A/N: Decius has been captured! Well so much for the timeline, I hope. Anyways this is the fourth chapter of the story, and hopefully it's a good one. Please read it and then review it.

Chapter 4

May I Go Now?

As soon as Fiora rematerialized she looked at Fay "Alright bring him up will ya?"

Fay looked at her console "What the fuck. His signal is gone; he must have cut off the signal. Fay to Decius, signal again so I can beam you up."

They waited about a minute, nothing, Fay tried again. Still nothing, "Fiora, I don't know what happened to him, but he's not signaling, so I can't find him to beam him up here."

Fiora started to feel sick to stomach, "I should never have left him. He must have been captured; they must have noticed us somehow."

Fay sighed "Don't blame yourself, let's get to the bridge. And we need to tell Fox."

Fiora nodded and the two went up to the bridge. As soon as they got there Fay looked around. Fox and Krystal were nowhere to be found, not surprising as it wasn't their shift yet. But this kind of situation would require everyone's presence. Tapping her comm badge Fay said "Command crew to the bridge, now."

A few minutes later everyone had arrived, "You two could use a shower." Miyu said to Fox and Krystal.

Fox smiled "Sorry Kryssy and I were just having some fun. Let's take this to the briefing room."

As they all walked into the briefing room they took their seats. The seats were arranged on both sides of a large table that extended across most of the room. On the left side of the room were windows that stared out into space. Fox sat down at the head of the table "Now what was so urgent that it couldn't wait until Krystal and I took a shower?"

Fiora looked at him "Decius didn't make it back. We think he's been captured."

Fox hit his head on the table. Miyu simple sighed. Falco gave a simple "Shit."

Krystal simply closed her eyes. Fay sat back in her chair and then slouched a bit. Katt asked to no one in particular "Who else here thinks were fucked?"

Fox looked at Fiora, even without his wife's telepathy he could tell that Fiora was worried in the extreme about him. "Fiora, don't worry, we won't leave without him. Does anyone have any ideas about how to find him?"

Katt spoke up "If he's been captured I might be able to monitor the communications down there. I won't be able to do it all myself, but it would defiantly help if Serina could assist me."

Fox nodded "That's what she's here for. What else can we do? Krystal, Fiora, could you contact him with your telepathy?"

Krystal shook her head "Without knowing almost exactly where he is there is very little chance we could find him quickly enough to help."

Falco looked up "Wait a second, even if we find him, how are we going to get him out of there? I mean we can't just go in guns a blazing like we used to."

Miyu looked at him "Why not?"

Fiora sighed and looked at her "It would pollute the timeline, if that happens say goodbye to history as we know it. I mean what do you think would happen to the world if they saw a squadron of Arwings flying down on a carrier firing plasma weapons?"

Miyu nodded "Point taken. So what are we going to do if we find him? I mean are we going to beam him out?"

Fox shook his head "Only if no one is around, we don't want people to start spreading rumors about people vanishing into thin air. That said we have to get him to a place where no one is around, then we can beam up again."

Fox ended the meeting a few minutes later and they all adjourned to the bridge. Fox wondered what exactly Decius was doing right now.

"My name is Decius, Cornerian Defense Force, rank Senior Lieutenant, Great Fox III, Serial number 2395-9523." It was the fifth time that Decius had said this to the canine officer in front of him. It was starting to really annoy him. He already knew what the next thing to be said was.

"Alright, Lieutenant, what's my name?" It was the fifth time that the officer had asked him this. He was in some sort of control room; he had been taken there for questioning a few minutes ago.

Decius already knew the man's name, but considering he knew it only because of his telepathy and not because he had heard it he lied through his teeth. "I don't know your name."

"Alright then what's your name?"

"Decius."

"No you idiot, your last name."

Decius gave the same response he had given the last few times "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

Another dog walked in and the officer got up to talk to him. "What do you think?"

"He's a fox."

"I know he's a fox but he some kinda retard or something."

As the two talked Decius noticed that the small stunner that he had brought with him was within his reach. Grabbing it he got up "Don't move, or I will be forced to stun you."

The two canines smiled "Alright give us the ray gun."

Decius shrugged "Sorry guys." He pulled the trigger, the thing simply sputtered and died. Decius sighed "Must have been the radiation." He tossed it to the two officers and shoved past them.

As he ran out the door he shoved past anyone in his way. He had to get to the top so he could he could signal for beam up. Alarms started blaring; apparently his escape had not gone unnoticed. He ran up a flight of metal stairs and emerged on the landing strip on the carrier. In the dark he couldn't completely see where he was going. A group of marines were waiting for him, they were armed, he didn't have a choice, he yelled "Luttae on towoo!" the guards fell asleep instantly. As he ran he heard another squad following him, he changed directions. But in his haste he didn't realize that he was now dangerously close to the edge. A bullet flew over his head, he could tell that more were being aimed at him, he veered to the left, but because of the darkness he veered too far to the left. Before he could regain his footing he had fell over the edge with a yelp. He landed unconscious two decks bellow on a helicopter pad.

Katt and Serina had been monitoring comm signals on the surface since midnight; it was now 10:00 in the morning. Fox was due to be on the bridge in about an hour, for now her esteemed husband Falco Lombardi was enjoying the command chair. She glanced over at the tactical console, she half expected Decius to be sitting there running his twenty-four-seven tactical simulations. She sighed when she saw that the chair had been left empty for his shift, Fiora had requested it, she had felt it would help everyone to focus on their new mission.

The original mission to the surface to get the radiation that would allow them to repower their engines was over. Everything was once again functioning at top capacity thanks to the recrystalization of the ships energy crystals. She saw Fiora over at her science station; she had been scanning for Cerinian bio-signs since about midnight as well. However she had quickly found out that there was little difference between Cerinian and Cornerian biology. Needless to say she had had no luck. Katt looked at Serina "Think we'll find him?"

Serina's avatar looked at her "If we do I can tell he's going to have on hell of a story to tell us."

Katt sighed, Serina had a way of looking at things as cynically and sarcastically as possible, of course Katt had noticed that she really did care about the well being of the crew. "I guess so. I hope he's alright, for Fiora's sake."

Serina looked at her and Katt could swear her face seemed to soften a bit. "Don't worry, I'm sure…"

Katt looked at her "What is it?"

Serina put one of her holographic hands to her ear, "I found him."

Katt grinned and hit the intercom button "Fox, Krystal, Miyu, Fay, get your asses up here. We found him."

Fiora ran up, "Where is he?"

Serina seemed to look almost nervous "Well the good news is that I found him. But the bad news is where I found him."

Just then the doors to the bridge opened, Fox took one look at Falco sitting in his chair and said "Get the hell out of my chair. Now what is it, I mean where is Decius."

Serina looked at them all and said "General hospital, he took a little tumble, he isn't expected to survive."

Fiora tried to hold back tears. Miyu walked up to Fox and said "Fox, we have to go down there now. Don't you dare leave him in the hands of twentieth century medicine."

Fox nodded "Krystal, Miyu, and myself will beam down there right now. Serina find us some place in the hospital we can beam to without being seen."

Fiora ran up to Fox, "I know I can't go, but, at least if he's beyond saving…"

Fox looked at her sternly "He's not dying Fiora, not on my watch. Even if I have to get the Krazoa to revive him I won't let him die." With that Fox, Miyu, and Krystal went to the transporter room.