Dawn of a New Age

Chapter Twenty Two

Chapter Twenty Two

Dark Ace sneered and brought his blade closer to Aerrow's face. Matthew pulled his skimmer and flew as fast as he could towards the pair. He pulled a throwing knife from his pocket and readied to throw. As he got closer, Canada could see a large gash in the red heads side just above his hip.

As soon as the Canadian got close enough he threw his knife. The blade hit its mark sticking into the Cyclonians collar bone making him drop Aerrow. The Sky Knight crumpled in a pile on the skimmers wing. Dark Ace took a step back and pulled the knife out of his shoulder. He dropped it on the wing next to the teen. Aerrow reached for it, but the talon stepped on his hand. He kicked the Sky Knight in the side sending him falling over the edge of the wing.

Matthew gasped seeing the teen falling and sped up trying to catch him. Raddar was too far away to catch him and Junko and Finn didn't have enough room on their skimmer. The nation was the only one that could help Aerrow. He dived down keeping a low profile on his skimmer to reduce drag, but he wasn't catching up quick enough. The canadian change his skimmer back to bike mode and it started to fall quicker.

"Aerrow! Matthew!" Junko yelled through the coms as the pair fell past the cloud line out of his view. "Aerrow, if you can hear me open your glider!"

Matthew didn't see the Sky Knight make a move to do so or respond. He must have been unconscious. Canada was catching up to him now, but so were the wastelands. He finally got close enough and reached out. He managed to get his arm around Aerrow's waist and pull him onto the skimmer. Matthew opened up his wings just in time to avoid the lava.

"Got him." Canada said. He had the unconscious Sky Knight tucked under one arm. He didn't move at all as he pulled him further onto the skimmer.

"Is he okay?" Finn demanded worriedly.

"He's alive." Matthew replied looking over the damage. The cut in his side is what he was most worried about, it was still bleeding. "Where do you keep all of your medical supplies?" He asked calmly. The nation knew that he had to keep a level head and not scare the Storm Hawks about how bad it really was.

"Third door on the left from the hanger." Piper said. "The repairs are done! We can leave."

"Good, then let's get out of here!" Finn yelled.

Matthew resurfaced above the clouds and quickly located the Condor. He flew for it and saw Finn and Junko just landing, Radarr with Aerrow's skimmer not too far behind. Finn ran out to the run way and covered Canada with his crossbow as he landed. The Cyclonians didn't let up as they fled indoors. As soon as the nation was inside he could feel the Condor start to move.

Canada hopped off his skimmer and grabbed Aerrow bridal style and ran towards the med bay. He could feel the Sky Knight's blood soaking through his sweater. He ran into the room and carefully set Aerrow down on the bed. For the first time the red head moved and started to curl in on himself with a pained expression and a groan. Finn and Junko poked their heads into the room and took in the scene. They looked terrified and worried for their friend.

"Finn, Junko, can you help me with this?" Matthew asked. Neither of them made a move. The nation was digging through the drawers trying to find anything that might help the Sky Knight. He was most concerned with stopping the bleeding. He managed to find a few clean cloths and some gauze. He turned back to the table and put a hand onto Aerrow's shoulder. The Sky Knight tensed up. "Can you lie on your back please?" He asked knowing that Aerrow was most likely not paying any attention to him.

"Hurts." The red head said quietly. Matthew was glad to hear him talk and know he was semi-conscious.

"I know. I want to help you." Canada said calmly. "I need to check out that cut, but I can't when you're like this."

"Okay." Aerrow murmured and rolled slowly on to his back. Radarr ran into the room and jumped up on to the bed. He looked over his friend with concern, but knew there wasn't anything he could do to help. The lemur curled around the sky Knights head and played with his hair.

"Is he breathing, is he going to survive this?" Piper demanded running into the room. She had a panicked look on her face.

"Piper, calm down. He's going to be okay." Matthew assured her as he put pressure on the wound with a cloth to stop the bleeding. She was right at his side ready to do what she could. "Hold this here." Canada said gesturing to the now blood stained cloth. Piper looked a little bit unsure, but helped anyways. "Keep pressure on it. It will help with the bleeding."

"How can we fix this?" Piper asked as Matthew tried to find anything that could help Aerrow.

"It's way too big to heal on its own open. I'm going to have to stitch it closed." Canada said opening another drawer and finally finding a needle and thread.

"Will that even work?" Junko asked from the door.

"Yes." Matthew said turning back to Aerrow. Piper took a step back and watched as Canada took the cloth off the wound to inspect it. It was a huge cut, about eight inches long curved like a frown just above the hip. It was fairly deep as well, any deeper and it could have done some very deadly damage. The edges of the wound were burned by the hot blade, but the rest wasn't and was still bleeding. Matthew took a deep breath; it was going to take all his limited knowledge to help Aerrow. He was happy that he had went with John into the field a few times otherwise the Sky Knight wouldn't have a chance in surviving.

"So?" Piper asked nervously.

"It's pretty bad, but fixable." Canada said slowly trying not to show his worry. He pulled a throwing knife from his pocket.

"What are you doing with that?" Finn asked seeing the weapon.

"I need to cauterize the rest of the wound." The nation explained as the blade heated up. "It means burning the wound closed so it can't bleed anymore."

"Burn?" Aerrow asked moving his head a little. "Hurt?"

"Yeah, sorry. It will hurt and I don't have anything to give you that could stop that. It will be better in the long run." Matthew said sadly. He knew that this would cause the teen a lot of pain. "Junko, Finn, I need you to hold his arms and legs down just in case he wants to move. Piper, keep him talking and calm."

AN: Not sorry for that reference ;) Also! Posted a smol song fic for PruCan on my tumblr(TallPoppy-Canada). Just search "closer' on the blog and it should be the first or second thing.