This is my sequel story to "Escape from Necross", which was a sequel to "Like a Vixen Scorned" Be sure to read both stories in order, as well as the short story, "Bedtime Stories" before reading this one, for it all to make sense…
This story utilizes characters from the Starfox series, and uses names, action moves, and other material inspired by "Kamen Rider Kuuga", "Ultraman Nexus", and the Dragonball series. I do not own the rights to any of these franchises, nor do I intend to profit by them.
Enjoy!
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"Rose!" Fox shouted as he ran out to his daughter…he was older now, a little grey in parts of his fur, but he was still quite active on his feet. He held out a device that looked like a watch, an emergency communicator of sorts.
"Oh!" The 17-year-old Vixen's eyes went wide, as she took the device. "Thanks dad! I almost forgot." She slapped it onto her wrist, her black and red vest covering her chest, her red-furred arms exposed as she also wore tight black pants, her dark hair short and well maintained, much Like Krystal's was at her age.
"You can't be too careful, Rose…" Krystal smiled, her hair a bit longer as she showed a few signs of age, but was still as lovely as ever…as far as Fox was concerned anyway. "I know you've been flying these cruisers for a while, but they still seem very wild and unpredictable to your father and I."
A young male fox suddenly came next to Rose. "Don't worry about a thing, Mrs. McCloud." He spoke. "She's in good hands."
Fox smiled and nodded. "It's good to hear you say that, Jimmy."
"Your mother and I will be keeping an eye on the both of you, anyway." Krystal responded, Jimmy's mother being Topaz.
Rose smiled and adjusted her suit some. "Ok then…let's get going, Cuz…" Jimmy smiled and nodded as he walked to his cruiser with her. They weren't biological cousins, of course, but just as Topaz and Krystal now saw each other as sisters, Rose and Jimmy took to seeing each other as cousins fairly early in their lives, Rose about a year older than Jimmy, who was the product of the marriage between Topaz and Fulton Reese, that happened soon after her birth.
Jimmy led Rose along as Fox and Krystal looked on with smiles, his slightly taller form dressed in a jacket, with a t-shirt underneath, and jeans, his boots thumping gently along the metal floor as he got into the seat of his cruiser, which largely resembled a motorcycle, with two big thrusters on the back.
"Well, you two have fun out there at the lake." Fox smiled, waving his daughter off, along with Krystal, as Rose smiled and nodded to him.
"We will! Bye dad! Love ya, mom!" She fired up the thrusters on her cruiser, as Jimmy soon followed suit, the two teenage foxes soon taking off from the base, and flying into the blue sky, the green ground and buildings below them.
Fox grinned and looked back to his wife. "She's always so eager, always wanting to go on these little adventures…she kinda reminds me of you." He chuckled a bit.
Krystal smiled softly. "We've done quite well with her, I think…lots of courage, but plenty of common sense in her as well."
The couple began to walk off together as Krystal smiled to him. "Hmmmm…this day's really put me in the mood for something sweet…what do you say we get some ice cream?"
Fox grinned slightly and nodded. "Sure…we're both getting older anyway…I don't mind putting on a little more weight…and you'd still look good with a few more pounds on you."
Krystal giggled and kissed her husband's cheek, the two of them strolling away from the base, still very much a happily married couple after many years.
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Deep within the ground of New Cerinia, the same bizarre object that had landed there years and years ago, was finally beginning lose hold of what was inside of it…as of this day, the 500 years had fully passed, and the seal was about to break.
The cracks in the rock had grown more and more numerous over time, as a glow was now beginning to emanate from under the rock, red and bright, as it illuminated the cavern it had burrowed itself into.
With a powerful, sudden blast, the entire middle of the rock blew apart, leaving a big hole in the center, as a collection of small, red orbs, started to emerge from this hole, glowing softly, as they all scattered off in different directions, leaving the underground caverns quickly.
One of these orbs went up to the surface, a lake nearby, as a flash came over it. The orb stayed in place as a shaft of red energy came over it from beneath the ground. When it pulled back, the orb, a Grongi spirit, now had a physical form, that of a snarling, bipedal, bat-like creature, with black fur, glowing red eyes, long claws, sharp teeth on its long muzzle, and wings below the arms, its fur dark and knotted, as its long black hair obscured parts of its fearsome face.
A distorted male voice suddenly called to the Grongi, as it stood at attention.
"You have been chosen, as the first to receive a physical manifestation…treasure your body once more, and make these pitiful creatures remember who we are, and why they should fear us!"
The creature shrieked a bit as it nodded slowly, and took off into the sky quickly, extending its wings.
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As luck (or bad luck) would have it, Rose and Jimmy were piloting their cruisers towards the same lake, looking around, all smiles as they surveyed the unspoiled pieces of land on this part of New Cerinia.
"This camp-out's gonna be great!" Jimmy said aloud into his communicator, his cruiser in front of Rose's. "Our moms know all the best spots."
"That's probably because this place is so much like their old home." Rose giggled a bit. "There're certain advantages to having the last two full blooded Cerinians in the universe as our moms!"
Jimmy chuckled a bit and nodded, as he then looked down, and saw something odd on his scanner.
"Hey Rose.." he spoke up. "Check out your scanner for a second…"
The red vixen nodded slowly as she looked down, seeing an odd blip, not too far from where they were. She furrowed her brow slowly. "What is that thing?…"
"I have no clue…" Jimmy shook his head. "But keep your eyes open…it looks like it's headed this way…"
Rose nodded slowly as she kept a tight grip on her controls, looking to her left and to her right, as Jimmy readied the weapons systems on his cruiser, just in case whatever this thing was, wasn't friendly.
The vixen looked around again to her left and right, before she looked and saw the strange object flying straight towards her, shrieking!
Rose gasped and quickly pulled down, narrowly avoiding a collision with the creature as it growled and flapped its large black wings, turning around as soon as it passed the vixen.
"Oh my god!" Jimmy gasped at the sheer size of the creature, and readied his blasters. "Hang tight Rose! I'll swat this thing for you!"
Rose nodded quickly, as she swerved to avoid the advances of this monster, that seemed to be tailing her for some unknown reason, turning to the left, then to the right, as the creature swooped in more than once, trying to make a grab for her, as Jimmy fired his blasters every so often, being careful in not to hit Rose's cruiser, but missing the creature every time.
Jimmy grunted and growled in frustration, as he tried to get this creature away from his friend, Rose also swerving once more, off to the right, taking out a wrench in desperation, and throwing it with her right hand, smacking the monster right in the muzzle.
The creature shrieked in pain, as it snarled and flew straight towards Rose, its body suddenly covering itself in flames, as Rose gasped and tried to fly away. Jimmy breathed heavily as he fired and fired with his blaster only to have the creature fly past each shot, and head right towards Rose's cruiser.
Rose saw no way out now, as she covered herself wither her arms, and hoping it was all a bad dream, remembering what her mother told her all those years ago, and instinctively called out the name of her dream world protector.
"KUUGA!"
A shaft of light suddenly came over her body as she yelled this out, as the creature ripped through the air, and collided with her cruiser, making it explode into millions of pieces.
Jimmy cried out loud "ROSE!", hardly able to believe that his friend and "cousin" was now gone. He wiped away the tears that were starting to surface now, as he turned his growing rage over to the creature that had taken her cruiser down.
"You son of a bitch!" Jimmy screamed to the monster, before he let loose with a furious barrage of blaster shots from his cruiser. The creature turned, as one of them clipped him right on the side, growling as it zipped past Jimmy's cruiser, and took out one of its thrusters with a swipe of its claws.
Smoke was now billowing from the back of the cruiser, as it began to twirl out of control, and fall helplessly through the sky, towards the ground. Jimmy gripped the controls tightly, and screamed out to the sky as he prepared for what he believed would now be his last seconds of life…
That was, until something suddenly broke his fall…
Jimmy slowly opened his eyes, and looked down, as two white furred hands were now holding onto the front end of his cruiser. Attached to these two hands were long arms, partially covered in metal gauntlets, as he looked down and saw the strong, white furred vixen with long black hair that was clad only in a metal breast plate, a white leather skirt, and metal shin guards, all of them displaying a strange form of writing.
The fox was also shocked to discover that he was still in the air, and that the vixen who saved him from crashing had wings…long white wings, almost like those of an angel, as she looked to him, with white, glowing, pupil free eyes, and nodded, flapping her wings softly as she lowered the cruiser to the ground safely, showing off tremendous strength in doing so.
Jimmy just looked on, completely dumbfounded, as the strange winged vixen looked up at the bat creature, which snarled and roared at her loudly, consuming its body in flame once more as it charged down towards both of them. The vixen responded by extending her wings, and quickly taking off in the opposite direction.
The two creatures met in mid-air, as the vixen quickly ducked an attack, and came around with her right foot, spinning as she let out a distorted, echoing "Kyyyaaaaa!" The kick smacking into the back of the creature's head, as it grunted and went flying down into the ground below, hitting it hard as dirt and grass flew everywhere.
Jimmy simply ran from the wreckage and looked up, seeing the creature fly back towards the vixen, swinging at her with right hand claws, only to have her duck, as it took a kick to its right side from the vixen, then swiped back with its left hand claws. This time, the winged vixen grabbed its left arm with her left hand, and brought down her right hand in a chop, severing the creature's left arm just past the elbow.
The creature shrieked out in pain as green and yellow goop spouted from the wound, while the vixen smacked it in the head with a right hook, sending the monster crashing into the ground once more, before she raised her right hand close to her head, holding up her index and middle fingers…
"Hoooohhhhhhhh…" She softly grunted to herself, in the same echoing voice, as energy began to build up in her hand, purple and glowing, as the bat creature lurched its way back to its feet, too weak to attack now, as the vixen suddenly threw her fingers down, pointing to the creature…
"Kyaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" She screamed out, as a beam of the same purple energy shot down towards the weakened bat, piercing its left shoulder, and leaving a hole in its body. The Bat screeched, and clawed at itself with its remaining hand, as green and yellow goop began to bubble up along the hole, and consume its body, slowly making the monster melt.
Jimmy looked on as the creature's body smoked and bubbled, screeching to the very end as it was soon reduced to a steaming puddle of goop, a red orb, the Grongi's spirit, escaping from it as it tried to leave the scene…
The vixen then held out her right paw, as a strong force overcame the orb, pulling it right towards her. She caught the orb in her paw, and held it for a second, before focusing on the presence of the slab below the earth, and threw the orb in its direction.
The slab glowed with white light below the ground now, as it slowly began to reconstruct itself at the middle, just in time for the arrival of the orb, which went into the slab by the will of the vixen, as a new seal came over it.
The vixen landed next to the puddle that used to be the Grongi's physical form, as she looked over to Jimmy, who stood and watched, utterly amazed at what had just transpired.
With that, the vixen slowly looked up to the sky, and extended her arms to it, a shaft of light coming over her form as she vanished, leaving Rose standing in her place, as she softly sighed and fell over onto her front.
"Rose!" Jimmy exclaimed, as he ran over to her, checking her pulse, as she was unconscious.
"She's alive…thank god…" He sighed gently, as he carried her over to the side of his cruiser, as he got out his tool kit. "You hang in there, Rose…as soon as I fix this thruster, I'm gonna get you to a hospital as soon as I can…and see if we can make some sense out of…whatever the hell that all was…"
Jimmy worked feverishly, as Rose lay there, asleep…
In her mind, she was now wandering through what looked like a vast valley of mists, looking for someone, anyone, who could explain to her what had happened, not being able to make full sense of it all.
She then looked ahead, and saw the figure of the winged vixen standing in front of her, an aura glowing around her now, as Rose stood in awe of the beautiful, and powerful creature, her wings flexing gently behind her.
Rose soon saw another form emerge from behind the winged vixen, an older, but beautiful blue-furred vixen, who had a slight resemblance to her mother…in fact, she soon recognized this Cerinian from the descriptions that Krystal had given her years ago…
"Grandmother?…" Rose blinked a few times, correctly identifying Krystal's mother, Aida.
"Kuuga welcomes you, child…" she spoke. "As do I…"