LII. Old Love, New Enemy?

Fox sighed looking at the item Krystal had given him what seemed to be ages ago..It was a replica of her staff and they were the only two with them. "So much for being there for her.." He muttered to himself afraid of what was next to come, this was a much harder hit than the Anglar could attempt on him.

"Fox come on we need to get back to business! We've run into some Anglar." Falco yelled. They were out in the middle of space now and nobody could hear a call for backup if they needed it. "Alright I'm coming.." Fox finally said in a tone Falco had never heard before. Fox got into his Arwing and headed out to wherever the Anglar may be.

"I can't see anything out here other than rocks.." Fox sighed about to give up on the search, maybe the radar was glitched. "Must be they all have disappeared.." Slippy replied watching most of the dots fade quickly. "Wait you hear that?" Falco asked then looked up seeing someone else had started their work for them almost half a mile above them.

"Who could they be?" Falco asked but coming closer it seemed to be Star Wolf. "Hello Falco.." Leon snarled seeing his Arwing from the corner of his eye. "Falco's here?!" Krystal asked sounding surprised and slightly excited at the same time. She didn't know Fox and Slippy were there too. "The whole team's here to ruin our fun.." Wolf said seeing the other two Arwings. Apparently Star Wolf wanted to have some practice on the Anglar in this area. "Come on let's just leave here, they've beat us to it." Fox tried to say before Slippy's ship was taking fire from Wolf. "Not too fast Fox..You'll be more challenging than these scrubs." Wolf told them. "Yes and we have the upperhand again..Your old girlfriend joined us Fox.." Leon hissed at him in the normal tone.

Fox didn't want to believe Falco earlier when he had told him but now he had to accept that Krystal was against him now and probably even hated him and hate wasn't even in her dictionary before now. "Krystal.." He muttered to himself sighing not knowing what to do, he could stall and not shoot at the person who meant the most to him and eventually get destroyed or he could fire at her and make things worse between them. Fox just wanted to make amends at this point because he knew he needed her. "Oh she won't be needing you anymore.." Panther growled at him, Fox didn't even know they could hear him until it was too late.

The truth was she wanted to make amends too and get over this, after hours of being with Star Wolf she felt herself beginning to change slightly every moment. "I'll take Fox by myself." She told her new team bringing gasps and chuckles from everyone, Fox stayed silent. "She really hates your guts now..She'll roast you!" Wolf laughed, even though he wanted to be the one to take Fox down this would just add insult to his terrible injuries. She was reading his mind and emotions feeling that he was in the same pain as she was and maybe even worse. She chose to go for Fox knowing his current emotional state would make him weak especially against her.

Her new team agreed to leave Fox to her until they finished off Falco and Slippy expecting her to actually try against her old love. The dogfight begun the second Wolf gave his commands with Falco firing at all four of the ships before flying off at top speed, trying to just fly in and out of the battle doing as much damage as he could. Slippy followed Falco at a much slower rate becoming a distraction for the avian to fly by again doing some more damage to Leon, Panther and Wolf's ships. Next was the hardest decision, Fox against Krystal and the two had just sat there in shock for the past twenty seconds, shocked by their situation.

Finally Krystal made the first move not even able to imagine what her new team would do to her if she didn't do anything at all. Fox was hit and snapped back into his senses, deciding to evade her to try and hopefully save their friendship at the least part of him knowing she didn't hate him or dislike him at all. He tried his hardest to dodge her fire, miraculously dodging every shot (Although she wasn't even trying).

While Fox and Krystal were wasting their time the real battle ensued with Slippy and Falco already putting one Wolfen out of action. It was Panther's, he had made the mistake of trying to find Falco other than just putting Slippy out of action first. "Krystal how's the battle over there?" Panther asked her, starting conversation because he had nothing else to do. "I've got him on the run but I can't hit him." She tried to sound like she was trying but she wasn't.

The fight was finally even, Falco and Slippy could finally chose a different plan. "Slip take Wolf..I'll take Leon." Falco ordered. "Why do I have to take Wolf..that's Fox's job!" Slippy whined. "Because Fox is fighting Krystal..Go thank him for kicking her off of the team." Falco said back getting a lock on Leon and grinning. "Oof!" Falco yelled out as his Arwing shook wildly. One of Krystal's shots had hit Falco accidentally but she couldn't say she would regret that after all she put up with from him.

Fox sighed knowing his place now. As the leader he had to do his job no matter what it affected and here it affected his hopeful future friend. Fox turned quick and finally fired the first laser hitting her ship severely, causing major damage with just one shot. He could take her out of this fight now but couldn't manage to pull the trigger on her. She however was furious at the vulpine's sudden attack and fired at him out of primal rage. She hadn't known what she had done until it was too late. Fox's cockpit started blinking red and a blaring siren turned on signalling to him that he was in trouble. "I've gotta bail..I'm sorry guys." Fox said for the first time in his career as he put what power he could into the thrusters and headed off towards the Great Fox, hoping Krystal would show mercy and not shoot him while he headed back.

"Nice job Krystal..I guess he trained you too well.." Wolf chuckled fighting off Slippy's ship with ease. "Come help me get this bird down next.." Leon grunted while pulling up as hard as he could. Falco was causing him problems. All they could hear was a loud noise from her and her ship sat still. Krystal couldn't control herself and had covered the voice receptor so she could cry without getting attention. Fox had only done this for her safety and she knew it yet she still kept hurting him and it wasn't helping. If she could survive it she would leave Star Wolf very soon, she was scared that they would actually go berserk if she had just quit them after joining.

Wolf abandoned the fight with Slippy to help out Leon against Falco. Falco never saw it coming and his ship couldn't recover and soon it was three versus one. Slippy knew he couldn't do it so he decided he should bail and not waste the money to repair even further damage. "See ya coward" Wolf laughed at Slippy firing as much as he could trying to hit the retreating Arwing. Star Wolf now had an edge on the Star Fox team and had also won two in a row counting their surprise attack.

Star Wolf headed back towards their newest space base to relish in their newest victory while Fox and his team sat in the Great Fox plotting out their next location and not focusing on anything except fighting the Anglar.

-Author's Note: It's late..very late so I might've left a couple of spelling errors in this..But what I read seemed fine..but I do know I mispelled words like using knew when i meant new and etc...I think I caught them all..Alert me if i didn't. Hope you enjoy this chapter and hopefully next chapter to come soon..I'm starting to get into a "Groove" of things. Thanks for Reading!-