"This was my last chance. My very last chance. Everyone, I'm sorry. I am so sorry."

Bam repeated this over and over, ignoring the Storm Hawks and her surroundings. Aerrow put his blades back on his back and took a step back, he did not know how to react to this. Piper seeing his hesitation she walked past him, sat down next to Bam and put her arm around Bam's shoulder.

"Don't!" Bam stood up, and stepped away from Piper. Aerrow put one hand on one of his blades ready just in case Bam decided to go on the attack once more. "Oh cool your jets Sky Knight. I now know that what I am looking for is not here and as such I will leave you to your trivial hero business."

Bam slowly backed up, Aerrow and Finn walked forward weapons drawn.

"You're not going anywhere."

Finn said leveling his cross bow at Bam's chest.

"Oh I think I am."

By this time Bam had made her way out of hanger bay and out on to the landing deck. She gave them one last smile and jumped off the edge.

Piper stayed where she was, sitting against the wall of the ship, while Aerrow, Finn, and Junko went out looking for the girl. Something about the girl had changed during the time it took her to search the ship, she had gone from someone with no heart a person willing to kill to get what she wanted to a young girl who was unable reconcile with something that scared her. Something or someone forced her to feel like she needed the Forever Crystal to save the people she cared about.

"She's fast I'll give her that."

Aerrow said as he Finn and Junko came back into the hanger bay.

"You couldn't find her?"

"No, it's like she disappeared."

"Maybe she's a ninja!"

Finn said, trying and failing to do a jump kick.

Aerrow and Piper just stared at Finn as he lay on the floor, his feet bent over his head.

"Finn for some reason I don't think that's it."

Aerrow said pulling Piper up off the floor. Piper.

"No she has to be! Did you see the mask and the knife! Add in the speed and the fact that she didn't trip any of Storks sensors...She's totally a ninja!" Finn said pushing himself up off the ground. Aerrow and Piper look at their team mate, then at each other and laughed. "What? She has to be a ninja!"

Finn kept up his constant insisting that the girl was indeed a ninja right up into the flight deck where he brought the issue up with Stork.

"Stork, tell Aerrow and Piper that the girl didn't trip any of your systems or traps."

"She didn't, trust me we would know if she did! And so would she."

Stork answered in his usual creepy manner.

"See! How could anyone get past Stork's systems and not be a ninja!"

"Oh she's not a ninja." Stork said. "More likely she's a swamp changing. They imitate a person and then they go through the family and friends of their victim, picking them off one by one."

The Storm Hawks stared at their pilot with looks of worry.

"Stork I don't think that's what she was either."

Aerrow said laughing slightly.

"Hm, what ever make's it easier for you to sleep at night. I for one will be taking a half eaten lava pear from the waste lands to my room tonight."

No one questioned Storks strange methods anymore, they had long since gotten used to Stork strange ideas.

"I just want to know why she wanted the Forever Crystal."

"Ha! The Forever Crystal! It's a myth, a story crystal scientist came up with! There is no such thing!"

"She sure seemed to think so."

Finn said, checking he reflection in the window.

"I don't care what she thought Finn, it can't possibly exist! A crystal that grants eternal life, I don't think so!"

"Piper could you tell those of us who don't study crystals just what a Forever Crystal does?"

Aerrow asked, sitting down at the table.

"Well it does just what the name says it does, it makes things last forever. Supposedly this crystal when used correctly can give a person forever anything."

"And by anything you mean?"

Junko asked.

"Anything. It can give you forever of anything. Wealth, fame, power, love, beauty, some say it can even give you forever life."

"They say it could make you immortal?"

Aerrow said, skepticism coloring his words.

"Well yes, and that is why it can't possibly be real. Nothing could make a person immortal, not even a crystal."

Piper sat down next to Aerrow and put her head down on the table.

"Piper you know that people around here use crystals differently then we do, so maybe they could get a crystal to work like the way the Forever Crystal is suppose to."

Aerrow said placing a hand on Piper's back.

"Aerrow even with their method of using crystals, nothing could make a person immortal. It's absolutely impossible to make a human's body last forever."

"Does it actually make the body last forever?"

"That's what the legend says. That when the forever crystal is used on a human body, the body will never decay and never die. But that's not possible!"

"I wouldn't mind having forever wealth...or maybe forever fame...I wouldn't need forever beauty, I already have it!"

Finn said, still checking himself out.

"Could it make Finn be forever quite?"

Stork asked.