I do not own the Star fox team and or any other member of this fic. other than Tootsie, and my own Ideas. These other Characters are ©Nintendo
I Hope you enjoy my first Fic!
It had been several months since the incident on Dinosaur Planet. Fox McCloud and his friends has been endlessly patrolling the Lylat System. He couldn't stop thinking about them, Krystal and Tricky. As much as he acted like he didn't, all he wanted to do was hear one of Tricky's smart ass comments, or see Krystal's beautiful eyes. He sighed as he thought about them. Slippy noticed Fox's melancholy attitude as he was working on the jukebox, and it wasn't just him, Rob, Peppy, and even the re-united Falco noticed.

"Fox, what's wrong? You haven't been yourself lately." Slippy asked.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Fox replied.

Falco interrupted, "What do you take us for? Slippy, yes, but I sir am no fool!"

"Nor I" said Peppy being awoken by the discussion.

"That, was uncalled for," Slippy said sharply."And besides, I'm almost positive why Fox has been acting like this."

"Oh really Einstein? What's wrong with me?" Fox said sarcastically.

"It's simply really," Slippy replied, undaunted " It's that blue babe…Krista? Kristin?….." Slippy guessed.

"It's Krystal, and no, that's not the reason." Fox said with his that's-so-not-it-even-though-it-is face.

Falco winked at the others over Fox's shoulder.

"Well then…..we'll just have to play a little memory, won't we?" he said with an evil grin.

The whole crew groaned. Memory was a 3 or more hour interrogation. Falco would ask Fox absolutely irrelevant questions, until Fox would just give up in sheer annoyance, and spill the beans. 5 hours later, the strategy worked. Falco had just asked Fox what his favorite flavor of Jelly Belly was, when Fox gave in.

"Fine you Psychos! It's Krystal…!You wanna do something about it?!" Fox yelled.

The crew, who were half asleep by then, were jolted to attention.

"I told you so." Slippy whispered to Peppy.

"Well DUH!" Peppy said, angry from the rude awakening.

Falco pushed Fox back into the chair, "Dude, chill out! We were just…." he was cut off in mid-sentence by the distress call alarm.

"The signal is on frequency 76." Slippy reported.

"Peppy, what location is that? Slippy hook up the com, Rob turn on the hologram projector, and Falco…..GET OFF MY LAP!!!!" Fox ordered, his captaining side coming back.

"The area designated for use on frequency 76 is in sector C-32, and the only planet in that vicinity is….."

"Well?"

"Dinosaur Planet"

Fox's ears perked up at the name.

"Slippy, have you gotten the call yet?"

"Just a minute Fox" Slippy replied.

Everyone just twiddled their thumbs for a minute. Slippy started humming, until Fox glared at him. Slippy gulped and said dryly," Got it..…it's playing now": "Fox! Fcoujo xocf...Ak'j Krystal...jxo'j rood wedo veh eloh u noob den, udt kxo ekxohj...Kxo Queen Earthwalker ihwodkc0 dootj ke jfoub nakx 0ei....fcoujo xihh0!....

"Translate that Slip!"

"Already have Fox": "Fox! Please help….It's Krystal… she's been gone for over a week now, and the others…. The Queen Earthwalker urgently needs to speak with you…please hurry!…" "Krystal…Set a course for Dinosaur Planet!"

Fox was sent into a frenzy. Falco was finally able to corner him.

"Chill out Fox, she'll be ok, but seriously dude, you need to invest into Prozac or something, otherwise you're gonna die of high blood pressure!"

"I know you're right Falco it's just…she…" Fox's voice trailed off into un-understandable words.

They had only seen their fearless leader like this once before, when his father was killed. It was like a piece of him was missing. They knew how much he cared for Krystal, when she wouldn't leave with them, he was mopey for months. Meanwhile, thoughts were racing through Fox's mind, 'What was happening, where was Krystal, would he ever see her again, who were "the others", why did the Queen Earthwalker need to see him, why did he care for Krystal so deeply, did she?' Fox got a headache from thinking so much. He was actually starting to believe Falco's blood pressure theory. He laughed, not a happy, hearty laugh, but more of a dry heave. All the while the Great Fox was steadily heading it's course for Dinosaur Planet.