"What happened?" Adrianna demanded as the Storm Hawks and Leugey walked onto the Condor. Well more like Leugey strolled onto the Condor and everyone kept a firm grip on the walls to avoid being stuck to Leugey and Stork as well. She herself, quickly latched onto the wall to avoid getting stuck to the duo.

Adrianna had awoken that morning and found her team gone. As she strolled through the Condor she had found a note from Aerrow.

Adrianna,

You were finally asleep and I didn't want to wake you. We can handle getting the Gravitron Crystal. You get some rest and we'll see you soon.

Love,

Aerrow.

Adrianna was miffed and touched that she had been left behind. Ever since she had told Aerrow about her past, she had been having really bad nightmares. That meant she had only gotten a few hours of fitful sleep per night. The nightmares were about her still being Lilith and hunting down the Sky Knights. But she was upset that Aerrow had just left her behind. She was a part of this team, and that meant she had the right to go on missions with them.

"Stork ate the Gravitron Crystal and now his gravitational pull is pulling everyone towards him," Piper stated as she death gripped the wall to keep from being attached to Stork as well.

"Piper, see what you can do to counter the effects of the Gravitron Crystal," Aerrow ordered as he started to lose his grip. If it hadn't been for Adrianna grabbing his hand, he would have become a part of the pair stuck together.

Piper nodded her head and headed off in the direction of her room.

"Finn and Junko, you guys watch over Stork," Aerrow said as he made his way out of the room with Adrianna's help. Once they were out of the room, Aerrow turned and inspected his sister.

"I'm fine," Adrianna insisted. She hated how he was fussing over her. "It's you that I should be worried about," she said as she took Aerrow's face in her hands to inspect the cut on his cheek.

"I'm fine," Aerrow countered. "But you haven't gotten much sleep in the last week."

"It's nothing," Adrianna said quickly as she got the med kit out so that way she could treat the cut on Aerrow's face from when the boulders had smacked into him and Repton.

"It's not nothing," Aerrow persisted.

"So, what's going to happened?" Adrianna asked as she switched topics. She then walked up to Aerrow and started cleaning the wound.

"We need to keep Leugey here so that way he doesn't run off with Stork," Aerrow stated as he kept himself from wincing as his sister disinfected the cut.

"Distracting him would work best. He honestly doesn't have that long of an attention span," Adrianna giggled.

Aerrow paused and took a long hard look at his sister.

"What?" she asked once she noticed Aerrow's look.

"I haven't heard you giggle since we were kids," Aerrow stated. He was about to say something else when Radarr came running in a chattered something about Stork. The pair quickly followed Radarr back to where the others were now laying on the floor since Piper had nullified the crystal. Leugey was in the midst of freaking out when they got there.

"I'm gonna need some time to separate them," Piper told her leader.

"Until you do, we're gonna have to keep Leugey with us. If he gets away, he'll take Stork right to Repton," Aerrow stated as he watched Leugey run around the room.

"I'd never survive!" Stork shouted as Leugey ran past them in an attempt to escape.

As Leugey was running, he ran straight into the controls of the Condor. He then sent the Condor out of control on accident.

"Any more of this, and we won't survive either!" Finn shouted from where he was latched onto the table to keep from being slammed into the back wall.

Aerrow quickly made his way to the controls and put a stop to the Condor's free fall into the waste lands. He didn't want to be there any time soon.

"Oh, Repton is gonna be mad," Leugey worried. "I gotta go!" He then turned to leave. As Leugey turned, he slammed poor Stork into Aerrow, thus knocking Aerrow from the controls and sent the Condor spiraling again.

Stork was then able to grab the controls and once again stabilize the Condor.

"Oh, oh boss will be mad if he saw me with our worst enemy!" Leugey said as he fretted over what Repton would do.

"Or maybe he would be mad if you left your enemies cruiser before learning all of our secrets," Adrianna said sweetly. "After all, we both know he loves valuable information. Think of all the information you could get with hanging, err I mean, studying us."

"Uh, ya think?" Leugey asked as everyone smiled back and nodded their heads playing along.


Adrianna banged her head against the wall of the Condor. "I don't know how much more of this I can take," she grumbled.

The group had been giving Leugey "secrets" all day and she was starting to go nuts.

Junko gave her a sympathetic look. The two were hiding in the communications room away from Leugey. Junko had found the girl desperately trying not to attack Leugey after he had messed with her swords. Junko had suggested the two of them go to the communication's room to listen and see if there were any distress calls. As the two were sitting there, killing time, a communication started coming through.

"This is the cargo cruiser Diego. We are in need of assistance! Please respond!" the captain yelled in distress.

"This is the Storm Hawks, we read you," Adrianna shouted out in delight. They were going to get a mission that would distract them from Lugey. "Go tell Aerrow!" Adrianna told Junko. After he left the room, Adrianna addressed the ship captain. "What is your location?"

After she wrote down the coordinates, Adrianna ran to the helm and set a course for the distressed cruiser.

"What happened?" Aerrow asked as he ran up to his sister. He currently had Junko distracting Leugey in the back of the Condor.

"A cargo cruiser is in trouble," Adrianna answered as she started piloting the Condor to the location the captain had given her. "We're not far, and they sounded really panicked when we disconnected."

"Okay, but why are they sending out a distress call?" Aerrow asked as he walked over to the round table in the middle of the room.

Adrianna glanced at her brother before continuing with what she was doing. "They have no idea what it is, but something is in on their ship," Adrianna answered simply.

"Great, so we're walking into an unknown situation," Aerrow grumbled.

"It will be okay," Adrianna said in attempt to comfort her younger brother. "You do know that we do these kinds of things all the time."

"Yes, but normally we don't have Leugey running around trying to get back to Repton," Aerrow sighed in defeat.

"Breathe," Adrianna ordered as she looked over her shoulder at her brother. "Everything will turn out alright."

"Yes, just like Leugey messing with your swords?" Aerrow asked. He had heard from Radarr that Adrianna had tried to attack the Raptor after he messed with Nyx.

Adrianna flushed deep red with embarrassment for her actions.

Aerrow forced himself to take a few deep breaths. Whatever happens, happens. No amount of fretting would solve their problem.

"We're coming upon the Diego," Adrianna said as she spotted the smoking cruiser.

"I'll go get the others prepared," Aerrow said as he left the bridge. Aerrow slowly walked to the back of the Condor where he heard his teammates shouting. Piper sounded mad, Finn annoyed, Junko upset, and Stork in distress. Taking a breath, Aerrow opened the door. "We have a mission," Aerrow announced.

"Oh, oh, can I go, please?" Leugey begged.

Aerrow grimaced, he didn't want Lugey going over to the other ship. But on the other hand, if he didn't allow him to come with, he might run off to Repton. "Sure," Aerrow said uncertainly. "Um, Finn and Junko, you should come too."

"What?" Finn started to protest.

Aerrow gave him a look that begged him not to argue. He did not want to take Lugey either, but it was the only option at the moment. Keeping Leeugey happy meant that he was not trying to run off to Repton.

"I'll go see if Adrianna has any ideas about how to get Stork and Lugey unstuck," Piper whispered to Aerrow.

"Good idea, she at the helm," Aerrow whispered back.

Piper slowly made her way towards the helm. She had a lot on her mind at the moment.

"Hey," Adrianna called out in greeting as she brought the Condor to a halt beside the Diego.

"We need to figure out a way to get them unstuck," Piper said as she slipped into one of the chairs.

"I thought that is what you were doing," Adrianna said as she sat beside the younger female.

"I haven't had much luck with Leugey running around here and interrupting my thoughts," Piper sighed as she banged her head on the table. "Ow," she sighed from where she sat in defeat.

"Well, let's go back to your quarters and look through the books to see what we can find," Adrianna sighed.


Two hours later, the Diego cruiser a long-forgotten memory, the girls were both huddled around the books still. The sky shark incident long taken care of by the boys while the girls tried to find a remedy to their situation.

"Here's something," Piper muttered to herself.

"What?" Adrianna asked as she looked up from her book.

"Oh no," Piper said as she closed her book and stood abruptly.

"What?" Adrianna demanded this time.

"This is not good," Piper said before she walked out of her room and towards the helm where everyone else was.

"How much longer do we have to put up with this?" Finn demanded.

"Maybe forever," Piper answered as she walked onto the bridge with Adrianna following behind her. "If the Gravitron crystal isn't neutralized in two hours, Leugey and Stork will be stuck together permanently."

"Okay, and the good news is…" Finn asked.

"Actually, there is some," Piper said as she opened her book. "I've figured out a way to deactivate the crystal, but it involves a combination of incredibly rare crystals, and there's only one person who has them all…"

"Let me guess, Gundstaff," Aerrow said. "This isn't going to be easy."

"Ooh, what does he have?" Junko asked excitedly. "Advance retinal armor, viral incinerators?"

"Worse, he's really tall," Piper stated.

As they were all thinking, they heard Stork scream in agony.

"I feel really bad for him," Adrianna said as she sat down in one of the remaining chairs.

"Well, it was his bright idea to eat the crystal," Finn said as he looked at the door that lead to the bathroom.

"Still," Adrianna said as she heard the door open and watched Leugey stroll out. "We now have a plan."

"That we do," Aerrow said in agreement as he started to plan out how they were going to get their crystals that they needed. It was not going to be easy at all. Gundstaff was not known for his kindness. He was extremely short tempered, so short he was smash first and ask questions later.


"Adrianna, wait out here," Aerrow ordered. "I don't imagine that we will have visitors, but just in case."

Adrianna nodded her head in understanding. She couldn't believe that Repton and the other Raptors had just let Leugey and the Gravitron crystal go. Repton could be extremely petty and that meant he should have been tracking them to get both back. The fact he hadn't found them yet had her surprised.

Adrianna pulled out Nyx and swung her sword around in boredom. Lookout duty, a necessary job, but a boring one at that. She was about to put away her sword when she heard the sound of someone approaching Gundstaff's home. As she pulled out Helios, the Raptors came into sight, racing quickly towards her. Adrianna readied herself for a fight. She knew that she had to give the rest of the Storm Hawks as much time as possible.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Repton his in pleasure as he brought his ride to a halt.

"Boss, Leugey's inside with the Gravitron crystal," Spitz hissed out as he looked at his crystal tracker.

"Perfect, Spitz capture her while we deal with the rest of the Storm Hawks," Repton shouted as he grabbed the tracker from Spitz and used his sky rider to slam through the door.

Spitz smiled as he dismounted his sky rider and approached Adrianna. He was easily going to overpower the female and then prove to Repton that he was not as incompetent Repton thought he was.

Adrianna, on the other hand, was not going to be caught by the Raptor before her. She quickly went on the offensive, giving Spitz no chance of getting the better of her. Her whole fighting style was set on attacking him fast and hard. In a matter of seconds, the smaller Raptor was defeated. As she walked closer to the Raptor, he fled into the building right past her teammates.

"Everything okay?" Aerrow asked as he watched the retreating form of the Raptor.

"Fine," Adrianna said as she sheathed both of her swords.

"Let's get out of here," Finn said hurriedly.

"Good idea," Aerrow said as they took off towards the Condor.

"So, how was Gundstaff?" Adrianna asked as they made it back to the Condor.

"Still grumpy," Piper said as she grabbed the controller she made for the Gravitron crystal.

"What about Repton?" Finn asked as they walked through the halls of the Condor.

"And I've still got the off switch," Piper said happily.

"I think Repton is about to find out that it's a lot more trouble than what it's worth," Aerrow said happily. Everyone else, couldn't help but agree.


Sorry it took so long. On the bright side, I have chapter 20 and 21 wrote. I'm so excited for the Carver episode. For now, I'm putting the Carver episode before the Royal Twist episode. I think you all will like what I'm going to do. Once I post chapter 20 all voting will be closed. So, one of your last few times I'm going to ask. Piper or Adrianna, which should have the doppelganger? I can make either work. I have two different ideas for that chapter and I just don't know which route to take.