Hey everyone hows it going? sorry about not posting yesterday. Just didn't get the chance to. And as always before we start with the story we answer reviews from fans.
AlbedoActual-Well you certainly don't miss any tiny details do you? the gun in the cover page was just something that came to mind, I had no idea it looked like an actual real gun. I never heard of it before. I always listen to ideas, so if you do have some and don't mind sharing then I'll be more than happy to listen to them. I cant say with 100% that I'll use them but I will listen to them regardless...That's a pretty gruesome death for a Star Fox fic, and believe me I'm not above very bloody deaths, however I don't feel like that would work for this story.
PyroSolrac III-Why hello friend long time no see, in case you didn't get my message thanks for clearing up the whole galaxy and star systems. Also I hope to read more reviews from you. As easy as that would be to block guest views I wouldn't be able to do that to all the other fans who don't have accounts and want to review, I honestly don't care about what some says about my story sucking. I know it doesn't and yes I have a bit of an ego pride thing going on right now. Mostly because of fans like you having my back, that really meant a lot. I'll just have to ignore em because we all know where it'll go If I say something back. It will go back and fourth and back and fourth over and over. You guys want to read my story not me and some critic trying to bash each other.
John p- I know it was a bit entertaining wasn't it. I'm taking your advise and just dropping it though.
GrimlockX4-Thanks for the heads up friend.
Alright onto the story...We are still in battle so things might get farfetched.
Ch. 27
The Burning City
Josh awoke nearly two hours later. He slowly opened his eyes and noticed he was laying down on the ground. He slowly started to get up; his head was aching but easily ignorable. He noticed the city was still burning and the Gorton War ship still hovered over it. He could hear the distant sound of bullets and plasma rounds firing in the air.
He looked behind him to find the flipped hummer and Gorton Spaceship. He turned back around and started to run towards the city, he noticed a parked car and made his way to it. He used his rifle and smashed the window open and unlocked the door. He quickly got in and hotwired the car. It started up and he drove off towards the city.
The Great Fox left Slip space and Earth came into view. Krystal was putting on her flight suit in her old room, which appeared to have been mostly untouched. Trying to control her breathing. Her heart felt like it was in over drive. Her only thought was of Josh and if the Gortons had yet to arrive. She placed her hand over her heart and took a deep breath. She had never felt this worried since she lost her planet and family.
'I guess this means that I really do love him.' A small smile came on her face at the realization. But everything shattered when she heard Fox over the intercom.
"Gorton War ship is attacking a city." He said, "Everyone get to their Arwing!" He shouted and the intercom went off.
'Oh God.' Krystal thought and quickly left her old room. She quickly raced to the elevator and pushed the hanger button. The elevator started to go down. Krystal used her hand to brush through her hair while trying to stay calm. When the doors opened she rushed to the hanger to find the rest of the crew entering their ships.
"Krystal." She heard Fox call out; she turned around to find him entering the hanger. "Sorry, you'll have to stay here with R.O.B." He said.
"I can't just stay here." She said intent on going.
"There's no Arwings left for you…I'm sorry." He said and jumped into his Arwing and started it up. The lights turned on and two holo screens appeared. One was on the left and was the rear view screen, which was only showing the wall behind him. The second screen on the right showed four split screens each one showing a member of the team.
"Slippy Toad, Starfox 4 ready." Slippy called out.
"Falco Lombardi, Starfox 3 ready." Falco said.
"Peppy Hare, Starfox 2 ready." Peppy called out.
"Fox McCloud, Starfox 1 ready…Alright team, lets rock and roll!" Fox shouted and moved the thruster lever forward shooting his Arwing out of the open hanger's protective shielding used to keep anything in the hanger from being sucked into space. The four Arwings regrouped in space and headed for Earth.
"Damn it." Krystal said and was about to leave the hanger until she noticed the escape pods.
"R.O.B can you hear me?" Krystal called out, after a few seconds the intercom went on.
"Yes, I can hear you." He said.
"Bring the Great Fox into Earth's atmosphere close to the city under attack…I'm dropping in." She said.
Josh parked the car when he approached a street barricaded by military vehicles. He quickly made his way over to a group of five Soldiers.
"Joshua Grant Marine Core, what are your orders?" He asked.
"We have none, most of the other Soldiers have already left the city, however there's a squad pinned down further into the city, we are going to go help them out." He said.
"Permission to come along?" Josh asked.
"We can use all the help we can get, let's roll." He said and the group started to run deeper into the burning city. They made their way to a half destroyed road and started to follow it, Josh noticed a few Starships flying a head.
"I wonder why they haven't hit us again with that ship." One of the Soldiers asked.
"Beats the hell out of me." Another responded.
"I don't know and don't care, so long as they don't hit us again, they nearly took out the whole damn city with that one shot." The leader called out. Suddenly they heard the sound of bullets and plasma being fired.
"Up ahead." Josh called out.
"Alright team, double time it!" The leader said and took off sprinting, Josh and the others followed suit. As they were running, the sound of weapons being fired was getting louder and louder, until the Soldiers turned a corner and found themselves in a park. They noticed some more Soldiers covering behind pieces of buildings that fallen.
"Move out!" The leader shouted, the group started to head for the Soldiers firing their guns at the Gortons. Josh aimed his rifle and fired his gun, the bullets shredded the alien's chest and it fell to the ground. A plasma round nearly came to contact with his face, he felt the intense heat hitting his face. Although the plasma round passed him in less than a fraction of a second, the heat still lingered. Josh quickly aimed his rifle at where the plasma came from. He then noticed a Gorton and he squeezed the trigger of his gun, sending a three shot burst into the alien's body killing it.
"Look out!" One of the men called out towards Josh, he quickly looked over and noticed a Gorton leaping into the air holding onto a curved shaped knife. He swung the knife just as Josh leaned as far back as he could, the curved knife sliced through the body armor like butter. Josh ended up falling on his back as the Gorton readied for another attack. Josh quickly flipped his rifle from three shots, to fully automatic and raised his gun up pointing the barrel at the alien and firing the last few bullets left in the magazine into his attacker's body. The Gorton fell onto his back spewing blue blood into the air. Josh quickly stood and searched for more enemies, but it seemed as if they were in the clear for now. Josh made his way back to his group and they walked over to the other group.
"Bloody hell, thanks for the rescue." The other group leader called out.
"Are there any more of you?" The first group leader asked.
"No, just us."
"Well let's get out of here, before they destroy the rest of the city." The Soldiers turned to run off when they heard the sound of aircraft nearby. Next thing they knew, three Gorton Starships surrounded them. The men started taking steps back until their backs were against each other's.
"Shit…Looks like this is it fellas."
"I'm buying the first round upstairs."
"Deal." The men braced themselves for the end when all of a sudden a distant 'bang' was heard, and then three more bangs, the sound could only be described as the sound barrier breaking.
"Over there!" One of the men shouted, they all turned and saw the four Arwings approaching them fast. One of the Arwings started to fire their twin Gatling guns, sending green plasma rounds at the Gorton ships. The enemy Ships quickly disengaged the humans and headed off towards the sky.
"Looks like they want to play after all." Falco said as he turned his aiming system on. Fox held his steering stick tight as he chased down one of the ships he fired at.
"Engage the enemy." He called out. The other three Arwings suddenly separated and flew in different directions. Fox kept trailing the enemy ship until it got into range, at which point Fox fired his Gatling guns tearing the enemy ship apart until it exploded in red flames and the rest crashed onto the ground. Fox then turned his ship back around and noticed the group of humans and spotted Josh.
"There you are." He said and landed his ship, the canopy opened and Fox quickly jumped out.
Josh watched as Fox came closer, and as thankful as he was for Fox saving him and the others, a part of him was itching to put a bullet into his skull for kissing Krystal. However the thought of how heartbroken she would be kept him from doing that.
"Just so you know, you gave Krystal a panic attack by leaving without telling her." He said as he stood in front of Josh.
"She was a bit occupied at the time." He said, dropping a hint that he caught the two kissing, Fox either took the hint or didn't, either way he didn't say anything about it. He reached into his jacket and pulled out a communicator ear piece.
"Here, this will let us stay in contact." Fox said and quickly made his way back to his Arwing, he jumped in and the Canopy closed. Josh pressed the ear piece into his ear and suddenly heard Fox's voice.
"The City is lost, you all better hurry and get out while you can…I don't know much about Gorton war ships, but I do know that their power cannon has a two hour recharge stage." Fox said and flew off.
"Understood." He said and turned to the men, "What time did the ship fire that attack?" He asked.
"About an hour and thirty minutes ago, why?" one of the Soldiers asked.
"My friend just told me that weapon will be able to fire in thirty minutes, we need to get out of the city beforehand." He said.
"I'll get us a chopper." One of the leaders said, suddenly they heard the sound of a bang, much like they heard with the Arwings breaking the sound barrier. The men looked up to find the Great Fox high above the sky, they then noticed what looked like a drop pod crashing a few feet away.
"What the hell is that?" One of the men asked, suddenly the pod opened and Krystal stepped out.
"Krystal." Josh said, all the other Soldiers turned their attention to Josh. Krystal noticed Josh and felt her heart skip a beat, what chance was there that she ended up landing a non-guidable drop pod right next to the man she was trying to find. Josh quickly walked up to her. The sweet and innocent look in her eyes quickly turned to anger. She then held out her hand and slapped him across the face as hard as she could, resulting in a loud 'SLAP!'
"Oh damn." One of the Soldiers said. Josh was startled and hurt at the slap, he placed his hand on his burning cheek, and tasted a bit of blood on his lip. Josh looked back at Krystal and could see the anger in her eyes, but more so he could see how worried she was.
'Guess Fox was right.' He thought.
"Why didn't you tell me!" She shouted and pushed him backwards a few feet, the urge to slap him again was quickly overpowering her. Josh turned away from her.
"I figured you wouldn't want me there...Figured I would only get in the way between you and Fox." He said.
"What the hell does that mean?" She asked.
"It doesn't matter…We don't have time to talk about this. Fox said we have thirty minutes to get out of the city before the War ship destroys the rest of it." He said, still not looking at Krystal.
"Chopper in bound." One of the leaders called out. "ETA ten minutes, we need to head a click to the west for Ronda view." He said and they started at walk off.
As they were making their way, Krystal kept looking over at Josh. Puzzled at what he had said about her and Fox. Was it possible that he saw the two kissing? Krystal felt her chest tighten at the thought. She could see the hurt in his eyes and it made her like the most shallow person in the galaxy, she had to kiss Fox though…Maybe after she explains it he will…Suddenly there was an explosion.
Josh slowly opened his eyes and groaned in pain. He rolled over onto his side and could see dust everywhere. He then noticed Krystal, covered in blood.
"Krystal!" He shouted, any thoughts about her and Fox were pushed from his mind, he didn't care at this point, he had to get to her and make sure she was still alive. He slowly started to stand up and nearly fell back down. He noticed the body armor was all but destroyed, he also noticed the large shrapnel that was stuck in the body armor, he unstrapped all the armor pieces and quickly made his way over to Krystal and saw how badly she was.
One of her eyes was completely blood shot, she was bleeding from several wounds that had nearly covered her outfit in blood, she was also bleeding out of her left ear.
"Oh my God Krystal." He said, she slowly turned her face to look at him, he quickly bent down and picked her up, bridal style and started to run to the LZ. As they ran he kept looking back at her.
"Don't die on me Krystal, don't you dare die on me." He said and could feel his heart racing, forcing him to pick up his speed, he then heard aircraft above him. He looked and saw three Gorton ships heading towards him firing there plasma rounds.
"Shit." He said, suddenly he heard an Arwing closing in on the area and then started to shot at the enemy ships. Josh couldn't stand around and watch what happens, he continued to run with Krystal bleeding in his arms, he then noticed the chopper and as luck would have it medics.
"Medic! I need a Medic!" He shouted as he approached the chopper. One of the Medics turned to look at Josh, he then quickly tapped the other medic on the shoulder.
"Over there!" He called out, the two watched Josh approach holding the blue vixen. They were a bit startled at seeing her, mainly because they weren't too sure what all they could do for her. They only knew how to treat human wounds and didn't know if the same applied to the alien.
"She was caught in an explosion, please get her out of here, you have to take her to the Great Fox understand me?" He asked, he was feeling his legs shake uncontrollably as he laid her down on a makeshift bed. He looked back down at her and noticed she was weakly looking at him very confused, she was clearly in shock. Josh tightly held on to her hand and gently smiled at her.
"You're going to be okay Krystal." He said and then remembered the other men he left behind to save Krystal. He looked over at the medics. "There are some more Soldiers back there that I have to get." He said.
"Hurry." One of the Medics said, Josh looked back down at Krystal one last time and then pulled his hand away from hers, he removed his rifle from his shoulder and held in both hands before turning around to run off toward the other Soldiers.
"Josh!" He heard Krystal shout, however he couldn't look back. He had to get those other Soldiers out of the city before the War Ship fired its power cannon. Josh placed his finger into his ear and pressed the ear piece.
"Fox can you hear me?" Josh called out, there was static for a few seconds before Fox replied.
"Are you out, the ship will be able to fire in fifteen minutes!" Fox called out, Josh started to panic at his words and moved his feet faster.
"Not yet…Krystal was hurt." He said, there was a few moments of silence as Josh ran down the half destroyed road. It felt like an hour before one of them spoke
"What was she doing there!?" Fox was able to spit out.
"I don't know, she just dropped in from a pod, I took her to a chopper which will take us to the Great Fox…Look Fox, you and the others should hurry back there." He said and turned a corner and noticed the soldiers were just now starting to weakly stand up.
"You guys alright?" Josh asked as he quickly checked on them, aside from a few bruises, cuts, and gashes they all seemed to be okay. "The chopper is very close, we need to move." He said and quickly helped one of the Soldiers up to his feet.
"We're making our way to the chopper right now." Josh said to Fox over the ear piece, he then turned to the other men. "Let's go!" He shouted getting their attention; the Soldiers began painfully making their way to the chopper.
As they approached the chopper they heard a loud sound coming from the War Ship, the men looked up at the ship and noticed underneath it was what looked like a large barrel of a canon and the sound they heard sounded like it was charging.
"MOVE YOUR ASSES!" The all heard, they looked over to the chopper to find a medic waving his arms at them, "DON'T JUST STAND THERE!" He shouted. The Soldiers began to sprint to the chopper as fast as their wounded legs could go. One by one they entered the helicopter. As Josh made his way inside the loud sound of the War Ship charging its power canon had all but increased, then he noticed that there was a bright glowing red light slowly coming out of the canon.
"GET US THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" One of the soldiers shouted to the top of his lungs, the pilot nodded his head and started to lift up on the control stick. The propellers started to spin faster and faster as they lifted off of the ground.
"Fox were on the chopper, hurry get out of here it's about to fire!" Josh shouted. Josh removed his finger from his ear and looked at underneath the war ship was glowing a bright red, the charging sound was almost deafening.
"Hold on." The pilot said and activated the choppers thrusters increasing its speed. The men held onto what they could as they began flying out of the city. Josh watched as a bright beam of red light shot out of the War Ship and struck the city once again engulfing it in fire.
No one said a word as they watched the last building of the city crumble to the ground.
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my Dad said that at the end of San Adreas lol My Dad's hilarious...I'm talking about the movie with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson... Not GTA