Starfox Evil
Warning: This is a fan fiction crossover between the Starfox franchise and the movie Resident Evil: Extinction. Artistic license has been taken so there will be some changes in the plots of both franchises in order to give this story purpose, and form. This story contains: strong language, adult content, sexual situations, gore and blood, and scenes of extreme violence and horror/survival action.
We do NOT own Starfox or Resident Evil.
All original characters are the intellectual properties of me and my co-author
Do not reproduce without permission
Prologue: Pandora's Box
Alice shifted her weapon and took aim at the undead man which was slowly shuffling around the gas station up the road. As her target moved around the gas pump she saw the name stitched onto his attendant suit and she muttered, "Sorry about this Stevie."
And as the last word left her lips she squeezed the trigger. With an almost inaudible 'snap' the crossbow threw it's silent and deadly package straight into the brain of the zombie which had seemed to just take notice of her existence. The bolt hit so hard the zombie's head was pierced clean through and stuck to the side of a totaled semi-trailer.
Meanwhile, up in orbit…
The Cornarian Science Observatory Station, or SOS, named Earthbound Angel, was taking its first readings of this apparently dead planet. The head scientist, a grey wolf named Dr. Silver O'Conner, looked over his monitor and said, "Angelina, what is the status of the first biometric scan?"
The station's AI responded with, "Specialist Austin is 81% complete with her scans. Complete portions of the test show that the planet has nearly the same gravity as Cornaria, and an Oxygen and Carbon rich atmosphere, so our ground teams will not have to acclimate."
"Very good, Now what is the population of the planet?"
"Various avionic species, one species of highly evolved primates, and one other species that doesn't match any known classification", the computer said in her quirky voice.
"Any signs of sentience", the lupine doctor asked this question out of habit, so he was fairly surprised when the computer answered him.
"Affirmative."
"What", the stunned wolf asked.
"The species of primate shows signs of higher intelligence."
"Population?"
"Approximately five-thousand, with around 2,300 in underground cities and the rest consisting of nomadic tribes. There is also a small surface settlement on the largest peninsula of the smaller continent. It has a population of about three hundred."
"Technology level?"
"Moderately advanced, fossil fuel vehicles, radio wave communications, non fusion power sources, and…"
"What about military strength? I don't want to send in the first contact team unprepared", the Doctor said impatiently.
"I was just getting to that Doctor. Ahem, they appear to have moderately advanced chemical projectile weaponry. I have transported up samples of the technology from the surface and the debris ring around the planet. From the samples I have recovered we should be able to patch together a good idea of what happened down there."
"Good. Care to venture a guess, just to give your deduction algorithms a warm up?"
The AI stated, "To the best of my 'guessing' abilities, I would say that some sort of environmental disaster occurred, and judging from the extent of the damage I would also like to venture that it was synthetic…", there was a pause and then, "Analysis complete, and it appears I was correct on both accounts, there was a viral outbreak and everything began dieing, leaving only a few species alive…", there was an audible pause then, "Doctor, I have recovered a data storage device. Apparently this unit went offline around six years ago. Strange…"
"What is it?"
"It appears as though this unit has a primitive Artificial Intelligence program stored within it, all the startup and operational circuits have been overloaded by a power surge of some kind."
"Can you salvage it?"
"Possibly."
"In the mean time ", there was a click and then, "Professor Austin, get your team ready we're sending you down…"
Back down on the surface…
Alice sat by her fire listening to the logs crackle and burn, listening to the static coming over her small CB receiver when she heard, "This is the Clair Redfield convoy is anyone out there? This is the Clair Redfield convoy looking for any survivors, is anyone out…", and she reached over and turned it off with a sigh, she then laid down to sleep.
Her mind was in turmoil while she slept, and her dreams were full of nightmares. All around her the rocks began vibrating and shaking and suddenly they all lifted straight up in the air, small and large stones alike floated straight up, even her motorcycle began levitating. Suddenly she snapped awake, sat bolt upright, drew one of her pistols and looked around. She almost jumped out of her skin when all the rocks came crashing down around her and her motorcycle smashed down to earth and practically snapped in half. Alice groaned to herself and resigned herself to deal with it in the morning. With that she flopped back down and tried to go back to sleep.
Some distance away...
Professor Austin stepped out of the shuttle, along with his team and their escort into what looked like the middle of the night time desert. According to the sensors on the station the spot were they now stood used to be the center of a moderately sized town. All that was left to be seen of it was a few rundown shacks and the charred remains of many buildings, "Alright. Sergeant Hays you know what to do."
The Sergeant replied with, "Yes Professor. Alright boys and girls you know the dri… HEY! White! Jackson! Would you two save the neckin' for back home!"
The deep kiss, which would have not been such a big deal if one of them had been male, stopped. But seeing as they were two females, one a lop eared rabbit doe, and the other a lithe tigress, it was making some of the professor's assistants a little…distracted.
"Yes Sarge", Patricia White said and proceeded to slide her hand inside her striped lover's battle plated vest making her purr. One of the assistants almost peed himself.
"Would you two knock it off, for cryin' out loud!"
Alena Jackson said, "Yes sir, sorry sir", then she turned back to Patricia and whispered, "We'll finish this later sweet cheeks" , and with that they placed their enclosed helmets upon their heads, activated their helmet lights and assumed their posts protecting the scientists.
"Yeah, you can slide that tongue of yours right up my…"
"Ladies!"
"Sorry Sir!"
Up in orbit...
Doctor O'Conner looked at the initial report sent from the ground team and said, "Good, Good", then he opened up a com link, "Professor, if possible do you think you can capture one of the unknown species for analysis?"
Then came the slightly distorted reply from the prof, "I suppose it's not impossible, just a little tricky because we haven't seen a bloody thing around here since we arrived."
"Well it just got a little easier because, as we speak, I am sending you their anomalous genetic signature so you can at least tell when you're close to one", and he sent the data stream to his colleagues on the ground.
"Got it. We'll do our best."
"Thank you Doctor and please try not to let my sister hurt herself, you know how clumsy she can be."
"Sure thing Will", he said, shaking his head. He sighed as he thought, You just won't let that vase go will you", then said, "Well I'm going to fill out my initial report. I should have it up to you in a few minutes. Goodbye old chum"
Those were the last words Doctor O'Connor would ever hear his friend say….
Starfox Extinction
Chapter One: Orders and Old Friends
Two days later:
The Dreadnaught class Destroyer known as The Great Fox II drifted silently through the Meteo asteroid belt and the robotic AI known as ROB64 watched as his friend and captain ran through training drills with the only female team member.
"Alright! Now Krystal I want you to treat the rock at your 12 by 9 as though it were a Venomian heavy bomber and take it out by systems. It's facing directly at you to start with, so the first thing that I want you to do is disable the engines."
"Roger that", the azure vixen said to her wing mate just before she spun around the back side of the rock and began blasting it with her Arwing's twin cannons.
After she had caused significant damage to the boulder, "Excellent job Krystal", Fox said, "Now I want you to disable its w… Oh hang on a sec, ROB is trying to call me", he opened a com link to the robot, "What's up ROB?"
"There is a call coming in for you from General Pepper", ROB said in his monotone voice.
"Thank you ROB. We're coming in now", Fox opened a private channel to Krystal, "Hey we've got a call waiting for us so lets head on in."
"Sure thing love", Krystal said and chuckled when she sensed Fox fluster in response. She loved him and she knew he loved her but for some reason he still got embarrassed whenever she expressed these feelings in public. Even out here in the emptiness of space he still acted like someone was eavesdropping on them, "Fox why are you uncomfortable?"
"I'll tell you later", and they sped back to The Great Fox II.
As soon as their AR-wings settled into their struts the tan-orange fox hopped out of his cockpit and ran to stand near Krystal's. As she climbed out of her fighter her booted foot slipped off the wing and she fell with a startled, "YEOW", and the landing would have been jarring, had she not felt a pair of strong arms catch her just before impact, "My hero", she said.
Fox chuckled and leaned in for a kiss which Krystal returned softly, then deeper. Soon they had completely forgotten about the call and were shocked out of their intimacy by ROB's voice, "Fox. General Pepper is still on the line."
"Ah shit. All right ROB I'm on my way. Aheh, sorry babe. Looks like I've got to put you down now."
"It's alright we can pick this up later. Dinner in my quarters after your chat with the good General", Krystal said trying to sound seductive. And boy did she succeed.
Fox agreed, gave her one last kiss in the elevator, and when she got off he watched her tail sway back and forth, thinking he was the luckiest guy alive. When he got to the bridge he said, "Okay ROB, put him through", when the General's head appeared on the holoscreen he said, "Hello General, sorry about the wait I got, eh… distracted."
The aging bloodhound sighed and said, "Don't worry about it Fox, I've got a job for you and your team", there was a pause as he drew a breath and then, "One of our SOSs was sent to a star system to investigate possible colony sites. Out of the eight planets and the one planetoid; none of them were currently able to support life except one… the third planet", he took another breath and continued as an image of the planet appeared next to his head, "In his initial report, Doctor Silver O'Connor stated that at one time this planet was home to a large number of species, at least two of which were sentient. Now most of the life, both flora and fauna have died off and we don't know why. The planet has been left a desert. Even the oceans are devoid of life."
"Well what do you expect after a few hundred years of ecological stagnation? Of course there wouldn't be much life left."
"No Fox, you don't understand. According to Dr. O'Connor's research this planet went from full of abundant life and diversity to dead six to seven years ago over a period of months, not centuries."
"What", Fox thought then said, "How is that possible?"
"Well the only way that he could think of was nuclear war, or something along those lines; however Dr. O'Connor's scans showed little to no radiation, so that couldn't have been it. So he sent a team down to the surface to try and obtain some samples of the available life, when they were apparently attacked by a small group of unknown species and origin. These things were subdued but not without casualties, several of the group were bitten and one of the scientists was killed by the creatures. Several of the troopers assigned to guard them were separated from the group and did not get evacuated with the rest. Soon after this we lost all communication with the station, it has been two days and we fear the worst. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go there and rescue anyone that you can from the station and the surface. You are weapons free to obtain your targets and get the hell out."
Fox grinned inside, he loved it when he was weapons free. Not to say he liked killing people; it just gave him more options and made his job a lot easier, "Alright General Pepper we'll take it. Just give us a few hours to finish some maintenance and upgrades, and we'll be on our way, no later than tomorrow morning."
"Very good. You will be getting paid double for this because it is out of the system. Goodbye and good luck."
With that the general saluted, Fox returned the salute, and the display went blank, "ROB, let Falco and Slippy know about the mission."
"What about Miss Krystal?"
"I was heading her way anyhow, so I'll tell her", he stepped onto the elevator, "Once you have notified the others head to Cornaria", the elevator doors closed as he said to himself, "I need to talk to someone before we leave."
Back on Earth...
Corporal White and Lance Corporal Jackson ran side by side from the large group of predators that had been pursuing them for the last two days. The troopers were terrified for the first time in their respective careers, so they gripped their Light Automatic Blasters ever tighter and ran faster. Suddenly in the distance there was a massive explosion and they looked at each other before changing their direction to run towards it. They came up over a slight ridge and they saw it, a small cluster of structures surrounded on all sides by a chain link fence, except for a gaping hole near a flaming crater in the ground. All around the flames the troopers could see hundreds of the creatures struggling to their feet. Then they saw a truck of some kind go ripping through the wreckage. The soldiers looked at each other, "Think we should help them", Patricia asked her lover.
"As a soldier I'm saying no because there is no way we could be much help to them, but as a person I say… ah to hell with it", and Alena began running towards the cluster of shacks.
Patricia smiled, "That's why I love you", and she tore off after the other soldier. They ran their tails off, dodging lunges and grabs from the rising and shambling predators and soon they were at the front door of the largest shack. Patricia kicked it in and looked around. They knew there was at least one person here because someone had stayed behind when the helicopter took off, but all they saw was that person run into this shack and then disappear, "Where the hell did she go", Patricia said just before looking back outside. The things outside that survived the explosion were just staggering through the gaping hole in the fence, "Shit", she shouted and she slammed the door, locked it, pushed a rickety bookshelf in front of it, and then said, "Well we're screwed."
As they checked the charge on their LABs Alena said, "Well where'd she go? To my knowledge people don't just disappear into thin air."
Suddenly one of the windows shattered and through it fell one of those creatures from outside, "Oh shit", the creature lurched at her and she tried to kill it by firing a three round burst at it. The bolts of highly charged plasma tore through the monster's chest, but it wasn't even phased by the onslaught. The creature grabbed her by her shoulders and she threw it over her shoulders in a whip lash motion. It landed seven feet behind her on its head. After a moment Alena sighed in relief to the lack of responsive activity from the creature.
Suddenly, in the middle of the floor, a space opened up to reveal an elevator.
"Well that's different", said Alena.
"Yeah no kidding", Patricia replied, "D'ya think this is were she went?"
As soon as she said that Patricia looked over her shoulder back at the broken window and saw that the creatures were almost to the shack, "Looks like we don't have much choice, hop on!"
The elevator suddenly, and rapidly, dropped causing both troopers to stumble. The creatures had forced their way into the shack and were stumbling and shuffling towards the Cornarians, who opened fire on them. As the elevator dropped the flooring above began to close back up and, just before it sealed itself completely, one of the creatures stuck its hand down through the crack, trying in vain to get at the food that was escaping, and thus it lost that arm at just below the shoulder. The severed limb fell limply to land with a crunch on the floor of the lift between the two females, "Okay, that was too close", Alena said.
Just as suddenly as it began it ended. The elevator stopped and the doors opened to reveal a long metallic hallway. Suddenly a voice came out of nowhere, "Hello."
"Who's there", Alena shouted and pointed her gun down the hall, checking doorways and corners.
Suddenly a small girl in a bright white dress materialized out of thin air, "I am the Artificial Intelligence for this facility, I am known as the Silver Queen."
"Great an AI. Can you tell us what this place is? Or does that require some sort of access code", Alena Asked
"Under normal circumstances yes, it would require a verification code", this raised an annoyed sigh from the two Cornarians, "However due to the fact that nearly all residents of this facility are dead and emergency control has been given to me, I am authorized to divulge all information I deem necessary to preserve the greatest amount of human lives. No matter the security requirements."
The child paused then said, "Ahem. The primary function of this facility was originally research and development of biological and viral weaponry; however nearly seven years ago there was an incident at another of these facilities. A viral agent known simply as the T-virus, was released and it spread throughout the facility. Unfortunately, the virus could not be contained and spread to infect the entire planet. Nearly all life died. The trouble was, most of it didn't stay dead."
There was a pause and then Patricia said, "Wait, what do you mean didn't stay dead?"
"Even in death the body remains active", the AI stated, "Hair and fingernails continue to grow and the brain maintains a residual charge that takes months or even years to dissipate. The primary effect of the T-virus is to give the infected corpse a massive jolt on the cellular level", this got a confused look from the Cornarians, "effectively; it reanimates the body."
"No way", Alena said, probably a little louder than necessary, "Are you saying your people found a way to bring the dead back to life?"
"Not entirely, the victims have the basest of motor functions, maybe a little memory, practically no intelligence. They are driven by the most primal of impulses, the most basic of needs…"
And Patricia asked the stupid question, "And that would be … what?"
"The need to feed."
Suddenly there was an earthshaking roar from down the corridor, "What the hell was that", Alena shouted
"That would be Doctor Isaacs. He returned from a mission infected with a stronger, more volatile strand of the T-virus and he mutated. He is the reason for all of the destruction and death here."
There was a loud crash and then the computer continued, "The woman that came in here before you is called Alice. I have sent her to destroy Dr. Isaacs. Unfortunately, I did not take into account the fact that the Doctor seems to have mutated with the ability of infinite regeneration. Essentially he is incredibly difficult, nigh on impossible to kill", the hologram looked down the hall and then said, "Quickly follow me, Alice requires your assistance!"
As they ran down the hall Alena glanced over at Patricia and whispered, "So, how much've you got left?"
To which the lop-eared rabbit responded, "Not much, you?"
"I've got about a three quarters charge left for the LAB. But my sidearm is gone. Must've dropped it in the sprint."
"I still have a two thirds charge left in my last cell for my LAB, and I've got one full cell for my blaster, but the rest of my gear got left at the camp when we had to bolt."
A/N: the Cornarian sidearm is just known as a blaster because it doesn't really have a name. So I'll have to think up a name for it or at least a design or something. But for now it will just be known as a sidearm or blaster. Now back to your regularly scheduled insanity…
"Great, so every shot has to count."
Suddenly the hologram stopped and said, "Through here, quickly, you must not let her perish, she is the cure!"
At those words the door in front of them opened and they saw that they were at the end of a long hallway. Laying on the floor was the woman they now knew as Alice, and standing above her with it's claw/tentacle thing raised in a killing blow was this monster which they assumed was Dr. Isaacs. It was then they heard Alice say," No you're just… another asshole."
Then Patricia shouted, "Stay down!"
The twisted Doctor jerked his head up and said, "What the…"
Then Patricia and Alena opened fire on the monster. Almost every bolt hit him somewhere, and every bolt that made contact knocked him backwards. The woman on the floor curled into the fetal position to make herself as small as possible to avoid getting struck by a stray bolt. The monstrosity that used to be a man hit the floor near the other end of the hallway, the troopers discarded their empty LABs, and Alena went to check on Alice while Patricia drew her sidearm and advanced on the still form of the creature on the floor.
Behind her she heard Alice gasp and Alena say, "It's alright. We're here to help, we're not going to hurt you", then Patricia saw the massive creature twitch and start to rise from it's prone position
"Shit! This guy just won't die", she then raised her blaster into a firing position and pressed the trigger. The gun discharged a single shot into the back of the monster's head and it dropped back to the floor; but soon began to rise again. "Alright. Lets see you get up from this", Patricia set the blaster to overcharge and then held the trigger down again, the firearm emitting a high pitched whine as a ball of vibrant green energy began to build at the end of the barrel.
The monster then looked up and said, "Heheheh. You fool, I can't die."
"Bull shit", was the rabbit's response and just as the creature came to a knee it lowered it's head again, apparently to catch it's breath, she placed her sights where the creatures frontal lobe should be and released the trigger. The bolt quickly consumed the Doctor's body and as it hit the wall behind him it exploded with tremendous force which blew what little remains there were, into tiny little bits. Patricia looked at her blaster in shock, then she looked at the smoldering crater that was the remains of the steel reinforced wall and door that were behind the Doctor. Which had imploded into the room behind it, "Um, nothing in there was important, right?"
Alice said, "Oh nothing important. Just ah -- the ability to make THE CURE!"
Patricia glared back at the human and shouted, "Make the cure? The damn computer said you were the cure!"
Meanwhile, far away in space, just as the two troopers were separated from the group…
Dee-deep---dee-deep
"Huh, what?" Fox muttered as the sound of his personal COM-unit beeping at him roused him from his comfortable slumber. He picked up the offending gadget and pressed a button, "McCloud speaking."
He yawned as he heard ROB say, "Fox we are nearing Cornaria", Fox yawned again, "I apologize Fox, did I wake you? Or is this a bad time?"
Fox looked over his shoulder at the still sleeping form of Krystal, "It could be better", he mumbled, "Look ROB, I'm gonna get cleaned up and then I'm going to go visit Peppy."
"Acknowledged. I will alert you when the upgrades are complete, and appraise you of our situation upon your return."
"McCloud out", Fox yawned again and stretched his arms above his head, before pulling them back down shortly after hearing and feeling his back give him a sharp crack, "Ooh, this sofa really is comfy."
"My offer to share the bed still stands, I'm sure it would be even better", came a soft voice from behind him.
Fox chuckled and said, "Now if I were a weaker male I would have taken you up on that offer last night."
"And I guarantee that we would have gotten no sleep what-so-ever", Krystal said with a yawn.
"Yeah probably", there followed a bit of an awkward silence where Fox nervously scratched the back of his head with his stubby vulpine claws. Krystal giggled at his youthful charm. Then he said, "Anyway, we are nearing Cornaria and I have to be somewhere. Would you please wait for me here."
"Um sure, I guess I could wait around here, why?"
Then Fox sighed and said, "Because you were like a daughter to him and I don't think he would want you to see him like this."
A little less than an hour later:
Fox was sitting in a blank room waiting for his scheduled meeting to be set up. After a few more minutes a Chestnut mare nurse came in and said, "Mr. McCloud?
Fox stood up and the nurse smiled, "You can come see him now, please follow me."
Fox followed the young mare down the narrow hallway to the viewing room, "Take as much time as you need, just press the black button by the door when you're done, Okay?
"Yeah, alright", Fox said. He walked through the open door into the dim chamber, which was bare except for a few chairs and a long cylinder fitted into a slot in the far wall. Then the front of the tube slid open to reveal Peppy Hare floating in the glowing green viscous fluid that is suspension-gel, a large patch of white scar fur covering a large portion of his head. Fox couldn't help but think back to that day, "Hey there Peppy, it's been a while. I've been meaning to stop by and check how you were doing, but I just couldn't make myself get down here. Look I came down here to talk about Krystal's future with the team."
Letting out a aggravated sigh Fox said, "Okay that's not true. I really came down here to talk about her relationship with me. I mean, I love her with all my heart, even more than life itself; I want her to be happy. And yet…"
At this point Fox's eyes began to tear up and he felt himself on the verge of breaking down, "And yet, I get this feeling that our relationship is missing something and I just can't figure it out. It's like there is this bulge that's growing in my mind and it's going to blow really soon and I don't know what to do."
He then just sat down in one of the chairs, set his face in his hands and let the tears flow. After a few minutes of this he slid the chair over to Peppy's biotube and laid his head down on the cool surface before falling into a light sleep…
Fox was standing in the middle of the sidewalk, the whole team was there Peppy, Slippy, Falco, and Krystal. And Katt was there, hanging on Falco's arm like she always does when they're together. Fox saw himself standing between Falco and Krystal, his arms wrapped around both of their shoulders. They were smiling. Then a hover-van swung into view, the side door swung open. And the barrel of an automatic rifle was seen in the opening. Then the shooting started. Fox saw the bullets flying past as if in slow motion. None of them hit anyone as they ducked and dodged shots. Except one lucky shot. He watched and screamed as it hit Peppy square in the forehead, just above his right eye…
Fox snapped awake to the sound of his COM signaling him again, "What, where!? Oh", he sighed as he reached for the device, "McCloud speaking,"
ROB's voice came over the transmitter, "Fox, upgrades will be completed within the hour, I have been trying to contact you for some time. Miss Krystal has been worried about you."
"She's been worried? Why? It's only been a few…", then he looked at the display on his PDA, "Holy crap! It's almost 11:00! Gods six hours, alright I'm coming back up", then he looked over at Peppy and something just clicked on, "Actually ROB I need to make one more stop before I return so I'll be a little while longer."
"Affirmative Fox. We'll see you soon."
Fox looked back at Peppy floating in the tank and said, "Thanks for listening old friend."
He pressed the button that told the orderly that he was leaving and went back to his hovercar that was waiting in the parking lot. As he drove away he thought about what he was doing, and all the things that could go wrong, and then his thoughts went back to his love for the vixen waiting back on the ship, and his mood immediately brightened, a smile spread across his muzzle.
As he pulled up in front of his destination memories flooded back; memories of his childhood, of his parents before their deaths, and of the happiness he left behind when he took up his fathers place. 'Gods, it's been years since I came home', Fox thought as he landed his car.
As he walked up to the front door he looked over the front of the McCloud family mansion, and just as he was about to press his palm against the scanner to open the door he did a double take, the large window farthest from the door was broken. "Oh no", he opened the door and bolted inside to collide with a large reptile carrying what looked like, "Hey that's my mother's jewelry case!"
"Well it's mine now bitch", the lizard shouted and he went for the blaster crammed in the front of his belt. As his hand grasped the firearm the tip of Fox's elbow made brutal contact with the larger reptile's snout, crushing the fragile bones and dropping him like a sack of rocks.
"Who's the bitch now", Fox muttered to him as he went over to the security panel and reactivated the security system which immediately alerted the police and summoned an officer, and dialed in a doctor to set the reptile's broken nose. Then Fox snatched up the dropped firearm and stripped it down, ensuring that the thug couldn't surprise him with it.
Fox paced while waiting for the police. It only took a few minutes for the cops to come with an ambulance.
"Jusht you wait mosherfucker, I'm gonna shue you sho bad you'll be workin' fer me fer free!" he shouted through the gauze at Fox, his speech impaired by painkillers.
The officer shoved the lizard roughly through the door of the cruiser and onto the floor of the transport, "After everything Fox's done for this planet, for this system, I wouldn't be surprised if your lawyer doesn't get a hit put on his head for supporting your dumb ass."
"Now, now let's not go that far", Fox said as the tiger shut the door, "Okay here are the security tapes and the access code for everything you need from the system. However there is something that I need from inside the house so just hang on a second before you go", Fox went back inside for the jewelry case which was lying inside the door. It had popped open and strewn all the McCloud family jewels all over the floor.
Now most people don't realize that when Fox's father was in the service he amassed quite an amount of money, and after he was killed the government had given Fox a large sum as compensation for his loss, so the vulpine was actually loaded, he just didn't flaunt it or let it go to his head.
So as he picked up all the valuables that were collected by his parents during their lives he was flooded by a plethora of memories, most good, some not so good, like the platinum rose that James bought to have mounted on Lily's tombstone, only to visit her grave one day to see it gone, someone had stolen it. It wasn't found until almost a month after his death, during a drug bust in a bad part of Cornaria City. It was later delivered to the recently orphaned Fox at his home by an officer of the law. Shortly after that Fox left the building for the last time.
Once all the jewels and baubles were back in their case he took it back to its proper location in his parents old room, "I guess I should feel lucky he didn't find this", he said as he activated a hidden switch which slid a floor panel back, revealing a floor safe. He pressed his palm to the scanner, then he entered the six digit access code, finally he opened the door and began searching for his prize.
Once he located it he put it in his pocket, shut and locked the door, then he left the building, "Have a nice day officers, remember to lock up when you're do…"
"THERE HE IS!!"
'Ah crap', Fox thought as the camera flashes started and the flood of reporters swarmed to him, "The only thing I have to say is I'm in a bit of a hurry. So lets not do this and say we did", he said as he pushed through the unrelenting crowd of indiscernible voices and flashes of light.
As he climbed into his hovercar one of the reporters shouted, "Mr. McCloud, don't you think you were a little rough on the suspect?"
Fox shut the door, sat for a second, then he rolled down the window and said, "Who just asked that", a German Sheppard raised his hand and stepped forward, "I'll answer only your question and only once. Do you think he'd rather have a broken nose…. or a hole in his head? 'Cause you look at those tapes and I could have shot him. in fact bby the Defend the Castle law I had the right to shoot him. But I didn't, I showed restraint. Restraint that scumbag doesn't deserve."
With that Fox took off, leaving the crowd in a confused and disgruntled state. Little did he know that wouldn't be the last swarm he would have to face in the coming times…
End Chapter One
Leave anything but flames-Undead Fox