Disclamer: Yet again, I don't own Star Fox. Nintendo made it, therefor, Nintendo owns it.
The Catastrophe of War
Chapter 1
15 minutes later, Fox McCloud was back on the Great Fox and was in his room typing a report for General Pepper. For some reason, the communication systems were down and Fox couldn't think of any other way to contact Corneria about Sauria.So he decided to make a report and send it to the General via s-e-mail. "...successfully completed the task of restoring Sauria; returning to Corneria as soon as possible..." said Fox as he typed the words on the computer. In front of him, over the computer, outside of a window that peers out into space, a Sharpclaw ship flew by silently. Fox, who could have seen the ship if he looked up, didn't notice it; however, he was just staring at the word 'vixen' on his report and his thoughts drifted. "Grrrr...Why can't I get her out of my head?" he groaned as he rubbed his head furiously.
'Her' is referring to the 19 year old, blue furred vixen named Krystal. Once Fox had gathered all the Krazoa spirits, as the 1st Krazoa spirit asked him to on the Moon Mountain Pass on Sauria, he released them back at the palace. This act lead to the use of Krystal to revive Andross, and this drained the vixen so she couldn't stop herself from falling down the hole in the ceiling of the palace. Fox had caught her, therefor saving her life from the deadly fall. As Fox pulled Krystal up on to the roof, they looked into each other's eyes for a second or two and stepped apart. They heard aloud laughing behind them and turned to face Andross, who was disguised as a Krazoa head.
As she pulled herself to a standing position, Krystal noticed that her staff was not destroyed, but on Fox's back. She had seized it, and, ignoring Fox's protests, started firing powerful fire blasts at the floating Krazoa head, but to no effect. Fox sighed, shook his head, ran over to his Arwing and followed Andross to outer space. A battle ensued and Fox, with the help of Falco, who returned at the perfect time, destroyed the monkey head yet again in a grand explosion. After Fox and Falco fled the explosion, Falco flew back to the Great Fox, but Fox lingered to see the planet come back together. After the 'moons' of Sauria landed safely back on the surface of the planet, Fox flew back down to Krazoa Palace to see if Krystal was still there. But he was lead to be disappointed. A large crowd of Sharpclaws seemed to be celebrating their freedom from General Scales, but the vixen was not there. So a crestfallen Fox flew back to his command ship.
Fox pulled himself out of his thoughts and finished his report. "...Leader of the Star Fox team, Fox McCloud." he muttered has he typed the last line, the fur on top of his head ruffled.
As soon as he finished, ROB's mechanical voice sounded in Fox's room. "Fox, someone is here to see you and she requests you to come down to the bridge as soon as possible."
"Ok ROB, I'll be right there." said Fox.
'Who could that be? We are at the edge of the Lylat System...who would want to see me? I doubt its the Queen Earthwalker.' he thought as he saved his report, put the computer on standby and walked out of his room, turning off the dimmed lights as he did.
On his way down the hallway, he walked by the hangar. At first, he ignored it, as he usually does, but has he was about to walk out of view of the hangar, he paused and looked back inside, as something caught his eye. A Sharpclaw ship was sitting on the platform, it's hull marked with battle scars. Fox ran over to it and while doing so, he pulled out his blaster. He jumped on top of it, pointed the blaster in the hatch and peered into the control room, which was the only room on the ship. No one was on board and it didn't seem like the scent of the Sharpclaws was strong.
'Thank god, I thought the Sharpclaws were trying to overtake the Great Fox...' thought Fox. He jumped off the ship, put the blaster back on his belt, and set a fast pace back to the hallway and to the bridge.
As Fox came up to the bridge door and he said "Unlock", thus, making the door open; he walked on to the bridge and looked around to find who wanted to see him. The first thing that Fox saw as the door slided to a close behind him was Falco staring out into space, apparently lost in his thoughts, Peppy working on a hyperspace flight path to Corneria, and...
"Hello Fox." said a voice to his right.
Fox turned and his jaw dropped. Krystal was standing near the main computer, leaning on it slightly. She was still wearing that loincloth and armor pieces on her shoulders, wrists and ankles. Fox could see the tattoos on her arms and her upper thighs and Krystal's turquoise eyes were averted from looking at the computer to look at Fox.
"Krystal? W-what are you doing here?" stammered Fox, "I-I thought you were gone and going to c-continue on your quest..."
Krystal smiled. "Can't I just stop by and say thank you?" Her British accent was so very kind. "No one has helped me on my journey before, expect the Cloudrunner named Kyte... who I believe you saved on your quest on Sauria. I thank you again for saving him."
"Er...right..." said Fox shyly, "No...no problem Krystal...just...just doing my job..." Just then, a small toad came around the computer, with a wrench in his webbed hand.
"Well, hi Fox! You went to your room so fast I didn't even see you board the ship. Oh...I've seen you met Krystal already..." said Slippy, with stains on his uniform and skin.
"Yes I did Slippy..." said Fox absentmindedly. "So...Krystal...is there anything I could do for you?" he added hopefully.
"Thanks Fox, but no...I better be on my way...I only came here to say 'thank you'." replied the vixen.
'Aw man...I really want her to stay...' thought Fox. He noticed her ear twitch.
"I know you do Fox, but I have no reason to stay...but I would like to stay if I had a reason to..." said Krystal with a hint of regret in her voice.
"How did you-" started Fox.
"I'm a telepath," said Krystal. "It means I can read other people's thoughts Slippy." she added, glancing at the toad. Slippy's eyes widened with surprise; Fox assumed he thought something like, 'Whats a telepath?'.
Fox was frantically trying to find a way for Krystal to stay as she said "Thanks again, Fox. Good-bye, and good luck with your mercenary job." and turned to the bridge door, most likely heading for the hangar. She waved at Peppy, but seemed to ignore Falco, as he ignored her.
'Thats it!' thought Fox as he got a sudden idea.
"Krystal?" he said. She stopped and turned around with and eyebrow raised, prompting him to continue.
"How would you...how would you like to join the Star Fox team?" She just stared at him, with her mouth slightly open, speechless,and no one else spoke.
'I hate this silence...someone brake it already...' thought Fox after about one and a half minutes of silence.
"Fox..." said a voice to his right, "What are you thinking!" As Falco yelled that, Fox felt a tug on his belt and something being removed from it, but, due to Falco's statement, he ignored it.
Krystal answered him roughly. "He's thinking 'Please join the team, please join the team.'".
Everyone ignored her, expect Peppy, who laughed and Fox, who glanced at her with a faint smile.
"Has she even held a blaster?" continued Falco at a yelling volume, "Does this weakling know what it takes to be part of-" he broke off, as Krystal pointed a blaster, which Fox noticed it was his, directly at Falco's heart.
"Take that back now..." she said in an extremely dangerous voice as she advanced toward Falco, with the blaster still pointing at his chest.
"T-take what back?" studdered Falco as he backed against the wall, glaring at the raised weapon in Krystal's paw.
"You called me a 'weakling'...I never deal with insults that are directed at me and aren't true...and you could have said 50 other words...I heard it in your mind..." whispered Krystal in that dangerous voice, advancing on Falco even more and redirecting the blaster to his head.
Fox was about to intervene when, "Ho ho! I think she should join...if I do say so myself." Everyone on the bridge looked around to find the source of the voice, expect Falco, who was still staring at the blaster with fear and anger in his hawk eyes.
"General Pepper!" exclaimed Fox. "Hey...I thought the communication systems were down..."
"Oh...that was my fault," said Slippy, "I turned them off for maintenance when you came back on the ship, and that is why I was behind the computer when you came to see Krystal."
'Oh, great...I typed that report for nothing!' thought Fox. A faint giggle came from Krystal, and Fox glanced at her.
"So...General...you think that this amateur..." started Falco. Krystal's tail and ear twitched and she turned to look at Falco with furious eyes.
Falco hastily changed his wording. "Th-that this...vixen..." Krystal eyed him closely; Fox could tell she could see how hard it was for Falco to say 'vixen'. "Should be p-part of the team?" finished Falco hurriedly.
"Yes...but that decision is not mine, for it is Fox's." replied the hologram of the hound dog's head.
"Really? I didn't know that..." said Fox said with slight relief.
"What? You didn't know that because you are the leader of this team that you can recruit others to the Star Fox team Fox?" said Peppy with a slight smile.
"No...I didn't."said Fox. "Well then, Krystal, if you want to, you have my permission to join the team."
"What a load of -" started Falco.
"Oh, don't you start Falco!" yelled Krystal over him.
"I have a right to say this! I just got back and now I have to compete with you!" yelled Falco, even louder than Krystal just did.
The vixen started charging the blaster.
"Krystal!" said Fox alarmed, and he grabbed her extended arm. Her arm moved slightly under his paws and Krystal looked at him. Her angry eyes softened when she looked into Fox's. Fox could see a very small tear in one eye; the vixen sighed.
"I'll join...I would only go around looking for answers about my planet...and I have not been successful in the past...I might get answers faster if I join this team..." said Krystal with her head hung down.
"Answers?" asked Peppy.
"I may explain later...but I don't want to right now." she said, and a somber look came into her eyes.
She glanced at Fox, and Fox let go of her arm. Krystal stopped charging the blaster and lowered it to her side. Falco snorted and walked over to his chair and sat in it with his legs crossed. Krystal glared at Falco his entire way to his chair, then handed Fox his blaster back.
Fox put the blaster back on his belt, let out a sigh then said "Thank you General."
The holographic image of the hound-dog nodded. "My pleasure Fox. I didn't know that you didn't know your full responsibilities as the team leader. I'm glad I informed you about it Fox."
"Eheh...Thank you." muttered Fox, rubbing the back of his head. "Now, I will give you my report on Sauria... and I already memorized it because I already typed it...that was a waste of time...' he thought after he let his voice fade.
Krystal slapped him on the shoulder while she was walking past him, holding back a laugh.
Note: If you could not guess, 's-e-mail' stands for space-e-mail. Chapter 2 coming as soon as I can get it as perfect as I can.