So, here we are again, me writing my little fic here. Read and review, of course.
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As Fox got himself settled into his Arwing, he turned on his intercom. "Team, how's your status?"
"Slippy here, everything is functional here."
"Falco here, ready as I'll ever be."
Fox flipped all the necessary switches and spoke into the intercom once more, "Okay, ready for launch. Let's get down there."
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It took a few minutes to get to earth because of having to park the Great Fox so far away. Most of that time was filled with silence.
"…."
"…."
"Falco, you brought a gun, didn't you?" Fox finally spoke up.
"Ayup."
"God damn it, Falco, I told you this was supposed to be a diplomatic mission! We don't want to appear threatening… "
"Don't worry about it, pal, it's not like I'll be waving it around in everybody's faces. I'm smarter than that and you know it."
"Detecting manmade satellites orbiting the planet." Slippy informed Fox.
"Can you tell what they're for?"
"No, but I can tell that they're made of-"
"FOX, LOOK OUT!" Falco yelled into the intercom.
Suddenly, Fox found himself missing a wing. "I'm hit! I'm going down! Mayday! Mayday!"
"It's the satellites! They're defense satelli- AHH, I'M HIT!"
"Slippy! No, not you t- OUCH! God damn it, I'm going down, too!"
Fox then gave his team a command, "Alright, team; follow me the best you can! We're making an emergency landing!"
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"I've NEVER been happier to see Dr. Kliner. " Alyx stated as she glanced up at the screen broadcasting the 'Kliner Cast'.
"…in short, the Combine are completely cut off. "
In the corner of his eye, Gordon caught a glimpse of something falling from the sky, a small blue and white plane of some sort. Alyx seemed to notice it to, as she said out loud "...What is that? Gordon, have you seen anything like that?"
Gordon and Alyx examined it closer and noticed it was on fire.
"Whatever it is, it's coming down!" Alyx said as she watched it come closer and closer to earth. The ship roared as it flew over their heads and landed on the other side of the buildings they were going to pass. Gordon and Alyx both lost their footing a bit when it crashed down with an enormous impact. "Ooooh… I doubt whoever was in there survived that… I wonder what that was. It sure didn't look combine in design. "
Alyx and Gordon both heard the same roaring again, and turned around again. "Two more of them?" Gordon braced himself for the next impact and watched the two other ships fall down. "Well, Gordon, I guess we should check it out. "
Falco awakened, with a splitting headache and thumping noises everywhere around him.
"Uhhg… god damn it, I HATE emergency landings!"
He opened up the cockpit, lifting up the glass above him. "Now where the hell am…" Falco stopped mid-sentence when he noticed a blue laser coming his way. "I don't like the look of that!" he exclaimed as he slammed the cockpit lid back down. Just as he shut it, a bullet traveled the path of the blue laser, leaving a mark on the bulletproof glass. "Oh you've got to be kidding me…" he said to himself as he looked up at the origin of the laser. He turned his head around when he heard a high pitched screech from something on the other side of his ship.
"Oh, you've GOT to be kidding me!" he cried out as a bug-like creature scratched at his cockpit attempting to get at him.
"I HATE EMERGENCY LANDINGS!!"
Falco's hopes rose a bit when a black and yellow ball rolled out of a nearby building and started attacking the bug-like creatures, and right behind it a person in an orange and black suit, guns blazing, dodging the sniper fire and tearing though the bugs with his machine gun, then taking out a cylindrical object and throwing it up into the window the sniper was residing in. The object exploded and instantly killed the sniper pinning Falco in his ship.
"… Man, and I thought I had guts."
The person in the orange suit turned around and faced Falco, then proceeded to open his cockpit.
"Whoa, hold it right there, buddy." Falco said, drawing his blaster and pointing it at him.
"Nice toss, Gordon, that sniper almost took my head off!" said some woman as she exited the building. "… what's going on, here?"
"THAT'S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. ONE MOMENT I'M INVESTIGATING A NEWLY DISCOVERED PLANET, THE NEXT I'M IN FUCKING HELL." Falco took a deep breath. "And that tower over there pretty much confirms that I'm in hell. What is that thing, anyway?"
"Yeah… that tower won't be there much longer."
"Good."
"It's going to blow up."
"Good."
"It's going to level the city."
"Not so good."
The citadel then started rumbling a bit. Alyx grabbed onto the remains of Falco's ship for support. "Okay, long story short, if you still want to have arms, legs and a head at the end of the day, you need to start heading in the opposite direction of that building."
The citadel started to rumble once more. "Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good plan right now….
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Okay, so there we go. That's my second chapter. I like Falco for some reason…
So, read and review, it makes me feel good! And god damn it, I like feeling good.
Also, I will be following the progress of the game. I'm also kinda scared of portraying Gordon in some way… should I have him talk? Should I make him real smart or something? Should I have him be a total nutjob? I mean… think about it… he's been fighting nonstop for like 10 days without stopping. From the moment he put that sample into that big machine in the first game, his life has been hell. Wouldn't you be kinda mentally scarred from that? I bet he kinda feels like it's all his fault, too. He probably wouldn't have a problem blowing Falco's head off right then and there.