Chapter Four-

It's Piper and she shouts:

"I know you have Aerrow under a hypnosis crystal! We're here and we're going to-!" Aerrow tackles her to the ground. At that moment Finn and Junko burst in with Starling in the lead.

"Pi-Aerrow?!" Finn shouts, confused.

Aerrow has Piper pinned to the ground and says:

"No Piper, you won't do anything! You left me here but I should thank you, I discovered the true me. Cyclonis is my master and I swore an oath of my own free will. You're NOT my squadron OR my friends. YOU'RE my enemy now and you deserve what will happen to you!" He looks up at Finn, Junko and Starling and smirks. With a murderous look in his eyes he says:

"Take another step Starling or any of you and she DIES!" He threatened as he held his blades at Pipers throat, daring them.

They take a step forward and before he could slit her throat, Aerrow is shot by Finn in his shoulder.

"Grr!" He growls and orders:

"Ravess, Snipe! Attack!" Aerrow yells. Ravess and Snipe forget about hating Aerrow for being promoted so high so fast and follows his orders. Cycloniss has riggered the alarm and Dark Ace is now here with a large group of Cyclonians. Blocking their only exit:

"Checkmate Storm hawks," Dark Ace says wickedly.

"Capture them!" Cycloniss yells, pointing her staff at the 'Storm Hawks'.

They were out numbered and so they were contained even with Starling on their team.

"You have a lot of nerve attacking Cyclonia again!" Cycloniss screams.

"Starling, go!" Starling knew she couldn't save Piper and Aerrow and jumps out the window. Aerrow captures them with Ravess and Dark Ace;s help, not so much Snipe, and turns to Dark Ace and Master cyclonis and says:

"Allow me, their old leader, to be the one to kill them Master, after all I have an idea."

"Go on…?" She said slightly irritated but not at Aerrow.

"Uncle, allow me to borrow your blade," Aerrow asks with a smirk. Dark Ace who understood his intentions smirked as well and gave him the sword.

"Destryoing them with the sword that killed the original Storm Hawks. Except for you and me Devious Arrow, because we're better, stronger." Dark Ace said with a pat on Aerrow's shoulder. Aerrow smirked at his Uncle's praise and turned to Cycloniss and said:

"Would you like them dead now master or would you like to torture them for information and intelligence as I can see the 'Storm Hawks' disbanded judging by their mixed uniforms."

Finn, Piper, Radarr were wearing the green uniforms of the Rebel Ducks, Junko was wearing traditional Wallop attire and Stork had the Storm Hawks uniform still.

"Interesting isn't it?" Cycloniss thought out loud.

"Aerrow! We didn't abandon you, I mean we didn't mean to! Finn said you were dead!" Pipier screamed.

"I thought he was dead, he said 'Finn, run!'" Finn yelled.

"Aerrow we didn't disband because we didn't care about you or Lightning Strike, we disbanded because without a leader-we aren't the Storm Hawks without you!" Piper continued desperately.

"Lies!... I know the real reason! Finn loved you and by telling you all I'm dead he claimed you for himself and you know what else?! Cyclonia is my home now and the fact that you didn't bother to check to see if I was alive sooner shows you didn't care and I hate you for it! Especially YOU Piper because I. LOVED. YOU!"

and Finn now feel bad because after a few weeks, he and Piper…:

"I have everything I could want here and now your lives mean nothing to me so whether you live and you're tortured or die is Master Cycloniss' decision alone, but I will say I'll gain great satisfaction from your deaths. And the name is not Aerrow, it's Black Arrow."

Aerrow looks at Cyclonis who is watching, highly entertained by looks of the brilliant smile on her face. Before turning his gaze back to Piper he says:

"By the way Pie," He says using his old nickname for her.

"I have found someone tremendously better than you." Arrow continues.

"HER?!" Piper screamed incredulously.

"B-but! SHE'S the enemy Aerrow! and Dark Ace killed your father, he's the reason you're an orphan!" Piper continued.

"It doesn't matter I never knew my father, he was always away anyway and YOU wouldn't understand the hardships she has endured Piper. they are worse than our own and I can sympathize but you're wrong. Have you ever thought that if the Terras were united the world would be better? No more wars or criminals.

And I'm not an orphan, the Dark Ace is my Godfather; I'm legally a cyclonian and I have family, something you three don't have left except Piper. Princess Peregrine of Terra Klockstoppia is actually your twin sister. " Piper gasps.

I know you're wondering what Cycloniss told Aerrow so here it is, during the days Aerrow looked after Cycloniss' wound.

When I was allowed back to Cycloniss' bedroom, to change her bandages, I took the opportunity to ask her:

"So…how did you become Empress?" He asked awkwardly, looking away from her chest. Cycloniss was topless but in her low rise tights.

"My Grandmother died in her sleep…" She said looking away from Aerrow.

"…what is like?"

"It isn't easy. I have to command the entire Cyclonian Army which includes twenty five squadrons of five pilots, three Talons, I have continue creating crystals and strategies, tatics, to take back our territories.

You know just fifteen years ago, Cyclonia was all of 'Atmos'. There WAS no Atmos until the people began rebelling; they simply stopped liking the idea of the Royal Family ruling Cyclonia, the idea of living under a monarchy when THEY were the ones who CHOSE my ancestor! engh!" Cycloniss had exacerbated her injury.

"Cycloniss!"

"Geargh-and ontop of that, I have push down the resistance in a few other territories and manage the generals who are managing my Cyclonia's territories in the other quadrants, and Terra ZARTACLA!

Listen it isn't easy to do all that alone. It's all because the Sky Knights, there was nothing wrong with how we ruled; our schools are great, our hospitals have nothing but the best, our military is well funded-we've protected them all this time! Grr! I have a lot of work to do, I need to get out of here!" Cycloniss tries to get out of bed.

"Cycloniss don't! I'm sure Dark Ace is doing a good job, taking care of Cyclonia and managing Ravess and Snipe."

"But Dark Ace doesn't care about Cyclonia." Cycloniss says. It's the truth, he just wants the title of Emperor of Cyclonia, not the responsibility. Marrying to produce an heir was decided by her grandmother and she had to honor her word especially now that she's dead. Besides, who else could she marry?