Chapter One – A Day to Remember
"Ready! Set..." The white vulpine eagerly waited for the mark. His pores were filling with sweat as he was nervous. What was he nervous about? The final test to be worthy of the M.O.S.H. Being a part of the M.O.S.H. means big honor from his country and his parents.
The final test was simple, yet so complicating at the same time. It was an obstacle course with only one objective, and that's to get to the other side. One part of it contained four platforms at a 90 degree angle with a pool of blood-thirsty piranhas underneath it, after that there was a metal chain that connects to the top of the wall. The wall looks very easy, or so the vulpine thought. Above the wall was a walk way that displays thousands upon thousands of tiles. Some of the squares appear to be switches, but they are camouflaged among the other tiles. After the walkway was the door, the door didn't seem too special. It is after the door. What surprise would happen in there?
The vulpine shook those thoughts out of his head. All he had to do is get to the endpoint, which was after the final room. He was the last one to enter the obstacle course after 299 people went through it. Only a few made it out alive, but others weren't so lucky. He knew he could do it. He had the strength, the stamina, the speed, the reflexes, the intellect, and – most importantly – the luck.
"Go!" shouted the announcer. The white vulpine sprinted towards the platforms. He had to ninja wall jump across the platforms. Suddenly, a piranha came up at his face, but the piranha's thinking was so small that Kiko used his telekinetic powers to simply push the piranha away from his face and towards the platform behind him. Kiko just jumped onto the last platform and then onto the wall's chain. He was scrambling to get his feet and his hands in their places. He put his feet down onto the wall, set his hand over his other hand and started to climb. It seemed easy, but he had gone only about 10 meters. All of a sudden, the chain started to get hot. Kiko started to look down and saw tongues of fire spreading along the wall, close to Kiko. Kiko started to pick up the pace. The fire is a good 10 meters from him, and he is about 10 meters from the top. His arms are getting heavy as he strives for the top.
Five meters to go...Sweat is pouring from his body due to the exhaustion, and the intensity of the heat. Four more and the flames of the heat source are closing in about two meters from him. Three more, he thought, I got this. He didn't show exhaustion. He only showed heart. Two more and the flames are basically touching his tail. It was now or never. He took the chance; it was a leap of faith. He stretched his arm and grabbed the ledge to quickly pull himself up. He rolled over the ledge and looked right. The flames were passing him and his sweat evaporated due to the heat of the flames.
He looked to his right and saw that the flames had gone down when the flames touched the ceiling. A sigh of relief escaped from his muzzle. Damn, that was close, he thought to himself. But it wasn't over yet. He looked left and saw the door. He remembered a cartoon that he saw on Youtube that involves a door,
"Look! It's the door!"
"The door?"
"The..The Door!"
"What's so special about the door?"
"The door is everything. All that once was and all that should be... It controls time and space; love and death! THE DOOR CAN SEE INTO YOUR MIND! The doooor cannn sssee into your sssouul..."
"...Wow...Can the door really do all that?"
"Heh, no."
Kiko chuckled at the thought. He slowly picked himself up and started to examine the walkway. There's gotta be a trap somewhere. He looked at the tile in front of him and tapped it with his foot lightly. Nothing happened. Aw screw it, he thought to himself. He ran across the floor. It wasn't until his fifth step that he saw the tiles behind him starting to disintegrate. He picked up the speed and in no time, he was at the door. He quickly gripped the knob and turned it.
Since the tiles were disappearing behind him, he went in without looking and closed the door behind him. The white vulpine then started to look at his surroundings. The room was pitch black and he couldn't see anything... or anyone. Kiko did not even try to allow his sight to get used to the surroundings. He quickly used his telepathy in order to find what lies in the room. After a couple of seconds, he senses a thought pattern. It was weak, so he knows it was not a vulpine, lynx, or anyone for that matter. These minds have more IQ and thought patterns than other living things. He can sense the words kill, in its thought pattern.
"Welcome to the final room." said the announcer. "You will face a mutant from one of Venom's experiments. These experiments used to be living things with a mind. Venom used these living things as tests subjects. Some have accepted the serum, however others not." It was then that the lights flickered on and Kiko looked around. "As you can see, this one did not accept the serum." Kiko looked at that thing in disgust." It is a mutant spider." The spider was huge, a good two feet taller than Kiko. It had tentacles instead of legs and coming out of the tentacles was white slime...or saliva. "In order for you to pass, you have to kill it. Put it out of its misery."
With my bare hands? Kiko loudly thought. It's impossible to- no wait, that's right, I have telekinesis. Kiko used his telepathy to scan the inside mind of the mutant, but its mind was already dead now. Now, it was the word 'kill' echoing throughout its mind. The creature seemed injured, seemed depressed, and also seemed helpless. Kiko was about two feet away from it. Suddenly, the mutant threw its tentacle at Kiko. In a split second, Kiko leaned back out of the way of collision. He grabbed the tentacle and started to use his telekinesis to squeeze the insides of his opponent. He lifted his paw and squeezed his hands together. He started to feel death within him. It was almost too easy for the white vulpine to defeat his opponent because of the opponent's incapability to think.
Slowly and steadily the life was draining out of him. Kiko tried to push the misery in his thoughts out of the way to finally kill him. The moment came, one last drop left. Kiko used all of his might to finally drain his life.
The body let out one last scream and flopped to its side. It was not moving. And Kiko let go of the tentacle, put his paw down, and relaxed his brain. Kiko looked at his body not with a terror on his face, but a face of accomplishment. He let out a sigh and went to check the pulse. Pulse levels were dropped to zero according to the hand-to-the-neck test.
Kiko got up and looked around to find a door when all of a sudden he felt a sharp pain on his right shoulder. He felt the area for something unique, and sure enough it was a dart. Now the room started to deteriorate and started to blur. "Shi-"was all that the vulpine said until he fell to the floor unconscious.
Kiko was going in and out of conscious while he was being dragged throughout the Cornerian Base. What the f**k thought the vulpine. He tried to sense what was around him and eventually he went out unconscious.
"Here you go, General." said one of the body guards.
"Good, place him in that chair." Said the General. The guards saluted the General and placed Kiko on top of the chair. "Dismissed." The soldiers saluted the general one last time and made their way out of the room. General Peppy looked at Kiko and then went to grab a folder under the desk. The general examined the folder carefully, with a few "Uh-huhs" and "Hmms" escaping his muzzle.
"Ugh," Kiko began to wake up from his 'sleep'. General Peppy cocked his eyebrow and then looked at Kiko." Wha-Where am I?" mumbled Kiko. The white vulpine looked everywhere and examined the room. There was the desk with a folder on top. Kiko looked at the folder and looked ahead. He sees Peppy in his serious face. Peppy gave a hard look at Kiko.
"This is my office and I am your general." coldly replied Peppy. Kiko went wide-eyed and automatically stood up and saluted the General.
"Sir!"
"At ease, Allen. We have gotten some things to discuss." Kiko looked at the chair and sat down. Peppy still kept that stare at Kiko. It wasn't a stare of hate; it was a stare of success. "As you know we have a war against Venom. And our allies are Cerenia and Katina; and our enemies are Venom and Naw."
"Of course, sir." Kiko wondered if he should ask Peppy why they used a sleeping dart to get him here and tell him, but it was the general after all. Peppy took his stare off of Kiko and glanced down at the folder. He grabbed the folder, opened it, and set it across the desk.
"Take it." Ordered Peppy. Kiko grabbed the folder and started to examine it. He looked at all of the statistics and achievements. It showed a picture on the top-left corner it was a white vulpine with black fur, seemingly the black fur 'slashed' his right eye and went down along the right side of his arm. It showed that he was six-feet-tall. It looked familiar, and then recognized it was him. He glanced down the last achievement that he had made. It said, First Place: Obstacle Course. "You are our new recruit. You are now part of the Master Operatives Success Horde, or M.O.S.H. for short. You need a Call sign and give me the type of gun you want."
"Call sign: Covert Slash. I would prefer an ACOG AUG Blaster Rifle with a silencer. My secondary weapon is an Infrared Scope WA2000 Blaster Rifle with a silencer, sir."
"Good. I can see where you get your Call sign from. I also hear that stealth and cunning is your specialty. "
"Why, thank you, sir." Peppy looked down. He opened a drawer and pulled out another folder.
"Here are your new teammates." He announced as he threw the folder across the desk and landed on the opposite side of the desk. It landed with a thud and Kiko grabbed the file and observed it. He first saw the picture. It showed a black avian with a black beak. From there he glanced to the figure's hair. It was short, neatly combed, and it had blonde highlights at the end of the hair. His eyes glanced downwards toward his face. Then he glanced at his left eye. It wasn't an eye at all. It was mechanical. A red-eyed soldier, thought Kiko, Probably for a good reason too. His silhouette was of medium build. Kiko glanced all over the paper to find the name of the figure. He found it at the top-left corner. 'Lance Wade' was the name on the paper.
He then flipped the page and another file was on there. He immediately saw the name on the paper. Jared Leto was the name. He glanced down at the picture, not caring about the statistics. The first thought that ran through his head was of how huge of a size he was. It was a huge husky and it had tan fur. His hair was in shape of a mullet, but with spiky, black highlight hair at the top. The vulpine notices his mechanical arm. It was built to fit his build, strong and muscular. "Hmm…" escaped his muzzle.
He flipped over to the last page and immediately saw the name of the file. It said Ema Diamond. Huh…thought Kiko. He glances down towards the picture and sat there in awe. He was studying the figure. Long Brownish-black hair, her eyes were enormous emerald gems that are inserted into her sockets, cute face structure, slender and perfect body type, and what mostly made her unique is the color of fur she has. Unlike Cornerian fur which is blonde, brown, black, or red; her fur is beige. She was beautiful, according to Kiko. Damn, thought Kiko. "When do I get to meet them, sir?" asked Kiko lifting his head up towards Peppy. Peppy was very eager to show him to his teammates.
"Right now, of course," replied Peppy. Peppy started to get up, and Kiko soon mimicked the action. Peppy motioned Kiko over to him. "Walk with me." Once again they were walking with the General in the front and Kiko in the back. They walked down the hall, turned left and into the dining room. Peppy continued across the dining room and into another hall, he turned right and headed toward one of the bunkers. "They are in here." Peppy pointed towards the bunker.
What's the significance? Kiko questioned in his thoughts to himself. They look like other bunkers to me. "Okay, thank you sir."
"No problem, Allen. Dismissed." Kiko saluted Peppy one last time and then he turned into the bunker.
Author's Notes:
First of all, this is my first fan-fic and I think it is doing pretty good. If you can, please comment and rate, and do whatever. If my story needs improvement, please tell me. Otherwise it will not be fixed and the story will turn out crappy.
Secondly, this story is a war/love story. It has a Call of Duty background with StarFox places and characters.
Thirdly, I would like to introduce my new OC's: Lance Wade, Jared Leto, Ema Diamond, and the main character, Kiko Allen! (Applause) Thank you, thank you.
Fourth…ly, any story ideas will be accepted.
Fifth(ly), thanks to all who read this.
FINALLY, all characters, places, and ideas that are not rightfully mine go to their respective owners. (Copyright, for short.)
XXX Katch yall on the flipsideXXX – Jumanji8