The Search for Fox Part VI
The Sharpclaw Planet
The U.S.S. Hedgehog gave light speed a break and went over to heavy speed due to the distance of the Sharpclaw planet. The Sonic Team and the Pokeagents were sitting around in the main deck, and Krystal still hasn't come out of the sleeping quarters. They were waiting for something to happen.
"Man" said Sonic "I feel so sorry for Krystal"
"Me, too" said Umbreon "I mean, why would Fox do something like that? Having someone you love dearly betray you with all the sudden and not telling you, if that happened to me, I'd be inconsolable"
"Why?" said Shadow "Doesn't Fox love Krystal, too? Him turning to the enemy for an unknown reason, it doesn't make any sense"
"Well, we're going to find out, right?" said Knuckles
"Dude, do you think that one of us should, like, talk to her, and stuff?" said Espeon
"Naw, she needs to be alone, right now" said Sonic "But, she'll get over it, right?"
"I don't think so" said Knuckles "Fox changed her life forever. Remember in Starfox Adventures? Krystal was traveling from planet to planet until she was rescued by Fox. It changed her life completely; she actually had a home, friends, and love"
"Yeah" said Sonic "But, the thing about it is, nothing's going to be the same anymore"
"Wait" said Skipper "Didn't we say we we're going to turn him?"
"We might" said Umbreon "That depends on him"
"That reminds me" said Treeko "I've got to take out the trash"
"What trash?" asked Sonic
"The trash, it's full" said Treeko
"Who said you had to take it out?" said Sonic "Look, here's the trash cycle: Once upon a time, the trash gets used, we throw it away, we throw the trash out when it gets full to the engine room, then, the trash gets burned to a crisp, the end"
"Oh, you use trash as energy?" asked Umbreon
"No" said Tails "We use a giant battery for energy. When it runs out, we take it back to the apartment and recharge it. But, unfortunately, the charger runs on batteries, too"
"Wow, how many batteries do you need?" asked Blazekin
"Only two AA batteries" said Tails
"AA batteries power the re charger for the giant battery for a giant battleship………That's really strange" said Umbreon
"Well, it was a little less complex than that" said Sonic "You see, we were scouting about in the mystic ruins when Knuckles lost the cord for the re charger"
"I told you before, Sonic, I didn't lose it" said Knuckles
"I told you to look after it" said Sonic "So, having full responsibility for it, you lost it"
"Well, if you kept it in your pocket, you would have…"
"Wait, wait, WAIT!" said Umbreon "Why did you carry it with you in the first place?"
"Because………We had to" said Sonic
"Weren't we talking about something else" said Shadow
"That's right, what were we talking about" said Sonic
"I can't remember" said Shadow
"Treeko changed the subject" said Skipper
"Changed what?" said Treeko
"Oh, now I remember" said Sonic "Umbreon and I were at the computer trying to find Fox"
"Oh, yeah" said Umbreon
Sonic and Umbreon were standing in front of the computer, trying their best to get a signal.
"Wait a minuet" said Umbreon "Didn't we already do this?"
"Yeah, we're doing what we were talking about in the first place" said Sonic
"Let's fast forward to where we were" said Tails
"Something to do with Fox" said Shadow
They all stood there pondering about where they were. And, uh, wait………Oh, yeah, this is Starfox! Okay, let's zoom over to Krystal………Yeah, she's depressed. Now, let's head back to...
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Krystal was sitting on the bed in the sleeping quarters. She was quite shocked about what has become of Fox. She was in deep thought, tears rolling down her face. She was remembering all the times that Fox saved her and all the things she did with him. Those were some of the happiest moments of her life, and now, they're gone. She remembered when Fox first saved her and they both met, Fox, Link, and Kirby defeating Andross and Krystal coming up to the great fox to thank Fox. At that point, Fox welcomed Krystal to the team, thus giving her a home, friends, and a life outside of traveling. Fox was always there for her. It was then that she found out that she had to see why Fox turned, to see him one last time.
Krystal got up, wiped the tears from her face, and went into the main deck, where everybody was still pondering about what they were talking about. Krystal, having no idea what was going on, decided to say something.
"How close are we to Sharpclaw Planet?" asked Krystal
"Sharpclaw Planet?" said Sonic "I think I'm seeing a pattern here"
"It really rings a bell" said Umbreon
"The only way we can find out about where we were, is to get those Chaos emeralds" said Shadow
"What are you talking about?" asked Krystal
"Do you know what we were doing, Krystal" said Amoeba
"Of course, we're going to Sharpclaw planet to find Fox, and see why he joined General Scale's army" said Krystal
"Oh yeah!" said Sonic
"That's right" said Umbreon
"Oh, totally remember now" said Espeon
"Oh, how did I forget that?" asked Tails
"So much for finding the Chaos emeralds" said Shadow
"Now, if only we can find out why we were pondering" said Knuckles
Everybody started to ponder again.
"It doesn't matter" said Krystal "What really matters is to find the answers"
"She's right" said Sonic "Let's find the answers"
"To math?" said Amoeba "I can never tell who the first president was"
"No, to phonics" said Sonic
Krystal didn't want to go through this and said "Look, we're going to find Fox, find out why he joined General Scale's army, try to turn him, and go home, hopefully with Fox"
"Yeah! What the crap are we doing standing around and pondering about random things that have nothing to do with the storyline? Let's get to work!" said Sonic
Krystal was relieved, now everybody was back on track. Then…
"We're receiving a transmission from Fox" said Tails
"Fox?" said Sonic "I haven't seen that guy in a while. What's he been up to?"
Everybody looked at Sonic
"Um…Oh…uh" said Sonic "Just…put him on"
Fox appeared on the monitor.
"Guys, I need you to turn around an go back" said Fox
"Fox, is it true?" asked Krystal
"Is what true?" said Fox
"Why, Fox? Why did you join Scale's army? Why?" asked Krystal
"So, you know the truth now" said Fox
"You bet" said Sonic "And we want an explanation"
"!"
"An explanation, not an exclamation point" said Sonic
"Well, now that you know what happened, I need you to turn back" said Fox
"Not until you tell us why" said Umbreon
"Look, that's not important" said Fox "It's dangerous here, General Scales has his army guarding everything, I don't want any of you to get hurt, especially you Krystal"
"Fox" said Krystal
"We'll risk it" said Sonic "There ain't nothing that can stop us!"
"No, I can't have you come here" said Fox "I'm really sorry you guys, but you need to go home"
"No, Fox, I won't leave without you!" said Krystal
"It's too late, Krystal" said Fox "I'm not the Fox you know anymore"
"Still, Fox, you can't do this" said Krystal "I… I… really… I was worried about you all the way through. Don't tell me you've changed"
"The Fox you knew is gone" said Fox "You'll never see him again"
"The Fox I knew would never give in to the enemy and join them" said Krystal "And he always trusted his friends, and he would never let me down, so, what you say is true, you really have changed. Why?"
"That doesn't matter" said Fox
"Yes it does" said Sonic "We're never going to live through this if you don't tell us, right? We need to know, Fox"
"Sometimes, there should be things that you weren't meant to know" said Fox "I've turned, I'm your enemy now, and that's all, now, please, turn around while you have the chance"
"Fox" said Krystal "I trusted you……… how could you turn on us? How could you?"
"Krystal" said Fox "You have to understand, I've changed for good, you need to carry on, now, please turn around before it's too late"
There was a long pause.
"Sorry, Fox" said Sonic "We're on our way, and that's that! See ya there!"
Sonic hung up.
"Well, now, I guess we need to pay Fox a little visit" said Sonic
"Fox…… Why?" said Krystal
"Krystal" said Umbreon "I'm sure he didn't mean to let you down. We have to find out why he turned, even if it means we have to fight him"
"Fight Fox?" said Krystal "No, I can't fight him, I would never fight him, never. I…"
"Look, I know you have deep feelings for him" said Shadow "But, we have to, he's the enemy now"
"I never got to say good-bye to him" said Krystal "I never told him my feelings when I had the chance"
"You were on a roll, really" said Sonic "You showed a little bit of relationship between you two, right?"
"Fox…" said Krystal
"Man, kind of reminds you of Starfox Command" said Sonic "Except that…"
"Sonic, no" said Shadow "Look, we're not doing Starfox Command"
"I'm just saying…" said Sonic
"We're nearing the planet" said Tails
"Slow us down to almost normal speed" said Sonic
The U.S.S. Hedgehog slowed down and stopped in seeing distance from the planet.
"I said almost normal, not no speed whatsoever" said Sonic
"No that's not the case, look!" said Tails
They all looked on the monitor and saw an entire fleet of Sharpclaw ships surrounding the planet. Ready for attack.
"So?" said Sonic
"Taking this ship in would be a bad Idea" said Umbreon
"You may have a point" said Sonic
"We can't enter the planet?" said Krystal
"Not with this big ship" said Knuckles
"But what about a small ship" said Sonic "Yeah, that's it! We'll fly down there in our ships!"
"We've only got three: The tornado 2, Krystal's arwing, and the Pokemobile" said Umbreon
"Three is a magic number" said Sonic "We'll fly down there in our ships and continue on down there"
"But, we can't avoid all the ships, they'll notice us" said Tails
"We'll take out as many ships as we can, they'll get distracted in calling reinforcements then, we go on in" said Umbreon
"Either way, we're going to run into lot's of ships" said Shadow
"I can help that" said Sonic "Prepare the front cannon"
"Sonic, we've got only one shot with it" said Tails
"Enough to dramatically shorten their numbers" said Sonic "Ready the cannon"
Everybody went up to the control bridge and fired up the cannon.
"Ready" said Sonic "Aim…"
"Locked on" said Shadow
"FIRE!"
The cannon at the front of the U.S.S. Hedgehog opened up and sent a powerful beam down to the fleet leaving a big hole in it.
"Quick, while their hurt! Get to the ships" said Umbreon
Everybody went to the hanger. Krystal hopped into her arwing, The pokeagents went into the Pokemobile, and Sonic stuffed Tails, Knuckles, Amoeba, and Shadow into the back cockpit of the tornado 2 with a broom and hopped in the front cockpit, then, the tornado 2 and the Pokemobile went into space mode. The three ships started and flew out of the hanger.
When they reached the weakened fleet, the ships noticed immediately and started attacking. They tried their best to get through. Like a rail stage of Starfox 64 or Starfox Adventures or Starfox Assault and, why am I mentioning these games?
Take a minuet to, if you have the game, to do a Starfox rail stage……… Done? Same thing.
They finally broke through and flew through the atmosphere. Then, they landed. It was a desolate wasteland, and it must have been that if Scales bought this planet, it would be…$3.00. Much like Venom on Starfox 64… Wait! I did it again!
"Whew, that was wild" said Sonic "We ran into so many cameo characters, and that part with the rouge squadron was so unnecessary, yet totally awesome"
"Why? None of the readers knew what happened" said Shadow
"Well, they did do the rail stage in one of the Starfox games that they played earlier" said Sonic
"I doubt it" said Umbreon
"Well, they'd tell us if they did or didn't, right guys" said Sonic
(Give him your answer, reader, if you like)
"Congrats" said Umbreon "You just talked to your screen, now, continue to your reading, we won't bother you again"
"So, now what?" asked Tails
"I feel Fox's presence" said Krystal "We should go north"
"Do I look like I have a compass?" asked Sonic
"I have a compass" said Amoeba
"Good for you" said Sonic
"Amoeba, that's not a compass that's a clock" said Krystal
"It's round like a compass" said Amoeba
He followed his clock and started walking in circles.
"North is that way" said Krystal pointing North
"Come on, Amoeba" said Sonic
They continued on down the wasteland and ran into a temple. It was surrounded by statues of General Scales.
"And I thought Eggman was vain" said Sonic
"Fox is in that temple" said Krystal
"Then, let's go" said Umbreon
They got close to the temple but stopped suddenly because they found it was guarded by an army of Sharpclaw. Everybody hid behind a boulder, and Sonic hid behind a pebble.
"I had no idea this was guarded by Sharpclaw" said Krystal
"It's your first time here, your going to have no idea" said Umbreon
"Heh, this'll be a piece of cake" said Sonic "Okay, Shadow will go in using his invisibility and I'll slip past the guards using my sonic speed"
"Wait, we're agents" said Umbreon "We'll sneak in while you distract the guards"
"Why don't we go with both of your plans" said Krystal
"I don't see why not" said Sonic
Then, they heard a voice from behind.
"You, get up" said the voice
They looked back and it was a group of Sharpclaw pointing their weapons at them.
"We're going to have to drop the plan" said Shadow
"I dropped something" said Treeko
"You all under arrest in name of Sharpclaw army" said the Sharpclaw
"Oh, yeah, Lizard boy?" said Sonic "Well, bring…"
"We surrender!" said Shadow waving his arms in the air
"Thanks a lot, Shadow" said Sonic "Now we have to let us take us in!"
They put hand cuffs on then all.
"Ha! You can't put hand cuffs on Me, Espeon, or Skipper" said Umbreon "Because we're four legged"
The Sharpclaw put Umbreon, Espeon, and Skipper into leashes that connected to each other.
"Outsmarted by a fool" said Umbreon
"Totally unrighteous, dude" said Espeon
The Sharpclaw brought them into the temple where they were led to the throne room. There they saw General Scales sitting at the throne and Fox was standing next to him.
"So, we meet again" said Scales
"What? I thought I told you guys to go home" said Fox
"Sorry, Fox" said Sonic "We don't give in that easily"
"Fox, I'm here to ask you why in person" said Krystal
"Look, Scales" said Fox "You have to give them another chance, just let them go, they won't return"
"Fox" said General Scales raising a scepter in his hand "Sit"
"Yes, sir" said Fox kneeling down.
"Fox, why" said Krystal "Why are you listening to him?"
"Look, Krystal, I…" said Fox
"He's sworn is loyalty to me" said General Scales
"Well, we know that" said Umbreon "We're not that stupid to not figure that out"
"Then, why'd it take us a while to find out what we were talking about at the beginning of the chapter?" asked Knuckles
"Aw, don't start that again, Knuckles" said Sonic
"Listen, Fox" said Umbreon "We need to know why"
"I can't" said Fox "Scales ordered me not to tell anyone why"
"Don't listen to him then" said Umbreon
"Fox, you're better than him" said Krystal "Why are you taking his orders?"
"Let's not tell you" said Scales "For, as far as I'm concerned, you have trespassed on my territory, and you will be punished"
"Go ahead and do your worst, lizard breath" said Sonic "I'm not scared"
"Silence, hedgehog!" said Scales
"Or else what?" said Sonic
"Or else I'll eat you!" said Scales
"You'll eat us, that's some threat" said Sonic sarcastically
"No really" said Scales "I will cook you alive and have you for dinner"
"Yeah? Well bring it!" said Sonic
Sonic put the handcuff under his spines and used his spines to break the chains by pulling them through. Then, Sonic revved up for a spin dash.
"Fox" said Scales raising his scepter "Bind him!"
Then, Fox, at full speed, grabbed Sonic and said "Sorry, Sonic" then, he wrapped Sonic in chains. Sonic couldn't move.
"Hey! What's with you?" said Sonic
"That's enough, Fox" said Scales raising his scepter
"Alright, Scales" said Umbreon "What's our punishment"
"Trespassing our planet is a sentence of execution!" said Scales
"No!" said Fox
"Fox, sit" said Scales raising his scepter
"Fox! Don't let him do this!" said Krystal
"Krystal…" said Fox "Wait! Scales"
"Yes" said Scales
"I've got a better idea for them" said Fox
"Go on" said Scales
"Can I talk to you in private?" asked Fox
"Very well" said Scales "Guards! On second thought, throw them in the dungeon, Fox says he has a better idea"
The guards took them away and threw them in the dungeon. There, they sat and waited for something to happen.
What is it that Fox is planning? Will they turn Fox and/or escape? And will they find out why Fox joined General Scale's army?
To be continued…