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This story takes place approximately two years after Star Fox: Command.
Star Fox: Devastation
Chapter I: Funeral
"I'm sorry, Fox! I can't do this anymore. I'm going back to be with Panther and the rest of Star Wolf."
On the bridge of the Great Fox, Fox McCloud shuddered at the memory that had been playing in his mind like a broken record since she left him. She being Krystal, the blue furred vixen that he met on Sauria when the vulpine saved her from a crystal prison. Afterwards, he asked her to join the Star Fox team, and then they had confessed their love for another several months after the Aparoid invasion.
Eventually, Fox began to fear for Krystal's safety and could not imagine living without her. That is when he made the most stupid mistake he ever made: Fox forced her off the team. He didn't mean for her to leave him, the vulpine just didn't want her to fly into danger. Weeks later, Fox heard about the vixen joining team Star Wolf, not to mention her new relationship with Panther Caroso. As much as the mercenary hated Wolf O'Donnell, the leader of Star Wolf, Fox hated Panther even more.
When the Anglars began their attack on the Lylat system, Fox was able to convince Krystal to join him and the rest of the reunited Star Fox team to help defeat them. A few months after defeating the Anglars, the vixen once again left Fox for Star Wolf and Panther, leaving the heart broken vulpine to wander the galaxy alone with only his robot ROB by his side.
As for the rest of the former members of Star Fox, they went on to live separate lives.
Peppy Hare, Fox's mentor and father figure, was promoted to general of the Cornerian army to replace General Pepper.
Slippy Toad eventually married his fiancée, Amanda. Fox had recently heard that she was about to have their first child. Fox, in some way, envied Slippy; he had someone that still loved him and a family starting.
Falco Lombardi joined Katt Monroe in order to form his own mercenary team that he called "Star Falco".
Fox would do anything for things to be as they were. He wished that he wasn't wandering the Lylat system with only ROB to keep him company. He wished that Krystal didn't leave him for Star Wolf and that bastard Panther.
Fox wished that something would happen to have everyone back together.
"ALERT!" ROB suddenly said. "INCOMING SHIP! INCOMING SHIP!"
Not soon after ROB's proclamation, something zoomed past the Great Fox, which Fox recognized as Falco's fighter, Sky Claw. "Hey, McCloud!" Fox heard the avian say over the communications channel. "Do you read me Fox?"
"Hey, Falco!" he replied. "It's been a long time. How's 'Star Falco' doing?"
"Were doing pretty good," Fox heard. "Listen Foxy, I didn't come just to do some idle chit-chat. There's something we need to talk about old buddy."
"Sure," Fox said unsure. "What's going on?"
"I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but…" Falco seemed to hesitate about telling Fox the news. "It's about Peppy."
Fox gulped, afraid of what was coming. "What about Peppy?" Fox asked nervously.
Falco sighed. "Peppy had a heart attack Fox, he's dead."
On Corneria, Fox tried as hard as he could to fight back tears at the sight of the coffin of his old friend and mentor being lowered into the cold ground. He looked around to see old friends coming to mourn the passing of the old rabbit, those such as: Falco Lombardi with Katt Monroe by his side, Slippy Toad with his father Beltino Toad, Bill Grey, Dash Bowman, and a tear stricken Lucy Hare, crying for over the loss of her father.
As the ceremony ended, Fox went over to Lucy to try and comfort her. "Listen, Lucy," he said, "if there's anything I can do to help in any—"
"No Fox," she said, "it's fine. Thanks for all your help, but I'm going to do my best to try and get over this."
Fox nodded and followed the rest of the crowd out of the cemetery. As he began to return to the hangar where the Great Fox was being held, he couldn't help but notice a hooded figure standing across the street. The vulpine began to notice that the hooded figure had blue fur.
Krystal! Fox knew that it definitely was the blue furred vixen that had returned to Star Wolf long ago. He knew that she must have waited for the ceremony to end so that she wouldn't face Fox. That fact saddened him a little bit. Instead of going over to her, he just began to head back to the hangar.
Krystal watched Fox walking away from the cemetery. She was hoping that the vulpine wouldn't recognize her, but she knew that he saw her, but he chose to leave her alone instead of confronting her. To Krystal, she was relieved. The blue vixen did not want to hear another plea to from him for her to come back to her.
"Even though that you know he still loves you" a voice at the back of her mind said, but she ignored it.
Krystal walked across the street and up to Peppy's grave, where she left a single rose and a short prayer before leaving the cemetery. As she passed the iron gates, the blue vixen was completely unaware that a dark hooded figure was watching her from afar. It wasn't long before the figure began to follow her.
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