VI First Day on Duty
Fox woke up the following morning to see the vixen still in his thoughts. "Morning Fox." Krystal smiled from the doorway. She had been watching him sleep peacefully for the past few minutes. "I thought we could get some time in the simulators today." She gave a smile that made him say yes. "How's your wound?" She asked before looking down at the bandage. "Good. Good." He smiled back to her. She put her hand on it to prove it didn't hurt him but was interrupted.
"Fox there's a couple of- Um..Am i interrupting something?" Fox looked at the screen blushing trying to explain what had happened. He just gave up on an explanation. "What is it Peppy?" Krystal got up to ask "There's a couple of ships outside I wanted Fox to check if anythings up with them. They've been on radar for 20 minutes now."
The vulpine groaned jumping out of the bed and quickly racing into the bathroom with another set of clothes. Quickly changed and headed back out the door. On his way out he was stopped by Krystal who seemed like Tricky for a moment with the question that normally annoyed him more than anything. "Can I come too?" Fox looked dumbfounded at the question he had never expected this "Umm..Sure I guess you can but it will be boring. Nothing will happen probably so I guess you could come.."
Krystal smiled at him excitedly and followed him into the docking bay. Fox let out a nervous laugh as Krystal got into one of the spare Arwing's, Krystal felt his uneasy feelings over this and asked "Why are you so worried? I thought nothing would happen" He smiled at her and said "Well I hope nothing happens...I just don't want you to get hurt.."
The vixen smiled at him "I'll be fine I've got the best with me" Fox chuckled nervously before telling Peppy to launch the ships. "You sure you're ready to fly one of these Krystal?" He asked her, she felt something in him she had never felt before, fear. "I'll be fine" She assured him before the ships took off, she was left with an uneasy feeling after launch. She had not expected the spinning but she still followed Fox close towards the target on the radar.
When they reached the targets Fox opened communications with one of the pilots. "What are you guys doing here, do you need any help or anything" Krystal used her telepathy to talk to Fox."There's more than 2 people here I'm sensing multiple brainwaves" Fox was suspicious about her sixth sense this time but stuck with it. The person on the other line was just breathing heavily. All of a sudden he yelled out "Attack". Six more stealthed ships assaulted the two Arwings.
Fox sped into the battle taking down two ships quickly. Two more came out of stealth behind him. The vulpine was trying to avoid the fire giving them the chance to get behind him. Fox then looked down and saw that Krystal's shield was down to 54% "Help me Fox I can't get him off!" She cried out. Fox sped up not even trying to avoid the fire from the five ships behind him. He just focused on catching up to the vixen in distress once more.
He caught up to Krystal and shot down the ship on her tail before losing his right wing from the enemy ships.
Krystal hesitated trying to help the vulpine and shot a bomb at the 5 ships taking them all down in an explosion. The only bad thing was she almost took out Fox too, "Sorry, wrong button!". The vulpine sighed looking at the damage she had done to the side and rear of his ship. He couldn't help but laugh at the chances and that she had destroyed 5 ships accidentally. "C'mon let's just get back" He chuckled. The two flew side by side back to the Great Fox smiling at each other and talking about the previous night on the way.
Fox was in a pretty good mood considering what had just happened. That is until he got out and saw the damage to his Arwing. "Slippy's gonna love this.." Fox sighed as he looked at the side of the half destroyed craft reading McCloud on the side barely visible. He stared at the ship remembering memories of his past before Krystal put her hand on his shoulder. "Is everything okay?" He jumped at her touch, his heart almost skipped a beat. "Yeah, I'm fine this ships just been through alot with me, I hope Slippy can repair it this time" She smiled at him before they both walked back into the bridge greeted by Peppy, Slippy and Falco. They were in the game room as always and had not even noticed the events outside the window.
Fox and Krystal sat in the bridge. He was amused at the vixens amazement about television, she had never watched one in her life. "How does this even work..It all makes no sense." She thought out loud after Fox had told her for the third time.
She was flipping around channels and found a documentary on the history of the Starfox team. Fox slightly blushed at the timing. She asked questions about almost everything almost like Tricky would. From what Andross did to why the team split up afterwards.
The two talked for an extra hour after it had gone off. Fox had an idea on what to do next..
"Krystal, in a couple days were going to have to leave orbit around Sauria and go to Corneria to renovate the ship. I was thinking we could go spend a week or two on Sauria while they're doing that. It'd be a fun place to go. I could also help you learn more about flying" He said smiling nervously and blushing at the fact that he had invited them to go be somewhere alone. For a couple of weeks at that.
"I'd love to, but you need to have your ship repaired." She alerted him. Fox just remembered he had to get Slippy to repair his ship. "I'll be right back.." He smiled before getting up and running down the hall.
Krystal flipped around channels on the TV while Fox was busy. Fox had unluckily walked into the game room to find Slippy and Falco arguing, yet again, over a video game. Fox knew Falco loved picking arguements with Slippy due to it annoyed most everyone nearby and was amusing for him.
Fox didn't even bother breaking it up he just pushed Slippy out of the room, out-powering him. After they had left the room Falco fell on the floor laughing the hardest he had in a while.
"Slippy I need a favor from you quickly. Can you repair my Arwing again?" He asked him chuckling nervously, Slippy looked confused at the vulpine. "I just fixed it like three days ago Fox what did you do this time?" Fox kept chuckling nervously before trying to explain but he just decided to show him the mess.
Krystal smiled at the two walking out into the docking bay. She waved at them expecting to hear yelling as soon as the door shut behind them.
Slippy took a look at the Arwing, instantly he gasped at it, turned to Fox and said dreadfully "I don't think I can repair this one, just take mine or Falco's, were getting new ones in a couple days anyways, new-" "Yeah, yeah, I know but you know this Arwing is really special for me. So could you please just try to fix it" He interrupted the toad.
Slippy thought for a moment and then remembered why Fox had liked this Arwing so much. He couldn't help but nod and grab his toolbox out bringing one of the spare wings out of storage with him. "It beats arguing with Falco atleast." Slippy smiled at Fox and started to work on the broken ship. "Thanks Slip'" Fox smiled before heading back to be with Krystal.
He went back into the bridge and sat next to Krystal again. Smiling at her and asking "So how are-" He stopped and noticed she was asleep. He smiled looking at her thinking She's so beautiful..
He stared at her for a few moments before she opened her eyes. She looked at him yawning and noticed he was staring at her. She couldn't help but smile back, blushing noticeably under her blue fur. "Tired?" He asked her sweetly after a moment. "Yeah it's been a big day for me...kind of.." She replied sounding weak.
He looked at her thinking of what to say before blurting out what was on his mind. "Well you want to go into my room?" He wanted to hit himself after noticing what he had just said to her. He blushed turning a bright red and her laughing didnt help him either. Fox looked like a volcano about to erupt from the redness of his face. He was unlucky his fur didn't hide his as well though, she was blushing too.
"I don't know.." She pondered after she had stopped laughing at how red his face could turn. "Well I didn't mean to really say that so I'm sorry it just came out" He laughed nervously, which made her smile at him and she kissed him on the cheek making him turn red again. She giggled at him, he was easy to get.
"I think I'm fine out here for another night. I dont want Falco and Slippy getting suspicious of us... But hopefully tommorow we will head out to Sauria and we will be together for a week or two. I can't wait to start lessons with you." She smiled at him kissing him on the cheek again and hugging him then laying back down.
Fox never changed from bright red during the whole conversation. He walked back to his room grinning and looking forward to the next day.
-Author's Note: First off I'd like to apologize for not updating for a couple days I spent time with my family so I had no time to write I had previously set up this chapter but I decided to trash it and came out with this one, I wanted to make this chapter longer but I've burnt out heh, Second off I'd like to thank you guys that are reading and reviewing it really makes me feel alot better for my poor writing, and finally I'd like to say im going to keep updating this, I'm NOT done, so if I don't post for a day or two, I've either hit a block or I'm busy, thank you all for reading this.-