Star Fox: Changes of Love

Moving In, Part 2: Vacation

Meanwhile, on the Great Fox...

Fox was sitting in the break room, talking to General Pepper on his comm. device. He got in contact just before the old dog was about to do something important for work. When he was asked where he was in the city yesterday, Fox told Pepper of how he ran into Dash (but left out the part of being Andross' grandson for his friend's sake) and when the two of them met the Star Wolf at the steakhouse and how strange but good things went down.

Pepper was surprised with Fox's reply at that point, he would usually think that Fox would just freak out and went on attacking Star Wolf within the facility. Fox gave off a sarcastic laugh at that comment. He probably would've, but for some reason there he didn't feel like wanting to beat them up when he saw them twice, once before the press conference and the other outside the restaurant.

It may have felt weird that he and his old nemesis were having peace with each other, but hey! Shit happens, right?

Then, he remembered when Wolf had saved his life from that moment when the Aparoids invaded the planet and how grateful it was to him. Even though Wolf said that he only did it so that he could finish him off himself, he still felt grateful, yet utterly offended. Thinking back from that moment, Fox realized that there really was more to Wolf than what he was showing off, and he really could change. he just thought he was due to propaganda that was put up during the war between Corneria and Venom at the time and he and Wolf were the posterboys for that war too...

But that was then, and this is now. He knows he has a lot of making up with Wolf, and catching up too, so that's why he called Pepper.

...

In the main deck of the ship, Peppy was on his comm. device, talking to his daughter, Lucy. He was still feeling grateful for Lucy to put in a good word with the government to make a new Great Fox for the team. She said that there was no need for him to thank her, but he insisted on doing that anyway since this is his daughter he's talking to.

They talked for a bit about the news on Star Wolf being innocent. Lucy was just as shocked as her father was, maybe even afraid of what would happen now. Peppy said that they'll just have to find out for themselves and hope for the best, but even he's scared about it too. He didn't even dare to bring up Fox hanging out with the formal criminals as it would freak her out even more, especially since there's some thin ice between their teams.

Okay. Scratch that! There's a chaos amount of thin ice between the rival teams. This is going to be a huge mess... if only they can take a vacation.

...

In the training room, Krystal was fighting holographic warriors to keep her reflexes sharp, and to let out some frustration to relax herself.

She sent one punch of a holo-fighter to another, dodging their attacks from below to give them a high punch and dodging attacks from above to send out low kicks to their waists. When she's surrounded by two or three enemies, she uses either a spinning punch attack or a spinning kick attack to subdue them and, just within a second, they disappear while more of them keep on appearing.

She needed to vent some more due to yesterday from hearing what Falco told her.

'If he doesn't like you that way, then you need to move on,' the words echoed in her mind.

After finishing the last of the holograms, Krystal pushed a button on a small remote on her belt and the simulation turned off. She walks towards a bench, grabs a towel from the water bucket next to it, rinses it and rubs the back of her neck with it as she sits down. She breathes in and out for a few seconds before drinking some water from a bottle.