Rivals on the Horizon!

Story by Absorbentgene on SoFurry

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#13 of Queen of Dino Planet (old)


With their time on the new planet FT, Fox, Gene, and Krystal all solemnly returned to their Arwings. It had been a phenomenal experience here and they vowed to return soon. There was still much to see, but the Great fox was to return today. They lifted off, and with one last look back, they left the planet, to return home...

"So... what did you and fox do last night?" gene said to FT, the co-pilot of the Bowing he flew. It was essentially a modified Arwing that fitted a turret on the top of it. FT smiled and peered through to the front.

"We had supper" Gene smiled at the cryptic remark.

"I hope it tasted good." FT nodded.

"I did" Gene turned to look at him,

"you did? Usually it's him getting eaten." FT shrugged.

"I lost a competition... besides it was a lot of fun." Gene nodded turning back to the controls and sighting the great fox.

"You'll have to show me sometime" FT smiled and nodded his assent.

"How was Krystal?" Gene smiled broadly.

"We came across some more wildlife." FT chuckled

"a little bit nicer than the bats?" gene nodded.

"Yes a lot nicer" the Bowing approached the landing dock smoothly setting down with a light bump. "I think I'm getting better at this flying thing." FT nodded.

"Way better than when you first started," FT remembered the rather pathetic crash Gene had managed to initiate in the training simulator... where you were not supposed to be able to crash...

"Even I have to admit, your evasive manoeuvres are excellent." Gene smiled in gratitude.

"Why thanks, I figure if I put my ship through as many different twists and turns as possible, it's that much harder to hit" FT nodded as they walked along the corridor.

Suddenly the buzzers went off sounding the warning. "What the hell?" FT took of running to his gunnery station. Gene looked around in alarm and split from FT heading for the command deck.

He walked in to see Fox, Falco, Krystal, in their flight suits running for the hanger. Gene stepped out of the way letting them pass then turned to peppy. "What's going on?" Peppy looked up from a tactical readout

"star wolf... they just showed up. 4 ships one of them is built for hitting bigger ships." Gene looked at the map. This wasn't his fight. He'd just get in the way...

Krystal hopped in her Arwing taking off, and started orbiting the great fox. She kept in touch with Falco and Fox when suddenly the screen flickered. "Hey their pups, Wanna play for awhile?" wolfs face appeared on the screen smiling viciously.

Panther then appeared. "Hello my love we meet again" Krystal groaned

"what are you doing here?" Leon was next; his face appeared on the screen sneering,

"Foolish Bird, you cannot hope to stand against me." Andrew showed up next chuckling.

"Today's the day I prove to you that I'm better family than you are FT!" all six of the fighters engaged each other, all of the pilots hurling insults at each other, while FT blasted away at Andrews bomber.

Gene watched helplessly... he felt so useless just watching the battle. "Guys do your best to stick to Great fox... FT might be able to help." He watched as the display showed the ships start to close around Great Fox, though it did not help much. Wolf appeared again on the screen smiling.

"Let's bring in the rookie!" Gene watched as another signal appeared on the map and headed towards the dogfight. Peppy gave the warning

"New contact, likely enemy." A new face appeared on the screen and Gene went white.

"You got it boss. I'll show them what I can do." It was a wolf, handsome in every sense and smiling in confidence with a pristine face, no scars, or blemishes to speak of. Gene only got whiter and whiter with every word. He watched as the new ship flew into the fray, coming up behind Fox.

"Two of them... I can't hold them we need help now!" Peppy frowned in worry.

"I can't fox, y'know I'm too old, and slippy's already in engineering. And I- where are you going?" Gene had begun to walk out of the room towards the hanger.

"Out there to help." Peppy looked at him flustered.

"You can't, you'll get torn to shreds!" Gene shook his head.

"If I don't come back tell everyone I went out in a blaze of glory for them!" he turned and ran out, with peppy yelling at him to come back...

"Fox, gene's coming out there do your best to help him! Please!" fox looked at peppy on the screen.

"Why is he coming out? He'll get himself killed!" peppy looked worried

"I know, he wouldn't listen!" fox barely avoided a laser blast, and yelped to Peppy.

"I can't help much there's two on me!" suddenly the fire from one of the sides slackened then disappeared. Gene appeared on the video screen. He wore the mask that they had met him in, the painted slash through the right goggle.

"YOUR FIGHTS WITH ME RESH!" fox recoiled in surprise, Gene had never been like this before. Resh's face appeared on the screen snarling

"you're still alive? I'll kill you myself!" Fox finally able to manoeuvre more easily without the second fighter on him turned the ship to see hat was going on. Fox watched for a moment open mouthed. It was easily the most furious dogfight he had ever seen, as both ships fired indiscriminately at each other. He turned away wanting to help but having to deal with wolf first...

Gene was losing and he knew it. While he was able to keep his ship from getting hit, he just never seemed to get a clear shot at Resh. He always seemed to be behind as well, even with Gene's desperate evasions.

"RESH IF WE WERE PLANET SIDE, YOU"D BE DEAD!" Gene was in a rage at this point. This was the one part of his history that refused to rest peacefully, always came back to haunt him.

"I'm not that idiotic; if I can finish you up here I'll do it." Gene was almost screaming in his fury, his wild gyrations taking him steadily closer to the planet. Finally, he felt something slam into the ship, and it slowly began to list to the left.

Horrified, Gene looked over to the wing that was no longer there. He watched Resh pull his ship along side his. "Guess you lost" he said smiling evilly at Gene. Gene looked at his panel, and saw that he still had control, but he was still crashing, no doubt about that.

And from this height... chances were bad... he looked over at Resh who was still smiling viciously at him. "What's the matter? Afraid of death?" Gene snapped, he slammed the pilot stick hard to the left, forcing his ship Hard into Resh's.

Both ships shuddered, from the impact, but both became a tangled mess of metal, and wires. The ship cockpits ended up facing each other. Gene looking at Resh. "What's the matter resh? Fear death?"

Both crews watched in amazement as gene's ship started crashing. Wolf crew with elation, fox's with utter despair. Both crews however did not expect the sudden left from Gene's ship, slamming it into Resh's. Both crews watched in horror as they both disappeared into the atmosphere. All was silent, battles never went this far. Soon Fox returned to great fox, and assembled both crews on board. They had to do something...

Gene saw the surface heading straight for them, though he did nothing to fight against it, he sat back in the cockpit and removed his mask. Resh on the other hand fought with all his might to stop the impending doom. "Don't just sit there do something!" he screamed over to Gene. He just sat there and shrugged.

"My ships trashed, yours is to." Resh looked at him squarely in the face.

"If we get out alive, I will kill you." Gene nodded his face contorting in anger.

"The feelings mutual" the ships slammed into a marshy section of the planet, virtually shredding themselves, the last thing Gene remembered was thinking about how nice the crew was, and thanked them silently for everything.

A few hours later the fighters of both crews scattered across the surface. It was an uneasy truce, but it was one. They only had a vague location to search, so they sent out everything they could, in hopes of finding them.

It was actually Wolf to first spot the wreckage. Despite his years of war, and carnage, he gasped at the destruction. Pieces were littered every where. The cockpits had both sunk into a section of water, though they were just barely visible. "I found them... I don't know if they're ok though, no signs of life. You might wanna hurry its bad..."

FT was the next to arrive, setting the ship down just short of the wreckage. It looked like a war zone despite only two crashed ships. He ran over to what was left of the Arwing, wading out to it.

He couldn't get to the cockpit; it was buried in the mud. He stepped back onto land, tears streaming down his face. The rest of the crew shook their heads in great sadness, as Krystal grabbed hold of fox burying her head into his chest. Wolf and his crew were silent, a look of respect, and sadness on their faces.

"Why'd he do that?" Krystal asked turning to wolf. Wolf shook his head.

"They're both from C.O.R.E. apparently Gene used to be one of the best special ops around, but Resh wiped out the team he led. Gene forms some extremely powerful bonds with soldiers he leads, so you can imagine the rage and despair he felt. In the same battle Gene received that scar on his eye, and if you had seen it, Resh has a massive scar running along his chest. They've hated each other to the very core. Gene thinks Resh stands for all things evil, while Resh believes that Gene is too self righteous."

Wolf shook his head in sadness. "I knew what was up I just never knew you had Gene on your ship..." FT felt miserable... he should have done more. He saw Gene's gas mask in the mud and picked it up, looking at it.

"Gene... I'm sorry..." he looked at it in sadness.

"Not your fault..." FT spun to see gene haul himself through a bush, then collapse unconscious covered in blood...

Gene woke up suddenly to feel something cold touching his knee. His vision blurred he tried opening his eyes, but only say red. He tried moving his left arm to wipe away whatever was there, but couldn't. That was when the pain hit. He did not outright scream, but he did gasp, and moan.

His right arm was fine at least, he reach up and cleared his vision. Blood... and lots of it... he looked down and immediately saw trouble. There was water seeping into the cockpit, and it was at his knees now, and rising fast. He tried moving his legs. Left leg was shattered, right leg was broken, gotta get out... he reached up trying to open the hatch but found it jammed. Fuck... he reached into his combat vest unsheathing his knife. He slide himself up a little bit, the punched the glass.

A hole burst open, but the windshield did not shatter. The water was up to his stomach now... he reached up again, and slid the edge of the knife into the cockpit's hinge, and levered. It worked, and the hatch flew open. It was just in time, as he pulled himself out. He looked around; only recognize that he was in a swamp. He slid up a little and noticed Resh's ship.

The hatch was higher, and Resh was still there. He slid himself up and away. The bastard's probably dead... he heard a weak thump, he was still alive! Gene made the move to haul him to safety but stopped. I can't let him die like that... I'm fucking insane... I should just let him die... he slid himself over to Resh's cockpit water was starting to get into it. He was in worse shape than gene was. He had lost way more blood, and one of his legs was horridly mangled. He looked up at gene in a daze.

Gene raised his knife to break the glass and kill him in the same blow. Resh looked up fearfully waiting for the blow... no I can't kill him... he can't defend himself... damn my honour... Gene brought the knife down shattering the glass.

Thinking it was the death blow Resh closed his eyes but when he didn't feel it he opened them again, he looked at gene who was reaching down to haul him out, before he passed out. Gene hauled him out barely able to do it with only an arm to do it with. He managed to get him out, and holding him under the armpits, Gene started sliding the both of them up the ships.

He managed to get to the top a looked down. It was only a 3 foot fall, but he had broken legs, and a broken arm. At least he's unconscious... he slid Resh's body over the side. He landed with a dull thud, though it didn't look to bad. Gene took a deep breath then slid himself over. He fell quickly and landed with the same dull thud, just before he screamed in agony. He had landed on his broken arm. He slowly forced himself to ignore the pain and began sliding himself and Resh to some cover just behind the tree line. He could still see the remnants of the ships though they were well concealed. He reached into his combat vest and started fishing out medical supplies.

He checked himself over quickly, then Resh. He didn't have many bandages... he shook his head in disgust, why the fuck am I helping him... he slid over to Resh's mangled leg, tying it off at the thigh trying to slow the bleeding, and bandaging the rest of the major wounds. Gene took one bandage for himself, the thin piece of cotton doing little to stem the flow of blood from his head. Least it's not cracked... the other deep cuts went unattended however, which continued to bleed profusely.

He had some morphine but he used it on Resh. For the next three hours he was in his own personal hell, he would slip in and out of consciousness from the loss of blood, He was hearing things, and he was in excruciating pain. When FT and the crew first showed up he thought he was seeing things. However he slowly worked himself into it, he slowly slid himself over to the bushes that blocked them from him.

"Gene...I'm so sorry..." gene worked the last of his energy.

"Not your fault" he finally collapsed, bloody, and battered... but alive...

Wolf and fox stood at the entrance to great fox's ward. They stood silently looking in on their two injured comrades.

"It's a miracle one of them is alive but two?" fox shook his head in astonishment. Crashes were almost never survived... especially one like that...

"Gene saved Resh's life... he managed to stop the major bleeding before we got there... if he hadn't..." wolf shook his head in amazement. Fox looked at wolf,

"so how long will you stay?" wolf looked back grimly.

"Until he can be transported." Nodding his head at Resh. Fox nodded in assent smiling.

"I guess we can have a little fun while we're together, huh?" wolf grinned. They both walked to fox's room, both of them smiling and chuckling as shouting could be heard. The crews could not agree on anything, and the last time fox had seen FT he looked like he was on the verge of a murderous rampage.

Falco never got along with anyone, but when Leon showed up it usually ended in a fist fight. Panther and Krystal were getting along somewhat better, though; Krystal tended to avoid him and spent quite a bit of time visiting the unconscious gene.

The two of them entered the room and immediately fell upon each other, wolf embracing fox in a deep kiss, running his arms through his clothes stripping him quickly. Fox only able to moan as Wolf passionately worked over him. Wolf lifted fox up and pushed him down on his cock. His member finding its mark and penetrating Fox, as he held onto wolf, nuzzling his chest moaning.

Wolf started thrusting into fox, licking over the top of fox's head. "Hmmm you taste good..." wolf continued thrusting, but he continued to slurp over his head. Fox's cock was rubbed against wolf's stomach fur making him moan more and more. Fox licked out at wolf's chest moaning.

"mmm so do you" wolf opened his eyes in surprise but only shook his head smiling. No way could he get me down, his train of thought was disrupted however as his orgasm finally exploded forth, bucking into Fox. Fox himself moaned at the feeling of wolf releasing his seed, and with one final buck of his own hips, he released his seed over wolfs stomach. Wolf still held Fox, smiling

"now I remember why I loved you so much" fox licked up at wolf in affection slowly working his way further and further. Wolf could only moan from the attention fox was giving him, that wonderful tongue slurping over his cheeks.

Suddenly fox pulled wolf closer, closing his mouth over wolfs muzzled, still slurping at him. He steadily began working his way over wolfs head and eventually to his shoulders. Wolf moaned from fox's attention, as fox stretched his mouth out over wolfs shoulders, and gave a great gulp. Bringing wolfs chest into Fox's mouth.

Wolf, a little surprised that fox could do it, was still extremely happy about it though. It felt amazing, as he slid another few inches into fox's throat, his waist all that remained outside. Wolf wriggled a bit as Fox gave a great slip over his cock, before with one last heave he sent him down to his knees. With a couple more great slurps, wolf was finally pulled the rest of the way down, slowly curling up in fox's stomach. He started rubbing against the walls of the stomach.

"That was... fun fox... next time is my turn though!" fox lay down rubbing his belly.

"You'll have to catch me first" he said giggling. The pair finally settled down a little, finally drifting off to sleep"

Gene awoke with the lights in his eyes. He shifted himself a little bit to get them out of his eyes. Wait. He sat up and moved his legs a little. They were stiff but they moved, "I keep forgetting they got the technology to fix broken bones like that..."

he couldn't move fast but managed to stand with a little effort. He stood looking around he saw another bed, with the curtains around it. I wonder who else is here... he shuffled over and moved them back, sucking in his breath. There lay Resh, still unconscious. Gene stood dumbfounded for a little while before just sitting on the bed next to Resh... I could kill him so easily... Gene sat on the bed just watching Resh for the rest of the night...

When Krystal walked into the hospital ward looking at Gene's bed, it was empty and she had a quick pang of fear looking around startled. She spotted Gene, sitting on the bed silently, next to Resh.

She approached him slowly. "Gene..." she said softly, Getting close to him. "Gene..." she reached out and touched his shoulder, "...are you okay?"

he sat quietly still looking at Resh. "Gene... please talk to me..." he sat there silently for a moment longer.

"I could kill him no problem... I could have so many different times since we crashed... why didn't I?" he sat there staring at Resh.

Krystal moved beside him and hugged him snuggling into him. "Because... you are a great person... a kind one..." Gene still sat there and stared, lost in the thoughts of his past, Krystal doing her best to snuggle into him, and letting him know of her affection...

Krystal, fox, wolf, Andrew, leon, peppy, slippy, falco, all copyright to Nintendo. FatalTragedy belongs to FatalTragedy2k4. Gene belongs to ME the absorbentgene.

Weehoo! The attention from yiffstar has been phenomenal... thanks to all of you... it's a big boost to the confidence...

Inspirational note of the day! Kindness is not always rewarded, but it always remembered.