Chapter 6

September 8, 2013.

5:00 AM, an hour before Sauria's sunrise on the Star Fox 2 space station in the Llylat System...

"Listen up, soldiers!" Fox shouted. "We've lost loved ones last night! Will we stand for this!?"

"Sir, no sir!" Star Fox 2 shouted.

"Then, let's get out there and kick some ass!" said Fox.

"I think before you do that, I should show you what we received." Wolf said, walking with Leon from a hallway. "You'll be pleased."

"What do you have?" asked Fox.

"I recorded it from my fighter." said Leon and played back a message.

"It's me, Marcus. I don't know who may get this, but I hope to God it is either a Star Fox 2 or Star Wolf member. Mother and I are alive and on Sauria. We used parachutes before the fighter blew up. If anyone gets this message, you know what to do."

"Send armored juggernaut ships at dawn." said Fox.

"Yes, sir." said Wolf.

Sauria. Emery's house.

Krystal was having flashbacks in her sleep. Looking back, they felt like nightmares.

In the "nightmares":

A huge fire began.

"Fox, I've fought for my home!" she shouted.

"Andross trapped you in a crystal before!" shouted Fox.

"You can't do this to me!" Krystal cried.

"Yes, I can!" shouted Fox. "It's in the name of love!"

"No it's not!" shouted Krystal. "If it was, you'd realize that we die together!"

"I can't risk that." said Fox.

"I can't believe what I'm hearing!" Krystal cried. "It sounds like you're done with me! You don't even wanna care that I'd be miserable without you!"

"You're pretty enough that if I die, you'll find someone new." said Fox.

"No, you practically said it." said Krystal. "I mean nothing to you! I'm looking for someone else!"

Sometime later at the Star Wolf space station, Krystal was crying.

"I will never make you feel the way he did." said Panther. "I love you more than anyone else could."

Then, she imagined the unspeakable. She imagined her and Panther having sex.

Even later.

"Krystal, please forgive me!" Fox begged.

"I'm sorry, Fox." said Krystal. "He doesn't treat me the way you do."

"Krystal, I'm sorry!" Fox begged.

"Face it, Fox." said Panther. "You've fucked up."

Krystal then awoke in tears from her terrible nightmare.