Chapter XXXI(31): Wary Realisations

"WHAT?!" Wolf exclaimed as he blinked his one good eye, it had been a while since the name of Andross had passed the maws of the crew, and now HE was the most wanted man in the whole lylatan universe!

Panther rubbed at his temple for a moment before sighing, "You're the most wanted man in the Lylatan Galaxy, and you will probably be saught after by countless mercenaries and assassin's."

Wolf went silent at that thought, he wouldn't put it past any of his crew to turn him in for the fat wad of cash that came with him. It looked like Wolf was either going to have to go into hiding...or put his trust in his crew, and have them look after him for once. "Alright...I expect this base's operations to be as close to one hundred percent efficiency at all times. We need to keep our eyes peeled for any signs of trouble or new people unless they have identification on them." Wolf barked, the crew, including Leon and Panther, saluted.

After he turned towards the portal, he leaned slightly back, his ears slowly drooping. He'd had a dream of two young men...and they were almost completely different from one another except for being half lupine. Perhaps it had been telling him to settle down with one of the women on his team...but wouldn't that put her in greater danger? And it wasn't like they could get readily married under the circumstances...the more he thought about it, there had been two young men, and, perhaps, he was going to marry both of them? Shaking his head quickly, he dismissed the thoughts from his mind.

At the moment, though, as he was left to his thoughts, he idly started to stroll about the station, the rush of his subordinate officers flying past him going all but unnoticed by the lupine. He needed his crew to be safe in the station, but the way they were...it wasn't likely that they'd be passed off as an abandoned spaceport with the amount of repairs that went on in there daily. He doubted Star Fox would help in their security, after all, they were probably still making payments on their Great Fox...

Suddenly, it struck him like a bolt of lightning. What they needed wasn't a space station for a hideout, if they could attain a Galaxy class Space Craft from the port, big enough for himself, his closest people, that being Sear, Slice, Leon, and Panther, as well as a good crew...He sighed to himself again. The starships were guarded much more closely then the stations, stations were abandoned when they were in bad condition, and the place they had...well, it wasn't much of a hideout.

The outer plating of the station was rusted with the years of spacial debris and radiation from the nearest star, the viewscreens in themselves were workable, and able to be fixed fairly readily. Now there was more to the station that needed fixing, but it was all too much to go at at once. In fact, it was probably the better choice to try and find something...newer, and needing less maintenence. With the way it was now, the station itself was so far behind on maintenence that it would need nearly half a year to get it repaired properly.

With a heavy sigh, Wolf looked briefly for the nearest chair, then settled himself into it with his palms supporting his head. He needed time to think of a way to get the starship, and a way to keep it secret from all but the crew he'd take along...nothing like a good work out for the brain to make his day seem like it couldn't get any worse.