AUTHOR: Djap
LANGUAGE: English
PAIRING: mainly Dark Ace x Aerrow, but also Finn x Stork, Junko x OFC, and a surprise pairing
RATING: NC17
BETA: De Ore Leonis – thank you for your great work
SUMMARY: What if the storm Hawks come back through the gate, bringing their enemies as prisoners with them, only to discover, that their own world has changed so much that they didn't know anymore what was the right or the wrong side of their former war? Look inside and find out!
DEDICATION: I got inspired by a fanfiction which is called "The last letter". The story made me think about the Cyclonians as a nation (not just the 'bad guys') with history and an own language and stuff. I wanted to thank the author for such a great story, which I did in my own way – by writing a new story as a thank you for the fandom.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own them, and I won't make any money with them. Pity.
PART 3_3 – this is the end: no more chapters to come ;(
SO TAKE A GLASS OF WINE, LIE BACK AND ENJOY
YOURS DJAP
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Doing the right thing
A Djap story
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PART THREE: Back in the new world
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The world on the other side looked exactly the same as before, as if they hadn't left it and stayed away for over a year. As far as they knew, no more than a month or two had passed in their absence.
They had reached their destination with the Condor, five other former Federation ships and with it the rest of the Cyclonian race. They had brought as much as they could carry, from food, metals and crystals to memories in form of books and photos.
They hadn't been able to win against the Federation after all. They had hoped they would be able to change the world – but they had learnt there wasn't anything they could do for the Cyclonian kids back in Atmos.
It had not been an easy decision to make. Atmos was their home world even though none of them seemed to recognize it anymore. Every one of them had to make the decision for themselves.
The Cyclonians didn't have much choice in the end. Even if Dark Ace or Lark had wanted to stay, it would only have been a matter of time until they were caught and executed. Besides they were the leaders of the kids and even Lark couldn't ward of her duty any longer.
The decision for the members of the Storm Hawks was more difficult to make.
Although Aerrow knew he would follow his lover anywhere, his pride had taken massive damage by his lack of opportunities to defeat the Federation. At least he knew that it felt exactly the same for his lover and so his obligation to the kids won.
Radarr would go where Aerrow led him. He was, after all, not only his friend, but his pet too. He liked it that way. Although he knew Aerrow would let him go, if he wished to leave, he considered himself a free soul with his own will. He had felt alone when Aerrow had started to date Dark Ace, but he wanted his friend to be happy, so he tried to accept it with as much grace and good will as he could muster.
The same went for Piper, although she probably didn't follow Aerrow as a primary reason. There were strange feelings growing in her for Lark and she wouldn't have been able to leave her now that she finally found not only a first female friend, but someone who was as intelligent as her and as devoted to crystals, tactics and knowledge. All of those things were addicting to both of them, so they decided to stay with each other, not knowing that this would soon grow into so much more.
Junko had visited his home Terra incognito for one last time. It was probably the saddest fate of all, because the Wallopps had started to fight against the Cyclonians at the end as they had wished to earlier. When Junko left them the last time, he had been an outcast, because they had fought on the Cyclonian's side. Now that they fought on the side of the Federation, Junko still couldn't go back. So he visited the land a last time, before embracing his girlfriend and their new born son and going away with them, without turning back.
Finn and Stork, who actually still had this strange kind of relationship going on between them, (nobody had imagined that something dreadful like that could happen at all) had both needed more time to make their decision. Both of them hadn't liked the world in the other dimension very much. Stork constantly complained about the lack of dangers there and the lack of what he called good 'Doom-Literature'.
Finn didn't like the lack of fans, now that he'd finally managed to accomplish getting fans. If he had taken the side of the Federation, they probably would have welcomed him with open arms. But in the end, neither of them could do it. They had seen too much, and both of them still wanted to be the good guys.
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They managed to find a new and unoccupied Terra for themselves, which suited their needs just fine. It had tropical temperatures, a beach, fertile soil, palms and other trees and a massive volcanic area, to supply them with needed crystals and metals. But the best part was that they did not need to live deep under the surface anymore.
Even suffering through their – at least for some of them - very first sunburns couldn't stop their euphoric joy over that fact. Their nation needed a new start, and this place would give them the possibilities and the freedom to do so.
They built something resembling a city, because they were used to living in narrow quarters, but soon they began to built second huts right on the beach, near the mountains or the fields, where they worked.
The older kids, under the guidance of Dark Ace and Aerrow, worked mainly as supervisors for their different needs as before, but a few of them founded something like a police force, army and diplomatic group combined into one. They did everything to prevent themselves from making the same mistakes from their past. They were cured of the wish to fight against other nations. All of them had had enough of that already, probably for the rest of their lives.
Of course they still trained to stay in shape and of course they also had to fight against the occasional feral beast now and then. But life there was still mostly peaceful and they would do anything to guarantee that it would stay that way.
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"Zero? Love? Where are you?"
Aerrow was still panting, because he had run all the way to their hut when he had seen their window of opportunity. Now he tried to waste as little time as he could to reach his partner.
"Aerrow? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at the flying lessons?"
"We quit early today, because of Gunnar's birthday. You didn't forget about it again, did you?"
Aerrow chided Dark Ace softly. When he followed his lover's voice into their living room he finally found him on the couch, working on his notes for the language lessons. Dark Ace had decided to write a new manual, because the old one was just too old fashioned and bore too many bad memories for most of them.
Aerrow greeted his lover with a soft and chaste kiss on the lips, while Dark Ace finally sighed. "Yes, I did forget it again."
"But we will go to the party, right?"
"Of course. Every birthday should be celebrated, but under these circumstances especially those who initiate maturity."
Dark Ace sighed again, then rubbed his eyes and leant back on the cushions of the comfy sofa, while Aerrow sat next to him and rubbed his sore shoulders.
"Tired?"
"Yes. Diplomacy's really not my strong side and I keep thinking about the negotiations tomorrow."
"Don't think too little of yourself. You are doing your best and that will be more than enough. Besides…" Aerrow grinned broadly "Your lover might know one or two ways to relieve you of that pent up tension…"
Dark Ace returned the kiss with enthusiasm, as Aerrow lent in, but when Aerrow started to explore the skin under his shirt, he stopped him with a scolding look.
"Anaris could be home any minute now and Radarr too. Know perfectly well this will have to wait until tonight as usual …"
"See, that's where you're wrong." Aerrow's grin only broadened. "Because I saw Anaris and Radarr meet up with some of their friends to work at the party. And I'm pretty sure they won't be back before the party starts, because we both did a great job with integrating the boy in spite of him having been born as a 'Poloch'. So, that means… lots of time for inventive and surprising physical activities in the bedroom…"
At that revelation Dark Ace started grinning too before growling "I think I might like birthday parties even more now …" and he instantly started plundering Aerrow's mouth again before he finally asked, his breath heavy,
"So spill it! What did you have in mind?"
Aerrow looked sheepish before he answered:
"I want to take care of you, so it's your decision."
"But you have some suggestions I take it?"
Aerrow pretended to think hard about it, before finally answering: "What about another rock-experience? I remember you telling me, that you liked the view…"
The rock-experience Aerrow was referring to had been a date on a rock, which overlooked the sea and the new village from a very quiet point. They had an excellent picnic there and afterwards had bared only their erections to the cool night air to get two magnificent reciprocal blowjobs, which burned some of their brain cells for good.
Dark Ace smirked in reminiscence, but finally contradicted: "I liked the view of the stars in the night-sky, not the boring ocean, and besides, I don't want to do it there when it's still day and when so many habitants of this Terra can use skimmers to disturb us and find us in a compromising position."
"No exhibitionistic tendencies today?" Aerrow mocked him.
"No. You said something about relaxing, not getting more exited." Dark Ace chided softly before leaning in to steal another pair of sweet kisses, before resuming their musings.
"We could try again to do it while flying on my skimmer…"
At that suggestion Dark Ace groaned shielding his eyes.
"Don't make me remember that one. It was way too humiliating the first time, trying to think of an explanation for why the two flying teachers managed to crash on the new school with both their flies still open. I really don't want to repeat that special experience, thank you very much!"
Aerrow considered that pouting. "I still think it could be a really great experience if I could learn to keep flying instead of crashing… But okay. Perhaps another time. And I think food sex is out of question too, since you complained about the mess we made for two whole weeks afterwards…" Aerrow kept thinking hard, but finally he got aware of the huge grin on his lovers face. "Or do you want to have food sex with me again?"
"Of course not. But I just got the perfect idea…"
Aerrow was curious: "Something kinky?"
"No, not today. Some people might consider it boring, but you did mention helping me relax, so…"
"Bring it on. Whatever it is, I'll be game." Aerrow looked eager and Dark Ace finally stood and offered him his hand to guide him to another room.
Aerrow's face fell, when he was led to their bedroom, but tried not to show it too much. Although he was a little bored with the fact that they had spent most of their love life in this room because of Anaris and Radarr living with them and they not wanting them to walk in on them, he had been serious, when he had offered to relax his lover.
He knew how much Dark Ace kept demanding from himself – especially at the diplomatic negotiations with the other nations. Most of the time he was a perfectionist and way too self-critical with what he did.
"I want a sensual massage from you."
Aerrow looked a little surprised at that, but then smiled kindly at his lover, before leaning in to kiss him softly and chaste on his closed lips.
"Your wish will be my pleasure."
Dark Ace looked surprised at his lover, because he knew that Aerrow usually preferred more exciting ways of sex. In some things he was still only a teenager and Dark Ace normally liked to get caught up in his young lover's more adventurous moods.
Still, he really would like some slow and lazy lovemaking right now, to get his mind of the strenuous negotiations the next day would hold for him and the party which would take place this night. He especially wanted it because they were alone for once and in no danger to get disturbed too soon. Somehow Aerrow seemed to have understood that without having been told, which was a pleasure to discover.
"So, how do you want to start this? Or should I look out for the details?"
Dark Ace considered the question and then smiled when he made a decision:
"I'll give myself to your valuable hands. Do with me as you please, just make it as sensual and relaxing as you can."
Aerrow returned the smile with a twinkle in his eye.
"I'll need a few minutes to prepare some things. Do you want to undress while waiting or do you want me to assist you with taking your clothes off later on?"
Dark Ace smiled at that, sat on their bed and leaned back, his arms crossed behind his back, closing his eyes.
That was enough answer for Aerrow, as he smiled secretly to himself and went to run a hot bubble bath in their bathroom. He knew how much his lover likes baths, so he thought that would be a good start for relaxing him. He watched the water like a hawk, so it would have the temperature Dark Ace usually preferred.
When he returned to the bedroom a sly smile tugged at corner of Dark Ace's mouth, so he asked him to stand up again. As soon as he'd followed the order Aerrow started undressing him as slowly and sensually as he could. He didn't rush it like usual, with buttons flying anywhere and fibres getting torn, when his need was too imminent for patience. This time, he opened button by button, pausing to kiss and softly stroke the exposed patches of milky skin.
Of course he spared the parts were Dark Ace obviously wanted to guide him, because he knew he wouldn't be able to fulfil his promise if he touched him there too soon.
He took an extra long time cherishing his lover's fingers, because he'd learned a while before, how sensitive they were to Dark Ace. The dark haired man was very intent on visual stimuli, although he seemed to have a weakness for Aerrow's voice in the throws of passion and his touching sense on his fingers as well.
Aerrow even managed to tear out a moan of the usual silent man when tending to his thumb, but he tried not to show his smugness about that too much, because the man could get back at him pretty fast. From experience Aerrow knew that Dark Ace could be a mean tease, especially if he was making love with an impatient teen.
After a while Aerrow gave the fingers of Dark Ace's right hand a last, promising lick, before taking the now naked man by the same hand and guiding him into the bathroom.
When he had put him safely into the tub, Aerrow made signs to leave the room again. Dark Ace asked irritated,
"Won't you join me?"
His lover sounded slightly miffed at that and disappointed, but Aerrow smiled at him reassuringly: "Not yet. I'll need to prepare some things in our bedroom for later. I'll be back in a few. Just try to relax a little while; I'll attend to your needs as quickly as I can."
Dark Ace lifted a surprised brow in silent question at this unusual behaviour in his lover, but then just shrugged it off and leaned back, closing his eyes again. The hot water was doing wonders for his tense muscles, as it always did, and in his mind he praised the boy for thinking of this. As he'd made his request, he had thought they would start right away with the message, to get at the juicy parts, but in fact he liked it this way much better.
He had been very tense and he really wanted to be a little pampered by his partner. He'd never felt such a need before, but with Aerrow he'd learned that there was no need for him to always act strong. He was allowed to show weakness and Aerrow never condemned him for it. Dark Ace had never thought he was even able to let himself go in such a fashion, but his relationship with Aerrow was doing wonders not only on his ability to express his feelings, but on his damaged soul as well.
When Aerrow finally came back to the bathroom – Dark Ace had been too lost in his musings to have said how long the preparations had occupied the teen's time – he brought a large sponge with him.
That made the black-haired man smile broadly and Aerrow grinned asking:
"Judging by your smile I'm doing fine so far. Now relax and let me do this for you, alright?"
Dark Ace smiled dreamily and felt the sponge getting dipped into the water surrounding his chest. From there Aerrow started to wash his shoulders and arms, barely touching him and very sensual. His young lover took his time there too, once and again letting the water drip on his sensitive skin by squeezing it out of the washcloth, stroking him again and again, although he still managed to avoid too much sexual stimulation yet.
He did clean all of his body but some places rather more efficiently than sensually. That brought him another questioning raised eyebrow, so he hurried to explain: "Not yet. I don't know how good I can behave if I have your erection in my field of view all the time." Dark Ace acknowledged that with an amused glint in his eyes by a slight nod and a sigh as Aerrow continued his ministrations.
Somewhere along the way he even started to put shampoo on his lover's hair and gave him a pleasant head-massage. Dark Ace wondered where the boy had learnt it, but then he remembered that Piper often had problems with head-aches. So Aerrow had probably learned this kind of massage to do her a favour, good leader and friend as he was to his team. This promised way more and Dark Ace started to get really excited for his massage.
But first, the rest of the washing went on and on and right when Dark Ace felt himself drift off to sleep he heard his lover whisper at his ear: "Would you prefer to take a little nap? I would understand it and I won't pout or bitch about it, I promise…"
To Dark Ace's surprise the teen sounded serious and earnest, so he reassured him with a deep kiss by grabbing his neck and pulling him in for it.
"Don't be stupid. I'll get enough sleep as soon as I'm dead. For now, I'd prefer my lover to take care of me."
Aerrow seemed relieved, which amused Dark Ace to no end. Still he was astonished how serious the boy was taking all this. Once again he wondered when his life had taken such a great turn, that he earned this special person as his partner.
But he didn't have much time for musings as Aerrow stood now, making a face at his obviously sore knees from kneeing beside the tub, and opened a real big fluffy towel for him.
Dark Ace stood, left the tub and let himself get swallowed by this immense mass of fabric, while Aerrow started to rub him dry. Now Dark Ace felt really pampered and he just had to pull his lover in for some more grateful kisses. Aerrow first looked surprised but soon followed his lead and he let the towel fall where they stood to lead the older man back to their bedroom still kissing.
The changes in the bedroom made Dark Ace finally break the kiss in astonishment, as he took a closer look around. Aerrow had darkened the room by hanging some heavy curtains for the window, blocking the sunlight out. Usually they both preferred to enjoy the daylight, especially after having lived under the earth for over a year, but this change made the room even more cosy and dimmed light always guaranteed some romantic moments.
The light was very pleasant too and as he looked around Dark Ace counted three different light sources powered by crystals, which bathed the room in a warm, golden glow. As he looked around Aerrow took some steps over to one of the shelves and lighted an actual candle, which would make the room smell of roses.
As he searched the floor for any flowery evidence – it would have been the romantic highlight of this whole scene – his lover embraced him and whispered in his ear:
"I know how much you hate to destroy nature without any purpose. So I would never use rose petals unless I wanted to tease you. We have to confine ourselves to the smell."
That earned Aerrow another kiss as they made their way to the equally prepared bed: He'd taken the comforter off and had placed lots of towels on it instead. Dark Ace was a practical man and since this would likely be a mess and they probably wouldn't have time to change the sheets before they had to leave for the party, this would be the easiest way.
Dark Ace laid down on the towels with grace, making an inviting motion to Aerrow, who shook his head in denial.
"Turn to your belly; I'll start on your back and neck. We'll get to your front soon enough."
Dark Ace nodded his consent and turned over, crossing his arms under his head and letting his eyes close instantly and somehow relaxing fiercely. He trusted Aerrow with everything, a feeling he had only recently discovered. He would take care of him.
And Aerrow did. The head-massage back in the bathroom had been nothing compared to what the teen really knew how to do. Tomorrow, if his brain started working again after the shock of this intense pleasure and when he was able to articulate again, he would ask the boy where he had learned this or if he was just a natural. But whatever the answer would be – this wouldn't be the last time he'd ask for this special pleasure.
The massage had started on his neck and shoulders, much like his bath and then wandered down for what seemed like hours over his back and made a sharp jump to his legs, which tore more than one heartfelt groan out of his mouth. Aerrow's hands worked their way up to his backside again; giving the cheeks they found there much needed attention.
Dark Ace's body didn't know if it should relax or tense with the intense sexual pleasure which started to get woken inside it.
The older man nearly howled with anger as the hands suddenly left his body which seemed to burn for more of those intoxicating touches. He growled dangerously as he felt Aerrow crawl toward his head and lean down to whisper,
"I think it's time for you to turn over now, love, so I can get started on the front!"
"No!" Dark Ace growled, his eyes still closed. Aerrow was taken aback. What the hell had gotten into his lover? "Why not?" Now the eyelids shot up and the red orbs stared at him in a total incredulous fashion: "Because I want you to fuck me, of course."
"What?" Aerrow was dumbstruck. Had he heard him right? That was the first time ever that Dark Ace asked him for that special pleasure and if he was honest, he hadn't thought he would ever hear these words out of his lover's mouth. He had thought so at the beginning, but he hadn't minded when it just didn't happen. He had been quite content with the way things were, and he didn't mind his lover's obvious inability to give him this special pleasure back.
"You heard me right, Aerrow and I won't repeat this. If you don't want to, that's fine, but…" Dark Ace was still growling and Aerrow hurried to interrupt him: "Of course I want to! I just thought you'd never ask me to do you, so I was just surprised."
He hurried back on the bed to his earlier position trying to keep the exited shiver out of his voice when he asked: "So what position…"
"I won't move an inch from this place, so this position will have to do."
"But in that position I won't get to your cock to…" Aerrow still wanted to make this as special a night for his lover as he could.
Dark Ace sighed softly before whispering: "Come here." Despite his earlier words he did move now, when he pulled Aerrow in a lying position right beside him before he shut him up with another reassuring kiss. Then he looked him right in the eyes, searching for the right words to explain.
"Look, in spite of what you think, this wouldn't be the first time I've done this. I… I've been hurt in the past by someone. Not physically, but emotionally and that's why this was so hard for me to offer you. But I do enjoy it, and I will be fine lying there and taking it. Just go as slowly as you can, don't I want to end this too soon. We'll do this in better positions other times, but right now I just want to lie here and let myself enjoy your ministrations. Okay?"
Aerrow nodded, reassured and then put a sweet kiss on Dark Ace's nose. That made the man grumble at him annoyed, but then Aerrow kissed him chastely on the lips before murmuring: "Thank you for your trust."
Then he got up to prepare his lover as thorough as he knew. When he finally did sink in to his lovers heat he felt like he was losing himself in the other man, knowing for the first time that this was real, that he wouldn't lose him anymore.
Both came so hard that afternoon they saw stars.
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The party had been as loud and as annoying as ever. The kids all loved birthday parties and enjoyed them even more now that they were really free. All birthdays were celebrated by everyone, but the real important ones, like the round ones or the ones which indicate maturity, needed special celebrations.
They had been singing dancing and eating for most of the night with everybody, but now most of them started to get really tired. Some of the younger kids were even falling asleep. At those occasions they used to sleep together on the floor of the market place right under the stars. Back on Cyclonia they'd all slept in the big hall where they ate, but when they came here all of them longed for the stars.
Now everyone else prepared their sleeping bags to finish the feast in the proper manner. The Storm Hawks used those occasions to sleep together as well, since they lived all their own lives now even if they still worked together a lot. Only Piper, Lark and Dark Ace where nowhere to be seen yet and everyone else worked together making jokes and laughing a lot.
Junko and Anna had already lain down and were fast asleep, their little boy enclosed securely between their embrace, so the slightly cooler night-air wouldn't harm him.
Stork was bitching loudly at Finn like usually because sleeping on the floor was everything but a wise idea if fearing the attack of mind worms. But Finn seemed to be deaf to all the complaints and worked in silence preparing their twin sleeping bag. Like everyone else he knew that this was mainly for show and that Stork would eventually give in. He'd never once slept a night alone since they had started this… affair between them, and he seriously doubted that this would change anytime soon. Their sex-life was way too much fun for that.
Radarr helped Aerrow with their four sleeping bags while Dark Ace found their sleeping place and carried the already unconscious form of Anaris to them. The boy had fallen asleep earlier with their friends, but they knew he wouldn't like it if he woke and found them nowhere in sight, so Dark Ace had gone to fetch him. The older man placed the boy into one of the twin bags before Radarr rolled around him to keep him warm. Dark Ace closed the bag and came over to his own sleeping place that Aerrow had prepared.
Aerrow was the only one who saw the slight change in his lover's face which spoke of discomfort as he sat down, so he leaned over and gave him a happy kiss to make it better. Dark Ace rolled his eyes when Aerrow wiggled his eyebrows and decided not to comment on it. The boy would pay for it later, the next time he was getting some.
Right when they had snuggled down together in their respective sleeping bags Piper and Lark came over to them. To the surprise of those who were still awake they were holding hands and – Dark Ace groaned again – giggling, obviously induced by the consummation of alcohol.
Without another word they reached down and zipped their separate sleeping bags together as one big one. More incredulous staring followed that, and the silence was deafening when both girls crawled into it, shifting a while before finding a good position to sleep in while holding each other.
It was finally Dark Ace who broke the silence: "What. The. Hell."
Lark answered that question, with a challenge in her eyes: "What is it? Do you think you're the only one who could catch a Storm Hawk? I have bad news for you, you aren't."
"You've never been into girls before, if I remember correctly."
"No, I haven't, but I'm into Piper now. We had to console each other over the loss of you two, so by accident I learned what a hot cocoon Piper creates while sleeping. And since I'm always too cold, as you know, I got addicted to that heat. Problem solved. Best relationship ever. Now go to sleep, we want to kiss for a while and won't need any spectators."
That made everyone else groan and hurry to get to sleep. Only Finn had to make another comment.
"Seriously, I'll never understand girls!"
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Endless End
Finished 18th October 2009