Storm Hawks- Yin vs. Yang

Chapter 6

Party Invasion

I sat in my bed, patting my co-pilot and she purred in her sleep beside me. I smiled at her sleeping figure and seemed to smile back at me. I turned to look at the clock in my room, it read 3:06am.

I hadn't been able to sleep tonight, not a wink. Instead, I just watched my little friend sleep instead. She didn't seem to have a problem sleeping at all.

Eventually, I got fed up with my situation and got out of bed, and walked to the bathroom, avoiding Stork's traps that he had set on the Condor. Once I got to the bathroom I turned on the shower and washed myself in the nice hot water.

Once I was done, I dried myself off and got changed into a nice pink top and blue pants. I walked out of the shower, trying t get rid of the drips in my hair. I walked to the main room and checked on our course.

Suddenly the alarms went off and I checked the periscope, looking for Cyclonians. Aerrow suddenly ran inside the main room, and seemed to gasp at me, already dressed and looking through the periscope.

I couldn't see anything at all. I checked in front, behind, below, on top, and around the sides. There was nothing, zit.

"Anything Cyclone?" asked Aerrow. I looked at him, then shook my head.

"We got a transmission from the Sky Council!" yelled Piper from the other side of the room.

Once Piper had finished talking to the Sky Council she turned to look at us and said, "Cyclonia is hosting a little party and they want us to investigate. We'll need disguises and Cyclone and I will need to make some new outfits an stuff. This is disco-party, meaning Finn will fit right in. We need to act like Finn for this mission." I sighed, this was going to be hard.

Once Piper and I had gotten the guys into party outfits, we worked on our party dresses. Piper put a blindfold over my eyes, then started working on my dress. When she was done, I did the same to her.

Then Piper gave the boys their chroma crystal and led me to the bathroom, where we dyed each others hair. My hair went from dark purple to bright blonde, and Piper's went from midnight blue to bronze red.

Then we got into our dresses. Piper was in a pink short shiny dress with pink high heels. Mine was a sparkly blue, knee high dress with blue high heels. When Piper and I entered the hall way, I saw she had pink eye shadow on and red lipstick. I had blue eye shadow on with dark pink lipstick on. We entered the main room and the boys jaws dropped to the floor. I smiled and felt my cheeks going pink, lucky for me, I had blush on, making it hard to notice.

Aerrow was wearing a silver and blue party outfit and had bright blue hair. Finn's hair was bright red, like Aerrow's used to be and he was wearing a black party outfit. Junko's hair was black and he was wearing black and red on his party outfit. Stork wasn't coming, he had to stay at the Condor in case of trouble. And Radarr was disguised, with his fur being brown. My little buddy had to stay behind, keep Stork company.

"Right! We need names!" said Finn, snapping the boys out of their trance. I looked at Finn, that was about the smartest thing he'd ever said.

"hmm, Cyclone can be Rachael, I'll be Rose, Aerrow can be Adrian, Finn can be Fred and Junko can be Bob." said Piper. I smiled at her, liking the names. She smiled at me.

We were on our skimmers, which were being disguised as well, heading over to the party. We landed, then walked into the party. Fred was having the time of his life. He ran right to the centre of the party and started dancing with all the girls there. Rose and I gave each other funny looks.

"Fred, remember, keep your eye on one of the following! Dark Ace, Cyclonis, Snipe, Ravess or Repton. We get one each." said Rose through the little speaker on her ear.

We decided to split up and I was leaning back against the wall, watching everyone dance. I had guys hitting on me, all the time.

"I got my eye on Snipe" said Adrian through the little speaker.

"Ravess is my target" said Fred.

"Cyclonis" said Rose.

"Snipe" said Bob.

"What about you Rachael?" asked Adrian. I looked around then spotted him.

"Dark Ace" I hissed into the speaker. The Dark Ace turned to walk towards the balcony. I crept against the wall, trying the listen. The Dark Ace just seemed to be watching the view.

Drastic times call for drastic measures, I sighed and walked out to balcony to join Dark Ace.

"Wow, that's some party going on in there." I said to him. He turned to look at me, and a huge grin crept along his face. Ok, maybe this wasn't such a good idea.

He turned to look at me and I noticed he wasn't in his uniform, he was in a party outfit as well. I walked to the edge and the wind blew my hair. Did I mention Rose had curled my hair, I did the same for hers too.

Dark Ace turned to look at where I was looking.

"You know, I always enjoy looking at the stars" he said to me. I looked at him and smiled.

"Me too" I said. He smiled back at me.

"As you probably already know, I'm the Dark Ace. You are?" he asked me.

"I'm Rachael, nice to meet you." I said to him in the most cheerful voice I could imitate. My god, I was flirting with the guy that had tried to kill me yesterday. What was wrong with me?! He grabbed my hand and pulled me to the crowd in the party.

"Can you sing?" he asked me. I raised a brow.

"Yeah, why?" I asked him. He led me to the back of the stage in the centre of the party. The currently had someone singing.

"This is Rachael, maybe she can give your singer the rest she needs." said the Dark Ace to a tall man in black. All I could see of him were deep blue eyes, sort of like Finn's but darker.

"We'll see." he said and grabbed my hand, pulling me away. Dark Ace mouthed, 'I'll be watching' I gulped, what had I gotten myself into.

I was on stage, getting ready to sing. The band started to play and I saw Dark Ace had kept his word and was on the dance floor, watching me, waiting to hear me sing. I took a deep breath, then started…

After all you put me through

You'd think I'd despise you

But in the end I want to thank you

Because you made me that much stronger

When I, thought I knew you

Thinking, that you were true

I guess I, I couldn't trust

Called your bluff, time is up

'Cause I've had enough

You were, there by my side

Always, down for the ride

But your, joy ride just came down in flames

'Cause your greed sold me out in shame, mmhmm

After all of the stealing and cheating

You probably think that I hold resentment for you

But, uh uh, oh no, you're wrong

'Cause if it wasn't for all that you tried to do

I wouldn't know just how capable I am to pull through

So I wanna say thank you

'Cause it makes me that much stronger

Makes me work a little bit harder

It makes me that much wiser

So thanks for making me a fighter

Made me learn a little bit faster

Made my skin a little bit thicker

Makes me that much smarter

So thanks for making me a fighter

Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohhhh, ohh-yeah ah uhhhuh

Never, saw it coming

All of, your backstabbing

Just so, you could cash in

On a good thing before I realized your game

I heard, you're going around

Playing the victim now

But don't, even begin

Feeling I'm the one to blame

'Cause you dug your own grave

After all of the fights and the lies

Yes you wanted to harm me but that won't work anymore

Uh, no more, oh no, it's over

'Cause if it wasn't for all of your torture

I wouldn't know how to be this way now, and never back down

So I wanna say thank you

'Cause it makes me that much stronger

Makes me work a little bit harder

Makes me that much wiser

So thanks for making me a fighter

Made me learn a little bit faster

Made my skin a little bit thicker

It makes me that much smarter

So thanks for making me a fighter

How could this man I thought I knew

Turn out to be unjust so cruel

Could only see the good in you

Pretended not to see the truth

You tried to hide your lies, disguise yourself

Through living in denial

But in the end you'll see

YOU-WON'T-STOP-ME

I am a fighter and I

I ain't gonna stop

There is no turning back

I've had enough

'Cause it makes me that much stronger

Makes me work a little bit harder

Makes me that much wiser

So thanks for making me a fighter

Made me learn a little bit faster

Made my skin a little bit thicker

It makes me that much smarter

So thanks for making me a fighter

Thought I would forget,

Though I, I remember,

I remember,

I remember x2

'Cause it makes me that much stronger

Makes me work a little bit harder

Makes me that much wiser

So thanks for making me a fighter

Made me learn a little bit faster

Made my skin a little bit thicker

It makes me that much smarter

So thanks for making me a fighter

(After)

The crowd then went wild and Dark Ace had the biggest grin on his face, I gulped silently. Dark Ace led me back to the balcony and we started talking again.

Then he took me to the dance floor and kinda forced me to slow dance with him.

He leaned in close to my ear and whispered, "You thought you had me like a dog on a leash, but really, I've been leading you the whole time, Cyclonisius!!" I turned to look at him, eyes wide in panic and fear, my blood frozen, as cold as ice. He cackled maniacally. I was so dead…