Space Mercinaries ch. 2 Alone
#3 of Space Mercinaries
A few things I forgot to mention, this story takes place after assault, but Command never happens aside from Fox kicking her off the team. I have changed a few things in the Star Fox universe for the sake of the story.
Ch. 2 Alone
"Fox." Krystal moaned as she felt Fox gently kiss her neck tenderly, she wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned up to kiss him. Fox looked up and pressed his lips to hers, the kiss sent her nerves into over drive and made her melt under him. Fox moved his left hand down to her breast and gently rubbed it. A gasp escaped from her mouth. Fox then leaned up and spread her legs with his hands exposing her womanhood.
"Are you ready?" He asked, Krystal tried to catch her breath, she swallowed the lump in her throat and placed her hands on his chest.
"Yes...After all this time, its finally going to happen...Do it Fox, mate with me and make me yours forever." Fox nodded and leaned his lower body closer to her. She could feel the tip of his manhood at her entrance. She gave him a small nod, then felt him enter her.
"Fox!" She called out, "Mate with me Fox...I'm yours forever my love, I shall love no other man in my life." She called out, all the while feeling him entering and exiting from her.
Krystal awoke in the cockpit of her Arwing a lone tear made its way down her cheek.
"Damn it." She said as she used the back of her hand to wipe the lone tear away. It has been two years and still after all this time, the thought of Fox McCloud brought her to tears and a burning rage at the same time.
"Bastard." She said and hit the edge of her seat as hard as she could. She tried to calm down, but the dream she just woke from about her and Fox was not helping. She sniffled a bit and sat up straight.
"He made his choice and we made ours Krystal." She said and thought back to the night she couldn't stand to be by his side any more, it hurt too much knowing that he chose to end their relationship. She couldn't stomach it for another second, so she waited at night when she knew everyone would be asleep. She packed all of her belongings and headed to the Arwing hanger. She had made a few adjustments to her Arwing the past two days and removed the tracking beacon, so Fox wouldn't be able to find her, she didn't want to be found. She stepped inside the spaceship and got comfortable.
She reached over and lifted a metal pad next to the steering stick, there was a green button, and she pushed it, the ship came to life. Krystal reached to the left and placed her hand on the thruster lever, she slowly pushed it forward. The ship started to rumble as the backburners started to ignite in a bright blue fire. Krystal took a deep breath and spoke.
"Good bye...Star fox." She said, not only saying it to Fox, but the whole team. Falco, Slippy, Peppy, and R.O.B. Krystal pushed the thruster lever forward as far as it would go and she shot out of the hanger. Krystal looked at the rearview screen monitor, she watched as the Great Fox got smaller and smaller until it disappeared into the sea of stars. She could feel the tears running down her face, it hurt to breathe and part of her just wanted to die. For a few seconds she thought about opening the canopy and being sucked into the void of space. It would be a lot less painful than having to live with a constant ache in her heart.
"Bring up Slip space." She said, suddenly a blue holographic screen appeared in front of her face, she didn't care where she went too, as long as it took her far away from the Lylat system, somewhere that took her far away from Fox. Just thinking his name caused her to ache. She reached up and started to scroll through the Systems that she could go and make a new life for herself. She noticed one called the Korin system. It would take her nearly fifty hours to get there.
'Good a place as any' She thought and wiped more tears from her eyes, she pressed the system on the holo screen and it light up. She then noticed one of the buttons on the front console was flashing red. She took a deep breath and pushed it. Instantly she was forced further into her seat. The stars around her looked as if they were being stretched like gum as she entered the Slip Space wormhole. She felt her body ease up and she was able to lean forward. She looked as the once black space environment was replaced with a spinning tunnel of blue, with a dark abyss up ahead that was unreachable.
For the next two years she traveled from place to place trying to find a place to live and start over, every system that she would go to she would stay for a while and pick up a few odd jobs every once and awhile, mostly Mercenary stuff, like hunting down criminals and such. One day she was hired for a job deep within the Abian System to hunt down two Gortons who were reasonable for the slaughter of innocent travelers. Krystal didn't know much about Gortons, other than they grew to be seven to nine ft. tall and were a savage race of alien. It didn't take her long to track the two murders in the Abian System on her way she decided to take a short nap, which resulted in a heart aching dream. Krystal was finely able to force the emotions aside for the time being and was ready to exit hyper space. After a week she was able to discover where the two Gortons liked to hang out. There was a small planet where they would stop at and rest, eat and repair their ships. The Arwing exited Slip space and she arrived at the small grey looking planet.
Krystal steered the ship and headed straight to the planet, once she entered the atmosphere she slowed her speed so the Arwing wouldn't overheat. She followed the ships navigation unit to the bar they would eat and sleep at. It was practically in the middle of nowhere, the sky was grey and the sandy ground was white as milk. As she came close to the bar she noticed the two Gortons' ship, they were much larger than her Arwing which she landed behind the bar and no doubt had greater firepower, it would be in her best interest to do this inside the bar quickly and not risk them getting into their ships were they would have the advantage. She stepped out of her star ship and pulled out her Boskmen blue Blaster, named so for the fact the blaster was blue.
Krystal made sure the safety was off, these two were on the Wanted Dead catalog. She placed the blaster in its holster attached to a belt that she was now strapping across her waist. She looked at her staff which was lying on the ground of the cockpit, she doubted she would need it and so she closed the canopy and turned towards the bar.
"Time to knock some skulls." She said and punched her gloved fists together. She made her way into the bar. It was filled with all sorts of tough and scary looking people, Krystal however wasn't put off at all, despite she was the only female there and was completely surrounded by large men who wouldn't hesitate to try and rape her. The Vixen scuffed at the sight, she had seen much worse, and kicked much worst's ass. It wasn't all that hard to find the two targets. They were very tall, about eight ft. They had red skin, and glowing orange eyes. Krystal stood about ten ft. away from them.
"Hey boys." She said, the two stopped what they were doing, which looked like playing some card game. "I've heard two Gortons had been causing some trouble in the Abian System...I don't suppose you two would know anything about?" She asked.
"Walk away Vixen, we don't need no trouble here!" Some random brute of a man said and placed his hand on her shoulder. Krystal's ears flickered and she quickly grabbed the man's hand and roughly twisted it around, the brute groaned at the pain. Krystal then delivered a powerful punch to his kidney which all but put him out of the fight, noticing the bar next to them she placed her hand on the side of his face and with as much force as she could muster she bashed his head against the wooden bar, officially putting him out of commission for a while.
The brute fell onto his back knocked out, the Vixen scoffed again. She was honestly hopping for a better fight then that. Remembering the two targets she quickly turned around and pointed her Blaster at them. In that instant the two Gortons quickly turned their table over for protection. Krystal pulled the trigger on her Blaster and sent a few blue plasmic rounds at them. The plasmic rounds struck the wooden table which left large scorched openings that exposed the two Gortons. Everyone else in the bar quickly began to clear out.
The two Gortons quickly stood up and pointed their own Blasters at the Vixen and began to fire red plasmic rounds at her. Krystal quickly dodged out of the way and used the bar for cover. The scent of plasmic exhaust and burning wood filled her nose. It had been sometime since she been in a shoot out like this, the Vixen actually smiled a little. Krystal stood from behind the bar and began firing her weapon, the two Gortons began making their escape while shooting at her. Krystal had no choice but to take cover on the other side of the bar. Slowly lifting her head over the bar so she could see, she noticed they had left the bar.
"Damn it!" She shouted and quickly stood and ran out of the bar and noticed them getting into their ships. Krystal quickly and precisely aimed her blaster and fired it. The blue plasma round shot out of the gun and hit one of the Gortons' in the back of the shoulder. The Gorton shouted in pain, then jumped into his ship and closed the canopy. Krystal continued to fire her blaster at one of the ships. Each shot left only a tiny dent in their armor which forced her to quickly holster her weapon and rush for her Arwing.
As she got close to her Arwing she pushed a button on her wrist-com which caused the canopy of her Arwing to open. She quickly jumped in and closed the canopy. She flipped the metal pad and pushed the green button turning on the ship. She flipped the landing gear switch and the feet of the Arwing went inside the ship. Krystal noticed the two Gorton ships flying off. Krystal pulled the steering stick back towards her and pushed the thruster lever all the way forward. The Arwing shot forth and within seconds was closing on the two Gorton ships.
Krystal used her thumb to flip the safety mode off of the steering stick, which caused a holo red square to appear on the front wind shield, a small circle within the square. Every time one of the ships was in the middle of the circle the whole holo aiming system turned green.
"Alright, let's do this." She said and placed her index finger in front of the steering stick and felt the twin Gatling gun trigger. Once one of the Gorton ships was in range, the aiming system turned green, Krystal squeezed the Gatling trigger and hundreds of green plasma rounds came out of the guns. The plasma rounds started to pierce the Gortons' ship. The Gorton quickly flew out of the plasma rounds way. For a second Krystal lost sight of one of the Gortons, the Gorton ship took the chance and rammed his ship against Krystal's Arwing. She violently shook in her seat, and looked over and could see the creature give her a shit eating grin.
"Sorry, I'm not into rough men." She said and did a barrel roll over the Gorton's ship, the pointy edges of the Arwing's wings slashed at the enemy ship and knocked it off its path. Krystal felt her ship shake roughly and could see red plasma rounds flying all over her. She checked the rearview monitor and could see the ship she shot at.
"You boys are making this too easy for me." She said and back flipped behind the Gorton Ship. Once she was locked on Target she used her thumb to press the red button on top of the steering stick launching a plasma missile. Before the Groton knew what happened, the missile hit his ship and exploded in blue and red fire. Krystal watched as the ship spun around in circles for a few seconds then exploded.
"That's one down." She said and felt her ship being hit by plasma rounds. She looked to see the other Gorton ship firing at her. "They never learn do they?" She asked herself and once again preformed a back flip. The Gorton saw the ship back flipping and increased his speed and rammed his ship against hers. Krystal was forced all the way forward, if she hadn't been wearing her seatbelt, she would have smashed into the windshield. For a brief moment she lost control of her Arwing.
As her ship fell, the Gorton chased after her firing its plasma rounds. Krystal felt her ship rock as it started to get hit by plasma. If there was one time she needed Fox by her side it was now. She quickly forced the thought away and took control of her ship and pulled the steering stick all the way back sending the ship upward. The Gorton continued to chase her down, its finger never easing up on its Gatling trigger.
Krystal tried different maneuvers, but the Gorton kept on her tail firing at her. It wouldn't take long until the Arwing was brought down. Then the thought of running away came to mind. 'No! I never run away from a fight!' She shouted in her mind, suddenly a small explosion occurred behind her seat. She shouted and flinched at the loud noise, suddenly a warning message appeared on her screen.
'POWER CELL DAMAGE'
"Damn it!" She shouted, retreat was the only option now, "Bring up Slip space!" She shouted, suddenly a blue holographic screen appeared in front of her face. Without thinking she started clicking on systems trying to find the closest system, two choices popped up, the Lylat system and one called the Sol system; she refused to go back to Lylat. She clicked on the Sol system and it lit up. The red button started flashing and she quickly hit it. Once again the stars were stretched and she was inside the blue spinning tunnel. She looked at the time estimate and it told her three hours.
"I should be able to make it, and repair my ship once I get there." She said and looked up which planets had life on them and strangely only one came up., "That's weird." She said and clicked on it.
'Earth?' She thought 'Never heard of it, apparently neither has the rest of the galaxy' She thought and sat back and waited.
'WARNING POWER AT 3%' the warning message played across the window. Red lights were flashing inside the cockpit, Krystal frantically started shutting down everything that wasn't needed so she could save power, she check her Slip space system which told her she would still be there for five minutes, she prayed that she would be able to make it. As the five minutes came up the power was at 1%.
Krystal came out of Slip space and saw the green and blue planet. She quickly activated the thruster to make the ship go as fast as it could go. After a few moments the ship lost power. Luckly She did managed to get into the atmosphere. Soon her powerless ship began to fall towards the planets surface at an alarming speed. She watched as the ground came closer to her, and fire surrounding her Arwing. Krystal held tightly to the steering stick and steered the falling ship. She noticed a lake nearby and steered the ship to head for it, it would be her best chance to make it out alive. As Krystal came closer to the lake she quickly grabbed her pilot helmet and put it on and held on tight to whatever she could as her Arwing came closer and closer to the lake. The Arwing crashed into the water and it forced her to slam to the side and hit her head against the side windshields, even with the helmet on it knocked her out.
She later awoke to some strange hairless ape kissing her, Krystal quickly rammed her fist into the creatures gut forcing it off of her, she then punched it and it fell to its back, she pulled out her knife and placed it at its neck. She started talking but it seemed like the creature didn't understand, suddenly she started to feel dizzy. The hairless ape grabbed her hand and moved it away from its throat and placed its forearm on her neck and forced her onto her back, with her own knife placed against her neck. She wanted to speak, but she was too tired to move now, all she could do was stare into the alien's dark brown eyes, and she saw something in its eyes, she couldn't explain what it was, but she had seen it before in someone else. Her eyelids became heavy and she started to close them. Suddenly that person came to mind and she softly called out for them.
"Fox" She said and blacked out.