Star Fox
Streets of Shadow
(A Max Payne style fanfic)
Chapter 1.
It was raining again, it usualy did these days. Fox propped his feet up on his desk and closed his eyes. The sound of the rain pelting the roof was enough to make his eyelids get heavy. He was about to fall asleep when his chair was shoved down to the floor. Fox's head slammed onto the desk and was then held there. "You shouldn't fall asleep on the job Fox." a voice behind him said.
"Mmmmm." Fox mumbled, the throbbing in his head getting worse as his head was pushed into the desk. "Listen, you owe me for locking me up in the joint McCloud!" the voice said. "You made a big mistake not killing me that day!" "And your mistake," another voice, female, said. "Was not checking to see if Fox was alone."
The first person, Fox recognized as a drug dealer named Micky Havok, gave a pained grunt as he was kicked right in the groin. "I'm sorry, I swear! Just don't hurt me!" There was the metallic clicking sound of handcuffs and the lights were turned on. The lights hurt his eyes worse than his head. "I'm almost surprissed you let your gaurd down Fox, it's not like you." the newcomer said. "I take 3 minutes out of my day to get coffee and you get beat up by scum like this." she said, kicking the drug dealer. "No offense." she said. Micky grunted, "None taken." Fox looked up to see Krystal holding out a brown stryofoam cup of coffee out to him.
Fox took the cup and sat up. He removed the lid and gulped down a third off it in a few seconds. Krystal sat on the edge of the desk and picked up the phone near Fox. "Yeah, Cornerian State Police? Got a runner laying at my feet here. Huh? No he's not dead, yet. Sure, but make it quick." she said. Fox finished his coffee and threw it into the waste basket. Krystal put the phone down, and crossed her legs. "So besides being beaten up by a common drug dealer, what else is new Fox?"
Fox slid a note over to her. "Ah a new job maybe?" she asked. Fox nodded. "A little thing about a drug ring on the east side of the city." Krystal hopped of the desk and wrapped her arms around Fox's neck. "Work at last. Think we can go together? Just the 2 of us?" Fox leaned back into her, the smell of lavender hung off her fur. "Maybe, if your a good girl." Krystal sighed and purred in his ear. "That's to bad." she said. "I like being a bad girl a lot better." she said seductively. "All the more better then." Fox said.
Fox pulled the car over and stepped out. The cold night air rustling his fur this way and that. He pulled the bereta from his holster and walked up to the front door. Krystal pulled one from her slim waistline and pressed an ear to the door. "I'm telling ya! This stuff sells better than the newest gun off the market! You'll run out of this stuff before the week is over!" A voice said. "Hmm." another one. "How do I know f this stuff is any good or not?" Krystal hung back and nodded. Fox took the first position in front of the door. 'ready?' Fox thought. Krystal nodded.
Fox kicked the doors in and brought his bereta up. "Every one on the ground and hands on their head!" he yelled. "Shit! It's McCloud!" a dealer said. A thug pulled an uzi from his jacket and sprayed a burst at Fox. The vulpine rolled to his left and took cover behind a few wooden crates. Krystal came from the side of the door, fireing a few rounds into the group before joining him. "Always the cop first ay Fox?" she said smiling.
Fox shook his head and stood to fire a few rounds into an uzi tooting thug, splattering blood on the wall behind him. Fox ducked back down as a shot gun blast destroyed the front of the crate. Krystal pulled a desert eagle from her coat and handed it to Fox. "Switch?" she asked hopefully. Fox traded her the eagle for his bereta and fired another couple of rounds into the throng. Krystal slid out from behind cover, pulling the triggers on the twin berets's faster than anyone could pull the trigger on their guns.
Fox took the moment and shoot the dealer in the neck, blood wetting his fur and then spilling all over the floor. He hid behind cover and motioned for Krystal to toss him a clip. Krystal fired a few rounds from her bereta and reached into a pocket and tossed him a full clip. Fox caught it and ejected his empty one onto the floor. The black furred wolf who had considered buying the drugs spewed about the table picked up his case of money and ran. "Kill the 2 and there's a 20% raise for whoever survives!"
The rest of the thugs got dollar signs in their eyes and started to up their spreads. Krystal rolled across the room and flipped the table up, blocking the sights of most of the gunmen. She jumped and fired throw the wood in different areas. When the table fell to the ground, 5 thugs were laying in a pool of their own rolled and fired a few rounds at 2 more thugs. One thug got behind Krystal and pointed a gun at her head. "Got you." he said. Fox came up behind the guy and blew his brains acorss the wall. "Nope." Fox said. "I got you."
Krystal tucked a hair out of her face and held out Fox's bereta back. "Thanks for the save." she said. Fox took his gun back and handed back the eagle. Fox checked his clip, it was empty. He ejected it and loaded a fresh one in. "Let's go after that scum with the case." he said after pulling back the slide. Krystal knelt down and picked up a syringe. "As much as I hate to say it. You go ahead, something isn't right about these drugs." Fox nodded and ran off.
The wolf ran down the final corridor and ran out to the loading docks. He jumped over a fallen board and ran right into Fox's fist when he ran around a corner. The buyer fell onto his ass and dropped the case. Fox pulled him up from the ground by the edges of his coat and slugged him across the face. The wolf dropped back to the ground, scrambling to get away from Fox. The vulpine picked up the case and slammed it on the side of the wolf's head.
The wolf layed there, bloody and beaten in a puddle of cold rain water. Fox pulled out a pair of handcuffs and cuffed him to a metal railling. Krystal came out from the building pulling a bag jingling with the sound of glass and metal. "I called the cops about a minute ago, we should leave." Fox nodded and picked up the case full of cash. "Isn't that considered stealing evidence?" she asked. "It was a tip off, not a contract job. Guy said it would pay for itself." Krystal shrugged and ran to the front of the building and jumped into the car. "Let's go, it's freezing out here!" she called behind her shoulder.
