Star Fox: The Dead Planet Chapter 9: Talking, a star fox fanfic

'When it comes to Fox and Krystal it's like the most complicated equation in the world, and solving it requires time and effort and brain power than I will never possess.'

Some of Cpt. Fox's words to me when I was ranting to him about how hard this chapter was to write. They just seem to sum up all my thoughts on it.. I rewrote the first three pages of this chapter Five times! Five, Freaking, times! Nothing ever seemed to really flow, or it felt like it flowed at first, then I would read through it and wonder to myself what I was thinking when I wrote it.

So, in summery, I'm sure this chapter sucks, and hopefully it will get better in the next one as we march ever on towards the end. Which I'm feeling is coming soon, but we'll see what happens. So, that is enough of me Rambling, ON TO THE CHAPTER WITH YOU!

Star Fox: The Dead Planet Chapter 9: Talking

It was funny, those same words, used in a different context, and suddenly he felt sick to his stomach. Was this how she felt when he had tried to talk to her on the Great Fox only a week ago? Fox gulped hard as he nodded dumbly. "Okay." he said softly, glad his voice was still working. Then she patted the bed next to her and smiled at him and Fox forgot about his nervousness.

Fox blinked as she spoke up again. "Then come sit down."

Fox took a few slow steps over to the edge of the bed and sat down, keeping as much distance between them as possible. He leaned forward with his hands clasped in front of him before he turned his head to look at her. "So, what do we need to talk about?"

Kursed sighed and leaned back on the bed, staring at the ceiling for a moment. "Honestly, I would prefer to just get out of here. But, I don't think I can avoid it anymore."

Fox focused on the floor. "Avoid what?" he asked quietly.

Kursed was silent for a while. "Talking about all this stuff, Cerinia, me, you...us..."

Fox stayed where he was, staring at the floor. "Well, starting with how you know those things out there are Cerinians is a good start. As for everything else..." For trailed off and went silent as he thought of something to say about her last word "...tackle that how you see fit."

Kursed was quiet for a while. "Cerinia has always been different, alive somehow. Legends say it was the crystal that fell to the surface ages ago. Since then, Cerinians have always been able to sense one another, and to sense something from the planet itself. While I was out, I was told about the Cerinians here, what happened to them. The 'something' has chosen me, the last Cerinian, to fix the mistake the last ruler made."

Fox looked up at Kursed. "What mistake was that?"

Kursed paused. "Trusting Dr. Andross."

Fox blinked before turning his gaze back to the floor.. "Krystal once told me that Andross was the one who destroyed her world."

Kursed turned her gaze back to the ceiling as she laid fully back on the bed, one hand tucked behind her head. "He crashed here, years ago, and Krystal saved his life, brought him to the palace here, nursed him back to health, and when the time was right, he used her to bring about the planets end."

Fox frowned. "How do you know all this?"

Kursed glanced at him again. "I was a servant here, and I followed Krystal everywhere. I saw what she was doing, knew things even her parents didn't know." she sighed and continued. "They made a deal, She told him about our past, our gifts, and he would get her off world. Never once did she see what he was until it was too late." Kursed scoffed. "She realized it at the end, realized what she had done, and she did the only thing she could think of to stop him."

"What was that?"

"She snuck into the armory and stole the staff, the staff that you used, and that I use. Its serves as a key to what Andross was after, and without it, she figured she had him stopped cold. She ran through the jungle and found his shuttle that he promised her and she got it to launch." Kursed blinked as a tear formed in the corner of her eye. "Just in time to watch Cerinia vanish. I watched too, having followed her the entire time and sneaking onto the shuttle after her." Kursed paused. "It changes you, watching your planet get destroyed. Krystal moved on, found love, fixed herself."

Fox's next words were quiet as he brought his gaze around to watch her. "and you?"

Kursed was silent for a full minute, her face thoughtful, that tear still sitting in the corner of her eye. "...I ran...I ran as long and far as I could...Eventually, I couldn't run anymore, and the pain of it all was too much. So I changed, I broke who I was, who I was meant to be, to become somebody else...just to escape the pain." Kursed paused again, taking a deep breath, and giving a dour chuckle as she closed her eyes. "I'm broken."

Fox blinked and studied her face, looking for the hatred and anger that normally dominated it. But for once, her face wasn't hardened with those emotions, instead, her jaw was slack with sadness, and a tear struggled in the corner of her eye. "Kursed?" he asked softly.

She let out a huff of air. "Cerinia chose me to save them, but I'm broken and can't do it." She paused and sighed "I need to fix myself, and I have no idea how."

Fox scooted over, and reached out and touched her paw, when she didn't draw it away he wrapped her fingers around hers. "I'm here." he paused. "How ever I can help. We'll figure this out."

Kursed glanced at him then and Fox drew in a breath of air as her voice echoed through his head. "Really? After everything I've done to you?"

Fox's breathing grew ragged for a few moments before he took a deep breath and nodded. "Yes."

"Why?"

Fox moved back and leaned on the bed like she was, their paws still entwined. "The easy answer? I'm the leader of this team, and I will always be there to help in anyway I can."

"Is there a hard answer?" Fox glanced at her as she actually voiced the words.

"There is." he said with a nod. "The hard answer is that ever since we left for Cerinia, part of me has been screaming that there is something about you. Something familiar."

Kursed glanced at him "I look like her."

Fox nodded. "There is that, but its more then just you looking like her. Krystal was always honorable, tough, and she cared about those around her."

Kursed scoffed as she turned her gaze upwards again. "How am I honorable? I'm a bounty hunter."

Fox smiled. "I looked into your history, you never quit, you take a job, and you finish it, no matter the cost. You honor your agreements. Even ones you don't like, say shipping out with a reformed mercenary team for instance. As for tough, well, you actually continued to spar with me in the rec room, no matter how many times I beat you."

Kursed broke in. "You can't say I care for any of you."

Fox chuckled softly. "Falco and Katt no, but they haven't done a lot to inspire you to care about them. But as for me..." Fox trailed off as he reached up and pulled on his shirt, revealing the line of stitches that could been seen through the fur of his shoulder. "I dare say, some part of you cares about me." Fox paused and swallowed. "and...I care about you, more then just a team mate, I feel like I'm betraying myself by doing so. But at the same time, it feels right, like when Krystal and I first started dating."

"You keep comparing me to her. I'm not her." Kursed blinked as the word 'anymore' flashed through her head while she hoped Fox didn't hear it.

Fox sat up and locked his gaze with hers. "I know, that's what so confusing for me right now. Krystal and I had a Bond, and yet, I feel like I have the same thing with you. But you said it was impossible."

"With another Cerinian, but you're not like me, maybe you can create another." Kursed broke their staring contest by turning her gaze to the window. "When we left Corneria, the last thing I ever wanted was to spend time with you. Everything I knew about you, I hated. Yet, you kept trying to involve me, no matter what I did." She glanced back at him. "You're stupidly stubborn sometimes, anybody tell you that?" Fox grinned, but kept quiet. "I've tried so hard to hate you, but after we started sparring, something changed inside me. I didn't hate you anymore, and I got...curious."

"Is that why you kissed me the last time we sparred?"

Kursed was silent for a moment. "I wanted to know what it would feel like."

Fox nodded, "And the Medbay?" When Kursed looked at him again, Fox just shrugged. "ROB, showed me the security footage."

Kursed rolled off the bed suddenly, breaking away from his hold and standing up and walking to the small window in the wall. "In the Medbay, I...when I opened your Arwing after the fight, and I saw all the blood." she glanced over at him. "Fox, I thought you had stopped breathing, and, I just felt something...it snapped." she turned her gaze back to the window. "I feel like I'm missing something inside, something that I'll never get."

Fox stood up and walked over, standing behind her. "I could be."

Kursed sighed and leaned out into the window seal. "Could be what?"

Fox was quiet for a long time before he answered. "You said you're broken, that your missing something, what if I'm it?" he held out a hand next to her and waited.

Kursed turned around to face him. "Fox, I..." she trailed off again.

Fox interrupted her by holding up his other hand. "I feel like I'm reaching here, something that you need to be doing. You're going through a lot right now, and I understand why you wouldn't. Just know, that I'll be here, Reaching." He glanced down at his other hand, still held between them. "Whenever you're ready to reach back."

Kursed, pushed his hand down and moved forward while she leaned in, inhaling as she did so and drawing his sent into her nose. "Fox." she said softly.

"Yes?" his voice was a whisper on his breath.

Kursed brought their lips together and Fox closed his eyes as something rang right within him. He felt the same thing happening to Kursed through the Bond. Kursed backed off eventually with a paw on his chest. "Thanks." she said softly as she walked past him and opened the door where she paused. "For everything." she turned and went into the hallway, closing the door behind her and leaving Fox alone in the room.

Fox chuckled to himself softly as he brushed his own lips before he walked over to the window and leaned out like Kursed had just a moment ago. He ran his gaze over the jungles of Cerinia before he turned his gaze to the sky. He closed his eyes and inhaled, he let the breath out but kept his eyes closed as he whispered one last word to himself.

Kursed made it halfway down the hallway before she had to stop and lean against the wall. She struggled for breath for a moment as she fought through her roaring emotions. She had tried so hard to hate him, tried so hard to leave him, and yet, here she was, stepping back into his arms and wanting to ask him for help. She closed her eyes and saw him standing in the room she had just left, staring out into Cerinias jungle. She rubbed her eyes with her hand, and she could still smell his sent there. It haunted her mind, dredging up memories that she had long buried, nights the two of them spent alone, their first date, even the first time they met, and every single one scared her.

They scared her because the more time she spent with him, the more she wanted him back in her life. Waking up to him every morning and being the first thing she saw, as well as the last thing she was conscious of at night.

Kursed stumbled down the hallway, eventually ending up in another room where she started voicing her fears aloud. "I can't." she said softly. "I can't go back to him, not like this. I love him, and he loves me, I know it. But how can he love a lie?" she paused as the tears she had been holding in while they had been talking started to break free of her control. "How could anybody love me after what I've done? How could he ever forgive me, and how can I even forgive myself?" She sat down on the ground with her back to the wall, and let the tears really flow for the first time in years. "It's not fair that this hurts so much, being back here, being with Fox. I can't do it." She lowed her head onto her arms as she cried.

"Those words always seem to lead to you running."

Kursed blinked and looked up to the desk in the room. She blinked and looked around the room, and when her eyes found the desk again her 'father' was sitting behind the desk, watching her. He blinked as they watched each other. Kursed eventually found her voice. "What do you mean?"

Her 'father' shrugged "You couldn't live with the fear of being trapped on Cerinia, so you ran. You couldn't live with the fear of being left behind as someone you loved risked their lives, so you ran. Now you're terrified that everything is catching up to you, and you want to run again. So far, every time you run, seems things get worse. Why would it work this time?"

Kursed shook her head. "I'm not thinking of running."

Her 'father' stood up and walked to the window, his hands clasped behind his back. "Really? You can tell me that you didn't once think about leaving since you found out that Fox McCloud was invovled?" Kursed opened her mouth to deny it, then closed it slowly. "I thought so."

Kursed scoffed, her anger finding fuel again. "If you know so much, how about you tell me how to save Cerinia?"

Her 'father' glanced over his shoulder at her. "I already did."

Kursed stood up. "Fine then tell me how to fix myself!" she demanded in anger, taking a step forward and pointing at him.

Her 'father; turned to face her fully, and she took a step back as his purely white eyes found hers. "If I could, I would, but while you may be bonded with me by blood. That doesn't mean that I can tell you what is wrong with you, or how to fix it." he blinked and his eyes returned to normal. "All I can offer you is advice, if you want to find whats truly broken inside, you need to look inside."

Kursed blinked and took a step back. "Oh." she said softly, as her 'father' smiled and faded from view. Kursed closed her eyes and bowed her head.

When she opened her eyes and lifted her head, she was back where she had first sat down, and the sun had set a bit further in the sky. She sighed as she stood up and walked over to the desk, where she sat down and pulled her legs up, crossing them in front of her as she closed her eyes and relaxed her breathing. After a few minutes she reached out with her senses, not just hearing the wind outside, or feeling the desk below her, but reaching with her mind as well. She frowned as she found a block of some sort inside, something that was stopping her, something that she had done.

She sighed when she realized that it was one of the blocks that she had built over the past eight years to forget who she had been. Reluctantly at first, she dropped it, and she felt something settle inside her, she continued this, moving on to each memory, each thought about her past life that she had tried to forget, and accepting it as part of who she was again. As each memory settled inside of her, she felt her reach grow, and she felt as if someone was taking the weight off of her shoulders, a weight that she herself had put there.

When she got to her memories of Fox, she hesitated, afraid that he might sense what she was doing. She thought about what her 'father' had said, of her being scared and she frowned. She refused to be scared anymore, and she sighed before she destroyed the blocks all at once. She gasped softly as all the memories, flashed by in her mind, replaying her entire life with Fox as the thoughts settled where they were supposed to be. With each memory she saw, something inside of her eased its hold on her soul. She opened her eyes a few minutes later and blinked as she reached again with her mind. She gasped softly ten minutes later, and pushed herself off the desk, heading for the door.

She needed to find Fox.

Fox meanwhile had returned to where Falco and Katt were waiting in the throne room. As he walked in, both Katt and Falco turned to face him with a hand on their weapons, relaxing when they saw who it was.

Katt was the first to call out from where she was leaning on one of the pillars. "So, is Sunshine awake yet?"

Fox nodded as he came to a stop. "She is, and according to her, the creatures outside and spread about inside the palace are former Cerinians."

Falco scoffed from his seat on the throne. "How the hell would she know that?"

Fox paused before he continued. "Cerinia told her."

The silence that greeted him didn't really surprise him, he just crossed his arms and waited. Surprisingly, it was Katt who broke first.

"How the hell did a planet tell her anything?" she asked as she stepped away from the pillar. Falco closed his mouth as Katt voiced what was on his mind.

Fox shrugged as he walked past the throne towards the balcony that overlooked the destroyed village. "Some sort of connection she has with it, something about being the last Cerinian." Fox laughed softly. "After being married to a telepathic though, I'm ready to believe anything." Fox paused as he leaned on the railing. "There's something else..." Fox trailed off as Katt and Falco came to a stop behind him.

Falco frowned as he studied Fox's back. "Fox, buddy, somethings up, what is it?"

Fox was silent for a minute before he responded, eventually he gestured to the ash village in front of him. "This is what's bothering me. If Kursed is right, Andross is behind what happened here."

Falco was silent for a moment before he shook his head. "Andross? Our Andross?! He did this?"

Fox nodded, "What's worse is apparently Krystal helped bring it all about."

Falco held up his hands. "Okay, how do you know this?"

Fox sighed "Kursed was a servant here, she followed Krystal everywhere, even off world when Andross made Cerinia vanish."

Katt spoke up. "So, if Kursed was a servant here, does that mean she was you know, nice? What happened to her to make her so...crass."

Fox glanced over his shoulder at Katt. "To use her words, Krystal found love in me, and Kursed just kept running until she couldn't anymore. She changed herself to what she is now." Fox turned back to the village. "Broken and alone."

Falco scoffed. "Hell, you say that like you feel sorry for her."

Fox was quiet for a minute. "Maybe I do."

Falco and Katt exchanged a look. "Hey, Foxy, your head still in the game here? We're talking about Kursed after all. May I remind you the first thing she did upon seeing you was curse, and the moment you tried to touch her she kicked you in the stomach?"

Fox turned around to face Falco. "She's mellowed."

Katt injected "Because you made that bet with her right before you put her face first in the mat." Katt paused. "Something I still approve of by the way. If it was up to her, she would still be treating us all like shit."

Falco nodded. "Yea man, don't tell me you're going soft on her."

Fox paused before he shrugged again. "I honestly don't know. Ever since we started this mission with her, I've just been getting more confused. I guess we'll see what happens once we're off this planet and back where we belong." Fox pushed off the railing and entered the throne room again.

"Where we belong..." Falco trailed off as he walked with Fox. "You do mean the Great Fox right?" he finished with a hopeful look.

Fox grinned at his friend. "Maybe." was all he said before he turned to Katt. "By the way, how would you feel about living on the Great Fox?"

Katt glanced at Falco before meeting Fox's eyes. "Really?"

Fox nodded. "If we do get back in the air, we're going to need a permanent third."

Katt was silent for a moment. "Only if I get to customize my Arwing." she said with a grin.

Falco groaned when Fox nodded. "Seriously Fox? A purple Arwing?"

Katt frowned at Falco. "Hey, I may choose pink instead."

Falco groaned even louder as they reached the doorway and stopped. "That's even worse."

"Hate to interrupt, but I've got something you need to know."

Fox turned to face Kursed as she came to a stop outside the doorway. "Whats up?"

Kursed stepped into the throne room, glancing around as she did. "That guy you were looking for, Bill? I found him, hes under the palace, in the dungeon somewhere."

Falco raised an eyebrow. "How do you know this?"

Kursed just raised her own eyebrow and stared at him until he blinked and turned away. "Telepathic, right."

Kursed turned her attention to Fox as he spoke up. "How come you're just sensing him now?"

Kursed paused for a moment before she replied. "I had to deal with some stuff before I could sense him."

Katt spoke up. "What kind of stuff?"

Kursed glanced at Fox before she turned around. "Private stuff. Come on, I can feel the Cerinians now and I know where to go to avoid them. But we better hurry." With that Kursed drew her staff from its holster and headed off down the hallway.

Fox exchanged a glanced with Falco before pulling his blaster and following, Falco and Katt bringing up the rear with their own weapons suddenly drawn. Kursed led them through several hallways until she reached a spiraling stairwell that led them deep into the ground. As they descended, Kursed would sometimes pause and gesture for them to be quiet as they passed doors. When they reached the bottom of the stairwell, Kursed's face was drawn and she looked tired.

Falco was the first to notice "Whats wrong Kursed? Tired already?"

Kursed frowned at Falco. "No, I was focusing on hiding us from the Cerinians so they didn't come to find us for whatever reason. Hiding your mind wouldn't have been a problem, nothing going on there, but Fox and Monroe were actually thinking about something besides sex."

Falco's beak dropped opened in surprise while Katt giggled and Fox snorted softly. Kursed leaned against the wall and gestured them towards the door. "Bill should be through there, I'm just going to stay here for a minute and recover, and do what I can to keep the Cerinians out of the stairwell."

Fox nodded and looked at Falco who nodded and led Katt towards the door that lead into the dungeon. "Why does every palace have to have a dungeon?" he asked as Katt opened the door and covered him as he walked in.

Fox waited until they were both in before he turned to Kursed, who spoke before he could "McCloud, just go."

Fox paused. "You can't avoid it anymore, you said so yourself, we will finish that talk that you ran out on."

Kursed nodded. "Just...later"

Fox turned to face the door. "Right, later." He glanced over his shoulder at her with a grin. "By the way, I liked you actually calling me by my first name. You should do that more often."

Kursed smiled despite herself. "Go Fox, find your friend."

When Fox was gone, Kursed sighed and leaned up against the wall before sliding down it. It was getting harder and harder to be around him. She had thought that removing her own mental blocks would help, but instead it just reminded her of how much she had loved him, and how much she still did. She sighed softly as she recovered from the mental strain. "We need to find out what happened then leave, before I get to attached to him again." She whispered softly to herself. She had already accepted that she still loved him, but she also knew that she couldn't have him, not as Krystal, and not as Kursed. The best thing would be for her to leave when all was said and done.

Kursed stood back up and followed Fox into the gloom, whispering one last thing to herself. "But that doesn't mean I can't enjoy what time I have left with him."

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Star Fox: The Dead Planet Deleted Chapter 9: Talking

Fox blinked as she spoke up again. "Then come sit down."

Kursed sighed and leaned back on the bed, staring at the ceiling for a moment. "Honestly, I would prefer to just get out of here. But, I don't think I can avoid it anymore."

Fox focused on the floor. "Avoid what?" he asked quietly.

Kursed was silent for a while. "I'm broken."

She let out a huff of air. "Cerinia chose me to save them, but I'm broken and can't do it." She paused and sighed "I need to fix myself, and I have no idea how."

Fox was quiet before he responded. "I'm here." he paused. "How ever I can help. We'll figure this out."

Kursed glanced at him then and Fox drew in a breath of air as her voice echoed through his head. "Really? After everything I've done to you?"

Fox's breathing grew ragged for a few moments before he took a deep breath and nodded. "Yes."

"Why?"

Fox tried to answer, but, couldn't. He flinched gently when her paw reached out and touched his. "Fox."

Fox blinked and glanced at Kursed only to find her face close to his. "Yes?"

In answer Kursed moved forward and pressed her lips against his, Fox thought about resisting for a moment before he gave into his own feelings and relaxed into the kiss, then a moment later deepening the kiss even further. When they separated a minute later Kursed glanced down at the her paw, which had claimed a grip on his.

They were both silent for another minute before Kursed started speaking. "I can't explain it. When we started this mission, I hated your guts, and the last thing I ever wanted to do was work with you. Now...I'm fighting a losing battle with my own feelings, feelings that I've kept buried since our last fight in the rec room." Kursed sighed and leaned back again, Fox joining her. "I think I love you, against everything I know, and my own judgment, I think I love you." She scoffed and shook her head. "I know you still have all these feelings for her, but, shes gone. I think you need to let someone new into your life."

Fox was silent, his finger rubbing the top of her paw while he listened to her talk. "So..." he waited a beat, then two. "In the rec room?"

Kursed sighed "I originally planned it as a distraction, but part of me wondered."

Fox nodded. "The Medbay?" Kursed glanced at him in surprise. "ROB showed me the security footage."

Kursed turned her gaze back to the ceiling. "When I opened the canopy on your wrecked Arwing and saw all the blood. I panicked, your eyes were closed and it didn't look like you were breathing. I thought I had lost you before I even had you. When I realized you were still alive, I got you to the Medbay, I went to start stitching your shoulder, and," Kursed trailed off with a shake of her head. "I couldn't live with myself if I hadn't at least tried kissing you for real, conscious or not."

Fox glanced down at their entwined paws again. "So, against your wishes you fell in love with a Dropout?"

Kursed frowned and glanced away from him. "Not helping here." she said softly.

Fox reached out and cupped her muzzle in his other paw, turning her gaze to lock with his. "Sorry, if it helps this is as...hard, for me as it is for you." Fox paused and gulped before he started talking again. "When I buried Krystal, I buried part of me with her, I told myself that I would never get that part back, that I could never love anybody ever again. It wasn't long before I started spiraling down further and further, until life itself seemed pointless. I had honestly thought the only way I could ever love again was to take that last shot and hope to find Krystal on the other end. When Falco stopped me, I never hated him more in that moment, that I have before. I honestly thought he was stopping me from being happy." Fox trailed off into silence and released Kursed muzzle, although they continued to stare at each other.

"And now?" she asked softly.

Fox chuckled softly. "Now, I still wish that he had let me, I'm so confused right now. I hardly know anything about you Kursed, yet I feel attracted you, and its really messing with my head right now. I don't want to say I love you right now, because I'm still not sure if I'm attracted to you, or because you look like Krystal."

Kursed glanced down. "Oh." she said softly, pulling her paw out of his grip.

Fox shook his head. "But what I have seen, I like." he reached out and claimed her paw in his once more. "You put on this crass outside to keep people out, but I can see past it. You've done things you're not proud of, but you always honor your own goals. Its just you've let others decide what those goals are. You're tough and dedicated because you always see things through, no matter how much you don't want too. Joining up with us for this mission, even though you would have preferred to leave us behind. Add to the fact that your a capable pilot and fighter, and I think I might be able to love you."

Kursed brought her gaze back up to his. "What about protecting me?" Fox was silent so she continued. "I remember that experiment that we did, you tried to protect Krystal, and you drove her away."

Fox glanced up at the ceiling. "I can't promise to not try to protect you, that's part of being a leader, looking out for those with me. But I can promise to not smother you." Fox grinned as he paused. "Besides, I doubt I could force you to do something you don't want to."

Kursed grinned as he finished talking. "You're right about that." she said softly.

They stayed quite, just holding hands on the bed for another few minutes before Fox spoke up "Fix yourself?" he asked softly.

Kursed nodded "I'm not whole, something is wrong..."