Star Fox: Changes of Love

Encounters

Fox was flying to Corneria in his arwing alone. He was still mad at Krystal for trying to pull off something like that. She must've planned to use his feelings of guilt to her advantage of wanting to have sex with him. He couldn't believe it. He almost fell into her hands, all for letting his emotions get to him. He'd never thought that Krystal would try to trick him into going for her kill. She didn't care about how he felt about blaming Star Wolf, she just wanted to have sex with him. He felt disgusted with her. He could've just finally tell her that he was gay, but he was scared of being hated by his other friends for it.

Well, his younger friends of course. The only one who he ever told about his sexuality was Peppy. The rabbit was his second father after all, and he was glad that Peppy was supportive of this part of him. He felt safe that way. Although, he may have to tell the others about this, but he's not sure that he's ready for that.

Fox found a landing shuttle to park his arwing. He landed, and climbed off his ship to get on the ground. He almost forgot to take the keys before leaving the shuttle. He went off to take a walk, he had almost forgotten what it was like to have a nice, relaxing walk on the planet that he saved. He wished that he asked Falco to come along, just to talk to him about what was bothering him, but he would have to tell him that he's gay to clear things up.

'GOD! Why can't I just tell them.' he thought harshly. He wants to tell them that he's gay, very badly. He wants them to accept this part of him very badly. He wants-BAM!

"Ow," an unidentified voice has said. "That hurt."

"Sorry." Fox said to the person he bumped into. "Didn't see ya there."

"It's alright. I wasn't watching where..." The voice trailed off.

Fox was now looking at the source of the voice. A young monkey, probably in his early 20s, that he had never seen before. He looked like one of those apes that were seen on Venom years ago.

"Are you new around here?" Fox asked.

"Yeah," said the monkey. "I'm Dash. Dash Bowman, and you are?"

"Fox," he said. "Fox McCloud."

The monkey's eyes lit up. He had heard about the legendary Fox McCloud that defeated Andross, but he had never thought of meeting him in person.

"Fox McCloud? The hero of Lylat? For real," Dash asked.

Fox couldn't help but give a small smile to the young ape. "As I live and breathe."

Dash returned a small smile and said, "Gee, and here I was thinking that I wouldn't be lucky."

Fox became confused for a moment. "Lucky? What do you mean?" The ape gave a small shrug and placed his hand on the back of his head whilst sighing.

"Well," he started. "I come from Venom, which became a very bad environment to live in. There were a lot of people losing jobs, homes, loved ones, it was becoming terrible. I was growing sick and tired of living on that garbage of a planet and wanted to start a new life somewhere."

This had Fox very shocked and concerned. He was shocked that he met an actual Venomian that wasn't on the verge of being part of a war, and he felt really concerned about Dash when he told him how things on Venom were like when Andross ruled over. He had no idea that Andross was hurting his own people while he was hurting the entire Lylat System.

Dash continued, "I was moving from planet to planet over the last few years, wanting to start a new life. But, due to the history of the Venomians that occurred in the Lylat Wars 5 years ago, nobody would trust me as I was one of the Venomians myself. I was treated as an outcast, never to belong wherever I went."