*Disclaimer I do not own the StormHaws. i only own my OC*
"Just hold on guys where almost there" Aerrow called over to me and Radarr. I quickly looked back to see Junko following and possibly gaining.
"Aerrow!" I called out,
"Ya I see him, but not for long" he replied with a sly smile as I quickly followed him into the trees.
As we were twisting and turning all I could hear was Junko knocking them all down with his knuckle busters. Then I saw Radarr starting to freak out as we approached the edge terra. Aerrow looked over at me; I just smiled and narrowed my eyes as the edge of the terra quickly approached. As soon as I was in the air I pulled my wings out, I looked around wondering where Aerrow had gone. I saw him nose diving to the ground then at the last second his wings popped out. I just shook my head 'Radarr must have had his eyes closed' I thought. Then Aerrow was right beside me.
"Not bad Radarr" he said to his co-pilot, "do you think we lost them?" he asked me. I was about to answer when something passed quickly between our skimmers. Aerrow dove right, I dove left and we both stole a glance behind us to see Junko firing at us.
"I guess that's a no!" I replied. Junko fired again but this time Aerrow was ready and moved out of the way in time.
"You missed" he teased, but then the front of his skimmer got shot at.
"He might of, but Finn never misses" Finn gloated.
"I'll distract Finn" I yelled over.
"OK Jackie, Radarr get that engine working" Aerrow told Radarr.
I looked over at Finn and he was kissing one of his arrows, placed it in his cross bow and was about to fire. I crashed into his skimmer just as he fired and instead of hitting Aerrow he hit Radarr who was trying to fix the engine. He hit it with the wrench, and in no time it was working again, as I flew next to Aerrow.
"You're not stopping us this time!" Aerrow yelled back at Junko and Finn, as Aerrow and I smiled at each our smiles quickly faded as we heard the horn of the Condor. We stopped just in front of the window and saw Stork with a creepy smile.
"Got cha sky knights" he smirked. Aerrow and I just looked at each other with horror. I looked over at Radarr it looked like he was trying to say something, but before I could tell Aerrow Radarr was frozen. '
Piper' I thought.
"Freeze" Piper said.
"That's really cheesy" I whispered to Aerrow. The next thing we knew Piper, Finn and Junko had surrounded us and we had the Condor to our backs.
"Face it sky knights you've been caught" Piper told us. Aerrow and I looked at each other and we both lightly nodded our heads in agreement. "Your surrounded" she continued "the only way out was if you were crazy enough to…" but before we could hear the rest of her sentence we had dived down towards the wasteland.
"They'd be crazy to follow us into the wastelands"I say and saw that Radarr was already freaking out, "we'll be fine" I assured him. As we dodged lava, and monsters I heard "See nothing to worry about." As we burst threw the clouds we saw Terra Atmosia.
"Terra Atmosia, we're going to making it" Aerrow shouted. Then we both put a velocity crystal in our skimmers and in what felt like two seconds we were on the terra in a tree by the sky knight council building.
"HA! Yes I did it I'm the winner!" I heard Finn shout as he placed his hand on the tree.
"Actually," Aerrow started.
"that would be us" I finished.
"Aww" Finn whined as we jumped down from the tree.
"So that means last one to touch the tree has to do all the dishes on the condor for a month."
Then like a chain reaction everyone put their hands on the tree. We all saw Stork coming towards us.
"See this is why I never leave the ship." He complained.
"Its ok I'll help you" I whispered to him as I put my hand on his shoulder.
We heard people whispering around us then we heard a little boy say "Hey look dad it's the Storm Hawks!"
I looked over a Finn and saw him leaning against his skimmer 'trying' to look cool.
"Those aren't the Storm Hawks," the boy's father started to say, "at least not the real ones."
I gazed over at my team mates and they all looked kind bummed by what the man said.
"Come on guys, we're here to do something about that remember?" Aerrow reminded us as he started to walk towards the building.
"Maybe we could do something about this strange rash to" Stork asked no one in particular as he followed Aerrow.
"If you ask me this is all a big waste of time" Finn complained.
"Finn first we didn't and second even though Jackie and Aerrow went through the trials and were rightfully knighted we still have to register with the sky knight council to become an official squadron!" Piper squealed, "It's just a formality."
"But they don't make us take tests do they?" Junko asked sounding kind of worried, "cuz I'm lousy at tests."
"If it's a lab test I vote him" Stork said as he pointed to Radarr. Radarr looked at Stork and growled at him.
"Play nice" I whispered harshly behind me.
*At the Sky Knight Council*
The man behind kept looking down at the paper in his hands and then back at us. The order we were standing from right to left was Stork, Piper, Junko, me, Radarr and Aerrow.
"It seems everything is in order" the man finally said.
"See just a formality" Piper reassured everyone.
"I'll need your names and positions for the registry" the man told us.
"Aerrow sky knight and leader" Aerrow said striking a pose. I couldn't help but put a little smile on my face.
"Finn wing man and sharp shooter" Finn said as he pointed his fingers to look like pistols.
"Junko, flight engineer and ah heavy ballistics."
"Piper navigation and tactics."
"Um Stork carrier pilot,"
"Jackie sky knight and healer."
Then Radarr when in front and started doing sky fu.
"What is that some kind of pet?" the man asked. Radarr just looked up at him and growled.
"He prefers mission specialist, but we just call him Radarr" Aerrow told the man.
"Um the council will be most please to learn the new Storm Hawks squadron has formed. Your pressers were greatly admired; you have much to live up to Aerrow and Jackie." Aerrow gave me a questioning look; I didn't know what this man was talking about. I guess it doesn't help that Elena never told me who my parents were.
"If I may ask sir, how do I have much to live up to?" I asked.
"Well young sky knight your father was Mason, he was the healer and trainer of the original Storm Hawks. It's because of your father that the Storm Hawks were such skilled fighters." He told us.
"Didn't you know this?"
"No, my guardian Elena never told me much about my parents." I told him with my head down.
"Well maybe now you can see the paths of your past and future" he said every wisely with a smile. "But before Aerrow can sign this I need to ask one more question. I need to know who will be your second in command."
We all looked at each other.
"I vote Jackie" Piper chimed.
"YA!" Everyone agreed
. "Are you ok with that?" Aerrow asked me.
"It would be an honour" I told him.
"Very good, now sign here" he told Aerrow. As Aerrow went to sign the man held his hand back and asked "wait just a minute, how old are you?"
I could see Aerrow give a weak smile as he said in barely a whisper "14." Then the next thing any of us knew we were all watching the doors close to the building of the sky knight council.
"I told you it was a waste of time" Finn commented as he kicked the dirt under his foot.
"So what if were not official but Jackie and I are still sky knights and your still my squadron, and we're still friends right?" Aerrow told us.
"Oh I'm just here until something better comes along" Stork informed us.
"I just wished people would take us seriously" Piper sighed, "we have the skills we have the gear"
"We have Finn, "Chicka cha" Finn commented as he pointed to himself, Radarr and I just rolled our eyes.
Then we heard skimmers, and another squad came around the comer. "It's Carver and the Red Eagles" Junko said in awe.
"Come on lets go meet them" Piper yelled over her shoulder as she started to walk toward them. As soon as they stopped a crowed formed.
"Well there is a real sky knight squadron" I heard a man say, I looked over and noticed it was the same man from early that said that we were not a real squad.
"I'm Aerrow of the Storm Hawks and this is Jackie my second in command" Aerrow introduced us, "it's a real honour to meet you" he told Carver as he held out his hand. I noticed Carver looking behind us at the rest of the squad,
he looked Aerrow right in the eyes and asked him "Aren't you a little short to be a sky knight kid?" I glanced at Aerrow and saw that he looked really hurt by what Carver had said; as I looked back I saw Carver and the rest of the Red Eagles riding off towards the beaconing tower.
"Come on lets go," Aerrow said as he walked towards his skimmer. I could hear the hurt in his voice, Piper and I stole a sad glance before we also started to walk towards our skimmers.
"That could have gone worse" she commented.
"Aerrow" I called.
"What is it Jackie?" he asked.
"Don't listen to that jerk Carver, I don't think it should matter what age or height you are, if your heart is in the right place anyone should be able to become a sky knight. And you and I both know that your heart is in the right place."
"Your right Jackie," he sighed, "but when I was little I looked up to sky knights, they were my hero and then to hear one of them say I was a little short to be one and then call me a kid, it hurt."
"I know how you feel, remember Ben wouldn't let me join the Black Swans because he thought I was too young and I would get hurt or be in the way?" I reminded Aerrow, "Besides we don't need to be official to know who we are."
"You're right Jackie" Aerrow sighed.
"When am I wrong?" I teased him as I placed my hand on his shoulder. We smiled to each other and then I walked to my skimmer and got on. We were just about to leave Terre Atmosia when all of a sudden the sky turned grey, and the wind started to pick up.
"The beckon tower it stopped be beckoning" Junko yelled in confusion.
'Note to self help Junko's vocabulary' I thought to my self.
"Some thing must be wrong with theAurora Stone." Piper commented.
'That can't be good.
"Storm Hawks, lets fly" Aerrow said, we all started our skimmers and made our way to the beckon tower. The closer we got the more I felt like something really bad was about to happen. When we finally reached it I noticed that the Red Eagles were there, but the whole squad minus Carver, were frozen in place.
"What happened?" Finn asked.
"Who ever did this has to be powerful" Piper told us. I had to agree with her, the door to the tower was damaged pretty badly, plus everyone knew that the Aurora Stone was like a sign of hope to the people of Atmosia. Well maybe all of Atmos.
"Who ever did this is most likely working for Master Cyclonis" I told Aerrow. The seven of us started to slowly walk into the tower. Once we got to the top of the tower we noticed no one at first.
"The Aurora Stone it's gone!" Piper exclaimed.
'Way to point out the obvious' I thought.
I looked around and noticed someone coming out of the darkness.
"You needn't worry." I heard the figure say.
"Carver?" Aerrow questioned.
"It will find a good home on Cyclonia" Carver continued. "But, you're a sky knight!" Aerrow and I both questioned him.
"A sky knight wise enough to see which way the wind is blowing. The future is Master Cyclonis, this stone belongs to her."
"I will not let that happen" Aerrow yelled angrily as he pulled his twin energy blades out. Aerrow quickly looked back at me, he gave him a look that said this is my fight. I just nodded my head.
"You're welcome to try and stop me" Carver challenged as he pulled out his energy sword.
They started fighting, it seemed that they were evenly matched, that is until Carver grabbed Aerrow's leg and flung him across the room.
"Aerrow!" Piper and I both cried.
"You're a sky knight, its your job to protect Atmos, you made an oath!" Aerrow shouted at Carver.
"Oh that's right, you fancy yourself a sky knight" Carver said with sarcasm in his voice, as Aerrow stood up. "Sorry to disappoint you, your just a bunch of kids."
It took every ounce of self resistance I had not to go over to Carver and punch his face in. Carver gave Aerrow a grin that pretty much said I win, then Aerrow closed is eyes and seemed to calm him self down. A blue light started to gather around him, most likely from his blades, his eyes turned from green to blue and then he sent a powerful burst of energy towards Carver. Carver was so surprised that he didn't have time defend himself, next thing we knew Carver was slumped up against the steps and the Aurora Stone was on the ground in front of him.
"YA!" we all cheered as Stork uncovered his eyes.
"When was the last time you saw a kid do that?" Piper asked Carver.
"That was, that was…"but Carver couldn't finish his sentence because he passed walked over to the Aurora stone and picked it up.
"Aerrow you did it!" I exclaimed.
"That's, that's" Piper tried to think of the words.
"The lightning claw, I guess I finally figured out my move." Aerrow said in a surprised kind of voice.
"We are defiantly the real deal now dude!" Finn shouted in excitement as Aerrow gently placed the Aurora stone back in its rightful place.
Aerrow and I escorted Carver down the tower where police were waiting for him.
"The worst is yet to come." Carver told us as he passed in handcuffs, "Cyclonia will rise again!"
"Storm Hawks we'd like a word" The man form the sky knight council said, this time he had two other men with him.
"Ah see I bet this is the part were they beg us to protect the terra" Finn said excitedly.
*On the Condor*
"Get help, I can't believe all they want us to do is go get help." Finn whined.
"Finn thanks to Carver there's no one here to protect Terra Atmosia, or the Aurora stone." Piper told him.
"So we'll bring reinforcements like they asked, if we're looking for a way to prove our selves this is it." Aerrow told us. I had to agree with him, if we wanted people to take us seriously then this could be our first step.
"We'll contact the Terra Blastia first and then onto Tropica, and no Finn a surfing break is out of the question." Piper told him.
I looked over at Finn and saw the disappointment on his face. 'Oh Finn' was all I thought.
"Well I don't see the big deal about some crystal anyway," Finn complained.
"Finn don't you know anything? The Aurora stone is like the very symbol of Atmos" she told him in frustration.
"Its also the most powerful crystal ever found, there's no telling what Master Cyclonis would do with it" Aerrow added.
"Lets not forget the eternal darkness, plague of evil and endless suffering that would certainly follow" Stork added in a depressing kind of way.
All of a sudden the alarms went off, Aerrow and I looked at each other trying to figure out why they there going off.
"I think it's starting already" Stork commented as he looked through the periscope and saw a Cyclonian air ship."Yep I was right" was all he said as he handed the periscope to Aerrow.
"Talons, headed strait for Atmosia" Aerrow informed us.
"There won't be time to get help we're going to have to handle it" I pointed out.
"Alone" he added. Junko and Finn exchanged a worried look. Then everyone went into a frenzy.
"Ok I'll um use my last drizzle crystal to create some cloud cover" Piper was saying but she didn't sound very confident. I saw Finn run out towards the hanger bay, most likely to put unneeded weapons on skimmer, "and then we're going to need some time for the slim sluggers to jell. What am I saying that's the worst plan ever." She sighed in frustration. I saw Stork writing his Will. I ran down to the hanger bay, Aerrow hot on my heels. Just as we entered the bay Junko was running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
"That thing will never fly" I heard Junko say, I'm guessing it was to Finn. I got on my skimmer and made sure my blades were ready for any fight I was about to get into, and got into line to the left of Aerrow, with Finn behind me.
"So nobody believes in us, well now's the time to prove them wrong. But this isn't like when we play stop the sky knight or last one lands does the dishes. This is the real deal so what ever you do, try not to mess up."
'Well it was inspirational, until he said that last part' I thought.
"Dude worst motivational speech ever!" Finn told Aerrow.
"You know what I mean," Aerrow said, "Let's do it!" and then we drove out of the hanger bay."Just remember the plan and we'll be fine" Aerrow told us.
"Um I forgot the plan" Junk told us.
"Keep them off that Terra" Finn reminded him as he pointed to Terra Atmosia.
As we flew in formation Finn came beside Aerrow and said "Aerrow that's the Dark Ace" as he pointed to a man with black hair who was flying towards us.
"As in THEE the Dark Ace" "As in never lost a sky duel and is signal handily responsible for the destruction of the old Storm Hawks" I heard Piper say over the radio.
"Aerrow, Jackie get out of there NOW!" she shouted at us.
"I'm not running away." Aerrow told us, as he looked at me, "you coming?" he asked me.
"I'll be right beside you the whole time." I informed Aerrow.
"We have your back" Junko told us as he activated his knuckle busters. Then they started their attack.
"I think I see Snipe" I told the others. "So that women must be his sister Ravess." I informed the others.
Aerrow POV
"I think I see Snipe" Jackie told us. And in all honesty that doesn't surprise me. "Which means that woman must be his sister Ravess" she concluded.
The Condor came up behind me and covered me as I made my way over to the Dark Ace. Once the Dark Ace saw me he jumped onto his skimmer and so did I. Then he jumped off his skimmer. 'Where'd he go?' I asked myself as I looked around me trying to find him.
"You're a young one" I heard some one say. I looked in front of me and on my wing was the Dark Ace. "Since you're new at this let me explain the ground rules" then the Dark Ace grabbed my shoulder.
'Holy crap' I was thinking 'is he going to kill me?'
"There are none" he told me has he lifted me up. "If you live you win, and just so you know I never loss," he finished as he threw me back down on my seat, then he laughed as he jumped back to his skimmer.
Jackie POV
"Hello" I said to the talon I had just pulled up to. He gave me a confused look, but before he could do anything I had knocked him off his skimmer. I made sure that his parachute came out before I sped off to help the others. I looked over at Finn and he was trying to shoot at Snipe but couldn't seem to hit him. 'Well that's what you get for loading your skimmer up so much' I thought to myself, 'I better go find Aerrow." I looked over my shoulder to see a talon following me, so I stopped and trimmed his wings as he tried to attack me. 'Idiot' I thought. Then I saw Aerrow, he and the Dark Ace were still in their sky duel. The Dark Ace shot at Aerrow, and missed, but he knocked the secondary cock-pit off and I watched Radarr fall. His parachute activated, and I slowly moved under him. I moved slowly so that I didn't attract the Dark Ace's attention. I caught Radarr and made my way over to a talon.
Aerrow POV
I watched Radarr fall and his parachute activate, I also saw Jackie slowly descending. It took me a second to figure out why, and then I realized she was doing it so that she didn't get any unwanted attention from the Dark Ace. She knew that this was my fight and would only interfere if he was about to kill me. She was such a good sky knight and friend. 'Man am I developing feelings for her' I asked myself, then the Dark Ace shot at me. 'Get your head in the duel Aerrow or you will loose.' I turned my skimmer around and we just looked at each other. Then we both charged. We did some hand to hand with our blades, but we were too evenly matched, not that he would admit it. We turned around he jumped on his skimmer, I jumped on my ready to battle.
"So you fancy your self a sky knight?" he asked me, "well where's your fancy move?"
"It's right here!" I yelled as I did the lightning claw.
"Good form," he told me. I was confused for I moment before I realized I was on his skimmer. I quickly turned around to block his attack. "But you might want to work on your landing" then he kicked me off his skimmer and I started falling towards the Wastelands.
Jackie POV
I saw Junko fighting Snipe and it looked like his ammo was stuck but he yelled at it and all the ammo attacked Snipe. "YA" Junko cheered, I couldn't help but smile. Then I looked to my left and saw Finn and Ravess battling. They fired at the same time, but Ravess arrow seemed to absorb Finns and kept going until it hit his skimmer. For a second it looked like it was ok, but then it fell apart and I watched as Finn painfully landed on the front of Junko's skimmer. "Ouch" I said as I winched at his pain
I looked through the periscope and watched as Finn landed on Junko's skimmer.
Piper POV
"Come on, come on. Shields are down and we are being clobbered by that cursers cannons, Piper if we don't run now we're going to lose the Condor." Stork told me. "Stork what about the others?" I asked him, kind of annoyed that he would even suggest such a thing. "Um they should run too" was all he said as he turned the Condor away from the battle.
Jackie POV
I took out a few more talons before I saw the Condor pull up and out of the battle. I quickly looked around me. I saw Junko and Finn fighting talons; the Dark Ace and Aerrow were still in their heated sky battle. Aerrow had just been pushed off the Dark Ace's skimmer and was falling, fast. I tipped my skimmer towards the ground, Aerrow pulled his glider but it didn't take long before the Dark Ace shot him down. I landed my skimmer on Terra Atmosia and waited for Aerrow to land. Which he did, well he crash landed. I ran towards him, just as I was about to reach him I pulled out my energy blades, but the Dark Ace got to him first and had his energy sword just below his chin. I heard three skimmers head toward the beckoning tower, no doubt talons going to retrieve the Aurora stone, but I couldn't take my eyes off of the Dark Ace and Aerrow.
"This is where I claim victory," he told Aerrow, "but since you're young I'll allow you a life time to savour your defeat." Then the three talons I heard earlier arrived with the Aurora stone and handed it to the Dark Ace. "Your own sworn protector turn on you and Atmos sends children instead of sky knights, how pathetic!" He finished as he put the stone in his bag. It took everything I had not to go and start a fight with him. "The wrath of Cyclonia is your future now," he said before he smirked at Aerrow and then flew off. Once they were gone Radarr and I quickly ran over to Aerrow and I helped him up. Junko and Finn were first to land and ran over to us.
"Are you okay Aerrow?" Junko asked as he got on the other side of him to help support him.
"Where are the others?" was his reply.
'Would you just answer the question!' I thought. Then Piper and Stork landed and came running over, well Radarr jumped from my shoulder to Aerrow's. "Are you okay?" I asked a hint of worry in my voice, after all I watched him crash to the ground.
"I'm fine." He assured us.
"The Aurora stone in the hands of Master Cyclonis and her talons, our own sky knight has betrayed Atmosia, something must be done!" the man from the sky knight council exclaimed angrily.
"It will," Aerrow told him. "The future of the entire Atmos rests in that crystal," he explained.
"We're going to Cyclonia to get it back." I said as I looked at Aerrow who nodded in agreement.
"We are!?" the rest of the squad asked in unison.
"We're doomed!" Stork signed.