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Rivals or Friends
Chapter 6: Hatred
"Damn it!" I cried out as I look around at our squadron. "Where the heck is Wolf? He shouldn't be away from our formation! I wonder what happened to him." I tried to contact Ruby then, hoping that she may know where her instructor had left off. I simply pushed a few buttons and popped up a monitor at my console and asked her, "Ruby, have you seen Wolf?"
"Nope… sorry sir…" she responded in a wondering thought. "Is he missing? I wonder what happened to him. We better search for him." It was not long however for our self-contained Falco to hear our conversation and butted in, obviously giving high criticism to my grey friend.
"I bet he flew away, going back to Andross and telling him we're here – sitting ducks!" he grouchily replied at me and Ruby. "I can't believe that he's with us in our mission! What a blunder!"
Of course, I was not angry at Wolf, but even so, I must keep a firm strictness around here. I don't want him or everyone else in the group end up into an attitude like Falco: arrogant and a jerk. I am still concerned of his welfare and so I spoke back, "That would be preposterous, not to mention impossible! Andross is dead, and Venom is gone. He has nowhere to run back, especially if I know that he's willing to change."
"Did you guys receive any distress call from him?" Slippy then asked while wondering. "Maybe he's in trouble… and maybe he's even reluctant to push that mayday signal… since I know most of you are like that." I was rather complimented although felt insulted for a while. Yes, I agree. I sometimes decline to ask for help when I know I'm in a fix, and Wolf's probably like that, too. I never knew we had such similarities.
"Say, haven't you checked if Wolf's Arwing is still on-line?" my dear Peppy suggested from the monitor. He's inside the Great Fox along with our robot friend and our amphibian. "We may find out where he is by doing so, and we might know too, if he's in trouble." I admire him… I can see a very large loss when Peppy leaves the team. He again saved my life by saying such nice suggestion.
"Will do… Thanks Peppy!" I replied with gratification. I didn't hesitate to push the button that scans all Arwings on flight. As my monitor shows all of the Arwings in flight, I was taken aghast when I noticed the findings. There were only three Arwings found! I found myself in trouble when I realized that Wolf's ship is down.
"Wolf's ship is… gone!" Ruby gasped as she saw the results in her monitor as well. "But what could've happened to him? Why would this happen to him!? Sir Fox, please, we have to find him!" Her deep concern for her lover, I mean her instructor and teammate, caused her to become tensed. What else could she do? She needs my reply. I told her to relax and not panic.
"Calm down, Ruby!" I told her before she might crash out of panicking. "Great Fox will locate the lost Arwing immediately. We don't want any fallen or lost comrade left behind. Oh, and please don't put a sir when calling my name… you're my teammate, and even if I'm the leader, I wanted you and everyone else to treat me equally like you." I hate being called with a sir… It sounds superiority… and old!
Falco, as usual, has still his doubts with my lupine pal. "Ah shoot! You still think that that Wolf character is on our side, eh?" he jeered at me, obviously. "If you ask me, I think he sabotaged the Arwing so that we come looking for him, and so we found out that he's with the enemy's base! Then, we enter, and finally realized that Wolf was working with them!" I hated his statements almost as how I hated Pigma. Why won't that loud-mouthed bird-brain just shut up and talk something that everyone would like!? If he's trying to help, well, then he isn't. He's just making things worse.
"Well, Falconstein, I'm going to prove to you that you're absolutely wrong!" I yelled at him through my console. I contacted Great Fox, asking where the heck Wolf is. Peppy's face gave me the idea that I should just look at it. The results where just sent to the monitor, and I was appalled to see the results. It says that Wolf's ship is at the coordinates where our target's base is located. It gave me a deep throbbing about that, but then, I wondered, is he really on our side?
"Wow, this Falconstein was right after all," my feathered, callous friend grinned with joy. "I told ya' Fox, we couldn't trust Wolf! Maybe it was just a sham that he was about to straighten things out with you! He's just pretending to be a friend!" Of course, Ruby didn't like that.
"If he was our enemy, then he should've not taught me how to fly this contraption very well!" she yelled back to Falco, brimming with anger. "He should've taught me of something suicidal! He's not bad! I can feel it!"
"And she might be right, guys," Peppy added, who seem to look like he arrived at a nick of time. "I can see from the scanning that the Arwing Wolf is in has heavy damage at the front side. The cockpit's severely damaged and the readings showed signs of blood scattered around the ground. Strangely, no body was found inside. Then, trails of blood was found, making it look like a body was dragged out from the seat." Peppy once again, saved us all who believed in change.
"There's a possibility that the enemy might want something from him," I then theorized with a meager spirit in me, "that's why they want him to go down. We have to go there and save him then…" I then ordered everyone else to move on, going to the crash site of Wolf's Arwing.
"I'm going to regret this…" Falco sighed, or at least that's what I heard from him. We then headed towards the location of the base of our target. Something might happen bad, though…