Hey Everybody!

Sorry its been so long... I went to Sydney for a week and then school started again yesterday, but I've tried to get this one up as fast as possible.

The next one probs won't be up till this weekend.

Again, thanks to my wonderful reviewers: SakariWolfe, canadianidi0t, chocoholic4eva, Diehardstormhawksfan, Knife86 and BlueDragon123. Looks like Aerrow is going to see a few movies. I wonder why no one picked Stork...?

Anyway, my apologies if this chapter isn't that great. I wrote it a bit quickly. Its sorta a happy chapter after the last one, so I hope you like it.

Now, enough of my blabble... get going! :)

Chapter 10: Piper/Radarr: Get Going

Piper and Radarr were having the time of their lives. So what if the Terra was in utter chaos, and all the guards were searching for them? At the moment, they couldn't give a damn. They were back together again and that was all that mattered. It's not like they'd gone and drawn attention to themselves, either. They hadn't gone and shouted in the streets "I'm the Storm Hawk you're looking for!" Nothing like that. They'd stayed hidden, but had had a lot of fun along the way.

Well, as soon as they'd had their little reunion party, Piper had dragged Radarr off to get a 'bath'. (The inverted commas are because Radarr did not believe that being dunked and scrubbed red raw in the middle of the town fountain could count as a bath. Baths were supposed to be relaxing, and it was obvious that someone did not understand this.) Ok, I can't say that bathing in the middle of Atmos was exactly staying hidden, but it was a necessity that Piper could not avoid. Anyway, the people were so disgusted at how dirty Radarr was that they didn't even bother to ask about the Storm Hawks bizzo. Radarr was for once, grateful that no one really knew he was part of the Storm Hawks.

The next thing that was on both of their minds was food. Piper had left all her supplies with Dove and Wren, and Radarr hadn't exactly been resourceful while he was here, thus they had no stores. So they decided to take a visit to the market. Neither of them had any money, but it didn't matter. Who was to stop them getting some food, and having a bit of fun along the way? Their first trick was to get Radarr to do a bit of his 'dancing'. He gathered quite a crowd and the shopkeepers were really enjoying the extra business, so Piper decided to ask to 'borrow' some of their food for a trick. Radarr balanced a hat on his head and tried to catch the stuff that Piper threw to him. He missed a bit of it, but it was all part of the fun, and when he had gathered enough in the hat, they ran back to their hide out, both laughing at the looks on the peoples faces as they were running away (and Piper at the egg splattered all over Radarr's face). But they hadn't finished there. All the food disappeared in a flash, and they were still hungry. Not only that, but both were secretly looking forward to more fun. They did a few more stunts and then decided it was enough for one day. Their stomachs were full and they were exhausted from laughing so much.

However, they soon enough realised that it couldn't all be fun and games. Piper had helped Radarr to fix his hideout, and it was now big enough for two, while still being cosy. They were lying down, still chuckling over the day's antics and about to sleep off their full stomachs when a voice outside disturbed them. It wasn't the voice that was the problem; plenty of people walked past without realising they were there, and the rest just ignored them, thinking that they were hobos. It was what the voice was saying that caused their smiles to turn into worried frowns.

"…A Storm Hawks vehicle has been spotted on Terra Atmosia. We've tried to find the rider but have been unsuccessful so far. We were under the impression that you would want to know."

A crackle, and then a reply could be heard from a radio, but only faintly, ""Yes, you are quite right. I shall alert Cyclonis straight away, and then I will be there as soon as possible. If you happen to find them without me, keep them alive until I get there, understood?"

It was the unmistakable voice of Ravess. The two Storm Hawks looked at each other worriedly. Her voice brought back memories of the last time they met, and it sent off red-flashing alarms inside their heads.

"We have to get out of here, Radarr. I don't know how long they're going to take before they realize that I'm in disguise. No doubt it will be soon enough, and then they'll bring out a crystal sensor. We'll both be done for if that happens," Piper whispered. She had already begun to pack the essentials in a small bag, "The only question is, how the heck are we going to escape this place?"

Radarr shook his head sadly. He didn't know any other way of getting off the Terra other than by skimmer. And that was impossible. Piper's skimmer was being guarded heavily, and the Talons had confiscated all other vehicles. By the sound of it, Piper hadn't thought of any other way out, either. She was silently finishing putting stuff in her bag, every now and again pausing and shaking her head. If Piper had a plan, she'd start getting verbal diarrhea, and you wouldn't be able to stop her talking until she was sure you understood the plan inside out. Radarr guessed why that's why she was the mission planner, but it could get really annoying sometimes. Now, though, his only wish was that her face would light up and she'd start speaking at 100 miles an hour. He knew he'd probably regret saying that, but she did come up with really good plans, and it was their only chance to get out of here. Sadly though, Piper remained silent, and she stood up when she had completed packing.

"Come, on, Radarr. Let's go out there see what's going on," she said sadly.

Radarr got up and followed her out. She smiled sadly and ruffled the fur on his head. He wouldn't normally let this happen, and he did ruffle his fur back to normal afterwards, but he went along with it because he thought it would make her a bit happier, something that he wanted very much.

The small spring in Piper's step didn't last long, though. They were walking away from the main town of Atmosia, and up onto one of the hills at the back of the Terra. Maybe Piper thought that it would give her some idea of escape, Radarr didn't know. But whatever the reason was, it ended up not being such a good idea. Radarr was walking up the hill in front of Piper. He was looking down at the green grass, still trying to think how they could get off the Terra, when Piper whispered his name urgently. He turned around, and saw that she had stopped walking a few meters back. Her eyes were looking somewhere over his shoulder, and they were wide with fear. He turned around slowly, knowing that what he was about to see was most likely not what he wanted it to be. Sure enough, it wasn't.

A small ship was hovering just above the top of the hill, probably only 50 metres away. It wouldn't have been any bigger than the Condor, but there was only two of them (well, one and a half, when you think about it) and who knew how many people there were on there? Not only that, but the ship was decorated in red, with the Cyclonian symbol emblazed on its sides. It wasn't a Cyclonian Destroyer, more like Ravess' Flagship, but it wasn't that either. It must be a new ship designed by the Cyclonians, Radarr decided. He wondered how the Cyclonians had got here so fast. Surely it would take them at least 2 hours to prepare their troops and send them out here, but it had only been half an hour. Maybe it was a super fast airship that Cyclonis had created. Radarr didn't know, and at the moment, he didn't exactly care. A burst of evil laughter had erupted from the speakers at the top of the ship, and he ran, squeaking, to behind Piper's legs, until he realized that he should be a bit more brave. And so he took a sky-fu stance, staring daggers at the ship, but still staying as close to Piper as possible.

A hatch at the side of the ship opened, revealing an energy cannon, which was pointing right at Piper. She hardly had time to squeak before she was hit by a blast from the cannon. But instead of falling over, hurt, she glowed a grey-red for a moment, and then her appearance changed, as if she had just dropped the chroma crystal in her pocket. She watched her hands changing colour, and muttered to herself.

"A Chroma Switch. As far as I know, I'm the only one who has ever created one of these. How did they make it so fast? How did they know this was me? What is going on?" She began to cry, knowing that their situation was now bleak. Soon they would be joining Aerrow.

She looked up to the sound of the main hatch opening. A figure stepped out of the darkness, but the tears were blinding her eyes so that she couldn't see a thing. The warmth of Radarr next to her left suddenly, and she started searching franticly for him, until she spotted a blue blur racing towards the ship.

"Radarr! Stop! What are you doing?" she shook her head at the hopelessness of the situation, and fresh tears ran down her cheeks. She addressed the figure now, not caring who he or she was, the tears choking her voice, "What do you want?"

A strange, yet eerily familiar voice replied, "I want my friends back."

"Stork?" she was too amazed to say anything else.

"Hi Piper."

Her voice suddenly came back to her, "What do you think you're doing, driving a Cyclonian ship!? There could be Talons on board!"

"Don't you recognise the ship, Piper?"

She looked over the ship in amazement, "The Condor? What?… how?.." her voice trailed off. She just couldn't believe how different their ship looked.

"Long story, I'll tell you later. Best you get inside now, don't you think? If we get away now, we might, and I repeat might be able to get away without running into the swarms of Cyclonians coming this way."

"Yeah, you're right. Sorry Stork, I was being stupid," and she ran up to the ship and hugged Stork tightly.

"I knew it," he said while prising her off him and then spraying himself with a ghastly smelling liquid," Definitely mind worms. First you start being stupid, then you actually admit that you were being stupid, and now you're hugging me."

Piper rolled her eyes. Whatever had happened to him, he was still the same old Stork. "Come on, then. Lets get inside before I infect the whole Atmos, shall we? Is Radarr around?" then she looked up at him hopefully, "or anyone else?"

"Sorry Piper, its just you, me and Radarr at the moment," he said while leading her inside, "although I do have an idea where Finn might be."

"Great. Then lets get going!"

Now, I must firstly apologise for my very lame ending... *grimace*

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