Disclaimer: I don't own StarFox or the characters created by Nintendo.
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Introduction: I wrote this because if I continued on my other story, then things will get a lot less action-y. Everything is different, well, almost everything. Erm. History changed because some weird dude messed with a time machine. Yeah.
"Aaargh! Stupid rubbish!" Fox threw his warp drive design against the wall of the hanger and watched it smash into little pieces. Peppy shook his head and laughed.
"Impatient, just like your dad, how typical. Whenever he couldn't do something right, he'd throw something against the wall. Good job, Fox, and that one actually started up," Peppy tossed a metal nut into the air and caught it again, crossing his large feet on the bench.
"I don't know what's the problem. Whenever I try to use it to transport this pencil, it always fries it up," Fox picked up a smoking piece of wood, "I would not like to be this little guy."
"Hey, it works, doesn't it?" Peppy threw the nut into the bin and heard it clang noisily.
"Sort of. Maybe I should make it less powerful."
"You took the words right out of my mouth, how nice of you."
"You're a horrible liar, Peppy."
"I know."
Fox took another generator from Rob and starting tinkering up on it. After a few seconds of banging, Fox switched it on.
"Eh?" Peppy watched as Fox tied the pencil onto the shell and pressed a button. A whir and a flash later, the warp drive moved itself and the pencil a few yards onto another table.
"YES! Oh, yeah, oh, yeah!" Fox did a little jig and took the pencil off the warp drive and threw it at Peppy, "How's that look?"
"Hmm?" Peppy looked at the yellow piece of wood from every angle known to hare, "Yeah, it looks fine."
"Cool," Fox started molding a frame for the warp drive, "I think I will be a good testing day tomorrow."
**
"Do you really think this is a good idea?" Peppy asked nervously as Fox powered up the engine to the Great Fox.
"You need some time off from work, you said it yourself! Maybe we should go to Zoness and blow some money off at the yogurt stands."
"Please don't fly so fast," Peppy murmured as he was thrown backward in his seat. Fox flipped a switch and a second later; they were soaring out of the skies of Corneria.
"I can't remember the last time I saw space," Fox said, looking at the bright dot that was Katina. Behind the brown planet, stars twinkled just like Fox's own emerald eyes.
"I think I can," Peppy gulped, "Is this gonna hurt?"
"Maybe. Most likely, yeah," Fox smiled as he punched a button. Peppy heard the warp drive power up.
"I am really gonna regret this." Peppy said as he felt himself get zapped into space.
***
"Ugh, what is this?" Krystal asked in disgust, pointing at an orange ball of mushy stuff that smelled really weird.
"Mashed carrots, your majesty," Kohan said, digging his fork into the mound. Krystal pretended to retch. Kohan sighed and muttered under his breath, "If only Queen Rainer had given birth to a male, then I wouldn't be in this mess of bad discipline."
"I heard that, Kohan. You're fired," Krystal said sternly. Kohan went stalk white. The Queen cracked up upon hearing him stutter excuses, "Oh, I'm kidding. Besides, I didn't even hear what you were saying. And another thing, Cerinian jurisdiction says that I can't fire a peoples' representative."
"Well, at least you're coming along well in your studies," Kohan puffed. Krystal shrugged and poked her salmon.
"I'm going out for the day. Don't you dare send guards after me, or else I swear I'm going to impale them with my staff," Krystal warned. Shoving her fork deep into the fish, she hooked out a huge piece of it, nearly three quarters of it all, and put it in her mouth and started chewing. Kohan shuddered.
"Please, your majesty, we have guests," Kohan pointed at Duke Thunderby, who was really gray for a blue fox with only four canine teeth, "This may be your chance to get to know the duke."
"Huh! I will not!" Krystal said, swallowing the fish and shoving the rest in her mouth, "I told you that I'm going out for the day. Don't, I say, don't follow me, Kohan. I really can stab you with a sharp object, you know. I didn't spend a third of my life in the woods for fun."
"Yeah, yeah," Kohan muttered, "I would've much preferred if you had spent at least a second a day learning manners."
"What was that?"
"Oh, nothing, your royal majesty."
"Cut that crap, Kohan, I hate that."
"Don't swear!" Kohan hissed. Krystal rolled her eyes and stormed away without saying another word.
***
"Hmm, is it just me or does Zoness look a bit bluer than usual?" Fox peered at the planet now before them.
"And since when does it have two moons?" Peppy asked, then gasped, "You IDIOT! You got us into some new planet! I thought you wanted to go to Zoness!"
"Uh, I did. I think I overdid the power combining sequence."
"Okay, now lets just figure out where we are," Peppy scrunched up his face, trying very hard not to burst out crying or panic.
"I'm checking for familiar constellations. Uh, oh," Fox muttered as the screen to the computer said "No matches found".
"We're done for. Not only are we near the wrong planet, we're in the wrong system, too."
"Sorry, Pep. Just gimme a second, I'll see if I can warp us back to Corneria," Fox pressed a few buttons and the computer said "Not enough fuel cells for warp".
"In so many ways this is going wrong," Peppy smashed his head on the control panel.
"What can I say? Oh yeah, here's one: Whoops," Fox groaned, "We should look for raw fuel deposits down on that planet. I think I looks rich in minerals." Fox pressed a few buttons on the computer, analyzing the planet.
"Fine, Fox, but you're gonna have your hide ripped off of you if this gets any worse."
"By who?" Fox asked. Peppy glared at him angrily. Fox shivered a bit, "Never mind."
***
Krystal slipped on her tunic again, and making sure that she smudged her fur in the dirt a bit to make it a bit darker, went out the gate after jumping the window again.
Hoping that he merchant had stayed for a while, Krystal raced down to the village and asked the peasants if he was seen.
"Nay, I don't think he stayed. I think you should asked around the hotels, but I don't think he stayed there, either. Merchants like to move around, you know," a shop owner said, "Uh, and get yourself washed while you're at it. You've been working up in the mountain mines, I would suppose?"
"Erm, yeah," Krystal said, suddenly gloomy again. The merchant had left. Thanking the shopkeeper anyway, Krystal made her way to the forest. The mountains were to the north. So the royal kingdom looked like this: North: Mountain range; West: Ocean; South: Plains and roads; East: The village and the forest. She didn't have time to reach the mountains and come back to the palace before nightfall, so she decided to wander around in the woods.
Overgrown trails and grassy clearings were a part of the forest, and Krystal especially like to go to the springs, where a stream from the mountains goes into the forest, but cuts west toward the ocean when it meets a steep hill. The stream ended into a waterfall before becoming a wide river and flowing west, and that's where Krystal went to think. It was peaceful, since no one had found the place except for her.
"Mmm," Krystal hummed a tune as she dipped her feet into the cool pond of the waterfall. There weren't any leeches, and Krystal was thankful for that. Sliding off her tunic, she dived into the pond and swam around, occasionally drifting this way and that, making sure every half hour that nobody was peeking in one her. Krystal wasn't embarrassed about being naked in a pool; it's just that Kohan was sure to send guards after her.
***
"Hey, there's a landing spot, over there, by the river and the waterfall," Fox pointed.
"Okay, but set her down quietly, Fox, I think that's a city over there."
"Define quietly."
"The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that being quiet is 'accomplishing a task using the least amount of noise'."
"Good enough," Fox shrugged as he tipped the Great Fox over the clearing and shut off the engines. He miscalculated the height of the Great Fox and the ship bumped down with a thud. At least it didn't carry far enough for the villagers to hear, but someone else with pointy, blue ears did.
***
"Huh? What was that?" Krystal asked herself. Thinking that Kohan was as bad as his word, she hid herself behind the waterfall, forgetting her gray tunic on the west shore.
***
"Conceal that gun, Fox. We don't wanna upset the citizens of this fine planet," Peppy smiled. Fox snorted.
"I've seen prettier. That tree looks like a pile of dung!"
"Well, that just may be beauty around these parts," Peppy chuckled, jumping off the ship, "Maybe we should head west towards the city. And maybe they'll understand a few words we say."
"Just 'maybe'. That possibility is kinda low," Fox shrugged, strolling unconcernedly into the trees. He didn't walk fifty steps before he found the pond.
***
Krystal heard voices on the east bank, and she cowered between the splashing waterfall and the rocks behind it. There should've been a cave there, but it collapsed years ago. Krystal could now make out the words that they were saying.
".Wow, now you've got to admit that that's pretty, Fox."
"Yeah. I guess so. I feel like swimming, how 'bout you?"
"Don't we have to swim to get across?"
"I guess."
"Hey, what's that?"
Krystal heard splashing in the water. She mentally punched herself as she remembered her tunic. No matter, Kohan will fry for this.
**
A/N: This is actually beginning to sound good. I'm not planning on making this very action-y, so go away if you're a hardcore blood fan. I usually write about tragic losses of innocent lives. But this month, I don't really feel like it.
Introduction: I wrote this because if I continued on my other story, then things will get a lot less action-y. Everything is different, well, almost everything. Erm. History changed because some weird dude messed with a time machine. Yeah.
"Aaargh! Stupid rubbish!" Fox threw his warp drive design against the wall of the hanger and watched it smash into little pieces. Peppy shook his head and laughed.
"Impatient, just like your dad, how typical. Whenever he couldn't do something right, he'd throw something against the wall. Good job, Fox, and that one actually started up," Peppy tossed a metal nut into the air and caught it again, crossing his large feet on the bench.
"I don't know what's the problem. Whenever I try to use it to transport this pencil, it always fries it up," Fox picked up a smoking piece of wood, "I would not like to be this little guy."
"Hey, it works, doesn't it?" Peppy threw the nut into the bin and heard it clang noisily.
"Sort of. Maybe I should make it less powerful."
"You took the words right out of my mouth, how nice of you."
"You're a horrible liar, Peppy."
"I know."
Fox took another generator from Rob and starting tinkering up on it. After a few seconds of banging, Fox switched it on.
"Eh?" Peppy watched as Fox tied the pencil onto the shell and pressed a button. A whir and a flash later, the warp drive moved itself and the pencil a few yards onto another table.
"YES! Oh, yeah, oh, yeah!" Fox did a little jig and took the pencil off the warp drive and threw it at Peppy, "How's that look?"
"Hmm?" Peppy looked at the yellow piece of wood from every angle known to hare, "Yeah, it looks fine."
"Cool," Fox started molding a frame for the warp drive, "I think I will be a good testing day tomorrow."
**
"Do you really think this is a good idea?" Peppy asked nervously as Fox powered up the engine to the Great Fox.
"You need some time off from work, you said it yourself! Maybe we should go to Zoness and blow some money off at the yogurt stands."
"Please don't fly so fast," Peppy murmured as he was thrown backward in his seat. Fox flipped a switch and a second later; they were soaring out of the skies of Corneria.
"I can't remember the last time I saw space," Fox said, looking at the bright dot that was Katina. Behind the brown planet, stars twinkled just like Fox's own emerald eyes.
"I think I can," Peppy gulped, "Is this gonna hurt?"
"Maybe. Most likely, yeah," Fox smiled as he punched a button. Peppy heard the warp drive power up.
"I am really gonna regret this." Peppy said as he felt himself get zapped into space.
***
"Ugh, what is this?" Krystal asked in disgust, pointing at an orange ball of mushy stuff that smelled really weird.
"Mashed carrots, your majesty," Kohan said, digging his fork into the mound. Krystal pretended to retch. Kohan sighed and muttered under his breath, "If only Queen Rainer had given birth to a male, then I wouldn't be in this mess of bad discipline."
"I heard that, Kohan. You're fired," Krystal said sternly. Kohan went stalk white. The Queen cracked up upon hearing him stutter excuses, "Oh, I'm kidding. Besides, I didn't even hear what you were saying. And another thing, Cerinian jurisdiction says that I can't fire a peoples' representative."
"Well, at least you're coming along well in your studies," Kohan puffed. Krystal shrugged and poked her salmon.
"I'm going out for the day. Don't you dare send guards after me, or else I swear I'm going to impale them with my staff," Krystal warned. Shoving her fork deep into the fish, she hooked out a huge piece of it, nearly three quarters of it all, and put it in her mouth and started chewing. Kohan shuddered.
"Please, your majesty, we have guests," Kohan pointed at Duke Thunderby, who was really gray for a blue fox with only four canine teeth, "This may be your chance to get to know the duke."
"Huh! I will not!" Krystal said, swallowing the fish and shoving the rest in her mouth, "I told you that I'm going out for the day. Don't, I say, don't follow me, Kohan. I really can stab you with a sharp object, you know. I didn't spend a third of my life in the woods for fun."
"Yeah, yeah," Kohan muttered, "I would've much preferred if you had spent at least a second a day learning manners."
"What was that?"
"Oh, nothing, your royal majesty."
"Cut that crap, Kohan, I hate that."
"Don't swear!" Kohan hissed. Krystal rolled her eyes and stormed away without saying another word.
***
"Hmm, is it just me or does Zoness look a bit bluer than usual?" Fox peered at the planet now before them.
"And since when does it have two moons?" Peppy asked, then gasped, "You IDIOT! You got us into some new planet! I thought you wanted to go to Zoness!"
"Uh, I did. I think I overdid the power combining sequence."
"Okay, now lets just figure out where we are," Peppy scrunched up his face, trying very hard not to burst out crying or panic.
"I'm checking for familiar constellations. Uh, oh," Fox muttered as the screen to the computer said "No matches found".
"We're done for. Not only are we near the wrong planet, we're in the wrong system, too."
"Sorry, Pep. Just gimme a second, I'll see if I can warp us back to Corneria," Fox pressed a few buttons and the computer said "Not enough fuel cells for warp".
"In so many ways this is going wrong," Peppy smashed his head on the control panel.
"What can I say? Oh yeah, here's one: Whoops," Fox groaned, "We should look for raw fuel deposits down on that planet. I think I looks rich in minerals." Fox pressed a few buttons on the computer, analyzing the planet.
"Fine, Fox, but you're gonna have your hide ripped off of you if this gets any worse."
"By who?" Fox asked. Peppy glared at him angrily. Fox shivered a bit, "Never mind."
***
Krystal slipped on her tunic again, and making sure that she smudged her fur in the dirt a bit to make it a bit darker, went out the gate after jumping the window again.
Hoping that he merchant had stayed for a while, Krystal raced down to the village and asked the peasants if he was seen.
"Nay, I don't think he stayed. I think you should asked around the hotels, but I don't think he stayed there, either. Merchants like to move around, you know," a shop owner said, "Uh, and get yourself washed while you're at it. You've been working up in the mountain mines, I would suppose?"
"Erm, yeah," Krystal said, suddenly gloomy again. The merchant had left. Thanking the shopkeeper anyway, Krystal made her way to the forest. The mountains were to the north. So the royal kingdom looked like this: North: Mountain range; West: Ocean; South: Plains and roads; East: The village and the forest. She didn't have time to reach the mountains and come back to the palace before nightfall, so she decided to wander around in the woods.
Overgrown trails and grassy clearings were a part of the forest, and Krystal especially like to go to the springs, where a stream from the mountains goes into the forest, but cuts west toward the ocean when it meets a steep hill. The stream ended into a waterfall before becoming a wide river and flowing west, and that's where Krystal went to think. It was peaceful, since no one had found the place except for her.
"Mmm," Krystal hummed a tune as she dipped her feet into the cool pond of the waterfall. There weren't any leeches, and Krystal was thankful for that. Sliding off her tunic, she dived into the pond and swam around, occasionally drifting this way and that, making sure every half hour that nobody was peeking in one her. Krystal wasn't embarrassed about being naked in a pool; it's just that Kohan was sure to send guards after her.
***
"Hey, there's a landing spot, over there, by the river and the waterfall," Fox pointed.
"Okay, but set her down quietly, Fox, I think that's a city over there."
"Define quietly."
"The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that being quiet is 'accomplishing a task using the least amount of noise'."
"Good enough," Fox shrugged as he tipped the Great Fox over the clearing and shut off the engines. He miscalculated the height of the Great Fox and the ship bumped down with a thud. At least it didn't carry far enough for the villagers to hear, but someone else with pointy, blue ears did.
***
"Huh? What was that?" Krystal asked herself. Thinking that Kohan was as bad as his word, she hid herself behind the waterfall, forgetting her gray tunic on the west shore.
***
"Conceal that gun, Fox. We don't wanna upset the citizens of this fine planet," Peppy smiled. Fox snorted.
"I've seen prettier. That tree looks like a pile of dung!"
"Well, that just may be beauty around these parts," Peppy chuckled, jumping off the ship, "Maybe we should head west towards the city. And maybe they'll understand a few words we say."
"Just 'maybe'. That possibility is kinda low," Fox shrugged, strolling unconcernedly into the trees. He didn't walk fifty steps before he found the pond.
***
Krystal heard voices on the east bank, and she cowered between the splashing waterfall and the rocks behind it. There should've been a cave there, but it collapsed years ago. Krystal could now make out the words that they were saying.
".Wow, now you've got to admit that that's pretty, Fox."
"Yeah. I guess so. I feel like swimming, how 'bout you?"
"Don't we have to swim to get across?"
"I guess."
"Hey, what's that?"
Krystal heard splashing in the water. She mentally punched herself as she remembered her tunic. No matter, Kohan will fry for this.
**
A/N: This is actually beginning to sound good. I'm not planning on making this very action-y, so go away if you're a hardcore blood fan. I usually write about tragic losses of innocent lives. But this month, I don't really feel like it.