I'm sorry this might make me a wimp but I can't kill of characters...unless they really deserve it. Last chapter today. To my reviewers:

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Aerrow's POV

I'm not dead. I wasn't feeling pain anymore and I definitely not having an out of body experience so what was it? The pain was gone but everything ached like I had been running from lavaworms all day. I listened in to what was going on around me.

"He needs to rest." Piper! She's okay, at least that's something. I heard a disgruntled growl and sighed in relief. Radarr was okay too.

"That crystal may have given him a hundred one things. Just don't bring him near me until I find my disinfectant." Good! Stork was alive too. I was glad to hear him even though he's going to spray me with disinfectant. There was the sound of the door opening and closing.

"Finn, can you go hide Stork's cans of disinfectant?" Thanks Piper.

"Can Junko help?" Typical. He's probably going to have to do all the work.

"If he doesn't mind."

"Sure Piper."

"Thanks buddy."

"Dove can you go along to make sure Finn does something?"

"Yes and I think Radarr wants to come too." There was the sound of Radarr being picked up and I felt a pressure on my leg suddenly being released. From the sound of his whining Radarr didn't want to go anywhere but then the door opened and closed again and I couldn't hear him.

"Aerrow. Are you awake?" I opened one eye. I expected to see a gaping, smoking hole letting in light but instead I realised I was in Piper's room.

"Yeah I'm awake. Why am I in your room?"

"My room doesn't have a gaping hole in it."

"Anymore."

"Touché. How are you feeling?" I tried to sit up and she pushed me back down again.

"I feel fine."

"You aren't. You are a terrible liar. Please can you lie down for a bit? I promise Stork won't find his disinfectant though to keep him happy you may have to take a few pills."

"I think I can swallow a few pills."

"Um...I didn't say swallow. Dove is leaving in a few hours. She apologised to Adrian over the radio and they're okay with her coming back on the squadron."

"What no violins and sobbing in the background?"

She giggled. "No. Wren is especially glad to hear she's coming back."

"How'd he take finding out that she was dating Finn?"

"He said anyone was better than that annoying sharpshooter."

"Did they tell him that was Finn?"

"No they told him that was the Chicken Hawks he was thinking of."

"How do you think before he finds out?"

"A few weeks depending on how much he sees of Finn." I paused not sure what to say next. "So you want to know something ironic?"

"What?"

"When Cyclonis tried to kill you, she saved your life." I raised my eyebrow at her. "It's true look." She pulled something out of a draw in her desk. It was a bunch of fine red wires covered in what looked like tar. "That's all that is left of the Sermus crystal. She must have knocked it out of you when she hit you with the firebolt crystal." I looked at the Sermus crystal for a few minutes and then I remembered something.

"Piper, can I ask something?"

"Yeah, sure."

"When you were in Cyclonia what were you working on?" She looked away and I instantly regretted asking. "Um doesn't matter? Are the Rex Guardians mad at Dove?"

"Not if they're smart," she said, quietly. Neither of us said anything for a while. I can't believe I screwed up the conversation already. I had been conscious for five minutes.

"Look Piper I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend you or-"

"A pure firebolt crystal." I looked at her, fairly sure that eventually she was going to catch on that I didn't know what she was on about. She sighed and lay down next to me. I pulled her in closer and she put her head on my shoulder. "While I was hypnotised we worked on it together, Cyclonis and I. We managed to successfully purify it further without blowing up the left side of the building."

"You are a genius, you know that." She turned her head to me and gave me a hard look. "Hey I'm sick you can't be mad at me." She smiled and then sighed.

"I betrayed everything I believed in."

"Technically you believed in Cyclonis."

"That doesn't make it right."

"So what would?"

"The fact that the remaining purified firebolt crystals are with me and I destroyed the notes I made while we were doing the experiments." I smiled at her.

"And you still won't give yourself a break?"

"Nope." I wondered if there was anything I could say to make her feel better. Nothing came to mind but then this is Piper. She's strong; she'll get over this on her own. And I'll be right here if she can't.

"Promise you won't leave again."

"Promise you won't return Master Cyclonis's calls."

"Promise you won't kiss Carver again."

"That was the most disturbing moment in my life. I'm kissing a guy which by the wyay is like kissing a running tap and my boyfriend, his blue co pilot and Finn watching from the air vents."

"In my defence my goggles got stuck on the top of the air vent." She and I were laughing now holding onto our sides. It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard.

"So," I said once I stopped laughing, "What now?"

"You need to take it easy for a week. We told everyone that you need to rest so no-one is going to call us except if Master Cyclonis destroys a Terra. We're just going to float around for a bit. Finn will be practising his new love song for Dove."

"In the hanger?"

"You ask as if it's a question. Stork and Junko are going to work on the ship, Radarr is going to watch you and make sure you don't move and I am going to see if I can find a deep enough hole for those firebolt crystals."

"Maybe you should keep them in case the Dark Ace attacks again."

"Aerrow they could blow a hole in the Condor in the wrong hands."

"Master Cyclonis is not getting her hands on them again."

"Actually I was talking about Finn." I paused wishing I knew how to say this without all the crippling fear. It had been two weeks now.

"Hey Piper, once I'm no longer on house arrest do you want to go out some time?" She smiled.

"As long as no-one gets kidnapped."

The End

Okay I know lame ending. No explosions, no romantic scenes and no sex. I think I need to stop. I may write a new story soon but for now I need to focus on the crossover I am doing with Diehardstormhawksfan.

Oh and for the record I don't own the Storm Hawks (or in any of my chapters) because if I did Aerrow and Piper wouldn't still just be friends.