Chapter3-DISEASE!!!!!
Thanks to stork, Heron was able to get more know-how by studying a few books he gave her on vehicle assembling. Piper shown her how to use the Crystals she'd found and Heron had given her the oblivion crystal and the Solaris crystal in thanks so they had all come to the conclusion that she wasn't a Cyclonian, if she was she wouldn't have given them two of the most powerful Crystals she had. Bryn and Radarr had become good friends and often annoyed Aerrow for fun; just trying to make him annoyed was fun enough.
"Heron are you sure you know what your doing?" Piper asked as Heron took the switchblade apart
"You'll see when I'm done." She grinned and went back to disassembling the bike; Piper shook her head and was about to leave when a rather loud sneeze erupted from Heron quickly followed by another "are you ok?" piper asked her voice laced with concern
"Sure I am –sneeze- ok maybe not." She said with a stuffy nose "I think –sneeze- I have a-a-a -sneeze- cold." And she came out from under the bike "do you guys have any soup?" she asked
"Yeah... I think well last time I checked anyway, why?" she asked
"Soup is the best cure for a –sneeze- cold." She stated smartly
"Ok then... just don't go near Stork." She smirked
"Why?"
"He's paranoid about illnesses."
"... Hey that's my shtick!" she complained then sneezed
"What?" Piper asked confused
"I've been –sneeze- paranoid of illnesses and such since I was 2... It's not fair!" she exclaimed and Piper smirked
"Looks like you two will get along famously." Then remembered something when Heron asked
"Why were you down her anyway?"
"Well Aerrow wanted to know if you'd join the team." She informed her and Heron just looked at her with wide eyes
"Join... this team?" she asked shocked
"Yeah and oh this fell out of your bag." She smiled handing her a black hardback book
"What is my sketch holder doing in that bag?" she wondered to herself then a light bulb seemingly went off in her head "Bryn." She mumbled
"Your pet?" she asked
"Yes he loves picking things up and placing them in weird places... the only problem is –sneeze- is that I can't stay mad at him." She said grumpily as she wiped her nose, Piper chuckled sympathetically
"Come on I'll show you to the kitchen." She smiled and Heron followed her. Unfortunately they had to go into the control room which was where everyone was, and also, Stork wasn't watching where he was going and immediately dashed out of the room then back with some weird material and a few gas masks
"She'll doom us all!" he exclaimed and gave everyone a gas mask
"COPIER!" Heron yelled annoyed then sneezed
"What is she talking about?" Aerrow asked
"Apparently she's been paranoid about illness since she was two... and Stork it's just a cold you can't die from a cold."
"That's what you think, soon it'll turn into flu then into pneumonia, then we all die!" he stated with a skull in his hand
"Is he always like –sneeze- this?" Heron asked
"Unfortunately yeah." Finn grinned
"I am who I am man." Stork stated chucking the skull behind him Bryn barley dodged it and barked at him "sorry." He said and Bryn went back to playing with Radarr
"Piper can I talk with you a minute?" Aerrow asked and she nodded then walked out with him
"What?" she asked
"Did you ask?"
"I told her you wanted to ask if she'd join... she didn't answer just wondered why you'd want her on the team then she started sneezing and forgot all about it." She explained
"Maybe I should ask her..." he mumbled
"That'd be a good idea." Piper agreed "...after she gets rid of that cold." She said and Heron walked out with some soup
"I found the soup." She grinned then sneezed almost dropping it "just gotta not drop it."
"Come with me, I'm sure we can find you a room on the condor." Aerrow smiled
"Erm... oh that reminds me, you wanted to ask me something?" she asked
"Yeah I wanted to know if you'd like to join the team."
"Erm well I –sneeze- would love to... but I'm no good at... anything really." She said
"You're good at dissembling the vehicles and from the looks of it, you cook... you're good with the guns which we recently found out." Piper smiled
"Erm... ok but I have to –sneeze- finish what I was doing in the hanger." She smiled
"You need rest." Aerrow advised and she shook her head
"Not me, colds don't really effect me that much, just make me sneeze a lot." She smiled then sneezed again "just basically annoys me." She shrugged but then noticed something, her nails were sharpened
"You're annoyed." Piper grinned
"Wow... now my nails really are lethal." She smiled; it would have sounded rather threatening if she hadn't sneezed twice right after.
"Come on I think I know the perfect room for you." Piper smiled the led her off to the small since she liked so much. A few hours of rest after she woke up feeling a weight on her stomach, she looked down to see the big brown eyes of her puppy... and a guy in a gas mask
"Erm... is that you Stork?" she asked and he nodded "not that I mind or anything but... what are you doing here?" she asked
"I came to see how you were doing." He stated
"Piper made you come didn't she?" she asked dryly
"Actually... no." He responded and her eyes widened
"Well I'm flattered that you'd risk illness to see me." She smiled thankfully that gas mask masked his blushing face
"I also came to give you this." He smiled and put a storm hawk's uniform on her bed almost catching Bryn again who was rapidly starting to dislike the paranoid Merb.
"Erm –sneeze- thank you." She smiled and realised "hey I think this cold is disappearing." She grinned
"A Merb can avoid colds and such... unless it kills them first." Stork explained
"Uh huh." She stated weirdly and he nodded then slipped out and closed the door behind him "he's one weird guy... but hey he is kinda cute." She grinned and looked at the clothing. She got up and changed then looked at herself in the mirror, the outfit was a perfect fit it shown curves she never knew she had and fit perfectly with her new dark brown fur. The outfit consisted of a blue and brown top that stopped short showing her mid-drift and tight brown pants with blue patterns on them and her feet were left bare, she also wore arm length blue gloves with only two fingers in them. She let her hair out of its tight band and let it fall down to the bottom of her back. Later on she was found once again in the hanger seemingly building something
"Erm Heron?" Aerrow asked and she bumped her head then pushed herself from under the contraption holding her head
"What?"
"What are you building?" he asked
"You'll see when i'm done." She grinned then sneezed banging her head on the metal she was welding "ouch." She spoke dryly as he chuckled
"Need any help?" he asked grinning
"Nah, i'm fine... you could get me a wrench though." She smiled and he walked off and brought back the tool she needed from Junko's metal supply
"Here." He handed it to her
"Thanking you." She grinned and tightened a bolt on a metal sheet
"So... which Terra do you come from?" he asked
"Well... when I fell through that hole thing... I hit my head... I can't really remember." She lied, she didn't like lying but what could she tell them 'i'm a human and came through some wacky portal into a weird dimension with flying motorbikes to find I was a weird dog thing...? Yeah that'd work' she grimaced at the thought
"Maybe Stork will know... he's a Merb too." He suggested
"I doubt that, he won't know..." she shrugged
"I'll go ask him." He smiled and ran off before she could protest. She shook her head and got back to work. On the bridge Aerrow had accidently scared Stork when he walked up behind him
"Is there any chance you could try and not scare me to death?" he asked dryly
"Sorry Stork." Aerrow replied apologetically "I was wondering, do you know any Terra's where Merbs come from?"
"Well I am a Merb... but no more exist, the Cyclonians destroyed them all." He answered simply
"Hmm... so where did Heron come from?" he wondered
"Personally I don't think she came from a Terra... I think she came from somewhere else... she's not like any Merb I know." Stork pondered
"She's from a terra Stork. Stop being paranoid." He smiled and walked off as Stork shook his head
"Don't say I didn't warn you." He muttered and sneezed.