Sargasso station
I don't own Starfox
Side note: Using an emulator on my PC I FINALLY got the chance to play StarFox Adventures yay!
After the attack at the Hospital, it was decided by Fox, despite the protests of the doctors, that Kursed would be safer onboard the Great Fox where they could keep a closer eye on her. She was taken onboard, to the ship's infirmary where she could rest.
"I'll meet you at Sargasso Station," Siris said.
"You're not coming with us?" Fox asked.
"No, I have a few other things I need to do first," Siris said. "I'm gonna see if I can turn up any leads on who want's Kursed dead."
"Do you want us to come with you?" Fox offered.
"No, I'll be fine on my own, I'm used to it by now," Siris said.
"Alright then," Fox said before boarding the Great Fox. "We'll meet you there."
When Kursed woke up again the first thing she noticed was she was no longer in the hospital but in the infirmary on board the great fox.
How had she gotten here? She couldn't remember being taken aboard the ship.
The next thing she noticed was Fox sleeping nearby on another spare bed next to hers.
Kursed smiled and fell back asleep shortly after.
"AHH!" She yelled waking up suddenly covered in sweat, breathing heavily.
Fox started awake next to her. "Kursed, are you okay?" He asked rushing to her bedside.
"I'm okay, it was just a nightmare," She explained.
Fox believed her and didn't question her any further, in hindsight he probably should have.
"We're approaching Sargasso station," Falco said entering the room. "Slippy and Peppy are waiting for you on the bridge."
"Already?" Fox asked.
"You've been sleeping most of the journey buddy," Falco said. "We didn't want to wake you."
"Alright hold position just outside of scanner range," Fox ordered. "Open a communication line to the station."
After a moment, the familiar face of Wolf O'Donnell appeared on the screen.
"Fox McCloud, to what do I owe this pleasure," He said.
"Someone tried to assassinate Krystal a few days ago…" Fox began to say.
"Well, it wasn't any of us," Wolf interrupted him.
"We know," Fox said back. "The assassin was killed before he could tell us who his employer was."
"So…?"
"And I was told you might be able to help us find out who it was that hired the assassin," Fox said.
"Why should we help you star fox?" Wolf asked. "As I recall there is still a substantial bounty on your Vixen friend."
"What do you want?" Fox asked knowing he was going to regret asking this in the long run.
On the large screen, Wolf smirked.
"We'll call you back," He said before the screen went blank.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to be dealing with star wolf?" Slippy asked.
"To be honest, no," Fox said turning around in his chair.
"An unknown vessel is approaching," ROB said. "It is requesting permission to land."
"That'll be Siris, I bet," Fox said, "He said he'd meet us here."
Fox went down to the hanger bay in time to Siris's ship land in the hanger. It wasn't what he was expecting to see, parked in the Hanger now, was a modified Wolfen. It was an older model, and Siris had modified the outside, but it was still recognizable as a Wolfen.
The canopy opened, and Siris dropped to the floor. He looked tired.
"That's a Wolfen," Fox said indicating to the ship parked behind Siris.
"Yes, it is," Siris said casually.
"Where did you get it?" Fox asked walking around the ship, inspecting the modifications Siris had made to the fuselage, engines, weapons, and armor.
"A scrap yard on Venom," Siris said. "It took a lot of time and credits to get her into this shape."
Fox looked at the name of the ship painted on the side, Wolf's tooth.
"Warning several unknown ships are approaching," ROB said over the ship's intercom.
"What?" Fox said.
"Bounty Hunters," Siris said. "I bet they are here for Kursed."
"ROB get the Great Fox ready for combat, activate the point defense lasers, and raise the shields."
"How's your flying wolf?" Fox asked Siris.
"I'm a bit rusty," Siris said. "I haven't been in a proper dogfight in ages."
Fox smirked at him. "Star Fox. Report to the main hanger, Prepare for battle!"
A moment later, Slippy, Falco, and Kursed arrived in the hanger.
"Whoa, hang on," Fox said seeing Kursed. "You should stay here."
Kursed frowned at the fox, crossing her arms over her chest.
"I'm just as good of a pilot as you McCloud," She said. "Maybe even better."
"Please, just stay here it's safer," Fox said as he climbed into the cockpit of his Arwing.
"Fine," Kursed said leaning against the wall.
She watched as StarFox along with Siris launched out of the hanger bay and frowned, she was just as capable of a pilot as any of them. She glanced at her Cloudrunner sitting in the hanger, an idea forming in her head. Technically, she wasn't a member of Starfox. She didn't have to listen to Fox's orders.
"Fine," She said walking up to the craft, getting in the cockpit and taking off to join the battle.
-Kursed POV-
Once outside in space, Kursed saw the enemy ships. There were about a dozen of them; she didn't recognize the make or model of any of them, But they looked to be long-range fighters of some kind. She got one of them, who was too busy chasing Falco, in her sights and fired blowing the ship up.
"Thanks," Falco said.
"Your welcome," Kursed said back.
"Kursed? What are you doing out here? I told you to stay on The Great Fox," Fox said.
"Yell at her later," Siris's voice added, joining the conversation. "Deal with the Bounty Hunters first."
Lasers streaked past the canopy of Siris's ship, he cursed and rolled to the right while slowing down. The enemy ship overshot him, and Siris unleashed a salvo of lasers of his own, the enemy craft exploded soundlessly in space, leaving debris in front of him.
"Damn it!" Siris yelled trying to avoid it; he heard several loud thuds against the hull of his ship, the glass on his windscreen cracked. But it seemed to hold.
"Siris, are you okay?" Kursed asked over the radio.
"I'm fine," Siris replied then heard a warning alarm sounding.
Warning oxygen levels falling! A robotic voice said.
"Um...never mind," Siris said looking at the rapidly falling oxygen levels worriedly.
"Get back to the Great Fox, we'll finish up out here," Fox said over the radio.
Warning! Oxygen levels at Fifty percent!
"Shut up! I know!" Siris growled turning back toward the Great Fox.
Siris landed back on the Great Fox's hanger and got out of his ship to survey the damage that was done.
"What were you thinking!?" Fox demanded once they landed back on the Great Fox.
"I told you to stay here!" He said as the cockpit of his arwing opened, He got out dropping to the floor. He looked furious with her. It made Kursed back up a half step.
"You can't tell me what to do Fox!" Kursed said back loudly.
"You could have gotten hurt, or worse killed!" Fox retorted.
"I don't need your help; I can take care of my self!" Kursed yelled back, poking Fox in the chest before turning and storming out of the hanger, leaving Fox in stunned silence.
Kursed stormed back to her room on The Great Fox and sat down on the bed angry with herself about what she had said to Fox. She had only been trying to help, and he yelled at her for it, but that was no reason for her to yell back at him.
"Go back and apologize to him," She told herself.
Instead, she laid down on her bed to get some rest first.
"I'll talk to Fox tomorrow," She thought before rolling over and falling asleep.
Kursed woke up the next morning and went to find Fox, but he wasn't in his room like she thought. Next, she checked the bridge only to find Slippy.
"Hi Slippy, Have you seen Fox?" She asked.
"He's helping Siris repair his ship, I think," Slippy said.
"Okay, thank you," Kursed said before leaving the bridge and heading for the Hanger. She reached the Hanger and walked in just in time to hear Fox's conversation with Siris as they repaired the damage done to Siris's ship during the short battle yesterday.
"…And when I finally get to see her again, she isn't the Krystal I first met on Sauria. It's like she's a completely different person now."
"People can change after so many years," Siris said back.
"She ignored my orders and flew out into that battle, she could have gotten herself killed, I can't just stop what I'm doing to save her all the time," Fox said.
"I think Kursed can handle herself pretty good," Siris added.
"I don't know maybe, but I'm starting to think it would have been better for everyone if she had just stayed away," Fox said finishing his tirade.
He looked at Siris, or rather something behind him and saw Kursed standing in the doorway. He could tell by Kursed's body language that she had heard everything.
"Kursed I…"
"You want me gone, Fox?" She asked before turning and running away.
"Go after her," Siris said to Fox who gave chase.
"Kursed! Wait!" Fox yelled chasing the vixen through the Great Fox. He realized too late where she was heading and ran faster.
"Krystal!" He shouted as she reached the door to the hanger. "Please don't leave!"
Fox reached it just as it slid shut and locked cutting him off from Kursed.
"ROB! Close the Hanger doors. Don't let her take off!" Fox yelled into his wrist comm as he crouched down and got to work trying to override the door lock.
"No, don't," Siris said catching up with Fox. "Let her go."
"I don't want your hand, I'll save myself this time," Kursed said to Fox.
On the other side of the door, they heard the engines of Kursed's Cloudrunner startup.
"Unauthorized takeoff detected," ROB said over Fox's communicator.
"ROB! Close the hanger doors NOW!" Fox nearly screamed into his communicator.
"No, leave them open," Siris said.
The door to the Hanger finally opened, and Fox and Siris raced inside just in time to see Kursed's Cloudrunner take off and fly out of the closing Hanger doors making it out just before the massive doors closed.
"Damn it!" Fox growled dropping to his knees on the floor.
"This is all your fault!" He said standing up, turning on Siris. He punched the wolf in the head knocking him to the floor.
"You can't force Kursed to stay here," Siris said standing back up.
"It's for her own safety. She's in danger!" Fox said.
"Kursed doesn't want to be protected anymore, she is not the girl you met on Sauria," Siris said.
Fox looked from Siris to the closed hanger doors.
"Listen, if you want, I can go keep an eye on her, make sure she's okay," Siris offered.
"Go after her," Fox said.
"Right," Siris said hopping into the cockpit of his ship and taking off.
He had a few ideas as to where Kursed would be headed. He could safely rule out Sauria and Corneria as well; Venom was just as unlikely. Siris opened his galactic map and looked for a planet isolated enough that Kursed would travel to it to hide.
Katina looked promising, Kursed had been there before when she was known as Krystal and helped stop an Aparoid invasion of the planet, and it was only one jump away.
Siris set the coordinates to Katina and pressed the jump button and entered slipspace.
Fox watched from a window on The Great Fox as Siris entered slipspace, a moment later his wrist comm beeped, it was slippy informing him Starwolf was contacting them on the bridge.
"I'll be there in a moment Slippy," Fox said before turning and heading back up to the bridge.
I'm not really sure what to do next, I wasn't expecting this story to be as popular as it has become, and never wrote an ending for it. Should Fox and Kursed get back together?