Chapter 2: Yoko's True Power (Blind rage.)

Yoko wakes up in a breaking sweat after a severely painful nightmare, he walks into the kitchen to get breakfast and sees Cinder and forces a smile, but Cinder seems a little uneasy.

"Whats up Cinder?" Yoko asks worriedly. Cinder doesn't reply. Yoko decides to leave him be, and goes to see Krystal and eat with her. Krystal smiles at him.

"How did you sleep?"

Yoko smiles and answers, "I... don't really want to talk about it, and you?"

Krystal looks down into her bowl of rations and sighs, "I don't either."

Yoko sighs as he makes his way to everyone and eventually realizes that everyone was ridden with their worst nightmares that night. When Yoko went to go sit with Krystal she had gone and was nowhere to be found. They then get a transmission from General Pepper,

"Starfox, I have word that the planet Corneria is under attack."

Fox jumps, "What? Corneria?"

Yoko sighs and speaks up, "Who is it this time?" Pepper shakes his head.

"We do not know, the ship is a UFO."

Cinder smiles at the sight of some action and laughs, "This should be fun."

Pepper looks at Cinder and speaks up, "We cant have anymore casualties, so I'm afraid that we cannot allow you to go down to fight the ground forces."

Yoko smiles, "Well then i guess me and Cinder are sitting this one out, because our powers don't have much difference when it comes to destructive potential."

Pepper states, "The roster is up to you and your team to decide, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. I'm afraid that Starwolf has gotten a new member, and we don't have any information on who it might be. And whats worse is they are, all four, on planet Sauria causing trouble."

Yoko starts to sharpen his eyes and starts to get a little worried.

"Whats wrong Yoko?"

Yoko turns to the feel of a hand on his left shoulder and sees Cinder smiling. But unlike normal Cinder's smile doesn't cheer him up.

"Whats got you so spooked?"

Cinder realizes that he's never seen such a worried look in his eyes. Yoko turns away from Cinder and lowers his head and closes his eyes,

"Fox..."

Fox turns around and looks at Yoko.

"Yea?"

Yoko starts to make crying noises which catches everyone off guard.

"Whats wrong Yoko?" Fox asks worriedly.

Yoko looks up with a grief ridden look in his eyes and speaks up, "I want to confront Starwolf.."

Fox nods and says, "OK that's fine, I'll send-"

Before Fox could finish, Yoko interrupts, "By myself..."

Fox jumps and denies, "I wont allow it. I'm sorry."

Yoko looks at Fox with tears filling his eyes, "Please... I have to do this..."

Fox speaks up, "OK but if your life is put in danger then i will have to step in."

Yoko looks up at Fox, "Let me clear something up. There are two types of battles we warriors fight, and its important to always distinguish between the two. There are fights to protect lives, and there are ones to protect ones own honor... Though if you step in, my life may be saved, but what would happen to my honor?"

Fox looks surprised at what Yoko had just said to him. Fox then nods in agreement and Yoko has ROB prep his Arwing. Yoko jumps into his Arwing and flies off to Sauria, leaving Starfox back at the Greatfox. Yoko then realizes that another Arwing is following him,

"This is my fight." Yoko says over the communicator.

"I know that Yoko, and we've always had each other's back, ever since we first met." Cinder says.

Yoko's face brightens up and he smiles in confidence, "Yea, lets knock Starwolf down a notch"

They arrive on Sauria and notice that there are indeed 4 Wolfens, sitting right in front of a cave. They land and Yoko yells as loud as he possibly can,

"Come out and fight me Wolf O'Donnell!"

He starts to pour out so much energy that it becomes visible, with so much force that it sends the Arwings and Wolfens flying. He calms his energy as they walk out of the cave, only three of them. And only the three whom are the most infamous Yoko seems to be holding his rage back, Cinder holds himself back to allow Yoko to handle this fight by himself. Yoko's eyes flash and he yells as his energy starts to pour out again, and Wolf then laughs,

"Your still as weak as ever."

Yoko lets his rage loose and charges at Wolf, Panther, and Leon. Throwing punches in a blind rage, making contact with Leon, sending him flying into a boulder. Cinder realizes that Yoko is no longer fighting like himself and asks himself,

"What's wrong with you Yoko..."

Yoko slams his fist into Panther's chest and by that time Leon was already back up. Panther stands up and charges at him again, then Yoko blocks all three of their attacks in a very strange way,

(Author's note- when i say a strange way i mean in a way that isnt what you would call a "Yoko move.")

then he hangs his head and prepares to use his one and only "spell" like attack. He looks up and chants,

"Jakurin Kyoraku!"

All of a sudden a black energy swarms from his body and slams the three against giant boulders He looks up at Wolf and Wolf speaks up,

"How did... you get this strong...?"

Yoko's eyes glow with the essences of the black flame of the underworld and says,

"If I had to guess... I guess I would have to say... I found my resolve..."

He then starts to let his energy flood out of his body, sending shock waves of wind followed by the relentless crushing feeling all around got from the black flame that was pouring from every inch of his body.

"Wolf... A long time ago... I gave you a warning... I told you that if you ever did anything to hurt or corrupt Krystal..."

Cinder's eyes widen as the words leave the blue fox's mouth. He'd never heard him speak like that, such a demonic tone in his voice as his rage filled him to the brim. He'd never seen this side of Yoko.

'What could he mean?' Cinder thought to himself. 'Krystal? She would never join Starwolf. But Yoko wouldn't lie would he?'

Yoko resumed, "I WOULD KILL YOU MYSELF!"

As these words left Yoko's mouth Cinder saw his muscles bulge out of his jacket and his hair jet back and change, from the normal sky blue, to a dark purple. His eyes from the normal, calm green that the were, to a blood red, and the outside of his eyes turned jet black. His power started to pour out, he had reached a higher plain of power. He looked up at Wolf and said,

"You look surprised... don't tell me you didn't see my ascension coming... you knew... you knew that when it hit me that Krystal was in fact your 4th member that I would be pushed to my absolute limit."

Wolf simply smiled, not knowing that he had just woken up the demon that rested within Yoko's heart.

"This is the only way I think I could pay my respects to you, Wolf." Yoko says calmly, "You should be honored. No one has ever pushed me this far before..."

Yoko lets out a sigh and continues, "I'm glad Krystal isn't here to see me do this... this is something that I never intended to do... and I don't think that she would be the kind of person to be able to take the strain this puts on the atmosphere when used..."

Yoko tries to continue but Wolf lunges at him full force and lands a punch right in Yoko's face, not even attempting to block. Yoko simply sighs as Wolf jumps back with a frightened look in his eyes.

"I have the power to pull you into oblivion... I just wish that I could have avoided killing you..."

Yoko's left arm starts to emit a massive amount of the black flame.

"I feel its only fair to warn you... Even at my level of power its impossible to control it completely... once I release it I have no say..."

Wolf looked as if he was a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming truck.

"COME FORTH! DRAGON OF THE UNDERWORLDS ETERNALLY BLACK FLAME!"

As these words left Yoko's mouth he threw his left arm forward and sent the black flame, shaped like a serpent dragon, towards Wolf. He barely dodged a direct hit, but still suffered major damage. Yoko's body returned from his ascended state as he looked at his left arm... it was fried. He looked at Wolf's unconscious body as he lied there in agony.

"Get them out of here Krystal..."

Her eyes widen, had he known about her watching the entire battle? Or did he JUST catch on? Whatever the reason she knew she had to get their unconscious bodies out of Yoko's sight before he lost what little sense of reason he had left and dealt a final blow. Yoko then walked to the area near where he had landed and opened a comm link,

"Fox, its Yoko. Requesting immediate retrieval."

Fox replies, "OK, any news on the identity of the new member of Starwolf?"

Yoko pauses, "No, none."

Obviously he's lying but how can he break the news that Krystal is part of Starwolf again? He couldn't bring himself to do it.