Chapter 2
10:05 A.M.
Meanwhile, on Corneria, a large battle ensued throughout the city, Corneria was losing the battle as it was caught by surprise by the opposing force, and the Cornerian military could only send a small group of twenty-five soldiers to the East side as the rest of the forces were covering the West, South, and North sides, only twelve were left of the group since the assault on Corneria.
"We can't hold out much longer!" Screamed one soldier as he was taking cover behind the small barricade, "We need reinforcements now!" He yelled while smashing a purple and black clad enemy soldier who started to climb over the barricade in the face, smashing the visor of his helmet with the butt of his rifle.
"They can't send reinforcements until the other sides have calmed down!" A black avian screamed.
"We can't hold out for that long! We'll be overrun within five minutes at the most!" The light-brown husky yelled back.
Stationed on the rooftops were snipers but only two remained of the four since the onslaught started, one of the snipers ripped through three enemy soldiers with one charged red laser shot, "We aren't gonna last long like this!" One of the snipers said as she fired another shot that found it's mark on the head of an enemy. The light orange female fox noticed an enemy soldier with a rocket launcher aimed at where the other sniper was stationed, "Hax get out of there!" as she said this she saw a dark blood red image flash by and rip through the soldier who was hoisting the rocket launcher, "Nice shot."
"It wasn't me Zivia." The dark grey wolf assured her.
"Then...what was it?" Right as she spoke, another red flash came and slashed through more enemy ground soldiers, "There it is again!" Zivia yelled, surprised.
More blood red flashes started to tear through enemy lines, cutting the hordes of soldiers down to small groups, "Is it hostile? Do we shoot it?" Hax wasn't sure what to do.
"Let's just take the help while we can," Zivia replied, "I'd like to see what this thing is after this battle is over."
Back on the ground, "Look, they're falling back! We won!" Exclaimed the black avian as the purple and black enemies retreated.
"It seems as though we have." The Sergeant replied, he was in awe of this unknown assailant.
When the battle was over, and no more enemies were within the area, what was left of the small group came out of hiding to see what had defeated the opposing force so easily.
There, on the battlefield, was a small figure slowly approaching the Cornerian group of soldiers, as it came into view, it could be seen that the unknown assailant was a fox, it's fur a dark red color, it couldn't be certain if this was the fox's natural color, or simply the fur stained in the blood of the many soldiers who this mysterious fox had slaughtered, the fox was young, and had a large black 'X' on his forehead, overlapping his eyes, black also covered the tip of the fox's tail. The mysterious fox was dressed in simple attire, a dark grey tank-top, which was covered in blood, baggy black cargo pants, and a simple pair of sneaker.. As the fox drew within a few feet of the group, some aimed their weapons at it, not sure whether to fire or not, "Stand down." The Sergeant ordered, the soldiers did as they were told.
"State your name." He ordered.
The fox said nothing.
"State your name now!" He said louder, almost yelling, clearly annoyed that the fox wouldn't comply with his wishes.
"You first." Came a young male voice.
"Sergant Alexander McKowlsky, now what is your name dammit!"
There was a brief silence until the young vulpine spoke up, "Call me," there was a brief silence, "Cross." As blood was dripping from his black claws, thus confirming how the enemies were torn apart
"Okay 'Cross', what is your purpose here?"
"Well, I got tired of watching you guys get your asses kicked, so I stepped in." He replied with a smirk.
The husky glared at the young vulpine, suddenly, a voice was heard on the communicator, "We need assistance on the West side of the city! Enemy troops are moving in fast!"
"Alright everyone, let's move out, Cross, your coming with us." He said as he and the rest of the group turned around.
"No thanks, I'll take my own way."
"And what way would that be?" As the Sergeant turned back around to face the vulpine, the vulpine was gone.
10:10 A.M.
Up on the Great Fox II, each member of the team was getting prepared to go to Corneria, Fox had his blaster, his father's combat knife, and four grenades, "This is all I'll need." He thought to himself as he was the first one ready to fight.
Krystal was changing into her battle suit, "Of course," she complained, "The only time when I'm not ready we get a call for a fight." She heard a knock on her door, sensing already who it was, "Come in, Fox." She said while quickly putting her suit on.
As the vulpine entered, "So are you ready yet?"
"Yes, now all I need is my staff." She said while putting on her boots.
"You mean this?" He handed the vixen her staff to save her the trouble of looking for it, "We need to go, Slippy and Falco are probably wondering what's taking so long.
When the two foxes left the room, they found Slippy and Falco outside the door, "What took you so long?" Asked Slippy.
"See I told ya." Fox whispered to Krystal
"Gettin' a little pre-fight warm-up are we?" Falco said with a cocky smile.
"More of a warm-up than you'll ever have." Said the vixen, returning with a cocky smile of her own.
"Well just be sure to keep that kinda stuff yourselves, I don't need any images of stuff I don't wanna see."
"Okay, enough chit-chat, we need to go." The red fox cut in.
The team went to the docking bay, and got in their Arwings.
"Slippy, you cover the South, Falco, you go North, Krystal and I will be on the ground, in the West part of the city, you all got that?"
"Affirmative." Slippy replied
"No prob." Falco replied with a grin, the avian actually prefurred fighting in the air anyway.
"No complaints here, my staff will work nicely." Krystal stated with a voice of confidence.
"Okay then, ROB, open the doors." Ordered the vulpine as he closed his cockpit.
"Affirmative," ROB said as the docking bay doors opened, "ready to launch."
The four members shot out of the Great Fox II, Fox was pulled back into his seat as the the team took off towards Corneria.
When the team got through the atmosphere, they could see that the city was in desperate need of assistance. As they dropped down further into the city, Fox and Krystal went further down than Falco and Slippy, who were shooting at enemy fighters. Fox and Krystal blasted through the opposing forces and found a safe landing space, unfortunately, the enemy was between them and the Cornerian military. As the two foxes got out of their Arwings, they immediately took cover behind a garbage dumpster as a small group of six enemy troops saw the two touch down and started to open fire on them, "Damn, don't we ever catch a break?" Fox complained while pulling his blaster out and firing a few quick shots at the group, he heard one scream in pain, confirming that he hit one of them, "Well, if there was anyone I would be hiding behind a dumpster with in a battle, I'm glad it's you Krystal." Fox said while firing a few more quick shots.
"Why thank you Fox, after all, it's not everyday you get to shoot at others while being with your fiance." The vixen said while firing a flame shot from her staff, hitting an unlucky soldier in the face, ripping into his head.
Now, with four opposing soldiers still firing at them, Fox needed to think something up, which he did, "Krys, I have a plan," The vixen looked at him curious as to what this plan was, "I'm gonna run over to that wall and take cover, and while those guys are firing at me, I want you to get close enough and use your freeze magic on them." Even though this was a well thought out plan, the blue fox didn't like that Fox was going to put his body right in the line of fire.
"There's got to be another way." Krystal told him as she was concerned that something would go wrong.
"This is the only way, Krys," The light red vulpine said in a comforting tone, "Trust me on this."
Kristal thought for a brief second, "Okay Fox, just try not to get hurt."
"Don't worry, I got this covered." And with that, the fox shot out from behind the dumpster, his plan working exactly how he explained it would, all four enemy soldiers open fired on the vulpine, not one laser shot hitting him, however, right before he reached his destination, a shot of pain went don his left leg, luckily he made it to the wall just in time, if he'd been any further from it, the laser fire would have surely ripped Lylat's hero apart. He looked at his leg, which was bleeding profusely, the wound wasn't too deep, but the laser had hit a vein, thus the large amount of blood flowing out of it, as the orange-ish fox, looked up, the blue furred vixen had started to do her part in the plan while the soldiers were distracted and now firing on the wall that the vulpine had taken cover behind. Krystal came out from behind the dumpster, activating her energy shield from her staff in the process, and ran at the four enemies without hesitation, the soldiers saw the vixen coming at them and reacted, but they were too late as she quickly disabled the energy shield and froze the four where they stood, as soon as she froze them, she made a horizontal swipe at them all with her staff, breaking the frozen soldiers in half, sending them crumbling to the ground.
Fox came out from his cover and limped over to where the vixen stood. "See, nothin' went wrong," The vulpine said as he glanced down at his leg and back at the vixen, "Well, nothin' too bad anyway."
"There's a line between bravery and stupidity Fox," Krystal stated while looking at his leg, "I think you just met that."
"Well that's why you like me, isn't it?" The red fox said with a sly smile.
"That, and other reasons." The vixen said, returning the smile, right after she said this, an armored vehicle had set its sights on the duo. When the two realized this, they dove in separate directions just as the vehicle had shot a large beam of yellow light at them, leaving a large hole at where the foxes had previously been standing, if they had not moved a second later, they would have been completely vaporized, Krystal had found her way to some small cover behind a trash can while Fox was not as fortunate, no amount of cover was in sight, and if the vulpine would have been able to make to where Krystal was, a shot like the one that tore a hole into the ground would, without a doubt, completely destroy the trash can as well as the two lovers, just then, as the armored vehicle was about to destroy Fox, two beams of blue light shot down on the vehicle, exploding it into several pieces.
"Why do I always have to save your ass?" A certain avian asked rhetorically over the communicator, he trailed behind the two foxes for he had a feeling that they would be in of need assistance, luckily his hunch was correct.
"Thanks buddy, I owe you one." The vulpine said, he was grateful that Falco had shown up in the nick of time.
"You seem to be owe me a lot lately." Falco said arrogantly.
"Yea well you just stay up in the air and try not to get shot down." Fox replied with cockiness of his own.
"You say that like I'm a rookie."
"Alright, we're okay down here, you need to head North so you can help out over there."
"Be careful Fox, I don't wanna find out that I saved you for nothin'." And with that, Falco's Arwing took off towards Northbound.
The duo of foxes made their way towards the enemy, trying not to attract any unwanted attention, as they did this, Fox spotted a narrow alley, "Hey Krys, look at this, we can go back here and hopefully make it to the guys on our side." He said as they entered the alleyway.
As the two had turned a corner, they saw two purple and black armored enemies, apparently they had found the entrance to the alley as well, and it looked as if they were getting ready to ambush the Cornerian soldiers. Fox and Krystal hid in the shadows as the soldier on the left turned around thinking he heard something, fortunately, the foxes had disappeared before he had a chance to notice them. Fox came out from the shadows, silently approaching the two unsuspecting soldiers, even though the fox's leg had been badly damaged, he was still silent as the night, pulling his blaster from its holster with his left paw, holding his father's combat knife in his right. Krystal was waiting in the darkness, ready to assist the vulpine in dispatching the soldiers if needed. Fox was standing directly behind the left enemy, ready to strike. The vulpine grabbed the soldier, sliding the blade into the small opening between the helmet and the chest armor, slitting the soldiers neck, the other enemy's reaction wasn't quick enough, as a charge shot was sent right into his visor, leaving a hole in the unlucky soldier's head.
"Wait there Krys, I'll go check if it's safe," Fox said as he limped over to the other corner and around it, Krystal had come out of the shadows since Fox had so easily taken out the soldiers, "It's all clear," The vulpine said when he came back, "We lucked out, the Cornerian military is right around that corner," He said pointing to the corner of the alley way that he had just rounded, "We can help them hold off the enemy over there, it seems that the West part of the city has been hit the hardest, 'cause the military isn't holding up too well."
"That's why Team Star Fox is here." The cerulean vixen said confidently.
"Yes it is," Replied the light red vulpine as he smiled at Krystal, "Okay, we should get going."
The two walked, or rather, one walked while the other one limped around the corner to the other side of the alley. It could be seen that the military was having an extremely hard time holding off the opposing force.
When the duo reached their destination, they quickly took cover behind a barricade next to another figure who was also taking cover while reloading his rifle.
"Bill?" Fox and Krystal asked in unison.
"Fox? Krystal?" The grey husky replied with the same surprised expression that Fox and Krystal had on their faces.
"I thought you were on Katina." Krystal said, still surprised to see Bill.
"Yea but I decided to come here for a while to talk with Pepper, sad to say that I never got the chance seeing that the city was attacked not ten minutes after I landed." Bill said in an aggravated tone.
"What are the chances of that," Fox stated while pulling his blaster to fire a few blind shots, "Talk about coincidence." He chuckled.
"Yea well, anyway, what are you guys doin' here?" The canine asked while peeking his head out to fire a laser shot from his rifle.
"Peppy called us." The red vulpine replied.
"Oh really, well, this is nice catchin' up with you but I'm really starting to get pissed off." The husky said while firing some more shots over the barricade.
"Yea I know what you mean," Fox said while tossing a grenade behind him over the barricade, the explosion was followed by many screams of agony, "I wish something would just come out of nowhere and give us an edge here." Just as he said this, a dark red flash rushed past them seemingly at the speed of light, "What the hell was that!?" The vulpine yelled, shocked and confused.
"Whatever it is, it's helping us!" Exclaimed the husky, ecstatic at the fact that this red flash was completely destroying purple and black clad soldiers, along with armored vehicles.
Krystal was silent, she closed her eyes and tried to concentrate to see if this spark of red had any brainwaves, which was hard to do, considering all of the soldiers and enemies that were there, she concentrated harder and focused on the flash, she could sense something for a brief second until she was blocked from the mind of this assailant. All she sensed was, "Kill." And nothing else.
As the destruction was unfolding right before his eyes, Fox caught a small image of the figure, all he saw was a glimpse of a dark red tail with black covering at the end of it.
Just then, over the communicator, "Falco here, we got this side all locked up," Came the avian's voice with a hint of static, "You guys holdin' up okay?"
Before Fox could answer, "Slippy here, I don't know what just happened but apparently we won." Slippy said as if he was in shock, "So, what's going on over there?"
The enemy had started to retreat, still taking the full effect of the onslaught from this mysterious red flash, "Fox here, area secure." The vulpine said, still not believing what he was witnessing.
As nothing was left of the seemingly endless enemy force, when the dust settled, a dark red fox with a black X shape on his forehead, overlapping his eyes, the fox had a calm face with a furious look in his eyes, while blod dripped from his claws, a slight sirk came across the vulpine's face as he looked at the shock mixed with confusion on everyone's face, "Why hello there."
Author's Note: Sorry if this chapter was badly written, I'm new at this, so once again, no flames, but leave a review if you like it or not, and if you don't like it, then okay. Until my next update, bobblywobblyhoopdejoop...later.
-Metallic Soul