Hi guys! wow it feels like ages since I published the last chapter and now I've finally finished this one. It would've been out sooner but I fell victim to writer's block.
Disclaimer I don't own storm hawks if I did I'm pretty sure that the episodes would contain a lot more dark ace. Preferably with the wearing of less clothes...I mean what ew! what pervert would wanna think about things like that. Well who ever you sick bastards are go clean your minds out with soap! *ahem* yh so on with the chapter ^^
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The sound of a cheerful melody made Aerrow realise that he must be getting close to this tea party that Stork was talking about. As he followed the sound of the music, he began to wonder what Stork meant about this party causing him pain and misery. Maybe Stork was just being his regular unecessarily paranoid self. Besides whether Stork was right or wrong about the experience Aerrow was going to endure here, he wanted to go because he figured that with every new team mate he would find the closer he was going to get to understanding the purpose of them all being there.
Then the thought came to mind, who on Atmos could be hosting this party? As he retraced the journey in his head he realised that he had already met all of his team mates. He also felt ashamed from the fact that he hadn't completed his goal of getting the team together and had infact left and neglected them all. Despite his earlier determination to find the tea party, he was beginning to wonder if he should forget it and try to go back through the terra to find and make his friends join him. He did have a better understanding of how they all acted now after all.
Just as he had decided on restarting his hunt for the squardren, Aerrow had reached the party.
There was a fence dividing him from this mysterious tea party. Much to his dismay he couldn't make out who infact was hosting it because there were so many tea pots that were fully boiled fogging up his view. The red head sighed heavily, curiousity was getting the better of him. He was going to leave his journey behind and find out who these people were. He hated himself for doing so, he felt that he was a terrible leader. Selfishly leaving his team mates so he could sit down and drink tea with the mystery hosts. This was so out of character...had he changed to?
He hesitantly opened the gate and slowly headed towards the ridiculously large table.
He felt no sense of fear in his current situation because the whole scene was just seemed so welcoming and fun. Maybe it was infact the Storm Hawks who were hosting the party, maybe they had been acting the whole time and they were now all going to have a fun party together.
Awaiting him at the end of his little walk was one end of the table, no one was sitting here. The fun was down the other end. Feeling like and intruder he sat himself down and peered over to the other end trying to catch a glimpse of the friendly sounding people. Strangely enough the steam was clearing up a bit and his view was gradually increasing. He stood up, still at his seat to try and spot them. He saw a top hat bobbing around to the music, and a flash of black hair. Then the figure belonging to the hat stood up, the man was now in full view for Aerrow. With shock from the sight Aerrow jerked back into his seat as an attempt to stay hidden. His eyes were widened with disbelief.
What on Atmos was the Dark Ace doing here! And why was he hosting a tea party?...And why did he sound like he was enjoying it?
Within the music the sky knight picked out the sound of a violin...was Ravess here too!
This had to be his worst nightmare. He shouldv'e listened to the little voice inside of him that told him to go back and find his friends. Now he was trapped with the Cyclonians. He rejected the idea of sneaking away because now he was afraid that they might spot him and capture him. Usually he would hold no fear for his nemesis, considering the amount of times he had beaten him. But now there was one little problem that worried Aerrow enough to creating a twisting pang of fear in his stomach. What if this Dark Ace was different too? What if he couldn't predict this Dark Ace's tactics? He is usually a violent, cocky, short temepered man, which usually ended up being his weakness in a battle. But maybe on this terra he had a different attitude, maybe now he was unpredictable. He was at a tea party and enjoying it so the terra must have screwed up his mind anyway.
Aerrow couldn't decide what to do, so for the time being he merely sat and watched the Cyclonian's with fascination. They looked genuinly happy, which kind of freaked Aerrow out to see Dark Ace smiling without a devilish reason, but it was nice to see him laughing over something that wasn't painful to others. It was actually quite a funny sight and the sky knight found himself giggling to himself.
The melody was ending and as it did Aerrow applauded the little show they had put on. It was more of a mock than a congradulations for how ridiculous his once ruthless foes now looked. A smug grin had grew on his face and he couldn't bring it down, this whole thing was just too brilliant, not to mention excellent black mailing material for on the battle field for the next time they fought. Oh if only he had a camera with him.
The steam had fully cleared now, with the clapping Aerrow had now caught their full attention. Both dark Ace and ravess seemed a little shocked to see him sitting there, and of course they should. They had been caught in quite a humiliating act.
Then Ravess spoke with astonishment "Well look at that. A guest!" And with that she began pouring random cups of tea, she looked as though she were in her own little world.
The dark ace however, took a different approach. He continued to stare at Aerrow for a few seconds. Then in one quick movement lifted his foot onto the table and pulled himself up. He was now speed walking towards Aerrow, sending tea cups and pots flying with a swift kick if they got in his way. There was a strange look on his face and Aerrow couldn't decided what emotion this expression was supposed to show, but as he got closer Aerrow figured that if his brows were arched down he would look angry.
He reached Aerrow and stood tall on the table before him, his eyes fixed on him. Before Aerrow could speak Dark Ace announced "We never get company. But whether you're a guest or not theres no room" He looked a little agitated as though something was greatly annoying him. His voice matched his agitated look.
Uh oh maybe Aerrow had made a mistake making himself heard. This Dark Ace seemed more hostile than the regular one. Mainly becuase he looked like he didn't want to mess around and laugh evily.
By now Ravess was walking down, but not on the floor, she looked like she was using the chairs as stepping stones.
He couldn't see any weapons on either of them, so he figured he would see how far he could push his luck with these two. "Oh sorry I thought there was plenty of room. I came down because I was enjoying the music" Yes that was a lie but it couldn't hurt him to compliement them...could it?
"You enjoyed my music?" Ravess' voice came from his right ear and when he turned to face her she was right next to him leaning on the arm of his chair. She looked delighted at the fact she had a satisfied audience.
"Who cares if he enjoyed the music!" Dark Ace's anger was directed at Aerrow "Don't you know its rude to sit down without being invited?" He gave Aerrow a swift, hard slap to the back of the head "Fool!" Ouch! Oh great hes violent too! He really has no need for weapons this dark ace certainly knew how to bruise with his hand.
Slowly Snipe, well Snipe's head popped up in the middle of a table, he was balancing a tea pot on it. His eyes looked tired and heavy, when he spoke it was slow and quiet. "Very rude to." He yawned. "sit down" So this Snipe was quiet, but it was easy to see he was still an idiot since he merely copied what the Dark Ace had said. After speaking Snipe retreaded back down through the table and...was he wearing mouse ears?
Aerrow began taking in what each of them were wearing.
Ravess was wearing rabbit ears but they looked worn out and a little torn. She wore a brown bunny girl costume to match the ears, but covering most of it was a red coat, also worn out that came down to her waist. She had her usual heels on, but now was also wearing leg warmers.
But much to his dismay he hardly noticed Ravess as much he had Dark Ace. He was still getting used to his new outfit and had to hold in his laughter at times. He had a black top hat with a blood red ribbon tied around it. He was wearing a red waist coat that matched the colour of the hat's ribbon. Speaking of ribbons, around his neck there was a black bow tie that didn't look too neat as it hung loosely. As well as the waist coat he was also wearing a very long trench coat that met his leg just below his knee. It too was black and had a few rips in it near the bottom. He was wearing black trousers and some nice looking boots.
Wow they looked weird.
These guys have clearly changed too. With that being the case Aerrow made use of his time with the Cyclonians and attempted to engage them in conversation. Trying to be as polite as possible with the fact that the Dark Ace's violence could be triggered very easily. "Well I'm sorry for interupting your...um...tea party?"
"Yeah" Dark Ace interrupted "So you should be." With a tea cup in his hand, Dark Ace gazed at Aerrow with that odd look on his face again. Still staring he threw the burning tea into the sky knight's face causing Aerrow to flinch and briefly cry out in agony. The next thing he heard was the talon's famous evil laugh. Oh lovely. He was still laughing like that here too. Great.
"Now now Hatter let him finish. He is, after all the first companion we've had in a while" Ravess sounded as manic as Dark Ace and...wait did she just call him hatter? The violinist then proceeded to hurl a salt shaker effortlessly off her associate's head. Clearly they had been posted in this insane setting for a while now and it was effecting them. Severly.
As if a chain reaction had been triggered in his mind the Dark Ace lunged toward the middle of the table, practically leaping on to it from the rush and grabbed a large green tea pot with three nozzles. Fingers wrapped around the handle he swung his arm around his body and flung it back. Sending the tea pot flying into the side of the archers head. Resulting to her tumbling to the floor in a big unconscious, tea covered mess.
Aerrow was now alone with a violent Ace. He had never considered running from him before in his life. There was just something really creepy about him.
But alas he boldly kept his ground and watched the dark ace as he took a few steps towards him then stopped by the edge of the table. He didn't seem bothered by the fact he had just probably fatally injured his team mate.
"So...you're called the hatter?" The sky knight sheepishly asked.
"Its dark hatter really...why?" His eyes were filled with hostility.
"I just...um..."
"What do you mean by that?" His tone was quickned and harsh as if he was trying to pick a fight.
Before Aerrow could conjure up a witty and reasonable enough answer, Dark Hatter was closing in on him as if ready to tackle him to the floor. Completely panicked Aerrow had his hands the air, his eyes screwed shut and exclaimed "Nothing its a good name!"
His fiersome punch came to a grinding hault only a centimeter from Aerrow's face, the hatter retracted his fist and strolled to the table to pour himself yet another cup of tea. After worrying about being soaked by scolding beverages again, Aerrow mentally slapped himself for allowing himself to become so pathetic infront of his enemies.
Speaking of which the sky knight decided that he had spent far too long among these maniacs. It was time to set out again into the out-of-this-world terra. Unfortunately before he could make these rapid mental decisions a reality the Dark Ace spoke. Although his attention never left the tea that swirled around in his cup.
"Yeah you're right. Although I'd love to argue with you, I can't. My name is truly genius in itself." The egoistic twit was now smiling smugly from the admiring compliements he had given himself.
"Oh my atmos shut up you annoying freak." Aerrow whispered to himself as he just couldn't restrain his anger at this insane half wit that the dark ace had turned in. Not that Aerrow found him smart to begin with but look at him now, he was admiring his reflection in a spoon for the love of crystals!
Now sat down with a biscuit in his hand, Dark Hatter faced Aerrow with a demonically happy grin on his face that made Aerrow nervous for all the wrong reasons. Oh well at least he wasn't trying to jam that biscuit in his eye or something. Yet.
"Well now my short new friend who's hair mimics that of a highly ungroomed school boy after waking up in the morning. You're odd behaviour is telling me that you're not from here." Not only had utter confusion been slapped onto Aerrow's face, but now his mind was also screaming in frustration at the fact that the 'Dark Hatter' had just called him odd! "Why don't you tell me where you've come from? Start at the beginning, finish at the end and don't forget about the middle because that bit's important."
Aerrow may have let the red eyed lunatic walk all over him before, but that was now over. It was about time he stepped up and acted like the sky knight he was. Whether he was now muttering away to forks or not this man was still the Dark Ace, for all he knew it could all be some act to get information. So the last thing he wanted to do was tell him or any other cyclonian information about anything.
"Sorry Dark Hatter but I'd rather not say because-" His improvised explaination had been cut off, as the commander stood up with a killer look on his face (mixed with the insanity that had befallen him it looked almost funny) He was holding a pot of a sugar and a tea spoon.
"You reject of the wastelands!" The insult was followed by an assault of sugar in aerrow's face, followed by the pot...and the spoon.
The red head had reached the peak of his patience level and was now stood up challenging the older man as he yelled back "What are you talking about!"
"You dare mock the sugar people?" What was he rambling on about! Had he been infected with Stork's mind worms or something!
"Make sense you psychotic...idiot!" It seemed Dark Hatter's temper had risen also. As he now kicked Aerrow's shoulder resulting in him falling hard to the ground.
There was nothing he could've done, the cyclonian had moved so fast that Aerrow had barely noticed the foot rushing towards him let alone block it. The next thing he knew, the brutal man's foot was keeping him down by repeatadly stomping on his back. He was yelling scum or something but Aerrow tried to block it out. He tried to block everything out. He didn't want to be there anymore, he wanted to be home on the condor where his friends actually liked him. He wanted off this terra. He wanted to go back to fighting the Dark Ace who actually made sense and didn't throw table accessories at him.
The combination of mental and physical pain almost made him shed a tear as he lay there face down.
"Oh my whiskers no! I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" Did the heavens just sing or was that Radar he just heard! Aerrow lifted his head in hope to spot his friend and yes! There he was jogging down along the side of the fence with that watch in his paw. Luckily he wasn't the only one who heard the sky monkey's panicked voice. The hatter had stopped kicking his back.
Ravess was now beginning to wake up.
Everyone's attention was on Radar who was nearing the gate. Seeing this as an oppurtunity to create more mayhem for another innocent bystander, Dark Hatter leapt towards the gate using Aerrow's body as a trampoline and sprinted towards Radar. Being freakishly faster on this terra, the hatter had grabbed Radar by the ears and was now carelessly carrying him to the table before the co pilot could even ask what was happening.
He set him down on the table and the interrogation began. "So what exactly are you late for rabbit?" 'A rabbit?' Aerrow though as he now picked himself up and sat back down on the chair. He would've used this distraction as the perfect get away, but there was no way he was leaving Radar with these people 'Radar looks nothing like a rabbit. I've got to get us both out of here.'
The questioning didn't manage to get past that one inquirey, as Dark Hatter had been shut up by Ravess who had gotten her revenge for the knock out by forcing his top hat down over his face. He was stuck now trying to pull it off.
Aerrow wanted to flee from the scene with his friend under his arm at full speed. And he would've too if it hadn't been for Ravess who, after dusting herself off, was now playing tug of war with the watch. Atmos knows why she wanted to see it so bad.
Now Dark Hatter had the hat off and was proceeding to continue with his questioning. It was like watching the definition of mayhem as the three of them struggled around the table. Aerrow wanted to help Radar but couldn't decide how to without getting both of them into more trouble.
Suddenly Radar excalimed "Please! I have to go I'm running late" And with that he jumped up to face her and slapped Ravess in the face, then quickly side stepped to Dark Hatter and kicked him in the crotch. Not hard enough though as the commander yanked Radar by the tail, his eyes blazing with fury. Treat like a football, Radar was then sent soaring through the air far away from the tea party as Dark Hatter had kicked him, putting all his anger into that one action.
Worry and panic for the safety of his team mate had completely over thrown the rest of Aerrow's concerns as he was now calling for Radar in distress and running as fast as he could after him.
It was no use. Aerrow had lost him again, he prayed that he was OK and vowed to get the nasty bastard back for being so evil. That thought brought his mind back to it's regular state and he realised that in his rush he had left the party without noticing.
He would humilate Dark Ace with defeat later, right now he all he wanted was his friends. And that was exactly what he planned on finding.
There we go and another chapter will be up as soon as I can be arsed to write it...I mean no I'm a dedicated writer it's college that's getting in my way...yeah that's it college!
I hope you guys enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it
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