Disclaimer: I do not own Starfox, all rights and reservations go to Nintendo, ok seriously this copyright thing is stupid, this is a fan story i'm not stealing anything. Sorry, I hope you enjoy.
After Krystal's Arwing went down, Fox was devastated and tried to recklessly go after her, however the mission was still in taking place, and Slippy and Falco hadn't gotten everyone out of the area yet. After the evacuation, the entire Star Fox team were under orders to return to the Great Fox and leave the search for Krystal to the military. A day has passed since then.
Back on the Great Fox. "Fox, you will just have to calm down." Falco said to Fox trying to console him. "I can't calm down, Krystal may have just died and I couldn't save her!" Fox shouted. "Fox, the military is out searching for Krystal's Arwing right now, there is nothing more you can do." Falco said with a deadpan tone. "You think i'm just gonna sit back here and wait while one of my friends is out there possibly dying?" Fox yelled.
Suddenly a call from General Pepper came in and Fox ran over to the hologram and picked up the call. "Yes, General Pepper?" Fox asked in desperation. "General Pepper here, i'm afraid I have both good news and bad news, at the same time." General Pepper informed. This made Fox's stomach twist in agony and pain. "We found the crashed Arwing, however Krystal was nowhere in sight, and we found no traces of a dead of dying body around." General Pepper informed. This gave Fox a slight spark of hope as he felt slightly better. General, permission to send out military search for her?" Fox asked. "I'm already sending out our best troops for this, until then don't leave the Great Fox, don't worry Fox, we'll find her, Pepper out."
General Pepper's hologram disappears as Fox began to walk up to his room. "Hey don't worry Fox, they'll find her soon." Slippy said Fox didn't say another word, he just went up to his room and shut the door. "Poor guy, it must be hard for him." Peppy said. "Well no kidding it's hard for him, he lost one of his pilots, and a person he loved." Falco yelled to everyone. "Yeah, I mean I would feel horrible if I lost the girl that I ma." "Slippy shut up!" Falco and Peppy yelled covering Slippy's mouth with their hands and scanning the area to make sure Fox wasn't around. Falco and Peppy let go of Slippy, who had almost passed out from lack of oxygen. "Remember, we didn't see that happen." Falco said to Slippy. "Yeah, you're right, sorry." Slippy apologized.
Fox didn't come down for hours, and saw no signs of coming down for a while, so the rest of the Star Fox team had to make do without Fox. "What should we do now?" Falco asked. he looked over and saw that Peppy was sleeping and Slippy was watching one of his magic fighting cartoons. "I always forget how boring it is around here when we are not doing any missions." Falco complained to himself. "Maybe I should go do something right now?" Falco asked himself. Just as he got ready to go Slippy finished his show, and Peppy had just woken up from his nap.
"Falco, where are you going?" Slippy asked. "I don't know, but I don't want to just stay in here all day." Falco replied. "Falco, Fox is still locked up in his room, we need to go and see if he's ok." Peppy said to Falco. "And besides, we're still under orders to stay inside the Great Fox unless told not to leave the Great Fox unless ordered to." Slippy added. Falco just smashed his fist against a wall and turned up to Fox's room. "Well what are you two waiting for?" Falco asked. Slippy and Peppy snapped to their senses and came up to Falco. They had never seen Falco so courteous like this before, usually when someone is sad, he just says that they'll get over it.
As they got up there Falco came up to Fox's room and began to knock on Fox's door, however something stopped him from having his knuckles colliding with the metal door. "Falco, what's wro." "Shh!" Falco said to Slippy. "Listen, do you hear that?" Falco whispered. "Slippy and Peppy perked their ears and listen to what sounded like Fox crying. "I'm sorry, i'm so sorry." Everyone heard Fox say that over and over and crying. "Maybe we should leave him be?" Falco whispered. Slippy and Peppy agreed as they all crept off back into the main piloting room.
"I'm sorry i'm sorry." Fox kept saying to himself as he banged the wall. "I wasn't able to save you in time." Fox cried. "Quit brooding over me Fox." Fox stopped crying and lifted his head up. "Krystal, is that you?" Fox asked, but no one answered. Fox kept on thinking about the words that were uttering over and over in his head. "Quit brooding over me." Fox thought to himself. Suddenly it hit Fox, he had been grieving over Krystal too much, after all there was still a chance that she was alive.
"You're right Krystal, all I can do is keep hoping that the military will eventually find you, and if they don't, then i'll find you." Fox said to himself. "I know you can't hear me right now, but I love you, and I want to be with you for the rest of my life, we'll fly missions together in our Arwings and kill the terrorists together, as long as it's with you, nothing else matters anymore." Fox said to himself.
"Aw, well isn't that sweet?" The mysterious voice croaked as he turned off the hologram. "You're horrible person!" "Fox, help me!" Krystal yelled trying to escape her chains. "It's no use little girl, you're our guest now, and when the time is right, we'll lead little Fox Mccloud here into our trap, hahaha!" The mysterious voice laughed. Krystal looked around to see nothing but darkness surrounding her, the only thing that gave her light was the lite candle right beside her. Krystal hung her head low and tried her best to communicate with Fox. "Please Fox, help me!" Krystal shouted in her mind as a single tear stroked down her cheek and onto the candle, thus burning out the flame and leaving Krystal in nothing but a void of darkness.
"Please Fox, help me!" Fox woke up panting and sweating in fear in his bed. Fox looked down to see the damp mark he left. "Was that a dream I had, or was Krystal really calling for me?" Fox asked himself. Fox's heart rate began to slowly settle down as he got up and went to the bathroom. "I wonder what's going on?" Fox asked. As Fox got in the bathroom, he saw a horrifying image of Krystal beaten and tortured, while bleeding on the wall. "Ah, Krystal." Krystal was struggleing to breath as Fox went over to try and help her, but when was over there to help, she suddenly disappeared. "What the heck?" Fox asked.
All of the sudden, Falco, Slippy, and Peppy came running into the bathroom armed. "What's going on?" Falco asked. Fox turned around to check and see if Krystal was still there, but nobody was there, not a trace of blood. "Oh, sorry, I think I may have been dreaming." Fox said to everyone. "Are you ok Fox?" Falco asked. "You're white as a sheep." Peppy added. "Oh, no i'm fine, I guess I just had a nightmare, that's all." Fox replied. "Slippy, Peppy, go back to bed." Falco instructed. As Slippy and Peppy went back to bed, Falco began to try and help Fox. "Look, I know you're upset, but you gotta stop stressing yourself over this." Falco said to Fox. "Yeah, you're right, i'm sorry." Fox replied. "Alright, let's get back to bed, i'm still tired." Falco said as he went back to bed.
As Fox got back to his room, he laid back down in his bed and thought about Krystal for a bit. "Don't worry Krystal, i'll be waiting for you, if the military don't find you within a week, i'll go out searching for you, whether the Cornerian Military want's me too or not." This thought consoled Fox even further until he finally drifted asleep into a deep dream about him and Krystal chasing each other in a field of flowers.
Let's hope that Krystal will be safe until then. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, please tell me what you liked about it, and I hope you continue to enjoy the rest of the story. Take care.