Chapter 4: Change of allegiance.
Half way through the flight I began to run out of fuel when the Dark ace and his squadron showed up and he told me he had orders to capture or kill me even though he did not want to. I knew he still cared for me but I still drew my sword and ignited it and Shouted in seething rage "Cyclonis is no longer my master from now on I master my own destiny and I will make sure the Empire Falls for I am no longer one of her puppets and I am back to my full potential instead of fighting for A Tyrant I Fight for peace and Myself to Avenge all the wrongs Cyclonia has done over the last 20 years and if you have to kill me father then so be it For if you try I WILL SHOW NO MERCY TO ANY OF YOU AND YOU WILL TASTE THE BLADE OF THE CRIMSON ACE" My speech cause the talons and even my mother and father to see that Cyclonis had made me worse by betraying me. My father and I dueled blade upon blade, slash after slash only to have it blocked by the other when I took him down and the smile went to fear and instead of killing him I spared him and took his sword and tossed him mine and said "I know there's still good in you so please come with me or let me go as I have defeated the talons and give this to Cyclonis to make her think im dead but im taking his with me anyway so goodbye father" as I jumped back on my ride and I engaged the turbo and after 20 minutes spotted the condor and they thought I was going to fight when I said " You were right Aerrow im not Evil nor did I truly believe in their cause as I believe in the SkyKnight cause just as I did when we were children back home" with that I was told I could land on the condor and meet with my brother. I walked up to the bridge and half of them were suspicious and I didn't blame them. I was the most feared flyer in the whole southern Atmos for my skills and ability until they beat me. They asked why I was there until Aerrow said I was asked to come and they thought him crazy until I said I was exiled and thought I better to join them if they would have me as a member of their squadron. They didn't give me a warm welcome at first as was expected the only ones who did were Aerrow and Radarr my brother best friend and sky monkey. I was not impressed by their training methods but got used to living with them after a month. I was when I entered battle with them when the master attacked the condor and she was surprised to see me as I flew out of there hangar on my skimmer which was now painted in their colours with their symbol on the wings and I had their uniform on with my hair back to its natural color and my eyes once again green with my passion in my eyes renewed and a smile on my face and my hair styled like my Father Lightning strike and I even found his spare headgear and put it on the only thing missing was a blue Striker crystal. The battle was good practice for me as they saw the effectiveness of a trained warrior as I engaged the master in combat when she said "So you are alive as I expected Blade And a Storm hawk no less Its uprising you joined them and what this… Ah so that's where dark aces sword went but the one thing that links you to me is that fire bolt you have there in the crystal slot and seeing you like this makes me want you back even more as you look like your father" she said as she tried to seduce me back to her side and I replied " I have no interest in serving you anymore as I now know my true place in this world as you took advantage of my confusion to make work for you and you never truly love anyone but yourself so you don't even love me you just want power my old friend." She looked angry for a second and said with a sadistic and almost lustful grin "you will come crawling back to me in the end and you will love me as much as I love you Blade Strike because The one thing you cannot forget is us when we were children as you know I did not choose this" I replied as we traded blows " You know nothing about me or do you know the true me, you just knew the dark and confused me but Now I Know who im meant to be I AM A STORM HAWK AND SKY KNIGHT LIKE MY MOTHER AND FATHER BEFORE ME AND I WILL DEFAET YOU AND YOURE EMPIRE" as I made her call a retreat after damaging her and her skimmer.
The others when I returned were surprised I had my father's sword as was Aerrow as I told the crew what Aerrow forgot or didn't want them to know as they asked why we looked similar "It's because me and Aerrow's father was Lightning Strike the SkyKnight of the original storm hawks and king of Atmos"
They were shocked but then understood as I told them our past and why we were separated. After that I proved myself to them time and time again eventually they all looked up to me and Aerrow equally.
Eventually the council found out I was alive and I was charged and nearly served life in prison when Aerrow proved that I had changed and I was set free. It was that day I was truly accepted into the Storm hawks as Aerrow gave me a Blue Striker crystal for our fathers sword and I removed the Red fire bolt and put the new crystal in the slot and ignited the blade and smiled and said "Together brother we will bring an end to Cyclonia as our father intended to do and we will make both mother and father proud!"
We left only to find the talon academy was now actually recruiting kids and I told them how to get in and what not to do to look suspicious and Aerrow and piper went in disguised as talon cadet recruits only to bring Lynn with them and when she saw me she jumped me and we caught up.
It was a day later starling came looking for help from us…
