A/N well, I barely noticed that instead of putting CH 4, I accidently put CH 5...but now I have fixed the issue and here is CH 4
CHAPTER 4
Enter Star Wolf
Fox stood out of the captains chair and looked at Slippy, who was busy typing at one of the many computers that set the ships destination. "Slippy, when can we reach Anthony?" he asked the toad as he walked around the bridge.
"we can reach him in about, four hours if were lucky" Slippy replied as he spun around on his chair to face Fox. Slippy barely managed to see his tail disappear through the elevator doors.
Fox punched in the floor that lead to the hangar.
'DAMNITALL! how could I let this happen? he's probably getting the crap kicked out of him.
One week ago above Zoness
"FOX GET THIS GUY OFFA ME!" Slippy's cry sounded through his headset, Fox rolled his eyes and pulled his Arwing to left and did a barrel roll to avoid an incoming missile. he sighed and pressed the throttle forward "I'M ON MY WAY SLIPPY!" Fox yelled as he saw Slippy fly by with an entire squad of Arwing-like ships tailing him.
Fox moved his Arwing behind the enemy ships and opened fire, shooting down three out of the four ships. the last one did a loop and went behind Fox. he cursed and tried to shake it off.
The Human vessel launched a barrage of bullets, which were more primal than lazars but packed one hell of punch to an un-shielded ship. Fox hit the booster, his Arwing shot forward, barely avoiding the shots.
Fox watched as the ship that was trailing him pulled off and headed towards Zoness, "ROB, why are they giving up?" Fox asked the robot. a few seconds later he got the response "WARNING: ENEMY VESSEL INCOMING" ROB said in his monotone voice.
Fox looked where the small group of ships were headed, as soon as he saw what they were heading for, he felt a small drip of fear well up in his gut. a super carrier had come from behind the planet and started towards the Great Fox. "FOX! we need back-up! we can't take that thing on by ourselves!" Falco shouted as he flew up next to the vulpine. "ROB deploy a distress beacon, there should be-" Fox stopped once he saw a plasma bolt speeding towards his Arwing, he cursed and barrel rolled left to avoid being destroyed. "Cornerian patrols"
"Distress signal active" ROB informed Fox.
before Fox could respond, multiple sirens started going off inside the cockpit, Fox looked around and realized he had been locked on to. "SHI-T!" he cursed to himself as a large missile rocketed towards his ship, Fox tried to shake the missile but it stayed on him.
'shit shit SHIT!' Fox thought to himself as he did a loop to try and throw the missile off course, but to no avail.
"FOX LOOK OUT!" Krystal yelled through her comm, Fox looked up in time to see another ship speeding towards his own. Fox didn't have time to react, the ship flew right above his and straight at the incoming missile.
"what the-"
Fox looked backwards and saw a smaller version of an arwing detach from the larger craft as it sped towards the missile, there was an explosion of blue and purple as the missile exploded against the decoy.
"Star Fox team, this The Ravensclaw, looks like you could use some help here" an unfarmilier voice said into Fox's headset. "Roger that Ravenclaw we could use some backup" Fox responded and looked around for a new target.
Fox saw a craft larger than his fly next to him, it was an Arwing, but was a bit bigger and was painted black and red.
"Good, because we were going to help anyway" the pilot said and looked at Fox though his canopy glass, he grinned and gave Fox a thumbs up before speeding ahead of him.
"Crazy ass pilot" Fox muttered as he too punched the throttle.
"no, you guys fall back, you've taken enough damage we'll handle these bastards" the pilot said to Fox. "he's right" Krystal said into her headset "the Great Fox has already lost one of it's wings" Fox sighed as he looked at his smoking Arwing.
Fox watched from the Great Fox as the small ships slowly tore each other to pieces. to Fox's disagreeing, the Great Fox didn't help with the battle any more than it had.
In the middle of the wreckage from both factions, sat a lone modified Arwing, the ship was severely damaged, nearly crushed into a ball of junk. as the recovery craft approached the small ship, Fox could barely see a person inside the ship.
after the craft was docked in the hangar of the Great Fox, Fox and Falco opened the canopy, inside the vehicle sat a badly wounded and barely living vulpine.
current time
"heh thanks for you're help on that one" Fox said to himself and prepared to step off the elevator.
The elevator door opened with a small chime. Fox stepped through and looked at the ships inside the larger-than-normal hangar bay. there were six Arwings, a Landmaster and, a recovery craft
Fox walked over to his Arwing and put his hand on the fuselage of the ship, he patted it and hopped into the front of the ship. "Slippy, I'm going to be in the hangar." he said into his wristcom and waited for a response.
"ok we just arrived near the Centaur system now." Slippy said through the microphone in front of him. he sighed and leaned back in his chair. Krystal walked into the bridge just as Slippy ended his messege "Slippy did you see Fox anywhere?" she asked, accidentally startling the toad.
"AUGH! oh...yeah he's in the hangar" Slippy said, still recovering from his mini-heart attack. "thank you" Krystal said before leaving Slippy alone in the bridge.
Krystal entered the hangar and saw Fox sitting on his Arwing. she searched his mind, but couldn't find a way in. Through the time they knew each other, Fox had somehow managed to block Krystal's telepathy. She sighed and walked up to Fox, he clearly didn't notice her as he was still humming to himself.
Krystal climbed onto the Arwing as quitely as she could and started crawling towards Fox on her hands an knees, to remain silent. As she reached him, she tapped his shoulder.
Fox jumped and yipped in surprise, he nearly fell off the Arwing, he heard Krystal's angel-like laugh and realized she was laughing at him.
Fox's face turned blood red. he turned away trying to hide his embarrassment, while trying to flatten out his tail fur. "Fox, whats wrong?" Krystal asked as she sat next to Fox. he sighed and looked at Krystal. "I have a feeling something bad is going to happen, soon" he said and looked down at his boots.
Krystal reached out her hand and lifted Fox's head with her fingers and turned him to face her. "we can handle it, as long as you're with us" she said and leaned close to Fox and pecked him on the cheek.
"you know, three days ago you were nervous to even look at me" Anthony said to Kit as she lay next to him on the bed. "and NOW look at you" Kit looked at Anthony, who had a puzzled look on her face. "still the same"
Kit picked up a pillow and smacked Anthony in the face with it, he laughed and let the pillow sit on his face for a moment before brushing it off. Anthony sat up and faced Kit. he lunged forward and started tickling her, "Aah! OK OK! AUGH! OK I GIVE I GI-HAHAH!"
Anthony smiled and stopped tickling Kit he leaned in close to her ear "I've actually found you're weakness Kit!" he joked and started tickling the vixen again. Her sides were very sensitive to Anthony's touch, the slightest movement made her giggle almost uncontrollably.
Kit was finally able to pull away from Anthony and roll onto the floor. Anthony expected Kit to pop back up and smack him with a pillow again, but she didn't. Anthony crawled over to the side of the bed and looked down "Ki-" he was unable to finish his sentence. Anthony felt a hand grab his shirt and pull him down onto the dark floor.
Anthony landed with a grunt, he was pushed onto his back and pinned to the floor. as his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he saw Kit, sitting on his lower abdomen and holding his arms down with her own.
"oooh ok I might be stuck here"
Kit grinned "give up yet?"
"not a chance babe" Anthony laughed and flipped Kit back onto the bed.
With a slight thump Kit landed on the bed back first. Anthony quickly jumped up and grabbed a pillow. He flopped it onto Kit's face just as the door opened.
Slippy sat on the bridge of the Great Fox monitoring all it's systems until they were in position for an attack. the small toad sighed and leaned back in his chair. there was a faint glow coming from the radar system, Slippy looked at the screen and closed his eyes and put his elbows on the desk in front of him. Just as the toad started to drift off, he heard a small but audible beep.
Slippy looked up and saw five small, red dots. Slippy pressed the loudspeaker button "We have incoming FOF signals!" he then tried to open a communication channel with the five ships, but neither one answered. "not answering my calls, they are definitely not Space Force!"
Slippy took another look at the radar, the unidentified ships weren't heading towards the Great Fox, but towards the other side of the planet. "where are those guys going?" he asked himself and pressed the "talk button on the loud speakers again "Fox those guys are heading somewhere else, what should we do? it might be Star Wolf" Slippy said and waited for a response
seconds later the toad heard what sounded like boots landing on metal, and the slight grunt of pain "Follow them Slippy, lets see what they're up to"
"AH! DAMN IT!" Anthony yelled as an electric shock went through his body and into the metal floor. Nick walked over to the vulpine and tossed a pair of gloves on his chest "there that might help a little bit." he said and walked back to an Arwing's cockpit.
"ok, try the engine...Now" Anthony said and gave Nick a thumbs up. the blue feline reached into the cockpit and pressed the ignition button.
there was a loud roar as the Arwing started up and lifted off the ground. Anthony jumped off his back and high fived Nick "Finally got it working" he said and started walking towards the exit.
"Anthony, I need you in the control tower, we still need to dock this thing"
Anthony changed directions and started heading towards a small elevator. "alright I'm heading there now" he said and waved for Nick to continue.
Anthony walked past Kit, who was watching the men work. He smiled and swished his tail. Kit smiled in return.
Anthony was barely able to look away from the vixen 'good thing Nick interrupted us, we might have gone a little too far' he thought to himself and kept walking.
"Hurry up Anthony this thing needs to be refueled!" Nick shouted over the engines.
as the vulpine entered the control room he got a strange feeling in his stomach, that feeling one would get if you just jumped off a building or fell of a steep cliff. Anthony walked over to the control and pressed the lone red button.
he sighed and stepped into the small elevator and pressed the down button. there were several loud clinking sounds as the machines gears began turning.
'Jeez this thing sounds like its gonna come crashing down' he thought as the double doors parted, allowing the vulpine to leave the small box
Anthony stepped off the small elevator and walked next to Kit, who wasn't paying attention, and started scratching behind her ear.
"Anthony...*sigh*...cheapshot to the max"
"what about my tail? On the couch, remember?" Anthony joked and stopped scratching Kit's head. Kit giggled and swished her tail around his.
"yes, I do"
"now look who's a cheater" Anthony said as he sat down next to Kit.
"hmm maybe it's me..." Kit leaned over to Anthony's ear "but it's also you" as Kit finished speaking, she started walking towards the door that lead out of the hangar.
Anthony couldn't look away from the red vixen as she left.
'dat a-'
Anthony wasn't paying attention to Nick, who was walking up to the mesmerized vulpine. Anthony felt a wet cloth smack his face, the vulpine reached up and pulled the cloth down with his hand "you can just hand it to me instead of hitting me every time" Anthony joked and walked towards the grinning feline.
"well Anthony it wouldn't have made you look away" Nick retorted
"touche"
Anthony looked at Nick who nudged his head toward a large cargo ship named "Leviathan". Anthony took one look at the craft and made a random guess "repairs?" Anthony asked and started walking towards the ship, Nick walked along side him. "no, we have to move all the cargo out and into the storage closet over there" Nick said and pointed to a large door on with his left hand.
"hmm...alright I'll do it, you go get some lunch" Anthony said and patted Nick on the shoulder. the blue feline turned his head and raised his eyebrow "are you sure? there's l-"
"Nick, I'm a big boy now. I can handle it" Anthony said and turned Nick around to face the door and started walking towards it. As the two reached the door Anthony patted his brother on the back"I've got this Nick" he said as he shoved Nick through the doorway and pressed the close button.
Anthony chuckled as he saw Nick hold up his hand and lift his middle finger, just before the doors closed.
Anthony walked over to the "Leviathan" and opened the back cargo door. the door slowly slid down and eventually hit the floor of the hangar bay, creating a ramp. Anthony stepped up the ramp and into the pitch black ship.
'PERFECT. no lights'
'well, find a light switch dumbass'
Anthony stumbled through the dark, sliding his hand over the smooth surface of the ship. the vulpine felt something connect with his leg, and seconds later he heard a loud crash.
'oops'
after wandering around in the dark, Anthony finally found a light switch. he flipped it on, and looked around. Everywhere he looked there were boxes full of spare parts, ammunition, and other random assorted pieces of junk. Anthony walked over to one of the boxes he knocked over and refilled its contents, he noticed a large room with a single door, he stood, walked over to it and peered inside. the room was like a crude holding cell. Anthony shrugged off some ideas he had thought of in his head and walked back to the knocked over box. Anthony picked up the box closest to door, It felt as if he was lifting an entire Arwing off the floor. "this is going to take a VERY long time" Anthony sighed to himself as he took one last look at the hundreds of boxes that lined most of the ships floor before carrying one out.
Five ships flew through the infinite blackness of space, heading towards a larger ship. Not a single one of the pilots spoke, until a single word was muttered over their comms "there". that word sparked the end to an incredibly silent trip.
a young lupine looked through his canopy, past the crimson ship, and towards the planet sized rock "San haandan" as the humans had named it. "where? I don't see anything" he said back to the squad leader. "do I have to explain this too? look on you're RADAR!" the voice yelled back, causing the lupine to curse under his breath and turn down his comm system. his eyes wandered from the rock to his radar and sure enough, just around the curve of the rock, a ship with their target in it sat waiting for something. which was out of his understanding.
"alright listen, we need to work as a team on this one. the vulpine we are targeting is VERY dangerous" the lead pilot "Jack, you come with me aboard the ship. Oikanny, Caroso, and Pawalski stay out here. fend off Star Fox as best you can. I know they saw us"
"Roger that, but exactly what are we going to do?" the smaller lupine asked Wolf as they flew towards the target. "our contract says we need him alive, anyone else we can kill. or anything else that suits you're fancy. In my case airlock diving"
Jack chuckled and pressed the throttle forward.
"oh and don't forget to knock out the ships power too!"
Fox looked at the fifth addition to Star Wolf, the ship wasn't a Wolfen, and yet it wasn't an Arwing either. "hey slippy ever see that model of aircraft before?" Fox asked and pointed to the cameras in front of him. said toad leaned over and looked at the screen "what a Wolfen? yup seen that plenty of times" Slippy said and continued to examine the ship.
"don't be a smartass Slippy, or you'll be shoved out of an airlock." Fox growled
Falco sighed and stood up off a chair and started towards the small elevator "why start now?"
"be quite Falco" Krystal put in and frowned at him before Fox could slam his fist across the avians beak.
"sorry Fox, no I haven't seen that since the Human-Cornerian wars" Slippy said and looked at Fox. "last time I saw that was when we found Anthony, nearly crushed to death inside a wreckage"
"wait, the same model? I thought that was only Anthony's group..." Fox muttered under his breath. the vulpine stood up and began walking towards the elevator, as did Krystal.
'what is she d-' Fox was interrupted in his own thoughts 'I need to talk to you' he heard Krystal's voice say in his head 'I forgot about you're telepathic powers' Fox thought back. the two foxes entered the elevator. Fox looked at Krystal, but before he could say anything, she spoke to him through his mind.
'Fox, I need to talk about Anthony.' she said to him 'something isn't right about him. I haven't told anyone else, but ever since that night we got boarded. A strange aura has been irradiating off of him' Fox stood for a minute.
'ok, what does that mean? I don't understand'
'It feels like pure evil, not a single intention of kindness in any way'
Fox looked at Krystal and raised his eyebrow 'so, exactly what does that mean?' he asked still unable to grasp what Krystal was heading towards 'Fox, I mean that there is a force welling inside him. I fear it may be the Aparoids!' Krystal said in the vulpine's mind.
Fox's heart skipped a beat. 'what!? how?' Fox remembered destroying the Aparoid queen almost an entire year ago. 'we killed the queen how is this possible?'
Krystal shook her head "I don't know Fox"
Fox silently swore to himself and lowered his ears, cupping his paws into fists "do you know what that its for?"
Krystal opened her mouth to speak, but before the blue vixen could say a single word, the Great Fox's alarms started blaring. Fox and Krystal looked at one another and back to the elevator doors. as the doors parted both foxes sprinted through the opening. Fox reached for a small earpiece he carried around "Slippy whats going on?"
Fox heard ROB declare something over the ship's intercom but was mostly blocked out by the warning sirens. the vulpine reached for his wristcomm "FOX! were under attack by unknown hostiles! Definitely not Star Wolf!" Fox pressed a button on his comm "Slippy, leave ROB to do the work in there, get to you're Arwing!" he shouted over the blaring sirens before another explosion nearly knocked him and Krystal off their feet.
"FOX we've lost ALL power to the engines and Arwing launching stations!"
Anthony picked up another box, he had finished unpacking the Leviathan save the box he was holding. the vulpine had worked fast, and the fact that someone had started cooking turkey had helped. Anthony was hungry enough for not going with an actual breakfast, but the delicious fumes spreading through the ship, via air ducts,
'probably Nick, he likes to do that to me'
Anthony walked to the storage closet and sat the box down. "Finally...jeez those things are heavier than they look!" he said and began walking towards the exit. the vulpine pressed the open button on the door and patiently waited for the doors to part. Anthony suddenly thought of one very small detail that he had overlooked.
'D'OH! how come I didn't notice this before?' Anthony silently swore to himself for being so stupid. 'forget about it, she'll get over it...'
'I hope your right'
Anthony walked around until he found the kitchen, and just like he had guessed beforehand, Nick had been cooking a few slices of turkey and turned on the air-conditioning. Anthony walked behind the feline, who was making his sandwich, and reached his hand out to touch his shoulder.
Anthony fell against Nick with a bit more force than he intended, as the vulpine reached out his arm and leaned in towards Nick, the ship lurched to one side as a massive explosion slammed into the hull. Nick and Anthony fell at the same time, Nick caught himself against the table, Anthony didn't do as well, he caught a hand full steaming oil.
pain erupted through the vulpine's hand, he let out a yelp of pain and pulled his hand back off the pan and fell to the floor "WORSE THAN THE COFFEE!" he yelled and quickly scrambled to his feet and went to the sink to wash the boiling grease off his hand. "oh crap, what just hit us?" Nick asked Sara through the intercom. immediately after he sent the message Sara messaged back "someone is boarding us! Nick get to the armory!" she said just before all the lights went out aboard the ship.
Anthony's first instinct was to find something sharp. he went for one of the kitchen knives, and began trying to find Kit.
'not on my watch they're not!'
"nice shot! that took out the defensive guns now move in!"
Jack flew his ship into the hangar of the target's ship, there was no resistance in the hangar bay allowing Jack to make a smooth landing. as the two ships landed, both Wolf and Jack jumped out of their ships and un-holstered their pistols. "Jack that way" Wolf pointed towards a doorway that was across the hangar. Jack looked at his mini map of the ship. "Wolf, we should check the barracks first"
the larger lupine started jogging towards the door "alright, lets get to it!"
Anthony ran the hallways of the ship, trying to find the boarders before they found anyone else, that would be the hard part. finding Kit wouldn't be too hard, but the boarders might be a problem. Anthony ran towards the hangar bay, in hopes they had landed instead of attaching to the hull of the ship like last time.
'through the barracks'
Anthony didn't think twice and ran straight for the barracks.
Jack stuck his head around the corner and saw nothing "Alright it's clear" the smaller lupine said and started running down the corridor. seconds after he began running, he saw someone run across the right side of the hallway to his left "Wolf I've got one!" Jack yelled, knowing she had seen them, before sprinting after her.
Wolf rolled his eyes and watched as Jack ran down the hallway and took a sharp left, he turned to the right and began walking down the hallway.
'Alwase chasing the ladies' he thought to himself. Wolf knew exactly where he was going, considering he had explored plenty of destroyed CSC ships. Wolf came across a hallway that had multiple rooms to it. 'better check'em all' pressed his back against a wall, that was next to a doorway. Wolf slowly eased his pistol into the doorway, not knowing if anyone was in the room, and swept it from left to right. clear.
-X-X-X-X-X-
Wolf hadn't cleared all the rooms, when he heard footsteps coming from down the hallway, he peeked around the corner and barely caught the sight of a vulpine, when a very sharp object planted itself inches from his face. 'hello!' Wolf drew his face back, and silently put his back against his back and waited.
Anthony sprinted down the hall after the lupine he just threw the kitchen knife at. the vulpine rounded the corner and pulled the knife out of wall, accidentally breaking the small blade
'oops'
As he turned, he barely caught sight of something on the floor before suddenly being flung onto his back. Anthony hit the floor with a grunt, he quickly jumped up, he turned around and faced his adversary. Anthony immediately knew who it was. the glowing left eye gave it away, not to mention the fact he wore a Star Wolf patch and was much larger than the vulpine himself. Anthony didn't have time to react, Wolf swung a high blow to jaw, but Anthony dodged it and quickly countered with a low jab to the stomach. "Alright pup, I don't know about you but I wanna make this fast!" Wolf said and swung at Anthony's gut with his left hand, but when Anthony pulled his body back, Wolf brought his right arm back and hit Anthony in the muzzle.
the vulpine fell backwards clutching his rapidly bleeding face.
Wolf padded up to the bleeding vulpine, and put his boot on his chest. "whats wrong little guy? not feeling to well now are we?" Wolf reached an arm out to pick Anthony up, but instead of feeling his neck, he felt a boot slam into the side of his face. Wolf reeled back. he looked at the vulpine, who had jumped back onto his feet, and grinned "little guy wants more? alright! lets do this" Wolf said and punched his fist into his hand.
Anthony stood up and spat the large amount of blood onto Wolf's boot, he turned his neck from left to right, each time getting a loud crack.
"oooh we gotta tough guy" Wolf mocked the vulpine. Anthony threw the first punch, swinging at Wolf's face. Wolf quickly countered and swung at Anthony's lower body with all his might, but Anthony countered incorrectly and instead of pushing his arm completely away, Wolf's fist met Anthony's left thigh, a loud cracking noise was barely heard by the two, but definitely felt. the hit made pain soar through his leg. the smaller vulpine barely moved back in time to avoid a low punch, also making his leg soar with pain. Anthony grinned and watched as Wolf tried the same tactic. instead of punching his face, Wolf hit air. Anthony crouched and swung his boot at Wolf's legs, knocking the large lupine off his feet.
"the bigger they are" Anthony said and raised his boot to Wolf's face "the harder they FALL!" Anthony put emphasis into last word and kicked Wolf in the face. Anthony pulled his foot back and looked at the lupine for a bit longer to make sure he was down.
Anthony turned in the direction of the hangar and started to walk. until an unbelievable amount of pain shot from the back of his neck and to the rest of his body. Anthony resisted the taser as best he could and slowly turned around to see a smiling Wolf, despite the bleeding muzzle, holding a small gun.
"the s-second t-time!" Anthony said before he dropped to his knees, falling to the ground, and blacking out.
Wolf walked over to the kneeling Anthony and plucked the vulpine up by his neck and hoisted him onto his back. "nothing personal pup" Wolf said and laughed as the vulpine only slightly twitched.
Wolf walked into the hangar bay holding Anthony on his shoulder. Jack heard the doors part and poked his head around the Leviathan, and walked to meet Wolf "what took you so-" Jack saw the blood on Wolf's face "oooh he's a fighter eh?" Wolf grunted and looked around the hangar "where's you're ship?"
"oh yeah looky here, this 'Leviathan' here can hold two Arwings PLUS a Landmaster!" Jack said as he pressed the 'open' button on the stolen ship keys "so I decided to put my ship in the cargo and haul the prisoners in the built in jail"
Wolf stared at the large space for a second before reacting "prisoner's?" he looked at the smaller lupine suspiciously.
"what are yo-oh you thought I KILLED her? man you've gotten dumber these past few years" Jack said and rolled his eyes "c'mon Wolfy let's toss him" Jack said and motioned for Wolf to follow. Wolf grunted, followed Jack, and tossed Anthony into the holding cell.
just as the lupine entered his Wolfen he got a message from Leon. "Boss! we have lots of contacts! definitely NOT Star Fox! I can't even get a lock, so HURRY YOU'RE ASSES UP!" Wolf reached for his communicator switch "alright were leaving, DON'T fire on the 'Leviathan' Jack has the target inside along with his ship" Wolf replied calmly and ignited his ship's engines.
"oh well that's good, now can we please leave so WE DON'T BECOME SPACE DUST?" Leon yelled back.
Wolf pulled his ship up off the floor and shot out of the hangar Wolf watched as Leon, Andrew, and Panther all broke off towards Wolf and Jack. "alright ready to leave? wanna say bye to you're friends?" Wolf asked sarcastically and punched the throttle, sending his ship into a blue blur.