Right, at this moment in time this IS a one-shot, through knowing me I'll want to make this into a complete story. Even if it's just in my head.


Alone.

Everyone left him… they always left them in the end, no matter who they where, and how close he was to them… they always left him in the end.

The first to go was his beautiful mother, Vixy Reinard McCloud… killed by a car bomb that was meant for his father…

Next with his second parent, Ace pilot James McCloud. Founder and first leader of the Star Fox team. Betrayed by Pigma, one of the original members of Star Fox.

Peppy Hare, his father's old friend and last member of the original Star Fox became a surrogate father for him, mentoring him through the war against Andross, and the Aparoid Invasion… then he became the General of the Cornerian Army. No longer having time for his adopted son.

Slippy Toad, Star Fox's engineer had retired as a pilot, was now living with his wife – a pink frog known as Amanda – on the water planet of Aquas. His life was a comfortable one; with no more risk of death… he was happy, which is more than what Fox could say.

Falco Lombardi, Fox's cocky wing mate and – through no one would ever say this to his face – the best pilot in the Star Fox team… and now the leader of his own mercenary group, rivalling both the Star Fox of old, and the new, redeemed Star Wolf. Not too surprisingly, this new group was known as Star Falco.

All of them had impacted his life, in both good ways in bad… but none of them could be compared to the blue vixen that had stolen his heart… Krystal. Ever since he laid eyes on her, he fell in love with her by her beauty alone. After he had realised her from her crystal prison and got to know her personally. His love for her only increased… and in time, she returned his feelings. The bond between the two only became stronger during the Aparoid Invasion, mostly when he accidently revealed that he would like to marry her whilst talking to Prince Tricky… What happened next through, was the worst mistake that Fox ever made in his entire alive.

He pushed away, forcing her to leave the Star Fox team, fearing for her safety, knowing that the live he lived was as dangerous as it got. He should have known better through, should have known that she would find a way to keep flying… Even so, he was completely surprised to discover that she had joined his – and Star Fox's – rivals, Star Wolf. During the Anglar Blitz, when he saw her again, he hoped that maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance to repair their relationship… in the end through, she betrayed him. Helping Star Wolf take the device that was needed to neutralize Vemon's acidic oceans, to defeat the Anglar's and take all the glory of the great victory for themselves…

Fox McCloud, leader, pilot, hero. Was alone. His friends had left him, his family where all dead, and the love of his life had turned against them… No matter how hard he looked, he could find nothing in his life anymore… not to long ago. He could not even walk down a street without people crowding around him, asking him thousands of questions, cheering for him, begging for an autograph… now, he was just a nothing meaningless person, another blank face among the lost souls that wandered streets of Corneria City.

No one was going to mourn his passing; no one would even notice his death. They might see a news report of a fox found dead, killed by his own hand. It was unlikely that anyone would ever link this lost empty soul for the great Fox McCloud.

The park was empty of all life except his own. No one in their right mind would be here at such a time. Either there where at their homes, sleeping through the night or in the seedier places of the city… not here, not in this park as the heavens opened.

The vulpine looked up at the clouded sky, feeling the rain pour down. Seeping through his clothes, creeping past his fur, soaking him right down to his bones. He didn't mind through, he didn't mind the coldness of the wetness. Instead, enjoying the feeling of the rain rolling down his body. Once last thing to enjoy before the end… all else was empty inside him… and yet he still had it in him to note how the sky so closely reflected heart.

With one last, final sigh. Fox McCloud looked away from the sky for the last time. His green-eyed gaze coming to rest on the object that rested in his right paw. The last gift that was ever given to him by his father. A solid, dependable blaster that accompanied through all of his trails ever since his father died. A fitting weapon to end it all.

Slowly, ever so slowly, the vulpine lifted the blaster up slowly, raising it up to head height. Breathing in deeply, calming himself, steadying himself for what he was about to do. Fox McCloud turned the weapon around in his paw, so that the gleaming barrel was now aiming at him.

The vulpine looked up into the clouded sky, feeling the rain pour down soaking to the bone, he didn't mind through, nothing mattered anymore. Yet he still found it in him to reflect how much the sky was like his heart at the moment. With a sigh, Fox looked away from the sky, instead concentrating on the blaster he held loosely in his right paw. Slowly, ever so slowly, the vulpine lifted the weapon up, until it was at head height. Breathing deeply to calm himself, Fox turned the blaster around so its barrel was pointing at him.

'This is it then… I suppose I should say goodbye to you, my cruel twisted life' The vulpine thought, closing his eyes, one last time. Darkness taking his sight, waiting to take his soul into death… and yet they did not. The one, final click, the final noise he would hear before the end of it all… it never came. The red fox waited for it, waiting for the end, growing confused as why death had not claimed him… then he realized the truth.

"I… I can't. I can't do this, I can't end it." Fox McCloud thought out loud as his eyes opened once more. The realization forced him to his knees, eyes filling up salty tears. "Why? Why can't I end it?" The vulpine sobbed, memories roaring through his mind, consuming his very being. Those of pain, of anguish and of sorrow far outweighed the memories of joy, happiness and love. "Why must this go on!" The red fox shouted, turning his head up to the heavens. "What have I done to deserve this fate! Why must I suffer when I have saved thousands, no millions of lives! Why do I have to be alone!" The vulpine demanded, before he collapsed once more, his sobs taking not just his mind, but also his body.

A hand entered his view.

Startled, Fox McCloud flinched back, falling from a kneeling position to what could loosely be called a sitting position. The red fox followed the hand up, taking in the masked lizard that stood before him. His first thoughts was that the figure was a Sharpclaw, through that was soon dismissed. This lizard was something else entirely… and still holding out his left hand, offering to help him back onto his feet. Shock rendered the vulpine mute, as he brain struggled to take in this new turn of events. Eventually, his mouth opened, speaking words before his even registered them.

"…why?"

"Because to me, you look like someone who needed a hand." The lizard replied, the calm, yet gentle voice revealing that it was male.

"But, but I'm a nobody, a person that no one cares for, a person that has nothing more in their life, why would you offer me a hand? There is no reason for you."

"No one should be alone Fox McCloud. You are great person, and do not deserve this fate… Let us make this right shall we? Let us show the world that you are Fox McCloud, hero of the Lylat system… Let us face whatever life wants to through at use together… friend."

Fox McCloud did not speak, again rendered mute by shock. Unable to comprehend what he was being offered… slowly through this changed. Almost unnoticeable at first, the end of the vulpine's mouth curling up at a snail's pace. Eventually through, anyone could see the first, genuine smile of Fox's face for a long time as he raised his right paw – the very same one that held his father's blaster just a short minute ago – grasping the lizard's outstretch hand. Changing not only his fate… but that fate of all those he knew… changing the fate of the Lylat system forever.

"Together."


Sometimes it only takes one small action to change the fate of universe forever…

Updated at school as I struggled with my original story.

So, what you guys think? Should I make this into a full-fledged story? I do have a few ideas.