Chapter 2 Who to follow
'Is he serious?'
"How am I supposed to trust you? I end up on your ship, and you think I'm supposed to work with you, and you really expect me to believe that you had nothing to do with any of this?"
"I can't prove anything that's why I want to work-" He was interrupted by a rumbling sound and stopped.
"We are under attack." Rob stated
"By who?" Fox was angry by this point.
"Our database confirms that it is Star Wolf."
"Rob any idea what they want this time?"
"That is yet unknown. How do you want to proceed?" Rob stood by for orders.
"You stupid Fox!"
"Wolfe, what do you want this time?!"
"Just what the hell is going on?" Lightning said impatiently.
"There isn't time to explain, but I need control of my ship back."
Just then the elevator door came open and in came Krystal the fox, Falco the bird, Slippy the frog, and Peppy the hare.
"Fox, what's going on?" He had his blaster aimed at Lightning.
"Why aren't the doors sealed?" Lightning said nearly pulling the trigger.
"When we couldn't get in I had to hack into the circuit board and open them myself." Slippy said with pride.
"Everyone be careful, that's her." Fox cautioned.
'Damn, no time to figure this out. I have to get out of here, a shroud should do.'
Lightning used a shroud to cover herself, and went through the elevator, back to the docking bay, but wasn't sure what to do at that point.
Meanwhile on the bridge...
"Everyone get to your stations, we've got company. Slippy seal the docking bay!" Fox said taking command
"Roger that." Slippy started shutting the bay doors.
"Krystal see what you can analyze!"
"Roger." Krystal acted quickly.
"Falco try to find and capture whoever the intruder is!"
"On it." he jumped into the elevator.
"Peppy prepare the frontal guns, and get shields up!"
"Right away." Peppy tapped with vigor.
"Fox, it seems the ship approaching, isn't a small one." Krystal warned.
"What? Krystal, can you Identify it?" Fox said with worry.
"It belongs to Star Wolf!" she exclaimed.
"Hahaha, stupid Fox. Ever since we started doing some freelancing for some who were willing to pay a good deal, we have used that to do some upgrading. We don't have just our hideout and Wolfens anymore. With the new ship we've bought you no longer out match us!'
"Slippy I need the docking bays open." Fox commanded.
"You just had me shut them." Slippy argued.
"I know, I didn't want anyone getting in, but I have to go out now. Peppy, take charge I have to go and defend against the smaller ships." he got up and went to the elevator.
"You're going alone?" Peppy was startled by this.
"No, Krystal you're with me." he commanded
"Ok Fox." she followed him.
Back in the docking bay...
Wolf had a devilish grin on his face "Hey Panther, do you think we have enough room to take a couple arwings with us? I might start customizing the Wolfen with the Arwing and out do anything that Fox would ever be able to get his hands on."
"I would say so Wolf, but how do you suggest we get on? I'm not sure if we'd be able to tow one out with the Wolfens, considering what we have to dodge." Panther pointed out.
"Hmm, your right." Wolf thought for a second.
Lightning overheard them 'Maybe they could help me. I hate to ask, but maybe they would be less likely to try and kill me.' she walked out with her gunblade sheathed and hands up.
"Hey you over there!" Lightning got their attention.
"Who is that?" Panther took aim at her.
Wolf lowered Panthers blaster "Are you one of Star Fox?"
"No, I have no idea how I got here, but I don't feel like sticking around. If they had a capture order on, you what would you do?" the last part she said sarcastically.
"Well then, care to lend us a hand? We need some help getting one of these to my ship, but we don't have another pilot."
"I have no idea on how to fly one of these." she admitted.
"Panther, show her the basics of the Wolfen. I'll be looting what I can, because of our last encounter we need some compensation. No one gets away with something like that."
"Alright, you probably already know our names, but I am Panther Caroso, follow me please." he said smoothly.
"Lightning." she stated bluntly
"Nice to meet you." he sweetly to her
"Panther shut your trap and get going, the names Wolf. Now that we're properly introduced let's hurry." Wolf was getting impatient.
After Panther taught Lightning how to fly the Wolfen, which was very quickly, they started to take whatever whatever looked to have any value.
"Ok, I have one question. How do you suppose we unlock the other ship that you want so badly if it's locked in with those clamps?" pointing out a minor flaw.
"Hmm, your right. Panther any ideas?" Wolf turned to him for a suggestion.
"I'm not the mechanical genius, so I have no idea on how to unclamp those." Panther admited almost with a look of defeat.
"I didn't bring anything that wouldn't blow those up." Wolf growled
"What is that?" Lightning looked curiously at Wolf's blaster.
"This.." Wolf brought up his blaster "..is a blaster."
"Wolf perhaps she's n to something. W could shoot both sides simultaneously and free it."
"Alright, I'll fly the arwing. I'll set this to power up enough to free it from the clamps, and not blow it up, once it is free you two'll follow me back to Alpha Wolf, but I need to rig the others to blow up so they can't follow us, and Leon will deal with their engines."
"Understood." Lightning radied herself.
"Alright Wolf, let's hope Leon can manage things for a little longer."
Just then someone came down the elevator.
"It's Fox and Krystal! Wolf, Panther! I'll deal with them." Lightning set up on some boxes and started firing her gunblade.
"Alright time to go. She'll head over here once I take flight."
"Wolf, stop right there!" Fox shouted, but j umped back at the sound of gunfire.
"Heh, sorry pup, but we can chat next time." Wolf Jumped in the Arwing and closed the hatch. Lightning ran back to the empty Wolfen. Fox tried to jump in an Arwing, but Krystal realized there was an explosive in it and told Fox to jump out, but he didn't hear her in time, and still took some of the blast. He sat there in pain as the three flew off to Alpha Wolf.
Fox screamed at the pain from his leg, thanks to Krystal it wasn't as bad as it could've been. He tried to get up and head to the bridge, but as he stood up he fell back down as pain exploded through his right leg. He looked down to see that his pant leg was completely charred.
"Peppy what's the situation?"Fox questioned,
"They seemed to have left without much of a fight, How about your end?" The hare responded."
"They stole an Arwing, got away with the intruder, and I need to get to the medical bay. I'm not sure but my leg might be burned pretty bad."
Peppy was concerned "Can you make it down there?"
"Yeah. Krystal is still with me." Fox grunted.
"Alright I'll let them know that you're headed there."
"Thanks Peppy. Fox out."
"Fox, how bad does it hurt?" Krystal said with a pained look.
"Honestly I'm not sure if I'll be walking anytime soon." he got up with help.
"Well we should hurry up, and get you to the medical bay." Krytal let him lean on her.
Fox thought to himself about his mistake 'I can't believe I didn't see that, I must be really losing my edge. Once this is healed I should start some training since it's been awhile since our last battle.'
the two headed to the elevator and started to get to the second floor. As soon as they were nealry there Krystal had something she wanted to say.
"Are you ok Fox? You seem to be frustrated, and confused I'm not intentionally reading your thought patterns it's just that you have extremely strong emotion radiating from you know."
"We can talk later." Fox gritted his teeth again.
s soon as they got in the room the doctor ran over to help and led them to an open bed, and laied him down. He went over to get some medical stuff which included scissors, gauze, wrap, medical tape, and different pills, which were probably pain meds. He started to cut the pant leg open, but when he did it tugged at Fox's leg and he involuntarily yelled.
"This is bad. It seems when the explosion went off, and set your pant leg on fire it burned your skin to your pants." the doctor started working even faster.
"So what's going to happen?" Krystal asked.
"I will have to get some painkillers to ease the pain, and then I will have cut around the areas with the cloth attached to it, and then remove the cloth melted to the skin. Hopefully the pain meds will take enough of the edge off, so that it won't hurt as bad. I'm also going to check and make sure there isn't any bleeding."
"How long might this take?" Krystal was on the verge of tears.
"He won't be out soon, so I suggest you go report in with the current captain of the ship."
"Alright, and Fox, take care."
"I will, now go and report in with Peppy." Fox half ordered.
Later in the Alpha Wolf docking bay...
"Thanks for the help." Wolf said.
"No problem, I just needed a way off his ship and I saw an opportunity."
"But, do you have any idea how you got on Fox's ship?" The question came from Panther.
"No I don't, I thought I was headed somewhere else, but then I ended up here. I thought he did something to get me here." she said with concern.
"Maybe we can help you find out." Panther offered.
Lightning was skeptical "Why would you do that?"
This time Wolf answered "You could've taken either side, but you chose to help up. I repay my debts."
"Alright, but how are you going to do that?" Lightning eased up a little, but was still on guard.
Wolf gave her a devilish grin "We would have to come up with some way to infiltrate The Great Fox again, and find a way to hack into the mainframe to steal all recent data from the past couple days."
"How are we going to infultrate it Wolf?" Panther asked curiously.
"Well, after I got here with the Arwing, I started tampering and looking at the parts. I might be able to reconfigure somethings and make a ship that's uncatchable. Then have someone slip in the ship."
"Wolf, that's a good idea and all, but who'll go in?" Panther seemd uneasy.
Wolf still held his grin "Simple we'll remodel a Wolfen to fit two people, and then Lightning and I will head in a do what we can, that's if she wants to."
Lightning was getting anxious "I want to figure out how to get back to where I belong. I'll help you, if you help me."
Wolf started barking orders "Alright, Panther get some other guys and sort out everything else, see what we can use, and if not then we'll get a good price for it. Also get Leon down here"
"I'm on it." Panther started making calls and running around to gather up men.
or the next couple hours Wolf, Panther, Leon, and Lightning sorted, and devised a way to make The Wolfen mark III. Wolf taught her how to use the different weapons, sharpen flying skills, and the technological skills required for the upcoming mission. Even though they only had a couple days at best Lightning learned as much as she could. They wanted to start the operation, before Fox's ship could regain their defenses. So they spent the next day taking apart the Arwing and reconfiguring The Wolfen mark II to be able to fly faster than anything before.
Lightning commended their work, but also brought up a good point "I have an idea. I don't know if it'll work or not. I have a device called a shroud. It causes me to be unseen by everyone. We want to make it fast that's great, but it doesn't help if they can see us coming."
"Is that so? Leon what do you think?" Wolf was intrigued.
"May I see this device?" the lizard asked, and she handed one to him.
"Marvelous indeed, yes. Let me make a few adjustments and we should be ready to test." and Leon went to work. It took another two hours but he got it configured into the ship.
"Ok Wolf, try it now and let's see what happens." Leon said excited to see the results of his work.
Wolf started flying around, and as the group waited to see what would happen, and they lost him not only on sight, but on radar as well.
"Wolf come in." Lightning said with suprise.
Wolf was curious about her tone "What is it?"
"You're invisible both from sight and from radar." she informed him.
"Alright, then let's take the fight to them again!" he nearly shouted.
"When do we make our move?" Lightning said calmer then before.
"When will you be ready?" Wolf asked as he landed and got out of the new Wolfen.
