Before we get on with the story I have a few announcements to make...First off, I will no longer continue this story. I have simply lost inspiration for it and am moving on to other ideas. I would like to apologize to all the readers who enjoyed this story. I'm sorry to let you down.

For those who liked this story...Relax I was just joking, I fucking love this story too much to just abandoned it.

on a serious note thought, next week I will be leaving for Texas for a year to help out my grandfather take care of his land and a lot of hard manual labor from sun up to sun down. so needless to say a lot of my time will be taken up and i wont be able to sit down in bed all day and type like I have done. Ep. 1 is completely finished so dont worry about that. I will still try to post ever week if not than it will be once every two weeks. I promise I will never leave you guys hanging for a months at a time, because that annoys the hell out of me when I'm trying to read a good story and its half done and i have to wait a month for the next chapter. I know people dont do it on purpose but it still annoys me.

I have parts of Ep. 2 and Ep. 3 already written and have many ideas for future episodes, so dont worry about this story never getting finished, future ep. will be late as i said as most of my time will be taken up.

all right I'm sure you all are like "Hurry up already and get to the damn story!"

okay here we go-Say that with heath ledger's joker voice and it sounds a lot cooler

Ch. 19

The Meeting

The world leaders were flown to the top secret base in California. They were all very confused as to why the sudden meeting and secrecy. They were only told that the meeting was to talk about a grand world changing event, not every single world leader could arrive, but the majority did. Some were very curious about this grand world changing event that was so important that they were quickly called away from their countries. Some of them already began thinking about what it was. The thoughts ranged from new defense systems to new medical discoveries. Out of all the world leaders that arrived, not one of them thought that it would be about an Alien encounter.

The world leaders began to converse with each other while they patiently waited for someone to explain what was going on. That's when they noticed a camera crew setting up cameras. After what felt like thirty minutes, president Rushford and Col. Ryan walked into the large room. The UK world leader started to speak up.

"Alright chaps, here we are. Now what's with all this talk and secrecy…And the cameras?" He asked, some of the world leaders who couldn't speak English brought their translators with them, who started to translate what other people were saying.

"Gentlemen, let me first off thank each and every one of you for making the long trip here, I'm sorry for not explaining more about what this meeting is about…But trust me when I tell you, you won't be sorry for coming. This man next to me is Col. Joseph Ryan, he is a very good and close personal friend of mine, and he is in charge of what we are calling Project Contact. I'll let him explain things from here." Ryan nodded to the President and stepped forth.

"Gentlemen, what I'm about to tell you might be hard to believe. I ask that you keep an open mind to what I'm about to tell you, hold all questions till the end and they will be answered, as for the cameras, this is a world changing event and the world has the right to know…How many of you believe in Aliens?" He asked, suddenly just as he suspected the room was filled with laughter. Suddenly the World leader of Nigeria stood up.

"You brought us here to talk about Extraterrestrials? I missed my daughter's recital lesson for this?" He asked. Soon many of the other world leaders started to make similar claims.

"Gentlemen please listen." Ryan spoke, "Trust me, I know how it sounds, being brought all the way from home to talk about Aliens must seem like a ludacris idea." Some of the World leaders nodded their head in agreement. "But they are real, and we have made contact with one…Gentlemen this is what she came to Earth in." He said and walked over to a hand print device, he placed his hand on it and heard a beep, then then metal doors opened and the World leaders gasped at Krystal's Arwing.

"She crash landed here after being attacked by other Alien life forms…As you can see we tried our best to restore her Arwing, as she calls it to working condition. Only to find out from her that we just don't have the technology to do so. She has been here on Earth for two months…Gentlemen; I would like you to meet Krystal."

Suddenly the World leaders were shocked to find a humanoid blue Fox walk into view, the whole area was silent. It was so quiet that if a pin had dropped it would have sounded like a grenade going off. The camera crew had all their cameras pointed at Krystal. Nearly everyone in the whole world gasped, as Krystal approached the stage. Krystal clearly noticed the silence stares and started to get a bit of stage fright, she took a deep breath and walked over to Ryan and shook his hand, she then turned to the crowd of shocked faces.

"Hello." She said, "I…I'm Krystal, and as you can clearly tell, I am an Alien. I belong to a Star system just next door to yours called the Lylat system, home to many species of Aliens you would call humanoid animals. As you can see, I am a Humanoid Vixen or Female Fox for those who don't know. I have the same emotions that you have, I can laugh, cry, hate and love just as you can. During my stay here, I have discovered that we are much alike; the only difference is how we look." Krystal noticed how the leaders still had shocking looks on their faces.

"I was asked to tell a story about myself and how I came to Earth…The thing is to know where to start my story. The obvious start is the beginning…But I don't know where the begging part of this story starts at…I guess to start by saying that I am a mercenary, two years ago I belonged to a militarized Mercenary team called Star Fox. Some personal things happened and I left my old team to be on my own. For two years I acted alone on missions that required my certain skill set. On one my Arwing was damaged to the point of destruction. My only chance of survival was to enter Slip space and go to the nearest Star System. Your Sol system came up and I headed here. Upon leaving Slip space my ship lost its power and I crash landed here on Earth." Krystal looked over to find Josh watching her, she smiled at him and he returned the smile with his own. Krystal then returned to the crowd.

"I had lost conciseness when I crashed into a lake, it was there I was saved by my dear friend Joshua Nathanial Grant." She held out her hand telling him to come next to her, Josh looked at all the people and gulped, he made his way to Krystal and then look back at the crowd.

"Hello." He said, "I'm Josh Grant." He said nervously and took a step back for Krystal to finish talking.

"Josh pulled me out of my crashed Arwing and brought me to the safety of his home, where I stayed for two months, trying to fix a communicator which would allow me to call for an emergency ride off of the planet. While I was here, I learned so much of your way of life and discovered that it wasn't all that different from how people in Lylat live."

Back at Ms. Evergreen's apartment she watched the TV and noticed Josh and the Alien who had the same name as Josh's female friend, suddenly the realization hit her and she sat back in her chair.

"I knew it…She was way too innocent." She said and turned the TV off before taking a nap.

"With my Arwing satellite in working condition I have sent a distress call to the Lylat system and will wait patiently until a ship arrives to pick me up, along with my Earthly protector Josh Grant." Krystal said, leaving out the part where Ryan had them kidnapped, although they know that it wasn't his plan for it to go down the way it did. Josh had then blushed when Krystal called him her protector.

"Under much discussion, Josh Grant will be the ambassador for Earth and will meet with the Lylat galactic government council, who will discuss terms for what is called Galactic contact." Krystal lied. She had no idea if the council would do that or not, only time would tell.

After Krystal was finished with her speech she and Col. Ryan answered any questions the World leaders had, needless to say they had a lot of questions to ask. Most of them were about technology a few more were about her Arwing and its weaponry. Some of the leaders were rather upset that the US made such a world changing decision without letting them know, some of them wanted someone else to be the Ambassador for Earth. That was when Krystal firmly told them that Josh would be the one going with her and no other will take his place.

After that was cleared up, the leaders continued to ask their questions. Nearly the whole night had passed before all the questions were done. The leaders left the base as did the camera crew. The world knew about Krystal and the Lylat system. Ryan knew that soon the world would want to ask more questions and want to be more involved, however that would be for another time.

Krystal was sitting in the cafeteria area eating a sandwich, she was so nervous through the entire meeting that she didn't feel like sleeping, even though she had stayed up all day and night. Josh was asleep in his bedroom but seeing how she couldn't sleep, she gently got out of bed so she wouldn't wake him and made her way down to get a snack. As she ate she started to think about the ride back to Lylat. She hadn't been back to Lylat in two years, but it wasn't Lylat she was afraid of seeing again. It was the chance that she would see Fox again.

If they made their way back to Lylat and Fox found her, she wouldn't know what to do, let alone with Josh next to her. How would the two act, they were so much alike personality wise, Josh was so protective of her. She could feel it every time they were together, every time they hugged and kissed she could feel him wrapping his arms around her protectively, just as Fox always did...What if by chance that they do end up meeting Fox and the two men fight. Krystal sighed and tried to rid her mind of the thought.

The chance of them running into Fox was very low; she had nothing to worry about. Krystal took another bite of her sandwich and was about to finish it when suddenly loud siren like alarms started to go off, the sound frightened Krystal and caused her to nearly fall out of her chair.

'What the hell!?' She thought and quickly stood up, a few moments later Krystal noticed guards running past the hallway outside the cafeteria. Krystal quickly made her way to the hallway.

"Hey what's going on?" Krystal asked, none of the guards seemed to pay her any mind as they ran past her.

"Krystal!" She heard someone call out, she turned around and noticed Josh and Col. Ryan quickly approaching her, Ryan was still dressed in his ceremonial outfit. It was undone and he didn't have a tie, Josh was wearing the usual white T-shirt and white pants. His hair was sticking up a little bit and he looked like the alarm woke him up out of a peaceful dream.

"What's going on?" She asked Ryan with a confused and worried look.

"It's the satellite warning system we secretly put up sometime after we found your ship, something is entering Earth's atmosphere." He said. Krystal and Josh looked at each other and knew their time on Earth was over. A guard approached Ryan and handed him Krystal's communicator device.

"As you asked for sir." He said, Ryan took the device and in turn handed it to Krystal

Ryan, Josh and Krystal made their way to the observation room of the base; Ryan approached a long wide panel filled with buttons and knobs. In front of the panel were three wide windows; on the other side of the windows was the base's hanger. The hanger had to at least be a mile wide as well as a mile high. Ryan pushed a series of buttons and they all watched as a holo screen popped up. Ryan began pushing more buttons and a video feed appeared on the holo screen. It was the night time sky with a little bit of daylight on the horizon.

"Krystal, if you would turn the device on." Ryan said without looking her way. Krystal looked at the device and pushed the power button. A few lights started to come on and a green light was flashing, meaning she was in range of someone's ship. Krystal pressed the flashing button and then there was static coming in through the speaker. She then pushed the button next to it.

"Hello?" She called out, "This is Krystal…Please respond." The static continued and then she noticed on the holo screen the darkened outline of a large ship was coming in, it seemed only like a blur and they couldn't make it out. Krystal looked back at the device with her heart beating nervously.

"This is Krystal, please come in." only static was heard. The blur on the screen got larger as it came closer to the base. Krystal was so nervous and anxious that she was breathing fast and heavy out loud. Josh noticed and placed his hand on her shoulder. She looked at him with mixed emotions.

"Just keep trying Krystal." He told her. She nodded and looked back at the device.

"Hello, if you can hear me please respond." She said and then suddenly the static stopped, letting everyone know that whoever she was speaking to was about to talk. The whole room went silent; Josh and Ryan looked at Krystal. She nervously looked at the communicator and held her breath.

"Krystal." A male voice quietly called out through the communicator speaker. Krystal released all the air she was holding in with a loud relieving sigh, she pressed the talk button.

"Yes, I'm Krystal. Thank God you answered my message…Do you still have my ships location?" She asked and removed her finger from the button and static filled the room again. After a few seconds the static stopped.

"Yes I have your location. It's coming from a mountain." The male said. Krystal pushed the talk button and spoke.

"Yes, it's a secret military base." She said and then Ryan turned back to the control panel and pushed another button and then they watched as the large hanger doors slowly started to open, "The doors are opening so you can land your ship." Krystal released the button and waited for the person to respond.

"Well will be there very shortly…Krystal." The voice said. Krystal then noticed how the voice sounded a bit familiar. Krystal pressed the talk button.

"Just curious…Who am I talking to?" She asked and removed her finger from the talk button. A few moments passed before the voice answered.

"Krystal." The voice said, "It's me." He said. Krystal suddenly let out a soft gasp. She turned to the holo screen to see the ship much more clearly and could tell what it looked like.

"No…No, no, no, no." She said and dropped the communicator; Josh placed his hands on her and gently turned her to face him.

"Krystal what's wrong?" He asked and noticed her panicking face as she continued to look at the holo screen of the ship. More so she was looking at the top fin like structure of the ship, which had a red painting of a winged fox.

"No, no, no." She said and her hands moved to Josh's forearms. Josh started to get worried.

"Krystal talk to me!" He said in a stern voice which got her attention. She looked away from the holo screen and into Josh's eyes. "What's wrong?" He asked. Krystal felt her whole being break and she looked back at the holo screen.

"I know who this is." She said, Josh placed his left hand on her right cheek and started to rub the blue fur with his thumb.

"Who is it?" He asked and looked into her eyes which were showing mixed feelings. She said only one word, a name and then closed her eyes and Josh noticed a tear falling down them. The name she called out echoed in his head…Fox.