Aerrow, Radarr, Finn and I were flying our skimmers threw an uninhabited terra doing tricks, avoiding obstacles, the usual. Up ahead was a cavern, one wrong move and you could end up dead or really badly injured.
"You two aren't seriously going to run widow's cannon?" Finn asked Aerrow and I.
"Oh Ya." Aerrow replied for us.
"Have fun Radarr." Finn mocked before he flew off.
"You're sure you want to do this Jackie?" Aerrow called over.
"Of course I am, I was sheltered on Terra Swan, now is my chance to live life." I told him.
"Ladies first then."
"Scared-y cat!" I yelled as I picked up speed and flew first into the cannon. "Whooo!" I yelled.
"Ah Ya!" I heard Aerrow yell behind me. I saw the exit up ahead, the only way threw it was to be in bike mode, now you have to time it just right or well I'd rather not think about it. I pulled my wings in, flew threw the opening and pulled them back out. I swung beside Finn and watched Aerrow and Radarr come out. Aerrow was stoked but Radarr was covering his eyes. They went into a nose dive.
"Excellent." Finn said, I just nodded my head in agreement. We watched as they kept falling towards the ground, and then at the last possible moment Radarr pulled the wings back out. We all started to fly back to the Condor.
"Got to work on that one." Aerrow said to Radarr who looked like he was scared to death. All I could do was shake my head and smile.
Back on the Condor
We were all standing around the table. "It's perfect absolutely, positively, 100% the best plan ever!" Piper told us.
"Um, I'm not going to like this am I? Stork asked, paranoid as usual.
"The storms building in the South West should give us perfect coverage to monitor the new Cyclonian supply lines." Piper continued.
"I was right, I don't like it." Stork commented as he went back to steering the ship.
"Did somebody say South West?" Finn asked. I saw the smile on his face and knew exactly what he was thinking.
"Yup I heard a freighter captain…"
"You know what's in the South West don't you?" Finn interrupted.
"Let me guess?" Junko put in, "Terra Neon's 24hr gravy buffet? There is that, but think warmer."
Junko thought for a second then they both shouted "Tropica!" I looked over at Piper who looked really annoyed. Aerrow and I couldn't help but laugh a little.
"Surf boards, snorkelling, umbrella drinks, sign me up!" they cheered.
"Don't forget your swim suits." Piper added as we laughed even more.
"Hey!" Junko and Finn shouted as they covered them selves up.
"Thanks Piper I really didn't need to see that." Finn informed her, as Aerrow and I nodded to each other, once again knowing what the other is thinking.
"Stork set a course for Tropica." He said.
"Yes!" Stork exclaimed as he set course.
"That's not," Piper tried to abject.
"Tropica it is." I walked over to her, "Piper," I started, "the chances of us actually going is kind of slim."
"What makes you say that?" she asked.
"Well let's just say I have a feeling our plans our going to change." I replied as I walked back to Aerrow.
FF 1hr
We were headed to Tropica, but we entered a storm, I could tell everyone wanted to get out of there as soon as possible.
"We're passing over Terra Gale now," Piper informed us, "it could get choppy."
"Stork," I asked as I placed my hand on his shoulder, he jumped like 2 feet in the air, "sorry I scared you," I apologized.
"How you holding up?" Aerrow asked.
"How does it look like I'm doing?" he asked sarcastically back."And it's ok Jackie."
Just then the alarms started going off. "In coming closing fast!" Stork informed us, "Oh man, we're doomed."
I turned to see what he meant, when I saw a toilet?
'What the?' I asked myself.
"Exactly what kind of doomed are we talking about here?" Finn asked as he pointed to the toilet, which landed right in front of him. Aerrow; Piper; Finn and I all ran to the skimmer bay, and got onto our rides, then flew out into the storm. I was flying beside Aerrow looking around when I heard Piper say
"This part of Gale is a waste land, no body lives out here." The clouds parted and we saw a house, which she almost crashed into.
"Then how do you explain that?" I asked, I saw Aerrow and Finn just shake their heads.
"I'm hit, I'm hit." I hear Finn shout. I look behind us and see Cyclonians. I fly out of their range, but see Finn flying all over the place, lose his skimmer and land on Pipers. I turn around and play chicken with the first Cyclonian I see, I know I won't blink, as we are seconds form crashing into each other he nose dives.
"Chicken!" I yell down at him. I look around and see that only Aerrow is left with a Cyclonian, and I watched as a mattress hits him. I fly beside Aerrow once again, as we both look at each other with a surprised look, then down at the Terra where we see a short man dancing. Aerrow instructs the others to fly down to the terra. We all land, well kinda, Finn gets thrown off of Piper's heli-scooter and gets his butt stuck in a barrel. Aerrow goes to help Finn; I go and stand beside Piper.
"Hello?" we call out.
"Where do you think he went?" Aerrow asks.
"Probably in the kitchen looking for more ammo." Finn comments as he throws the barrel he was stuck in down, but of course where he throws it, sets off a trap. The next thing any of realize we are in a net.
"I've got you now you Cyclonian swine!" The short guy yells at us in a French accent, "Now you will know what happens to enemies of the resistance." He continues as he cuts the rope that our prison is attached to. "For you the wastelands await." He finishes.
Then everyone thought it was a good idea to all talk at once. "Cries for mercy will go unanswered Cyclonian swine."
"We're not Cyclonians." Piper tries to tell him.
"Radarr go." Aerrow tells the blue creature, he jumps from the net, bites our capture and then frees us. The four of us scream as the net and we fall to the ground.
"You freed your self eh? Then we will have to tussle like old fashion trench rats." He said has he put up his fists and we stood up. Aerrow, Finn and I look at each other with a WTF look on our faces.
"We're not Cyclonians!" I inform him.
"She's right," Aerrow chimed in as he grabbed my shoulders.
"We're the good guys." I continued.
"The Storm Hawks." Aerrow finished, the man just gave us a weird look like he had no idea what we were talking about.
"Come on you've heard of us, we're famous!" Finn added.
"Nope, never heard of you." The man stated, "Who is your commanding officer?" He asked.
"That would be me." Aerrow answered. The man then got really close to him; I could tell that Aerrow was starting to get uneasy, as the man back away. He spit on his had and held it out for him to shake, "the name is Wren leader of the resistance front." He continued as he shakes his hand, and Aerrow as a disgusted look on his face, which I couldn't help but let a smile on my face. Aerrow looks over t me for help, notices my smile and sticks his tongue out at me, which makes me smile even bigger. "Welcome to the last free piece of Terra Gale," Wren happily tells us as a piece of the wind mill falls off.
"Impressive," Finn mocks, as Piper elbows him in the chest.
Later that night
"Terra Gale was once a beautiful kingdom," Wren tells us as he poked the tiny fire, "but that was before the Cyclonians came. Now our people toil in their smelters prisoners."
I gave Aerrow a look that said 'we have to help them.' "Two weeks ago, they took my precise Dove" he signed as he handed a photo to Aerrow.
'The girl is pretty' I admitted to myself as I looked over Aerrow's shoulder, and I saw his exasperation change.
"Yup that's a 'we're going on a dangerous mission' look" Finn signed.
"Is she prettier then me?" I whispered in his ear.
"What?" he whispered back. "You heard me."
"She is pretty, but I love you." He soothed as he handed the photo to Finn, and turned around to stare into my eyes. I could tell in his eyes that he meant every word.
"Get a room you two!" Finn shouted before he looked at the photo Aerrow just handed him.
"Shut up Finn." I said, and then I kissed Aerrow.
"We'll get her back Wren." I told him once we parted.
"I'm in!" was all I heard Finn say.
"Fantastic a rescue mission good thinking, we'll show that Dark Ace a thing or two." Wren said excitedly.
"Wait; did you just say the Dark Ace?" Finn asked, we all looked at each other, I looked at Aerrow who now had determination on his face as did I.
Aerrow POV
On the Condor
The four of us landed back on the Condor, I could tell that Jackie was as determined as I was to get this mission started.
"We should start working on a plan right away," Jackie suggested.
"Good idea," I said, "Stork set a course to where the Cyclonians are keeping Dove, and Finn get the weapons ready. I want this to be stealth, but you never know. Jackie, Piper and I will come up with a plan to get in."
"Got it," everyone nodded.
"Do you have any idea how we are going to get in?" Piper asked.
"Undercover," Jackie suggested, "cuz if we go in, in our storm hawks uniforms they're going to know something's up, but if we are in disguises we have a better chance of not getting caught as fast."
"I agree with Jackie, but first we need a way to get in undetected." I point out.
"And I have the perfect way." Piper says as she holds up a crystal. Jackie and I can't help but smile.
"Listen up everyone, we have a rescue plan." I tell them, as I signal all of them to meet at the table. "Most people would say this mission is dangerous, reckless, and pretty much impossible." I say.
"So in other words just our style." Jackie finishes.
"It all starts with Finn; he goes in high altitude, and then cuts the engine for a little quiet time." Piper starts explaining.
"Then he bee lines for the smoke stakes and drops this totally unstable," I say as I toss Finn the Crystal, "so that when it hits kapow"
"there's water every where, and when water hot metal you get steam, lots of it so that no one sees us when we drop in for a zero viz landing." Jackie continues.
"Wait a minute," Junko interrupts, "a landing in zero viz?" he repeats.
"instant death." Stork informs us,
"No it isn't we do that kind of thing all the time," I remind them, "guards will be every where,"
"Oh great, and then we get caught?" Finn asks.
"No, then we take a page from your book and lie," Jackie informed.
Finn thought for a moment then said, "I like it."
"We dress like maintenance guys, we're there to fix the boiler." I continue.
"and when the guards don't buy it, Junko explains it another way." Piper chimes in.
"Then we get a change of clothes and the doors open wide," Jackie carries on, "once we're inside we are like a well oiled machine, guards will be running all over no's got a clue, well we get free run to hunt for Dove."
"Hey guy's," Finn calls out, "lookie who I found."
We watch as Finn gets hit by a frying pan.
"ouch," I hear Jackie say. Dove tries to leave but Junko stops her, she tries to go the other way but I grab her arm. "Dove wait, we're here to bust you out." I tell her,
"Wren set us." Jackie told her.
"Grandpapa?" she asked excited.
"Storm Hawks at your service," Finn slurred as he tried to get up. Jackie seeing Finn was having trouble helped him up and helped steady him.
"Ah good you can carry this," Dove told Finn as she practically threw the heavy ball that was attached to her foot in his hands. Jackie silently laughed well I made a face, cuz honestly it looked like it hurt. "Follow me," she ordered.
"But that's not the way out," I told her.
"Of course not, we free the Sky Knights of Gale next." I look over at Jackie for help.
"She's right," was all she said before she followed Dove and Finn further into the prison. As we went deeper we were stopped by some Cyclonian guards.
"Halt, what's going on here?" the first guard asked us.
"We're taking this dangerous fugitive to the prison." Piper lied.
"she doesn't look dangerous," he commented.
"Oh, this is the notorious evil flying dove scorpion," Jackie told him.
"I don't buy it, where's your id?" He asked us.
"It's in here." I told him as I handed him the toolbox I had been carrying. As he went to open it Radarr jumped out, the guard was so surprised that he cut the ball of the chain that Finn was carrying.
"Sweet." Finn said amused, and then threw it behind him, but instead of hitting the ground it hit Junko in the head. "Arrr" Junko yelled as he went a wallop on the guards.
"Aw sorry you had to see that," he apologized to Dove. "Lets go." I said determined to free the Sky Knights of Gale. Radarr ran ahead to try and open the cell door.
"You're in for a world of hurt." The Cyclonian informed Radarr, but once the rest of the squad got there he dropped his weapon and ran away. Junko proceeded to open the cell door and let out the Sky Knights. Once they were free we ran back to our skimmers.
"Air Finn at your service," Finn said obviously trying to get Dove to ride with him. Jackie and I both rolled our eyes as we hopped on our skimmers.
"Sorry Finn, but she's riding with me." Piper told him, as the two girls continued to Piper's heli-scooter.
"No problemo, that's cool." Was all that he could say.
"After we free the other's we'll meet you over Gale," One of the Sky Knights told Jackie and I.
"Good luck" I wished them as I started my skimmer. I saw Jackie nodded to them before I took off, the team behind me.
Regular POV
I was flying beside Piper when Aerrow flew between us.
"I told you the plan was full proof," he commented, "We saved the day and we didn't even run into…" I heard his laughter before I saw him, the Dark Ace.
'You and your big moth Aerrow.' I thought. Ok true he was bound to show up, but still did Aerrow have to say it.
"I think you spoke to soon there Aerrow." Piper said.
"The Dark Ace!" he finished his statement.
"Well if it isn't the notorious Storm Hawks." The Dark Ace started.
"By the looks of that storm he has a fire bolt crystal!"
"Storm Hawks, prepare for battle!" Aerrow yelled.
"Talons, ATTACK!" the Dark Ace yelled. The talons that the Dark Ace had with him went after us, well he went after Aerrow. Some how I got stuck with two of the talons one in front, the other behind, they thought they had me trapped, how wrong they were. I kept flying like they had me trapped, then at the last moment I nosed dived; the two talons had no time to react, as they screamed as they crashed into each other. We got back in formation, and then the Dark Ace shot at us.
"Follow me we'll lose them in that cloud." Aerrow instructed as he took of towards some clouds. After a few minutes, we dove strait up above the cloud cover; I looked down and saw the Dark Ace trying to find us.
"Stand by," I told the others.
"FIRE!" he ordered. We all fired at the remaining talon, Finn fired first at the Dark Ace, followed by Junko. He just deflected them like a fly to a swatter. Aerrow and I then attacked him, we hit his skimmer, and he lost control. Once he had regained control he fired at Finn, whose skimmer fell apart and once again landed right on Piper's skimmer. Us three girls couldn't help but giggle, as Piper shook him off, lucky for Finn he landed on the back of Junko's skimmer. Unlucky for them the Dark Ace shot them down.
"Uh Junko we have a problem." I heard Finn inform Junko, "the crashing problem or the HIM problem?" Junko yelled back. Aerrow looked over at me, I nodded and we flew to either side of the Dark Ace.
"Hey!" I yelled at the Dark Ace.
"I'll be with you in a minute sweetheart!" he called over.
"Actually I think you have another appointment" I told him. He looked at me confused, I just pointed to his left. He turned his head just in time to see Aerrow's fist in is face, which sent is energy sword into is wing.
"Go help Finn and Junko," Aerrow yelled, "I'm not leaving!" I protested.
"That's an order Jackie," he replied well trying to get the Dark Ace off of him. I knew I couldn't win this fight so I flew off to help the others with a scowl on my face.
Aerrow POV
"Hey!" Jackie yelled from the other side of the Dark Ace.
"I'll be with you in a minute sweetheart!" I heard him reply to Jackie.
'How dare he call her sweetheart' I thought, 'he better not lay one finger on her!' I was almost in position.
"Actually I think you have another appointment." Jackie told him as she pointed in my direction. I took this opportunity to jump from my skimmer, as he looked at me my hand collided with his face, and is weapon flew from his hand and landed on his wing. We started fighting.
"Go help Finn and Junko," I told her, 'she's not going to listen though' I thought.
"I'm not leaving!" she protested, 'yup I was right.'
"That's an order Jackie," I told her in a stern voice that even surprised me. She flew off but I could tell she wasn't happy about it. The Dark Ace was over me, I kicked him in the chest and he flew on to the back of his skimmer.
"With a little more training you would make an excellent talon!" he told me.
"I'd rather eat dirt!" I replied. "
That can be a ranged," he threatened, "and then I will take your girl."
Now that got me mad, so I jumped up and we started fighting again.
Regular POV
I flew beside Piper and Dove, "Have you seen the boys?" I asked them.
"Shouldn't you be with Aerrow?" Piper asked me.
"I was, but he sent me to go help Finn and Junko."
"Oh," was all she said.
"I think I found them", I told them as I pointed to a skimmer crashing towards the Wastelands with two boys screaming like girls on it. The three of us flew down towards them.
"We're gonna die!" they screamed, I whistled to get their attention.
"Are they always this dramatic?" Dove asked,
"You have no idea." I told her as Piper threw a gavelling hook that latched onto the front of Junko's skimmer. We flew back up towards the fight, "You guys ok?" I asked the boys.
"Ya, but I never want to do that ever again!" Junko said.
"Agreed!" Finn chimed in. I looked around trying to find Aerrow; he was still fighting the Dark Ace, ands I watched as he put a wrench in the Dark Ace's wing. He laughed, but I smiled, I knew exactly what his plan was. Aerrow took off with the Dark Ace on his tail.
"Get back to the Condor" I told Piper.
"Where are you going?" She asked me.
"To watch a show," I simply said as I flew after Aerrow. When I caught up to them they were flying Widow's Cannon run, and the Dark Ace was firing at Aerrow. 'No surprise there' I thought. I flew high enough so that they couldn't see me, and I went to the other side of the cannon. A few minutes later Aerrow and Radarr flew out, they stopped right beside me.
"What are you doing here?" he asked me.
"I came to watch the show," I said nonchalantly.
"I see," he said.
"Well the show is over in 3, 2, 1" he counted down as an explosion occurred; the Dark Ace literally flew out of the cannon. I watched as Aerrow flew down and grabbed the Fire Bolt crystal, then he flew back towards me, and we flew off. We knew that the Dark Ace would find a way to follow us, and that is what we were counting on. Pretty soon he was once again behind us and looking really pissed off, but Aerrow and I, we had a smile on our faces. He was just about to attack when we heard a whistle. To our left was Dove and Piper, our left Finn and Junko all ready to fight, and the cherry on top was the Condor and the Sky Knights of Gale behind us.
"Now that would be check mate!" Aerrow told the Dark Ace and I held up the crystal.
"Next time Storm Hawk, you won't be so lucky." He threatened before he flew off in defeat.
On Terra Gale
"Oh good work soldiers," Wren started, "I don't know how to re-pay you"
"Gold works for me." Finn said, then I hit him in the back of the head.
"Seeing Dove safe and Gale liberated is reward enough," Aerrow reassured him.
"Oh what a nice young man," Wren said; then Dove lifted up his helmet thing.
"I think we can find something to give them grandpapa, don't be cheep!" she whispered to Wren. Piper and Junko gave each other a look, so did Aerrow and I.
"Fine, a Wind Stone the oldest trade, next time you faces those Cyclonian swine blow them a kiss for me, for the resistance."
"For the resistance." Aerrow agreed. We looked over and saw a chicken next to a rocking chair, the same chicken from before we left, and I believe she developed a crush on Radarr.
"Uh Aerrow." I said as I nudged him and pointed.
"Oh, umm, maybe we should give those two a moment alone." He said. Radarr looked over at the chicken and then practically ran to Aerrow's skimmer. Aerrow and I walked over to our skimmers as the Knights of Gale flew over us. Their Sky Knight saluted us, and we saluted back.
"Now can we go to the beach?" Finn asked with Junko nodding in agreement. I shook my head as I hopped on my skimmer. I looked to the sky and thought I saw a skimmer, but the sun was in my eyes so I just told my self I was seeing things, if only I had listened with my gut.