I do not own Storm Hawks! Credit goes to The Alien of Pluto for even more ideas, YamiPluto, and KennyDal (who suggested Truth or Dare). And I finally put the Crystal Hiccup in! Thanks to Minn-Maigi for pointing that out.

On with the story!

The morning after the impromptu slumber party, can be described as 'nonexistent'. Everyone slept in until the overhead lights were glowing at their brightest, and no amount of covers was going to make the light any dimmer.

With slight grumbles, they stumbled into the showers.

Piper and Cyclonis looked at each other.

5…4…3…2…1…

"AAAAAAAUUUGH!" Finn leapt out his shower stall, suds evident in his hair from the rich lather. "What is that smell!"

The Dark Ace began to laugh, glad for the two locks between himself and the enraged teen, but sad that he was missing the expression on Finn's face. He compromised by standing on the ledge in the outer cubicle.

"Do you like it? It's the prank back at you for the goggles yesterday."

Finn stared at him. "Dude, give the credit where it's due. You did not think up something this awesome by yourself."

Dark Ace managed to keep a straight face. "Of course I had help. You can figure out whom."

"I don't prank accomplices. That's just bad taste."

"Uuuh, Finn, could you please finish bathing and get decent?" Stork asked. He too had climbed up to see what the ruckus was, and was now ducking back behind the wall.

Finn looked at him. "Why? It just smells."

"You hit puberty."

"Who's that? I don't know anyone named that."

"Not a 'who' Finn, it's a 'what'. Remember when I walked onto the Condor Bridge and Piper said 'We definitely need to go clothes shopping?' That was because I hit puberty. There are a lot of other things that are about to happen too…" Aerrow's voice floated over the stall. He wasn't about to stand up and look. He also wished that Dark Ace would stand down instead of continuing to stare-off against Finn.

"Does this mean I get to grow a few more inches?"

"Yeah, that's one of them."

"Woohoo!"

"Seriously, Finn. Decency." Stork grumbled.

"The hot water is running out." Junko stated from the last shower, the only one big enough to fit him.

With a yelp, Finn flung himself back into the shower and finished in record time. He was the first one out, dried, and dressed before the others.

"How was the cold water?"

"There wasn't any." Dark Ace stalked by, heading towards breakfast and away from the strongly smelling marksman.

He would not admit to the prank backfiring on them.

Absolutely not.

Breakfast was a quiet affair, Piper dragging Finn to the side to explain 'birds and the bees'. There was a weak call for 'help' after Piper returned to the breakfast table.

"You did tell him that the growing pains stop, right?"

"Oh, I made sure I had his attention for everything."

The Dark Ace spoke up. "You forgot about the prostate."

"The what?"

The Dark Ace looked at the Storm Hawks. "Cyclonia teaches sex education rather than abstinence. Chances are you found that lecture you gave Finn in an old Cyclonian textbook. Here's the updated version."

Breakfast was no longer a quiet affair.

Piper groaned, pulling her head. "All this time I was getting it wrong?"

Cyclonis rubbed he shoulders soothingly. "It's okay, Piper. Statistics show that a comprehensive sex education delays the first sexual intercourse. As it is, Atmosia has a higher pregnancy rate because women are unaware of contraceptives since they weren't told about them."

Piper pulled her head up. "Contraceptives?"

Cyclonis sighed.

"Dude, we need to do something." Finn was pacing around the breakfast table, back and forth. Anything to distract them from what had happened at breakfast...

"Like what?" Aerrow asked. He was sitting down, wondering when they were going to get out of here. He really didn't need the bird and the bees lecture from the Dark Ace. He was still trying to cope with the Dark Ace pulling out glasses and settling them on his face.

Stork looked at Aerrow.

"You do know that the glasses were a prop, right?"

Aerrow looked at the helmsman. Then he groaned and set his head on the table, his arms pillowing the 'thunk'.

"I know!" Finn exclaimed loudly.

"How about a game of 'Truth or Dare'!"

The others stared at Finn.

"What, you have a better idea of how to spend the day? Come on!"

Finn started to pull couches and bean bags into a circle. Junko, as Wallops were different from humans, had been excused from the lecture. He came over to help Finn.

Soon, the others shrugged and walked over to the circle. They had been training the past two days, they could train in the afternoon. Not to mention, after the mental scarring, everyone could do with a laugh.

Finn sank into a lime green bean bag. He put his hands behind his head and stretched out. He glanced around the room. Then he shot up.

"Dude! Your-your nails! They're red!"

The Dark Ace glared at Finn. Finn gaped at him, and then settled down into the bean bag. He was so glad he could faint on command.

The others gathered around, Cyclonis sitting on a couch with Piper, Aerrow next to Piper, then Radarr, Finn, Junko, Stork, Dark Ace, and back to Cyclonis.

Finn put out, "So, who wants to go first?"

"I'll go." Piper looked determined.

"Okay, truth or dare?" Aerrow asked.

"Truth."

"Did you ever wonder how I got out of the Temple with the Oracles Crystal, but you didn't know until I gave it to you?"

"Oh, yes. I never saw a bulge where a crystal that size would be stored! I mean, it could have been on your Skimmer, but mine's the one with the storage space! Where'd you put it?"

Aerrow looked uncomfortable.

"Never mind. Your turn."

Radarr chirruped and pointed at Finn, indicating that he was just as happy to watch.

"Dude, truth or dare."

"Dare."

"Uhm…talk in your low voice. The one you got when you hit puberty."

Aerrow sighed, and then rolled his eyes.

"Is this what you wanted me to sound like, Finn?"

The others gaped at him. "Yes! That's two chores I don't have to do for a month! I told you Stork, he does so sound like Dark Ace!"

Finn smirked at the helmsman. Stork glared back at him. "Fine. I get to polish and wax the hangar next time."

"Deal."

Junko coughed. "Uh, Finn?"

"Yeah, buddy?"

"Dark Ace and Aerrow don't look so good."

Finn turned his head around.

Dark Ace and Aerrow were giving each other strangled looks. Aerrow even looked faintly green. Dark Ace just looked scandalized. Cyclonis buried her head into Piper's shoulder.

"That," she declared, raising her head "is freaking weird."

Finn gave a nervous chuckle. "Okay, so was I only one to notice that? That you two sound the same on some days and totally different on others?"

Aerrow nodded.

Junko intervened before the game ended up like breakfast had.

"Uh, Finn. Truth or dare?"

"Dude, I'll take a dare."

"I dare you…to stay out of trouble for the next two days."

"WHAT!"

"You heard me. There were no limits discussed at the beginning of the game. So no pranks and you have to follow orders, even when you get a brilliant idea."

"But when my brilliant ideas work, we're all saved so much time!"

Cyclonis interjected, "I take it the attempt to steal the Atmos Beacon back was your idea?"

"Oh come on, it was right there! We could get it, grab Aerrow, and meet back up at the Condor. No time lost! And a lot of risks avoided."

"Except what happened was that I caught you and nearly killed you."

"Well, if it hadn't been so cold, Junko would have shattered that ice patch."

"Really? I only saw small cracks before Aerrow tricked me into blasting it."

"That's 'cause you were outside the vaporizing container. Maybe you shattered the glass on the inside, Junko."

"I don't know, Finn. It was really cold."

Finn shrugged, and settled back. Trying to stay out of trouble when 'caution' was his middle name was going to be easy- the Dark Ace was grinning at him.

Maybe Junko would dig him a hole where he could hide.

Stork turned to Junko. "Okay, truth, where you will suffer public humiliation, or dare, where you risk life, limb, and public humiliation."

Junko looked at Stork. "Truth."

"Do you suck your thumb when you're upset?"

"Stork! That's low! Ask something else." Finn protested. Stork leveled a stare at the marksman. Finn glowered right back.

Sigh. "Fine. Junko, do you think about what you cook, or just use whatever's on hand?" Stork was glowering at Finn, who smiled at him. No, he grinned, and then settled back down.

Stork became aware that Dark Ace was now glowering at him. What? He wasn't glowering before Finn…smiled. Oh, mind-worms. They were infecting Dark Ace.

Junko was listing how he both planned what he would cook for them and use what they had on hand. Cyclonis was looking ill as the Wallop continued to describe how one time, Carver had told him about pop salt.

Piper noticed and asked her if she needed to lie down. Cyclonis shook her head. She then crawled across Piper's lap and into Aerrow's. She sighed, and settled in. Aerrow hesitated, and then began to stroke her head.

He couldn't believe he ate what Junko swore he served them. He knew Carver was a twisted individual, even for a Cyclonian, but this was disgusting!

"Urgh, Junko, who told you that pop salt was a good thing to serve?"

"Huh? Oh, Carver did."

Cyclonis gave Dark Ace a questioning look.

"The one you recruited from the Red Eagles, one pupil bigger than the other?"

"Oh, him. Urp." Cyclonis lay back down.

"I wondered if that was just me. His eyes really are one larger than the other." Aerrow settled in without disturbing Cyclonis.

"Perhaps it's a terra thing. Remember the reporter, Guy Skyly? His eyes are two different colors!" Piper threw in.

"Dude, I thought there was something memorable about that guy. I thought it was because we were seeing so much of him."

Dark Ace sighed. "Which reminds me, Stork. Isn't it the Dark Ace's turn to 'publicly humiliate' you?" Finn hinted that the game was to move along in a full and complete circle before becoming a free-for-all volunteer.

"Truth or dare?" Dark Ace drawled.

"Dare." Finn swung his head around to look at Stork. He hadn't been expecting Stork to do that!

"I dare you….to the fly the Condor into the Gorge."

"Already done that."

"…..what?"

"We were taking a shortcut to Terra whichever and fell into the gorge. Thankfully the moment of sunlight was only two hours away and we managed to cross over and back while facing imminent demise. Got another dare?"

Dark Ace paused for a moment. Then his face split into an evil grin.

"I dare you to let Finn drive the Condor."

Stork paled.

Finn twisted around.

"I already did that."

The color came back into Stork's cheeks. "You…what?"

"When you were recruited to look after the merb children. He had messed with the controls, so I actually flew the Condor when she was upside down."

Stork turned to Aerrow. "You let him fly the Condor?"

"Finn's the only one after you with the vision good enough to do it. And the Condor was upside down and kinda jittery to motion. Finn was the only one who could handle her. Junko might have been able to do something, but upside down? He's a mechanic, not a know-all."

Aerrow valiantly restrained himself from shrinking into the couch. As it was, he wasn't going to back down. Dark Ace was watching, and still trying to come up with a dare, and Cyclonis was regaining color in his lap.

Stork breathed deeply. "I am going to need my happy place after this."

"I dare...that's childish. I dare….that's stupid. I dare….argh." Dark Ace glowered at the helmsman.

"I dare you…to…compose a poem about the Storm Hawks."

Stork gave him a look of 'really?'.

"Dude, he made a poem about the time we had to obtain Serpegee from Murk Raiders to save the people of Vapos." Finn grinned up at him. "It was a great poem. And Stork contributed greatly to the rescue. Without him, it would've been a lot harder."

"And without you, it wouldn't have happened at all." Stork shot back.

"How about a recital of this poem instead? I dare you to relate the story of the rescue of Vapos."

"Dude! You can't change the dare!"

"He didn't accept the first one."

Finn paused, his mouth open, his finger raised, before he looked at Stork. "He's got a point. You didn't accept the first dare."

Stork sighed. "Fine. It happened when you, Piper, Radarr, and Junko left to get his tooth ache taken care of. You left Finn with me. He received a message asking him, the Great Domos-"

"Finn's the GREAT DOMOS!" Cyclonis sat up with a shriek. "How did that happen! I've been looking for that hidden terra forever, and not only did you find it, you obtained a rank!" She stared at Finn.

"I have clearly underestimated you."

"If I may continue?" Stork gave Cyclonis a pointed stare. She nodded and settled in between Aerrow and Piper.

"The message asked him to come there with great urgency. Finn told me I could either fight off Cyclonian carrier ships by myself, or we could go to Terra Vapos. At that point, I knew I wasn't getting any rest or reading while the others were gone."

"We arrive, and they send us out to find the dragon vomit that will save their terra. We go to where the absolute last piece is, and the Murk Raiders arrived ahead of us. Finn's brilliant idea goes from infiltrating the Murk Raiders, to stealing the Serpegee, to dancing with them. We finally escape, and it was my idea to split up, because they noticed straight away that the Serpegee was replaced with a chicken leg."

Radarr hissed.

"I know. So Finn arrives at Terra Vapos on his Skimmer, and I arrive…captured by the Murk Raiders. I had by chance my latest book of poems on me, with a repellent in the cover. I sprayed them and we ran inside. Finn gave me the Serpegee to throw in while he fights all of them off."

Dark Ace whistled. He gave Finn an appreciative glance, which Finn just shrugs in response. There were people to save, it wasn't like Stork could fight them off. "Stork's a faster runner than me, and the people were disappearing when we landed."

"So I throw the Serpegee in, and there is no reaction. I can hear Finn faintly fighting against the Murk Raiders, and I go over to the Serpegee to tell it just how not impressed I am with it- and it explodes in my face."

"By then, I was outside, and looking at a drop off of the Terra courtesy of the Murk Raider Captain Scabulous."

"But the King of Vapos interceded, and offered to pay the Murk Raiders."

Stork and Finn nodded to each other.

"What?" Aerrow asked.

"Well, you see, they wanted the Serpegee because they enjoy cooking and dancing, and as you can imagine, they were getting pretty tired of tongue splinters. So they were planning to sell the Serpegee." Finn explained.

"By offering to pay them, the Murk Raiders left in a more or less peaceful fashion."

"Offering to pay?" The Dark Ace cut in.

"Well, you see, nothing can ever truly leave Vapos." Stork explained. His smirk was positively evil. "Not to mention, Vapos is fully able to defend itself, so the Murk Raiders wouldn't be bothering them anytime soon."

Finn grinned. "Yep. Then we left after Stork recited his awesome poem-"

"Which I'm still waiting to hear." The Dark Ace grumbled.

"And we met up with you all." Finn finished.

Stork cleared his throat. "Here goes-

For all the people of Vapos, an epic poem about Finn. You think he knows what he's doin', but who are we really kiddin'?
The Domo became a pirate, not as smooth as he could be. While looking for the Serpigree, he ended up doing the laundry.
The raiders left with nothing. They got their just dessert. And despite the terrifying mortal danger, the Domo never got hurt. And once again Vapos is safe. The Domo saved the day. And in the words of this humble poet, Great Domo did... okay."

"That was rather...good." The Dark Ace nodded.

Stork bobbed his head in acknowledgement, while the Storm Hawks clapped.

Cyclonis leaned over to the Dark Ace.

"Truth or dare, Dark Ace?"

"I'll take truth- I have no idea what you would dare me to do when you can just order it."

Cyclonis gave him a wicked smile. Dark Ace gave her a blasé stare.

"Fine. Do you miss your old squadron?"

The Dark Ace froze. Everyone in the room stopped breathing.

"I…do not regret betraying them. I believe what I chose was the right path. But I do miss them."

Cyclonis nodded. She sank back into the couch, while Aerrow fought to contain himself.

"Piper, I do believe that it is my turn."

"Okay, Cyclonis, truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to kiss Aerrow." The short, blunt statement had Dark Ace raising an eyebrow. The best retort Piper could come up with on such sort notice when emotionally distraught and sensitive to Aerrow's pain was to make the instrument of his torture kiss him?

How childish.

Cyclonis kept the smirk off her face as she swung around and straddled Aerrow. She put her hand under his chin and lifted his head.

"Chin up. I won't bite." Then she dove in.

Piper made a strangled sound while Cyclonis frenched Aerrow. After two minutes, she broke away, a string of saliva connecting them.

Cyclonis licked her lip, severing the string.

Aerrow was panting for breath.

"Your turn. Truth or dare."

Piper glared at Cyclonis. If she picked truth, Cyclonis would definitely query her in regards to the kiss or her reaction, so-

"Dare."

"I dare you to kiss Aerrow."

Piper gapped at her, but Cyclonis was already dragging her onto Aerrow's lap, while she transferred to the arm of the couch.

Piper trembled, gazing at Aerrow.

"You don't have to if you don't want to." He told her quietly. Piper smiled at him.

Then she threaded her fingers through the back of his hair and tilted his head back.

She kissed him, before running her tongue across his lower lip asking for entrance. It was weird at first, kissing someone she thought of as her brother.

But he's not really your brother, and this is a dare. A voice whispered in her head.

When Aerrow's mouth opened, her tongue snaked inside. Aerrow had rather nice mouth. She could still taste the toothpaste from when he had cleaned up, something sweet and tangy, and then there was another taste that became predominant the longer she kissed him.

It occurred to Piper that she and Aerrow had just shared Cyclonis' saliva, but she wasn't paying attention to that. She was noticing how, when she swiped her tongue over Aerrow's, his muscles would jump.

Ah, light headedness. She needed air.

Piper broke away. There was no saliva trail, but there was a loud gasp as they caught their breath.

Piper and Aerrow panted, attempting to get their breath back under control.

"Do you guys need some alone time, or should I be getting a camera?" At Finn's voice, Piper and Aerrow broke apart.

"Ah! NO! It was a dare! Just a dare."

Aerrow nodded. "Right. Just a dare."

Cyclonis sent Finn a positively evil look. Finn quirked an eyebrow at her.

'Too early.' He mouthed at her. Cyclonis stuck her tongue out at him, after realizing that Finn was willing to see where this went. But he had also shown that he would interfere.

"Right. Who's ready for dinner?" Dark Ace stood up and walked towards the table. "We can keep playing if you keep up with your food." The Storm Hawks and Master Cyclonis arose and made their plates before heading back to the circle to continue playing 'Truth or Dare'.

The Dark Ace saw to it that everyone went to bed at a decent hour.

A/N: Wow. That last bit….I wonder where it came from. *roots around in the back of her mind* Aha! The classic love triangle! Sorry if I didn't get to the idea you gave me, but I'll try to work it into future chapters! Thanks for all of the support!