Peace was restored throughout the Atlantis and the sky's around. The Foe made a temporary retreat giving the team time to breathe and relax after many brawls they fought in the last twenty-four hours. All bodies were enjoying the silence of space, doing normal activities around the mothership. The morning was quiet, J.J. volunteered to make breakfast and coffee. Allan and Jose were with Cynder and Flame in the storage bay, looking for anything interesting to mess with or look at. Daniel was reading a newspaper, while Raichu and Erick were playing on the small television of yet again, Star Coyote. J.J. finished one cup of coffee and handed it to Daniel. He took a sip and coughed with a gag, grabbing his throat.
"Bleh! This is awful!" he complained, grabbing his napkin and cleaning himself off. J.J. stomped over and tried again. He re-pours his cup and hands it to the old pilot. "Augghh! This is even worse! It had fur in it!" he yelled sucking down a glass of water like a camel. J.J. gritted his teeth and huffed.
"I don't need this! You make your own dang coffee!" he said with fury. Daniel pointed with his index finger with no change of emotion on his face.
"I guess I need to make my own eggs with toast too" J.J. turned around and found Lucario trying to put out a fire from the stove and toaster. He stormed in and screamed in terror, putting it out with an extinguisher.
"Stay away from my coffee you pile of fur!" he yelled at the dog Pokemon with his teeth showing. He shrugged and walked out carrying a cup of coffee with a smirk.
"I like coffee, so sue me" and he disappeared behind the double doors.
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The storage bay was more like the attic of the mothership. Allan and Jose looked over labels of boxes and parts for their fighters. Jose found a box with a label of his name and looked through it, finding his old Earthian military pilot uniform and helmet which was blue and grey, with a green visor. He dug further and found a pair of keys at the bottom of the box.
"Ha! Found them!" he exclaimed standing up and staring at the keys through the light. Allan continued to look through his old items and stared at a pair of red and blue orbs, glittering from the light.
"That reminds me… what did you find Jose?" he said standing up, facing his ecstatic friend. He shook the keys with a large smile on his face.
"Found the keys to the Manx man! Now we can drive the realms in style!" he was referring to the dune buggy he had problems with earlier. Allan nodded his head showing a sign of agreement and walked towards a closed door.
"Dude, Allan. Where you going man?" Jose asked placing the keys in his pocket. Allan turned left and walked down a dark-lighted hallway.
"It's been a week already. C'mon, I need an extra hand to open the door." He asked from the echo down the hallway. Jose jogged out and closed the door, following Allan.
"We need more lighting" he complained.
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After a long lecture about kitchen ware and the "back-in-my-day" monologue, J.J. was able to serve breakfast for all four dragons and Daniel. While they were eating they discussed the situation of the Realms.
"Even though we scared the Foe away, your home is still suffering from this, 'dark energy'. If it gets any worse, the planet might become barren" Daniel stated fiddling with his fingers.
"Then lets get down there and do what we do best!" J.J. said banging his hands on the table in anger. Daniel released a large sigh and pondered.
"I'll flame em all!" Flame agreed releasing steam from his snout.
"Tell the Foe to bring it!" Cynder replied with her eyes almost glowing. Ember and Spyro nodded and all eyes stared on Daniel who looked overwhelmed from the group's ambition. Again he released another sigh.
"I don't think we're ready… yet" All five jaw-dropped, showing disbelief and confusion. J.J. got up from his chair and banged on the table, harder this time.
"Not READY!? We are the Stealth Squadron! We are always ready!" he stomped back and forth behind the old pilot. He closed and eyes and thought.
"I know that J.J. But we need to get prepared for anything we're up against. I don't want you to fight some… I don't know… a supernatural being that one of these four know that's just waiting to grill us with power that we didn't expect." He ranted on. J.J. shrugged and sat back down on his chair, mentally defeated.
"All right, I guess it couldn't to get some practice" he replied putting away his plate, along with the others.
"I have a test area in Fortuna that we can use" Daniel recommended getting up from his seat. Spyro jumped off his and followed Daniel near the briefing room.
"Or you can practice in Sunny Plains. There's a large field that you can fly for miles on" Daniel nodded and opened through the hallway doors, meeting Roburto.
"The-force-field-is-still-inactive" he replied in his monotone. Daniel nodded and sat in his chair, looking at the map of the planet and realms.
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At that moment Allan twisted the steel door with both hands pulling the lever to open the door. Jose grabbed the edge of the door and pushed, releasing a cool breeze of air from the inside. The light inside the steel door flickered and went out. Out of the door was a turquoise and white dragon-like bird with red eyes and a red triangle near it's belly. It yawned, extending it's smooth wings, that were not bat, bird or dragon's, but allowed the creature to hover.
"Ahhh. I feel like a new Latios!" he stretched for joy. Both Allan and Jose looked surprised even though it was Allan's Pokemon. "What?" he asked the two pilots who were looking up and down.
"Dude, I think he became that rare kind. A shiny or something?" he asked. The Latios hovered near a window and backed away in excitement.
"I look thinner in this color" he said to himself.
"Is it time to get out already?" asked a feminine voice from the inside. Jose peeked around and heard the sounds of someone getting up.
"If he changed, then there's a chance…"
"Who changed?" said the female voice who appeared out the door. Jose jaw dropped and rapidly looked up and down in disbelief. Out of the door was a beautiful teenage girl with short brown hair, puffed up in a way. She had red sneakers with red stockings passing her knees. She wore a white zipped shirt that dropped a foot above her knees with a blue triangle near the covered button and zipper area. She had a red long-sleeved velvet shirt underneath. She stared her golden eyes at all three.
"Are you available Saturday?" Jose joked moving his head around. The girl ignored him and faced Latios looking confused.
"Look at your reflection" he said pointing a tiny claw from his oval hand at the window. She turned and immediately gasped, blushing.
"I guess l learned how to morph into a human!" she said strike a pose at the window. She snapped her finger and glowed into a large ball of light. It changed to a red and white dragon creature, similar to the Latios, but smaller and cuter, a Latias. Allan sighed and closed the steel door.
"Well that was interesting. We got a new mission. This time you're not going since I threw away your pokeball. Instead your helping Kent" he said twisting the knob on the door.
"Oh, okay" Latias replied dumbstruck. Latios nodded and held her tiny oval hand and carried her to the docking bay.
"I have a sudden feeling we should head back" Allan asked rubbing his dusty head with his hands. Jose shrugged and followed bumping Allan with a kidding-like elbow.
"I'm never looking at her the same way after today" he said in a joking manner. Allan laughed back and lead Jose out to the briefing room.
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Everyone, except Kent, Latias and Latios, were in the briefing room sitting or standing in their usual spots. Daniel was waiting for Roburto to blink about the update of whatever he asked him to do.
"Holographic-training-course-is-ready" he blinked from his rectangular red eye. Daniel turned around his chair getting the groups attention.
"Well team, we're set to begin our little training session. Just to get you even more fired up for air combat. Spyro, Cynder, Flame and Ember will watch you perform the basics. I gave them communicators to interact with you while you practice" Allan nodded while Erick was creating the course to be set. Jose and J.J. sat and listened with their arms crossed. "Simple right? Good. Now show them how we do it!" he pointed his finger at the window in front of them. They were hovering over a massive green valley with a rainbow not far off from the field. Allan, J.J, and Jose sprinted from their seats and ran to the elevator. Quickly it descended to the docking bay with the other threesome looking impressed and anxious.
"We'll be waiting here" Latias said wiggling a claw. They jumped into their designated fighters and began the procedures.
"Communications line, green" Allan reported. He placed his sunglasses on his face and placed the headset where it should be. At the last second Raichu charged out of the door and jumped into the rear of Allan's cockpit.
"Whew, I made it" Allan chuckled and closed the ProwlerWing's window.
"Course- standing-by" Roburto said over the intercom. On cue, all three Arwings charged out with flames the size of semi's. All three were covered in black ash and dust. Kent coughed up a black piece of smoke from his mouth.
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All around the field was many rings, floating in a zigzag loop to practice maneuvering.
"Welcome-to-training-course-one. Begin-with-flying-ability" Roburto said over the headset. Allan followed the first ring and began passing one after the other. Behind him was J.J. and Jose, following his every move. Then a break of the rings appeared with several of them scattered left or right.
"Open the wings Allan" Daniel ordered. Allan moved a switch and pressed a holographic button. The wings of the ProwlerWing fully opened, spreading themselves out. The same went with Jose's JetWing and J.J.'s StealthWing. Allan moved a soft left and then a right, passing the rings with ease. More rings appeared, all clumped up into one small, long line.
"Let's see what thrust looks like" Flame said with curiosity over the headset. Allan smiled and pushed forward the controls, charging the fighter, passing the rings quickly. "Awesome!" he replied in astonishment. Ahead another line of rings appeared to use the thrust. He charged with full throttle and passed all ten easily, with Jose and J.J. flying back to catch a missed ring. Another batch was ahead, this time with two rings on top of the other seven.
"Try a somersault" Daniel said, anxious to see Allan's performance. Allan slowly followed the trail of rings and jumped upward into the sky then dove down again, passing the ring. Again he repeated his tactic with the other. The foursome watching noticed he hasn't missed a ring, although J.J. and Jose missed two or three. Ahead was a opening-and-closing wall with a ring on the other side.
"Use the boost right?" Jose asked charging at the fake door. He passed it without getting hit.
"Negative. Using-brakes-exercise" Roburto replied. Jose sighed in frustration and u-turned back at the course. Allan quickly pulled back the controls with which the four breaks from the gravity diffusers immediately stopped the ProwlerWing from moving. The wall opened, which allowed Allan to charge into the opening and soar through the ring. A bleep appeared on his headset.
"Perfect score Allan. That was just the easy stuff"
"Great. Now-lets-get-back-to-the-training-you-showoff" The rings disappeared from the field, vanishing out of thin air. Without warning, a shot of fire appeared from the sky. "Enemy-detected. No-harm-to-Atlantis-hull" he replied. Allan looked ahead into the sky, which appeared was thirty fighters flying carelessly around the field. "Perfect-for-combat-training" Allan followed a fighter and rapidly fired his indigo twin blasters at his adversary. Without even falling to the ground, the fighter was gone in an instant.
"Take them out with one shot!" Cynder said inching herself closer to the window with the adrenaline rush.
"Do you have any bombs?" Spyro asked looking at the fighter sniping two more ships in an instant.
"Yeah I want to see that!" Ember replied watching again as two more fell victim to Allan's shooting. He looked over at his shoulder to see Raichu eyeballing the radar. He jumped and pointed at a squadron of ten flying around, all grouped up. Allan turned the fighter left and held his control, locking on to the squadron. He locked in and fired a red diamond shaped bomb from the front of the ProwlerWing. It followed the fighters, and immediately struck one, followed by a massive red sphere of fire, sending the other nine out of existence. Behind him was Jose chasing another fighter, even though he could not get a perfect shot to shoot it down.
"Charge the laser you dipwad!" J.J. yelled firing a green orb at his prey sending it downward. Jose charged his laser with the nose gleaming red. He fired the orb at the fighter, sending it downward as well in flames.
"Guess I forgot" he said in embarrassment. Allan was being chased by another fighter with more speed and maneuverability. He took a hit or two before somersaulting out of harms way. The fighter fired again missing only inches.
"Do a barrel roll!" Daniel ordered. Allan spun the fighter as hard as it can, spinning violently, shaking the lasers easily from damaging the fighter. He charged his laser and fired a green glow, striking the enemy hard at it's rear. It disintegrated into thin air.
"No-enemies-have-been-detected. Training-complete" Roburto called over the headset. J.J. sighed in disgust.
"Now can we start this mission? I'm already set" he asked impatiently. Daniel rubbed his glasses and sighed back.
"Fine. Pick a dragon to put in the back of your seat… tomorrow" he replied. He heard a loud "Arrg" sound from the other end of the communicator. He sighed again and leaned his chair back, watching the three fighters practicing additional aerial moves.