Kursed awoke early morning, at ease and peacefully for the first time in years. She happily sat up in her bed, and stretched her tense muscles. She felt that today was going to be a good day; she would look around for Fox, and hopefully track him down. She had slept the entire afternoon of yesterday, and felt highly energetic this morning. She took a soothing shower and had gotten dressed, a little more presentable then her attire of yesterday. She tied her long purple hair into a small fox tail, and had two long bangs run down the sides of her head and ran down to about her lips. She grabbed her things and headed out.
X
Mandy and Mark were waiting nervous like as the time got closer and closer to 2. Just a few minutes after the clock had struck 2, Fox pulled up on his hover bike. He pulled off his helmet and set it onto a rather large sporting bag that was on the back of his bike. He walked into the eatery, and to the front counter.
"Hello Many, and Mark, where's your boss?" At the sound of someone calling for him, Mr. Rough came to the front, seeing Fox stand there.
"Oh, good afternoon Mr. McCloud. What can I do for you?" He asked politely, Fox kept the sturdy looked among his muzzle; it seems he wasn't too happy about something.
"I need to borrow your employee's for just a moment if you don't mind."
"Of course, no trouble at all." Fox looked back to Mandy and Mark, and made a remark with his head, telling them to join him at a table. They slowly walked over there, and joined Fox at the table; he pulled out a folder and laid it onto the table. The same Folder that Firion had given him; they studied it for a moment, and the picture that was attached to it.
"Do you know this woman?" Mark answered for them.
"Yea, that's the lady that came in yesterday for lunch." The young lynx looked up to Fox's, almost scary gaze. "Why?" He spoke in a low tone, making sure that no one else could hear them.
"She's much more dangerous then she looks, her name is Kursed. She's my actual target. I showed you the picture of that fox to throw her off, so she doesn't see me coming." They both looked surprised; to see they were serving a criminal.
"I understand, but where do we come in exactly?" Fox showed a sly smile as he spoke.
"I have a plan to capture her, but I need your help. I'll be willing to pay you for you're services, and I assure you, you'll be kept out of harms way." Mandy and Mark looked to one another, surprised and excited at the same time.
"Well help you Fox. Just tell us what to do." Mandy sounded strong; Fox showed her a comforting smile. He sat up, and pulled out a piece of paper from his jacket.
"Al right then, this is what we'll do."
X
Kursed was starting to get a little frustrated, and a little depressed at the same time. After hours of searching the city, every place she's stopped by hasn't seen so much of a glimpse of Fox, or didn't even know he was in the city. Then again, she was looking for a needle in a hay stack, it was nearly impossible to find just one person in a city so large. She sped up on her hover bike, about to reenter the highway that is until she heard a sudden scream. She stopped and looked to her right, to see a woman being chased by a masked man.
Immediately, Kursed bolted off her hover bike, and ran towards the entrance way to the line of alley ways they ran down. She reached for her blaster and grasped it from her holster. She ran down, following the scream, eventually coming to a rather large alley way. The man had the woman pinned up against a wall.
"Get you're paws off of her." Kursed fired a few warning shots, they flew right by the masked mans head, and he ran off down one of the side alley ways. The woman stooped down to a sitting position, her back still up against the wall. Kursed reholstered her pistol, and walked up slowly to the woman on the ground. She took a knee, and put a paw onto her shoulder.
"Are you alright?" The Border collie slowly looked up to her, a few tears in her eyes.
"Yea, I think so." Kursed got a sudden bad feeling, this girl. Looked vaguely familiar. She let out a small gasp, and suddenly realized it was the waitress of the eatery she went to just yesterday. The Border collie quickly got up to her feet and ran off. Something told Kursed she was in danger. She felt a brain wave with her telepathic powers, and looked up in that direction; to see Fox pointing a sniper riffle directly to her.
She quickly hit the deck as he fired at her, missing the shot that would have been fatal.
"Dammit." Fox cursed at himself. Kursed then started to run, in the opposite way that the masked man had ran. He started to follow her, jumping from roof top to roof top. "This is where the fun begins." He talked quietly to himself in a sinister tone. He brought up his wrist communicator to his mouth. "Mandy, Mark I'm on her, get clear of the area."
Kursed was sprinting down the alleyway, the shots impacting on the walls right next to her, barely behind her. This was bad, Fox was right on her tail, and she had left nearly all her bounty hunter tools on her bike. All she had at her disposal was her pistol and a few smoke bombs.
"Running away Kursed? That's not like a bounty hunter!" Fox yelled to her at the top of a neighboring building. He quickly pulled out a flash bomb and threw it right in front of Kursed, covering his eyes. Kursed quickly hid behind a stack of crates, her eyes shielded by the blinding light. She grasped a smoke bomb and shattered it onto the ground below her, creating a rather large cloud of smoke around. Fox couldn't pin point her position, and grunted angrily. Just out of the corner of his eye did he see her running down another alley way.
He quickly followed her. And took off the sniper mod of his rifle, it went back to its standard form. Kursed was completely lost of where she was going, every path looked exactly the same, she had no clue how to get back to her bike, and to her tools. She kept running and running, eventually coming to another large alley way, she collided with Mandy and were both knocked to the ground. Kursed quickly got to her feet after the collision, feeling that Fox was right behind her.
She quickly got up, and grabbed Mandy and put her in a hostage grasp, heads closely together with Mandy in front of her. She pointed the gun towards her head just as Fox jumped down from a roof top, his riffle still pointed at Kursed. Mandy got scared when she took in what was happening.
"Put you're weapons down, now." Kursed demanded to Fox in a sinister tone, still holding the blaster to Mandy's head, but Fox kept his stance.
"Let her go, this has nothing to do with her." Kursed only growled angrily. She then charged the blaster, and put more pressure towards Mandy's head.
"I'm not going to ask again, drop your weapons!" Fox looked to Mandy's face, terrified and tears running down her eyes. He then did as he was told, and dropped his blaster. He looked over to the vixen holding Mandy hostage. She continued her low growl as she spoke sinisterly.
"All of them." After a moment, Fox reluctantly took the blaster pistol from its holster, and dropped it to the ground. He unbuckled his belt, which held many types of bombs and such. He was playing with the device on his left wrist, which turned out to be an extended wolf's claw; it released from his wrist and dropped to the ground. He then unclipped his capturing net, and dropped it, as well as the entire harness itself. He turned a few knobs on his right wrist, disabling the assassin's blade, or so Kursed thought.
Fox then held up his paws, in a surrendering state.
"There, I'm completely disarmed. Now, let her go." After a moment, Kursed released her grip from the young Border collie and pushed her forward. She met eyes with Fox as she walked by him and forward. Fox shifted his head back to Kursed, who held the blaster up to him. Fox shifted his gaze to his right, and then suddenly back to Kursed. Her eyes widened, he was up to something.
Fox suddenly switched from his surrendering position. He pointed his right arm at Kursed while holding it with his left paw. He shot the blade at Kursed from his wrist, Kursed shot a bolt right at Fox, the knife went deeply into her right shoulder that was holding the blaster. She let out a scream of pain as it quickly flew into her shoulder. Fox moved quickly but he was slightly nicked on his left arm as the bolt flew by.
He grunted his teeth and bared through the pain, he quickly kicked up the capturing net device, and fired at Kursed. Her upper body was bound together by energy cables. When she tried to break free, they only tightened, and an electrical current coursed through her body. She screamed in agony from the torment of being electrocuted. After it was over, she fell to her knees and quickly to the ground, about to loose consciousness.
She could see Fox's face as he got closer and closer to her, the darkness creeping in on her vision.
"I don't, understand." She slowly let out, then faded into unconsciousness. Afterwards, Fox re-equipped all of his things, and digged out the blade from Kursed's shoulder. He then got out medical tape and wrapped several loops around her wound, to stop her bleeding. He digged out a control pad from his pocket and the button, a few moments later his cruiser appeared.
Mandy and Mark came to see him before he left, and looked at the unconscious vixen on the ground. He turned to face them.
"Thank you for your help." He handed them each a small wad a bills. Mandy's eyes went from the bills to his laser burn.
"You're hurt." She told him in a sadden tone; he covered up his wound with his paw.
"It's nothing serious." He walked up to Mandy, and planted a small kiss onto her lips, to calm her nerves. It was over before it began, but it still soothed her much so.
"Take care you two." He turned his back onto them, and swooped up Kursed and carried her over his shoulder, where he walked in through the loading ramp of his ship. As soon as he walked in it rose, and his ship departed into the air. Mandy and Mark stood their, watching the legend blast off, the last of Mandy's tears drying up. They waved to him as he gained speed and blasted away into the distance, where his ship vanished from their eyes.
X
Up in the darkness of space, Fox placed Kursed within the holding cell, he would take care of her later; there was plenty of time before she would wake up. Fox tended to his wound, and cleaned it up nicely. He unzipped his coat, revealing a white muscle shirt. He typed in a serious of digits, the monotone voice of the ship replied back to his command.
"Coordinates entered. Setting destination for planet Damas. Estimated time travel; 2 days and 12 hours." Fox leaned back in his chair and smiled sly like to himself, he let out a small chuckle. He spoke in a dark tone.
"Well, well. Looks like I'll get that bonus after all."
