And I am back with chapter 14 at last :D hello all, firstly, THANK YOU for your patience with this story (and JPA if you also read that) but now, secondly... Straight onto the stuff your here for... The story!
Chapter 14: Threats from Whom?
The electronic beeping noise of Mercurys alarm clock roused him from his sleep, he sat up in his bed, throwing the white sheets off, he swung his legs over the side of the bed and sat there. He only wore some black boxers and a black sock on his left foot while the other was bare, his armour as per usual was scattered round his room, he stood and took of his armpit. "Eh, not too bad, I can skip the shower..." he looked into his small closet and pulled out a white shirt and black shorts and slipped them on, he then found another sock and put that too on. A few minutes later, the metallic grinding of the HMS Pathfinding Fox's metal gramp was heard and Mercury walked down dressed in his armour.
He then closed the ship ramp and walked round front of the McCloud residence, where he saw Fox waiting for him. "'Bout time" Fox said and Mercury just shrugged and said "Eh, where's Falco?"
"He doesn't pick me up on Thursdays" Fox said, and Mercury was still having trouble grasping the fact that the cornerians called their days the exact same as humans called theirs.
"okay, but why are we waiting then, let's get my jeep" But Fox shook his head "Nah, Dad'll drive us, he has to speak to the academy commander BG Sharp, so we can hitch a ride with him"
Mercury said nothing and soon after both James and Vixy came out the front door of the house and joined Fox and Mercury on the path. "Okay boys, you ready?" Both nodded and the four of them then started towards the McClouds vehicles, two hover vehicles, both sleek and modern, reminding Mercury of the cars from an old video game, Call of Duty XIV, more specifically a map remake called Nuke town, the McClouds cars had a similar quality to those he saw in that game all thos
e years ago when he was around 12 even though the game was 18... The perks of being a spoiled kid.
James patted his pocket for his keys as they got to their vehicles "Shoot, I forgot my keys" Vixy giggled and went to her car and got her keys out, hers was a similar model to James' but a scarlet red rather than James Sand orange car. But just before her hand touched the door handle...
"STOP" Mercury shouted, The three McClouds all looked at him, James from half way up the path. "What?" Fox said confused
"My helmet is going koo-koo" Mercurys helmet had a faint alarm going off, and a notification on his screen read
Explosive Materials in nearby proximity
Device containing materials is classed as "Rank S"
Recurs helmet classed dangerous items on a certain system, D rank was very minor, C rank was just minor, B rank was average, A rank was dangerous and finally... S rank Extremely dangerous...
James ran up the path as Mercury bent down and looked under each vehicle which were floating a few inches off the ground... He then spotted something that didn't belong... On Vixys car...
"Something tells me that doesn't belong here" Mercury said as James bent down and looked at the strange device.
"Most certainly not, it's a bomb and they put it on my Wife's car" James said angrily through gritted teeth "But I don't recognise the tech, but it's probably venoms trash tech"
"wait... Remember We got told that someone was trying to get me?" Mercury said concerned.
"Yes but why in the Cosmos would they get to you through my wife's car HUH?!..." James snapped then sighed. "Sorry... It's just-"
"I know, don't worry" Mercury said standing "so uh you got someone who can take care of this?" James nodded and soon afterwards and 2 calls later a EOD division of the Cornerians military were on the way. James would wait with Vixy and watch the car while Fox and Mercury would take his jeeps to school.
As the two got close to the jeep Fox went right ahead and looked under the jeep "I highly doubt they could get in here and place a bomb on my jeep Fox"
"True, but can't be too careful" Fox said standing up, Mercury shrugged then made sure his pistols were loaded and strapped them back to himself in their normal positions... But he also made sure to grab his G36 assault rifle and DSR50 sniper rifle, slinging the AR over his shoulder and putting the sniper in the jeeps back seat in its black metallic carry case, padded with foam on the inside to stop the rifle moving.
30 minutes later
Mercury and Fox got out the jeep, having just got to the school after going through hectic-traffic, the whole way, not a word was spoken. they just kept their eyes peeled and Mercurys sensors on max alert, braced for any more... Surprises.
As they approached the front door of the academy, They notice "The General" waiting for them. His tall figure stood straight up with his arms crossed, like a statue... A very intimidating statue...
He simply nodded to them and held his wrist out where over the radio strapped to his wrist came Natasha's silky voice, with its Russian sounding (but was called south Fichinan accent as Mercury had been told by her) accent.
"Hello Mercury and Fox, I'm on the academy roof currently and we have been informed of the incident this morning, do not worry boys, me and Gen will be on high alert indefinitely today... Now go inside with Gen, and make sure your in his sight at all times"
"And Fox, you just stay safe okay?" Both said "okay" and soon the three of them were walking through the academy corridors.
A few minutes later, Mercury and Fox had found Miyu and Fara sat at a table by the mess hall door... With Krystal. Mercury walked up normally, but stopped just before he got to the table as he noticed Fox pulling at his own collar softly with his tail twitching, Mercury sighed and went up and said. "Fox what in the hell is wrong wrong with you?"
Fox took a deep breath and said nervously and unconvincingly "N-Nothing just uhh N-Nothing hehe" Mercury shook his head and they went over to the table where the girls had finally noticed the,, the General meanwhile leaned against the door of the mess hall, scaring some of the students and trainees into leaving, not wanting to pass his intimidating figure in his bulky armour.
Fox and Mercury sat down, Mercury opposite Fara and Miyu with Fox opposite Krystal. Fox was trying to keep his mind in check, making sure to try not to think of Krystal as they all now knew she was a telepath. He kept his mind focused on something not good, he then thought of the bomb and focused in that as but he then realised the others were staring at him and Mercury had his helmet off and was waving his hand I fort of Foxs eyes.
"Reality to Fox, Reality to Fox, are you receiving me?" Medcury said and Fox shook his head "y-yeah sorry, just blanked out"
Krsytal scratched the surface of Fox's mind, tryin to see what he was thinking...
"Don't think of Krystal, Don't think of Krystal, Don't think of Krystal, don't think of the amazingly gorgeous blue vixen in front of you... Urge this is hard, okay, the bomb, bomb, bomb on my mums car, bomb on my mums car, Krystal. Fuck!"
Krystal giggled covering her mouth with her hand slightly but was really curious about this bomb Fox mentioned.
"Fox?" Krystal said softly and Fox looked at her and said softly "uh y-yeah Krystal"
"Why were you thinking of.." Fox winced "crap she heard my thoughts about her" "..a bomb?"
Fox sighed in relief and Miyu and Fara snapped their attention back to Fox "Bomb?!" They both said shocked.
"yeah. This morning Mercury here found a bomb on my mothers car, he probably saved her life, no. Not probably, he did save her life. But yeah, My dad is having the military deal with it."
Mercury just shrugged and leaned back in his chair as the girls looked at him. "Still don't know who or why though" Mercury added putting his hands on his head as he looked up to the ceiling.
The girls al looked at each other with worried expressions, Fox put his head on the table and sighed loudly. "urge I hate death threats and attempted assassinations"
They they heard a sudden commotion as Bryan their dinosaur friend walked into the mess hall, his jumpsuit on with his greenbackpack and green laptop underneath his arm. He had ended up walking into The General and was apologising like crazy with bows and everything, he then hurriedly walked over and sat with the others.
"Hey everyone" he said casually acting like nothing had happened at all.
The others chuckled and then Bryan realised they had seen everything that just happened.
"What?! You try not to be apologetic when you bump into that thing!" He al it's shouted as he pointed to the General, he then put his laptop on the table.
But in two different places, on another planet and an entire armada of armadas of space cruisers... Different scenes were playing out...
Planet Venom, Pigma's private Office. 1 hour later.
"Okay Officer, tell me if this is correct" Andross said darkly, he was sat in Pigmas chair with Pigma himself by his side as he glared at the Ape officer in black uniform.
"You planted the bomb successfully... but on the WRONG CAR! Then, instead of keeping a unit on scene in case you needed to manually detonate the core, you Didn't! And the bomb didn't go off, but is now in possession of the Cornerians which could cause big trouble for us if they track it back to us... Is that correct?!"
The large ape shifted and averted his gaze to the floor "Yes Lord Andross..."
Andross kept the smiling going for a while, while sweat rolled down the ape officers face and dropped onto the floor. After a few minutes, Andross pressed a yellow button on Pigmas table. "Send O'Donnell in please" he said bluntly.
The officers eyes widened in fear as he heard those words, if Fang was called in then you were probably going to be executed on the spot.
"P-Please my Lord! I can fix this! It won't be tracked back to us, I can make a small unit to pose as anti-aliens who tried to kill the alien! Please let me live and I can fix this!" Andross simply smiled darkly as the large black door of Pigmas office opened and in stepped Fang O'Donnell.
He smiled darkly before quickly coming up behind the officer and putting a knife to his throat, waiting for Andross to give his order.
"He is no us-"
"Please let me li-" A loud splitting sound rang out and then the sound of a liquid drippings d spraying onto the floor... The Officers lifeless body dropped to the floor and Fanf just sneered and cleaned his knife as Andross stood and Pigma looked at the mess in his office now...
"You stupid cunt monkey! Why do you have to always kill them INSIDE my office!" Pigma thought but dare to not say outloud, even with Andross out of sight.
Human Fleet. HMS Hope control room.
Admiral Anders stood facing out the large window of the control room, watching the endless void of darkness with its millions of stars. He sighed softly, he then heard approaching footsteps...
"Captain Anders" The voice of a middle aged officer said.
"Yes Commander Grylls?"
"The last parts required for the rescue ship have been mined up, they are being loaded up as we speak and will be here within the next two days. Then construction can begin which take approximately 3 days"
Anders smiled and said happily "Very good, thank you for the info Grylls" The commander nodded and walked off and Anders looked back to the stars and thought to himself "Don't worry Mercury. Five more days then the ship will be ready... You'll be back to us within the next two weeks... I promise you... And I hope so too... Aura needs you here. It's so close to happening..."
Ta-da the chapter is finally done, and once again, SORRY! For taking sooooooo long but yeah, stuff breaking was a very bad thing xP
well I hope you enjoyed, leave a review, lemme know how I did and etc.
Till next time... Stay safe :D
-Mr Foxer