Star Fox- Chapter 3- Heading Home
Wolf's Legacy- Romance/Adventure- Started: 7/14/2009
A/N: Well, chapter 3 is up. Hope you like it.
Marcus looked over at his radar. He then looked over at his radio and pressed the on switch,
"Sarah? Come in. Do you copy, Sarah?" he spoke into the speaker.
Marcus began to worry when Sarah didn't answer for the next minute and he tried again, "Sarah, this is Marcus, do you copy?" he waited again and even got more concerned.
'Oh my God, finally.' Sarah's voice crackled through the radio and Marcus sighed in relief. He was so glad she was okay, he was afraid that maybe that wolf had got to her, 'I've been trying to get through for ages. Are you all alright?' Sarah's voice rang through the speaker,
"Yeah, we're fine, everyone is accounted for." Marcus said reassuring the concerned hare.
'Oh man, thank God. Don't ever scare me like that again.' Sarah said and Marcus chuckled. He looked down at the radio
'My name is Wolf O'Donnell, named after my father…' Wolf's voice rang through Marcus' head,
"That name… sounds familiar." Marcus whispered to himself remembering his dad talking about someone with that name,
'What?' Sarah asked the team leader and Marcus shook his head,
"Sarah, could you do me a favor?" he asked and Sarah acknowledged it with a 'yes' and Marcus then told her, "I need you to look up the name Wolf O'Donnell." He said and Kyle's voice came up on the radio,
'What's on your mind Marcus?' the radio suddenly was interrupted with Sarah's voice,
'Marcus, there is a whole list of Wolf O'Donnell's, probably about a hundred. You have a middle name?' she informed him and he sighed,
"Did you check and make sure that it was revolving around the Lylat System?" Marcus asked her,
A moment passed, 'Okay that leaves us with about twenty, you got anything else?" Sarah suddenly said and Marcus then got an idea. Usually his dad only knew people who were pilots, so that would mean Wolf O'Donnell was one himself.
"Sarah, look up Wolf O'Donnell as a pilot. Set the years of duty the same year my dad was a pilot to the year he retired." Marcus was certain this was a sure fired plan, he didn't bother telling the years because Sarah knew the years his dad was piloting. Moments passed then,
'Fuck me sideways, that worked, there's only one Wolf O'Donnell who worked with the Star Wolf team.' She said surprised.
Marcus mentally praised his intelligence, "Alright read me off the stats and biography." He told the radio and Sarah scoffed,
'Not a problem my handsome vulpine friend. Okay, according to this Wolf O'Donnell joined the service when he was eighteen, same as your father and then he was hired by Andross. He seemed to have a rivalry with Fox McCloud. Well surprise, surprise. What a coincidence that they had so much in common.'
'So when Mr. McCloud talked about Wolf O'Donnell, he was talking about his rival.' Elizabeth's voice came up,
'Sure enough.' Sarah said and continued, 'He also got married to a scientist named Devera Snowheart and had a son three years later, then had a pair of fraternal twins the same year Marcus was born two years later, hmm, trying to be like Fox McCloud much Mr. Wolfy?' Sarah said sarcastically about the kids born the same year as Marcus and he laughed,
'Wow, busy man.' Kyle's voice rang through and then Sarah continued,
'The oldest was named Leon O'Donnell. Now twenty-three. The twins were Clare O'Donnell and… well look at this, he named the boy after himself, and they are now twenty-one.' Marcus listened to Sarah closely,
"The Wolf O'Donnell that we just met." Marcus said to himself,
'According to the biography, Leon ran off to be an assassin, Clare ran off to be the leader of the assassin team both at the ages of fourteen and fifteen. Wolf junior on the other hand joined the assassin group at the age of five-years-old and joined the Star Wolf team as their leader at the age of seventeen, so he works two jobs.' Sarah said and then a moment passed,
'Oh god. Poor bastard.' Sarah said and Marcus looked out the cockpit visor,
"What?" he asked and Sarah continued,
'Seven years after the twins were born Wolf O'Donnell was working on something with his wife and got caught up in a room and a tank filled with toxic radiation busted and spilled. He died two weeks later from heart failure because the radiation made his heart speed up.' Sarah said quickly.
'Oh my god.' Elizabeth spoke through the radio and Marcus look down at the radio,
"Was there any investigation into why it happened?" he asked Sarah and she grunted,
'Yes, an investigation picked up two suspects, thinking that it was sabotaged but later it was found to be a freak accident.' Sarah informed then asked, 'What brought this on Marcus?'
Marcus sighed and rubbed his temples with one hand, "We met Wolf O'Donnell's son, Wolf. He was assigned to kill my father from what we picked up from his attitude and way he talked about him but instead, his crosshairs suddenly turned onto me. I just wanted a background check on his father because I think it has to do with his and my dad's rivalry."
Sarah's groan travelled through the radio traffic, 'Great, now we have an enemy who is after us.'
'Not us, Marcus.' Kyle said through the radio, 'Hey, anyone think something is missing from this conversation?'
Marcus thought about it, then it hit him, Kyle was right, there was only one person who talked their head off after a mission.
Rachael looked out her cockpit window into the open cold space at the white specks called stars. Her arms lay limp at her sides. She had set her Arwing to autopilot and she sat back against her seat and had taken off her thick jacket. Tears streamed down her face as she listened to Wolf's father's background check. The pain Wolf had gone through since his childhood upset her. Her mind kept going back to his eyes, the pain, sadness, and hatred and how they burned into her soul.
'Rachael, you alright? You've been kind of quiet.' Marcus' voice spoke to her through the radio and she sniffed,
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just at a lost for words. Let's just get back to the Great Fox. I'm beat." Marcus acknowledged her statement and left it at that, though he knew something was terribly wrong. He would wait until later, if she was still despondent he would ask her later.
Everyone finally got back into the hangar of the Great Fox and landed their Arwings and then made it back to the bridge after heading to their rooms and changing back into their regular dress attires. After a long dinner and telling Sarah how the mission went, Rachael began and finished a report of the mission from her point of view to General Peppy, who called later that evening. Afterwards she walked to her room saying she was 'hitting the hay' a little earlier then usual. Usually she would stay up past midnight jamming to pop music on the bridge but not this night. Marcus was now really concerned and began walking up the stairs when Elizabeth stopped him,
"I'll go check on her. It's probably a girl thing that she wouldn't want to discuss with her brother." Marcus nodded at Elizabeth's remark and then watched as she walked up through the metal doors.
Rachael laid on her stomach in her bed above her covers. The blue vixen laid her arms under her pillow and shed some more tears. She closed her eyes and visions of Wolf flooded her mind. His eyes were the biggest vision though. Her thoughts were interrupted by the hiss of her bedroom door sliding open and she sat up and dried her eyes,
"I've already told you Marcus, I'm fine." She spoke loudly,
"Well I'll be sure to tell your brother that when I see him again." Elizabeth's voice spoke to her and she looked over,
"Oh hey Liz. How's it?" the vixen asked her friend and the toad smiled,
"Just fine. But the real question is what's up with you?" Elizabeth said and Rachael looked away,
"Not you too. Look, nothing is wrong okay, I'm fin…" Rachael was interrupted,
"Vixen, I've known you since childhood and I can tell when shit's bothering you. So tell me what it is trick. Don't make me go all sumo on ya ass." Elizabeth said,
Rachael laughed for the first time since the incident with Wolf; it never ceased to amaze her how Elizabeth could make her laugh in her most down times. Nothing seemed to bug the toad unless it was friends who were upset. Rachael also found it funny that she could always make jokes about her own weight or have someone tell her how big she was and it still didn't faze her at all. Rachael looked at Elizabeth,
"Me and Wolf had a small awkward moment during our battle." She said slowly as if spelling it out for her friend and Elizabeth's eyes widened,
"Oh honey, come on out with the details, what and how did it happen. Don't hold back on me now." The toad motioned with her hands as if she was gesturing for someone to follow her,
Rachael looked at Elizabeth, "Well, when he was about to kill Marcus I came at him with the metal rod I keep in my Arwing. Just as I was about to smack him upside the head, he turned and locked his sword with it and pointed one of his guns at my head and began to squeeze the trigger but stopped. We stayed that way for a moment looking into each other's eyes."
Elizabeth bellowed, "Ooo, girl tell me… what did they look like. Were they pretty?"
Rachael nodded, "Defiantly, they were mauve. But they held the wrong kind of emotion."
Elizabeth looked at her funny, "Emotion? Like what?"
"Sadness, agony, and hatred." Rachael said, "Things that no one should ever have to hold in their lives." He voice began to shake and Elizabeth hugged her reassuringly,
"It's okay honey, it's alright." The toad let go and then held her friend's face in her hands,
"Just know that we're all here for you, whether you're in love with the enemy or not." Elizabeth quickly said to the vixen.
Rachael opened her mouth in shock at the amphibian, "I am not in love with him."
"Oh honey, the way you're so concerned for him, and on top of that, the way he looks… there is no way you can deny you love him. And did you see that bulge down there on him, that motherfucker is packing bitch, no way in hell could you turn that dog down. Cute in the face, sexy in the body, and one hell of a… well, ya know what I mean." Elizabeth said, "He makes me want to forget Marcus and try him out. Mmm Mmm."
Rachael stood up, "I've got to be alone right know." Elizabeth jumped up,
"Oh okay, I see how it is, you need to get your freak on with yourself because you're thinking of wolf man, I see it. Don't worry your secret's safe with me."
Rachael kept on pushing the toad to the door, "No I don't I just want to be alone."
Elizabeth snorted, "Oh no you don't… you want some wolf man." Elizabeth began to hop in place while backing up and snapping her fingers and singing in a beat, "You want some wolf man. You want some wolf man. You want some wolf man…"
As Elizabeth kept dancing and singing, Rachael finally shut the door on her and she pressed her back against it,
"I'll be on the bridge if you need me!" she heard Elizabeth yell to her and then she heard her walk off.
Rachael sighed in relief and laughed, "Crazy bitch."
She walked to her bed thinking to herself as she turned off the light,
'This is going to be a long journey back home.'
A/N: Ha-ha, well what did you all think. Okay, so far, we've met Wolf, met the new Star Fox team, Wolf and Rachael have had a moment, and we just got a background check on the original Wolf O'Donnell. Am I missing anything important? Please review.