Chapter 5

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Wolf slowly woke up. He was standing in a dark room with ropes tied to his wrists. Looking down, he noticed that he was shirtless, barefoot, and weapon-free. As he started to ponder what had happened to him, the lights suddenly flashed on and nearly blinded him.

"Well now, did we have a nice nap?" a voice said.

The cloaked figure walked up to him. Wolf thought he recognized his scent, but couldn't place it.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Perhaps this will help."

The figure removed his cloak. Wolf was astonished to see that he was now face to face with Leon Powalski!

"Leon!" Wolf said, "I don't know how you survived, but I'll…"

Suddenly, Leon pulled out a tazer and shocked him with it. Wolf screamed as several volts of electricity flowed through his body.

"You'll do what, old comrade?"

"You… you were no comrade of mine." Wolf said, "You never trusted me. You never cared about me. You just…"

Wolf screamed again as Leon shocked him a second time.

"We just followed your orders, defended you when we could, and this was how you paid us back!"

Leon punched him across the face. The attack was so strong, that Wolf's nose began to bleed. Wolf sniffled, desperately trying to hold the blood in.

"You didn't follow my orders. You only followed Andross' orders."

"Ah, yes. Andross." Leon said, "The person who saved you from those mean thugs, and trained you to be leader of Star Wolf. It's a shame that your dear friend, Kyle Wolfowitz couldn't join you."

"Kyle would NEVER have joined with Andross!" Wolf snapped back, "He would've convinced me to leave him like I should've done a long time ago."

Again, Leon shocked him. The tazer was starting to get on Wolf's nerves.

"Now then," Leon said, "for your information, Pigma was indeed killed in the crash. Andrew barely survived until you shot him. I, on the other hand, played possum so that when you had left I could plan my revenge. But I'll get back to that later. I'm planning something special for your precious Star Fox."

Leon laughed as he untied Wolf's wrists. Wolf wanted to strangle the life out of him right then and there, but he was so weak that he just collapsed on the floor. Leon dragged him by his arm and took him to a prison cell, where he threw him in.

"I'll have some more fun with you later." he said, before closing the cell door and locking it.

"I can hardly wait." Wolf said to himself.

After holding his nose for a few minutes, the bleeding finally stopped. It was then that Wolf noticed another wolf in the same cell. She had white fur and was dressed like a splinter cell. She looked and smelled familiar to Wolf, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. She too thought she recognized him from somewhere.

"You look familiar." she said, "Have we met?"

"I don't know." Wolf replied, "Wait… I think I remember you."

Suddenly, it hit him. It was Sarah! The same girl he had fallen in love with years ago! Now, after so many years, there she was.

"Sarah?"

"Wolf? Is that really you?"

Wolf forgot about the pain from his torture and hugged her hard.

"Where've you been?" he asked.

"I could ask you the same thing." Sarah replied.

"Touché."

Wolf told her about how much he hated working for Andross and how he helped Star Fox after betraying his former wingmen.

"So you're with Star Fox now?" Sarah asked.

"Yes. They respect me. They actually treat me like a friend, unlike those 'friends' I used to have. So, what happened to you?"

"Well, after you went to fight Star Fox, I found out that Andross had lied to me. My brother wasn't killed by Cornerian soldiers. He was exposed to radiation during one of Andross' experiments."

"So Androsswas responsible. I should've known!"

"That was when I wanted to leave Andross," Sarah continued, "but I couldn't go without you. Then, after you were defeated, I heard rumors that you were dead. I didn't blameStar Fox,because they were just doing their job, but I still missed you. Anyway, I moved to Corneria, where I trained to become a spy for the Cornerian army. And today I was sent here to Venom to investigate some suspicious activity."

"We're on Venom!"

Sarah nodded.

"I had just found out about their plans when I was captured. It's a shame that one of your wingmen managed to survive."

"Yes, I know." Wolf said, "Sarah, did you really believe I was… dead all this time?"

"I didn't want to believe that." Sarah replied, "In fact, a part of me believed that you really were alive. It wasn't until recently that I found out I was right. Ever since then I wanted to see you again because you were the only one I ever loved."

Wolf's heart was warmed greatly with those words.

"I've always loved you too." he said, looking her straight in the eye, "I may have had a bad temper at times and I may not have treated you as good as I should've, but I always loved you and I always will."

Sarah smiled, threw her arms around Wolf, and they shared a kiss.

"I know how we can escape." Sarah whispered into Wolf's ear.

"How?"

Sarah looked around outside the cell. The guard, a fat warthog, was asleep and couldn't hear them talking.

"They may have taken my gun, but I've got another ace up my sleeve. Or should I say, in my boot."

Sarah pulled off one of her boots, reached inside it, and pulled out a Karambit knife.

"If I can lure that guard over here," she said, "I might be able to cut his throat and get his key."

Suddenly, they heard Leon coming through the hallway. Sarah quickly hid her knife behind her back.

"Wake up!" Leon yelled.

The guard sprung back awake.

"Oh, sorry, Boss!"

"Open the cell."

The guard unlocked the cell and Leon pointed his blaster at Wolf.

"Get up and come with me." he ordered.

Wolf slowly stood up and walked out of the room. He glanced at Sarah, who furtively grasped the Karambit behind her back and winked at him. Leon escorted Wolf to the torture chamber at gunpoint and the guard returned to his post.

"Now, if I may reintroduce you to someone…"

To Wolf's surprise, another wolf came into the room. It was the Captain who served on Bruno's ship.

"Say hello to Captain Logan, leader of the new Star Wolf team."

"Hello there. Remember me?"

"I'll let you have some fun with him for now." Leon said, handing Logan a whip.

"Logan! I thought I recognized your foul…"

Wolf then yelped in pain as Logan struck his back with the whip.

"That's enough out of you!" Logan said. "So you thought you could get away with breaking into my quarters, stealing my clothes, killing my boss, and destroying the ship did you?"

Logan struck him again.

"Well you thought wrong."

Leon came back into the torture chamber after a few minutes.

"The Wolfen IVs are prepared." he said.

"Good." Logan said. "Then let's find some willing pilots."

He turned to a nearby Doberman guard and said, "Kill him. Then prepare the other one."

The guard nodded. As Leon and Logan left the building, the guard walked up behind Wolf and pointed his gun to Wolf's head.

"Enjoy the last five seconds of your life." he said, "Four seconds, three… two…"

Suddenly, the lights went out.

"What the…? Who did that!"

Then there was a silenced gunshot and Wolf heard the sound of something hitting the ground. When the lights came on again, the executioner was lying on the floor dead. Surprised, Wolf turned his head around and saw Sarah holding a silenced Beretta 9mm pistol. She blew the smoke out of it, holstered it, and cut the ropes on Wolf's wrists with her Karambit. Wolf fell on his hands and knees, barely able to hold himself up.

"Are you alright?" Sarah asked, "Can you move?"

"I… don't know." he said.

Sarah picked up Wolf's shirt, jacket, boots, and blaster and put them in her backpack. She then put Wolf's arm around her shoulder and slipped out of the base with him.

Within minutes, they neared Sarah's ship. It was similar to the Wolfen II, only it had no weapons. She was never a master at air combat anyway. As she opened the cockpit, she suddenly heard gunshots behind her.

"Stop them! Don't let them get away!"

Venom guards chased after them, firing their weapons like madmen. Sarah quickly helped Wolf into the back seat and tossed him her backpack. She then got in the front seat, closed the cockpit, and took off. The guards continued firing at the ship, but it was no use. The ship was out of sight in less than a second.

"We're dead." a guard said.