Star Fox Adventures and all it's characters are property of Rare and Nintendo. They are used without their consent and well.. [Shrugs]
Anyway, if you can't assume from the title of the story, this is a romance fic about Fox and Krystal, with a side of adventure and action as well...
The Fox and the Vixen - Chapter 4 - First Mission!
Fox and Krystal quickly reached the bridge, just after Peppy, Fox sat on his chair and pressed a couple of buttons as a holographic image of Pepper appeared in front of him. Krystal peered from behind Fox's seat.
"Morning Star Fox" said the hologram of Pepper. "Morning General" greeted back Fox, an obvious grin in his face waiting for a new mission.
"I have a small mission for you" said Pepper and Fox nodded, Slippy and Peppy suddenly forgot about everything else to hear Pepper. Fox nodded again. "There have been some reports of activity in Titania, some claim it's Andross again," he stopped to sigh, "I want you to search this area but try to stay out of problem, land far from the coordinates I'll be sending you in a minute to avoid being spotted" he finished and the screen went dead. A couple of numbers flashed on the screen afterwards. Fox stared blankly...
"I had expected something better for a mission after the last one..." he said. "How better can I get than meeting me?" asked Krystal playfully and everyone bursted into laugh.
"Well, better get ready... I'll take a shower and then head out, set course for Titania in the meanwhile" ordered Fox as he started walking towards the door. "Can I come along with you to Titania?" asked Krystal from behind Fox. He turned around and gazed into Krystal's own version of puppy eyes (if you can call them that...).
"Even if I say no you are coming along right?" asked Fox, Krystal happily nodded. "Fine..." he sighed, "But be ready for when I leave" he ended, turned around and left the room, a small breeze alerted him that Krystal had already rushed to her room.
Inside the bridge however, Peppy stared at the door, "Ah, the joy of being young" he said as he moved towards the main console, Slippy just rolled his eyes and started setting the coordinates for Titania. "Rob, check the status of the Arwings for me please" Slippy said, "Affirmative," responded the robot as he moved out towards the hangar.
After like around 1 hour later, Fox finally left the bathroom (Fox- Think it's easy to dry all this fur?!) and then grabbed his clothes, which unsurprisingly enough were his usual... He just grabbed his blaster, placed it in the holster on his belt and left to the hangar, where a grinning vixen was waiting already.
"All systems are at 100%" sair Rob in his robotic voice. "Thanks Rob!" said back Fox nodding. Rob left the hangar then passing by Fox, his Arwing cockpit opened and was followed by the one Krystal had 'borrowed' the last time. They both jumped in and started their machines, by this time they were pretty close to Titania already, and it would only take around 30 minutes of flying to reach the coordinates Pepper had given.
"Remember Krystal..." started Fox as his face popped up in Krystal's screen, "We are just investigating, no need to rush things" he ended. Krystal nodded and looked down at her staff, hoping she wouldn't have to use it. Both Arwings just flew through space as the com links remained dead...
Finally reaching Titania both left their Arwings, they walked towards each other.
Krystal gazed up a little into Fox's eyes and started, "Fox, if anything should happen, if one of us gets caught, then..." she stopped abruptly, placed both hands around Fox's head and drew him into a deep kiss, which startled Fox but then followed, after a couple of seconds later they broke up, Krystal blushed under hey cerulean fur. "Krystal, I..." started Fox but Krystal waved him off but didn't lifted her head, "Don't say it, promise me that we'll come back safe and together, then say it.. Otherwise it would be too hard if something happens... To any of us..." she finished. Fox noticed a small glittering object fly towards the sand floor, with a hand he lifted Krystal's head and with the other he wiped the tears from her eyes, then drew her to a small hug and said "I promise". After a couple of seconds they broke up and Krystal cleaned the rest of the tears on her face and both nodded to each other then started walking in the direction the base was.
Since they had landed far away enough to avoid detection they had a long walk.. Fox watched into the small computer etched on one of his armlets to check the distance, the computer itself didn't had much. Just com links, a small GPS and could display one's vital signs. Titania was pretty much a barren desert f sorts, the only thing you could see were some strange plants here and these and bones of animals that Fox never knew. The sand was reddish and a small sandstorm blew by. After a couple of minutes of walking in the sand and climbing a small hill they could see hints of the base behind the sandstorm.
"Wait a second..." said Fox as he zoomed with his blaster to spot any search towers, but the 'help' of the sandstorm only made things harder, he looked for around 5 minutes before he could actually spot one. Using the best of his accuracy he shot and hoped for the rest, after the sandstorm allowed him to see he could notice the body of a giant ape in the floor of the tower, fortunately on the inside so it would be harder to spot. He moved to the next one and did the same, he managed to hit as well, he placed his blaster back in it's holster and shook the cramp of his arm.
They dashed through the sandstorm as best as they could and reached a wire fence, seeing no actual enemies near they crawled below it. On the other side Fox quickly yanked Krystal away into a bush, she was about to protest but Fox covered her mouth, just a second later another giant ape passed by. After a few seconds they moved out and dashed into a nearby building, hearing no sounds from the inside they entered it. It was in total darkness, but both foxes' keen eyes allowed them to see, Fox motioned Krystal to follow him, after bending a corner Fox placed a hand to his side halting Krystal as well, he silently asked Krystal to blow ice which she did, revealing various red beams in the narrow hallway. They carefully went through them, with Krystal blowing another barrage every now and then.
With every step a sound could be heard closer and closer, they realized it was a voice.
"Jood udokxadw jkhudwo, sutok?" asked a gruff voice, Fox left a blank face as Krystal listened in closely.
"Dekxadw, jah" answered back another voice, trying to show respect.
"Weet, xen aj kxo rae noufed weadw?" asked the first voice again.
"Loho nocc, jah. No jxeict ro urco ke vadajx ak ad zijk u seifco ev noobj"
"Noobj?!"
"Ak'j kxo rojx no sud te ke mubo ak vcuncojj, jah"
"Vado, fhesoot nakx kxo jsxoticot hojouhsx udt walo ad kxo hojickj ke General Scales." Now to the only thing Fox could understand his eyes shot up along with Krystal's.
"Ooj, jah!" finished the 2nd voice and started getting closer as the other started to walk away. Fox quickly grabbed Krystal and dashed off into a nearby room, trying not to make any noise. He knew he had succeeded when he heard footsteps getting further away, Krystal rubbed Fox's shoulder to get his attention but Fox seemingly waved it off, Krystal persisted and Fox turned around, ready to ask "What?".
The room they were in was small, possibly a small storage and as the rest of the place, it was dark, you could notice a couple of shelves with some stuff on them.
"About what they said..." started Krystal, Fox nodded, "I believe they are developing some kind of bio weapon, and as you heard, Scales is back" she finished with a small growl, which to Fox sounded plainly cute... But now was not the time for that. "Don't worry... We should be getting out anyway, at least we know they are up to something," Krystal nodded and followed Fox out after checking for any close sounds. They walked back, fortunately for them, the security beams had been disabled so they had no trouble getting out.
However, once outside after they took just one step around 15 apes and SharpClaws were surrounding them with rifles ready, Fox and Krystal backed to each other, Fox drew his blaster and Krystal readied her staff on her hands. Fox whispered something into Krystal's ear. In a second she had jumped and landed with the tip fiercely with her staff on the ground, making everything tremble and knocking of balance the apes and SharpClaws. "Run!" yelled Fox even though it was obvious as they dashed away and crawled below the wire fence. While the were rushing away Fox's looked into his small computer but it was jammed, probably due to a magnetic field on the sandstorm, he looked back and spotted half of the enemies the had seen chasing them and with rifles ready.
"Shoot!" Fox yelled as he turned to a halt and spun 180 degrees with blaster ready, using his aiming sense he shot down 3 quickly and Krystal, with a small fireball sent from her staff knocked out another 3, the one that remained suddenly placed it's rifle in semi-automatic as it sent a lot of shots away, Fox knocked Krystal to the floor, and he landed basically above and to the side of her acting as a shield, however a shot had managed to hit his right ear on the way down, and while it just hit the very tip, it was bleeding nonetheless, he rolled to a side and shot in front of him, the shoot suddenly ceased and he knew he landed the hit.
He helped Krystal up and they continued running, hoping to get back right away. They spotted their Arwings as their cockpits opened, they jumped inside and after a few seconds both were flying away... Krystal retracted her staff to portable while in the jump and just placed it on her side, Fox opened a small contained inside his Arwing and took out a small bandage, he ripped a piece of with his teeth and nursed the wound on his ear. Krystal's face appeared on Fox's screen, "Are you alright?" she asked worried. "Nothing too serious, just bleeding a little..." Fox said as he clipped the bandage, Krystal let out a long sigh as Fox smiled. They just flew silently through space until 30 minutes later they docked in the Great Fox. Just as soon as they landed Fox talked into the small computer on his arm.
"Peppy, open a channel with General Pepper fast, in on my way to the bridge" he said as he dashed off, with Krystal trailing. "Alright" echoed Peppy's voice from Fox's arm. When they reached the bridge Pepper's face was already displayed.
"Found anything Fox?" asked Pepper. Fox got closer and started, "General Scaled, whom I met on Dinosaur Planet has apparently allied with Andross, or perhaps vice versa. Whichever might be the case, I believe they are getting ready for another war, they are developing some sort of bio weapon, but we couldn't find any relevant information on that" finished Fox, smacking himself for forgetting to search for such vital info.
"Hmm... Another war... That Andross never knows when to quit... If it's him indeed, which I suspect so..." he pondered on that for a while.
"Very well, Fox, you will be credited with your pay in just a minute, we will be looking for information on our own for a while, but be ready, we might be calling you for another mission soon" he said and added, "Pepper out" as he shut off the link.
Fox sighed and left the room, and as usual with Krystal behind, Peppy and Slippy stayed behind in the bridge setting the course to Corneria. Both foxes entered Fox's room. He turned around and gazed into Krystal's eyes.
"As I promised, we are back and safe... Save for a little scratch" he said as he looked upwards, Krystal giggled a little.
"So I... I..." Fox stammered while looking into her eyes, this triggered another small giggle from the blue vixen. "Anyway..." said Fox as he drew Krystal into another deep kiss which lasted for what seemed like minutes, both parted away and yet again blushed, not quite used to the feeling inside them.
"Fox I..", "Krystal I.." both started at the same time. "Krystal, ever since I saw you encased on that crystal I kinda.. felt something for you..." said Fox blushing a little. "And when you saved me I was so thankful I guess I did too..." the same for Krystal.
"So you should know by now that I love you" said Fox gulping, Krystal smiled, "I love you too" she said as they kissed yet again, but this time they didn't blushed afterwards, they were just holding hands looking at each other's eyes...
Alan- So there you have it! Not exactly the best love scene you could ask for but...
Krystal- Talk about stating the obvious... [Rolls eyes]
Alan- Hey! At least say I didn't made them capture you... I was going to, but decided not to...
Krystal- Oh well, a couple of good points for that, and more since you finally wrote this..
Fox- About time...
Alan- Anyway, just wait for next chapter... [Fox and Krystal walk away together]
Alan- Geez...
Star Fox Adventures and all it's characters are property of Rare and Nintendo. They are used without their consent and well.. [shrugs]
By the way, here is the translated Dino language...
"Seen anything strange, cadet?" asked a gruff voice, Fox left a blank face as Krystal listened in closely.
"Nothing, sir" answered back another voice, trying to show respect.
"Good, how is the bio weapon going?" asked the first voice again.
"Very good, sir. We should be to finish it in just a couple of weeks"
"Weeks?!"
"It's the best we can do to make it flawless, sir"
"Fine, prepare with the scheduled research and give in the reports to General Scales" Now to the only thing Fox could understand his eyes shot up along with Krystal's.
"Yes, sir!"
Signed as usual,
Alan "Gray Fox" Quirino - grayfox2510hotmail.com
Until next time!
Chapter 5: Prelude to a war.