Hey everybody! another week is gone which means another two chapters. we are coming close to the end of this Ep.
GrimlockX4- Thank you for your review, I've never been in a situation like Krystal and Fox have so I really wasn't too sure how they would really react to seeing each other again. I'm glad it was convincing to you and hopefully everyone else.
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Will there be a sequel? Yes, there will be many sequels.
Will Josh and Fox get into a fist fight? I don't want to tell, you'll have to find out. I will say though that Josh will fist fight with every star Fox member. if its a real fight of not or even if its in this Ep. you'll have to wait and see.
Will Star Wolf be in this story? you better believe they will. However not in this Ep. You cant have a Star Fox story with out Star Wolf trying to mess everything up.
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You guys wanted another action packed chapter? Ask and ye shall receive. This is another long one filled with blood guts and ass being sprayed everywhere.
Ch. 23
Surprise attack
A day had passed and Ryan had given Josh new clothes upon requesting them. He was now wearing blue pants, an orange shirt with a black unzipped jacket with a white hood. Josh was making his way down the hall holding a two foot wide box in his hands and a backpack filled with clothes slung over his right shoulder. The box in his hands was a gift for Krystal…For when she got her act together and apologizes for the fight. Ryan gave the gift to Josh and told him to give it to Krystal when the time was right. He knew just what was in the box and he knew Krystal would be ecstatic when she sees it. All she had to do was apologize to him. Granted it would be difficult as they had been avoiding each other. Today however they would have to talk, as today was the day they left for Lylat. The Great Fox and its crew were all ready to leave.
Fox and the rest of the team were told about Josh's and Krystal's mission to the Lylat council and see if they could talk about Galactic contact. Fox agreed to take them, however he did tell Ryan that he wasn't sure if the council would go along with it. Ryan however was confident that they would.
As Josh made his way into the hanger he noticed Krystal was leaning by the wall next to the door with her arms crossed. Josh looked over and saw her before she saw him. She was wearing her black and blue flight suit; her hair was let all the way down. She was a sight to behold; he couldn't help but gulp at looking at her. Her ears flickered and she looked over at Him.
For the first time in a day and a half their eyes locked on to each other. Krystal lowered her arms as well as her gaze and slowly walked up to him. Josh stood straight and watched as she approached him.
"So?" He asked, "Is this the part where you tell me you've changed your mind and don't want me to come?" Krystal looked up at him; her facial expression showed she was hurt by the question.
"No, no that wasn't what I was going to say at all." She said while she looked into his eyes with sadness. "I wanted to tell you that…I care about you so much Josh and…I'm so sorry for what I did to you. With Fox showing up it messed with everything and I was so angry and needed to let some of the anger out and…I'm so sorry it was you I lashed at." She said and placed her head on his chest and her hands on his shoulders.
"I thought that if maybe I could get a little bit of the anger out that I would feel better. But hurting you only made me feel worse…I didn't know what to say to you or how to even begin to ask for forgiveness for that…" She was then interrupted when he pulled away from her, she felt her heart break. She knew he wouldn't forgive her for that, and she couldn't blame him for it. She was then surprised to feel him cup her chin with his hand and lift her face so she was looking him in the eyes. Next thing she knew he had pressed his lips to hers. It was only a short one second kiss, but it was more than enough to tell her that he forgave her.
"I already forgave you when it was over Blue." He said using her pet name, Krystal smiled at him and gently brushed his bruised chin.
"Thank you…U-Kia" She said. Josh smiled at her and moved the box between them.
"This is for you…Ryan told me to give it to you…I think you'll like it." He said with a smile, Krystal raised a brow and grabbed the box.
"What is it?" She asked.
"I figured it's Ryan's good bye gift…Go ahead and open it." Krystal wasted no time in opening the box, when she did and saw what was inside her knees buckled and she nearly fell over, she placed one of her hands over her mouth to silence a small gasp. She removed her hand from her mouth and reached into the box and pulled out a foot and half long golden metal rod with blue engravings on it. One of the ends had a golden spear tip with a blue crystal embedded into it, which she was holding so it was pointing up.
"My staff." She quietly spoke, "My father's staff…Where did he get this?" She asked with tears.
"I guess after I opened your Arwings canopy the water rushed in and carried your staff out. They found it a few yards away from your ship, and as you would expect the military to do, they tried to replicate it, however we just don't have the technology to do so. " Krystal didn't really seem to be paying much attention to Josh as she was mesmerized by having her staff back, her only memento of her father.
"To be honest though…I thought it would be longer." He said, Krystal suddenly started to smirk and looked at Josh.
"Well." She said and gently used her hand and started to rub the staff up and down the length of it a few times very slowly. She then brought her hand up and wrapped her thumb and index finger around a section of the staff near the spear point tip and turned it to the right. There was a click sound and suddenly each end of the staff extended an extra two ft. "You just have to stroke it a little." She said and winked at him. Josh's face started to turn red and a lump formed in his throat, he forced it down which resulted in a loud gulp. Krystal giggled and placed her fingers back to the spot near the tip and turned it to the left which caused the ends to retract and go back to its foot and a half size.
'Wow…That was kind of hot…FOCUS MAN!' Josh mentally slapped himself and cleared his throat
"So I guess this is it huh?" He asked as they both started to walk towards the Great Fox.
"You nervous?" She asked. Josh nodded.
"Very nervous…But as long as I have you by my side, I'll be alright." Krystal smiled at his words and moved her staff from her right hand to her left and then used her now free right hand to hold onto his hand.
"I won't ever leave your side Joshua Grant. You are my U-Kia and I tend to keep it that way for as long as I can." She stated and gave his hand a reassuring squeeze. The two walked up to the ramp that would lead to the Great Fox hanger. Josh had stopped walking when his toes touched the ramp. Krystal noticed the hesitation in his eyes and placed her hand on his shoulder.
"I'm right here." She said to him, Josh looked over at her and suddenly felt all the worry leave his mind as he looked into her smiling face. He then looked down at his feet and took one step onto the ramp.
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." He said and Krystal's ears flickered.
"That's a nice saying…Who said it?" She asked, Josh shrugged his shoulders.
"Some guy who everyone thought was the first man to land on the moon. However many years later it turned out to be a prank."
"Ah." She replied, and then the two made their way into the hanger and up the elevator to Floor 2. Krystal and Josh made their way down a hallway, that's when Josh noticed a picture on the wall.
"Hey who's this little guy?" He asked, Krystal stopped walking and looked over at the picture.
"I don't know who that…" She suddenly stopped when she realized she was looking at a young baby with the same color fur as Fox. Josh looked away from the picture and noticed another one.
"There's another…This one has the baby and Fox in it…I guess it's his kid." The words stung her heart and she placed a hand over her chest, the man she was going to marry had a child with someone else.
'What are you thinking?' She asked herself, 'you're with Josh…You're with Josh now, Fox can have a kid with whoever he wants to, I don't care.' Krystal's ears started to lower as did her tail.
'Then why do I feel so heartbroken?'
"Krystal?" Josh called out which forced her out of her thoughts. She quickly turned around to look at him. She could see a bit of hurt in his face.
"Don't tell me you're upset that he has a kid?" He asked, Krystal quickly shook her head no.
"Of course not…" She said and looked back at the picture.
'If we hadn't broken up…That could have been our child, we could have been a family.' She though, and unknowingly sent the thought to Josh. As he heard it he felt his heart break a little. Not even a full week together as a couple and already he was losing her to someone else…No it wasn't just someone else, it was her ex fiancé...Her soul mate.
"So." He said getting her attention away from the picture and on to him, "Are you going to show me around?" He asked trying to sound optimistic so it would mask his saddened tone.
"Oh yeah sure." She replied, "I'll show you around once we are in Slip space. For now let's just go to the lounge room." Josh nodded and waited for Krystal to lead the way.
As they made their way further down the hallway they came to a wide open door space on the left. When they entered Josh could see a wide open room with wooden floors and red carpets. There was a couch to the right that was in a half circle shape, it was made out of light grey metal with orange cushions, Falco and Fox were sitting on it. Close to the couch was a window where Peppy was looking out. To the far left of the room there was a table with bench like chairs. Surrounding the table and chairs on three sides were cabinets, along with a sink, something that looked much like a stove, fridge, oven, and microwave. Clearly this is where they would come and eat; Slippy seemed as if he was getting something to drink.
"Here is the lounge room." Krystal spoke, "This was where we would spend most of our free time." As Josh looked around Fox looked over to find the human and Vixen. Fox had spent most of yesterday on the Great Fox letting Peppy's words sink in and decided right now might not be the best time to talk about where him and Krystal stood, but maybe it was time to apologize to her for how he acted, even though he did nothing to him, he figured he might as well apologize to Josh. He didn't know the human at all, but he could tell that he was good for Krystal. But Krystal would be first, suddenly R.O.B entered the room.
"Greetings human." He said in his Robotic voice, Josh turned around and was a bit startled at seeing an actual robot, his one and only response was.
"Ah cool." He said and approached R.O.B and started to inspect the silver and gold coated robot.
"I see you guys gave him an upgrade." Krystal called out; she didn't direct it to anyone specific. Just to whoever would reply, which ended up being Slippy.
"Yeah, his old body was getting a bit too old, so I fixed this one up for him. I personally think he looks a lot cooler." R.O.B turned his attention to the curious human.
"I 'am R.O.B 64. I have spent the past twenty minutes learning all about your species as I could from your world wide web." Josh was still stricken with amazement at seeing a real life robot; it took him a few seconds to snap out of it.
"Hi, I'm…" He was then interrupted as R.O.B held out a hand to silence him.
"I know who you are. Joshua Nathanial Grant, born July 3, 2012 Butler County Kansas. Height is six foot one inch; .02 Cm. Blood type O Negative. Lost your family at age 15 and signed up for the military at age 18. Have been serving five years of active duty as Private first class combat videographer for the United States Marine Core. Was to be awarded the Bronze star for heroic actions during combat at Bahrain, as well as a purple heart for the injuries sustained at Bahrain. Was to be promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal, however turned them all down. Now has been declared Earth's ambassador." Josh looked at the robot and was babbled.
"Wow…Guess you do know me…Kind of weird you can learn all that on the web, but whatever." Fox stood from his seat and made his way over to the three. When Krystal noticed Fox approaching she instantly moved closer to Josh. R.O.B turned his red visor to Krystal.
"Are you okay Krystal? Your core temperature is rising as are your stress levels." Krystal quickly snapped at the robot.
"I'm fine R.O.B please go."
"Of course." He said and walked off, just then Fox stood a few feet from the two.
"Krystal, would it be possible if we could talk for a quick second in the hall?" He asked, Krystal looked at him with spite in her eyes, suddenly she felt Josh place his hand on her back.
'It's okay, just talk to him.' He thought to her.
'I don't want to talk to him; I don't care what he has to say.' She snapped back
'I don't like it all that much either, but he's the one taking us to Lylat. It's the least you can do.' Krystal thought for a few seconds before answering. She knew Josh was right. Fox did come all the way to get them and take them back; surely a quick talk wouldn't be all that bad.
"Just a quick talk." She said and moved away from Josh and walked into the hall. Fox followed and the two were now alone.
"So what is it?" She asked and crossed her arms. Fox placed his hands behind his back and tucked them into the back pockets of his pants.
"I…I would like to apologize to you for how I acted the other day. I said some rude things to you and about Josh…I'm sorry for what I said. I didn't mean at all what I said; I didn't want us to be reunited after all this time just to be at each other's throats the first day. I would like it if we weren't angry at each other for the remainder of our trip." Krystal took a deep breath and Fox was able to tell her body stiffened up, he knew that this wasn't going to be good.
"Fox." She calmly said and looked away, "What you said to me…I can forgive." Fox instantly let out a breath of relief, however quickly sucked it back in when Krystal turned to look him in the eyes, her face clearly stated she was upset.
"What you said to Josh…Never, you know nothing about him. He's done so much for me and if it wasn't for him I could have very well been dead. He took care of me and nearly died to protect me. We've spent just about every waking hour with each other, every day I learn new and wonderful things about him…He means the world to me…So I cannot forgive you so easily for what you said to him." Fox started to feel like the ass he had become.
"Krystal, please believe me that…I truly didn't mean what I said, I was angry and…" Suddenly they could hear the Bases' siren alarm going off.
"Unknown object interring Earth's atmosphere." A man called out over the Base's intercom. The two looked at each other with a raised brow.
"I guess someone else is coming to get you."
"No one should be coming; I turned the transmission off after you arrived." Krystal said and then started to make her way down the hallway toward the elevator. She and Fox entered and sent the elevator to the bridge. Once the doors opened the two foxes rushed to the pilot's chair, Fox sat down and started to push buttons on the screen consol.
"Yeah I got multiple ship readings…Gorton Star ships?" He said and looked over at Krystal; she raised a brow and looked at the screen.
"What the hell are Gorton's doing on Earth?" She asked, Fox shook his head.
"I don't know, but I don't like it." He said and started to push more buttons.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"I'm going to talk to them." He said and pushed one last button before a holo graphic image of The War King's son Jaqun came up.
"This is Fox McCloud leader of Star Fox…What are you Gorton's doing here?" He asked. Jaqun narrowed his brows when he saw Krystal standing next to Fox.
"Woman." He said, Krystal raised a brow and moved closer to the screen.
"Who are you and what do you want?" She asked, it seemed the longer she looked at the Gorton, the more angry he looked. His glowing orange eyes staring at her with such hate made her very uncomfortable.
"I am Jaqun, prince of The Great Gorton War King Zalun…You have murdered my youngest brother Jaqar, and wounded my cousin Ashtark…You claimed to be a bounty hunter for the Abian System. For my brother's death, you shall die by my hands. All who try to get in our way will meet with unimaginable pain as their flesh is slowly peeled from their bones. Your skin shall be worn as a belt for my Father you worthless bit…" The holo image was cut off as Fox pressed a button.
"He sounds very pissed off, you better tell the humans to get prepared for a fight; I'll see what I can do in the Great Fox." Krystal nodded and quickly rushed to the elevator. She sent it to floor 2 and got out and made her way to the lounge room.
"Josh." She called out and found him talking to Falco and Slippy, he looked over at Krystal and quickly made his way to her, she looked worried and upset. Suddenly he thought that Fox had said or done something to her. That caused him to flare up in anger as he came closer to her with thoughts of beating that Vulpine to the ground.
"Are you okay?" He asked, Krystal shook her head.
"We are about to be attacked."
"What? Why? By who?" He asked and started to look worried; Krystal grabbed him by the arm and started to force him out of the lounge with her.
"Gortons are here to kill me."
"What why?" He asked.
"Apparently I killed a prince to their War King." She said and the two got to the elevator and sent it to the hanger, they got out and started to quickly run to the ramp.
"Can you hear me Fox?" She called out, the intercom started to turn on.
"I hear you." Fox replied.
"We are out of the Great Fox, hurry and get up there and stop however many ships you can before they land here." She said as they ran onto the ramp.
"Gotcha." He replied and began to bring the ramp back into the slot. Next he sealed the hanger door and started the Star Cruiser. There was a loud roar like sound as the back burners ignited in blue fire. Josh and Krystal watched as the Great Fox started to rise slowly in the air and then flew out of the hanger.
The elevator doors to the bridge of the Great Fox opened and Peppy, Slippy, and Falco ran in, Peppy made his way over to the co-pilot seat and sat down.
"Tell me how many targets we got Peppy." Fox ordered, Peppy began tapping buttons on the touch screen and a few holo graphic images of Gorton ships came up.
"Fox we have seven Gorton Star ships, fighter class and one transporter that must be carrying a dozen Gortons." Fox looked up at the front windshield and could see the ships coming closer.
"Activating weapons systems, and raising shields." He said and started to push more buttons, "All right you two, take your seats at the torrents and blast those ships out of the sky, that transporter is going to try to land in that base. Don't let it." Fox ordered. Slippy and Falco nodded in agreement and rushed over to two empty seats close to the window. As they sat down the darkened screens started to glow blue as it turned on. The screen then showed outside the Great Fox and had an aiming system in the middle.
"Ready." The bird and frog called out.
"Fire at will." Fox called out. Falco held tight to the control stick and started to move the torrent around to get a better view of the approaching ships. When one got into his sight he fired the torrent. Red plasma rounds started to fire out of the double barrel torrent, two rounds for every second. The plasma rounds started to fly through the sky heading for the Gortons.
"Evasive maneuvers!" One of the Gortons shouted and moved his star ship out of the way from the red plasma rounds. Falco adjusted his aim and fired two rounds at one of the ships. It exploded in red flames sending pieces of metal and fire to the ground.
"Nice shot Falco." Slippy cheered.
"Yeah I know." He replied in his cocky tone and fired again. One of the Gorton star ships started to fire at the Great Fox, the ships energy shielding absorbed the shots.
"Sorry fella, better luck next time." Slippy said and fired the torrent at the firing Star ship destroying it. Suddenly they felt the room gently shake. "What was that?" Slippy asked.
"We were hit by a plasma missile." Peppy replied, "Shielding at 98%." The room started to shake again, "Shielding at 95%."
Falco started to scan the area and found a ship firing its plasma rounds at them, Falco fired the torrent and the ship evaded it and sent a plasma missile at the ship scoring a direct hit.
"Shielding at 91%." Peppy called out, Fox started to push buttons on his controls activating the ships auto torrents. The Gatling style torrents started to fire at any ship that got too close. Suddenly a bombard of plasma missiles hit the Great Fox. "Shielding at 83%." Fox then noticed the Gorton transporter ship approaching fast.
"There's the Transporter ship. Falco, Slippy blast that thing into oblivion." He ordered.
"My pleasure." The hot shot ace pilot called out and took aim; he fired the torrent and watched as the red plasma raced through the sky to hit its target. The transporter evaded the shot and fired back two plasma missiles. The missiles hit the Great Fox and the room shook once again.
"Shielding at 74%" Peppy called out. Falco gritted his beak and started to fire again; red plasma danced across the sky and destroyed a star fight that flew in the way. The transporter then flew past the Great Fox.
"Damn it, the Transporter flew right past us." Falco called out. Fox gritted his teeth a little.
"Krystal's down there with the humans, I have faith they will be alright…But we need to keep these ass hats out here." Fox said.
"Roger that." Slippy said and continued to fire the torrents.
Inside the base hanger sections of the floor started to rise up about four feet, giving guards who were rushing in some cover for the pending attack. Josh had grabbed two assault rifles and handed one to Krystal, they made their way to the hanger and could hear the distant sound of plasma rounds being shot and ships flying by. The two took cover at one of the raised floor pieces, Josh turned the safety off his gun and the holo ammo counter turned on. Krystal seemed to be able to figure the gun out very quickly; making Josh think that Lylat had similar guns.
"Stay close to me." Josh said to her, she looked up at him and gave a smirk.
"I was just about to say the same thing." They shared a smile on the outside, but on the inside they were worried about the other. After a few seconds they broke the gaze as the sound of an approaching ship filled the air. Everyone aimed their guns at the open hanger. They then watched as a rusty red transporter ship entered the hanger, the transporter hovered in the air for a few moments before it started to fire its Gatling guns. Everyone ducked down behind their cover as red plasma rounds filled the hanger.
Josh and Krystal felt the ground vibrate as the plasma rounds struck their cover, Josh then noticed a few spots on the cover's wall where it was red hot and very close to melting through, and suddenly they heard the sound of guards shouting in agonizing pain. They looked over to find some of the plasma rounds had melted through the covers and struck the guards. More plasma rounds started to hit their own cover and they watched a part of the cover wall took on the form of red hot liquid metal and slowly started to drip to the floor.
Josh started to wipe sweat from his forehead caused by the intense heat the liquid metal was radiating. Suddenly the transporter stopped firing its guns and started to land. Before it touched the ground Gortons inside started to jump out and started to fire their plasma rifles. Josh and Krystal shared a quick nod and then stood from cover and started to fire their guns, along with the other guards. A mixture of bullets and plasma rounds flew through the air. Once their cover started to melt from the plasma, Josh and Krystal rushed to another cover section that appeared to be close to melting as well. Josh reloaded his rifle and moved away from cover and aimed his gun, he fired it and sent a three shot burst into one of the aliens. Its blue blood sprayed in the air and the being fell to the ground crying out in pain before it died.
Suddenly red plasma rounds started to come towards Josh's way. He quickly moved back to the cover next to Krystal. Krystal looked at her ammo counter which told her she was empty. She tossed the gun to the ground and grabbed her Boskmen blue blaster from its holster and quickly stood from cover. She aimed her blaster and fired a few blue plasma rounds into a Gorton that was a little too close for comfort. The alien crashed onto the ground and died, Krystal noticed another Gorton making its way close to her. She aimed her blaster and fired a round straight into its head, exploding the back of its head wide open. Blood, flesh, bone, and brain oozed onto the floor as the Gorton lay dead; suddenly Krystal felt an unimaginable burning pain slash at her arm. She grunted and dropped back behind cover.
She looked at her arm to find she had been grazed by a plasma round, it burned through her flight suit and skin. The worst part of Plasma round wounds was the agonizing burning sting that stayed behind for several minutes. Krystal tried her best to ignore the burning sting and stood back up to fire her blaster.
Jaqun yanked his hand back and ripped a guard's neck out, his red blood poured like a fountain. The guard dropped to the ground and the prince turned his attention to the other humans that were firing at him and his men. Jaqun held his blaster rifle up and fired a round into the chest of a human; he then heard a bullet zip past his head. He immediately turned his gaze over to another human and fired the blaster and sent plasma into the humans face. He then caught the sight of a blue vixen and his blood started to boil.
"Ashtark!" He shouted, suddenly a Gorton ramming his knife into a human's chest looked over at his cousin. He noticed Jaqun pointing somewhere, he turned his gaze to where his cousin had pointed and found the blue vixen that killed his youngest cousin and wounded him.
"Vixen whore!" He shouted and the two cousins rushed over to the unexpected creature. Jaqun jumped nearly fifteen ft. into the air and landed on top of the cover the Vixen was hiding behind, as well as a human. However his main focus was on the Blue Vixen that murdered his brother. He shouted and reached his hand down and grabbed the little bitch by the hair and lifted her up.
"Krystal!" He heard the human shout, the human was about to fire his gun at the prince. However Ashtark grabbed the human from behind and slammed him onto the ground hard.
"Josh!" The Vixen cried out. Jaqun gripped tighter on her hair and jerked her closer to his face.
"Be quiet whore!" He shouted and threw the vixen to the ground a few yards away from the human. He then leapt off the top of the cover and landed next to the Vixen. He grabbed her by the back of the neck and lifted her up into the air squeezing the back of her neck tightly. The vixen struggled to free herself from the prince's grip but she was no match for his strength.
"Before I break your scrawny neck…After I beat you to a nice blood pulp…You will know what a Gorton's cock feels like being buried deep inside of you." The Vixen looked at the prince with wide eyes filled with appalling horror. The Gorton smiled evilly at the Vixen and then rammed his fist into her gut, causing a painful gasp to leave her mouth.
Josh painfully stood up from the floor feeling like his head and chest was about to bust open. He looked over to find Ashtark staring him down a few yards away holding a curved knife. The Gorton smiled at the human and waited for him to make a move. Suddenly a flare of pain shot through Josh's head, he placed his hands over his throbbing head and nearly fell back to the ground. That's when he noticed Krystal's staff lying next to him, it must have detached from her side when she was hurled away. Josh looked back up at the alien who gave him another smile that was clearly daring him to pick the staff up.
Josh turned his attention back to the staff and picked it up and held it tight. The blue engravings gave the rod a ridged feel. Josh then remembered Krystal turning something to make the staff extend. He rubbed his hand up the staff close to the spear tip and felt a ring like section that was slightly larger than the rest of the staff. He turned it to the right and heard a click sound, suddenly the staff extended to its full five foot length. Suddenly without a moment's notice Ashtark shouted and charged at the human.
"Shit." Josh said and held the staff up blocking the knife attack, Josh thrust the staff forward and pushed the Gorton away, he then swung the staff downward to slice the alien with the spear tip. The alien leaned back and barely missed the attack; he then rushed the human again and swung his knife. Josh brought the staff up again and ducked. The attack missed its target and the human swung the staff as hard as he could into the Gorton's gut. Ashtark nearly doubled over but managed to keep himself up, Josh then slid the staff across the Gorton's gut causing the spear tip to cut him. Ashtark used his hand to move the staff away from him. He then placed his hand over his gut and could feel it slick with his blood.
Ashtark shouted in rage and charged again, Josh held the staff tight and waited for the opportunity to strike. Josh however waited too long to strike which gave the Gorton the chance to attack. He swung his knife fast barely giving the human time to move out of the way. Josh quickly raised the staff to block the attack, the knife sliced at the human's cheek; it was the staff blocking the attack that kept it from further slicing into his face. Josh moved the staff to the right moving the knife away from his bleeding cheek; he then lifted the staff and diagonally brought it down. The staff hit the Gorton in the forehead resulting in a loud crack sound.
Ashtark stumbled backwards and fell down. Josh took the moment to put a few feet between the two. He held the staff tightly and his left hand slowly made its way down the other end of the staff, there he felt another ring section. He looked at the staff and turned it to the right resulting in another click. Then what looked like fire suddenly started to spread through the inside of the blue crystal embedded into the spear tip turning it red. Then the spear tip opened up vertically and took the form of a two point prong, he then noticed the now red crystal had what looked like a small two inch barrel attached to it which was hidden by the closed spear tip. Next a small trigger sprung from the middle of the staff.
"Ugh…Damn you." Ashtark said and he slowly stood up, he had blue blood dripping from where the staff had hit his forehead. He growled like an animal and grabbed his Knife and charged at Josh one last time. Josh quickly placed his finger on the staff's trigger and aimed the crystal at Ashtark, he pulled the trigger and a red flaming ball of energy shot out of the staff and struck Ashtark in the chest. The Gorton felt the shot melt through his chest plate and burn through his body; he then fell backwards and landed on his back. Josh looked at the staff with amazement.
"Neat." Suddenly he heard the sound of Krystal shouting in pain, Josh quickly looked over and saw Krystal being hit by another Gorton.
"Oh shit." He said and quickly deactivated the Staff's firing from and rushed to Krystal, his heart skipped a beat every time that animal hit her. "Let her go!" He shouted to the top of his lungs. The Gorton didn't listen and continued to hit her, Josh made it to Krystal and held the spear tightly and aimed it at the Gorton's neck. The alien looked the human in the eyes and growled.
"Let her go…Or I swear to God I'll fucking kill you." Jaqun stared at the human before looking back at the Vixen, after a few seconds he lowered his fist to his side. Josh gently removed the tip of the spear away from his neck. Suddenly the prince pulled out a knife and lifted it in the air and brought it down at Krystal. Josh shouted and jabbed the spear tip into Jaqun's throat. Jaqun gasped and jerked his hand back causing the knife to move away from Krystal. Blue blood slowly started to run down the aliens red body. Josh yanked the spear tip out and the gentle stream of blood turned into a rapid violent moving river. Jaqun started to gurgle as blood filled his mouth, he looked down at the beaten vixen before him and in one finally attempt to get revenge wrapped his hands around her throat and started to squeeze the life out of her.
Josh quickly lifted the staff once again and put every ounce of strength he had into one final thrust. He rammed the spear tip back into Jaqun's throat and the tip exited from the other side. More blood poured out and the Gorton lost all his strength and released his grip on the Vixen and fell onto his back.
"Jaqun." Ashtark weakly said as he saw his cousin fall dead. Ashtark cursed and then reached for something attacked to his belt, it was a small black box, he held it up and aimed it at the human who had just murdered his cousin. "Your father will know of this cousin…I swear this planet will burn for this." Ashtark clicked a button on the device and there was a small flash. He then attached the box back to his belt and painfully stood up, his blood started to drip from his chest wound. He covered the wound with one hand and ran as fast as he could to the transporter.
"There's one more!" a human guard shouted. Suddenly the room was filled with gun fire, Ashtark felt bullet after bullet enter his body. He shouted at the pain but forced himself to keep moving. He then made it to the transporter and rushed inside; he closed the doors and made his way to the pilot seat. He started the ship up and flew it out of the hanger.
Josh turned his gaze back to Krystal and cringed at the sight, she had blood dripping from her mouth and nose. Josh gently lifted her up which caused her to groan in pain and a tear fall from her eye.
"I'm sorry Krystal…Don't worry you'll be alright." He said and looked into her bruised eyes one of which was swollen shut. Krystal then started to move her mouth like she was trying to say something, "What is it?" He asked and leaned his ear closer to her muzzle.
"He…He hit…Like a girl." She said and weakly smiled at her human, who chuckled a little knowing she was okay, he then carried her out of the hanger.
Back in the sky the final Gorton Star ship had been brought down by the Great Fox's auto torrents. The blazing ships spun out of control and plummeted towards the ground and exploded in a tower of fire.
"Shielding at 57%...No Gorton ship located, we got them all." The rabbit called out. Falco sighed and turned his torrent screen off.
"We need to upgrade our canon torrents, they fire way to slowly…Slippy you can fix these things right?" He asked and looked over at his frog teammate who was standing up.
"Maybe." He replied. Fox looked over at the screen on his console and started to push buttons.
"Turning off shielding and weapons." He said, "Lets hurry and get back to the hanger, I hope they were able to defend themselves." Fox took control of the ship and started to turn it around.
"Fox we got a Gorton transporter heading our way!" Peppy shouted, Fox looked over at the windshield and could see the transporter heading towards them.
"Falco, Slippy blast it!" Fox shouted.
"He has us on a missile lock!" The rabbit shouted, Fox noticed the Transporter firing a plasma missile at them. "Evasive maneuvers Fox!" Peppy called out, Fox shouted and forced the Great Fox to head down below and dodge the missile. The plasma missile sored through the air and missed the bridge windshield. Instead it hit and exploded at the roof of the ship. The ship slightly shook, Falco moved into Slippy's torrent seat which was still on. He took over the controls and started to fire the torrent.
Ashtark started to bring up the Slip space display; he felt the inside of the transporter violently shake as the plasma rounds from the Great Fox's torrents hit it. Ashtark quickly pressed on a system on the holo map and that system highlighted; he pressed a flashing red button and was sent into Slip space.
"Damn it." Falco cursed and hit the torrent screen with his feathered fist.
"Forget it." Fox said and resumed moving the Star cruiser towards the hanger, "We need to check up on Krystal and the humans…Peppy bring up the damage report." He ordered. Peppy started to push buttons on the touch screen and a holo image of the Great Fox appeared with a flashing red spot on the roof of the ship. Peppy touched the red spot and a section of text appeared.
"Minimum damage to the ship it's self…However it did destroy our long range satellite. We won't be able to contact anyone outside this system." Fox nodded and slowly lowered the ship so it would enter the bases hanger.
"Could be much worse…Alright Peppy will you activate the landing gears?" Fox asked, he then noticed how the hanger looked like it had gone through hell, he noticed the dead soldiers and dead Gortons. Falco made a 'humph' sound.
"I guess the humans can protect themselves after all." He said and turned off the torrent screen. The Great Fox landed and then Fox turned the ship off and stood from his seat.
"Alright team; let's see what the damage is." He said and walked over to the elevator, a trace of fear lingering in his mind that something might have happened to Krystal.