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Chapter 10: What is he up to?

Rob was sitting on the side of his bed. The apartment room was a mess. There were his old MP5 and M4 SOPMOD under the bed half way out, clothes were everywhere, the T.V. was smashed from his stupidity and anger problems, and almost all the furniture but the bed and the nightstand next to it was flipped in its side or broken. He held his head in his hands. I can't stand this. I almost killed two of my squad mates within a week. What do I do, they seem to be tied with that Star Fox team. Maybe if I stay away from missions that involve them it won't happen, yeah that's it. He stood and walked to the fridge. He pulled out a can that had Splinker on it and chugged the contents. He threw the can carelessly on the ground and walked to the door. He stopped and turned, grabbing a pistol and sliding it into its holster on his side. He then proceeded out the door and pulled a small device. He flipped it open and the screen came to life, it had bounty hunting offers and he picked the highest biding one. He pressed back as soon as he saw the words Star Fox. He then picked the second highest and was satisfied that the job was on Fortuna, where he was. He pressed accept and walked out the front of the building. He jumped into the junker of a hover car and started it. He drove off towards a long, five story building. He jumped out and searched the area. No one was there, but there was movement behind a dumpster, the slightest move of a shadow. A wolf walked out from behind it.

"Hello." He said. "Do not be alarmed, do not even think of pulling the hidden weapon you have, you would be instantly killed by my men. I have a proposal for you."

"Yeah? What?" Rob said suspiciously.

"You will be paid a great deal for this. My son was recently killed by a sniper. I would like you to find and kill whoever did this. We have suspicion that it might have been a member of Star Fox and…"

"No thanks. I don't want to get involved with them."

"But they were only reinforcements that just so happen to be on the planet at the time. The man or women who did this is apparently good friends with the grey fox of the team. A silver vixen named Kara Lockhart was one of the known people to have been at my son's attack site, apparently being the clean up crew of the witnesses."

"I've had a job to take her out. I failed that one."

"This one will be a lot easier to carry out. I am offering you a squad and a stock pile of weaponry to complete this mission. It is important to me. I will pay you a modest fee of 900,000 credits."

"Whoa, whoa. Your willing to pay me that much to find and kill your sons murderer."

"I will pay you more if you bring him or her to me alive, same with the Kara Lockhart. About 100,000 more. Please. This means a lot to me."

"You have yourself a deal. Where would I be bringing them?"

"You will bring them to this building. I will be here for the next month or so, you have until then to find them or I will get someone else to do this job. I have a modified fighter waiting for you in the west spaceport. You can't miss it." Without another word. The wolf walked of and Rob heard fighter engines. A four winged red, black, and white fighter took off, two more followed it. One of the fighters had a rose on the side.

Rob walked into the building. A monkey stand at a desk looking at a computer. "Rob. It's been a while."

"Hey Dan. I got that mission done for ya. It's a pretty nice weapon. Let me go get it out of the car." Rob proceeded with his statement and pulled a four foot long black rifle out of the back of his rusted trunk. He carried the rifle in and put it on the desk. Dan let out a long whistle.

"This is a good about… 26,000 credits right here." Dan said

"I know a way to get a lot more. Over 1,000,000." Rob said putting emphasis on the number.

"Holy shit dude. How?" Dan said.

"Some crazy wolf and a couple of his friends wanted me to find his sons killer. He flew a black, red, and white four winged fighter. One of them had a rose on the side." Rob said.

"That's the Star Wolf team dude. Their like… the best fighter team besides Star Fox. Why doesn't he do it himself?" Dan seemed to not want to get involved.

"I don't know. He probably doesn't want to get the Corneria army on his ass. Where's my pay man." Rob said leaning against the desk. Dan told him to wait a second and walked into the back room. He came out with a green card and handed it to Rob. "You think you can help me with this job, I'm not trusting the crew he is supplying me with."

"Sure thing. Can I get at least 10% of the pay? I'm kind of running low on funds here and I can use the money."

"Sure thing, meet me at the west space port, he supplied me with a shuttle full of weapons." Rob said walking out of the building. He jumped into his junker and drove off. He arrived at the port within five minutes and found the shuttle. It was bout the size of his medium sized apartment. He stepped inside to find it had been filled with weapons from pistols that fit in your hand to stationary plasma cannons that you had to set up. They were all put on the walls in nice orderly clumps. He grabbed the smallest pistol and saw it could barely be held at all. He placed it back and walked to the pilot's seat. He sat down and Dan walked in. "That was fast." Rob said.

"Holy crap. Wolf's got a shit load of weapons on him. So where are we going."

"We are heading to…" Rob pressed a couple of buttons on the keyboard between the two seats. "Macbeth. Last known location of Kara Lockhart." Rob remembered back to the last time he tried to kill Kara. What was Steve doing there? He started the ship and closed the hatch. They lifted into the air and zoomed away towards the grey planet Macbeth.

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The shuttle landed with a loud thud. Dan walked out with Rob close behind.

"Alright, so the last place Kara was seen was east of here at an old shop. It's supposed to be a hidden weapons shop." Rob said looking at a holomap he held in his hand. They walked off the station and looked around at the industrial waste land surrounding them. There were cranes and factories and other such useless things that dump pollution into the air. A group of fighters flew by. "What a dump."

"Yeah. Lets make this quick." They walked about a few miles when Rob said to stop. "What is it?" Dan asked as Rob stare down an ally.

"Nothing. Lets go." Rob said. He walked in silence down one more block and stopped outside a run down shop with the windows boarded up. "You go around back and spy on the shop keeper. If he says he knows her but doesn't give us info, you come in and aim a gun at him, got it?" Dan nodded and walked around back. Rob walked in the front and was greeted by a chameleon.

"Hello. What can I help you with?" He said.

"I need information." Rob began. "I'm looking for a silver vixen. You can't miss her. Have you seen her?"

"I do remember her yes. I don't know where she is." The chameleon said. He chuckled so low Rob could barely hear it.

"You're a bad lire, man. You know where she is. Tell me, it's important."

"How do you expect me to tell you?" Just then a click was heard. A pistol was pointed to his head. "I know about weapons. That pistol is low end, it won't kill me even with a head shot." Dan then pointed a bigger pistol at his head. "Oohh… crap. Ok I'll tell you. She is in the Looter Hotel north of here." With that Dan bashed him in the back of the head with the bigger pistol knocking the chameleon unconscious.

"That was the most unneeded thing I have ever seen." Rob said crossing his arms.

"Sorry, I guess I did over do it a bit." Dan said scratching his head.

"Lets go." Rob said as Dan put the weapons away. They walked do north down a long seemingly endless road. The reached the almost impossible to notice hotel. It was a white building against a grey overcast sky. They walked in and asked for Kara's room.

"Room 212 floor 4." The preppy and sophisticated dog said. They thanked him and walked up the stairs to the room.

"You ready?" Dan said as they stopped outside the room.

"I'm always ready." Rob said and without hesitation kicked the door open. Kara stood there staring at them, her maw agape. She ran towards them and brought her hand back. Rob dodged the punch but Kara bent her elbow hitting Rob in the eye. Rob stumbled and Kara kicked him to the ground. Dan brought his pistols to bear but they were quickly knocked from his hands. He side stepped left and tried to punch Kara but missed as she jumped backwards. She roundhouse kicked Dan and Rob came from behind picking Kara up and throwing her against a wall. "You're coming with us. My employer demands it." Kara kicked but was blocked by Rob's hand. Rob responded with a jab to the stomach and Kara doubled over. "Who else was with you?" Rob asked putting his foot on her head as she lay on the ground in pain.

"I don't know what your…" Kara coughed. "Talking about." Rob applied pressure to her head and she moaned her displeasure. "I don't know what talking about." She repeated.

"Yes you do. That grey wolf you and your friend killed. I want to know where your friend is NOW!" Rob demanded.

"He's not here. He's on Corneria. You won't find him in time for what ever you're planning." Kara said in pain.

"Very well. We'll just have to bring you with us so he will give up quicker." Rob grabbed her by the neck and restrained her hands. He pushed her towards the elevator and pushed her in.

"He won't tell you anything." Kara said. "He won't give up and I know it." Rob stroked the side of her face softly.

"Don't worry." He pulled his hand back and a two inch blade came jutting out of a wrist band he wore, coming a centimeter away from Kara's eye. "I have way's to make people give.

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They arrived at Corneria and were surprised to have a welcome party. Police surrounded the space port. Rob and Dan walked off with Kara unwillingly following close behind. They walked to one of the blockades.

"Move along." The fully armored policemen said as he moved out of the way. They walked outside earshot of the many police cars and personnel walking around the spaceport.

"What's going on?" Dan asked.

"I think they are planning to take down a major weapons dealer or something." Rob said. "Could be anything. Back to business. Now Kara, tell us where we can find this friend of yours." She pointed towards a building. Corneria recruitment and training center. "Oohh. How are we supposed to get in there and take one of them?"

"I don't know." Dan said. We looked around and saw a lone dark brown fox walk out the door. "Wait is that him?" He said pointing in the direction. They turned towards Kara and she looked towards the ground.

"I'll take that as a yes." Rob said walking towards him. He stopped as the fox turned to greet a friend. "Not again." He said.

"What's wrong?" Dan said running over to him.

"I can't do this. That's my friend. If I hand him over to that Wolf dude I don't know what will happen to him." Rob said staring at Steve. Steve laughed with his friend and started to walk away as he said good-bye.

"Think about the reward. If someone wants him dead he can't be that worth it." Dan said.

"I think you're right." Rob said back as he walked over with Kara close behind. Kara started to back off as they got closer. "Steve." Rob said in a friendly voice.

"Rob. Hey it's been a while." Steve said. "Kara? What are you doing here?"

"I met her at the space port on the way here." Rob said and Kara nodded not trying to get Steve and herself killed. "I saw you over here and decided to see if you wanted to get a drink. So do you?"

"Sure. I wanted to catch up with you anyway." Steve said. They walked towards an ally way. As Steve passed it Dan came from behind and bashed him in the back of the head.

"Nice job." Rob said. Kara looked away. She knew that she could have warned him, knew she could have stopped this from happening. "C'mon, we have to find a different way to Fortuna." He grabbed Steve, took Steve's arm, and threw it over his shoulder.

"Hey I have an idea." Dan said. "You could say we were all here on vacation and he got wasted and passed out." Rob nodded and walked. Kara followed only because of Steve. As they reached the barricade they noticed no one was there. No police were in sight of the station. They walked up to the ship and loaded onto it. Dan sat behind the plasma cannon he had set up before they left Fortuna and Rob walked into the pilots seat. He pressed five buttons on the keyboard and was off. Kara sat next to Steve's lifeless body and rested her head in her arms. Rob noticed a squadron of fighters orbiting around the planet as the left Corneria's atmosphere.

"Something big is going down here." Rob said. Dan walked to the small pilots room and looked at the thousands of fighters surrounding the planet.

"Looks like there's going to be one big fight." Dan said sitting back down behind the turret. Rob turned the ship right and set the course for Fortuna.

-

Will walked into the large wood room of General Pepper's office.

"Hello." He greeted. Pepper sounded nervous and annoyed. "Where is Fox McCloud?" He asked unknowingly.

"About that." Falco said.

"We are the new leader's sir." Alana said walking next to Will. "Fox and Krystal are now living on Fortuna."

"Why was I not informed of this change in leadership?" Pepper said angrily.

"Fox didn't contact you?" Will said confused. "He told us he already did."

"I was not contacted at all. Anyway, We need the teams help." Pepper said leaning back in his chair. "We have gotten reports of a large number of supplies disappearing before they reached Corneria. Also a large number of fighters have been reported accumulating near the planet. We have already mounted a counter attack and are waiting for the initial attack. We can use all the help we can get and who better to ask for help then the Star Fox team." Pepper nodded.

"Ya… not exactly who you expected, huh?" Will said.

"Non-the-less you are still helping us a great deal, we are going to need it. That is all I have for you right now and you will be paid a sufficient sum for your efforts. Gear up and head out. Dismissed." With that Pepper stood and saluted them, pure instinct overcame Will and he returned the salute and walked out.

"So how are we going to go about this one?" Falco asked.

"I think…" Alana started.

"I think that we go get the Arwings ready and go hide somewhere. Come out at the right time so they don't see us coming. It'll make the fight easier." Will explained.

"That's…… a very good plan." Alana said. She had the space smarts and had come up with some very good battle plans for space combat. "There is always the problem of casualties."

"I will be out in the field as you two hide. You guys are the best fighters so that's why I think we go this way. If I'm in the field before hand they'll think that it'll be a good fight because no ones putting up a good fight. Then you two come in and we all start to step it up a notch and kick some ass." Will had thought the plan over and was satisfied. They nodded and continued to walk out of the long hallways of the Cornerian military base.

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Rob stand inside the empty building with Kara and Steve kneeling at his feet facing away from him. Steve was still knocked out and Dan stood next to him. The Wolf walked in with a long black coat. He had a case, the money. Steve started to wake and was startled at first.

"What the hell. Kara what's happening?" Steve said. His response was a sad look and a stare at the floor. The wolf stopped ten feet away.

"I have your payment." The wolf said opening the case and showing the money, he sealed the case back up. "Pass the two over here." Rob stood the two up and pushed them over. Kara stumbled and Steve stood his ground where he was sitting, he got a hard kick and also stumbled to the wolf. The wolf then passed the case to rob and waved to the door. Steve turned and looked at who was holding him before.

"Rob?! Why you dumb son-of-a-bitch!" Steve yelled starting to run. He was grabbed by the collar and fell back. "What the hell man. I thought we were friends. WE WENT TO THE ARMY TOGETHER! We were squad mates!" A chameleon came and started to drag him away slowly as a panther gently nudged Kara towards the door. "I can't believe you! I WILL GET YOU FOR THIS!" Steve continued to yell. Rob was torn. He didn't know if he should walk away now or stand there alone. Dan put a hand on his shoulder which snapped him out of his thoughts and he took action. He ran towards the wolf, stepping over the case in front of him. He was five feet away when he jumped and held one hand back, extending the wrist blade. He landed on the wolves back and pushed him to the ground. He came down on Wolf's neck, no blood. He looked at his wrist blade and saw it was melted clean off, the panther held a smoking pistol. Wolf pushed Rob off, he saw Excitement and happiness fill Steve's and Kara's eyes. Rob pulled out his pistol and shot at the panther. He then focused his attention on Steve and Kara. He shot the restrains that held their hands together and threw them pistols. Wolf jumped on rob and clawed at his face. Rob pushed him off and stood aiming his pistol at his head.

"Why did you do this?" Wolf asked.

"I was planning it the entire time." Rob said and pulled the trigger. There was nothing in the bolts way as it left the barrel and hit the ground. Rob looked around and saw the chameleon, the panther, and Wolf running out the door. Steve went over to Rob and wrapped his arm around his shoulder.

"I should kill you, but I thought against it. Thanks for that, but if you do anything like that again I get to rip out your intestines." Steve said. Kara just looked happy not to be tortured. "Now lets go get that drink you promised me before your friend over there knocked me out." He jabbed a thumb towards Dan who was standing there in shock.

"What the hell just happened?" He said.

"I'll tell you at the bar. C'mon lets go." Rob picked up the case. "First couple thousand rounds are on me." They laughed and walked out the door.