Light's outcast shadows chapter 1

A/N: First thing's first in case you missed it this is a sequel to the story Time Off? so you should go check that out before reading this one. The idea for this story came to me while I was bored at my cousin's house. He went to the bathroom and I outlined the story while he was gone. I'm not giving anything away and I really think this is going to be awesome. Please enjoy and review if you get a chance.

-F.A.E

Fox strolled lazily along the hallways of the Greatfox. It had seemed very empty to him lately. Katt had left immediately after their successful assault of Andross's venom labs. The next day Falco told Fox that he was leaving as well. Fox felt bad for his friend. Falco told Fox that Katt was giving him mixed signals; Katt told Falco that she loved him. Falco was happy for only a second, after that Katt also told him that she was leaving. She said that she didn't want to get into a relationship with him until he grew up some more. Falco was really broken up about it. He decided to leave the team again and try to fix his relationship with Katt. Fox was very surprised about his decision, it was a very grown up thing to do.

Slippy was also gone. He was offered a job with Corneria's weapons R & D. Slippy always enjoyed study and deep thinking to battle. At first Fox thought he would stay, so did Slippy. He wanted to stay close to his friends but was convinced by his father, Beltino, to work for Corneria directly.

Fox was sad to see his friends go, but on the other hand… "Hey Krystal, where ya been?" Fox yelled up to Krystal at the end of the hell. "I asked R.O.B where you were and he told me you were in the rec. room."

Krystal smiled understandingly. "Well I was you must have just missed me. I'm heading down to the bridge now, what did you want to see me for?"

"I realized that we were low on fuel, so I set us on a course for corneria to fuel up. I thought you might want to know. I'll walk with you to the bridge if you want."

"Alright," Krystal said as they started to walk towards the bridge. "Oh, when we're at Corneria we could go and visit Slippy."

Fox nodded. "Yeah, hopefully he won't be too busy when we get there. I miss having him around."

Krystal agreed with him. "Me too, but he seems happy to be where he is." Krystal put a hand to her head. "Aww my head is starting to hurt again. I'm going to go to my room for a second, don't wait for me."

Krystal walked a short distance to her room and went in. Fox stared at the door worried deeply for Krystal. She had been having immense headaches every since the battle on Venom. Fox jumped when a shrill yell came from Krystal's room. Fox ran inside and saw Krystal lying in her bed with her face covered in the blankets. "Krystal are you alright?"

Krystal moved aside her blankets and turned to face Fox. The look on her face scared Fox. In all his life he had never seen Krystal look so angry. "I told you to leave! Get out of here!"

Fox backed out of the room quickly. "What was that about? I was just worried about her. I better just keep going then, I don't want her to be mad at me like that."

Fox continued walking towards the bridge, alone. The thought of Krystal in pain hurt him deeply. The image of Krystal in her rage was burned into Fox's mind. "When we get to Corneria we'll go and see a doctor. There's got to be something that can be done…"

Fox walked onto the bridge and was greeted by R.O.B. "Hello, we are very close to Corneria as we were in orbit around the planet beforehand. We will be able to land in about five minutes. Would you like me to arrange a place to stay during the Greatfox's refueling, or would you like to stay onboard?"

"Arrange for a place to stay. Somewhere close to where Slippy works, try to make it a nice place as well. Don't worry about the cost." Fox walked over to the main screen of the bridge. "Call Slippy's office as well, I want to tell him we'll be stopping by."

R.O.B started to type on his keyboard and was ready to call in record time. "Affirmative, I am putting the call on screen."

Fox waited a moment for the call to be received and was soon looking up at a larger than life version of his friend. "Hey Slippy, How are you?"

Slippy smiled. "Great, although I do miss you guys. When are you going to come to Corneria next?"

Fox smiled at Slippy's amazing guess of the intent of his call. "Well we're stopping on Corneria today actually, that's why I called you."

Slippy winked at Fox. "I guessed as much, I figured you'd be running out of fuel soon. You guys can stop by my apartment, it isn't much but I love the neighborhood. By the way have you gotten any news from Falco?"

Fox shook his head. "No I haven't, but I think he's probably just fine on his own. I wouldn't worry too much about him. When he gets bored he'll come running back here."

Slippy laughed. "Yeah I guess so. But from what I've heard he's been planet hopping recently, He's been seen from Fichina, to Katina, to Corneria. I don't know what he's been doing but I haven't actually seen any bad press about him lately."

Fox nodded. "Yeah and I don't think you will. I think I know why he's been around so much lately and I'm proud of him for it. He really has grown up recently, but he's still really restless."

"Oh yeah, before I forget, there's been talk around here of a major rip in the space-time continuum out near sector x. they're looking for someone to go out there and see what happened, I thought you may be interested."

Fox thought about it for a second. "Alright, I'll think about it. I got to go now; we're pretty much ready to land. I'll see you at your place."

"Alright then, I'll be leaving work soon so I'll be there. Don't worry about hurrying here, I don't have any plans. See you Fox." With that the monitor went black and Fox went to sit in the captain's chair.

"We'll be landing within the minute." R.O.B informed Fox. Fox just nodded to the helpful robot.

Krystal walked onto the bridge looking as if nothing had happened and came to sit on the arm of Fox's chair. "I'm sorry I yelled at you Fox. I really didn't mean to, the pain in my head was just…"

Fox stopped her. "Don't worry about it, when we land on Corneria we can go see a doctor to see what's wrong. Hopefully it isn't anything serious. After that we can go and visit Slippy at his apartment."

Krystal slid her hand into his. "Thanks for worrying about me Fox. And I look forward to seeing Slippy again."

Fox was soothed by her touch. "No problem, by the way I heard there was a job that we could actually do with only two pilots."

"That sounds good. I'll be happy to be back in work again." Krystal opened her mouth to say more but was cut off by R.O.B.

"We have now landed on Corneria. I have found a hotel that is close to Slippy's apartment, and I made you directions to the hotel and a doctor's office nearby."

Fox hopped out of his chair and grabbed the directions from R.O.B. "Thanks R.O.B you're the best." Fox turned to Krystal and bowed low shifting his arms to the bridge's exit. "Shall we?"

Krystal laughed and walked over to Fox. "Come on let's go." She pulled him upright and they walked out of the Greatfox.

"Well I can't do much to cure you of your headaches except give you a prescription for painkillers when you do get them." The doctor said to Krystal. "Have you been through any extremely stressful event recently?"

Krystal nodded. The doctor sighed. "That's probably what caused the headaches then. I don't think it will last very long. Usually these types of things go away on their own."

Krystal stood up from the examination seat and thanked the doctor. "Do you know anywhere I can get these med's from around here?"

"Yeah, I can get the prescription filled out right here in the hospital. They'll take a little while to get ready though. You may want to just come back later for them."

Krystal smiled. "Okay I'll do that. Thanks again." Krystal walked out of the room and walked back out into the waiting room.

Fox stood up immediately and walked over to her. "So how'd it go?"

Krystal smiled at the concern painted across Fox's face. "I'll be fine I just need to stop by later to get some medicine."

Fox smiled and sighed in relief. "Thank god, do you want to go to Slippy's house now?"

"Yeah sure." Krystal said as they began to walk towards the exit. "It's just up the street right?"

Fox nodded. "Yeah it's not far at all. By the way, I should probably tell you what that mission was about. It was about a rip in time-space, Corneria wants someone to go and investigate the spot where it happened."

Krystal shrugged. "It doesn't sound too difficult. I wouldn't mind going on an easy recon mission."

"Alright, after we visit with Slippy, I'll go and get the job for us."

Fox walked into General Pepper's office. The General was standing beside his chair reading a paper on his desk when Fox came in. Fox coughed loudly and Pepper looked up at him. "Oh hello Fox, What brings you here?"

Fox shrugged. "A few things, mainly the Greatfox needed to refuel. But I also came to visit with some friends. I also heard you have a mission to check out a rip in space-time out near sector x. I thought it may be a mission that wouldn't require a large crew."

General Pepper nodded. "You're right, that mission wouldn't require a large crew. I'm guessing you want to pay for the replacement fighters."

Fox shrugged. "Yeah that would be a big help but I mostly just wanted something to do. It's been real boring just waiting onboard the Greatfox."

"I don't doubt it. Well since you are the first to offer, you got the mission. Just make sure you don't get into anything bigger than you're two man crew."

Fox chuckled. "Alright father I'll make sure not to get into trouble, trust me."

General Pepper laughed at Fox's joke. "I'm old enough to be your Grandfather. So don't give me lip. Get out of here and get to work."

"Yes Sir!"

Fox met Krystal onboard the Greatfox. Krystal was holding a small paper bag. "So did you get us the job?"

Fox grinned. "Of course, Pepper loves us; he would never deny us a mission."

Krystal smiled. "That's good, I already checked with R.O.B and he said we were ready to go. So we can get going tomorrow morning if you want."

Fox nodded. "Alright, so is that your headache medicine."

Krystal smirked at him. "No it's just a bag I felt like carrying back from the hospital."

"Huh sarcasm, I think I got enough of that when Falco was around."

Krystal laughed and pulled Fox into a hug. "I love you Fox."

"I love you too Krystal."

A/N: Wow not that much happened, prolly cus it's the first chapter, but whatever. I have a very good idea for what's going to happen in this one but if you have any suggestions don't be afraid to make them.