War is over for Starfox. Fox McCloud now lives comfortably in a regular apartment while he lives a now ordinary life, But what happens when he suddenly has feelings for two other men? His rival and his former enemy? Who will he choose, and will it be a lasting relationship?

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I just wish to say that I'm glad to be writing some material finally. This is my first fan-fiction and I certainly hope it is something you all can enjoy. –Redderton

Rival or Enemy

~Chapter 1- The Mind's struggle~

A relaxed sigh left the lips of the former mercenary Fox McCloud as he relaxed in his armchair. It had now been a month since Sergeant Pepper had told the Starfox team to retire from the force. It had been a long time since Fox had so much time on his hands.

He had already found a steady job working at a cafe serving drinks. Not the best job, but it beat being unemployed and on the streets, and he had already seen some familiar faces as well. Slippy and Peppy were no strangers to the cafe and often would chat with Fox on his break. He loved being able to catch up with his old teammates now that they were retired from mercenary work. But there was always two customers he always disliked seeing at the cafe. The first of which was Falco Lombardi, his old crewmate and still rival. He had found himself a great job training young mercenaries to pilot an arwing, and ever since he would rub it in Fox's face about how he was chosen over the team leader. It always irritated him, but he strangely felt happy for the falcon and often would picture him pressed up against his own form, but he always shook himself out of it. He couldn't be falling for the egotistic bird, could he?

But the second customer almost made Fox want to quit his job. If his rival rubbing his success in his face wasn't enough Wolf O'Donnell had to make him feel worse by telling him how he joined the Cornerian mercenary group and removed the bounty off his head. Granted Wolf's job was protecting Corneria from any threats when they appeared, but none the less he never failed to brag about how his weekly pay was always bigger than Fox's. But, like Falco, he couldn't keep from wanting to be close to the wolf, but he shook it off thinking it was just the fact that Wolf was being paid more.

He glanced over at his communicator, a new version he managed to pay for himself, and thought of calling one of the two. He sat and looked at the communicator until he sighed once again and got up from the chair. He walked to the bathroom and started a warm bath, the best thing to help him relax and forget about his mixed up feelings about the other two guys. He knew he was gay in fact he had come to terms with it and accepted his feelings for other guys, but he couldn't accept his feelings for Falco and Wolf. But even so he started imagining Falco gently caressing his body as he sat in the tub, smiling before pulling his head close and kissing the fox directly on the lips, and he did so repeatedly until he began to try and part the fox's lips with his tongue. It was there that Fox tried to snap out of it. He kept trying to force that blue feathered body out of his mind.

But then he began to imagine a different scenario. This time Wolf was sitting in the opposite side of the tub, his muscular chest showing as he rests his arms on the side of the tub, he glances at the fox and smiles motioning him towards his naked form. Fox could do nothing but agree as he slowly moves to the grey furred wolf and sits in the wolf's lap facing him. Wolf then pulled his arms around the fox quickly and held him close as he rubbed along his back and the back off his head before he caresses Fox's chin and pulls him close for a deep and intimate kiss. Fox then snapped back to reality and found himself on the other side of the tub. Fed up with all this he drains the bath and dries off before he pulls on a pair of black briefs and crawls into bed. He fell asleep easily, but only began to dream of intimate situations with his rival and his enemy.