Chapter 13: Questions Answered and a Champion in Jail

Cyclonis wanders around her room, pondering what idiot could possibly have taken her underwear.

Ravess? Unlikely.

Snipe? Maybe he thought they'd be nice to wear...but still unlikely.

Dark Ace? Dare she even think that thought?

He was far too stoic to do something as stupid as that.

Then again, she had dyed his head pink.

All of a sudden, the alarms started blaring. Dark Ace crashed into her room, worry scribbled across his face. "It's Aerrow, of the Storm Hawks."

"Blast it." She snaps her fingers. "I'm kind of low on supplies right now. In all respects."

All of a sudden, Ravesss barges in. "Master Cyclonis, pardon the interruption." The sharpshooter swivels to glare at Dark Ace. "Dark Ace, have you been touching my private garments, by any chance?"

"No..."

"Someone's emptied my...my...cabinet of...well, undergarments!"

Cyclonis has taken on a very strange expression, something of a cross between embarrassment and guilt. She dismisses the sharpshooter and charges out onto the balcony overlooking the skies below.

Sure enough, there's the Condor, landed on a smallish terra. She sees people. All of a sudden, a wad of cloth flies through the air and narrowly misses her head. Dark Ace grabs it and unwraps it. In his hand is one of her...

Panties.

Oh the embarrassment.

He starts cracking up when he sees the note wrapped inside the underwear. She snatches it from him after some small resistance.

"'Dear Master Cyclonis: We've decided to return your private garments by air mail. Signed, the Storm Hawks.' Oh, so that's who took it!"

The Dark Ace is still cracking up. She eyes him suspiciously.

"Dark Ace, what are you doing?"

"Ha ha, snort snort...Nothing."

"Did you have anything to do with this?" she hisses.

"Erm..."

She snarls. "I knew it! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! Talons, arrest him and toss him in the dungeons!"

He allows himself to be led away, still cackling with glee, especially when a lace panty wrapped around an Icer crystal narrowly misses his master's head. This is totally worth it.