Atmos' Most Wanted
Dark Ace was sore, tired, and angry as he landed in the hanger. The report that they had received about the Storm Hawks being on Terra Tranqua had been a lie. Fabricated by whom, he did not know but he planned on finding out. The Storm Hawks were nowhere in the area. It had been a waste of six hours of his time. To make matters worse, he had to listen to Ravess and Snipe biker the whole time. But he was finally back and he was going to get to hang out with Lilith.
As he dismounted his skimmer, Dark Ace heard a commotion coming from the other side of the hanger doors. He grabbed his sword just in time to watch as the doors into the hanger flew open.
"This way," Adrianna yelled as she led a group into the hanger bay. "Bar the doors," she ordered as she faced the doors that they had all just come through. Her stance was ridged as she thought out her next move.
Finn and Junko quickly lowered the bars down into the rightful place to be able to the lock the doors from the outside.
Dark Ace watched the way Lilith held her shoulders, she had monetarily let her guard down.
"Well, what do we have here?" Ravess asked in glee as she dismounted her skimmer. She had never been so happy to see the other female general ever. She was finally going to destroy the other girl.
Adrianna and the Storm Hawks whipped around to face the voice. Each one held different looks on their face, from shock to furry.
"A traitor?" Ravess asked as she pulled out her bow. "A traitor fleeing with the enemy."
Dark Ace could do nothing but stand there and watch Lilith with Aerrow and his Storm Hawks. For the first time ever, he saw how much they looked alike. The same red in their hair. The same color of eyes, the eyes that his old leader had. Things finally clicked into place in his mind. She was Russell's, Lightning Strike, daughter.
"Go find your skimmers, I'll catch up," Adrianna ordered as she pulled out Helios.
"You won't be going anywhere except back to Master Cyclonis on your knees," Ravess stated with glee. She was going to enjoy this fight. She was going to enjoy dragging Lilith back to Master Cyclonis.
"I'm thru serving that woman," Adrianna stated as she met the glares from both Snipe and Ravess.
"No you aren't," Ravess said as Snipe charged her.
Dark Ace was in complete shock as he watched his fiancée and Snipe go at it.
"We have to get out of here," the girl Piper yelled. He noticed the way she kept looking at the door to their backs.
Dark Ace finally took a look around; he was trying to quickly find Aerrow. If he could find Aerrow, fight him, and make the teenager tell him who Lilith really was to him.
"We have to get out of here," Piper yelled out in warning to the rest of the Storm Hawks.
"You all go," Adrianna ordered as she shoved Snipe away from her.
"We're not-" Piper started as she refused to leave the older girl behind.
"I'll be fine," Adrianna promised as she sidestepped away from Snipe. "I said go," she ordered as she noticed that none of the Storm Hawks were moving.
"Not without you," Aerrow said as he stood beside the others.
"I order you to run," Adrianna said as again as she kept the attention of Snipe on her.
"You can't order us around," Finn whined.
"I say that you let them stay, after all they will want to watch you fall to your knees in defeat," Ravess stated as she fired off a shot at Adrianna.
The shot caught her in her right shoulder and Adrianna let out a shout of pain as she dropped her sword.
Ravess smiled happily, thinking that she had disabled Adrianna.
The young woman let out a groan of pain as she picked Helios up from the ground with her left hand.
"Have I ever told you how much I hate you Ravess?" Adrianna asked as she used the butt of her sword to knock Snipe in the head. Said general sunk to his knees as he groaned in pain.
Ravess just glared as she got ready to fire again at Adrianna.
"No," Dark Ace said as he put his hand on Ravess' bow. "This is my fight."
Adrianna visibly tensed as Dark Ace stepped up to confront her.
Aerrow noticed it right away as the two started to exchange swords strikes. "We need a distraction," he told Piper as they started glancing around.
"There," Piper said as she pointed to a box of energy crystals. "We can use those." Piper quickly set to work tinkering again with the energy crystals. She quickly made a few of them unstable and put the rest in a bag before grabbing Aerrow's hand to drag him away from the crystals that were about to explode.
They reached their friends in time to here Dark Ace say, "Come back. Pledge your loyalty to Master Cyclonis." Dark Ace sounded like he was begging.
"Never," Adrianna spat. "I'd rather die than go crawling back to Cyclonis," she stated as the energy crystal exploded, causing debris to fly everywhere.
"Time to go," Aerrow shouted as he grabbed Adrianna's hand and pulled her with him.
They all ran as fast as they could to where they had left their skimmers. No one looked back to see if any of Master Cyclonis' generals were following them.
"Come on," Aerrow said as he mounted his skimmer, Adrianna swung a leg over and sat behind her brother, she was ready to be out of this nightmare. She casted one last glance over her shoulder as she and the Storm Hawks flew away.
"So there were a few glitches," Finn chuckled nervously as he faced the rest of the Storm Hawks. "But some good did come out of it," he tried.
"You guys don't think I'm really like that, do you?" Junko asked nervously. He had been worried that ever since they had escaped, his friends would see him as the big, bad, Masked Masher.
"It was the hypno crystal, not you Junko," Piper reassured him.
"But, it's the Mighty, Mega, Warrior side of him that won the second-place prize," Finn said in a pleased manner. "An all-expense paid resort vacation! And it's on, Cyclonia," he said in defeat.
"We're not going," Piper said in a tone that left no room for debate.
"You get to clean the Condor," Aerrow said with his arms crossed.
"Why me?" Finn whined.
"You got us into that mess, and now you're going to clean up the messes on the Condor," Aerrow said as turned to talk to the others as Finn left grumbling about his assigned task for the day.
"That was to close," Piper said as she mentally went over all the events that had happened while they were on Cyclonia.
"You're telling me," Aerrow said in agreement.
"Where's your sister?" Junko asked as he looked around the room.
"She's still in her room," Aerrow stated as he looked at one of the doors waiting for Adrianna to walk through.
"Is she okay?" Junko asked curiously.
"I think so, I just don't know what they did to her," Aerrow said depressingly.
"I'll run some tests later and see what I can find," Piper offered.
"That would be great, I'm going to go check on her just to make sure that she is okay," Aerrow said as he left his friends.
Adrianna stood in the middle of her new room staring at the ring in the palm of her hand. She wanted to throw the ring out of the Condor. She wanted it as far away from her as possible. After all, it meant that she had been in love with the man that not only worked for Master Cyclonis, but had also betrayed her father and had gotten him killed.
Adrianna felt sick again. She wanted to throw up, but there was nothing left in her stomach from the previous times she had gotten sick since she and the Storm Hawks had made it back to the condor. Adrianna squeezed her eyes shut in an attempt to keep herself from getting sick again.
So instead of getting sick, she moved into the corner and cried.
"Addi, you okay?" Aerrow asked as he knocked on the door to his sister's room and entered in.
"No," Adrianna croaked as she continued to huddle in the corner.
"It's going to be okay," Aerrow said as he grabbed the blanket from the bed before going over to sit by Adrianna.
"How's it going to be okay?" Adrianna asked, her eyes full of unshed tears. She was disgusted with Master Cyclonis for what she had done to her and what she had made her do. She was disgusted at Dark Ace for playing with her emotions the way he had. Most of all, she was disgusted with herself for what she had did as Master Cyclonis' pet.
Before Aerrow could respond, something hit the condor and sent both sibling tumbling out of the corner and into the middle of the floor. "What now?" Aerrow groaned as he picked himself up off the floor. "Stay here," Aerrow ordered as he ran out of Adrianna's room. The last thing he needed was for Master Cyclonis attacking them to get his older sister back.
Adrianna wanted to protest, but her words failed her. So, she crawled back to her corner and waited.
"Dove, what is the meaning of this?" Aerrow asked confused as he ran to the top deck of the Condor where everyone else was.
"Don't act like you don't know. Give it back, or pay the ultimate price," Dove said in her accented voice as she lunged at him.
"What is she talking about?" Junko whispered to Aerrow as he took a step out of Dove's range.
"I don't know," Aerrow replied, "but we are not going to fight our friends. We need to figure out what is going on."
"If this is about the last Sky Knight summit, I didn't know the cake was for everyone. I was just, really hungry," Finn said as he tried to excuse his actions. He then looked around and felt really dumb. "I mean, pretend I didn't say that."
"Dove-" Aerrow started to say.
"Enough, you will all come with us now!" she ordered.
"Tell us why," Piper said as she refused to just go quietly.
"You stole our cheese stone!" Dove shouted in anger.
"Is this a joke?" Finn asked as he looked at everyone.
"No, and we know that you took our stone," Dove said as she continued to stay mad at her friends.
"But Dove, we didn't steal it. We had no idea that you even had a cheese stone," Piper stated.
"Please, give some time to prove our innocence," Aerrow said. He was willing to go with them, but if they brought or searched the Condor, they would find Adrianna. That was something that couldn't happen yet. Not too many people knew who Lilith was, but some might know. It was a risk he was willing to take.
"You have seventy-two hours until my family will start hunting for you again. That is if I will be able to stall them," Dove said that left no room for debate.
"Thank you," Aerrow said as he watched Dove and her family remounted their skimmers.
"Do not thank me," Dove said as she rode away.
"What do we do?" Piper asked as she watched the family ride away.
"We need to find out what was stolen and why. But first, we're going to need help," Aerrow said. "Set a course for Terra Rex. The Rex Guardians should be able to help us, not to mention they still owe us one," Aerrow said as he thought through several options as they all walked inside.
"What happened?" Adrianna asked as she walked onto the bridge.
"You shouldn't be here," Aerrow said. He wanted to protect his sister after everything that had happened.
"A friend attacked us and accused us of stealing a cheese stone," Finn said nonchalantly at the same time as Aerrow spoke.
"You need to lay down and rest, we don't know what Master Cyclonis did to you," Aerrow said.
"What?" she asked confused as she choose to ignore her brother.
"Evidently this cheese stone is important and she seems to think that we stole it," Piper stated as she casted an uneasy glance at Aerrow and Adrianna.
"And they just left us alone? Even after coming all this way to accuse you?" Adrianna asked.
"We managed to buy us seventy-two hours before they start hunting us again," Aerrow stated as he sent a look at his sister.
"That's assuming no one else is also hunting us down," Adrianna stated as she looked down at the map of Atmos.
"Us?" Aerrow asked.
"Well, I think I've done enough running and I need to clear my name after what Cyclonis made me do," Adrianna said simply as she refused to look up.
"Can I speak to you in private please," Aerrow asked as he walked through a door and back towards his room.
Adrianna quickly followed her little brother.
"What are you talking about?" Aerrow asked as soon as they were in his room.
"What do you mean?" Adrianna asked in return.
"What do mean, you've done enough running and you need to clear your name?" Aerrow demanded.
"You've heard the rumors of what Lilith has done, so I'm sure know can only imagine what I've actually done," Adrianna said as she did not look Aerrow in the eyes.
"Yes, but that was not you. That… Master Cyclonis made you do it and so you should not be blamed for it," Aerrow stated as he tried to comfort his sister.
"You have no idea what I did, so how can you say that I'm not to be blamed," Adrianna demanded. "I was the reason that the Sky Knights were all captured. I handed over the crystals that were needed to make an regeneration crystal! I encouraged children to become Talons!" Adrianna continued to shout.
"Addi!" Aerrow shouted as he grabbed a hold of Adrianna's shoulders so that way she would be force to face him. "No matter what you did, you did it under the control of Master Cyclonis. We will help you make up for what you did if that is what you want, but you are not alone and not to be blamed."
"Aerrow, I-" Adrianna started but the words died in her throat.
"What did you mean you were done running?" Aerrow asked. It had been bothering him ever since she had said it.
"Nothing, but I need to work on clearing my name," Adrianna stated before she walked out of Aerrow's room.
"How could you let her escape!" Master Cyclonis demanded. She was furious that the Storm Hawks had been here and managed to escape, but all she felt when she learned that Lilith had escaped was rage. Her ultimate weapon was gone and no longer under her control!
"It's not our fault! She had help from the Storm Hawks!" Ravess said in defense.
"I want her back!" Cyclonis roared. Ravess' excuses only seemed to enrage Cyclonis even more. "Dark Ace! Find her, drag her back here and anyone that stands in your way!" Cyclonis ordered.
"Of course!" Dark Ace said as he wiped all emotions from his face. For now, he had a job to do, and he could sort out his emotions later on.
Okay, as an apology I'm updating my story rather quickly. Also because I need your opinion. In Royal Twist, do you want it to go more like the way it aired with Piper having the double or should I make Adrianna have the double? I just got to thinking, because this is a fanfic I have certain things I can do. But I did want opinions. Also, I'm excited for second chances!
