Dinosaur Planet
Chapter Eight: Motherly Touch
When all three foxes reached the bottom of the ladder, they began looking around for anything that could help them. 'I hope I find them first, that way I can try to impress Fox.' Sam thought. They began walking and noticed it was too dark to go any further. "Wait, hold on. I think that is why that dinosaur gave me the lantern." Fox stated. "That would help." Krystal said. Fox took out a lantern and then put a firefly in it. It began to glow a bright green. All three foxes walked further into the underground cave. Suddenly they heard a loud shriek. Krystal grabbed her staff while Sam grabbed Fox's arm. Fox arched an eyebrow as he looked at Sam. Sam quickly backed off of him, "Sorry 'bout that. I'm kinda still scared of dark places." Sam explained. Fox eased up, "It's ok." Fox said.
'I keep forgetting that I'm still scared of the dark. I would leave, but…' Sam thought and then looked at Krystal. 'I can't let her get the chance of hitting it off with Fox.' Sam thought. Fox saw a figure in the distance and he squinted at the object. "Maybe it's just me, but I think I see a grub tub." he commented. Sam put her fears aside and grabbed her phaser. Everyone looked at the figure and moved closer. Sam noticed first that it was a white grub tub. "Great, Fox hit it with your staff." Sam suggested. Fox unsheathed his staff and then whacked the white grub tub. He took it and then put it in his backpack. "We should get just about six, just in case." Krystal suggested. Fox nodded, "Right, that's probably the most reasonable thing to do." he agreed. Sam sighed, 'This girl always gets on his good side. Oh well, just have to return the favor.' she thought. She grabbed something blunt from the ground and began to swing it around a bit. 'Perfect!' she thought. She looked around and thought she saw another white grub tub and decided she would smack it. She ran up to it and then gathered up all of her strength. She swung the blunt object with all of her might and hit something hard. "Ha, too easy." Sam stated. Fox and Krystal began to back up slowly as Sam turned toward them. "What? What's wrong?" Sam asked.
"You did not hit a grub tub." Krystal stated. Sam began to get angry at her. "Look, just because I whacked one and you didn't doesn't mean you can try and…" Sam began to say, but something landed on her head. Sam slowly looked up to see what it was and stared into the eyes of a bat. It screeched while it was in her hair and Sam began to scream. She ran as a whole group of bats started to chase her. "Sam! Wait!" Fox yelled and ran after her. Krystal just rolled her eyes and ran after Fox. 'How could we get so much trouble from trying to get some simple grub tubs?" Krystal thought. They all began to run after Sam and then Fox put another green firefly into the lantern.
They watched as Sam pounded on the bats with her hands and then took out her phaser. "Wait Sam, you really don't want to do that." Krystal warned. Sam thought about it and then slowly put up the phaser. 'Even though I don't like her, I won't become ignorant and fire anyway.' Sam thought. She continued to beat away the dark creatures until they all got tired and flew away. Sam sighed as she brushed the dust and dirt off of her uniform. "Well, that's a perfect reason never to go inside of a cave." Sam remarked and shivered. She had just about enough for one day. But her duties as a Star Fox member told her to keep moving ahead. "We only have one white grub tub. Let's pick up the pace." Krystal advised and began walking deeper inside of the cave. Fox just raised another eyebrow as the cerulean vixen walked away from the group. "Females, a mystery no one can solve." Fox said and shook his head. The three foxes continued to walk through the cave and found another one in plain sight. Fox whacked it and then stuffed it into his backpack.
After about thirty minutes of wandering around in the cave, they got six white grub tubs. "Ok, finally. Now let's get out of here, I don't think I can take this place too much longer." Sam stated. Fox just nodded and headed towards the ladder. All three foxes reached it and began to climb up their way towards the light that they could see. When they finally reached the top, they saw the sleeping dinosaur resting peacefully near the corner. 'Too bad he gets a nice easy life.' Fox thought. They continued walking in silence to the last exit that they had to take. As Fox reached the other ladder, Krystal sensed something. "Hold on Fox, I think there's an ambush waiting up there for us." Krystal stated. Sam almost laughed, "How would you know that? What are you, a psychic?" Sam asked. Krystal dazed out for a second and then came back to reality, with a sad look in her eyes. "Actually yes, yes I am." she replied softly.
Sam instantly stopped snickering and then looked at her in disbelief. "Oh, I'm sorry." she said seriously. "Well, if you think there's an ambush waiting for us, I hope you're wrong because this is our only way out." Fox stated. They finished climbing the ladder and then crawled through the small hole. When they all got back up, they looked forward and couldn't believe their eyes. There were hundreds of Sharp Claw warriors with maces and clubs waiting for them to try and get to the cave where the Queen Earthwalker was. "I hope you have a plan Fox, 'cause I sure don't." Sam whispered. "I think they don't want us to get the Queen back onto her feet." Krystal stated. Fox felt a little uneasy, but he handled worse. He knew he would regret underestimating every single enemy except the Star Wolf team and the Venomian army, but he never saw anyone else as a threat to him. "Alright team, let's get this done and over with." Fox ordered and pulled out his staff. Krystal pulled hers out as well and then extended it. Sam calmly pulled out her phaser and pointed at the closest warrior to them.
One of the warriors charged first and then the others followed. Suddenly Krystal got in front of the other two foxes and stuck her staff into the ground. What soon followed confused Fox even more. A magical shield began to surround the three foxes from the tip of the staff, presenting a force field in the shape of a dome. Sam began to get very uneasy as the warriors soon began to surround the force field, trapping the three foxes into the wave of warriors. "I don't like the looks of this." Sam stated with a hint of panic in her voice. "Don't worry, I have a plan." Krystal stated and then took off the force field. "What the hell are you doing?" Sam yelled. Krystal ignored her and jumped into the air. "Jump!" Krystal advised and then brought down the staff into the ground with all of her might. A gigantic earthquake soon followed afterwards and took out many of the Sharp Claw warriors as the trembling of the earthquake made them loose their grip and fall to the ground.
As soon as Fox and Sam landed onto the ground, it became instinct on what they should do next. Sam began to fire rapidly into the sea of warriors. Fox and Krystal began to fight off the warriors with their staff. 'I hope we can hold them off.' Fox thought. After ten minutes of fighting off the warriors, the three foxes soon became completely separated from each other. Sam looked around in the crowd of warriors as she raised her phaser out of the way and kicked one of the warriors in the head. "Fox! Krystal! I can't find you!" Sam yelled. Soon the warriors began to overthrow her fighting expertise and grabbed her. "Hey, get off of me." Sam ordered. Then one of the warriors punched her in the stomach and she kneeled over. She began to gasp for breath as the other Sharp Claw warriors huddled around her. Fox saw this and then headed straight for Sam. "Don't worry Sam, I'm coming." Fox stated and dove for her.
Suddenly a huge, buff, and blue Sharp Claw warrior stepped into Fox's way. Fox growled as the warrior howled into the air. 'I'll have to get past him to help Sam. So I don't care how big he is.' Fox thought. He spun his staff around as if to create a moving shield. Then he jumped into the air and climbed onto the big creature. Before the big dinosaur realized it, Fox was on top of him, whacking away at his head. The warrior began to beat away at Fox's legs as he continued to hit him with all of his strength. Krystal then saw the opening and tripped him with her staff. Fox back flipped off of the warrior and then landed onto the ground safely. "That was way too easy, I knew this people were no challenge. Maybe if…" Fox began to say, but was hit across the head by the big warrior. It snarled with anger as Fox continued to slide across the dirt and grass. The big warrior stood up completely and then ran for Fox. But then a laser was heard and the big brute stopped suddenly.
It fell face down and behind him stood the proud and hurt orange vixen. She kneeled back down as and dropped her phaser as the big warrior disappeared in a pale blue light. "Looks like I'm useful after all." Sam stated and fell face down towards the ground. Fox got back up and then limped towards Sam. He looked around him and saw at least twenty warriors left. They saw that all three foxes were very badly injured, so they could probably take them. But they didn't want to take the chance. A few warriors ran away and then a few more. All of them had ran away and they left the three foxes confused and very tired. Fox tried to walk to Krystal, but ended up falling face down on the ground. Krystal and Sam immediately ran to Fox's aid. "Fox, what's wrong?" Sam asked. Fox laughed nervously, "Nothing is wrong. What makes you ask that?" he replied. But he suddenly passed out onto the grass.
Krystal looked at him and then made a final note. She then came to a conclusion. "When that big Sharp Claw dinosaur smacked Fox in the head, he caused him to break his leg and his arm. He really needs to rest." Krystal stated. Sam and Krystal carried Fox towards the cave and then entered it. Sam saw Tricky and the Queen Earthwalker waiting for them. "You're back! So did you bring some white grub tubs?" Tricky asked. Krystal retrieved the white grub tubs from Fox's backpack and then handed them to Tricky. "We sure did get them. I hope this is enough. We went through a lot of trouble to get these." Krystal stated. Tricky looked at all six white grub tubs in disbelief as he looked back up at Krystal and then nodded. "Thank you." Tricky whispered and then fed them to his mother. Ten minutes later the queen was back onto her feet and well. "Thank you so much. You foxes are so nice and wonderful." the queen stated.
"Now, please queen, I know this seems quick, but this is very urgent. What is going on around here?" Sam asked. The queen instantly looked at the vixen and then out at the field. "General Scales has taken the four Spell Stones to gain more power over the planet. Without the Spell Stones in its rightful place, the planet will implode and then go off its course. Causing all of the other planets to go out of line." the queen explained. "And I know exactly where you need to start. There's a friend of mine in Ice Mountain. He's a gatekeeper for one of the Spell Stones. He should tell where to go." the queen stated.
"Ok, that can be done." Krystal remarked. But then when she looked at Fox, she began to have second thoughts. She began to think about something to get Fox better, but couldn't. No matter how many times she tried running it over through her head, she couldn't think of a solution. After four minutes of hard thinking, she came to one conclusion, "Sam, we're going to have to go alone. Fox isn't fit at all to come with us." Krystal pointed out. Sam couldn't believe what she was hearing, she looked at Krystal and then sighed, 'We'll have to put our differences aside and get this thing done.' she thought. They both walked out of the cave, hoping that they could both resolve their problems soon.
To Be Continued
