The Seventh Member of the Storm Hawks

Nika Fights Back

Nika groaned fairly loudly while she regained consciousness, capturing the attention of the Talon, he quickly snapped his head around to the cage trailing behind his Skimmer, seeing the prisoner attempting to sit up. "Quiet down back there!" He hissed, Nika looked over to the voice with bleary eyes – feeling her head swim as if someone dumped liquid lead in it. "What's going on?" She slurred, not sure if she was wobbling due to own lack of balance or because she was flying. "I said pipe down!" The Talon yelled, he was behind schedule and now that the Yarisian Princess was awake – it upped his stress levels even more. Nika sat up, regretting the decision as her stomach lurched and a large build-up of saliva gathered in her mouth. She forgot who she was with, letting out a whimper. "I'm going to be sick..." She cried quietly, beginning to feel the hacks of throwing up beginning, the Talon glanced at the brunette weighing his options. A sick prisoner was the worst especially if he kept going and made her worse, he sighed through his nose. "Fine, we will stop." Nika gratefully nodded and stayed quiet whilst the Cyclonian made a quiet descent to the nearest terra.

Aerrow had been worried sick about Nika, knowing that she had been kidnapped was gut wrenching enough, but he could only place a few ideas on who took her. It was between the Cyclonians and the Murk Raiders, but his mind was set on the Cyclonians but who exactly? It wasn't Snipe – he would be stupid enough to announce that he had Nika if he did kidnap her, Ravess? No, she didn't have the wit to beat Nika. His mind trailed to the Dark Ace – that was the only person that he could think of. He had the means, the wit and capability to beat Nika – with a frustrated groan he let himself fall onto his back on the bed. Everyone had taken the news hard, all in different ways and it worried the Sky Knight – he found himself doing normal chores with tears streaming down his face – it had only been a day, but the Condor wasn't the same now, they had frantically looked for the brunette and asked fellow Sky Knights if they had seen her, but nothing. Piper had been openly crying and yelling at Finn, at first saying it was his fault, now she just yelled at how much she missed Nika. Finn had apologised to Aerrow every time Piper flared up or he had seen the redhead crying, the blonde felt immensely guilty and spent most of the time with the radio sending messages for news. Junko sat in the bridge, staring blankly at nothing and offering words of hopeful encouragement – though it sounded that he needed it more than anyone else. Radarr moped around, often not leaving Aerrow's side, whilst Stork had suffered two mental breakdowns since he was told – his behaviour around the missing Storm Hawks made Aerrow question what his feelings were for her – but for the good of his team and his own sanity, he didn't dare bring it up. "Aw, Nika..." He sighed, looking out his window to the evening sky, "Where are you?"

The Talon roughly pulled Nika out of the cage, extending rope from her wrists to allow her space but stay in control. She stumbled and fell onto her knees, pathetically she sat there wrenching up her last meal. The Talon groaned in annoyance at the hold up, not caring that his prisoner was suffering from a bad concussion. "Hurry it up, I haven't got all day!" He exclaimed, giving Nika a shove as if that would make her spring to life. It had done the exact opposite as she slumped over, face first to the ground coughing and spluttering. "Master Cyclonis needs you alive!" He shouted, unaware of the noise he was making – five figures dressed in gold armour watched from the bushes curiously. They had received a distressful message from their recent allies saying that their teammate had been kidnapped, plus their alarm had gone off with the Talon Skimmer being spotted flying close to Terra Rex – naturally the squadron went to investigate. Harrier winced seeing the abuse the Talon shouted at the brunette, he worked out for himself that the Yarisian was the Princess and though it wasn't a great shock to him – it still surprised him. He heard rumours of who the princess was – he expected a well-mannered and proper character, not an opinionated and sarcastic fourteen-year-old. "What should we do, Harrier?" Tetra (Made up a name for the female Rex Guardian) whispered, Harrier pondered for a moment – his eyes lingering on the wrenching fourteen-year-old, "Wait, if he moves then we move."