Chapter 5

The Bad News

Fox and Falco arrived late that night and the team was in the bridge waiting for the report.

Fox: We uncovered s-s-some imortant inf-f-formation and w-w-we found out that someone is trying to rebuild Adnross' army.

Krystal: It's good that you found that information and... Wait! where's Roka? Is he still on Corneria?

Falco turned his back and Fox's ears drooped and tail between the legs.

Fox: Well, Roka wiped out the entire army... at the cost of his own life. Somehow he snuck a bomb in there and he didn't make it out.

Team: (REALLY big gasp)

Slippy: Waaaahaaaaa! (He ran away crying)

Slippy went to his room, struck by his own guilt. He made the computer for Roka, and Roka made the bomb. It seemed like a clever plan at first, but he was wrong. It was his fault that Roka was dead. Later on, after a time of reminisce, looking back o the short time they had spent with him, the team eventually went to bed with tears in thier eyes.

Krystal:(thinking) I can't sense him anywhere! Why can't I find him?

Slippy: (thinking) It's all my fault.

Peppy: (Thinking) It's too hard to believe that the little trouble maker is gone. Im' gonna' miss him.

Falco: (Thinking) He was one of a kind, I'm gonna' miss those home-cooked meals. Poor Kid.

Fox: (Thinking) Why did I let Roka on board? How am I going to explain to the Chief... Oh, I don't know. (Fox cried himself to sleep)

Very early in the morning (About 5-o'clock) A small ship landed in the hangar of the Great Fox. The cockpit popped open and a dark figure entered the ship. He walked to the bridge and saw Fox sleeping on his chair. He walked a little closer still and grabbed his shoulder.

Fox: Ahhhh! (pulls out blaster and puts it on the intruders nose) Who are you? Why are you here?

dark figure: What? Do I look that bad?

Fox: Huh? NO! It cant be! You were lost in a black hole! (He's still a little disoriented) Why are you covered in blood? What happened?

dark figure: What? No-No -No-No. I'm not James you idiot! You have forgotten already? What a horrible thing to to to your best pal.

Fox: R-R-Roka? But your're d-d-d-dead...

Roka: -Cough!- Nope! A little thing -Cough!- like that couldn't kill me, it would take Duck Norris to put me six feet under.

Fox: Wahahahaha! Your're alive! (Tightly embraces)

Roka: Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, Stop! Be gentle with me. I'm injured... Stop hugging me! OWWWWWW!!

Fox: I can't believe it; your alive? how? You shot yourself! I saw the blood on your face!

Roka: (Still being crushed) -Not for long...- (Fox lets go) What an idiot you are! That was a blank. The gunpowder caused my head to bleed but it was an act. As for the bomb, everything about it was real. The computer and everything, but, I activated it manually as I fell. When I came too about 30 seconds later the timer had begun to tick. I had only five and a half minutes. I ran out of the building, through the extremist camp. Many had gone into their tents and some didn't pay much attention to me. I ran to my useless XR 200 and took off. I had made good distance but the shear force of the bomb threw mw off my bike and I smashed into some rocks in a large creek. I don't know how long I was out for. But when I came too, the sun was down and I had been cut up by the rocks pretty bad. When I stood up I realized that my leg was broken. My bike had been damaged, I had to walk. It took me two hours to make it to the arwing and I got in it and ended up here.

Ahhh! MY stomach! where did this pain come from?

Roka and Fox looked down and saw a piece of shrapnel wedged in his gut. Roka began to cough up blood. "Oh no! It worse than I thought."

Fox: We need to get you to a hospital! (Turns on the communications) Attention team! Everyone report to the bridge pronto!

Roka: Why did you go and do that? Old man Peppy's gonna' give me a good talkin' to. You little... (Passes out)

Fox: Roka! Don't leave us!

The team rushed Roka to Corneria in a small transport ship. They entered the atmosphere and headed for the Corneria City hospital. They hit the landing pad and doctors were waiting for them. Fox had called the hospital on his cell phone a few minutes before.

He was put on a bed and rushed to the emergency room to stop the bleeding. The surgeons stopped the bleeding but had a hard time figuring out how to remove the shrapnel. It was positioned where there was a small ammount of internal bleeding but it it was moved, the bleeding would worsen. Roka's life was a ticking time bomb in and of itself.

End of Chapter 5.