Me:…*sigh*
Gemerl: What's wrong with you?
Me: Just thinking about stuff.
Shard: Like?
Me: I need to redo some of my stories
Ava: Why?
Me: …make it more develop
Vice: Cool, now let's get to the story
Chapter 3: A new mission
BEEP BEEP
A blue furred hand reached out from behind the bed covers and switched off the alarm clock. A blue vixen got up from the bed and slowly made her way to the bathroom. Krystal removed her nightgown, stepped into the shower and turned it on. The hot water poured down onto her head and ran down her back.
Krystal thought back to her dream, she was with Fox on Sauria, they were on the shores of Cape Claw, talking, laughing, kissing. Everything was perfect, but then that alarm went off, destroying her dream and bringing her back to reality. Those dreams were so rare, and she hated it when she wakes up. But it was better than the nightmares she has, ones that haunted her nearly every time she slept, of her losing Fox in that battle over Venom. She turned off the shower, stepped out and grabbed a white towel from the rack. She wrapped it around her and made her way to her room, with the thought of Fox still in her mind.
After getting dressed in a blue T-shirt with a mix of yellow strips crossing each other, black jeans and boots, she made her way down stairs and grabbed her cars keys and a bouquet of flowers. She went outside, got into her car and drove off. After an hour of driving, she parked in front of a graveyard, grabbed the bouquet, got out and slowly made her way through the graves. She walked towards to a section, where a very large group of white grave stones, all of them the same with bearing the mark of the Cornerian Defence Force, in rows of twenty, stretching back a long way.
As she made her way through the graves, black writing stood out, revealing the names of those they marked. Joseph Williams, Amy Michilen, Jackson Grey, Natalie Comet, the list was never ending. Krystal felt tears swell in her eyes as stopped in front of the grave, it pained her heart to look at it. Above the CDF mark, was the logo of Team Star Fox, below it written:
In Memory of Fox McCloud.
Who was one of many that gave their live in the battle against Andross' forces over Venom. May they be remembered for eternity.
Lylat has lost one of our greatest heroes, to have ever lived.
Tears ran down Krystal's cheeks as she placed the bouquet at the foot of the grave stone. After what seem like a life time, she turned around and slowly walked away with a stream of tears following down her cheek.
-x-x-x-
After several hours of traveling through space, Fox woke up feeling refreshed; it had been a year since he slept like that. He walked out the medical room to the bridge to check on their situation. As he enter the bridge he, on his left , sees Vi running a diagnostics on the ships system and on his right, he sees Savage just staring at the vastness of space with a small smile on his face. He then looked out of in front window of the bridge to see they were coming up to a grey planet.
Kew was a planet filled with vice and loss. Gambling, drugs, prostitution, illegal goods, all of it made this planet an attraction for people to have some of it, but the crime rate was the most dangerous in Lylat, with theft, rape, murder and abductions being the most common. It was a great place to find mercenaries, bounty hunters, assassins, smugglers and other types of scum to do the dirty work. The only authorities on the planet were multiple crime gangs that were constantly raging wars against each other for control. However, several people would take arms against the gangs to bring real law and order to Kew, they were wiped out, so goes the rumors'. Vi turned around to face Fox.
"Master, good morning sir." She said in a emotionless mono tone voice, "I hope you are rested well, master."
Fox nodded, "Yes actually I feel great, and now what are the statuses on our situation?"
"Very well Master, it seems that this ship does not have much fuel remaining in its engine and we are required to land very soon."
"Vi switch to manual control please, I'll take over." Ordered Fox.
"As you command, Master." She replied.
Fox sat at the pilot seat and grabbed the control stick; he guided the vessel through the atmosphere and towards the nearest space port. He looked over the magnificent skyscrapers that only masked what really happens, as he there were 5 long Airstrips, where several large ships nearby, ranging from cargo types to passenger types, while there large hangers with a large variety of smaller aircraft coming and going from there. There were also small cargo shuttles and private shuttles.
A small hologram of a white vixen appeared on the dash front Fox. He looked at her and a lump had formed in his throat, if she recognized him, then the pig would be alerted and flee. Vi looked at her master, and saw him a bit nervous.
"Unidentified shuttle; you are nearing Kew Airstrip No. 073, what is your business?" She said bluntly.
"Ugh…Requesting permission to land." Replied Fox, slightly nervous.
"Permission granted. Head for landing Hangar: 213" She said and her hologram disappeared.
Fox breathed a sigh of relieve, she didn't recognize him due to all the scars on his face. He carefully guided the shuttle towards the hangar he had been told to land in, there was hiss as the landing gear lowered. The shuttled entered the hanger and slowly landed. Savage floated next to Fox.
"FoX I'm gOnNa ResT FoR aWHile bUt If yA NeEd a LiTtLe ExtRa BoOst HeLp YouRsElf." Said the spirit.
"Yeah, okay you rest well now. Vi, I need you to follow me to the storage room." Said Fox.
She simply nodded. Fox got up from his chair and made his way to the storage with Vi following him. As they left, Savage closed his eyes and faded away. In the storage room, inside were several grey metal box crates which contain large numbers of different weapons, ammunition, armour and other equipment and supplies. Fox opened armour crate and picked up the helmet inside. The vixen might not have recognized him but there was the chance of someone recognizing him and blow his cover.
After placing on his helmet, he searched through the crates for some weapons. He selected a M64 Blaster pistol (which was small and had a laser target device underneath the barrel), a XK-47 Energy Rifle (which was like a machine gun, with a cylinder clip, a mid-range scope, and a grenade launcher underneath the barrel), and four grenades, to give him the more mercenary look and not attract any attention. He notices that Vi didn't pick any weapons, she just scan the M64 in some crates and that was it.
"Vi you might need those, in case we get in to trouble." Said Fox, in a rather concern tone.
"You worry not Master, I 'm already well prepared." Was her replied to Fox.
She stepped back and what happened next surprised Fox. Her body opens some panels and armour came out, attaching to gather forming a battle suit (Looks like iron man just without the arc reactor in her chest and it was for a female wolf). Fox was rather speechless, there were many things he still doesn't know about her. She then retracted the armour to change back into her regular attire.
"Ok that was rather impressive, but takes some pistols just in case for some reason you won't have time to um 'change' outfits."
"As you command, Master"
"And here" handing her a cloak "we don't want some random thug hitting on you as we conduct some research." Fox said looking away blushing a bit. Vi tilted her head a bit as she took the cloak confused to what he meant.
After they were geared up, they walked down the ramp and exited the hangar.
-x-x-x-
Fox and Vi walked through a crowded street; people of all different species were rushing around, but would slow down to get off their way. They spent most of the day searching for any information involving the fucking fat pig, the sun was beginning to set and they had nothing. After another hour of searching, Fox was no closer to finding his target. He thought of all the places that Pig could be
'Ok, if I was a fat, ugly, asshole, where would I go?'
"A pLaCe To GEt PlAStiC sUrGErY?" Savage said smugly trying to lighten the mood.
'Not funny, Savage.' Fox replied angrily.
"It WaS fUnNy, yOu JuSt dOn'T uNdErStanD a GoOd JoKe wHen yoU hEAr OnE."
He looked around, he saw people walking up and down the now the brightly lit street, heading into night clubs and strip clubs, and coming out drunk and vomiting. He then noticed a group of odd-looking characters, a red vulpine, a black, towering Great Dane, and two pale green hawks. The vulpine wore black leather trench coat with a hood urban camouflage combat armour. The Great Dane wore grey, heavy, scarred armour with some leather straps holding parts of it together and various salvaged parts to replace other pieces, with a rifle slung around on his back. The hawks wore similar armour to the vulpine only without the urban camouflage style, and two pistols in holster on their belts each.
They were standing beside the entrance to an alleyway; a white poodle saw them and went down the alleyway to avoid them, however they noticed her and crept after her, unaware that they were being followed themselves. The poodle began to walk at a faster pace to try to flee from the thugs, only for them to speed up and chase after her. She screamed and tried to run, but found it difficult in her heels. One of the hawks tackled her to the ground then picked her up. Her eyes were full of fear as they lust at her body. The Great Dane grabbed the top of her red dress and tore it off to reveal her black, nearly see-through bra, and then he tore it off, causing her breasts to spill out the dress.
"Please…don't…" she sobbed, but her pleas feel on deaf ears.
The hawk chucked her onto the floor and lifted up the end her dress to reveal a pair of black panties.
"Boys!" roared the vulpine, "We're gonna have fun tonight."
They all cheered as the vulpine began to pull off the poodles panties, and then reached for the zip on his trousers.
"Let her go!" they heard a demanding voice. They all turned around to see two figures, one in black armour, with red eye-lenses on the helmet, and the other a cloaked female wolf. "Let, her, go!" he repeated.
The thugs roared in laughter at this so-called 'hero and sidekick'. Eventually, the vulpine stopped laughing and turn to face the figures.
"Buddy, do you have any idea of who we are?" he asked, the figure didn't reply. "We're part of the Crimson Skulls, and if you had any brains, you will turn around and walk away."
"No!"
"Is that so?" he snapped his fingers, "Tiny, get rid of him."
The Great Dane slowly walked over to the figures, cracking his knuckles as he did. Soon, he was standing in front of the armour figure, looking down on him. He reached out to grab him with his enormous paws, but the figure grabbed his arms and swung him into the wall.
The thugs were shocked by what they saw; the hawks drew their pistols and aimed at him, while the vulpine pulled a shotgun from his trench coat. The Great Dane staggered to his feet and grabbed his rifle from his back.
"You asked for this, you little fucker!" roared the Great Dane.
Before they could fire, the figure charged at the Great Dane and punched him in the chest, his right arms going straight through. The thugs were shaken by the sight; one of the hawks panicked and fired his pistols. The laser hit but had no effect. The figure slowly turned his head to face the hawk, the red lenses burned with concealed rage. Suddenly, the figure pulled his arm through the right side of the Great Danes chest. Ripping large chunks of the flesh out as he did to reveal his clawed hand. The vulpine stammered back in horror, one of the hawks dropped his pistol and froze with fear and the other drop to the floor and began vomiting uncontrollably.
"Who's next? Or you would me to pick for you?" said the figure in a low, threatening tone, as he removed lung chunks from in-between his claws.
The hawk that was standing pulled up the vomiting hawk and pushed him at the figure, then ran to try and get past him. The figure stabbed the first hawk in the abdominal and ripped his torso apart. The other hawk had just past him, but failed the cloak figure extending a plasma blade out of her left hand, launching her hand at the hawk's neck before he took another step pass the armour figure.
The vulpine was trembling as the armour figure tossed the upper half body and the cloak retracting her hand. The armour figure walked slowly through the pools of blood towards him. Quickly, he fired his shot-gun at the figures hip; the figure didn't flinch as the shot made contact. He fired again, this time hitting left arm, just below his shoulder. The figure groaned slightly. The vulpine fired his third shot at the figures head. The right side of the figures helmet shattered, blood and small chunks of flesh were sent flying as the figure turned his head right the impact. The vulpine grinned.
But suddenly, the figure turned to face him, his grin vanished. He could see flesh re-growing on the figures face through the blast hole of the helmet. Skin soon grew over the muscles, followed by orange and white fur. The eyelid open to reveal a blood red eye that was glaring at the vulpine, his courage flowed out of him, and through his trousers.
"W-w-who ar-e *gasp*y-yo-u?" stuttered the vulpine.
"I am Fox McCloud."
The vulpine froze in horror, Fox McCloud was alive! How was possible? He saw Fox raise his other hand and watched it change into a claw.
"P-p-please, d-don't kill me." The vulpine begged.
"You threatened a defenseless woman, scum like you don't deserve mercy or an easy way out." Growled Fox.
He positioned his index claw and middle claw in front of the vulpine's eyes. The vulpine gulp. Fox pushed his two claws in through the vulpine's eyes. The vulpine shook and gasped as his life slowly faded away. Fox removed his claws and let go of the body, allowing it to drop on the floor. He removed his trench coat, put it on and turned to face the petrified poodle.
"Vi give her your cloak." Fox ordered.
Vi did what she was told, and place the cloak on the poodle shoulder.
"As for you," Fox pointed at the poodle, causing her to flinch. "You are going to forget what you saw and never mention it to anyone or else." He said in a gruff tone.
The poodle nodded and watched as Fox walked out of the alleyway, pulling the hood above his head, with Vi following after him. However no-one was aware of two hooded figures on a roof top above them.
"Did you see that? He killed those three assholes and that chick wasn't too bad herself" said one.
"I know, but did you see the way he killed? He basically butchered them and that 'chick' wasn't exactly all organic." Said the other.
"No doubt about that it though; they could be of use to us."
"I'll follow them, you go inform command."
-x-x-x-
They walked through the streets of flashing lights, pissed teenagers and shady characters. Vi was now wearing a brown jacket, courtesy of some dead punk that tried to hit on Vi. Fox was tired and he had found nothing regarding the pig or anything related to 'Ghost Lagoon'. He began thinking he was wasting his time.
They entered a large, two floored strip club with red neon lighting that decorated the entire outside, its name shone in red: Venus. Inside sounds of thumping music, whistling and cheering could be heard as they entered, Fox looked around to see horny old bastards sitting in chairs with handfuls of money, gawking at young and barely legal girls dancing along poles in nothing but a thong some had nothing on at all. Fox was disgusted; Vi simply didn't care due to the lack of a personality.
He sat at the bar counter, while Vi just stood near him. Fox bought a pint of the strongest drink available for a small amount of credits he 'borrowed'. He quickly removed his helmet and pulled his hood back up before anyone could notice him. He looked down at the green liquid in his glass. Before he drank, he heard a yawn, instantly he knew that 'he' was awake.
"So wHy YoU sAVeD ThAt pOOdlE?" asked Savage.
'No reason, just being a good guy is all' Fox answered back in his head.
"BuLlShit, dOn'T TrY tO pUll ThE HeRo AcT On mE, ShE mADe yOu ThInK Of HeR DidN't sHe?"
'That has nothing to do with this! Well I've wasted this much time searching and we still have no lead that pig or 'Ghost Lagoon'.'
Fox looked back at his drink, he then took a sip and felt it burn his throat from the inside.
"This stool taken?" said a voice.
He turned around to see a black crow standing next to him. He just made no gesture with his head, before returning to his drink. The crow sat in the stool and waited to be served.
"So how have things been for you?" he asked.
"I'm not looking for company." Said Fox in a gruff tone.
"Ha-ha! You're on Kew my friend, here, you never drink alone! And I think your lady friend has no intention on joining you anyway."
"Yeah, well I do!" Fox spat back.
"Fair enough," he placed a cigarette in his and lit the end, "So, what do you think of the gang war?"
"I don't give a shit or care."
"Huh, I thought a merc like you would be looking for profit from it."
"Do you want something, or are you just trying to get on my bad side?" growled Fox in an annoyed tone. "Because if you are, then you are gonna be wishing you didn't."
"No, I saw your bad side when you and your girl tore apart those four Crimson Skulls, Fox McCloud."
Fox eyes widened in shock, his ear were twitching underneath his hood, Vi heard this as well and moved a bit closer to her master in case things were about to get messy. Did he hear that right? He had been seen killing those thugs, and heard revealing his name.
In his mind, "NiCe oNe, iDiOt yOU BlEw ouR CoVeR!" Savage said.
'Shut the fuck up! I don't need you telling me my mistake!' he yelled back, turning his attention back to the crow.
"Who the fuck are you, and what do you want?" he growled.
"I'm the one who's got a job offer for you," he said in a smug tone, "I work for a group of people who have been waging war against with the gangs, trying to bring order and peace to this planet."
"Sorry, not interested nor care."
"Look around you; this is the result of the gangs having all the power. Most of these girls are slaves and their barely older then children. This is just a fraction of what they do. Does it not appeal to you that the evil have all the power, while the innocent are forced to live in shit?" the crow struggling to hold back his rage.
"Look, I didn't come here to help you; I came here to get answers, and payback! So I've enough problems of my own, and you have yours. Deal with it!" Fox was on the verge of crushing the glass in his hand.
The crow was now biting his tongue to stop himself from punching Fox in the face, even if he would be ripped to shreds for it.
"Then how about this, you help us, we'll help you."
Fox had to admit it; he was intrigued by the offer, even Savage had to agree. If they help him find the pig, then it maybe it's worth helping them.
"Master Fox, this offer will benefit both their cause and our mission, the most suitable course of action is to accept." Vi convincing him to accept.
"See, even your girl get it."
Fox looked at Vi, then to the crow. He smiled at the crow.
"Okay then, you've got a deal. Now tell me more and she ain't my girl."
The crow smiled triumphantly.
"The names Black-wing, now then, about the job."
Black-wing: Well I'm back bitches!
Jaden: Hi nice to meet you.
Me: Now Black-wing since your back *Smiling* I have new plans for you.
Black-wing: *Gulp* w-what k-kind of p-p-plans?
Me: Shh, it's a secret, I can't just tell you or it will ruin the surprise.
Black-wing: Oh no this is it, you're gonna kill me aren't you. I won-Ugh*whack in the head by Shadow with a frying pan*
Shadow: He was annoying.
Sonic: Ugh Shadow...why do you have that frying pan with you to begin with?
Shadow *Blushing in embarrassment": N-nothing, N-no r-reason a-at all, i'll be in the kitchen if anyone need me not preparing dinner for Maria if that is what you are thinking.
Me: Oh no, now why would we ever think of that *Winks at reader*