Brig: 2:23 Am
The following morning came with little sleep to the entire crew. Falco woke in the middle of the night and couldn't remember what he did. He looked around the cell then down at himself. He stood up and almost fell to the floor as he did. His legs felt like jell-o. He sat in one spot till the others woke up, till someone came and talked to him.
Brig 7:30 Am
James walked in to the brig and looked to Falco. He said nothing as he grabbed a chair and pushed it to the cell bars just out of his reach. Sitting down all he did was staring at Falco waiting for something to be said.
"Why am I here?" Falco finally snapped.
"You committed a crime and will be brought to Corneria." James spoke solemnly.
"A crime, what did I do? Sleep the wrong way?" Falco growled getting to his feet grabbing the cell bars tightly.
"No, you attacked Krystal, again, this time no one stopped you." James spoke softly still not letting his anger get a hold of him.
"What?" Falco looked to James like he was lying. "I was asleep till just a little while ago. How? When?"
"Yesterday, we are bringing you back to Corneria. Where you will get help," James stood. "We chose this route ourselves because we don't want to lose you. I am sorry Falco, but I have to take your pilot license away."
"WHAT! NO!" Falco growled trying to shake the bars. "Flying is my life you can't do that!"
"Until Cornerian Doctors fix what is wrong you can not fly." James stood and spoke before walking out of the brig and heading to the bridge.
Falco growled and roared out in anger stomping and kicking the bars. He had a reason to be angry. He soon sat down and put his face into his hands and started to cry, not for losing his license but for what he did to Krystal. She was like a sister to him and he did that to her. He knew he would never get her trust again, not after this. He doesn't remember anything but he knew James wasn't lying.
Bridge 8:15 Am
James walked in to the bridge to find Rob, Slippy, and Peppy flying the ship back to Corneria. Peppy looked over and sighed softly before getting up. He walked to James as they started to speak quietly so Slippy did not hear.
"So how did it go?" Peppy asked.
"Better then I had planned, though he was not happy. I just hope they can help him. He is a good guy, it wouldn't be right that he loses everything because of something so unnatural." James growled before moving to sit down. "How much longer till we get to the base?"
"In about two hours." Peppy spoke softly. "We will unload Falco from the brig and get him in to the building before we get Krystal out and in. Pepper knows we are coming and Falco is going right to medical. If we knew sooner he was affected we wouldn't have waited till it was too late to get him help."
Benerian space: 8:00 Am
"Panther, Ready!"
"Leon, Ready!"
"Good, we only get one chance don't mess up, Panther you're the fastest on foot, get in there and get him out, Leon and I will cover you."
"Roger"
"Roger"
Three black Arwings flew in to into the Benerian Orbit in stealth before breaking into the atmosphere and lowering to find their target. The Benerian air base closed in quickly. Leon and Wolf took flight ahead and started to attack the base by air without letting up.
The base alarms went off and troops ran to protect it. Not many made it to there ship and few took off to fight back. Panther landed behind the building in the shadows and jumped out. Looking up Panther saw Leon chasing other ships not giving them a chance to fight back.
Panther found entrance door to the building and slipped inside. He snaked his way down the halls quickly and quietly. He found himself in a large room with a statue of a Benerian queen, a tiger, standing tall and proud. He looked the statue over his eyes going soft before he shook the feeling he had away. The room looked like a large cylinder and he was at the top looking over the railing to a one hundred foot drop. Walking to the stairs he noticed there were none they were pulled in to the wall for security.
He smiled and looked around before finding a fire hose in the wall. He pulled it out and dropped it down to the lower floor over the railing. Slipping up over he gripped the hose with his legs and flipped upside down and slide down pulling his guns shooting anyone that was near or could be a threat. He stopped his head inches from the floor and looked around before palming the floor and flipping to his feet and walking down the hall to the jail.
With the alarms going off and people running to protect the building very few people were around to stop him from his walk down the hall. Taking out only a few guards that blocked the main entrance of the jail he slipped inside. He became face to face with a group of twelve individuals, each with a plasma rifle pointed at him.
He smiled and raised his hands slowly, guns still in hand. He dropped to his one knee and looked up smiling again as he brought his arms down to lay both guns down. With in a split second he shot the light out over the men and tumbled to the side. The twelve men opened fired on the spot he was in. When they stopped all they could hear was the ringing of their guns and Panthers laugh as his glowing yellow eyes could see everything in the room with the little light that entered from the holes on the doors.
He snuck around the men and then took them all out quickly leaving them where they landed before he started down the hall once more. He walked a little way down and stopped kicking a foot forward and turning himself on the balls of his other foot before placing his foot down in a large step forward. He knocked ever so courteously on the door that was in front of him.
"Knock, Knock!" Panther purred out before hearing someone move to the door.
"Who is there?" A rough voice sounded
"The devil in velvet fur, and you better stand back." Panther smiled while talking placing putty like substance on the door only to step back a few feet to the side and have the door fly off the hinges.
"There is an entrance for you," Came a rough voice through the dust just before a siren went off warning of an escape. "Panther you sure know how to over do it."
"Thank you Hawk now let's go!" Panther spoke tossing Hawk a gun as he started down the hall.
They both ran down the hall and out of the jail still heading to the main room with the statue. There was almost no one in their way for the entire escape, due to the face everyone was outside fighting off Leon, and Wolf. The few that did stop them went down quick, most of them being shot before having the chance to make a move. They climbed the hose quickly and got over the railing and headed outside. Once outside they saw a rather gruesome battle scene.
Plane, jets, and air ship littered the ground, burning and smoldering. Creature lay wounded or dead on the ground. Hawk shook his head and ran behind panther to his Arwing. They climbed in, buckled, and took to the sky as quickly as possible only have a few interfering shots thrown at them.
Once in the sky they took to orbit quickly and were closely followed by Wolf and Leon out of the atmosphere and away from the planet as quickly as possible. Their next stop was home base of the thieves' colony.
Great Fox II: 11:00 Am
An alarm went off signaling an incoming transmission. Peppy jumped lightly from his little nap and looked to his work panel turning on the transmission. James looked up as the large window filled with two pictures. One picture was of General Pepper and the other with General Birch.
"General Pepper here, with an urgent call from General Birch."
"Yes at roughly 800 hours today a three man party attack, infiltrated, and broke out Hawk Rangard, the criminal you brought in a few weeks back. Why they did it we do not know at this moment, nor do we know who."
"You want us to Find Hawk and arrest him again, as well as his helpers" James spoke out holding his head high.
"Yes, if that is possible, if not then the job is to terminate said targets" General Birch spoke out again sounding very quiet tone. "We hope you could do this job. If you take the job the reward will be great, though it is undetermined at this time."
"That is fine sir we will take the job and discuss payment later." James stood and saluted getting a salute back from each before General Birch closed transmission. "General Pepper, while I still have you may we have clearance to land? We are bringing team members in for help."
"Yes, James, I will clear you right now so you can land, do you need any help after landing?" Pepper spoke sounding awfully stern.
"Unfortunately sir, we will need a jail cell." James dropped his head; it was almost painful to say that. "We have a person needing lock up and help."
Pepper nodded solemnly, knowing who it was already and saluted before closing the channel without any other words spoken. It was almost like he knew what happened before it was even told to him.
"Prepare for landing, take Falco's Arwing off and place it in the Cornerian base hangar, be ready for take off when, Fox, Krystal and I return. I don't want to be down here longer then we have to be."
They landed around 12:00pm and everything went according to plan. Falco was pulled off and brought to the jail cell that was requested for him. Krystal walked off with Fox fallowing James. They were heading to a much needed appointment with a Cornerian doctor. They only hoped that she was ok and nothing bad had happened.
