Author's Note: Hey, welcome to chapter three! This one was slightly more harder to write than the previous two, but hopefully its okay.

Sorry to keep harping on about this but please guys, please review. I don't know if anyone likes this story, so a review would be nice. Thanks to Sardonic Request (the lovely Jess XD) though for the review, `tis much appreciated!

Anyway, back to the story, and to the Storm Hawks….

"So dudes…. Let me get his straight..." said Finn. They were all currently on the ramp of the Condor, on their skimmers and in Piper's case, heli-blade and had just finished checking their weapons and crystal stocks when Finn had suddenly spoken.

"We get this strange… um… frequency thing on our sonar which no one has a clue about what it is, or what its from and our first plan is to go and try to find it?" He said, sounding incredulous.

Piper sighed.

"Finn, we went through this, remember? We are going after this because yes, although we have no idea what is causing this frequency we know it must be powerful because of the magnitude it caused on the sonar. That means that it could either be caused by a glitch which would mean nothing bad, or it could be something else. Like Talons trying out a new crystal Cyclonis has come up with, or the Murk Raiders have, well, raided something new to use --"

"None of these I like, by the way." Finn cut in, shaking his head. "Sounds so stupid to me to be doing this!"

"News flash, Finn, you are stupid."

"Wow, you cut me deep, you really do."

"Guys--" Junko tried to cut in, but was ignored.

"Finn, can't you see how stupid you are being at this moment in time? If it is Talons, we can simply fight them and send them packing, but if we don't they will go on to terrorise more terras! We can't sit back and let them to that, we have to stop them!" Piper finished, glaring at Finn, who gave her the same treatment.

"Piper, Finn, would you two cut it out. What did I just say not even twenty minutes ago? I said that I wanted us all to work as a team and not to waste anymore time, two orders which both of you are breaking already! Look, if you don't stop it, I'm carrying out this mission with Junko only!" Aerrow said angrily. Those two were definitely worse than usual, but on today of all days, it really wasn't the time for them to act up.

Thankfully, mercifully, they both stopped glaring at each other and looked at Aerrow.

"Sorry, Aerrow. I won't do it again." Piper said

"Sorry dude. It won't happen again. Its cool." Finn muttered.

"It's okay, but you both really have to stop being at each others' throats all the time!" Aerrow said, feeling less angry than what had had been a few minutes ago.

Junko smiled.

"I like things better when you two don't fight! I think everything always goes better when you don't. But lets forget about it, and move on. Its in the past now…" Junko trailed off, as if he had forgotten what else he had planned on saying. Suddenly he grinned again.

"I know! Why don't you both hug and say that you're sorry to each other as well! It will get past all negative feelings!" He said happily. Both Piper and Finn stared at him in shock and horror. Aerrow, however smiled evilly.

"That's a good idea, Junko. Well, you two? I believe you have something to say to one another?" he said with a chuckle. Both Piper and Finn looked at him and then at each other before realising they had to actually do this.

They walked towards each other, paused for a second and then quickly hugged.

"I'm sorry Finn."

"Sorry Pipes!"

They broke apart and Piper climbed onto her Heli-blade while Finn clambered onto his skimmer.

Junko smiled again and Aerrow laughed.

"Now, can we go please?" he asked.

They all nodded and made to go but before they transformed their vehicles Piper turned to Finn.

"Finn?"

"Yeah?"

"Please never call me Pipes. Again. Ever." She said.

"Sure thing…. Pipes." Finn said, laughing.

Piper yelled something at him but since they had chosen at that moment to fly, no one heard what she had said.

Probably just as well.

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Dark Ace had said all the swear words he knew under his breath for the past half hour. God, he was pissed off. Off all the places he had to go to, Terra Grimius was officially the worst. He would be there in about twenty minutes and was dreading it.

To make matters worse, he had discovered that some bloody Talon had accidentally caused one of the absorption panels to become loose. Did the idiot not know how expensive those things cost? And what could happen if they fell off?

"If it falls off, I swear to Atmos that I will kill whoever is responsible!" He muttered angrily.

It didn't help that the panel kept shaking every five minutes either.

"A very long, slow death…."

He glanced at the panel. Yup, there it went again.

"Before sending the corpse down to the Wastelands to be burnt…. And to be eaten…." He continued, looking ahead.

He couldn't see a damn thing, so right now it seemed he was on a dead-end mission with a messed up Skimmer and --

Wait…

He looked carefully ahead of him. He could see the faint outline of skimmers, blue and white with a bird-like emblem to be exact.

"Oh, bloody fantastic. Now the Storm Hawks are here. Why not just invite the Rex Guardians too while we're at it?" Dark Ace grumbled. It wasn't that he was scared of fighting the Storm Hawks-he could easily take on the four little kids who were flying towards him- it was simply that he only wanted to get this mission over and done with and head back to Cyclonia.

And there was that stupid piece of metal shaking and jerking again!

"I sometimes think" he muttered darkly, "that life is constantly finding new ways to piss me off, and you know what? It bloody works!"

He flew straight ahead, muttering the same mantra of swear words as he had on the journey here.

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Aerrow was surprised, to say in the least. Here was Finn and Piper, behaving beautifully, and Junko was happily humming to himself.

Thank Atmos that everything was cleared up now.

So why was he surprised?

It had something to do with the fact that he still felt… that something was wrong. He didn't know what, but he could just feel it.

He missed not having Radarr at his side, but his little pal had sprained his arm on a previous mission and was instead onboard the Condor with Stork. Who had not liked the plan. At all.

"You're wanting to fly near Terra Grimius?" he had said. "Do you know what things are there? What diseases you could end up with? You could get Dustpox, or Skymonella! There's also the horrible Humped Hicklen who eats raw human flesh… and of course the Spotted Blue Death Worms! You are all doomed! Doomed!"

Stork had ranted on for ages, literally, until he finally realised that they would still be going. At that time, he had turned around to Radarr and merely said "You and I….are the only ones with brains aboard this ship."

And he had refused to talk anymore on the matter, and had instead locked himself away at the helm of the Condor.

But anyway, he missed Radarr, but that wasn't it… so what could it be?

"Right… so…. I don't see anything!" Finn muttered, looking confused. "I thought something was supposed to be here?"

"I see nothing either…" Junko said, looking around him.

As if that will make something pop out, Junko, Aerrow thought.

"This is strange… the readings are definitely located from here…. I don't understand this at all. It makes no sense; the sonar detector is working perfectly." Piper said. She seemed confused and at the same time curious.

"Brilliant. We came out here all the way for nothing, then. Great." Finn complained to them.

"Well, at least it means nothing is wrong, so that's good." Junko said with a smile. Good old Junko, always the optimist of the group.

"I vote we head back!" Finn exclaimed, pointing back towards the Condor.

"Finn, we can't go back already--" Piper started to say, then after she looked around she sighed.

"Okay, maybe we should go back. There really does seem to be nothing here, so we could go back and check the Sonar and see if it is broken in some way…" she muttered, looking at Aerrow. "What do you think?"

They all looked at him, while he looked around, and then down on the Terra below them. He quickly made up his mind.

"Right, this is what we're gonna do guys. You are going to go back to the Condor, while I take a quick sweep of the area. I'll be five minutes, tops," he added, seeing Piper's face when he mentioned he was staying.

"But dude, there's no need. Nothings here, apart from some fluffy clouds, as always!" Finn said, waving his arms around to make his point.

Aerrow laughed. Trust Finn to make a point like that.

"I know, but I would still like to check. You never know, right? It would make me feel better, Finn. You can go, seriously. I'll be only five minutes at the most." He smiled at his friends.

Piper and Junko had looked at him and at his smiled, had smiled back and headed back in the direction of the Condor. Finn, however before following made his point one more time.

"Dude! Fluffy clouds! that's all!" he said, shaking his head. "I'll see ya then!"

Aerrow watched them go, before swinging his skimmer back around again. He flew straight for a minute and was about to turn around again when he saw a figure approaching in his general direction.

He looked long and hard, before swearing. He could see a faint outline of a skimmer, red and black with a curling black emblem to be exact.

"Crap… not you! Not now!"

He radioed his friends.

"Um, Piper, Finn? Guys? You there?"

"We're here, what's up? Seen anything?"

"Yeah… Well… Its not what we were expecting…"

"What do you mean, Aerrow? What's there?"

"Guys, we have a problem."

"What kind of problem?"

Aerrow looked ahead of him and sighed.

"A very big problem."

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Well, I think that actually worked out. Wow, I'm addicted to this know. I know exactly what's going to happen in this…

I hope you liked it… and remember folks, reviews are like little slices of heaven….

Loves xxxx