A/N: Why? you ask. Well, because I've always seen this as a longer story, never a one-shot so I appolojize if you have read that story before. if you have read this anyway i changed a lot. Now, carry on as you were,
star fox the fate of a once loved super-team
Star Fox was going steady, they found lots of work from the Cornerian army and even more work from Word-of-mouth. Falco and Slippy still bickered over who got to sit where now that the Great Fox 2 was upgraded; instead of having one sole captains chair there were now four, one for each pilot. There were also many more improvements made to the ship after the team had a good steady income.
The four seats faced out toward the viewports of the bridge of the ship. "But I want to sit on Fox's left, I was his friend before he met you!" the blue avian squawked
"That may be true, but, you are forgetting that I'm the mechanic on this boat and I need to talk to him about all the last minute preparations of the ship before we go into battle."
"Yeah but that's only going to take how long?! Anyway Slippy, I deserve it, I mean it's not very often you see him have to come and save my ass like he does to yo-"
"Will you two calm the hell down, or do Krystal and I have to move down a seat to my left, so that nobody can sit beside me." Fox said in an aggravated voice; aggravated from Falco and Slippy's constant bickering and complaining, he was also aggravated that they haven't left them in any peace to make out after they went planet side and came back infuriated, the only thing, in this case, person that could calm Fox down was his girlfriend, Krystal. She and Fox shared their first kiss yesterday after a mission that Krystal said 'it made him look so hot'. Since yesterday, they couldn't get enough of each others lips.
Krystal chuckled and then opened a thought conversation with the ever so slightly ticked-off Fox, 'Or, we could get up in the middle of the night and remove the two outer chairs, and then it would just be us, in these two seats. Making them go some place else, so we could maybe get a little... friskier...' Krystal thought into her mans head. This made him blush fiercely and chuckle and smile uncontrollably.
"Okay, what did you tell him now, Krystal?" Falco asked rolling his eyes as she chuckled
"You wouldn't understand Falco, this is relationship type stuff." Krystal said and put her arm around Fox pulling him closer and this made him smile and blush some more when he knew he was being held again by his girlfriend.
'I think that is a wonderful idea' he thought back making him redder in the face and causing his smile to grow a little larger with that as well
Almost everyone on Corneria knew that Krystal was a telepath and nobody dared to think anything dirty or demented about her (unless you are just plain stupid or drunk) now that she was the soon-to-be wife or mate of the most respected mercenary in the Lylat.
"Come on guys, tell us whats so funny." slippy pleaded in a whinny voice.
'Let's mess with them'
'Okay Fox'
"Well it's getting pretty damn late." Fox said looking at his gauntlet, "Krystal, you coming to bed?" Fox asked as he yawned and stood up and grasped Krystal's hand as he did so he could help her up.
"Of course I will come to bed dear, I will come to bed and make you scream all night long, keeping everybody awake on this deficit vessel of ours." she said and then turned away from the boys and looked at Fox and gave a wink telling him it's all a game
"Great, I can't wait for the pleasure to begin. But tell me... what are we going to do with those two." Fox asked while pointing and Krystal turned around to look at the two 'displeased looking' crew members.
"Well, you still got all that extra rope right Fox?-"
"Now hold on here, I ain't nobodies bitch-" Falco squawked back in a disgusted tone, "What? What's so funny?!"
The duo continued to laugh and then their riot was mulled over. "We're only kidding Falco, about everything. Except for... except for the sleeping part right Krys?" Fox said as he yawned a little mid-sentence but tried to keep it a low profile.
"Yeah, I guess I would be lying if I said I wasn't the least bit tired." Krystal admitted, stretching.
"Come on, lets get you tucked in." he said as his mood and ears dropped a little as he put his arm around her waist and walked with her off the bridge and down to the sleeping quarters.
Krystal saw and sensed that his mood worsened a little "Fox, is... something bothering you?"
"Huh? Oh it's nothing to be worried about." Fox said and pulled a weak smile
"No Fox," she said and stepped in front of Fox holding him on the spot, "I'm not just a telepath for the team," she said and crossed her arms. "I don't use my powers just on missions you know. I can tell something is bothering you right now, and I want you to tell me about it." she said in a sympathetic tone. "Whatever it is I don't care, I just want to be there for you as much as you are for me."
"Well, if you must know, since we've grown close to each other, and you can hit me for this if you want. I don't really think it's necessary for us to sleep in different rooms anymore."
"So, what are you saying, Fox?" Krystal asked in a curious tone
"Well," Fox's ears and cheeks started to heat up uncontrollably "I'm asking if you," Fox cleared his tense throat "if you want to start calling my room, your room." Fox closed his eyes "And... share it with me."
'OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD! DID HE JUST ASK ME TO MOVE IN WITH HIM?!' Krystal thought excitedly before speaking, "Yes, of course I will Fox, thank you for asking me. I was going to ask you the same thing until I remembered my room is a lot smaller than yours is." she hugged him dearly.
"Well that's great to hear babe, thanks for excepting my proposition." Fox said opening his eyes and returning the hug.
"Oh it's no problem Fox, I know just how lonely it can get in one of these rooms all alone. I've only been here for three years but I can just imagine what it has been like for you."
"Yeah, quite lonely." Fox dropped all of the resurfaced bad memories. "So, do you want to sleep in my room tonight, or wait for tomorrow?"
"It won't hurt to start tonight will it?" Krystal asked
"Nope, not a single bit." Fox grasped Krystal by the waist and walked down the hall to the crew deck. "I would really appreciate it if you started tonight." Fox said and his ears perked back up.
"Nothing will happen though right?"
"What do you mean?" Fox asked and gazed over to Krystal
"Well lets see if the gesture is right..." Krystal said as she made a quick hand gesture symbolizing sexual nature.
Without any hesitation in his voice what so ever, "Of course not Krystal, I would never."
"Okay, I will be holding you to that." She chuckled. "Anything that I will be needing tonight?"
"I guess toothbrush, pillow, blanket."
"Why would I need a blanket if your there for me?"
"Well we aren't sleeping in the same bed so-"
"Why not?"
"Well... I don't know. Safety precautions."
"Nice try, but you can't fool me, I know nothing is going to happen." She said and playfully hit him on the shoulder.
"Okay, if you say so." Fox said and picked her up into his arms and carried her the rest of the way down to the crew deck.
...
Krystal and Fox made their way to the crew deck, "Okay, here we are. I'll let you collect some things."
"Thanks Fox, I'll be over in a bit."
"Okay,"
In Fox's large master-bedroom sized quarters, he was making quick use of his short time cleaning up some of his old laundry and shoving it down the laundry chute down the hall. When he was done he took a look back at his messy, sweat and other hardened fluid covered bed and growled to himself; cursing the fact that he forgot to make it up. "Ah, I know. I will strip it down and that will be my excuse on why its taking so long to finish up in here." Fox started to strip down his bed in hope that Krystal wasn't standing outside his room by now, and caught wind of his blankets' smell. "Also it will get rid of that foul smell of aged testosterone." Fox cringed 'And get rid of the crusty sheets.'
He made the rest of his work quick and dressed the bed in an oceanic blue sheet and a fuzzy blue and purple quilt (his and Krystal's favourite colours). It was a light quilt but it was still warm, although it allowed Fox and Krystal to comfortably share each others body heat without sweating or becoming uncomfortable to any extent.
Fox was about to go out of his room to throw out his old blankets and sheets, and just as he opened the door however, Krystal was about to knock on his door and ask Fox for permission to enter, when he opened the door he almost gave Krystal a heart attack and her to him. "FOX, don't scare me like that." she panted, "Although I should have known you were coming, Krazoa didn't give me my power just to let it go to waste."
Fox was still breathing heavily but now he was starting to calm. "I only wish I had your power so I could use it." Fox said and chuckled, "Please, come in, and make yourself at home. I just need to throw away my old blankets and then we can go to bed."
"Aw, you changed them? But I wanted to bathe in your scents."
"Not those scents." he muttered under his breath, hoping Krystal didn't hear him
"What's that dear? I missed that."
"Oh, I was just saying, there's nothing like fresh scents."
"Quite right, quite right. Well hurry back then, you know I don't like it when you and I are apart for any length of time." Krystal smiled and Fox left.
Fox walked down the hall a little ways to the laundry chute in the wall and tossed his bedding in it and went back to his room for the evening.
X~X~X~X
Back in Fox's room just after he had left. "Hmm, I guess I should get changed into more comfortable attire, ah this will do perfectly." Krystal said pulling out a dark blue extended length tank top; extended so that Fox didn't have an excuse to not eye her up from hair-tip to toenail. Krystal's hair was at a moderate length, she hasn't cut it since Fox rescued her on Sauria. She has wanted to cut it but she's always been busy or "hasn't had the time" to go planet side to have it done. Her excuse to not go because she "didn't have the time" was that she was just tired after missions and didn't feel like going out. "There, and now we wait for Fox to come back."
X~X~X~X
Fox had dropped his used linens off in the laundry chute and he was now walking back to his room when he heard through Falco's door that he was talking to Katt
X~X~X~X
..."I don't know Katt, I feel like I don't belong here with Star Fox anymore. I mean work is good and sufficient and stuff but I just feel like... I don't know, I'm being 'controlled' too much."
"Well Fox is your captain you gotta remember that."
"Well, I know that but I feel like I'm going through a species change you know. I mean there are two fox's on this ship," Falco chuckled "I'm not against Fox or his girlfriend or-"
Katt squealed "They're officially dating now?!"
"Yeah."
"I'm so proud of them two."
X~X~X~X
'Thanks Katt im glad you approve.' Fox smiled
Fox walked back to his room were Krystal was waiting for him. As he was going, Krystal went back to her room to get something before bed.
Falco thought he heard someone outside his room and went to go and check it out. He exited his room and looked right; nobody. Then he looked left; Fox was walking back to his room. "Hey Fox, what you doing up so late?"
"Oh, I just had to change my bedding, off to bed now though so I will talk to you tomorrow okay pal?"
"You got it boss man." Falco said and turned into his room when he saw a blue glimmer out of the corner of his eye, "Uh, Fox... did I just see Krystal go into your room?"
Fox stopped dead in his tracks and turned to his good friend Falco Lombardi with an embarrassed face "Maybe..."
"You sleeping with her already?" Falco scoffed, "You guy's just shared your first kiss on the lips yesterday and today your experimenting with the lower lips?"
"Well... now that you put it like that, no. We're just keeping each other company none-the-less."
"I'd call that, my friend, bullshit." he snorted
"Falco, we're not sleeping with each other in that way that you're thinking right now." Krystal called out. "Fox is right, we're just keeping one another company."
"Okay, I take no part in your love lives guys. Just promise me one thing, if you guys ever do get intimate with one another, just keep the noise level down please."
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Now let's all get some rack, before slippy shows us our new gear."
"You got it boss man." Falco smirked.
Fox went back to his room for the evening and when he walked through his door, he was met with a pitch black room and a smell that Fox could never forget in his lifetime. "Marco." He said, inhaling another hypnotizing breath of the luxurious scent.
"Polo." Krystal giggled
"Marco." Fox said before he was brushed up against.
Fox was kissed generously on the lips before he got a response, "Polo," she whispered. "Lights, 50 percent brightness."
The lights brightened to the suite, revealing no one else other than Krystal herself. "Hello, beautiful." Fox smiled making Krystal blush.
"Aw, mister Flatterer. There you are." Krystal said and stroked his check with her thumb.
Fox smiled. "What do you think of my unit?"
"It's roomy, I like it." Krystal said as she looked around the room once.
"And the blanket? Have you felt it yet?" Fox asked as he pointed toward it.
"Haven't felt it yet no, but I like the colour you picked." She said as she looked at the blanket for an extended amount of time.
"Hey, I think of you all the time. What can I say, and yes, I am happy to think about you all the time. In fact, if it wasn't for you I might have lost myself."
"What do you mean by that?" she asked as she raised her brow.
Fox's ears dropped "Well, lets just say, before I had met you I was... starting to go crazy."
"Oh, I see, well I'm glad we met. I would have died without you, literally and metaphorically." Krystal chuckled.
Fox smiled and took Krystal by her waist and turned her toward the double sized bed in the corner of the room with a smile still on his face, "Are you sure you still want to sleep in the same bed? It's kinda small after all."
"It still looks pretty spacious, unlike mine, if you want a comparison." She said and then hopped onto the bed "It's, so soft." Krystal purred and started to roll around on the silky soft bedding, "Come join me Fox. This blanket is unlike any others I have felt or slept on before."
"I'm glad you like it so much." He chuckled and started over to his dresser to get some boxers, "I still have to changed unless you want me to come to bed straight out of my Arwing,"
"It wouldn't matter to me, just as long as your close. But yes, you should change into something more comfortable so you won't be tossing and turning and keeping us both up all night."
"Yes, I wouldn't want to keep you up. You do after all need your beauty sleep."
"To become more beautiful?" She asked with curiosity.
"Well not really, you already broke my scale. To stay beautiful."
"Aw, thanks Fox." She blushed
"It's only the truth." Fox said proceeding to the bathroom, long boxers in hand
...A few minutes later...
"There, all done... wow," Fox said as he looked at his girl with entranced eyes,
"What's up, Fox?" Krystal asked crawling in to the made bed
"I never thought I would ever in my life see your beauty caress my beds surface and yet here you are climbing into it." Fox said still looking almost awestruck at the girl getting into his bed.
Krystal giggled finished climbing into bed, "Well get in here so I can kiss you and let you know your not dreaming."
Fox jogged over to the bed, army tags bouncing off his toned chest, "Well, that's something I don't need to be told twice. Anything that involves kissing you I'm up for it." He said as he finished he arrived at his destination; bed, and climbed in.
"Oh, more flattery?"
"It's only true." he said and kissed her once deeply,
She pulled back and took a sharp breath, "If Fox says it's true, it must be."
Fox chuckled, "Yeah," he shuffled under his covers a bit, "Well, I'm beat. I don't know about you but I'm going to get some much needed rest."
"Yeah, I am pretty tired as well actually." she moved so she had her arm resting on Fox and hovered above his face with her own, "Good night Fox. Sleep well." she said and then kissed him, when she finished she laid back down on her side and closed her eyes, purring... the fact that she was so close to her man sent tidal waves of inner pleasure roaming her body freely.
"Yeah, good night Krystal, I love you." Fox said in a free voice.
"I love you, my Hero." Krystal purred and with that, fell fast asleep, warm, safe, and loved. A sense of relief and a feeling of home filling her inner soul.
X~X The next morning X~X
The next morning Fox was starting to come too, and wanted to cuddle with his girl before he went out and got some breakfast. Krystal wasn't there, he wasn't happy about it but he shrugged it off as nothing and went to his bathroom to see if Krystal was just out of bed using it. He knocked, no answer, so he went in, and the lights were off,
"Okay so no one's here, I'll go check Krystal's room, maybe she got home sick? Nah, that wouldn't be like her at all. Maybe she's showering? Nah, I'll just get ROB to find her." Her murmured to himself and dialled his gauntlet, "Hey ROB, could you tell me the location of Krystal, she seems to be missing this morning."
"Affirmative sir, she is in hanger bay one fixing her Arwing."
"Great, thanks ROB."
"No problem sir. ROB out."
X~X~X~X
In the hanger bay sure enough Krystal was fixing her Arwing; an overheated G-diffuser coupling was making for an overall rough flight through space and it was spooking her a little. While she was doing this however she was listening to her mp63 player that had a bunch of greatest hits on it; she was currently listening to the song; Call My Name by Sultan & Ned Shepard at a moderate volume and was singing along to it in parts making it difficult to hear anything around her. Such things like; if Fox came in the hanger and snuck up behind her, like he was.
..."every time, you come to mind, my tender heart, just melts inside."...
"Krystal?" Fox asked making sure she couldn't hear his footfalls.
..."on to you, just have a way, to get my pleasure, and forget my cares. So come to me, don't worry love, I won't lie to you, I can't get enough. You make me cry, when you're not my side, my heart and soul, is yours for life, just don't let go, you got me hooked, you give me shivers, when you take control... call my name now, call my name now..."
Fox approached Krystal and then she could smell and feel his prescience, 'trying to sneak up on me I see...'
Fox lifted her off of her feet and into his arms from behind causing her to yelp and laugh a little, "Morning Fox, did you sleep well?" she purred softly.
"It would have been better had I have woken up to the sight of you." He said kissing her,
Pulling back, she replied, "Right, sorry. I just slept so deeply and restfully last night that I couldn't sleep anymore this morning."
"Oh, so you slept good last night?" Fox smirked
Krystal chuckled "I did, I felt... Home, after so many years."
"That's good to hear," he said putting her down, "so what are you doing to your Arwing so early in the morning?" Fox asked in a curious tone.
"Just replacing an overheated coupling that was making for a bumpy flight." Krystal replied picking up the replacement part off the trolly, shaking it once and putting it back down.
"Oh yeah, I've had many of those. Would you like some help with it."
"You know, I would love some help. Thanks."
Fox and Krystal were the first people out of bed in the early morning. They both worked and talked all morning and Fox even showed Krystal a few ways to amplify her speeds and her handling abilities on the Arwing. When they both finished they had spent all of the morning and mostly all of the afternoon on fixing and upgrading their Arwings together that they had lost track of time.
..."I can't help but feel like we have used most of our day already." Krystal said wiping some grease off of her paws onto a cloth.
"Yeah, I noticed that as well." Fox said scratching behind his ear "Gauntlet, what time is it?"
*It is currently 18:05*
"Wow, Krystal you're a time stopper." Fox gapped
Krystal laughed "How do you figure?"
"Well, I feel like it's only been two hours since I first came here and started to help you."
"That good?" she chuckled
"Yeah. You hungry? Can I get you something?"
"Nah, not really. My eyes have been feasting all day though I'll tell you that." Krystal laughed
Great Fox 2 briefing room one week later,
Everyone was gathered in the briefing room on The Great Fox upon Falco's request,
"Well, I have some news for every one." Falco started
'hope this goes over with out a hitch.'
"I have decided to leave Star Fox for a new line of work."
The group of three gasped and Fox started "Why Falco I thought you loved it here."
"I did and... I can also tell you, we had a good run, you and I, Fox."
"But if you love it here with Star Fox, why leave?" Krystal asked disappointed to hear that one of her squad members is leaving.
"I don't know... I guess I want to try and be a leader for once you know? I mean I like following Fox's orders and such, it gave me a sense of maturity and now that I have that sense of maturity, I feel like its time I adopt a place as a captain."
"Well, who's going to join in on all of our jokes about Fox and Krystal's addictions?" Slippy added in a sad tone.
"Well-"
"And what other ace pilot can I pick on for me having to save his life?"
"And-"
"And what other guy can I challenge to a running race other than Fox?" Krystal added in, again, disappointment evident in her voice.
"Well, I know that it's all a let down to everybody but, sometimes you gotta know when to move on." Falco stated.
Fox sighed and stood up, "Well, he has a valid reason I'll give him that. Just know Falco, if you ever want to come back, Star Fox is always here with open arms."
"Thanks Fox, I'm... glad you understand my point." Falco said and looked at the table, ashamed.
"Thanks for coming back last time buddy, hopefully it will be like last time. I thank you for flying with us, even through all the shit we been through." Fox added, walking over to Falco putting his hand out for Falco, "And most importantly, thank you for being my friend."
One month later; Great Fox 2
Krystal was pacing about in Fox and hers' quarters thinking about something to do, it's gotten so boring on the Great Fox now that there was little work and even less to gloat about now that Falco was gone. Over her three year stay at Star Fox, Krystal has gotten pretty used to video games, so much that, those were boring, even if she managed to beat Fox at his own, there wasn't much fun even in that. Physical performance testing, though she loved the adrenaline in her blood, she didn't find it fun beating her love at everything except for weights, she stopped pacing, "Why the fuck is everything so damn boring now?" she looked around the room, bored out of her own functioning mind she was thinking about doing some laundry, (yes, laundry, and no I'm not being sexist.), then she realized their was none, Fox always tosses it down the chute in the morning on his way to the cafeteria. "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!" She swore, thinking that it could in any way help her be less bored, then there was a page from the door, it practically called her name. Rushing toward it she answered,
"Oh hey Slippy, what can I do for you?" Krystal asked in an enthused voice, hoping to Krazoa if was a mission alert to cure her boredom.
"Hey Krystal, there is a mandatory meeting for all remaining Star Fox members in Peppy's medical bay in five minutes, it's about something gravely important, just thought I would tell you personally."
"Oh, okay, thanks Slip, I'll be there." Krystal said with a smile, feeling more confident that it was a mission call.
"Yeah, no problem Krystal." Slippy said and let a nervous chuckle and left before Krystal could peer into his thoughts and read them
'Hmm I hope Fox has a mission for the three of us, we are all going stir crazy on this boat we call the Great Fox 2.' Krystal thought to herself as she ran to the temporary briefing room, accepting any mission call that came to their screen. 'I can sense something, but I don't know what...'
Then a door opened, Fox came out, yelling at Slippy who was walking away solemnly, "Get the fuck off my ship if your going to act like that you cheese ball!"
He turned around and expressed back to him, "I never wanted to be here in the first place until you asked me to come back, away from my wife and family and I nervously said yeah sure, but I told you specifically not to freak out when I said I was still going to leave one day."
"Yeah, yeah. You slippery fuck, get off my ship before you get any more of your slime everywhere." Fox yelled before Slippy bent down and licked the floor and flipped Fox off. "Oh fuck, you are going to get it now boy." Fox said and started to run after him.
"Oh spare me your cooties and go have sex with your wife you two timing sick fuck." Slippy spat and ran away from the enraged fox
"Oh that's it your so dead." Fox said stopping and drawing his blaster pistol,
"Fox! Calm the fuck down, whats going on?" Krystal interjected,
"Shit, he got away," He murmured as he saw slippy turn a corner, "YOU LUCKY BASTARD!" he yelled and turned around to see his girlfriend, holstering his pistol he continued in a more civil tone, "Slip left the team for his wife," he sighed, "and Peppy is going into retirement because his wounds aren't healing properly, so, he wants to be put into 24/7 care at a home so, there's just the two of us and I don't think we will be carrying the name Star Fox around with us much longer." He finished, now scratching the back of his head,
"What do you suggest we do Fox? Find more work?" Krystal asked, eager to get out and fight.
"Star Falco keeps stealing all of our work... I don't know what to do anymore Krystal... I was thinking however that we can drop everyone off to where they want to go and then we sabotage the Great Fox and fake our deaths
"Well that's an idea." She said, very sarcastically, "Suppose we do that then what do we do?" Krystal asked thinking that Fox's idea is utterly retarded
"I- I don't know..." Fox closed his eyes, "I already said that I don't know what to do anymore."
"You sicken me!" Krystal shouted back and back handed him across the muzzle and started to walk away thinking about ten-thousand things at once. What to do when there was no going back to 'Star Fox'. Where to go, and if she could still call Fox her boyfriend. Fox, the person she cherished more than her own life, she called it marriage. But they weren't married yet, nor engaged, likely they never will if they don't find good income source now that Fox's new rival were striping them of all of it.
"Krystal wait, there was one thing we could do." Fox said, rubbing his now sore muzzle
"What?! Whats your bright idea captain Fox?" Krystal shouted stopping and turning toward Fox.
Krystal never called Fox "captain" before, it was a sign of disrespect on his ship. Sure he was a captain before, in the academy, but this wasn't the academy anymore. They were mercenaries, not on the wanted list, yet not on the good terms list either. Fox shrugged it off as tempers crumbling and continued.
"I- I was thinking- you know, never mind, it's stupid anyway." Fox said scorning himself for the level of stupidity he just gave himself
...later that night...
Fox and Krystal were sleeping in their quarters. Fox fell asleep about an hour ago and was now snoring softly, and yet Krystal was still wide awake thinking about the days events...
'What do I do? Where can I go? Who do I tell? There's always Panther.' She cringed 'What would Fox think? Would he ever forgive me if I did such a thing? Of course he would he's an easy going guy. Wait what kind of job will I have to get? Fuck this headache!' She thought, she waited a few moments and thought some more, 'It's not like I don't want to be here, I mean, I love Fox with all my heart and soul but, Falco was right, sometimes you gotta know when to move on...'
Krystal got out of bed slowly and tears started to well in her eyes. "I'm so sorry Fox, please forgive me." she whimpered quietly, being sure not to wake Fox while she was starting her mission.
...
She proceeded to her quarters and packed a bunch of large duffel bags full of all of her belongings and took them with her down to her Arwing and put them in the storage compartment of her craft, and went back to her and Fox's room and left a note.
The next morning,
Fox groaned and stretched, with his eyes still closed he inhaled the air around him and smiled, then he slowly put his arm around were Krystal should be... lowering his arm more and more, frowning when his arm touched the blanketed bed. He opened his eyes and glanced around the room... "Krystal?"
'Hmm, something doesn't feel right here...'
He rolled over toward his nightstand and picked up his gauntlet, under that, the note... specified to him by his first name only, unmistakeable. Fox.
'Uh oh... that don't look good... not... at... all...'
He picked up the note, closed his eyes, and unfolded it... then took a few deep breaths bracing himself for whatever news he was about to read, then opened his eyes but keeping them blurred, still, not ready,
'Come on, read it, you have to sooner or later.'
He then shook his head and focused his sight, and read the small note, his heart dropped into his loins,
the note read;
Fox,
I am deeply sorry for what I have done.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you have done for me.
I am sorry to tell you I have quit Star Fox and gone back to Panther.
I thank you for saving my life many times, most importantly saving me on Sauria.
I will never in my life forget that moment we first met,
and I pray to Krazoa we can remain friends.
Deeply sorry, I don't expect you to forgive me though.
* (tear stain)
Krystal S. Hughey
"What did I do so wrong...?" He cried tears starting to flow down his cheeks; a perfect start to the shittiest day of his life.
later on...
Fox calmed down a little... not much but just enough that the tears stopped.
"And now to fake my death... easy to say, now that I actually want to kill myself."
...