Many months had passed now since the destruction of the Cybers, the death of Xerxes, and the subsequent rebirth of the planet formerly known as Necross.

The planet had now been re-named New Cerinia, and it slowly became a lovely refuge for many people through the universe looking for a home. Others from Corneria, and the surrounding worlds, quickly began to colonize the planet, implementing their technology, but always careful to not let it disturb the natural world, having learned from the madness of Xerxes.

Among the first of these colonists were, in fact, Fox and Krystal. Their relationship once broken, the events that had occurred in the Mondas system, and then on Necross, helped to repair it, and make it stronger than ever. So strong, that within weeks of making his new home on New Cerinia, Fox proposed marriage to Krystal, and she happily accepted it.

The wedding was naturally held on the new world, the first wedding ceremony ever performed there, as everyone the two had known from the past had shown up. Including Fang, who had now been accepted, as a member of team Starfox, and was there to back the union of his old leader, Krystal, and his new leader, Fox.

Krystal had relinquished her position as leader of "Blue Specter", the title now belonging to Topaz, who was nowhere close to being ready to settle down. She was there at the ceremony with her two new team members, Fulton, whom she slowly realized had a bit of a crush on her, and her other partner, of all people, Panther.

Panther had been excused from any prison time, in return for his assistance to the others on Necross, and was slowly being given a chance to work his way up the ladder in the Cornerian military.

It was a very happy time for everyone involved…and as the months passed, it was clear that things were only going to get happier…

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"Topaz, slow down!" Fulton exclaimed, following his new leader in his arwing, as best he could. "Think before you fly!"

"Slow down? Are you kidding me?" Topaz scoffed, as she zoomed in the direction of New Cerinia. "I've already missed…I don't how many moments with this, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna miss any more!"

"All right, all right!" Fulton nodded. "Just try not to crash into anything…I'm sure Krystal would want you there in one piece!"

Topaz nodded quickly, as she zipped into New Cerinia's atmosphere, nearly clipping two other ships coming from the opposite direction, Fulton apologizing to them as he followed quickly in her wake.

Within moments, Topaz had zipped down onto the base closest to her destination, impatiently following the directions of the fellow with the tracking lights, instructing her on which hangar to go into, as the sun shone through the beautiful blue sky, almost like that of a tropical paradise.

After she flew to her hangar, Fulton came along and politely went over to the hangar he was pointed towards, disembarking soon afterward, and looking for Topaz, not knowing she was walking up behind him.

"Come on! Come on!" She insistently spoke, pulling the wolf along by the arm, as he jumped a bit from the grab, and nodded quickly, following.

"Topaz…" He spoke, walking quickly with her. "I know how big a deal this is for you, but keep in mind, there ARE other people on this planet!"

"I know that…" She spoke as she walked with him, a determined look in her eyes. "But there's only two, at this moment, that I give a damn about. Now quit dragging your feet."

Fulton grunted a bit as he was pulled. "Well, quit moving yours so quickly!" He retorted.

But Topaz was not to be deterred, not on a day like this. She pushed along, keeping a firm grip on Fulton's wrist, as she walked through the seemingly endless hallways of the base, not letting anybody get in her way, determined to meet up with her "sister".

She had soon left the base, letting go of Fulton as she walked a bit more calmly, keeping her eyes wide open for the home that Krystal and Fox had established on this world, a neat collection of houses lining their row. The two "Blue Specter" members walked along this road, a few soldiers handing out pamphlets for the Cornerian military, as a few children played around in one of the planets clean and well-maintained lakes.

As soon as the two got to around the end of this row of houses, they saw a familiar face walk out of one house and wave to them.

"Fox!" Topaz smiled widely, as she and Fulton ran over to meet him, hugging him tightly as he went wide-eyed.

"How are we, brother in law?" She grinned to Fox.

"Stop calling me that." He blushed. "It's just 'Fox'."

"Oh, whatever." Topaz smiled widely, looking into the doorway. "How is she?"

Fox looked back into the passage and smiled. "Oh, she's doing just fine, considering."

"Can we…go in?" Fulton asked, smiling sheepishly, looking to Topaz. "She's just been bursting for this moment."

Fox nodded slowly. "Yeah, I think it's ok now…" he led the way. "Just remember to keep your voices down."

Topaz nodded slowly and followed Fox, Fulton letting her go in first as he followed behind her. The trio walked in slowly past the entranceway, Krystal having nicely decorated the house with mementos she had saved from her old home, past the wide living room, and into the bedroom.

Krystal smiled as her husband came back into the room, waving to her "sister" and her new partner, as she held a small figure, swaddled in blankets on the crook of her left arm. She smiled and turned a bit, displaying her newborn daughter for the first time, a little scarlet-red furred vixen, with her eyes closed.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhh…" Topaz softly exclaimed, instantly falling in love with the child, as she uncharacteristically clasped her hands together below her chin. "She is so amazingly beautiful…just like her mother."

Krystal simply smiled at the compliment, as she watched Fulton look on with Fox, smiling, just happy to see his leader in a good mood again.

"Hello Topaz…" She spoke, softly, holding up her child a bit. "I'd like you to meet someone…this my daughter, Rose McCloud."

Topaz's jaw dropped. "Rose…You named her after my mother?" A tear welled in her eye, as Krystal nodded and gently handed her child over the blonde Vixen. "Here…she should get to know her aunt a little better."

Topaz nodded slowly as little Rose opened her eyes, just blinking a bit as Topaz smiled, the tear now running down her cheek as she gently stroked the child's muzzle. "Hello there, Rose…I hope you like that name…it's a very, very nice one…and I can't think of anyone better to carry it…I can only hope that you'll turn out to be as loving and wise as my mother was."

She sniffled a bit as she handed Rose back to her mother, Fulton walking up and patting her back some, as Fox walked over and sat next to his wife once more, cuddling with her a bit as they looked on at the new life they had created.

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Time had passed, and Topaz had left the home, to allow Krystal to feed her child, as she walked along the woods, admiring this new world, the world that her father had ended up giving up his life to create.

"You know, Father…" she spoke to the trees. "For days and nights now, I've been wondering whether this one good deed of yours was enough to atone for all of the betrayal and suffering you inflicted everywhere for so many years…but as I stood there, holding the form of that new child on this world you created, I can definitely say now, that you did a hell of a good thing for the universe, at the very end. And that one child, to me, is enough of a vindication."

She looked up to the beautiful sky, addressing her father's spirit. "I hope you and mother found each other out there, and are watching all of this now…"

"I'm sure they are, Topaz." A voice suddenly called out to her. She turned quickly, and saw Fulton come out from the shadows.

"Forgive my eavesdropping, but I couldn't help but hear you talking about your father…" He adjusted his jacket some. "I was interested, because I know how you feel…"

"Oh?…" Topaz responded, tilting her head some. Fulton had always seemed, to her, like the type who had a happy childhood, so it surprised her to hear him saying this.

Fulton nodded slowly. "Yeah…when I was younger, my father was just this big, conflicted, mess of a guy. My mother died after giving birth to me, you see…and he hated me for it. He never said it out loud, but I could tell…he was looking for something to blame for killing his wife, and I was it…He'd act okay sometimes, but others…"

He shook his head slowly. "He would get hammered on all kinds of nasty stuff, and he'd beat me. Even if I did something minor, like leave a window open or some crap like that, that meant a beating…one day, he beat me unconscious with a pipe, and told the doctor that I had just fallen."

Topaz looked on, shocked at this revelation, as Fulton sat next to her on a rock. "Well, the doctor didn't buy that story, and got a court order to have me moved into a foster home…he'd show up every once in a while to talk to me, but he was never too comfortable, and I never wanted him around…"

He sighed a bit and looked up. "Then I got the chance to enroll in the academy, to get off of Fortuna, and really make something of myself…I just didn't have the credits to get myself the necessary equipment, and neither did my foster family…then one day, my father came up to me, for the first time in what had been nearly two years…he took my hand, and he stuffed it with credits…I don't know where he got them, but they were more than enough to help me through life at the Academy…he then looked me right in the eyes, and he said, 'Don't be like me…Don't screw everything up, like I did'…He walked away after that, and I never saw him again." He looked down as he remembered one particular day. "The news report two days later, said that he had thrown himself in front of a passing cruiser…He died almost instantly."

Topaz shook her head slowly. "Fulton…I never would have known, looking at you, that you've had that tumultuous of a past…why didn't you ever tell me about this before…"

Fulton sighed and looked down. "It's not something I generally like to discuss…but I heard you talking about your father, and I remember wondering the same thing…is one extraordinarily good deed enough to make up for years of betrayal and abuse? I've never been able to come up with an answer for that"

Topaz nodded slowly. "Well, look at it this way…my father, and your father, may have done terrible things to us and others in the past…but before they left us, they both provided for our futures in a big way…and in the end, that's all you can really ask of a parent…" She looked back towards Fox and Krystal's house, the couple attending to the needs of their daughter as she spoke.

Fulton looked on with Topaz and nodded, before looking back at her. "Do you think you'd make a good mother?"

Topaz nodded as she clicked open her necklace, the tune playing as she looked at her mother in the picture. "I think so…I learned from the best, after all…" She gazed at Fulton. "What about you? Do you think you'd make a good father?"

"Well, I definitely know what NOT to do…" Fulton responded. "Plus, my foster parents were decent enough for me to see what a good family was like…so, yes."

Topaz nodded gently as she slipped off the rock, stepping towards Fulton. "Come…let's go for a stroll together. It's been a while since I've gotten to take in the beauty of this place."

Fulton nodded as he walked off slowly next to her, slowly walking down the trail. As they went off further and further into the distance, Topaz slowly reached over with her right hand, taking Fulton's left hand into it as she gripped it gently, the couple now walking off, hand in hand…

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Fighters and cruisers made way for the Great Fox, Peppy the only one on board right now, as the ship hovered over the landing pad on the base, and slowly came to a stop on top of the surface, its thrusters dying down.

General Pepper walked up to Peppy as he disembarked from the ship, the two saluting each other quickly.

"Is the cargo safe?" The General asked Peppy simply.

"It is, sir." Peppy nodded. "I just hope you and your people know what it is you've got your hands on."

"Relax, Peppy…" General Pepper answered. "We've got our finest scientific minds working on this…Though it will probably be some years before we can figure out how to properly utilize this technology."

Peppy nodded, and looked on, as two Cornerian soldiers wheeled out a box that was marked "Property of Corneria: TOP SECRET". Residing inside of the crate were the remains of the one Cyber that Wolf O'Donnell had shot down on Joppa, before his death…

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The world of New Cerinia spun slowly on its axis, all life on the planet going about its daily business, blissfully unaware of the object that was descending towards the atmosphere slowly.

The object was a sort of relic, a remnant of the Old Cerinia, that had somehow survived the planet's destruction, and was now being pulled to the new one by a mysterious force, a red gem of sorts shining in the middle of the granite, which had the images of nightmarish creatures carved into the front from all around, along with some very ancient writing, complete with one phrase carved into the front middle…

"Cajw colu vho Grongi" (Long live the Grongi)

The object soon fell through the atmosphere, and embedded itself into the ground, right in the middle of one forest, it's gem glowing, before the light went out, the slab going dormant once more, until the time was right…it hadn't quite been 500 years just yet.

THE END (for now…)