Ch36: Flying Duo

"Are you sure you wanna do this?" Penelope asked me as I had joined her in the castle again. I had decided to go to her directly in a certain case of curiousness to see if I could be a part of the Cooper Team as a flier in the Aces fight. "Of course!" I smiled. "Not only can I go invisible to avoid contact, but I just recently gained some awesome additions to my wings. They can shoot bullets now!"

And I was truthful. I'd asked Opal before I came here if I could just replace the brain addition she gave me with the wing turrets instead. She happily complied and now I had bullets in my wings. An unlimited supply at that! "But... I just don't want you to get hurt. The planes are for protection mostly and if you get hurt because you don't have one..." Penelope started to worry again.

"There's nothing to worry about, hon," I smiled. "Yeah. I can heal any wounds she gets as well as remove foreign objects from her body," Neyla stated. "If we get hurt too much, I'll tell her to fly down and end our run. Okay?" Penelope took a moment to answer. "Okay, fine. But I'll need to tell the other competitors about your late entry for the Coopers." I beamed happily and hugged the mouse, smiling as I said "Thank you!"

"Attention all fighter pilots of the Aces Competition," said Penelope in her Black Baron voice. "We have a late entry for the Cooper Team. She will be competing in the competition as herself with no plane on her person. Even though she will fly with her own wings, she is to be treated as an Aces contestant just as much as the pilots themselves. That is all."

I then made my way up to the top of the airplane strip with Sly, his looks of worry at an all time high. "Don't worry about me, hon," I smirked, stretching the metal wings for the best flight I'd experience in a while. "If we get hurt too much, we'll go and heal ourselves up. You just focus. They may be at their backs... as well as mine... but you are outnumbered even with me on the side." Sly smirked and started the engine. "Relax, mom! This is gonna be great!"

We then zoomed off for the skies, heading to the battlefield which began as we entered the fray. "EYES TO THE SKIES!" Dimitri said over a loudspeaker. "This is the Semifinal Rounds versus Team Iceland, Team Belgium, and Team Cooper! The air filled with style and action!" 'He seriously needs his head checked out, Sylvia,' Neyla sighed in my head. 'He may talk weird, but he's funny. I can understand,' I thought back, turning myself invisible as I flew quickly behind a plane that belonged to Iceland.

I shot out some bullets at the wings and sent it spiraling to the ground. 'SWEET!' I smirked in my head, flying off for another plane. "My eyes do not believe the sights! The last minute entry named Sylvia is now attacking like a chameleon! She smoove!" Some of the contestants didn't get it and I slowly roasted thier wings from afar, the points adding up to five planes for me and three for Sly.

'Sylvia! To the left!' Neyla exclaimed, focusing my attention to the left, seeing a plane that actually had radar on it. I quickly flew up and away, dodging its bullets and doing a flip to shoot it from behind. 'How'd you know?' I asked Neyla afterwards. 'I felt the radar frequencies in the eye. One more plus for us!' 'Indeed!'

Soon we made it to the final five, but I could tell that Sly's plane was taking the heat. "Hold on Raccoon!" I exclaimed, roasting two planes that tried to go after Sly. Three left. Sly flew into a barrel roll and got behind a plane, destroying it as I destroyed one of my own. The last plane didn't have a chance! We destroyed it and I revealed myself from hiding. "OH YEAH! TEAM COOPER ADVANCES TO LE FINALS! SCREAM YAY!" Dimitri exclaimed.

"You guys were amazing!" exclaimed Bentley when we made it back to the hotel. "We know!" Sly and I said at the same time. Neyla barely had to do any healing to me body. She did however heal up Sly's plane to repair the damage it took. "Okay... who are we facing next?" I asked looking at who the last two were.

"The two remaining teams are Team Muggshot and Team Black Baron," I sighed. "At least this part of the story ain't messed up," I smirked. "Let's get to work. We need to find a way to even the odds for us as well as take out the only competition we have in Muggshot," Bentley smiled, giving us our jobs.