Fox paced back and forth on the bridge of the Great Fox. They had placed Eagle and Raven in the brig and were now meeting to decide their fates.
"We should at least hear what they have to say," Krystal said. Panther huffed, disapprovingly.
"What for? We should take em' in and collect our credits." Wolf argued. "Two outta four ain't bad,"
"What for? In case you didn't notice, they saved hundreds of lives on that space station!" Katt yelled.
"In case you haven't noticed, they put those lives in danger in the first place," Panther chastised. "We can't allow them to just walk free after everything they've done."
"Attacking us, the police and security guards on the station, the militia at the Klerta base, and stealing the Gems," Falco listed. "Even so, it sounded like there was a reason behind it. We let them explain."
"That commander guy said 500,000cR each! Are you telling me you'd throw away 2 million credits for nothing?" Panther asked.
"It isn't for nothing," Fox said looking out the big window on the bridge and out into the endless space. "Besides no one said anything about letting them walk. We find out their motives, and then decide what to do,"
"You getting soft on me, Fox," Wolf said. "Their motives don't matter. What matters is the payout. There hasn't been much work in the Lylat so we'd be fools to turn this away." Fox turned around and looked at the five of them.
"Two of them died trying to save the station just in case one or two people were left behind. I don't believe that they're as ruthless as Commander Jones implied." Fox said.
"Even though Doc did kick both your asses," Falco snickered. He received glares from both Wolf and Panther.
"Something's going on, and we're going to find out," Fox said walking past them on his way to the brig.
"Ya know, this is probably the cleanest jail I've ever been in." Raven commented. For a brig, it was very well kept. It was a luxury room compared to some other jails. "Are you sure about this, Eagle? About trusting the ones hired to catch us?" Eagle nodded once. "Got a back-up plan?" He nodded again. "Good, I refuse to be handed over to those bastards," she said pacing around. Eagle sat on a bench with his head down, not really up for conversation. Raven picked up on his distress. It wasn't often, well actually she'd never, she saw him like this. He was usually confident and well composed, that's the Eagle Raven knew. Not the man sitting down feeling sorry for himself. She walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Look, I'll miss them too," she said. "But sitting here moping isn't going to change anything. I say if we can't bring them back, let's send them some company," she smiled. Eagle looked up at her.
"You know, comforting doesn't really suit you," he said. Raven smiled mischievously.
"Tell me, Eagle," she said closing in on him until their lips were. "Have you ever had sex in a jail cell?" his eyebrows shot up, clearly not expecting that.
"There's a first time for everything," he said. That's the Eagle she knew. She pressed her lips to his, hungrily. Although they weren't in an ideal place, or at an ideal time for something like this, he kissed her back anyway. Without breaking the kiss, she reached for the hem of her shirt, attempting to take it off. Eagle stopped her. "Not yet," he said. He lowered her shirt and stood up, facing the cell doors. Just then the conjoined Star Fox and Star Wolf teams came into sight.
Damn, he's good. Raven thought. Fox stood in front of the group with his arms crossed.
"Hey, Eagle," Fox said. "Start explaining,"
"Klerta, as you know isn't a well-known planet. They don't have much respect on the Council, and they sure as hell don't have respect from other planets." Eagle explained.
"I said start explaining, I didn't ask for a lesson in politics." Fox said. "Three Gems. The Gems of Solitude, Tranquility, and Willpower. You stole Solitude and Tranquility, no doubt you were gonna go for Willpower next. Who hired you?" Eagle's face remained stoic.
"Hmm. You may be hungry for information, but show some patience. I was getting to that." He said simply. "As you said, our job was to steal these three Gems for our employer. But he wouldn't tell us why. I did the research, and found out that the gems are actually mystic artifacts," he explained.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Wolf asked.
"Alone, the gems are powerless. But when you gather all three of them, according to our ancestors, you can bestow unlimited power into anything and anyone," Eagle said.
"That's very helpful and all, but you still didn't answer the question." Falco said.
"The one about the slob who hired us?" Raven spoke up. "I thought it'd be obvious. Who hired you?" she asked.
"An officer in the Klertan military." Katt said. Raven gave her a look. "Wait…" The group looked at her. "You said Klerta didn't have any respect from the Council or any other planets, right?" Eagle nodded.
"So they hired you four to steal these gems so they can make their military more powerful," Krystal said.
"Exactly," Eagle said.
"So we've been played, huh?" Panther asked. "They want fear to get them respect, but how would they do it? You can't just tell people how strong you are, you have to show them,"
"And what better way to show them by destroying one of the strongest militaries in the Lylat?" Eagle asked rhetorically.
"So they planned to destroy Corneria after they juiced up their military, huh?" Fox asked mostly to himself.
"Bingo." Eagle said. "They already have the Gem of Willpower. It was our next target. We've hidden the Gem of Solitude in Tressan and you guys should have Tranquility. They were most likely going to kill you the moment you handed us in." Falco went wide-eyed.
"Shit!" he cursed. I gave the Tranquility to a Klertan officer before we docked! If they find the one in Tressan we're screwed!"
"Nice going, bird-brain," Panther said. Falco glared at him.
"Yeah, like you would've known better!" he yelled. Fox hushed them.
"So if you were trying to stop them this whole time, why didn't you tell us from the beginning? It could have saved your friend's life," Fox questioned.
"They were watching. They were always watching. Doc needed a way to get aboard the station, and we needed to keep up appearances. If the Klerta security cameras or the cameras aboard the station would have saw us trying to explain to you, they would have known you were onto them. Our only choice was to play the bad guys." Eagle explained. "It's obvious since they hired you to catch us, they don't know we know about their plans, must think we plan to use the gems ourselves,"
"And what would you have done with the gems had your mission succeeded?" Krystal asked.
"Like I said we hid Solitude in Tressan, right under their noses. Doc and Samu were to take Willpower out-system and stash it on a remote planet. Raven and I were to do the same, but in the other direction. We had plans to meet at a café in a tropical city on Corneria a few months later." Eagle explained. "But not anymore…"
"If the blue bird says they have Tranquility now that make 2 outta 3," Raven pointed out. "We need to move,"
"And what says we let you out of this cell? We haven't done our own investigating to see if you're telling the truth," Wolf said.
"Your gut. You can use us and you know that. "Eagle said.
"He's right. The longer Klerta has those gems, the more danger Corneria is in," Fox pressed the pad on the cell door, making the bars slide into the floor. Eagle stepped out.
"Thank you. We should head to Tressan. We have a weapons cache there, and we can also recover Solitude." He said.
"Good idea, let's go," Fox said turning away and walking. Eagle and Raven got a few weird looks from Panther and Wolf, and surprising a smile from Katt and Krystal, before they followed Fox to the bridge.
Flashback
Eagle looked at him. He was way too calm about this. It had been a years since they first met on the playground. They were now seniors in high school, and Eagle was about to go into the military. And in those years Eagle noticed Doc only got more clever in his attempts to steal from his bullies. But now…
Doc had found the man who killed his mother and made him an orphan in the first place. Upon discovering this, rage curled up inside him. For he had found them man who was at fault that he never knew anything about her. And never would.
The man hadn't stopped with his mother. He was a serial killer. He claimed more and more victims each month, and the police couldn't catch him to save their lives. Or in this case everyone else's. Intent on stopping him, Doc hatched a plan. No matter how many times Eagle asked to help him, Doc told him not to, that he need to do this himself.
One late night, Doc lured him in. He was walking alone and kept getting the feeling someone was following him. Satisfied, he walked down an alley where he was sure to strike. As if on cue the man ran after him with full force, already relishing the feeling of his knife cutting the puma to pieces. Doc just stood there. When the killer reached him, he ducked out of the way of his knife and punched him in the gut. The killer dropped, sadistically smiling, and came back at him. He swung and swung, only for Doc to dodge his every swing. Suddenly, Eagle appeared at the entrance to the alley.
"Doc, what the hell are you doing out here? I've been looking everywhere," he said frustrated. One look at the scene and he understood exactly what was going on.
"Ah, nothing. Just found a new friend to play with." He said casually. The killer seemed too excited.
"Oh goody goody! Tonight I'll get to take apart two zombies instead of one!" he yelled insanely. He charged Eagle this time, who punched him in the face. He stumbled backwards before laughing. He continued this little game of his. He kept rushing them with the knife only to fail and continue to laugh insanely.
Then they heard them. Police sirens blaring in the distance. The lights could be seen closing in.
"Too bad, zombies. I was really looking forward to carving you." He laughed again. "But I guess this'll have to do!" he opened his trench coat to reveal a device. They couldn't tell if it was a bomb or not. "Die!" he screamed as he activated it.
"Eagle get down!" Doc yelled as they both of them dived away from him. The man exploded in a blue explosion.
After the blast, Eagle was the first to get up. He looked down and helped Doc to his feet .They looked back at the man. He was nowhere in sight.
"Looks like it disintegrated him," Doc said. Eagle looked at him. "You hungry? I passed a nice café on the way here," he said.
He was way too calm about this.
"What are we going to do about the cops?" he asked. Doc scrunched his nose in thought.
"Don't worry, the cops love me,"
The policeman punched him in the stomach before him and his partner threw him back in the chair.
"Damn …Tryin to kill me!" Doc said tiredly.
The officer punched Eagle in the face.
"Tell me where you hid the body!" he said before punching him again.
"Charlie you might want to cover your ears this is some nasty shit." Doc said taking a breath. The officer scoffed.
"Alright, alright, I'll tell you." Eagle said. The officers sat him down. "From 11 pm to about 2 am last night…
"…I was banging that pretty little wife of yours how about that?" They punched him again.
Eagle ate another punch and laughed a little to himself. "She wasn't good the first time," he stated as an after fact. Punch.
After they were released (aka thrown into the hallway) they met at the counter to get their stuff back. Doc slapped the counter. "Yo, let me get my property!" He yelled to whoever was in the back.
"They love you, huh?" Eagle said grabbing his jaw. Doc laughed a little.
"Looks like they love you too now," he said.
"Yeah, whatever. Did you say something to them?" Eagle asked. Doc nodded.
"Hell yeah, I did," he said. Eagle looked at him surprised.
"What did you say?"
"I told him I was banging his wife," he said with a smile. The both laughed loudly.
"I did too," he said making them laugh even harder.
Short Chapter. I wanted to thank everyone for the reviews. I started this story as an experiment, wanting to get used to writing fan fiction. (I refused to put "First Story so be nice!" or some shit like that in the summary.) Don't think I'm quite ready to start writing canon yet, but at the same time I don't like taking it easy. So if you're a Naruto fan, stay tuned for my next story. It's so big I'm kinda scared of it. (That's what she said.) By the time I write a new Star Fox story, it WILL be canon.
Bryanmcloud: lol…I would say your OCs were more of a comical group of OCs than criminals for hire.
They love to joke and humor so much, I think if they were criminals they would have taken this much more seriously.
In doc's case he never takes things too seriously and that's his main flaw. A genius will always make mistakes by not thinking what are all the possibilities that could happen.
I wonder if peppy knew about the gems and is after them himself for the military?
Killionaire: Meh. I thought the fact that they joked around so much would let you know how experienced they are and how comfortable they are at what they're doing. Doing the damage they did, while not even being dead serious about, speaks for itself in my opinion. Besides, now you know they weren't really criminals, huh?
Thanks for your review, I loved to hear about your opinion considering Doc. Hope to hear from you again.
MaverickBently: I think it's perfect the way it is.
Unlike bryanmcloud I like the fact that they're comical in these times. It makes them real. Keep going exactly how it is.
Killionaire: Aww 3. Appreciate it, man I'm happy you got what I was going for with the comedy.