Blade had decided to fight Fox, if only to prove her strength, she felt that even if she lost, she would at least show that she wasn't weak. She slowly walked through the hall until she came to his room, the door in front of her opened when she got close to was sitting on a couch looking through papers, he immediately looked up at Blade once he heard her come in.

"What do you want?"

"I'm here to challenge you."

"Challenge me?"

"Yes, I want to fight."

"But Why would you-"

"Look, are you going to fight or not!" Blade was growing impatient at this moment.

"Alright, but no weapons,"

"Fine, no weapons."Blade had punched with all her strength only to have her fist meet the wall in front of her. Fox had dodged to the side, and was already trying to get a grip on her. Blade quickly turned around, swinging her leg towards him, the pain shot up her body as she realized, clearly, her leg hadn't healed all the way. Fox jumped back, waiting for the right moment to attack, until he saw Blade clutching her right leg and fighting back tears.

"You're not ready to fight like this." he said. Blade slowly got up and tried for another punch, but someone interrupted their battle.

"Are you two arguing already?" it was Hikari.

"Fox, there's a message for you in the command room, you might want to check it out." Fox nodded and left quickly, leaving Blade realized she had missed her chance.

"What are you doing messing with Fox, he's busy enough as it is." Blade hissed at her.

"Now don't be like that, I'm trying to look out for you, Fox doesn't deal too well with intruders, you're lucky he's letting you stay here at all." Blade tried to find the words to say.

"I don't want to be the weakling."

"You don't want to be reckless either. You're still healing Blade, you shouldn't try to make it worse."

"I know! I just….what kind of person would I be if I couldn't prove myself as a fighter?"

"Fighting is not all strength." Hikari smiled and held out her palm, letting tiny sparks of lighting dance from her fingertips.

"Sometimes you have to plan things through." Blade gazed in awe.

"You have the power of lightning."

"Yes, it is one of my abilities, do you have an element?" Blade flicked her claws, making a small shroud of flame.

"It's Fire." Hikari giggled.

"I suspected as much."Hikari led Blade to Falco's room, she hoped that Blade would become friends with Falco instead of fighting him too.

"Falco, you know Blade." Hikari sat down beside her falcon lover, gesturing for Blade to sit down as well.

"Yeah, she almost got me when we fought!" Blade growled instantly.

"Hey take it easy, I thought cats were supposed to be calm!"

"Falco dear don't tease Blade." Blade just stuck out her tongue, ignoring the comment from Falco.

"You two should get along." Hikari crossed her arms, it was almost as if Blade had belonged to a family where Hikari and Falco were her parents, and she was the stubborn child.

"Sure as long as kitten here doesn't get too mad with me!" the joking went on like that for a while. Blade found herself amused by Falco's comments, rather than angry. Meanwhile in the command room…

"You couldn't possibly do something like that!"

"I must Fox, there's been too much competition these last few years, it's time for your team to go down for good."

"Well now I'll as least be prepared!"

"You won't know when it happens, it will hit you when you least expect it, I almost feel bad for you…"

"You dirty-"

"Goodbye Fox." the screen shut down, leaving the room pitch black. No one but Fox knew the danger that awaited the StarFox Team.