To anyone still following this - I'm going to finish it up for you. I wrote this to give you a heads up! I'm so sorry it has taken so long. More to come very soon!


Candlelit Condor – Chapter 5

It's On!

Radarr was bored. He had bald patches, thanks to his fur being used as Night Crawler repellant. Did he not deserve to have some fun? Even if that fun was for the sake of his boy? The sneaky Sky Monkey was burrowing around in the Condor's humming engine room, looking for some way to cut the power to the ship. He knew it would do no harm, unless his squad mates had terrible night vision unlike himself. Thinking to himself that a control panel would be really convenient, low and behold he had finally found it! Success! Now all he had to do was hide the energy crystals powering the lights and he'd have his plan underway.

Chirruping quietly to himself in satisfaction, he was left in the dark.
"Go Aerrow, use this to your advantage!" was his silent message.

-x-X-x-

Piper could nearly scream. This was getting on her nerves. She liked Aerrow, really, but right now she couldn't fathom how he was getting to her.
"Why is this so frustrating! We just saved the whole Atmos, we nearly died! We can't even find a room in a ship we know like the back of our hand without messing it up," she sighed, still atop Aerrow's form.

Reaching his hand to her back, Aerrow tried to calm her down. She was overreacting, but he would too, if he wasn't having just a little bit of fun.
He reasoned, "Piper. Take a breath. We're here, we can get the candles, and find the others. It'll be fine, you know that."

She was silent, bar her exhaling. He took that as a good sign.

"You're right. Thanks. You always know what to say...I.. should probably get off you now..." Aerrow chuckled for what seemed like the thousandth time that night.
He smiled to himself, "Piper honestly, if this weren't pitch dark, and the wrong time, I couldn't care less if you didn't get up...but it is the wrong time, unfortunately,"

Slowly getting up, Piper was a little shocked. Did he just admit he liked that? Isn't that weird? 'Who cares, this is amazing!' said the back of her mind. She realised that she needed to take her chance. They weren't stupid kids.

"You have no idea how much I wish it was the right time," she admitted.
"Let's make a time later, Piper."

She smiled.

-x-X-x-

Who ever thought a fridge's contents would be so difficult to carry around? Definitely not Finn, but lucky for him, Junko had more than enough capability of holding the most of their load. They had gotten the food back in the fridge where it belonged.

With a grin and a thumbs up from Junko, they shared a high five.

"Good work Junko! I have a wallop of a best friend," Finn stated.
He received one of Junko's famous bone-crushing hugs in return.
"Aww thanks Finn! You're the best!" he exclaimed as he let Finn down. They did not notice Radarr scurry past the kitchen, aiming to offload his loot.

Now that they had finished their task, they had nothing to do. Except wait.
Finn suggested, "Whatddya say we go wait on the bridge for somebody to get back?" Junko nodded in agreement, so they set off.

Stork was not faring as well as his two squad-mates. He couldn't believe how power crystals had just vanished. He instantly thought sabotage. But who? They didn't know anyone, let alone anything, in the Far Side. But it hit him.

"An inside job, eh? I can only think of one who would be so daring," he reasoned with himself, "Where is that little rascal! RADARR! I'LL FIND YOU!"

"Squawk!" Radarr's legs moved faster than they had ever gone. It's on!


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