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Update: I've remade the chapter, just for a better prologue and hopefully a better eye catcher.
It seemed like the whole world was on his side, Fox McCloud, ace pilot. Practically a super hero to many, but that was then. Now is a much different story. Now he patrols the streets as a rat, desperately trying to beg for money. At times he's even had to steal, but that one fateful day, he stole from just the right person.
Only hours after the Cornerian Sol set, Fox noticed an elderly man, just hobbling along. He had not eaten in at least four days and this was his big break. His worn out body quickly made its way to the old man, his paws greedily honed in on the pocket. Then, in a half a second, he was on his back. The old man had turned around and slammed him in the face with a powerful kick. Slowly the old man stepped over to Fox and looked down at him with anger, then with sudden shock.
"Fox McCloud, what have you done with yourself." The man spoke.
"Wha..." Fox stuttered, he had no idea who the man was.
"You don't recognize me, remember when you were sixteen?" The old man spoke.
"Lazarus?" Fox uttered in surprise, it had been many long years before he had seen the old man. Lazarus smiled.
"I guess Peppy was right about you, a hermit lost in a crowd. You're different Fox, always have been; I have new life for you, to restart and try again." Lazarus said reaching down to him. Fox reluctantly grasped the old man's hand.
"What do you mean?" Fox choked.
"You must give up your terrible past, and accept defeat, and then be born again, anew." Lazarus responded.
Fox thought for a moment, forget it all? There really was no other way; Fox McCloud was nothing to the world anymore.
"I accept you offer." Fox said closing his eyes.
"Then from this point on, you are no longer Fox McCloud, you never had a father, you never loved, you never had friends, understand." Lazarus commanded.
"Yes sir." was all Fox said.
"How could he treat me like that, all this time, all this love, for nothing?" Krystal shouted to the night, she had never felt so betrayed in her life. Her heart was a broken mess; she held the blaster in her arms tightly. Time heals all things a wise person once said, but what if time is the destroyer.
Here she stood in the dark rainy streets of Corneria, ready to blow her brains out. All because Fox chose to wait, and wait she did. Eventually time destroyed their relationship. Fox didn't know how to give her up, so he told her to leave the team. She raised the gun to her temple and put her finger to the trigger.
"Whoa, now hold on there." Said a figure in the dark. Krystal quickly pulled the the gun away from her head. "Now what's this about, you're too pretty to go and do something stupid like that."
"Who are you?" Krystal called over to the figure.
"Nobody and you?" The figure called out. Great this guy knows poetry Krystal thought rolling her eyes.
"I guess I'm nobody either." Krystal said to the figure.
"Well come with me, we need to get out of the rain, I know a place come on." The figure said holding out his hand. They slowly walked along the slick streets.
"By the way, what's your name?" Krystal asked her possible new friend.
"Clark, and you?" He responded.
Krystal thought for a moment,
"Kursed."
Jack's fists trembled with anger, it was Bowman, he had attacked again, but he brought it too far this time. His specimens remained intact, but at what cost. He looked around, the bodies of scientists every where, including two of his best friends.
"Come on man, we need to go, the General set up for us to leave the planet." Daren Harvey called out, Jack's only surviving friend. Jack looked as if he were about to cry.
"Alright, let's go." Jack said walking over to the glass cylinders, the little embryo type creatures inside were getting bigger fast, only a month to go and they might have the perfect specimen.
"Why do we keep this up Jack, this is the third time this has happened." Daren said, trying to choke back tears himself.
"So we can get back at them all, to avenge those who died, everyone here, Arden, Sophie, Alex," Jack responded, he could no longer mask his anger. "When we release these upon the world, there will be nothing left of Carlisle, or Bowman. Not a single one of those bastards."
They both walked towards the soldiers who were supposed to lead them out of the building.
