The four of us waited for the time to come. Peppy managed to send us the money yesterday, so we are able to make the transaction.
I sat on top of the Zlogon Je, just waiting for Lector to show. Blood dripped down my ship, as I had just coughed up my usual dose of blood for the day. Krystal sat next to me, while Ryan and Adrian, stood with Fay and Miyu.
We had been waiting for over two hours, two hours past the meeting time. He was late and this made me grow nervous. Was he aware? Was he on his way to kill us? Or was he just retarded and can't keep track of time? I was hoping for the third option.
All was quiet during this time of wait, everyone, was nervous as fuck. There was nothing we could do. There were times when we thought a ship was coming in to land, but it always ended up to be a false alarm.
"You okay?" "Do I look okay?" I said to the blue vixen, kinda annoyed by her ridiculous question. "It was just a question and you don't need to get annoyed with me, even if it is ridiculous. You dick." "Shut up."
Even though Krystal and I have somewhat reconciled, it didn't mean all was well. I still had my issues with her because of her leaving and all that had happened between then and now.
"When will they show?" Ryan yelled from the distance, his arms wrapped around Fay's waist. "Is this guy always late to his transactions?" "No, he's usually pretty careful when it comes to time. He doesn't like to be late."
"Well Fay. He's fucking late and this is annoying me!" I yelled at her, though a nauseas feeling entered my system. "I think he knows, Krystal." She slowly turned her head towards me, feeling the same. "But how though? No one else knew. You said that he didn't tell anyone."
"I know. This is what makes it weird." I could feel her hand grasp mine, I could feel her nervous feeling just by how she was holding my hand. Everything to have stopped right then, when a ship began to hover outside the hanger.
It was big, about as long as an eighteen wheeler, and about as wide as four car lengths. It had entered the hanger, just trying to find a large enough spot to land, but there was plenty of room so that wasn't an issue.
It traveled about half the distance of the hanger bay before finally it settled down on the metal floor. As the engines began to power down, a few figures began to come out of the ship. Lector was one of them, surrounded by his guards.
"Welcome to the Matchitehew." I said, as I walked towards him with Krystal next to me. "Impressive, I must say." He said, as he came to stop, letting us walk the rest of the distance.
"You have the money?" "I assume this is all the stuff?" "Money first? Then we will talk." "Show me first. Then you get the money." I said firmly to him, I knew how to run a business deal. In my opinion, show the goods before the cash.
He just stared at me, as I glared at him, trying not to make myself look weak. He gave a smile and a slight laugh, as he turned around towards the ship. He approached the front of the ship, pushing a button which caused the rear to open.
I looked towards the back of the ship, then back towards Cyrus, who was just staring at me, with a hand extending in that direction. "Something is up. Keep on your toes." I said to Krystal telepathically, sensing an increase of fear in her.
We rounded the corner of the ship, as I just stared at the fifteen ladies we guys call cars. Along the walls, were the weapons I asked for. I just chuckled when I saw them. "Adrian! Ryan! Bring the money." I ordered, as I walked back around the corner, only to see Lector smiling.
"You liking what I brought you?" "Oh I love them. They're smokin'." I said to Lector, while my attention was brought over to my two teammates, with a couple briefcases. One in each hand to be exact, so I guess I should say few. Not couple.
I gave them the gesture to open them, which they did so. After hearing a couple clicks, the money was revealed. Recently pressed one hundred dollar bills, which still had the smell saying they were just made.
Lector approached one of the briefcases that Ryan was carrying, and took a kneel next to it. He grabbed one of the bundles and flipped through each individual bill. He gave me a look as he raised his head, finally giving me a smile.
"A pleasure doing business with you." He said, extending his hand to complete the transaction. I accepted it and shook it with a slight smirk on my face. "Please. Join me tonight at my number one rated club, The Jolt." "Thank you for the offer."
He nodded at us, before finally entering back into the freighter transport. Upon them entering about twenty seconds ago, I heard a loud bang, then hearing the engines powering up.
I stared at the freighter takeoff, leaving the cargo hold behind, which was the loud bang. It was the clamps releasing. It exited towards the hanger door that it came in a few minutes ago, seeing it disappear into the endless oblivion of space.
"YES! Now I can take one of these babies and attract so many women with it!" Ryan yelled, very excited that everything went according to plan. Though, upon his excitement, came punishment. Punishment, from a dear woman named Fay.
"I certainly hope when you mean by women, you just mean me?" She said, grabbing the pressure point in his shoulder. He flinched in pain, trying to free himself, but the harder he tried to escape, the harder she got with him. "Yes. Yes, sweetie. I mean you. Please let go!"
We all stared at him, struggling to escape, which he finally did when she let go. "Damn, you bitch. That hurts." "Bitch?" "Oh God." The husky said, as he took off and hid behind the cargo container.
"Cooper! She's a woman." I yelled at him from thirty feet away, unaware that another female was going to hit me. That female, just happened to be Krystal. She gave me a massive punch to the jaw, which caused me, not to fall down, but to just take a few strafe steps to the left.
I grabbed the spot she punched and I immediately stared at her with piercing, evil eyes. "God damnit! You fucking whore!" "Watch what you fucking say next time!" "I will fucking say! Whatever I fucking WANT!" I yelled at her, ever so close to beating her senseless.
"Trouble in paradise I see." Adrian said, standing about ten feet away, with his arm wrapped around Miyu's waist. "There is no fucking paradise. There never was!" I said fiercely. Staring at Krystal, who was staring back at me, with a stunned look in her facial expression.
"And don't you fucking mess with me as well, Wolf. Or you'll start getting punched from me. So shut the fuck UP!" I yelled at him, before walking away from everyone. Staring at me, unable to comprehend what exactly just set me off.
"GET YOU FUCKIN' ASS BACK ON EARTH! NOOW!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, as I climbed up the ladder of the Zlogon Je. I climbed over the edge and took a seat inside the cockpit, closing the canopy in the process.
Everyone, still confused, began to walk towards their ships. Well, Adrian, Ryan, Fay and Miyu entered the Cobalt. Krystal, took a seat in her Cloudrunner. She was angry with me, slamming the canopy shut very hard. Pushing the buttons and flipping the switches very harshly.
She took a stare at me, as my ship finally roared to life. "You are a fucking ass, you know that?" "You know what, Krystal? When this is over. I never want to see you again." That threat…..hurt her bad.
We may be fighting right now, but saying that to her, it hit her hard. When she said, she could never let go of me, she meant it. She always did think about me. Now she has me, but I just gave her a heart-stomping ultimatum.
"You mean it?" "Yes, I mean it. You have been nothing, but a thorn in my side." "Oh, look at yourself. Like you're any better." "It's because you made me this way. Everything wrong with me is because of you leaving." "You made me leave!" "I wanted you fucking safe! You couldn't understand that! So what do you do? You run to Panther and StarWolf."
"At least they greeted me and welcomed me." "Did ever meet the other female pilot on their team?" "Yes. Fara Phoenix. So what?" "Do you know what she was doing before joining Wolf?" She thought about it, she never asked her, or even thought of asking. It never occurred to her.
"What?" "She was flying for me. She was my first love. But when things started getting rough, I wanted her to be safe. I asked her to leave. She did the exact same thing you did. She shoots me right there with her fucking crossbow. No one knows where except us. The fucking heart."
She gasped, and listened as I told her everything telepathically. "You never understood. Your safety meant more to me than my own life. If you had died while flying with me, who knows what would've happened to me. I could've ended up this way. Maybe I would've ended up a drug-addict. I don't know. All I know is because of having Panther nearly killing me. That flame that burns inside me now, is what made me Krieger."
I blocked my mind from any thoughts trying to enter. I didn't feel any. Though, I managed to feel what she was feeling. I felt her depression, her anger towards herself, her shame. I could feel the tears that were escaping her eyes.
"Get you ass moving now. The Cobalt has already left." I said to her one final time, before engaging the thrusters, allowing the ship to hover. As I made a one-eighty, facing the emptiness of space, I punched the engines to full throttle.
By the time I hit maximum throttle, the Z.J. was traveling at one hundred and ninety meters a second. Twice as fast as my Arwing, which was obsolete compared to the Z.J.
Krystal continued to sit in the cockpit of her Cloudrunner. Continuing to cry as she finally heard the whole truth of my becoming of Krieger. Right there and then, she wanted to take a knife and stab herself in the throat. She didn't have a knife, nor any sharp object on her.
She grasped her pistol, triggering off the safety and pulling it close to her temple, her right temple. "Don't…you…fucking…dare. Put down the fucking weapon and meet me in Detroit….so I can knock some sense into you."
She began to quake, her right hand trembling hard as she struggled to squeeze the trigger. She never could, as she lowered her weapon and dropped it onto the floor of the cockpit. She lowered her head and covered her face with her hands, as she cried harder than she did a minute ago.
"What the fuck were you thinking?" I yelled at the saddened vixen, as my right hand slapped violently across her face. She took the full blow, as she had fallen to the ground. The others were there to assist her.
"What the fuck, man? What did she do?" "She was tempted to blow her brains out. That's for knocking some sense into her." I said as I towered above them, in the process of popping my knuckles.
Everyone stared at her, but she just stood up, tears continuing to roll down her cheeks. "Get you head in the game and start focusing on the mission. We completed phase one. Now we have to get even closer to him. We need to find his headquarters. His base of operations."
"And how are we suppose to do that? Play all buddy buddy with him?" I raised my head, just enough to stare at Ryan, directly into his eyes, as mine glared at him. "Exactly." I said to him, as I approached him, stopping a couple feet away from him before I continued.
"We manage to get that close to him. Then, he would love for us to be with him as he started the war. Come on, Cooper. Have you ever seen XXX?" "The movie with Vin Diesel? Sure." "Same thing man. Think of it this way. You already got the ride and you already got the woman." I said, raising my arm and pointing it in Fay's direction.
"All we got to do… is take out the bastard. Are you prepared to do that?" I said calmly at him. He immediately replied, "Hell yes I am." "Then let's fucking do this shit already!" I yelled at him, causing everyone around me to back up.
I turned around and began to walk in the direction of where we last parked the cars. "Hurry the fuck up, Kursed! I'm not done with you yet!" She flinched and sighed in fear, she didn't want to deal with me.
The remaining four shifted their eyes back and forth between me and her. They worried about her. "Come on. Let's hurry up. I'm sick of this snow." Adrian said, as he zippered up his coat a little bit more, trying to stop the snow from entering his coat.
By the time Kursed got to the car, I was already inside with the engine running. She took a quick glance at the front of the Monte Carlo, how everything was pushed towards the cabin from the night with the Lincoln.
She took a short, gasping breath before taking a grasp on the door handle. She pulled on it and felt a wave of warm air rush against her fur. She took a seat inside and waited for me to say something to her, but she had to wait. I was on a phone call.
"Look, Marcos. I don't know why you are sending them here. Are you trying to insult me by doing this? This is fucking bullshit!" "Look Krieger. Either you do this or I'm sending you guys home. These guys are professionals. They'll be a valuable asset to you." "You…are a fucking asshole."
I quickly hung up my phone and threw it into the center glove box. I growled while tapping my right thumb against the steering wheel. Of all people, they just had to send them.
I quickly reached over and grabbed Krystal by the throat, causing her to yelp and struggle to breath at the same time. "You know what Marcos is doing?" "No." She said, struggling to put out words from the restriction I'm putting on her throat.
"He's sending us more people for me to look after. You know who they are?" "No." She said again, the thought of probing my mind for the answer wasn't her top priority right now.
"He's sending Wolf…and Fara." I put an even more deep tone on the word Fara, as I wished I never had to see her again. "AND!" I yelled at her, bringing her closer to my face, which she feared while doing so.
"If you ever, plan on committing suicide when I am around. I'll make sure that death is the easy way out. YOU GOT ME?" "YES! YES!" She said, starting to cry a bit, tears running down her muzzle.
I loosened my hand a bit, allowing her to breath, but she was too afraid to. I pulled her the rest of the distance and I gave her a kiss on the lips. We pulled away, seeing her face in fear, I let go of her throat and placed my hand on her left cheek.
I gently stroked her, feeling her soft fur move under my thumb. "Please. Not again." I said calmly to her, as if she hadn't heard my normal…calm tone in years, she moved her head slightly as a response. Finally, giving a slight nod.
I leaned into my chair as I shifted the car into drive, and pressing down on the accelerator with my right foot. The rear tires spun, but the car started to move. I just stared out the windshield, as Krystal continued to stare at me.
We arrived back at the house, snow had stopped for the moment, but it would start again in another hour, according to the weather station that played on the radio. I came to a stop, with the Yukon right behind me. I shut off the ignition and exited the car.
"You kill Kursed?" Ryan asked out loud, though he always failed at humor. This time, I was in no mood, as I pulled my revolver and aimed it at him. He immediately took shelter behind the SUV.
"Jesus man. Calm down." Adrian said, slowly approaching me and trying to calm me down. "Tell him to shut up with the stupid jokes….." "Alright. Alright. I'm done. I'll stop joking around. I promise"
"You gave me your word once." I said, pulling back the trigger on the weapon, engaging the laser sight, which pointed at his forehead. "What makes you think you'll stop this time?" "Because I don't want to get shot." I scanned his mind and he was telling me the truth.
I lowered my weapon and slid in back into its holster. "We leave in two hours. Make yourselves look good." I said as I made my short walk towards the house. Ryan, still shaking from a gun being pointed at him, slowly came out from behind the car.
Fay ran up to him and made a tight grasp around him, though he barely notice her at first. Krystal slowly followed me, though she was still at the car by the time I got the door open.
As I stepped onto the hardwood floor, I looked down at my revolver and pushed down on the hammer, then turning on the safety. By this time, Krystal had entered the house and skeptically approached me from behind, but made no attempt to gain my attention.
She merely just walked past me, trying to be as quiet as possible, as she made her way upstairs. Though, I managed to hear her footsteps as I turned around to look up at her. Though, I only looked at her for only three seconds, before I made my short journey towards the kitchen.
I walked through the dining room, taking a quick glance at the table and the chairs, along with the small china set in the cupboard right along the wall. It was the last thing I focused on before I entered the kitchen.
I took a seat in a chair, after I walked to the fridge to grab a beer, and just relaxed for a moment. Try to clear my angered mind. I was mainly angry by the fact that I had to work with my old rival, Wolf…..along with the bitch that left and shot me.
"Boy. This is going to be fun." I said out loud, but didn't mean for it to be too loud. "What's going to be fun?" A male voice from the dining room said, turning out to be Adrian, walking with Miyu by his side. I gave a loud sigh as I lowered my head.
"I got a call from Marcos. Two new people are going to be coming to help us with this shit." "You're not getting rid of Ryan now are you?" I chuckled. "No, but now that I'm thinking about it. I should've asked, but no. These two are in addition to our group."
"Who are they?" "Wolf O'Donnell and Fara Phoenix." "What the fuck? Why would they said them?" "Because he thinks they will be a valuable asset to us." "Wait a minute." Miyu said, causing Adrian and I to look in her direction.
"Isn't Wolf O'Donnell the leader of StarWolf and didn't Fara Phoenix used to work for StarFox, but then switched to StarWolf?" "Yep." "Is he trying to compromise your mission?
"You know. How do I know your not trying to compromise our mission? You and Fay. I mean, come on. You work for Cyrus. Why wouldn't you report to him what we've been telling you?" "Because we never wanted to be with him in the first place. And the thought of war against Corneria, which is where we both grew up, we don't want it. We're happier with helping you guys."
I probed her mind, stunned to find out that she was telling the truth. I gave a quick probing of Fay's mind and found the exact same thing. I nodded. "If you would've done some homework, you would know that Wolf and Fara do mainly work for big money."
I took a quick sip of beer before continuing. "If Cyrus finds out we have connections with Wolf. We might as well be on his A-list because Wolf is a well-respected man when it comes to working against Corneria."
"Then why is he helping us?" "Because lately….he's been getting treated with respect from the people of Corneria. Plus, he just doesn't like Cyrus in general. Not many know this….., but he has regrets working with Andross."
Adrian and Miyu just stared at me, unable to believe everything that I have told them, but I could tell that they were confused how I was able to know this. "Plus. When he found out about McCloud's death, it hit him hard. He just mainly did what he did to compare himself with McCloud."
"So when he found out McCloud died, he stopped with his ways." Miyu said, trying to finish my sentence with a full understanding. "Exactly." "So. How do you know all of this?" The lynx said again, curious just as much as the wolf.
"Like I said. If you would've done some homework." I said to them, while finishing up the rest of my beer. I placed the empty bottle on the table and pushed myself out of the chair I was in and began to walk out of the kitchen.
I made it to the archway separating the kitchen from the dining room before I stopped and turned my head around. "You might want to start getting ready. We'll be leaving in a little more than a hour and forty five minutes." I said, before continuing to walk, and disappearing around the corner.
Adrian and Miyu watched me leave before turning their faces to look at each other. "There's something about him that makes him very frightening. I mean, he knows his shit and seems to keep order between all of you, but just his emotions and that type of stuff….."
A chill traveled down Miyu's spine, causing her to stir in her chair. Adrian brought her close to him by wrapping his arms around her. "Plus, he knows how to drive and fire a gun."
I made it to the top floor, hearing a commotion in the bathroom. Ryan and Fay. They were showering together….or so what anything normal person would think. I could sense their emotions for each other and well…..it made me happy for them.
"Try not to waste all the hot water. Some people still have to take showers, you know? If you want to continue, do it in your room." I telepathically said to both Ryan and Fay, which caused to stop and look around to see where the voice came from.
"Damnit. How often does he do that?" Fay said, focusing her vision on Ryan, who was staring at the door before turning back towards her. "Not very often actually…but I wouldn't mind finishing this laying down." He said to her, cocking his right eyebrow seductively.
Though Fay enjoying the hot shower, she had to agree that things are best done laying down. So, they shut off the water and hurried themselves to his bed.
I stood outside the bedroom door, it was closed, probably because of Krystal. She was laying on her bed, crying, from everything that had occurred with us a hour ago. I quietly turned the knob and pushed the door open, peeking my head through and seeing her laying on her chest, crying in one of the pillows.
I stepped into the room silently and closed the door behind me when all of my body was in the room. Still not detecting my presence, I approached her and stood next to her, placing my hand on her back.
She jumped and yelped by the unexpected touch of someone other than her. She nearly backed away when she saw that it was me. I just calmly sat on the edge of the bed, before just bringing up my feet and just laid down next to her.
"You know." I said to her, trying to be as calm, but as stern as possible. "What did you think killing yourself would accomplish?" I turned my head to look at her, though I could tell she was hypnotized by the optic implant.
She shook her head. "I don't know. I thought you had enough of me and you wouldn't want to deal with me anymore. I figured that's why you said, 'I never want to see you again.' When I heard that, I basically just gave up on everything." "Why?"
She turned her head away from me, looking straight at the door. "I spent months trying to find where you were buried. I lost all hope on reconciling. When I heard you say he didn't want to see me, I lost hope again. I thought we did reconcile, but apparently not. You're still just as mad at me as ever."
"I was mad at you…because you were going to kill yourself." She, again, looked in my direction. "But you yell at me all the time." "I've developed an anger issue, ever since I lost you, the Great Fox and losing Matt. I can't hide it."
I could feel her stare upon me, but it didn't prevent from staring back at her. "When I was feeling that you were going to shoot yourself, I went insane. Krystal, come here." I said, waving my hand over, allowing me to wrap my arm around her.
"Just because I yell at you, doesn't mean that I don't love you." "Really?" "Of course. Krystal…." I sighed for a moment, trying to think of the right words. "I never believed that you sent Panther to kill me. You were mad, I can understand that, but I knew you wouldn't have him kill me.
But I was also afraid to come and find you. So, that's why I allowed Fox to die and became Krieger. Now that you know, I'm sorry I made you leave, but you never understood that you dying…..would've been the end of me."
She focused her eyes even harder on me, I could see they were turning red from her tears, but the blue in them were beautiful to stare at. "You just have to understand that….I may get mad at you, I may yell at you…I might hit or choke you out of petty rage, but." I leaned in, pressing my lips against hers.
It wasn't anything big, just a simple kiss just to show affection. When I pulled away, I stared right back into her eyes. "It doesn't mean that I don't love you. And I would…. Never…want to lose you again."
I pulled her close to me, embracing her a romantic hug, I could feel her breathing heavily trying to slow down her crying, but this moment she just shared with me, made it rather hard. "I love you too, Fox."
I kissed her forehead and just held her tight. "By the way, if I get mad at you. It's not personal. It only because we have to work with Wolf and Fara." "Good to know." We both laughed slightly, but when we pulled away, we stared at each other a little bit more.
"The shower is your's now, bud." Cooper yelled from on the other side of the door. I growled at him, but I remembered that we still have a mission to do. "You wanna go first?" "Sure." Krystal said, almost in a whisper, as I released her and she started to walk towards the door, exiting the bedroom.
I just stared at her until she disappeared around the corner. I lowered my head slightly, where my line of sight was focusing on my feet. Though, now that I felt happy to get that off my chest with Krystal, something was still bothering me.
I turned my head to stare out the window, looking at the snow that was falling moderately hard. Anger started to fill within me, anger of having to see Wolf and Fara again. Wolf, my most archrival and Fara, my first love that almost killed me like Panther.
I balled up my fists, clinching them hard, claws digging into the skin, causing blood to ooze out. When I felt the blood, I snapped to reality and cursed as I almost stained the bedcovers.
I was hoping that Krystal wasn't in the shower yet so I took the risk of walking in the bathroom. As I grasped onto the doorknob and swung it open, I immediately stopped in shock when I saw her, doing the unexpected. She looked up at me with a yelp when I saw her staring at her with the door open. "If you got to stare, close the fucking door!"
Everyone stared at Krystal when she walked into the kitchen, shocked to see what had happened to her. She began to think this was a very dumb idea, until I came into play. I walked around the corner, seeing everyone staring at her.
"Show the lady some fucking respect, will you?" "But come on, man. I mean, look at her." Cooper said, continuing to stare at Krystal, unable to believe that she did what she did.
I turned my head to look at her, starting with her feet and worked my way up, then continued to do that two more times. "What? Haven't you ever seen a maroon fox before with red hair? I like it." I said, smirking at her, while winking my left eye at her, as she was standing on my left.
"Why would you dye your fur and hair?" Fay said, continuing to stare at the maroon vixen. "Let's just say, I have a bad history with Wolf O'Donnell and I don't want him to recognize me." "Sounds like a pretty damn good reason to me. Anyone got a problem?" I yelled at everyone, causing them to flinch, well except for Adrian.
I noticed it and I eyeballed him. I nodded at him, as he did the same, as he winked at Krystal too. "He likes your new color too, Kursed. At least someone else does besides me." I said, slowly scanning everyone other than Adrian.
"Hey! We never said we didn't like it. We are just shocked that she did." "So, now it's old news. Still shocked about it?" Ryan quickly shook his head 'no.' "Then, let's get going. You guys ride in the Yukon. We're going to pick up the newbie's and meet you at the Jolt in half an hour."
Everyone nodded as I walked out of the kitchen, but after I grabbed my black leather trench coat from the chair Miyu was sitting on. As I walked out of the kitchen, I picked up my winter hat and my sunglasses.
I stepped out of the house, bracing myself for the cold night, while pressing something on my glasses. One of the lenses began to turn everything green, so now I was looking through my implant, while my normal eye was staring through a night vision lens.
Everything around me was now green, able to see in the night, when I turned around to see Krystal on her way out of the house. She looked at me, but stared at the glasses. "How can you see?" "When I push this button, basically both lenses brighten the area so I can see. My optic implant wants to enhance its brightness, but I don't allow it." "Does that annoy you?" "Nope."
I walked over to the Chevy, unlocking Krystal's door before I walked around to my door. As I twisted the key, unlocking the door, I looked up and saw everyone walking out of the house, seeing Adrian locking the door before making his short journey to the Yukon.
I pulled the door open and took a seat inside, next to Krystal. I turned on the ignition, hearing the engine seem to struggle a bit before finally starting. I turned my head towards the maroon vixen, who did the same in return.
"Maybe I should get this fixed?" "Probably wouldn't hurt." I shifted into Drive and slowly accelerated the car through the slick snow. I was not looking forward to this.
We arrived at the airport, standing next to the idling car, with Krystal at my side. In the distance, we could see two figures approaching us at a normal walking pace. Anger began to course through me, but I felt a hand wrap around mine.
I looked down and saw a maroon hand tangled in mine. I looked at the vixen next to me, and gave her a smile, before I planted a kiss on her lips. I pulled away as I heard a crunching of snow.
I looked up at saw Wolf and Fara, walking parallel with each other. "Wasn't that cute?" The timber wolf said, trying to be a smart-ass. Though, I saw that he had his arm wrapped Fara's.
"Don't be scared, miss. I won't bite." "Go fuck yourself!" Fara said to me, causing me to smirk at her. "At least she's smart enough not to talk." Wolf said, referring to Krystal. "Maybe you should try and shut up once in a while, so you won't sound like such a faggot."
"Nice come back, whore." I grew angry. Nobody calls my woman a whore. I began to approach Wolf, about ready to kick his ass, though he knew it was coming. He made the first swing by aiming for my face.
I grabbed his arm, after moving my head to the right, bringing him closer and elbowed him right in the face. The attack stunned him as Fara now tried getting into the fight.
She tried punching me, but without letting go of Wolf's arm, I grabbed hers and pushed her to the side, along with Wolf so now I was standing in between both of them. They were shocked though because in a matter of half a second, my revolver was pointed at Fara, while my dagger was next to the throat of Wolf's.
I quickly turned my head from the right to stare at the wolf, and to the left to stare at the fennec. "Now that we got this out of our system. Let's get this FUCKING job done!"
I retracted my weapons and Wolf immediately grabbed his face. "God Damnit! That hurt like a mother fucker. Felt like a iron wrench!" He said, pulling his hand away and seeing blood coming from his nose.
I walked over to the car, pulling out a magnet from the trunk. I walked back over to Wolf, raising my arm in front of him. I pulled the clothing towards my shoulder so part of my arm was exposed. I dropped the magnet and it immediately attracted itself to my arm. Wolf and Fara, could only do was stare in shock.
"Get in the car." I said, pulling the magnet off my arm and throwing it into the snow. Fara walked over to Wolf, checking on his nose, wasn't broken, but it hurt like hell.
"Come on!" "Shut the fuck up! That elbow of yours hurts like hell." "You can check on your nose in the car. We got a mission to finish." Krystal said, waiting impatiently at the passenger door, waiting for someone to get in the backseat. And it certainly wasn't going to be her.
The two started to walk over to the car, Fara separating from Wolf as she made her way around the rear of the car. Wolf just stopped in front of me, our muzzles inches apart from each other's.
He just glared at me, staring at me with his implant. I just raised my glasses, showing him mine, only this time though, the implant was red and not green. Just to show him how angry I was right now.
He gave me a deep growl before finally taking a backseat in the Monte Carlo. I folded back the seat and took my seat inside the vehicle, allowing the heat to warm up the car once again.
I felt the emotions from the passengers in my back seat and it only made me laugh. "This is going to be so much fun. Messing with Wolf and Fara's heads. How long do you wanna wait before we tell them we are Fox and Krystal?" "I don't know. Tell you one thing. I'm not happy to see them."
"Neither am I, Krys. We still have to do it so let's try and get this done without killing them. Though, I wouldn't mind doing it." "Shut up. You're going to make me laugh." Krystal said, smiling while trying her best not to laugh.
We arrived at the club, seeing that it was busy with many people who liked to have a good time on a Friday night. I saw the four we left earlier standing outside the doors, moments ago a valet left to park the Yukon.
I stopped behind a parked Mercedes, just as the valet went inside that car to park it in the club's parking lot. Though, I got various facial reactions when they saw the damage on the Chevy, I basically wanted to tell them to fuck off.
I shifted the car into Park, opening the door just as the valet, a badger came around to park it for me. I grabbed him by the collar of his vest, pulling him close to me. "I will know if more damaged has been done to my car." "Yes sir." I nodded to the badger, while slipping a fifty into his vest.
He entered the vehicle, just as Wolf finished getting out of the car, stretching his back from the small space he had to endure for a long time. "God Damnit. I'm not riding in that thing anymore." "Good 'cause I was tired of feeling your fucking knees through the seat."
We stared at each other for a little bit longer, before finally Krystal and Fara got in front of us and pushed us away. "It's okay, Wolf. Not now." "Not now, Krieger. It's okay." Is what both of them said at the exact same time.
We gave each other one final glare before we started to make our way to the rest of the team. "Alright guys, this is Wolf O'Donnell and Fara Phoenix. O' Donnell, Phoenix. This is Adrian Wolf and his woman Miyu Lynx. This is Ryan Cooper and his woman Fay Spaniel."
He just simply snorted at them, with actually angered Adrian a bit. O'Donnell saw the change in Adrian as he tried to toughen himself. I got in the middle of it, pushing them away from each other.
"Not fucking tonight. Got it?" I glared back and forth between the two, knowing that some time during the night, the timber and the arctic wolf would go at it with each other. And I would be there to break it up.
"Let's go already. I need my Jager." Ryan said, trying to get everyone in the partying mood. Wolf, Adrian and I just turned and glared at him. "Right then." The husky said, nervously.
I started to walk in the direction of the door, by stopped quickly at Ryan, who's fear went up immediately. "Don't worry, Cooper. You'll get your Jager." Was all I said, before continuing my way towards the door. He just smiled and laughed.
The two guards, a rhino and a mongoose, stepped in front of the doors, stopping us from entering. "You guys on the guest list?" "We're here to see, Cyrus." "I'm sorry, but there's no Cy…" "Don't give me that shit. I know he's here. Open these fucking doors and tell him Krieger Aurelius is here."
The two guards straightened themselves, and turned to grab each knob and pushed open the doors. "Sorry to keep you waiting. He's in the room behind the blue bar." I looked back and forth between the two, before finally nodding. "Thank you. Keep up the good work." Saying to both of them, as I slipped both of them a fifty.
The others followed suit, as we entered the bar and seeing how lively it was. The reason it was called the Jolt, was because there were giant conductor spheres, shooting out small voltages of lightning that no one in this bar felt. If anything, it helped give a kick out of their drinks.
I scanned the club, looking at the different color bars. Red, Green, finally seeing blue and there was the door behind it. "Let's go." As we made our way across the dance floor, something on my sixth sense picked up a familiar person.
I looked around, towards the green bar and saw two people that had betrayed me. Falco….and Katt. "Look by the green bar. Falco and Katt are here." I spoke telepathically to Krystal, who discretely turned her head towards their direction.
She could feel my rage build and tried the only thing she could think of to calm me down, but something prevented her. A drunk Doberman pulled her from the group, though it wasn't discrete at all. He tried to dance with her, and he wasn't going to let her leave easily.
I approached him, stopping only two feet away from them. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" The Doberman dazedly, looked at me, but simply just pushed me slightly. "Go away. Can't you see I'm trying to put my game on?"
"You just lost." I said, as I grabbed him by the throat, pulling him away from Krystal and I kicked the back of leg, causing him to growl in pain. I turned him around, finally elbowing him in the face and kicked his knee one last time, this time, in the opposite direction. Despite the live music and the loud noises, I heard a deafening snap. He collapsed in pain and yelled at the top of his voice.
His left knee, snapped in half, was all he was grasping. I kneeled next to him, glaring at him with an evil glare. I had taken off my glasses and his focus was directly towards the implant. "Don't you fucking touch her again. Got it?" He quickly nodded his head yes, before receiving a full force punch right in the face.
I stood up above the unconscious body, as I straightened out my clothes and saw people were staring at me. "He touched my woman." Was all I said, before I wrapped my arm around Krystal's and escorted her with the rest of the group.
When I approached them, I saw Ryan was cracking up so hard, it was making him cry. "Anything funny, Ryan?" "Just you man. You are straight-up awesome." "Wouldn't you do the same if someone was doing that with Fay?"
"Oh absolutely, I would. Just not in your way. I would just punch the guy and call it a day." "Well. I did punch him, but I let no one get off easy when they touch my property." I said to him, before winking at Krystal with a smirk. "Let's go al-fucking-ready." Wolf said, annoyed that we were stalling.
I trained my eyes on the timber wolf, glaring intensely at him, but just nodded. "He's right. Let's go."
As we neared the door, another guard was there, seemingly to be waiting for us. He gave us a nod and pushed he door open, allowing us to enter.
Cyrus, like always, was surrounded by women and lots of liquor. "Hey! There's my number-one guy. Please. Come on. Have a drink." A female squirrel approached us, asking for our jackets.
I kept mine on, but the other's except for Wolf and Adrian seemed to had theirs taken away. This was actually the first time I took the moment to look at Krystal, who was wearing a silver dress, that barely went below her ass. Still made her look damn fine.
"What happened to that blue chick? I really liked her." I approached him, not looking thrilled after what he just said. "I told you. She's mine. And that's her. She's trying a new look."
Cyrus looked at Krystal, then looked at the maroon fur. "I like it. Who are you two?" "Two more of my associates." Wolf and Fara immediately stared at me, pissed that I called them my associates. "Wolf O'Donnell and Fara Phoenix."
"You two are on StarWolf? Oh, I heard many things about you. I always loved to hear about your little rivalry with Fox McCloud. Did you ever get the best of him?" "No. He managed to kill one of my partners, Panther Caruso, then met up with Falco Lombardi before he finally died from complications during his recovery."
"What kind of complications?" "After his encounter with Lombardi, I heard that his body started to shutdown and it eventually became too much for him to continue living. He eventually died. Shame though, I wanted to be the one that killed him." "I bet you would, you asshole."
"Well, some things aren't meant to be done like you hope they would." "Exactly what we are gonna do to you." "Either way, it is an honor to work with you. Huge fan." "Thanks. Get me a Goldschlauger." "Jessica. Please take everyone's order." "Of course."
I took a seat on the couch, with Krystal on my lap as Ryan and Adrian took seats on either side of me, with their women on their laps as well. "Swell place you got here. You gonna make anymore of these on Corneria?"
"I don't see why not. Speaking of which." He took a seat in the chair across from us, only having a coffee table separating us. "I like you, Krieger. I really do. I like all your friends. Well, Fay and Miyu go without saying." He said, winking at both of them.
"I want you to come with me…on a little journey." "What kind of journey?" Adrian said, trying to get into the conversation, which attracted Cyrus' attention quite a bit, but smiled. "Just a little space journey to Sector Z. Remains from Area Six drifted their way over to there, and remained there ever since. Don't know why it all just stopped, but that doesn't matter. The remains made a perfect base of operations. I want to show you."
The waitress came back with our drinks and I grabbed my beer. I took a long sip, and lowered the mug with a smile. "Sounds like fun." Cyrus put a smile on his face and stood up, extending a hand.
I gently pushed Krystal off of me and stood up, trying to equal his height, but he had me by a few inches. "I look forward to taking over Corneria with you. We could use our ships to bombard the surface…at the same time attacking the planet's defenses."
I released his hand and took a seat back down, allowing Krystal to sit where she was a couple moments ago. "Will be an honor to fight beside you. Oh God. That felt like shit." I wanted to spit right there, but I had to keep my cool. I'll do it later. I couldn't believe I said I fight with him.
"You know, Mr. O'Donnell? I have something that might please you." Wolf slowly looked up, glaring at Lector, trying not to sound to excited. "What?" "Amongst all the debris in Sector Z, one of the ships I have…almost in perfect shape, is the Great Fox."
Wolf and I slowly turned our heads slightly towards Cyrus, focusing our eyes on him really hard. "I found it abandoned over Zoness, looked like it was attacked and unable to be repaired. It's where I have my headquarters. I thought you might be interested to hear about it."
Wolf slowly nodded, then raised his head to look at Fara, who seemed to have been very interested about hearing that. If anything, I lowered my head even more, unable to believe that he was the cause of his former ship now being in the hands of the enemy.
"Didn't you attack the Great Fox, Fox?" "Shut it." "I'm sorry, but I'm wondering what happened to Falco?" I raised my eyes, just staring out at the wall. What did happen to Falco? Was the Great Fox really unable to be salvaged? Did Cyrus maybe have forced Falco off the ship? I had to ask.
"You know what happened to Lombardi? From what I heard, he betrayed McCloud and bought the Great Fox. Fox got even after his encounter with Caruso by opening fire on Great Fox with his new ship…So, did he really abandon the ship?" Krystal asked, right before I was able to open my mouth. It caught the attention of everyone in the room.
When she finished asking, I began to sense Cyrus' mind, trying to feel for a hint of lying. I could feel Krystal's aura inside his mind as well, she was doing the same I was.
"I found the ship abandoned. I heard about the attack too. Which makes me wonder though now that I think about it. McCloud called his ship…the Matchitehew. Exact same name as yours Mr. Aurelius. How'd you obtain that ship?"
"Simple. I bought it the day they were selling it. Some Cornerian government people. It was right after McCloud died, and I needed a ship and this ship was good enough for me. So I put the highest bid on it and the ship was mine a day later."
Cyrus nodded his head, also could feel Wolf and Fara staring at me, taking in the story I just told. Wolf had heard about the Matchitehew, and he would've loved to get that ship when Fox died. In fact, he put a bid on it too, just wasn't high enough.
"Sorry to burst your bubble, Wolf. I know you wanted that ship too, but don't worry. You got your Wolfens and Sargasso." He stared at me, somewhat glaring at me, at the same time though, he seemed shocked.
"Tomorrow we leave. My ship and a few others will be leaving at about nine in the morning. We will not wait for you." "Don't worry. We won't be late."
"If you excuse me. I have a meeting with some of MY associates." Cyrus said, as he rose from his chair. "By all means. Don't let pleasure get in the way of business. At least for now." I said, trying to sound very smug about it.
The jaguar chuckled and nodded and turned towards a door, opposite of the one we came in. Must be his private office. I continued to sit down, looking at everyone, who all seemed to be out of place. "Let's get out of here."
Krystal got off of me as I stood up. Everyone did the same, except for Wolf and Fara, who already seemed to be standing up this entire time. I stretched out my shirt, along with straighten my coat as I made my way to the door.
The girls that were with Cyrus seemed to be very upset that we were leaving. They seemed to have taken an interest with Wolf and I. We reentered the club, seeing that it hasn't slowed down at all. If anything, it picked up in business now. This place was jumping.
We walked outside, a long line of people trying to get in. The valet saw us approaching and two employees, the badger and a mouse, ran to go get our vehicles. I came to a halt, just waiting for the Monte to pull up.
I soon felt some uneven tension between Adrian and Wolf. I turned around and saw them glaring at each other, while having their women between the both of them. I was ready to separate them if they happened to start a brawl right there and then. I looked at Ryan and he was prepared to do the same.
The cars pulled up a moment later, I knew they would fight each other if I put them in the same car. "Adrian. Miyu. You ride with me." I ordered with a harsh tone in my voice, as I made my trip around the car to meet the valet.
I took a quick a scan of the car and saw no damaged was done besides the collision damage from the other night with the Lincoln. "Good man. Don't spend it all on one place." I said finally, while shaking his hand, with another fifty in my palm.
"Thank you, sir." The badger said, letting go of my hand and running around to the other side to open the door for the ladies. Adrian came around and stood next to me, both staring at the badger. "The man has manners. That's for sure."
The wolf nodded, as he took a seat inside the car, followed shortly by me when I pushed back the seat. I turned my head to take a look at Krystal, but I couldn't help, but stare at the people, who continued to give me odd looks because of the car. I lowered the window, and flicked them off, as I drove away, lighting up the tires.
As we drove home, the ride was more quiet than I would've liked. All your could hear was the car cruising, the occasional tires loosing traction and spinning on the slick surface, or just everyone breathing. Everyone jumped when Krystal just yelled out, "I FUCKING REMEMBER NOW!"
"Jesus. Remember what?" "I remember where I knew that name before. Matt Strong." I took extra interest, hurrying Krystal up so she could tell us.
"Okay. On one of my bounties, I was after a man, a rat named Malcom Davis. Crimes were just assault in the third degree and drug dealing. Anyway, I chased him into an alley, but he had the beat on me, 'cause as soon as I came into view from around the corner, he fired a shot, hitting me in the shoulder. I fell like a rock."
I looked over at her, and she lowered one of the straps on her dress, pushing fur to the side and there was a bullet wound scar, all that remained from the shot. Lucky her fur was so thick, on occasion she forgot it was even there.
"I laid on the ground, I saw him approaching me and my gun had flown out of my hand. I backed up until I basically fell on my back, from crawling too far back, I lost my balance and laid on the street. He stood over me, his gun pointing at me, with the smile from the devil, I swear. All of a sudden, I saw a figure walk by, stop, then heard a soft 'fffp'.
I looked at him, his facial expression changed, almost immediately, until a hand grabbed his left shoulder and was just pushed off to the right, dead when he hit the ground. The figure, was a collie, and he was holding an ancient crossbow…from Earth."
I smiled as I interrupted the story. "My god, that was like one of his favorite weapons. Proceed." "Anyway, he took a stare at the dead rat, saying a phrase that I couldn't forget. 'You should've shown the lady some respect.' Then offered a hand to help me up."
Everyone looked at me, waiting for me to say something. "I got that from him." Krystal looked at me, a tear was starting to run down my cheek, as she took her thumb and rubbed it away. Then forward to kiss me where her thumb just was.
"He was kind to me, Krieger. He took me to the hospital, and waited for the doctor to come out to tell him if I would be okay." "He told me he had helped some damsel in distress that day. Didn't think it would be you?"
"He said, damsel in distress?" I turned towards her and smiled. "Yep." "That asshole. He would." I started laughing, but soon came to a stop, as I started to think about my friend. I felt a palm on my shoulder.
I turned and saw a white, furred hand. Adrian. "He sounded like a good guy, Aurelius." I nodded, "He was." "I wish we could've gotten to know him. He sounded like he had great stories." Miyu said, feeling sad about Matt.
"Boy did he. I have to tell you guys about our racing days sometime. You be surprised, but that Vista Cruiser of ours was a quick bastard." I said, smiling and chuckling a little.
We stopped in front of the house, turning off the engines as people soon began to exit their vehicles. The snow fell…as usual…, but it didn't matter much to me. When I exited, I didn't realize that Adrian got out of the vehicle on the passenger side. He was standing face to face with Wolf.
I shook my head in disappointment as I shut the door. I wasn't in the mood anymore to stop them if they started fighting. Which they did, moments later, starting with Wolf punching Adrian, on the left side of his muzzle.
The arctic wolf recovered and countered by charging him with an all-out tackle. Once he was on the ground, Adrian started unleashing punches into the timber wolf's face.
Wolf managed to push him off, and both were now standing toe-to-toe with each other. Ryan, Krystal, everyone tried to restrain both of them. Wolf crossed the line. In Krystal's attempt to restrain him, he tried to push her away from him, but his elbow, ended up hitting her in the face. She fell to the ground.
Seeing her on the ground, enraged me like never before. I quickly walked my way over to them, going to stop this brawl once of for all. I approached Adrian from behind. I grabbed his shoulders, and threw him to our right, right into the rear-most window of the Yukon.
I stepped in front of Wolf, giving him the hardest right uppercut anyone could ever received. He did an almost perfect back flip, only to land on his stomach, knocking the wind out of him, causing him to struggle while attempting to take in air.
I stood between the injured wolves, the timber on the ground, blood dripping out of his mouth and nose. The arctic, on his back with cuts from sharp pieces of glass cutting his face. Both laid almost absolutely still, except for the Adrian's fast breathing, and Wolf, trying ever so hard to take in a breath.
I quickly turned to look at Krystal, who was being helped up by all the women, and her left eye starting to blacken. I walked up to her, running my hand across the newly made black spot. "I'm okay."
I looked at her, with a worried look on my face, before leaning in to kiss her on her left eye. Then planted a kiss on her lips. I turned around, rage still brewing through me, seeing that Wolf could breath now and Adrian was stunned as all hell.
I picked up Wolf by his neck, and threw him against the Yukon, followed by Adrian, as I just grabbed him by his neck and spun him and pushed him against the Yukon, standing inches away from Wolf. Both very weak. Both about to fall back onto the ground.
I grabbed them by their throats, forcing them to look into my enraged eyes. "Now you listen to me. You two…better stop this fucking bullshit right now….or I'm going to have to tell two more girlfriends that their man died in my arms. GOT IT?"
They gave each other a quick glance, before facing me and gave me a nod. I didn't just let go out their necks, I basically threw them to the ground. I started to walk away from them, wrapping my arm around Krystal's waist. "Clean them up."
Fara and Miyu ran to their men, as Ryan and Fay just stared at what had just happened. "Fuck!" The two quickly turned to look at me, as I was holding my right arm, stuck in an odd position.
"It jammed. Hold on." I grasped my left arm onto my right, and just gave a firm and quick yank. Immediately, it loosened up and it was able to move again. I moved my arm around and nodded with approval.
"Second time it's done that." Krystal, just leaned forward and placed a kiss on my lips. "Thank you." "Anything for you, my love."
Ryan and Fay turned to see Adrian and Wolf finally getting back on their feet. All dazed at what just happened, a simple fight ended up with a total ass-whipping from Krieger. "Boy, I'm lucky I don't anger him that much. Let's go inside." Ryan said, placing his hand on the small of Fay's back, guiding her towards the house.
Adrian and Wolf glared at each other, but then turned their heads towards the house, as if I was staring at them. Though, I was nowhere in sight. They looked back at each other, both shook their heads.
Adrian was the first to start walking towards the house, while leaning on Miyu. Wolf and Fara waited a little while longer, before heading inside. There was not a sound for the rest of the night when it came to fighting. Everyone, just mind their own business.
