Chapter 9: Deranged Tapestries
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Wolf opened his eye, slowly at first, letting his sight adjust to the luminosity. He was
staring straight into a bright white light which filled his vision completely as though it
were a shining sun twelve inches from his face.
The stunned wolf came to his senses, realizing what had happened the previous moment
he was cognate. He tried to move his arms, something was holding him down. His face
tensed as he jerked around a bit, he couldn't move his legs either. A sense of hopeless
panic set in over Wolf as he began to frantically fight against his restraints. Jerk after jerk,
grunt after grunt, Wolf grew tired and giving up as though submitting to the restraints that
bound him to the table.
"There's no point in trying to escape...you are mine now."
"Who's...there...?"
Wolf tried to look around, he was only able to move his head from side to side as he laid
flat on his back. Soon a large figure stepped over him blocking the light silhouetting the
face of the presumed speaker. However the smell was familiar to Wolf enough, the smell
of freshly waxed pins, a recently pressed uniform, the hot canine breath bathing his face
in its intoxicating must.
"Pepper...what are you doing with me..." mumbled Wolf with fatigue.
"I'm sorry, all questions will be ignored as I'm not interested in answering to you. You
see Wolf, in this solar system, everyone answers to me, as I am the supreme power now."
Wolf felt tired, and dreary, his face sore from the hit he had taken before he was knocked
unconscious, "Why…why am I not...dead...?"
Pepper stepped back, moving out of Wolf's vision as he stared straight up into the light,
not bothering to turn his head anymore.
"I've already told you the answer to that."
"Y...you're after Fox?"
Pepper leaned back over Wolf, grinning with all his teeth showing in the most sickening
manner possible.
"Yes...your memory is correct."
"He...will not come...I...am dead to him."
Pepper growled for a moment under his breath, fists clenching as his eyebrows twitched
spasmodically. However he stopped and blinked a few times before closing his eyes and
taking a deep breath. He calmed himself and reopened his eyes.
"A lot of things are going to change for you Wolf."
"...I don't understa..."
Before Wolf could finish his words he felt a stinging pain in his arm, he jerked his head
to see a short canine scientist had just inserted a needle into him. Wolf winced in pain but
soon he felt nothing as his arm went numb and his eyelids grew heavy.
"Sleep now my little wolf," spoke Pepper softly as he placed his hand on Wolf's forehead.
The drowsy wolf struggled to keep his eyes open, but everything fogged over. Light
turning dim, gray turning black, darkness encompassed Wolf as he fell into a deep sleep.
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"I never knew foxes could be such noble creatures?"
Wolf opened his eyes slowly, he was standing on an icy plain with mountains of rock and snow
in the distance that reached toward the heavens with jagged arms and sharp edges. Soft clouds
of ice painted across the dark blue sky in horsetails and streaks of crystal white. There were
no sounds except for a whispering wind and the questioning voice he had just heard.
"Who's there?" spoke Wolf as he took a step forward.
"I am."
Wolf swerved around to face a figure standing behind him. It was a gray wolf with a
striking eye patch. A black pilot's jacket, with the letters "SW" marked on the sleeve,
adorned him as he smirked.
"You...you're..."
"I am you? In a sense, yes, I suppose I am you."
The figure was believable as he was completely identical to Wolf except for the eye patch
that Wolf no longer had.
"Why are you talking to me?"
"You have led a pathetic life Wolf, truly despicable."
"...What?"
"Eating runtberries and living in filth as a bastard child, relying on some ape to save you
from that shithole, to teach you how to read and write, to teach you how to live decently.
Utterly wasteful, you were not worth his trouble at all. He should have killed you off in
one of his experiments instead, as that's all your worth Wolf, just another piece of waste
in this universe."
Wolf contorted his face in shock as he tried to process what he had just heard.
"Fox hates you, he does not care about you one bit. He sent you here because he saw you
as disposable, he sent you to die."
Wolf shook his head from side to side, a tear sweeping away from his face in the frigid wind,
"No...he....he sent me because he trusted me....because…because I was the only
who could activate..."
"That bomb? Oh please, how hard would it have been to just shown someone else how to
do it, it's not rocket science, it's pressing a button."
The figure was now right up against his face, staring down Wolf with his one visible eye,
piercing into him with a paralyzing glare.
"It sickens me to look at what I've become, it sickens me to see that I've trusted Fox and
that I've let him use me, it sickens me that I only give myself more pain and suffering at
the expense of others, it sickens me that I bend over backwards for Fox's wishes. No one
trusts you Wolf, no one ever has."
Wolf fell to his knees, crunching the soft snow and ice under him. He buried his face in his hands,
shaking uncontrollably as his mind flooded with emotions of worthlessness and despair.
The figure knelt down in front of Wolf and placed his hand on the sobbing wolf's chin.
"But that can change Wolf."
The distraught wolf looked up from his hands into figure's eye. The other gray wolf
wiped a tear from Wolf's face, rubbing it between his thumb and index finger.
"Yes, it can all change."
Wolf sniffed his congested nose, and wiped another tear from his face, "H...how?"
"Join General Pepper..."
"......What?"
"Yes Wolf, with General Pepper you have purpose, you can stand over Lylat at his side,
conquer worlds, live in luxury, attain happiness, enjoy peace of mind, everything you've
wanted in your unsatisfying life would be yours."
"...N...no...Pepper stands for evil...I...can't...I'm with Fox..."
".......I'm sick of being around you Wolf."
Wolf looked up to find Fox standing in place of where the gray wolf had been before.
"F...Fox?" Wolf clamored up until he was eye level with his friend.
"I should have vaporized you when I first saw you."
"Wh...I thought..."
"Thought we were friends? We were never friends, you worked for Andross in the past,
Andross killed my mother and father, let's put those two things together."
"B...but I thought it was in the past. I only worked for Andross becau..."
"Nothing ever dies in the past Wolf, you're still that eleven year old boy living on the
streets with no one to turn to or trust, not even me because I hate you. I'm glad you got
captured, I'm not even upset, I'm just upset that you weren't able to plant that bomb you
worthless piece of shit."
Wolf let out a small silent flare of hot breath from his mouth as though he had just been
punched in the stomach. The winds began to howl louder across the barren desolate field of
snow and ice as Fox stared down Wolf with burning hot eyes.
"You know...it's funny, but people used to fear you. However now that I know you Wolf,
you're just a cowering sobbing child with no backbone."
"Why are you telling me this!" cried Wolf slowly shaking his head.
Fox pulled out his gun and put it to Wolf's chest,
"This is something I should have done a long time ago you bastard."
"Fox no please!"
*CRACK*
Wolf felt a sharp warmth penetrate him forcing an exhaling gasp from his body. There
was no pain as Wolf's breathing stuttered, struggling to inhale the cold air. The curious
warm sensation sifted through Wolf's body in an unnerving spasm as the shocked lupine
blinked a few times. Wolf looked down to see the smoking hole,
"Fox...what have you done?"
*CRACKCRACKCRACK*
The sudden force of the multiple laser blasts at point blank range knocked Wolf
backwards to the hard ground of snow packed ice.
Fox stepped over the stunned wolf, putting his blaster away, smiling smugly as though
pleased by his actions.
"That's much better."
Suddenly two huge paws violently grabbed Fox's head, twisting his skull swiftly to the
side, creating a loud cracking sound that reverberated against the mountains in the distance.
The orange vulpine went limp as his lifeless body collapsed to the snow.
The paws responsible belonged to General Pepper, he kneeled down and picked up Wolf,
cradling him in his arms.
A tear filled Wolf's eye as Pepper took off his hat and placed it over the dying wolf's
wounds, the blood mixing with the redness of the hat, pressure could not stop the crimson
from spreading as the icy winds howled around them.
"Everything is going to change Wolf...everything is going to change."
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(Chapter 10 is coming soon)
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Wolf opened his eye, slowly at first, letting his sight adjust to the luminosity. He was
staring straight into a bright white light which filled his vision completely as though it
were a shining sun twelve inches from his face.
The stunned wolf came to his senses, realizing what had happened the previous moment
he was cognate. He tried to move his arms, something was holding him down. His face
tensed as he jerked around a bit, he couldn't move his legs either. A sense of hopeless
panic set in over Wolf as he began to frantically fight against his restraints. Jerk after jerk,
grunt after grunt, Wolf grew tired and giving up as though submitting to the restraints that
bound him to the table.
"There's no point in trying to escape...you are mine now."
"Who's...there...?"
Wolf tried to look around, he was only able to move his head from side to side as he laid
flat on his back. Soon a large figure stepped over him blocking the light silhouetting the
face of the presumed speaker. However the smell was familiar to Wolf enough, the smell
of freshly waxed pins, a recently pressed uniform, the hot canine breath bathing his face
in its intoxicating must.
"Pepper...what are you doing with me..." mumbled Wolf with fatigue.
"I'm sorry, all questions will be ignored as I'm not interested in answering to you. You
see Wolf, in this solar system, everyone answers to me, as I am the supreme power now."
Wolf felt tired, and dreary, his face sore from the hit he had taken before he was knocked
unconscious, "Why…why am I not...dead...?"
Pepper stepped back, moving out of Wolf's vision as he stared straight up into the light,
not bothering to turn his head anymore.
"I've already told you the answer to that."
"Y...you're after Fox?"
Pepper leaned back over Wolf, grinning with all his teeth showing in the most sickening
manner possible.
"Yes...your memory is correct."
"He...will not come...I...am dead to him."
Pepper growled for a moment under his breath, fists clenching as his eyebrows twitched
spasmodically. However he stopped and blinked a few times before closing his eyes and
taking a deep breath. He calmed himself and reopened his eyes.
"A lot of things are going to change for you Wolf."
"...I don't understa..."
Before Wolf could finish his words he felt a stinging pain in his arm, he jerked his head
to see a short canine scientist had just inserted a needle into him. Wolf winced in pain but
soon he felt nothing as his arm went numb and his eyelids grew heavy.
"Sleep now my little wolf," spoke Pepper softly as he placed his hand on Wolf's forehead.
The drowsy wolf struggled to keep his eyes open, but everything fogged over. Light
turning dim, gray turning black, darkness encompassed Wolf as he fell into a deep sleep.
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"I never knew foxes could be such noble creatures?"
Wolf opened his eyes slowly, he was standing on an icy plain with mountains of rock and snow
in the distance that reached toward the heavens with jagged arms and sharp edges. Soft clouds
of ice painted across the dark blue sky in horsetails and streaks of crystal white. There were
no sounds except for a whispering wind and the questioning voice he had just heard.
"Who's there?" spoke Wolf as he took a step forward.
"I am."
Wolf swerved around to face a figure standing behind him. It was a gray wolf with a
striking eye patch. A black pilot's jacket, with the letters "SW" marked on the sleeve,
adorned him as he smirked.
"You...you're..."
"I am you? In a sense, yes, I suppose I am you."
The figure was believable as he was completely identical to Wolf except for the eye patch
that Wolf no longer had.
"Why are you talking to me?"
"You have led a pathetic life Wolf, truly despicable."
"...What?"
"Eating runtberries and living in filth as a bastard child, relying on some ape to save you
from that shithole, to teach you how to read and write, to teach you how to live decently.
Utterly wasteful, you were not worth his trouble at all. He should have killed you off in
one of his experiments instead, as that's all your worth Wolf, just another piece of waste
in this universe."
Wolf contorted his face in shock as he tried to process what he had just heard.
"Fox hates you, he does not care about you one bit. He sent you here because he saw you
as disposable, he sent you to die."
Wolf shook his head from side to side, a tear sweeping away from his face in the frigid wind,
"No...he....he sent me because he trusted me....because…because I was the only
who could activate..."
"That bomb? Oh please, how hard would it have been to just shown someone else how to
do it, it's not rocket science, it's pressing a button."
The figure was now right up against his face, staring down Wolf with his one visible eye,
piercing into him with a paralyzing glare.
"It sickens me to look at what I've become, it sickens me to see that I've trusted Fox and
that I've let him use me, it sickens me that I only give myself more pain and suffering at
the expense of others, it sickens me that I bend over backwards for Fox's wishes. No one
trusts you Wolf, no one ever has."
Wolf fell to his knees, crunching the soft snow and ice under him. He buried his face in his hands,
shaking uncontrollably as his mind flooded with emotions of worthlessness and despair.
The figure knelt down in front of Wolf and placed his hand on the sobbing wolf's chin.
"But that can change Wolf."
The distraught wolf looked up from his hands into figure's eye. The other gray wolf
wiped a tear from Wolf's face, rubbing it between his thumb and index finger.
"Yes, it can all change."
Wolf sniffed his congested nose, and wiped another tear from his face, "H...how?"
"Join General Pepper..."
"......What?"
"Yes Wolf, with General Pepper you have purpose, you can stand over Lylat at his side,
conquer worlds, live in luxury, attain happiness, enjoy peace of mind, everything you've
wanted in your unsatisfying life would be yours."
"...N...no...Pepper stands for evil...I...can't...I'm with Fox..."
".......I'm sick of being around you Wolf."
Wolf looked up to find Fox standing in place of where the gray wolf had been before.
"F...Fox?" Wolf clamored up until he was eye level with his friend.
"I should have vaporized you when I first saw you."
"Wh...I thought..."
"Thought we were friends? We were never friends, you worked for Andross in the past,
Andross killed my mother and father, let's put those two things together."
"B...but I thought it was in the past. I only worked for Andross becau..."
"Nothing ever dies in the past Wolf, you're still that eleven year old boy living on the
streets with no one to turn to or trust, not even me because I hate you. I'm glad you got
captured, I'm not even upset, I'm just upset that you weren't able to plant that bomb you
worthless piece of shit."
Wolf let out a small silent flare of hot breath from his mouth as though he had just been
punched in the stomach. The winds began to howl louder across the barren desolate field of
snow and ice as Fox stared down Wolf with burning hot eyes.
"You know...it's funny, but people used to fear you. However now that I know you Wolf,
you're just a cowering sobbing child with no backbone."
"Why are you telling me this!" cried Wolf slowly shaking his head.
Fox pulled out his gun and put it to Wolf's chest,
"This is something I should have done a long time ago you bastard."
"Fox no please!"
*CRACK*
Wolf felt a sharp warmth penetrate him forcing an exhaling gasp from his body. There
was no pain as Wolf's breathing stuttered, struggling to inhale the cold air. The curious
warm sensation sifted through Wolf's body in an unnerving spasm as the shocked lupine
blinked a few times. Wolf looked down to see the smoking hole,
"Fox...what have you done?"
*CRACKCRACKCRACK*
The sudden force of the multiple laser blasts at point blank range knocked Wolf
backwards to the hard ground of snow packed ice.
Fox stepped over the stunned wolf, putting his blaster away, smiling smugly as though
pleased by his actions.
"That's much better."
Suddenly two huge paws violently grabbed Fox's head, twisting his skull swiftly to the
side, creating a loud cracking sound that reverberated against the mountains in the distance.
The orange vulpine went limp as his lifeless body collapsed to the snow.
The paws responsible belonged to General Pepper, he kneeled down and picked up Wolf,
cradling him in his arms.
A tear filled Wolf's eye as Pepper took off his hat and placed it over the dying wolf's
wounds, the blood mixing with the redness of the hat, pressure could not stop the crimson
from spreading as the icy winds howled around them.
"Everything is going to change Wolf...everything is going to change."
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(Chapter 10 is coming soon)