I had to change things up with this chapter so it may not be what I wanted but I hope you like it. Enjoy.

Chapter 3: Changed

Nosedive had a peaceful expression on his face, even though he's still asleep. He's totally relaxed and didn't really have a care in the world, well not right now for the moment. But then he was jolted awake as he felt his whole body being flipped onto the hard ground. Coming to his senses the weight of his mattress made itself know on his back. He then realized that someone had flipped his mattress over while he was still asleep on it. "Get up now!" a stern voice commanded.

Shoving the mattress aside the teen looked for the source of the voice, what a surprise he received when he found out it came from Wildwing. "Wing what the heck was that for!"

The expression Nosedive received was one he had never seen before, Wildwing just glared at him as if he was angry with him, although it was hard to tell since he had the mask on. A bit a fear started to fill within him as his brother glared at him like that. "I said to get up, NOW!" Wildwing responded in the same tone. Turning on his heels the older mallard headed for the door, but not before turning around to stare at the teen, "And don't let me come back in here and catch you asleep."

With that he left the room, leaving a very stunned Nosedive right where he left him. The teen didn't know what to make of what just happened, the last thing his brother had said to him seemed to have sounded like a threat; something he had never ever done before. And because of that he started to feel a little afraid, what caused his brother to snap like that?

Quickly moving from his thoughts he decided to get ready for practice, if Wildwing really meant what he said than he didn't want to be in here when he came back. He knew he had to tell the others but decided to see how far this played out; chances were that his brother was just grumpy.

Sometime later on the ice everyone was out practicing, everything seemed to be normal but two of them seemed to be acting different. Nosedive seemed to be wary when it came to scoring, remembering what happened from earlier he didn't really want to piss his brother off in case he was still grumpy. As for Wildwing he seemed to be tensed, he seemed to harshly point out any kind of mistake anyone was making; everyone found it strange since he never had done anything like that.

Nosedive came in with the puck and shot it only for Wildwing to block it, said duck growled at bit before scolding the teen. "Come on put more effort into it, you're not even trying!" He then turned to the redhead of the team, same look present. "And Mallory you're supposed to be on guard, what are you even doing!"

Mallory and Nosedive winced at the comment, not before one of the responded, "Come one Wildwing it's just practice, we're doing are best," Mallory responded.

That seemed to be a wrong set of words, since said leader slowly skated towards her, not happy at all. "Well it looks like your best isn't good enough, either you step it up or you can just get off the ice. Do I make myself clear?" Without even hearing a response he just skated back to the goal, leaving the stunned duck behind. "And that goes for all of you as well!" Everyone was shocked at it. Wildwing had never talked to them like that before, not even when they screwed up at times.

The rest of practice went on in silence, even when Wildwing berated them for their performances, they kept their beaks shuts. Something big had changed in their leader, whatever it was is a mystery.

Sometime later Nosedive, Duke, and Mallory were in the kitchen, talking about the recent behavior of their leader. "What do you guys think happened to Wing? I mean is he stressed with something?" Nosedive asked, as he drank a soda.

Duke gave off a sigh as he responded, "I don't know kid but I can tell ya something, it's the first time he has ever talked to us like that."

Mallory then added her two cents into the mix, "He must of snapped on something, why else would he be acting like that?"

Duke ignored the comment as he looked back at Nosedive, "Kid how did Wildwing act last night before you two went to bed?"

The teen took a minute to recall the events of last night, but as it came back he couldn't really find anything out of the ordinary. "He was fine…nothing seemed to be wrong with him, at least-"He stopped mid-sentence just as the door the kitchen, and all three looked and saw that Wildwing came into the room. All of them were silent as he walked past them; they heard him rummaging through something's but them he stopped as he looked at them. "What were you all talking about?" He asked in a suspicious tone.

Mallory was the first to meet his gaze, "We don't know what you mean."

"Don't give me that, I know you three were talking about something, you all are too quiet" He responded, his voice getting angry.

"Well in this case you're wrong," Big mistake of words as Wildwing slammed his fist onto the table, breaking a piece of it off.

"Don't you give me that…scared to tell me what you were really talking about?"

Her eyes widen at that, but then recovered from it, "What makes you think I'm scared?"

"I can see it," He responded as he glared at her. "You proclaim yourself as a tough military duck that follows a strict code, but here you are disobeying your superior by not telling the truth. Heck you claim to be giving us your best but I don't even see it. You're a hypocrite."

A stunned silence filled the air, Mallory shocked at what her leader said, heck she couldn't even responded to something like that. Luckily Duke stood up in his seat, "Ok now that was uncalled for!"

That just earned another glare from their leader; all focus was on him now. "Oh don't get me started with you…you know what you're too easy, chances were that you were nothing but common street trash."

That was enough to quiet Duke up, that stung him big time. Nosedive just sat where he was, quiet hoping that Wildwing would ignore him. Luckily he got his wish as he saw his brother turn and head for the door, just as it opened as Grin and Tanya walked in. Wildwing neared and roughly shoved them to the side, "Out of the way!"

Both were stunned at the action, "What's wrong?" Tanya asked.

That stopped him in his tracks, his head turning with a hateful glare. "What's wrong…what's wrong…all the hell I have to put up with!" and with that he left, leaving the other behind shocked at his actions.

The two new entrants just looked back at the three, both confused at their faces. Mallory had an irate face, while Duke had a shocked expression. "What happened?" Tanya asked as the two of them neared the others.

"Wildwing…Wildwing," Mallory began, fuming a bit, but Nosedive took over.

"Wing just…unloaded at us, I never ever heard him say something like that ever."

"I think it's best we avoid him as much as possible," Duke spoke as he sat back down, resting his head in his hand.

"What did he say?" Grin asked.

"I don't want to repeat what he said," Mallory responded, still mad. "Whatever is wrong with him, he sure has become a jerk." The others didn't say a thing; they weren't really sure how to think of what has happened. Hopefully if there was is something wrong with him hopefully he could get over it.

A/N: Hope you like, i'm trying hard but my creativity is split. I had to change things up so I may have a bit of trouble writing the rest. I thank you for your paticents.