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Fox woke up from his sleep. He turned over to look at Krystal, but saw no one. "She must have gotten up already," Fox said getting up out of bed. Fox went across his bedroom to get to the showers. He always liked to start the day off with a shower because it not only woke up his body, but also his mind.

After about 10 minutes of showering, Fox stepped out and shook off the water from his fur. He put on a white T-shirt, covered it with a grey hoodie, and put on some athletic pants. He made his way to the dining quarters of the Great Fox. About halfway down the hall, he realized he was going the wrong way and turned around. "I don't know if I will ever get use to this new ship." He was referring to the new Great Fox. The new flag ship of StarFox had been completed just a week ago and Fox was not use to the layout. The new Great Fox was technically superior than the old Great Fox in almost every way: the targeting systems, the main guns, the engines, even the toilets were more high powered than the old ones. Despite all this though, Fox missed the old ship, which was destroyed during the final fight with the Aparoids.

Fox entered the dining room to see his love making breakfast. "Good morning sleepy!" Krystal said, "You sure slept in." Fox looked over at a clock and saw it was already 10 AM, which was very late for him.

"Yeah, I guess waking up every night doesn't help" he said as his fiancée placed pancakes in front of him and sat down across from him. "Thank you."

"You're welcome," the vixen said as she took bite of the pancake, "Man, I'm good!"

"So, what are you going to today?" Fox asked.

"Probably talk to Katt, you know the usual."

"What do you guys talk about?"

"Oh, you know…stuff" she said grinning.

"Like?"

"What are you going to do today?" she asked avoiding the question.

"Hmph Women… Train, then probably take a nap." Fox said.

"I'm going to skip today, I- Fox you have pancake on your face." Krystal said. Fox wiped at his mouth.

"Did I get it?"

"A little bit to the right." Fox wiped again.

"Now?"

"A little more to right." Fox wiped for the third time.

"What about now?"

"Let me help you." She said as she lean towards him from across the table. She wiped the pancake off and gave him a peck on the cheek. "You know when we have kids I'll be ready with all this practice your giving me."

"Yeah, yeah." Fox chuckled to himself.

"I better be going, bye Fox." She said as she rose from her chair and started walking towards the door.

"Bye." Fox said as he watched her leave the room. He wondered how a guy like him got a girl like her. Fox then got out of his chair and clean both dishes. He then left the room and tried to remember the way to the training room.

After wandering aimlessly through the white halls of the ship, Fox finally found the training room. "I really have to get a map or something." He said as he walked through the automatic door. The room had four treadmills, a hologram projector, three punching bags, a set of weights, and a pull-up bar. Fox started to jog on the treadmill. Fox worked out to stay in shape in case of if he got any assignments, he would be ready. He also worked out to past the time. He was bored because since it was a time of peace he had nothing to do, if he went out he was swarmed with paparazzi. He believed that if it weren't for Krystal he would have gone insane by now. He wasn't in regular contact with his friends like Krystal was, so he had to find something to keep entertained.

Fox had jogged for about 20 minutes and decided that he was done with jogging for now. He took off his hoodie and walked over to a button on the wall furthest from the door. He pressed the button and almost immediately the wall rose up into the ceiling. A shooting range was now revealed. The range went back only about 50 meters, so it wasn't the longest range, but it was as big as it could be due to the restrictions of the size of the ship. The interesting thing about this shooting range was it had walls that came up and made a little maze, which was randomized every time. This was for CQC ( Close Quarter Combat). Fox however, just wanted to shoot non-moving targets today. Fox went to the counter that was right in front of the shooting range. He flipped a switch.

A hissing sound was made from the counter top sliding open revealing a control panel. On this panel there were many buttons that were colour coded. Blue buttons selected how many targets there was going to be (it went up to ten). Yellow buttons controlled the rate that the targets moved side to side. There was a knob that controlled the distance of each target. There was a red button that activated the CQC mode. Finally, there was a black button. Fox pushed it and the ground next to Fox hissed opened and a table rose up. On this table were two submachine guns, a shotgun, and a standard blaster.

Fox grabbed the blaster and the table hissed back down. Fox set three targets. The first being only 15 meters away, the second at 20, and the last at 30. Fox aimed and shot the black and white target hitting the outline of a person in the center mass. The target beeped and glowed green to show a perfect shot. The target slid back down to reveal the next one. Fox took aim and hit the center mass again. The target went down to reveal the last one. Fox held his breath steady and looked down the sights of the blaster. He slowly squeezed the trigger.

"FOX!" a robot screeched over the intercom. Fox was surprised and misfired not even close to the target.

"Rob you nearly killed me. What is it?" Fox said trying to catch his breath. ROB had always served on the Great Fox even at the time when James McCloud led the team.

"Peppy Hare is sending you a transmission."

"Patch him through to the training room" Fox said putting down his blaster. He walked out of the shooting range. The wall closed behind him. The hologram projector flickered on showing a hare wearing a general's uniform. "What's up general?"

" I'm still not use to being called that," the hare laughed, he had just been promoted to general of the Cornerian army a few months ago, "besides its Peppy to you, sonny."

"Okay, okay old timer." Fox laughed at his longtime friend and father figure. Peppy was a friend of Fox's father and took reasonability over Fox after his father had gone.

"I know that you are just having a blast and just have so much to do during this time of peace, but how would you like an assignment?"

Fox grinned from ear to ear," Well my schedule is pretty tight, but I think I can fit it in for you." Fox was trying to hold back his excitement; he was going back in action.

Hello again, remember to leave a review saying what you liked or didn't like (also if there are errors in the writing, I may not have caught all of them). Also if you have a suggestion about how to make the story better I'm all ears. Thank you for reading.