So I decided to do a Storm Hawks story! I have loved Storm Hawks for years, but recently just got into watching them again. Please enjoy. Also read and review. I'm hoping to be able to update every other week. Right now I have at least three stories that I am working on. But I get reviews, I will update sooner.


"You have to be quiet," Adrianna whispered to the four children that were huddled together on the other side of the prison door. 'Master Cyclonis has sunk to a new low,' she thought to herself as she begun to pick the lock. 'I mean kidnapping children?'

"What's taking so long?" came Clinton's voice over the ear com she had in. Clinton was the leader of the Red Eagle Squadron after Carver betrayed them.

"You come in here and pick a hundred locks and see how long it takes you," she snapped in return. Adrianna had joined up with the Red Eagles after over hearing they say that they were going to do free prisoners from Master Cyclonis and they needed someone who wouldn't be recognized to get into the prison. "Got it!" Adrianna said as she finally heard the click of the last lock on the door.

"About time," Clinton retorted.

Adrianna was about to say something back when she heard a voice behind her.

"Well, well, look what we got here," said a voice that was full of venom.

Adrianna turned to find Dark Ace waiting for her, and he was flanked by four Talons. "Go," Adrianna ordered.

"But-" one of the children tried to protest.

"Go, tell them to go!" Adrianna ordered. She took a protective stance in between the fleeing children and Dark Ace. She had to make sure that they got out safely. She was a Sky Knight and it was her duty to protect the innocent.

"You're very foolish to come here," Dark Ace said as he took a step closer to the woman with red hair and gold highlights woven through, making her hair look like flames.

"Well someone has to standup to your master," Adrianna said as she continued to hold her ground. She was itching to pull out a weapon of her own. "After all, kidnapping children."

"Master Cyclonis needed something to keep the people in line, not to mention future soldiers," Dark Ace said as he took another step forward.

Adrianna wanted to attack Dark Ace. The way he said making the kids into soldiers unnerved her. Most of the kids had only been around four or five. She didn't even want to think about a force that was trained from a young age to fight for Cyclonis. They would be loyal like no other.

"What's wrong?" Dark Ace sneered as he saw the look of horror go across the young woman's face

Adrianna reeled in her emotions. She couldn't afford to give this guy an advantage over her. 'If I retreat now, all the prisoner will be recaught,' Adrianna thought to herself. 'But if I stay here I'm a goner facing his guy.'

"Try and run," Dark Ace said as he watched the girl in front of him. He could see the wheels turning in her mind.

"How about no," Adrianna said as she pulled out her twin swords. One was a dark blue color, the color when the sky is a perfect shade of as the stars shine through, Nyx. The other was the color of the setting sun, a shade of red that bled into orange, Helios.

"That's even more foolish than running," he said with a smirk as he pulled out his own sword. It crackled to life with red energy. "But since you don't want to run," Dark Ace said as he charged towards Adrianna.

Adrianna blocked the first strike and was then forced to play defense as Dark Ace rained down blows. Adrianna was using all of her training to stay alive and give the kids she freed time to escape. For the most part Adrianna was able to keep up. There were a few times when Dark Ace could have disarmed her in one move. The longer the blades clashed, the more Adrianna realized that Dark Ace was assessing her skills at sword fighting. She had been fighting for years, but she had never face someone this good.

"You're good," Dark Ace said as another strike brought him up close to the girl. "But not good enough," he said as he disarmed her with two flicks of his sword.

As she lost both of her beloved swords, Nyx and Helios, she glared at Dark Ace. If looks could kill, her glare would have killed Dark Ace immediately.

"Grab her," Dark Ace ordered as he picked up each of Adrianna's swords.

"Adrianna come in," Clinton asked. "Adrianna come in! We have to leave!"

"What do we have here now?" Dark Ace asked as he pulled the com out of the girl's ear. He hadn't heard what was said, but he heard a slight noise come from her ear. "Well you won't need this anymore," he said as he tossed the com away.

"What are we going to do with her?" a Talon asked. He and one other Talon had a hold of Adrianna so that way she couldn't escape.

"Master Cyclonis has been working on new crystals, I'm sure she could use a new test subject," Dark Ace said as he led the way out of the prison cells.


"That's the last of them!" Clinton yelled to the rest of the Red Eagles. He was at the end of the tunnel that the children had come flooding out of.

"Where's Adrianna?" Fulton asked as he looked around for their youngest member. Something in the back of his mind had warning bells ringing.

"Adrianna come in?" Clinton asked over their com system. "Adrianna come in! We have to leave!"

"We have to leave," Kieran shouted from air ship's ramp. He didn't like the thought of leaving their newest member of the team, but they had a job to do.

"But!" Fulton protested.

"She'll have to meet us and Grayson Point," Clinton said as he ran to the ship.

"The Dark Ace?" Fulton asked himself quietly. 'No it can't be him,' Fulton thought to himself as he stared at sky riders taking off from the prison.

"Come on!" Clinton shouted as he turned back to the last member on the team.

Fulton took one last glance at the retreating sky riders before he ran up the ramp to the airship.


"Master Cyclonis," Dark Ace said as he knelt behind his master. Dark motioned for the Talons to force their captive to her knees.

"What have you brought me today?" Master Cyclonis mussed as she continued to work at her machine. She did not spare any of them a glance as she continued on with her work.

"A gift," Dark Ace responded as he walked up to Master Cyclonis. "The one who has been setting your prisoners free."

"Really?" she asked intrigued as she turned to face her newest toy. "And what is your name?" Master Cyclonis asked as she walked up to the young woman who couldn't be older than twenty.

"None of your business!" Adrianna snapped. She refused to go down without a fight.

"Keep that fire," Master Cyclonis laughed. "You are going to need it."

"You don't scared me! I'm a daughter of a Sky Knight, and a Sky Knight myself," Adrianna hissed out at Master Cyclonis.

"Take her to my favorite crystal testing chamber, I have a new crystal that I have been waiting to try," Master Cyclonis ordered of the Talons as she walked back to what she had been doing before she was interrupted.

"What does this new crystal do?" Dark Ace asked as he walked up beside his leader.

"It is a powerful mind controlling crystal," Master Cyclonis smirked. "It changes memories to fit whatever the controller wishes. If I want her to be one of my loyal generals, she will believe that she has been in my service for years, and has undying loyalty to me."

"You already know what you want to do with her," Dark Ace mussed. It never surprised him that Master Cyclonis was already steps ahead of everyone else.

"Yes, and I want you to train her. She will become your partner, and when the time is right we will unleash her on the Storm Hawks," Master Cyclonis grinned.


"She should have been here by now!" Fulton said as he passed around the back room at the tavern called Grayson Point. Grayson Pint was on a small terra out in the middle of nowhere. It was the perfect place to meet because only very few people came through the area and no give another person a second glance.

They had finished dropping the last freed child off over four hours ago.

"You know she's always late," Clinton said. In truth he was starting to get worried about their temporary female Sky Knight.

"It was Dark Ace," Fulton whispered.

"What?" Kieran asked confused as a sense of dread filled him. All three of the Red Eagles had come, grown was probably a better word, to like Adrianna over the past couple of months. She had become part of their little family. Adrianna was used to working on her own, so she didn't play well with others

"I thought I saw Dark Ace leave the prison as we were leaving. But then I thought I was imagining it," Fulton said ashamed.

"Damn!" Kieran said as he slammed a fist down on the table.

"We have to-" Fulton started to say.

"Do what?" Clinton cut off. "Rescue her? We can't! She's in the middle of Cyclonia!"

"We have to do something!" Fulton argued.

"We don't have the numbers, and she knew the risks," Clinton said. Clinton felt ashamed of himself for suggesting to leave Adrianna. But they had all decided from the beginning that if one was captured, the others had to finish the prison mission first. Rescuing Master Cyclonis's prisoners were more important.

"But!" Fulton tried to argue.

"We have to save everyone else first, then come back for her," Kieran said as the final word. He got up to leave the table.


Arianna screamed in agony as the powers from the crystal washed over her. Her mind felt like it was on fire. The crystal's energy was pure torture as it started to take over her mind. It took a lot to keep herself from crying out and begging for Master Cyclonis to stop. She had never experienced this type of power before. It terrified her that if Master Cyclonis could turn her, then what was to stop her from going after her fellow Sky Knights.

Adrianna couldn't move as she was trapped in a box like, machine structure. There was glass so she could see out of, but more importantly others could see in. The mind controlling crystal fed its power into the machine.

"Soon she'll be a great general in my army," Master Cyclonis said as she relished the thought. "If this is successful, there will be a new mission."

"Of course Master Cyclonis," Dark Ace said as he watched the young woman try and keep from screaming. A small part of him wanted to stop the experiment for causing her pain, but it was squished by the loyalty he felt for Master Cyclonis.

"Protect Aerrow, protect Aerrow, protect Aerrow," Adrianna thought over and over in her mind as the crystal's power washed through her. "You made a promise to always protect Aerrow."

"Soon the crystal's power will fully take over her mind," Master Cyclonis said, "and I want you to train her. I want her ready to face any Sky Knight and come out victorious."

Dark Ace nodded his head in acknowledgement. He was ready to deal a blow to the Storm Hawks and the rest of the Sky Knights.

"You have to stay strong to protect Aerrow!" she yelled at herself.

"I can't!" her weak side said in pain.

"We made a promise to our father to protect him no matter what," her strong said as she tried to fight the powers of the crystal.

"Why?" asked the part that the crystal had already taken a hold of. "Why should we protect him? He's old enough to stand on his own. He doesn't need us anymore."

"No! We made a promise to dad!" she tried to think. Adrianna was losing the battle as more of her mind belonged to her Master Cyclonis. "No! Protect Aerrow!"

"She has a strong mind," Master Cyclonis mussed as she watched the woman struggle to fight her crystal.

"Think of that day," she told herself.

Flashback

"Daddy!" Adrianna said as she came running up to her dad as fast as her seven year old legs would carry her.

"Oh there's my princess!" her father said as he dismounted his sky rider and took his oldest into his arms.

Adrianna squirmed free and ran a few paces away. "I'm not a princess," she said firmly that left no room for argument.

"I'm sorry," her father said trying to appease his daughter anger. "My Sky Knight."

Adrianna broke into a smile as she ran back to her father.

"Daddy," came a shout from three year old Aerrow as he came running from the house. Aerrow made it half way to his father before he tripped and fell face first into the ground. As soon as he hit the ground he started crying.

Adrianna immediately freed herself from her father and ran to her brother. "You ok?" she asked as she helped Aerrow up.

Aerrow sniffled before nodding his head.

"You ok buddy?" their father asked as he picked Aerrow up.

Later on that night as Adrianna was snuggling down into her sheets, her dad came into her room to tuck her in.

"Good night daddy," Adrianna said as she hugged her father.

"Good night sweet heart," he said as he continued to hug her. When he finally released her, he looked Adrianna right in the eye. "Adrianna, you have to promise me that you will always look out for your little brother. You have to be strong for him no matter what."

"Daddy?" Adrianna asked confused.

"You have to protect him," her father said.

"I will daddy," Adrianna said a little confused.

"That's my Sky Knight," her father said as he kissed the top of her head and walked out of her room.

End Flashback

The struggle continued as Adrianna's mind was at war with itself. Part of her mind held onto the promise that she had made when she was little, while the other part fired off shots saying that Aerrow didn't need her anymore. In the end it was a losing battle as Master Cyclonis's crystal was just too strong for her to handle.

"I'm sorry dad," Adrianna thought to herself as she felt the crystal's power take full control of her mind. "I failed you."