Authors note.
I do not own any of the metal gear characters, or the final fantasy ones either. if i did Gray fox would never have died.

Just so you know this story was inspired by the metal gear spira story, in the sense that it made me want to do a metal gear/ffx crossover with grey fox. I will be deviating from the games plot, because lets face it, if gray fox was there things would have gone differently.

This story is about Gray Fox, and we need to start it at his death. This was my favorite scene from MGS except for when Vulcan dies.

(just so you know this scene was taken word for word from the playstation game which i don't own)

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Part one: The death of a fox

"Did that do it?" muttered Solid Snake as he waited to see if REX was still operational.
The stingers had only done minor damage to the radome, and REX gave a triumpiant roar.

"Damn!" Snake yelled in frustration.

"Nice try, Snake!" Liquid taunted, "DIE!!"

Just when things were getting tough for Solid Snake help appeared in the form of the cyber ninja, Gray Fox.

"Hurry! Get away!" Screamed the cyborg as the monsterous Metal Gear stomped towards him. The ninja threw himself strait under the hulking machines foot and stopped it as Snake retreated to safty.

"Gray Fox!!" Snake said in suprise.

"A name from long ago. It sounds better than Deepthroat." Replied Fox, still under REX's foot.

"So it is you!?" Snake asked his old friend.

"You look terrible, Snake. You haven't aged well." Fox said before Liquid interrupted them.

"I'll send you back to hell!" Liquid spat as he tried to crush Gray Fox again. The ninja was much to fast for REX however and quickly dodged the attack. Liquid charged him as Fox lept back and began firing powerful shots at the radome, which damaged it heavily.

REX had temporarily lost its ability to locate them and went on a blind rampage. This gave Fox time to speak to Snake without much fear of attack.

"Fox, why!? What do you want from me!?" Snake questioned.

"i am a prisoner of Death. Only you can free me..." He said painfully.

"Fox, stay out of this. What about Naomi? She's hell bent on taking revenge for you." said Snake, trying to convince his former comrade.

"Naomi..." Fox said quitely.

"You're the only one who can stop her." Snake told him, all the while very aware of the rampaging REX in the background.

"No. i, i can't." He studdered as he said it.

"Why?" Asked Snake.

"Because i'm the one who killed her parents." He revealed mournfully. "I was young then and i couldn't bring myself to kill her too. I felt so bad that i decided to take her with me. I raised her like she was my own blood to soothe my guilty conscience. Even now she thinks of me as her brother..."

"Fox." Snake said in shock.

"From the outside we might have seemed like a happy brother and sister. But every time i looked at her, i saw her parents eyes staring back at me. Tell her for me. Tell her that i was the one who did it." He said as REX finally found them.

"There you are!" Cried Liquid as he sprayed thier location with bullets.

"We're just about out of time." Spoke Fox with sorrow in his voice. "Here's a final present from Deepthroat. I'll stop it from moving!" He shouted as he dashed towards Metal Gear.

"Fox!" Snake yelled in protest but it was too late, as Fox was already engaging the metal giant. He ran and dashed around sporadically, dodging machine gun rounds like crazy.
But not even Gray Fox could dodge that thing forever, and eventually REX connected with one of its lasers. It lopped Fox's left arm clean off.

Fox fled to a balcony, still dodging as bullets flew all around him. He did an acrobatic back flip and took aim at Metal Gears radome. REX was too quick this time, and pinned him against the wall with its huge metal face. Fox's blood spattered the walls but he wasn't ready to give up yet.

"In the middle east we don't hunt foxes, we hunt jackals. Instead of foxhounds we use royal harriers." Liquid said from inside REX.

"Fox!" Snake shouted as he watched helplessly.

"How strong is that exoskellton of yours?" Liquid asked as he put more pressure on Fox's failing body. "Snake, Are you just going to sit by and watch him die"
As liquid said this, Fox aimed and fired at REX's radome.

"A conered fox is more dangerous than a jackal!" Fox screamed in pain.

"He destoryed the radome..." Snake said to himself. Snake knew what this meant, and sure enough within seconds Liquid backed REX off a few feet and opened up REX's face hatch.

"Impressive. You are indeed worthy of the codename Fox! But now your finished!" Liquid shouted as he looked at the fallen soldier.

"Uuunnggh!! Now! Fire the stinger!" Fox begged Snake.

"Fox!" Snake yelled stuned.

"Can you really shoot?" Liquid asked. "You'll kill him too!"

Snake took aim with the stinger but couldn't bring himself to take the shot.

"Now," Gray Fox started, "in front of you i can finally die. After Zanzibar i was taken from the battle, neither truly alive, nor truly dead. An undying shadow in the world of lights. But soon, soon, it will finally end." Fox finished as Liquid swept him off the balcony and back to the floor.

"DIE!" Liquid screamed one last time as he brought REX's foot down on Gray Fox. Fox knew he had little time left as he spoke to Snake.

"Snake we're not tools of the government, or anyone else! Fighting was the only thing,
the only thing i was good at. But, at least i always fought for what i believed in. Snake,
farewell." Fox finished before REX's leg was lifted again. A few seconds passed before Liquid sent it smashing down into Gray Fox for the killing blow.

Fox didn't hear anything after that, just fuzzy noises. He did feel something though, a pull.
He felt his legs being pulled down. But that couldn't be right, he was being pulled into the floor,
no through the floor. He desended into a strange room, one that couldn't be on Shadow Moses.
It was a large and circular room, with statues all around him.

The man known as Gray Fox found that he could stand, and got up. He first realized he had his arm back, how was this possible? He also saw he was no longer in his exoskeleton, he had his old body back.

"Do you like our gifts, hunter?" said a voice that seemed to come from every statue in the room.

"What are you?" was all Fox could think to ask.

"We are the strands of fate, and we have choosen you. There is a creature whos power threatens to tear apart the worlds. It cannot be allowed to exist any longer." spoke the statues.

"How can i kill something so powerful?" asked the Fox who was denied death yet again.

"You are the hunter. You will be givin our power in your fight against this threat. Even with all our might you will not be able to kill it alone." the statues continued.

"Why should i do this! Why can't i just die!!" Fox said in a rage.

"Were you to die now you would surely face the torments of hell. We can see to it that you enter the gates of heaven." Spoke the statues.

"Where is this threat?" asked Fox.

"It is in a world unknown to you. It has dwelled in Spira for a thousand years. Fear the beast with two faces." spoke the statues, as the room began to spin. Fox tried to hold on to something but it was no use, it was pulling him down. Down again, into blackness.

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Just one thing, Gray Fox's real name is Frank Jaeger. Jaeger is german for hunter, and thats the reason i made the statues call him hunter. The next chapters will be longer and i plan to make this a pretty long fic.
Say what you want in the review and any ideas you might have are welcome.