Chapter 11
The room was dead silent, until blonde boy started snickering. His snicker turning into full blown laughter and he was laughing so hard that he could hardly get a word out when he spoke "Blinx?! Blinx?! With an X" he fell into another fit of laughter "What kinda name is Blinx?!" Angel (or rather Blinx now) scowled.
The other girl in the room, a dark skinned girl with light orange eyes, turned to him, appalled and embarrassed by his behaviour "FINN! Don't make fun of her! It's not her fault her parents named her Blinx" a devious look appeared on Blinx' face "Your name's Finn? It sounds like you should be an ugly Fish Man" she stated almost offhandedly, he stopped laughing instantly but there were a few snorts and snickers from the others in the room. His eyes narrowed "Did you just call me a Fish Man?" Blinx crossed her arms and stared at him challengingly "An Ugly Fish Man. Got a problem Fish Boy?"
"That was uncalled for"
"So was your laughter"
"You know, you're cute but you're a bitch!" Blinx remained nonchalant "Thank you" Finn scowled "For which part?"
"The Bitch part" she answered, it was at this point that the red head decided to step in "Alright, enough of the friendly banter"
'I don't think anything could wipe the smile from his face'.
He turned to Blinx, his emerald eyes sparkling with silent mirth "So Blinx, I guess Finn introduced himself. This is Piper-"He pointed to the girl "She's our navigation and tactics specialist, This is Stork our Carrier Pilot-"he pointed towards the wheel where a green creature was situated, skilfully guiding the ship. A weird little blue creature, resembling a cosmic rabbit, jumped up onto the red heads shoulder and chirped "This is Radarr, he's our "Mission's Specialist"" Blinx moved forward and started scratching Radarr under his chin, the little creature gave a purr and fell forward off the shoulder he was currently seated on, some light laughter filled the room, but not from Finn.
"I'm Aerrow, I'm leader of the Storm Hawks and Sky Knight and that's Junko, he's the flight engineer "he pointed to the Rhino Man who she had seen on Cyclonia. Junko waved to her and then faltered "Hey! I know you! You were that girl who was running around the prison area. You gave me the keys!" Blinx smiled "Yeah. That was me" Blinx then pointed to Finn "And he shot at me" the room was dead silent as all eye's turned to Finn again, who was previously glaring out the window and now was wide eyed and gaping like a fish 'His actions also represent his name' his brain seemed to click back into gear "Hey I did not shoot at you! I shot at the lock!"
"Which I was standing in front of. What do you think could've happened if you had hit me?!"
"Well for a start, we wouldn't be having this painful conversation now!" Piper chose this moment to put in her two cents "Finn! You shot at her?!" Finn rounded on her "Don't you start!"
"ENOUGH!"
'Boy. Don't wanna be on the wrong side of him!'
"I didn't bring her in here to make problems! Blinx, you said you don't come from anywhere. What exactly did you mean" Blinx looked at her feet again, hesitating "I don't really want to go into any of it. Besides, I reckon if I tell you, you wouldn't believe me anyway" everything became quiet until Finn (who was looking out the window again) said moodily "Sounds suspicions. Drop her at the next Terra, let them deal with her. It's what she wants obviously"
"You're only saying that 'cause she gave you lip. You gave it back and you shot at her! She has nowhere to go and she has no family!" Finn huffed and Blinx swore she heard him mumble "I shot at the lock!"
Blinx then thought of something, something she thought she may regret later if either Cyclonis or these guys found out the truth. She was nervous now, but just because she was nervous didn't mean she was a coward! "Umm, Aerrow? I know we've only just met and I know I'm going out on a limb here but...Can I hang with you guys? I mean at least until I can figure myself out?" Aerrow looked at her calculatedly, and then looked around at his crew. His eyesight landed on Piper and he smiled a crooked smile. Piper squealed and dashed over to Blinx' side, linking arms and dragging her off "You can stay as long as you want!"