It's been a long time, a very long time. This is the first time I've updated this in forever. I hope that you enjoy it, and I hope that some people familiar with my work will return to give it another read. Read it and review it. Soon, it will be complete.
Disclaimer: I dont own it. I never will.
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Of Wolves And Foxes: To be Consumed...
Fox awakened with a start, looking arodund his quarters like a startled animal. His fingers flexed as he instinctively prepared his claws for battle. Then he calmed down. He looked around his room and found it familiar. In one corner sat Peppy, now thoroughly surprised by Fox's sudden awakening. Fox shook his head and asked how long he'd been sleeping.
"Almost three days now" Peppy said, with more than a hint of concern.
Fox's memories were coming back again. Wolf's grinning face as he gave Fox the worst news he has ever gotten. His hand instinctively traveled up to his head. His fingers tightened just a little on the left side of his head. A moment later, his other hand joined in, and he cradled his head in his hands and wept.
Peppy put a hand on his shoulder, helping him get back under control. Slowly, slowly, Fox got himself under control and stood up out of his bed. He walked to the bridge of the Great Fox, Peppy trailing behind. The rest of the Star Fox Team was waiting on the Bridge. THey all turned to look as their captain returned to his post.
"What's the status?" Fox asked, sitting heavily into the captain's seat as Slippy spoke up.
"Our next job is going to be extremely dangerous." Slippy said a bit worriedly. "We're going into Area 6."
"Area 6" Fox repeated, thinking about where that was. "We're going to attack Venom directly, arent we?" he asked. Slippy nodded. Fox stood up again, and gave a few orders. "Let's go then. Everyone prepare your ships. Make sure we're in top shape. We have a battle ahead of us." With that, Fox left the bridge, going down to inspect his arwing. He leaned heavily against its hull, and allowed himself to think of Fara. He envisioned what her face would have looked like when she told him...
Suddenly, he turned to his Arwing, examining every surface. He remembered a day, long before, when some lawyer had shown him the video-will his father had left, which essentially left everything to Fox. Even now, he could remember his father's voice.
"Fox, Take good care of the Arwings. They'll always take care of you"
The more he looked at the arwing, the more he thought that something must be missing from it. Sudenly, it came to him in a flash of insight. He ran to the storage closet where Slippy kept all the maintenance tools for the arwings, and grabbed a bucket of white paint and a bucket of black paint.
Meanwhile, the Great Fox entered hyperspace.
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Some hours later, as the Great Fox was about to leave hyperspace at its
destination, Slippy came down to the maintenance hanger to see what Fox
was doing. He found him underneath his Arwing, putting on a final coat
of paint. "What'cha doin?" He asked curiously. Fox just stoop up and
moved away from the arwing.
Now slippy could see that hull of the arwing, on the lower side of the nose, was a sigil that looked oddly like the one that he had seen on Wolf's ship: It looked like the Yin half of the Yin-Yang. Fox seemed satisfied with it, and suddenly turned on Slippy. "What are you doing, get on maintenence, these Arwings need to be in perfect condition, and we've only got half an hour." This seemed to remind Slippy of something.
"Oh, by the way, I added a new weapon to your arwing." Slippy said "I copied it off of that schematic that Peppy aquired for the Wolfen II."
"So? What is it?" Fox asked curiously.
"IT's a wing-blade." Slippy was in his element now "It focuses laser-energy into a short beam that can be tuned to create a "blade" on and around the wing, with a bit of extension. So, if you turn it on, your wings will be able to slice through steel like paper." Fox, undaunted by Slippy's overly-technical description (he was well used to it by now), looked over the arwing again, now he could see the small indentations that marked the new weapon that Slippy had installed.
"Thanks, Slippy" Fox said. "We're gonna need all the help we can get."
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Fox sat in the cockpit of his Arwing, looking over the instruments. Everything looked in good order. He stroked the Arwings dashboard lovingly. "We'll have peace again soon, wont we." He said to himself. "Yes... we will"