Outside Sharpclaw Den: Firefox

[Mage]

After being lead down the rough terrain, thanks to the Lightfoot tracker. Fox McCloud has found himself walking down the jungle path, slowly scanning the area with his scouter. He has his machine gun out of his large holster behind his back, in case he was ambushed by Sharpclaw. "..." It has been about a half hour since Krystal and the others left to help repair Mega Man back to his full state, but Fox couldn't help but feel the knots in his stomach from worrying about her safety. Mario was with her of course, but still he feared they might run into trouble. But the leader decided to regain his confidence, and finish his missions: Infiltrate the Sharpclaw Domain and rescue captured Lightfoot, see if Scales is alive or not, then defeat him.

[deebs]

Meanwhile, high, high above in the air, and completely oblivious, a certain two tailed fox was flying his bi-plane.

After the whole incident on the ARK the flight was doing him some good- allowing him to relieve some tension. He'd promised Shadow he'd return later to patch up the doors that "Wolf" guy damaged, but it wasn't something he needed to take care of immediately. And, after dropping by one of the local Smash hospitals to take care of his injuries, taking a flight was one of the first things he wanted to do.

And what a beautiful day, too. Blue skies, not a single cloud, a duck flying directly for the propeller...

...

A DUCK FLYING RIGHT FOR THE PROPELLER?!

The fox's eyes widened and he tried to veer out of the way, but, unfortunately, it was too late. The duck hit the blades of the plane... and... turned into a trophy. And then, thanks to momentum, zinged back at Tails with added force, beaning him directly in the head and knocking him unconscious.


And then the plane crashed.

[Stoney]

Suddenly a cheerful chiptune played as a brown dog stuck his head above the grass, holding the duck trophy triumphantly before vanishing back down whence he came.















Then a minute later he returned.



AND THEN HE VANISHED AGAIN.

[Mage]

When Fox heard the sound of the plane crashing nearby, he pointed his Solid Eye scouter over at Tails' location. Apparently there was one sign of life, so the person who crashed is still around. Fox went toward the wreckage area slowly, keeping his rifle pointed out in case it was a foe.

[deebs]

A trophized kit sat in the front seat.

Really, he was lucky that This World didn't have death in it, because such a nasty crash would of otherwise been... well, nasty.8

[Mage]

When the pilot came to the clearing, he saw the wrecked plane right in front of him. He peered around the area first to see if there wasn't anyone out there: All clear. Then he came to the plane itself, looking around the design; finally he came across Tails' trophy. Fox was a little surprised that the pilot was a young child, and another fox ironically. By the looks of him, his innocent appearance he didn't seem dangerous. Then again there was Kirby... "..." Fox shook his head of the thought though, and put away his machine gun with one hand while turning off his scouter with the other. He knells to Tails' trophy base and lightly tapped it.

[deebs]

With a glow, the trophy came to life, and the young kit rubbed at his head.
"Woah! What- OH NO!" exclaimed the kit, clambering out of the plane's cockpit to look over the rest of it.

"NOT AGAIN!", he mourned, burying his face in his hands. "Oooough... this happens too much... I'm not -that- bad of a pilot, am I??"

[Mage]

When he came to life, and sprang out of the plane, Fox leaned back a little in surprise. He sure has quite a bit of energy after a plane crash. Thought McCloud, as he climbed out of the plane himself. "Are you alright?" He asked the kit, but couldn't help but feel he's seen the boy before...nah, couldn't be.

[deebs]

Tails's ear's perked at the sound of another voice- he'd, somehow, not noticed someone else was here in his worry over the plane. Unburying his hands he peered up at the stranger.

"Huh? Oh...", looking himself over for injuries, the kit nodded. "I'm fine, my plane isn't, but I'm fine. Thanks mister... uh..." He paused, realizing he had absolutely no idea who this was. Laughing sheepishly, he scratched at the back of his head.

[Mage]

The man smiled at Tails, and introduced himself. "Fox McCloud, leader of team Star Fox. May I ask for your name?"

[deebs]

The kit smiled warmly, offering a handshake to the older fox.
"My name is Miles Prower- but my friends call me Tails."- he would of gone into explaining why, but he was pretty sure that it would be obvious.

He paused looking over the older fox, something clicking in his mind- there were a lot of similarities between him and ... that wolf, and even if unintentionally, his namesakes frizzed up and he slightly recoiled.

[Mage]

He accepted the younger fox's hand, shaking his own slightly. "Tails, nice to meet you." then looked at the damaged plane. "So, how did this happen?" Fox didn't have any problem flying into Sauria on his Arwing 2. There was no air defense, no anti aircraft weaponry, not even a single primitive catapult. What in the world could have brought this boy down?

[deebs]

... Sheepishly scratching at his nose, the kit glanced down before looking again at his ruined aircraft.

"... A duck flew into the propeller."

Which really isn't my fault. It should of been looking where I was going... or... uhm... I should of been...

[Mage]

"...a duck?" Well he sure didn't see that coming, especially since duck are a little hard to find around a dinosaur inhabited island. Fox chuckled a bit, patting Tails' head. "It's alright, these things even happen to the best pilots." Fox remembered his first flight in the Arwing simulator when he was younger, he sure wasn't as dashingly skilled as he is now.

[deebs]

Tails continued to frizz- only now for a slightly different reason. It probably wasn't intentional on the older fox's side, but Tails couldn't help but feel he was being talked down to. Biting his lip and ignoring the nagging voice in the back of his head, he wandered closer to the crash to take a closer look at the damage.
"I'm not new at this..." Both at flying OR crashing.

Apparently it had hit the ground in a nosedive. Waving a hand to get rid of the smoke still wafting out from the wreckage, he peered through a crack in the plane's casing at the engine.

"... oh boy." Oh boy indeed, this was going to be 'fun' to fix.