Dagger Group Chat

Fanboy
GUYS! CYCLONE AND WARLOCK WERE HERE TODAY

Phoenix
Which means Hangman and I have most likely won, all we need todo is find out officially.

Hangman
See the one time Phoenix agrees with me is the one time she is right. You should agree with me more often.

Phoenix
Shut up Bagman, I didn't agree with you, you merely came to the same conclusion as me. Most likely out of pure luck.

Coyote
Which if proven true that we don't know who it is, then I am stumped as to who is could be.

Halo
Don't forget, we could have met them and somehow none of us guessed them

Bob
Or it could be Admiral Kazansky.

Harvard
Sorry Bob, but you are going to have to give that one up

Bob
I will give it up when we find out who it is or I just won't give it up once we all find out I'm right.

Yale
Harvard is right Bobby, you may need to clean those glasses of yours a few more times if you think the Admiral and Maverick are married.

Bob smirked at his phone, this reveal was going to be priceless.

Fanboy
GUYS! DID YOU SEE THE TEXT MAVERICK JUST SENT?!

Omaha
Dude, we are all in the group chat where he sent it, yes we saw it.

Hangman
Be prepared to shower Phoenix and I in rounds

Payback
Wait, does Maverick not live at the Hanger? Cause that is a very different address and a lot closer

Phoenix
I mean it would be fitting to his character to live there, but it makes sense that he has an actual house too

Fritz
Well, I guess the mystery will be solved tomorrow. Though that does confirm it's not Cyclone or Warlock for sure since Maverick's husband just got back today.

"Mav, have you seasoned the burgers yet?" Ice asked walking into the kitchen.

"Yes, Ice, and I sliced the onion. " Maverick rolled his eyes.

"Thank you," Ice said walking up to kiss Maverick, "I've missed you." He added tenderly.

"I missed you too Ice," Maverick leaned his forehead against Ice's shoulder before a devious smirk began to emerge on his face.

"Maverick, I can feel you smirking, what?"

"I just thought of a great idea."

"Your version of great or my version of great?"

"It's in the gray area where we both think it's great."

"Let's hear this great idea then." Ice looked down at Maverick, an expectant look on his face.

"You know how we haven't decided exactly how to introduce you yet?"

"Yea..."

"I think I figured it out."

"Oh no."

"Oh yes."

And with that Maverick revealed his plan, and even Ice had to agree, it was a great one.

"Dude, this is a nice house." Coyote said walking up, not quiet believing he was at the right address.

"I know, are we sure Maverick lives here?" Payback asked, eyes wide.

"I'd question it too, but that's his bike." Phoenix pointed out.

The squadron agreed to all arrive as one group to prevent anyone from meeting Maverick's husband before the rest of them.

In attempting to complete this task, all 12 of them were crowded onto the front porch arguing over who got to ring the door bell.

"Who rings doorbells anymore? Isn't it just back to knocking?" Fritz commented.

"But with a house this big will they even hear us?" Yale argued.

"How about we just knock and if they don't answer then we ring the doorbell?" Halo offered.

"Alright, but then who gets to knock?" Omaha asked.

"How about we just go in?" Bradley offered. trying his best to suppress laugh.

"We can't just walk into his house!" Harvard lightly exclaimed.

"You can if he is standing with the door open waiting on you all to walk in." Maverick commented from the open doorway.

"Hey Mav!" Bob greeted with a large smile on his face.

"Mav!" Fanboy smiled.

Maverick greeted his two youngest WSOs.

"Alright, everybody in!" Maverick ordered stepping out of the way.

All of the kids were taking the house in as Bradley side hugged his dad with a knowing smirk on each of their faces.

"Nice apron Mav." Hangman commented.

Prompting the others to take notice of said apron with large words across it reading:

'I am Dangerous'

Bradley smiled, as much as he rolled his eyes at those aprons he was glad they kept them.

"Thank you, my kid gave me the idea." Maverick said non-chanlantly as the squadron took a second to process his words.

"If yall all want to head to the kitchen I am going to grab Ice for drinks." Maverick informed them after a moments silence before the aviators could come out of their stupor and ask questions.

A chorus of agreements were heard as they made their way to the kitchen after Maverick pointed them in the right direction.

Bradley quickly made sure the camera was filming as he took his place in the kitchen. The aviators talking amongst themselves, not so subtly looking around waiting on Maverick's mysterious husband to show up.

"Maverick has a kid too!" Fanboy whisper shouted.

"The more we learn about Maverick the less I realize we know about him." Phoenix shook her head softly.

Bob just stood to the side waiting for the great reveal.

"Bob, you seem awful smug, and that's abnormal for you." Payback commented.

"I am just waiting for you all to learn I was right." Bob replied.

"Bob, give it up, you are about to be proven wrong." Harvard shook his head.

"Do we start a separate betting pool for who Maverick's kid is?" Fanboy asked.

"I'm back with Ice." Maverick walked into the kitchen, Ice walking next to him.

Jaws dropped, eyes went wide, and no words were spoken.

"Sir" Phoenix finally came to her sense and saluted Admiral Kazanasky.

"It's Ice and there is no saluting me nor is there any titles in my own house." Ice stated, in all his glory including his apron that matched Mavericks except his said:

'I love Dangerous'

Only then did it process for the pilots what was going on.

"Wait-"

"Your-"

"Maverick's-"

"Husband!" The aviators stuttered out.

Bob finally broke his composure and busted out laughing.

"Wait, how did you know?" Phoenix asked her WSO realizing he wasn't in shock.

"I didn't, I just had a hunch after a looking at a few things and went with it. Then I got held back one day to find out over a video call! So I already got my shocking reveal. Appearantly being the only one to bet Admiral Kazansky means you get pulled into the reveal."

"Wait! You knew there was a bet?!" Fanboy asked turning his head to Maverick "How did you find out!?"

"My kid told me." Maverick smirked.

"Your kid?" Fanboys eyes went wide as he tried to solve this one.

"Bradley!" Phoenix turned eyes wide.

"Yes Phe?" Bradley smirked.

"YOU KNEW!"

"I did."

"And you didn't tell me!"

"Well I could ruin their fun, and I was enjoying watching you all scramble to figure it out."

"So that's why you abstained from the bet." Payback realized.

"Bingo." Bradley smirked before adding, "It was hilarious helping dad out with this. You were all so oblivious."

"And you are his kid!" Phoenix yelled.

"I mean I have all but told you a few times." Bradley rolled his eyes.

"You know, a lot is starting to add up." Fritz commented.

"Especially the photos at the hanger." Coyote agreed.

"Honestly that was hilarious. You literally asked me questions about our wedding photos without realizing." Maverick laughed.

"Alright, who is ready to eat?" Ice asked gesturing to the pan of burger patties and bags of buns.

"You expect us to eat after all of these revelations!?" Fanboy exclaimed.

"Chill out Fanboy, you can ask more questions while we eat." Maverick patted the WSO on the shoulder as he grabbed a plate and began putting together his burger.

"So Pops, this is how you get out of all the trouble you get into?" Hangman asked.

"I only get into trouble when it's necessary-"

Ice gave Maverick a look.

"In recent years I have only gotten into to trouble when necessary." Maverick amended, "Don't give me that look Ice, you know why I did what I did at Dark Star, and you know you had fun with that phone call to Cain."

Ice rolled his eyes.

"Though Hangman, we are going to have to talk about your choice of words." Ice fixed Hangman with one of his famous ice cold stares.

Hangman's soul left his body as his mind flashed back to his words to Bradley about Goose.

"Sir, I'm sorry about what I said about Goose. I didn't have all the information and shouldn't have said what I said to provoke Bradley."

"While that was wrong, you were forgiven after and especially after you saved Maverick and Bradley," Ice spoke, "However those are not the choice words in question here."

Hangman's brain spiraled trying to figure out what else he had said wrong, or atleast wrong enough to warrant this level of glare from Admiral Kazansky.

"I'm sorry sir- Ice, I don't know what else I said wrong." Hangman admitted.

"You have been calling Maverick 'Pops' I am 'Pops'." Ice said coolly, his glare still fixed on the cocky pilot.

Hangman's eyes went wide.

"Ice is Pops, and Mav is dad, or Mavdad. You don't mess with it." Bradley supplied.

"Ice is very territorial over his Pops title." Maverick added.

"As he should be." Bradley supported. "I came up with it."

"Wait, why is Ice Pops?" Phoenix asked sensing a story.

"Because Bradley realized Ice Pops were cool and since we called him Ice, he obviously needed to be Ice Pops, shortened down to Pops and interchangeable with Ice." Maverick informed them.

"Oh my goodness, Bradley, that is so cheesy." Hangman shook his head.

"But you have to admit, it makes sense."

"It definitely makes Bradley sense." Phoenix agreed.

"And it only needed to makes sense to me."

After a beat of silence Fanboy spoke up.

"So wait, how did you wind up with Mav and Ice?"

"After my Father died Mav was around whenever he could to help me and my mom out, and when he cancer started getting worse I moved in full time with him and Ice until she passed when Mav took over as my legal guardian." Bradley revealed, glazing over the pain from those years.

"So then why were you and Maverick so tense at the start of the mission?" Hangman asked.

Bradley looked down ashamed.

"We had a fight several years back and hadn't spoken since." Bradley once again glazed over the details.

"Wait, you said he pulled your papers," Phoenix commented as her head started to do the math, "You mean you hadn't talked to him in over 15 years?"

Bradley looked down again.

The table went quiet as Fanboy realized he probably shouldn't have initiated this line of questioning.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked that." Fanboy said softly, in great contrast to his normal upbeat self.

"It's ok Fanboy, you guys are curious and with good reason." Maverick nodded softly. His hand already rubbing up and down Bradley's back as subtly as he could. While Ice held Maverick's hand under the table squeezing tight in support.

"We've been talking it out." Bradley spoke softly.

Hangman watching with a tender eye, as Phoenix squeezed Bradley's hand.

"So, who is interested in watching a movie?" Ice asked breaking the silence and lifting the mood of the room."

All the daggers jumped up and followed Ice to the living room.

"Any preference on movies?" Ice asked opening the TV up to a series of streaming services.

"Disney!" Fanboy exclaimed.

"Alright, which Disney movie?" Ice asked after the others mumbled agreements, unwilling to express their love of Disney movies so opening in front of THE admiral Kazansky, they wanted to keep some of their professional credit.

"Planes." Bob piped up quietly.

And so the Family of 14 began planes, immediatally followed by Planes 2.

By the end of the night the 12 daggers were sprawled across couches fast asleep.

Ice smirked at the sight of his son leaned up against Hangman.

Maverick gave him a knowing look.

Ice and Maverick eventually drifted up to their bedroom after draping blankets across their aviators and turning out all the lights.

"You know, I'm pretty sure just a few weeks ago we only had one kid."

"And now we have 12."

"I like our little family expanding."

"Me too Mav. I missed the noise around the house."

"I am just waiting on Hangman and Bradley to stop being so oblivious."

"You know, it's fitting he would fall for someone like you."

"And it's fitting he became so much like you."

"Don't sell yourself short, he is a lot like you too, he just causes less trouble. He is nice enough to not give me more paperwork."

"Hey, at least we weren't as oblivious as those two are."

"I think Slider would beg to differ."

"Well, we will just have to wait and see when he gets here."

"I'm scared to know what stories he is going to tell the kids about us."

"I'm just waiting to see the kids faces when you fly against them next week. Then again when you have your RIO."

"Me too."

"And I wouldn't be scared of the stories told by Slider, I'm more scared of the stories that will be told when the whole gang is down here."

"Yeah, especially Viper and Jester."

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Sorry for the delay on this chapter! Most of the time I cannot post daily, but my goal is every couple of days. I write when I can and when I am inspired. I hope you enjoyed the reveal.

I had to stop writing for a few minutes because I was busting out laughing at Maverick saying he had to go get ice before the drinks.

Also I feel like a genius for their aprons, did anyone else love them or was that just me? If it's just me that's fine.

Also as popular demand has requested, Hangster is becoming a thing.

From here on out it will be more one shot style in writing rather than a continuous plot. I plan to bring in other characters but also narrow down the amount of characters in each one shot. This story seriously put me out of my comfort zone thus far with how many characters I was handling at once. Normally I like about 4 max. Preferable 2 or 3. So future chapters will have more plot, fluff, more to go with dialog and less pure dialog.

I will be accepting requests which will be done in no particular order and more so as I feel the inspiration for them. So feel free to put some in the comments! Even if it's just part of a request or a headcanon.

Also Ice's cancer will be further explored in other chapters, I've mildly hinted at it in previous chapters but NOTE THERE WILL BE NO DEATH and Cancer is NOT returning, just some after effects. Do not worry.

Thank you guys for reading, please let me know what you thought and leave some ideas and requests!