Disclaimer: I don't own Star Fox just Ajax and a few other characters

Chapter 4: Dark Shadows and Bright Lights

Kursed turned around slightly she held her breath as she saw Fox McCloud standing behind them in his usual attire, a dark green shirt, a leather flight vest, baggy grey pants, and boots. She then looked at Ajax with his tight black shirt, baggy jeans, and running shoes, and then looked at herself, she had changed a before they left Ajax's house the first time, she had on skinny jeans, a dark blue shirt, and running shoes. Ajax looked at Kursed, he noticed that Kursed was looking at their clothes; he wrapped his arms around Kursed just started as his ex-girlfriend walked through the door behind Fox.

"Ajax, I'm happy to see your alive and crawling back to me." The girl told Ajax

"Listen Kerit, I broke up with you for good reasons, one you a crazy bitch, two you were too clingy and possessive, and finally your just plain ugly." Ajax told her purposely trying to hit all of her nerves

"I'm guessing you two know each other." Kursed commented

"Shut your fucking mouth you whore." Kerit screamed

"Don't you fucking dare talk to Kursed that way or I swear I'll skin your fucking hide." Ajax threatened "Don't you ever talk to my girlfriend that way."

"Girlfriend…she's your girlfriend?!" Fox and Kerit asked like they were surprised

"Sure, I'll show you." Ajax told them before he kissed Kursed gently on her lips

When he looked back at Fox and Kerit who both had looks of shocked awe on their faces, it was odd since you could really tell what expression was on Kerit's face due to her being a bird, but it was still hilarious. Even though Kursed was as surprised by what Ajax did as rest of everyone in the room she kept it hidden, she couldn't help but smile as the thought was telling Fox that she was actually Krystal, but she had a better idea.

"Fox how about you come over to our place?" Kursed asked him

"Sure, I bet Ajax wouldn't have asked me, would you?" Fox asked him

"No, I would've just wanted to love Kursed." Ajax told him

"Okay I'll be there later." Fox told them

Ajax and Kursed stood up, turned towards the door and Ajax was gently but quickly pushed out of the door. When they were out of the door and down a few blocks Kursed quickly turned to face him.

"What was the kiss about?" Kursed asked him

"Thought you would like to make Fox jealous, and I know you're actually an ex-mercenary turned bounty hunter named Krystal." Ajax told her

"What how did you know?" Krystal asked Ajax

"I knew you before you joined Star Fox, Krystal don't you remember me?" Ajax asked her

"No I… oh my hell." Krystal exclaimed

Krystal wrapped her arms around Ajax and started to cry into his chest as the memories Cerinia being destroyed by Andross. She thought that she had lost everyone close to her from her home planet but one person, one of her best friends, was still alive. Ajax had told her that he would never leave forever and he was telling the truth.

"You always knew how to hide in plain sight." Krystal laughed

"So you really didn't know it was me?" Ajax asked acting offended

Krystal kept her arms around Ajax as he picked her up easily and gently kissed her cheek. She climbed from being on his chest to being on his back and they started towards the warehouse. When they got to the warehouse they saw a bunch of movers moving furniture into the warehouse and Ajax quickly walked up to them.

"Why the hell are you here?" Ajax yelled

"Because I told them to move your furniture into your new place old pal just repaying an old favor." A bulldog who was wearing a body tight green shirt and baggy sweat pants told him

"Who are you again?" Ajax asked him

"Oh…yeah I forgot about semi amnesia, my name is Bill Grey, me, Fox, and Krystal were your best friends." Bill told him

"So where is Krystal, does anyone know where she is?" Ajax asked playing dumb

"Sadly no, nobody knows where she is, dude I know how close you two were to each other, and man if I knew where she was I would tell you." Bill explained to Ajax

"I know, I know, I trust you Grey, and I would like you to meet my best friend Kursed." Ajax told Bill

"It's nice to meet you Kursed." Bill told Kursed

"It's my pleasure." Krystal replied while staying close to Ajax "That's not Bill."

"Bill" swung at Ajax who easily dodged while tackling Krystal down.

"Stay here Krystal." He told her

"I want to help." Krystal complained

"Stay here I don't want you to getting hurt Krys please stay." Ajax whispered

Krystal nodded as Ajax stood up, easily dodged fake Bill's punches, and took off all of his clothes to reveal the suit which seemed to reflect everything around him. Krystal had completely forgotten that they were wearing them, she looked at her breast to see the suit was covered them, but they were also higher up than usual. She sighed and fidgeted a bit. The next time Krystal looked she truly saw what Bill was or what was inside of Bill to be exact, it was just a swirling mass of shadows, and when she took her shirt to look at what Ajax looked like she saw a huge mass of light. When Bill would attack the mass of shadows would strike out, when Ajax would dodge the light would disappear then reappear when he stopped mowing, and when he hit Bill the light would plow into the shadows and there be a miniature explosion in the shadows. Ajax whipped out his pistol, fired a few rounds into the shadows and they completely dissipated. Ajax started to fall backwards and Krystal had to react quickly to catch him.

"Krystal, is Bill good?" Ajax asked her weakly

"Yeah I hope, what was that thing inside of him?" Krystal asked him

"I can't think straight right now; did Bill hit me at all?" Ajax asked her

"I didn't see him hit you, but I was too interested by what was in Bill, but that seems to be gone now." Krystal told him while propping him up against her shoulder

Bill started stir and as he woke up he looked at Ajax with a confused look. Bill stood up, looked around and Ajax started to sweat profusely. Fox came running over, supported Ajax on his other side, or he tried to. Ajax push him back, slowly taking a few steps before falling painfully to his knees, Krystal ended up fussing at him until he stopped fighting her when she tried to help keep him on his feet.

"You were always stubborn Ajax; I liked that about you, but not right now." Krystal told him

Ajax laughed weakly then he clutched his ribs, when he looked at his hand it was red, he looked from his hand to the medium sized hole in his chest, and soon he couldn't see straight. His vision started to sway and blur, he started to stumble, then his body felt heavy, and finally he passed out against Krystal.

"Ajax!" Krystal screamed

Krystal tried to pick Ajax back onto his feet, but his sheer weight without his help was too much for her to hold up. Fox and Bill ended having to carry Ajax, but even between the two of them they were sweating badly when they laid him onto the seeming familiar leather couch in the middle of warehouse. Krystal sat on the coffee table in front of the couch, gently but tightly held Ajax's hand, she couldn't believe that she just truly started to be reunited with Ajax and she might be about to lose him again. Krystal absent mindedly started to beat on his chest, and the only thing that stopped her was Fox pulling her off of him. She swung backwards slapping Fox hard across the face, and she started to scream.

"Do you know what I've gone through you fucker, do you think I liked it when we broke up, I blamed you, but I hated myself for doing it." Krystal screamed at him

"Wait…what…Krystal?" Fox asked her

Krystal sucked in her breath sharply, she felt tears sting her eyes as the memories of their break up flooded her, but as Fox moved to hug her she shoved him away. Bill didn't even try in fear of the or something worse happening to himself, so he just squeezed Krystal's shoulder. Krystal gently pushed passed him to the container where she and Ajax had gotten there pistols, she found the first-aid she was looking for, and walked over to the leather couch where Ajax was laying. She got down onto her knees, removed Ajax's shirt, in the end she couldn't help but move her hand over his well defined chest and abs muscles. After awhile she got a pair of tweezers out of the first-aid kit, dug out whatever was buried in Ajax's chest, as she got a look at it she was horrified to see that it was a bullet that fit perfectly for a high caliber sniper rifle, and as she cleaned and stitched up the shot wound she looked back during the fight between Ajax and the possessed Bill to see if she could find a good sniper spot. After a while she didn't find a spot where someone could've shot Ajax. When Krystal returned mentally back to reality Fox was sitting beside her on the floor.

"It's been a long time Krystal, 5 years and yet you still look beautiful." Fox told her

"Fox, we're not together anymore so please don't try to compliment me it feels weird." Krystal told him without looking his direction

"Are you and Ajax a thing now?" Fox asked her

"If by thing you mean couple then yeah we are, not like it matters to you." Krystal told him starting to get cold

"Krystal I'm sorry that I hurt you I didn't want you to get hurt." Fox confessed

"That's ironic, but it's a little too late for apologies McCloud." Krystal growled

Fox must've gotten the hint that Krystal didn't want him around right now because he got up and walked into an adjoining of the warehouse. Krystal laid her head on Ajax's chest after she had bandaged it and started to stroke Ajax's cheek.

"When did everything have to get so complicated Ajax, we were just kids when Andross took everything from us, and we just got reunited and I might lose you again." Krystal whispered

Krystal didn't care if anyone saw as she kissed Ajax on his mouth. She kept her lips pressed against his as she started to painfully think of being alone again and she felt tears sting her eyes again. Krystal hurriedly wiped her eyes as Fox reappeared with two glasses of waters, sat down beside her, and handed her one while keeping the other for him. Krystal first had Ajax drink some before she took a sip and placed it down on the ground beside her.

"I hope we can still be friends." Fox told her

"I just need some time Fox." Krystal told him

"Krystal please listen to me." Fox started to plead

"She said that she needed some time dude so leave her alone." Ajax told him

"If I remember correctly your kind is not really welcome here, your kind are dirty pest worthy of only extermination, so I don't know why your even here." Fox told him out of anger

"Fox you better cool it or I'll make you in my own ways." Ajax told him while standing up

Fox stood up, got in Ajax's face, and growled. Ajax didn't flinch all he did was smile and ducked as Fox swung at him.

"So does everyone want piece of me?" Ajax asked laughing

Ajax quickly got close to Fox stomped on his foot, slammed his fist into Fox's chin, kicked him in his stomach, and pressed his pistol to Fox's temple. Krystal could only look on in horror at how quickly everyone's friendships have been falling apart, but she was confused as Fox and Ajax started to laugh.

"Just like old times." Fox coughed "I better get going before you actually do those thing for real."

With that Fox left the warehouse, Krystal and Ajax finally noticed that Bill had left long time ago, so they were free to do whatever they wanted.

"You want to have some fun?" Krystal asked Ajax

"Yeah, but only if you're ready Krystal." Ajax told her

"Of course I'm ready, Jaxy, just make it the best." The blue hair vixen told him while using his childhood nickname

They laid on the couch, practically on top of each other, and Ajax started kissing Krystal's neck. Krystal tensed up a little as spasms of pleasure shot through her body so rapidly that she couldn't even make a sound, all she could do was keep a tight grip around Ajax, and she slowly got his shirt off. Ajax stopped shortly to help Krystal get her shirt off revealing a lacey pink bra, as Krystal was reaching for the clasp of her bra Ajax stopped, he started to kiss Krystal's stomach, and quiet moans of pleasure escaped her throat. She felt Ajax's hands run over her back, chest, and hips, and she couldn't take it anymore. She stood up, quickly took off the rest of her clothes, laid on top of Ajax, and he started to kiss the top of her breast. Krystal moaned louder as Ajax worked his way down her body with his mouth and hands.

"Are you going to make me freeze?" Krystal panted while trying to laugh

Ajax smiled as he got undressed completely and got back on top of Krystal. She couldn't help but stare at his junk, which she mentally made of note of, and as Ajax gently pushed it into her slit she couldn't help but scream from the pleasure that it gave her. As time went on Ajax went deeper and deeper inside of her, and she was silently happy that her and Fox broke up as Ajax once again began to kiss her breast. As Krystal reached her climax she screamed louder and louder as her first orgasm started, but after her orgasm stopped Ajax continued to love on her. In a short while she reached her second orgasm and then quickly her third and she hoped her final orgasm. She guessed it was the last one as Ajax cummed inside of her and rolled over so that Krystal was on top of him.

"That was great." Krystal panted trying to catch her breath

"Yeah, do you want something to drink?" Ajax asked her

"I would like some red wine if you have any." Krystal told him

"Sure I should have some, after we became drinking age I always kept some red wine around." Ajax told her

Ajax quickly disappeared into the kitchen, there was a lot of rattling, and then Ajax reappeared with a wine bottle and sat down beside Krystal. Krystal sat as close as she could to Ajax, and as Ajax opened the wine bottle she nestled her head onto his shoulder. He handed the bottle to her right after he opened it, she took a quick drink from it, felt the wine hit her automatically, and she handed it back to Ajax. Ajax took a drink from the wine bottle, and when he didn't seem to be affected by the effects of the strong wine Krystal looked at him with a look of confusion on her face.

"A lot of my 'jobs' required me to drink this type of wine a lot, so I'm used to it but I don't recommend it." Ajax told her

"Please hand me the bottle Jaxy." Krystal told him

"Okay, just don't blame me if you don't remember what happens the rest of night." Ajax warned her as he passed her the bottle

As Krystal took her second drink from the wine bottle and instantly passed out. Ajax chuckled, resealed the bottle, and after he put back into the cooler he got it from he lifted Krystal off of the couch. He slowly walked into the room that they converted into a bedroom, placed Krystal gently onto the mattress and laid down beside her. He pulled the warmest blanket he could find over Krystal, pulled the other one he could find over himself, after he cuddled closer to Krystal and he wrapped his arms around her and fell asleep quickly. When Ajax woke up the next day Krystal was still naked asleep next to him, he slowly got up so that he wouldn't wake Krystal up, he quickly showered, got dressed, and climbed onto the roof. He heard quick footsteps behind, but he didn't move as Miyu slid down beside him. She hugged him quickly, and kept her arm wrapped around him.

"I'm guessing red wine, Krys," Miyu asked while sniffing the air "and sex?"

"Well, look who's a little detective." Ajax said sarcastically

"You and Krys actually did it?" Miyu asked

"Yeah, why is that so hard to believe?" Ajax asked her right back

Ajax looked across the newly snow covered plains and felt a few flakes fall into his hair. He saw Krystal sit down beside him in only a bathrobe, and she shivered a little violently.

"That's what you get for coming out in only a bathroom robe Krysta." Ajax told calling her by the simple nickname he had for her but it brought out his accent

"You don't know how long it's been since I heard that nickname." Krystal told him

Ajax put one arm around Krystal and his other one around Miyu. Krystal brushed the falling snow off of Ajax's hair and laid her head onto his shoulder. A few flakes of snow landed on Krystal's snout making her sneeze.

"Bless you Krysta, we should go inside, we don't need you getting a cold, and that would be bad for me…and you of course." Ajax told her

There was an explosion off in the far distance and Miyu jumped in her skin. Ajax stood, help Krystal, and Miyu stood up beside them.

"That's my cue got to go, and if you two want to join your welcome to do so." Miyu told them

As Miyu jumped off the roof Krystal looked at Ajax with a confused look on her face, and when he smiled back she was confused even more. Ajax just wrapped his right arm around her and they walked back into the second floor of the warehouse. When they got to the bedroom, Krystal quickly took off the bathrobe that she wearing, and before Krystal put on her suit Ajax quickly admired her body.

"Do you remember what this are?" Krystal asked Ajax

"They're called reflection suit or camouflage suit, they can show you a true person's personality or camouflage you with your surroundings, or in an expert's hands it can actually create weapons easily." Ajax told her while morphing the glove of his suit into a sword

"Cool, you have to teach me how to do that." Krystal told him

"It also enhances the power of telepaths so you might find that useful." Ajax told her

Krystal looked at Ajax like she didn't believe him until she spun around, and when she turned to face Ajax she looked like she about to kill him.

"Did you do that, and if you are that would mean that you are…" Krystal start

"Telekinetic, you're a telepath so why would it be so hard to believe that I'm able lift things with my mind?" Ajax asked her as he lifted her easily with his mind

"Put me down please?" Krystal asked him

Ajax gently placed her back onto her feet and she hugged him tightly.

"Will I know everything about you Jaxy?" Krystal asked him "Does it also enhance the powers of telekinetic?"

"It does, but not by a lot." Ajax told her "Well, not that I've divulged deeply into the powers the suit has, mainly because that requires me to go into a deep sleep coma like state that right now I'm not going to try something like that in the current conditions we are in."

"How about this after we help Miyu out we get a hotel room, you get some rest, and I'll get some supplies for the ware house." Krystal told him

"Sure, that sounds great, with the warehouse being as bare as it is it just doesn't like a base much less a home." Ajax told her

Krystal looked at Ajax through the part of the suit that covered her breast and saw that whatever that light that was in him when he was fighting Bill was gone. Ajax walked closer to her, kissed her lips, and gently slapped her ass. Krystal even though she was surprised she didn't complain about Ajax affection even though she wasn't really used to it.

"Are you ready to go yet?" Krystal asked

"Yeah, do you want your rifle and other pistol?" Ajax asked her

"Sure, just could you please hurry up?" Krystal told him

Krystal was waiting for Ajax outside the warehouse as he came out with five pistols on his hip and two rifles over his shoulder. He handed Krystal a pistol and a rifle, and they headed towards the site of the explosion. After awhile there was another explosion, Krystal and Ajax started to run as quickly as they could and they would of ran past Falco and Katt if Ajax didn't notice the bright green bandanna tied around Katt's shoulder. He quickly pulled Krystal down beside them, Falco looked at Ajax, and Ajax almost laughed.

"You're both blonde, that's kind of hilarious." Ajax whispered

"We had to disguise ourselves, and do you have our blasters." Falco asked

"Hey Kursed, how's it been going?" Katt asked her

"It's been good, what about you?" Krystal asked her

"Good, I really don't like being blonde all its good is that people have been giving me free things." Katt laughed

"Sorry to interrupt, but do you know where Miyu is?" Ajax asked the two girls

"She ran by into the building." Katt told her

"Do you have our blasters?" Falco asked him again

Ajax handed them their blasters quickly, handed Krystal her other pistol and rifle, and kissed her cheek.

"You're acting like I might not see you again." Krystal told him

"I'm the only one going in and I might not come back out." Ajax told her

"No! If you're going in I'm going in with you, so if you die I'll die with you." Krystal told him trying not cry

"Falco, Katt, keep Kursed here and don't let her out of your sight." Ajax told them before turning his suit on and disappearing into the background

Ajax started to walk slowly towards the now blackened building that Ajax could only guess used to be a bank. The door was partly collapsed so Ajax had to crouch under; he barely had enough time to roll out of the way as the door collapsed complete.

"After this I'll have to find a new way out." Ajax sighed quietly

Ajax saw movement out of the corner of his eye; he whipped out his pistol and spun right as Miyu ran at him with a sharp rock above her head. He slammed the flat of his foot into her stomach, and as she doubled over he kicked her in the jaw. The whole time he wondered how she saw through his camouflage, and then he saw that there was a gash across Miyu's cheek and under there was just pure shadows. Ajax set his jaw, focused on his hands, and as blue lines flowed over his hand he knew what he had to do. Ha ran at shadow Miyu, it tried to dodge but he grab it by the face and silently watched as the lines of light flowed into the shadow's face. Soon it started to dissolve in his hand leaving behind a pile of clothes, Ajax picked the clothes up pausing for a while when he as that the pair of panties had writing on tags, he checked it out and saw that it was Miyu's name. He quickly folded Miyu's panties, put them in his back pocket, tossed the rest of her clothes over his shoulder and looked for a way out.

He saw a broken window above the closed window, he started to climb when something pulled him to the ground, and when he looked at what did it he saw the shadow Miyu again but this time she was naked. Ajax quickly fired a few rounds round into shadow Miyu, they just past through it, he was about to fire more rounds into it, but then he saw that the look in shadow Miyu's face it was a look of fright. He heard something in the back of his mind, at first he thought it was nothing, but when he looked back at shadow Miyu he knew it was her voice.

"Help me, please he's after me, please can you help me?" Shadow Miyu asked him in a young voice

"Who's after you, what are you, and who are you?" Ajax asked it "Also important what is your gender?"

"Jacob McAlister is after me, I'm a girl, I used to be human, and my name is Jasaline." Jasaline told him

"I guess that I need to give you a new body, how do I do it?" Ajax asked her

"You're the light; all you got to do is imagine it and it will appear." Jasaline told him

Ajax nodded, closed his eyes, and slipped into the deepest recesses of his mind to make the perfect body for Jasaline. Jasaline shivered a little in the cold, she wished that the light would hurry up and finishes creating her new body. Jasaline partly wish that the light would hurry creating her body but she also hoped that he took his time so that everything was perfectly portioned, she didn't want big breast and a small butt or the other way around. She looked around for somewhere to sit, when she could find anywhere to sit she just sat on the floor, and after two hours she noticed that the light was staring at her.

"Like what you see Licth?" Jasaline asked him

"You're beautiful, your body is amazing, I'm just trying get your best feature's into your new body, and what did you call me?" Ajax asked her

"Thanks no one really compliments my body, and called you light in German since that's what you are." Jasaline told Ajax

"Please just call me Ajax, and knowing that you were German would have been good to know at first." Ajax told her

"Okay Ajax, is my body almost done?" Jasaline asked him

Right after she finished the question a body appeared before her, it was naked and Ajax looked at her.

"How does it look, is the body how you like it, but if it isn't I'll do my best to make it to your liking." Ajax told her

"I love it." Jasaline told him before hugging him

Ajax felt ever part of his being screaming at him to get away from her but he wrapped his arms around her. When they separated Ajax saw a little star of shadow on his shirt, Jasaline laughed and disappeared into the body Ajax created for her. The body animated, Jasaline looked at Ajax, and first a pink bra and pair of panties appeared and then a purple shirt and finally skinny jeans. Jasaline looked at herself, felt her breast to make sure they were real, and once again she hugged Ajax.

"Thank you Ajax I hope we can be great friends." Jasaline told him

"I hope so too." Ajax told her "Where is Miyu?"

"Alister has her." Jasaline told her

Jacob McAlister looked at screen that showed him exactly what was happening, he walked over to the table that held Miyu Lynx, picked up a scalpel and smiled as everything fell into place.

Author Note: I would like to thank Bryan McCloud for the chapter idea