I will tell him today.
I told myself. I will tell him today what I really am. Where I came from.
How I really got the Cat's Paw and what my connection to Zoness is.
I've been building up the courage for weeks. Maybe because I knew that we were indeed moving closer together, and I felt that if we got much closer, I would have no right to keep secrets from him. I knock on his aparment door, half hopeing he's not home. That hope is dashed when he opens the door, surprised but happy to see him.
He invites me in and I accept. We talk about nothing for five minutes. He does his best to charm me and I charm him back. I almost forget why I had really come and not just to say hello. But I don't. And finnaly I can't stand it anymore.
"Falco . . . there's something I REALLY need to show."
"What's that Katt?"
" . . .. First promise me you won't hate me for it."
"How can I promise you I won't hate you if I don't know what it is?"
"Okay . . then . . how about your promise me to hear me out?"
" . . . Okay . . ."
I roll up my sleeve, Falco had never seen me go swimming dispit his best efforts, now he knows know. His eyes go wide, his beak is agasp.
"Katt . . . that's . . ." He studders.
"A Venom air force identifacation tatto . . . yes Falco, I was part of Andross' army . . ."
He just stairs at me. He doesn't know how to react. Finnaly he speaks. "You . . . you were the enemy?!"
"I was an ideot, I shallow all the garbag Andross handed Zoness along with half the planet, I . .. thought I was becoming part of something great . . . I didn't realize what I had gotten myself into until my sister Kitty stood up against them, and they killed her for it and burned her record as if she never existed. That was when it hit me what I had become. A tool of a dictatorship.
When you and the Hotrodders found me that first time, I was making my escape attempt. I didn't know if I was going to get away alive, but I least I wouldn't be helping Andross kill anyone else's sister. I honesty thought I was going to die when you came to the rescue Falco . . . you were a God send."
" . . . You . . . you lied . . . "
"Only on where I got the Cat's Paw from, I've was fighting Andross with as much passion as you."
"You know we almost lost Skippy in our run though sector six? If had one more it might of made a differnece."
"I . . . . Falco I was being honest with you when I said I thought it was sucide to try what you did. You have no idea how happy I was when I heard Fox had killed Andross. That the war was over. I thought I could burry my past Falco, but the universe doesn't work like that, you can forget the past, it's a part of you, the present is built on the past, you need to deal with it, not try to hide it. I knew what would happen if I told the Lylac goverment what I was. Endless intrrogations and poking for knowlage that I had no way to acceuss to begin with. . . . Falco I was scared."
He just sits there, not moving, not blinking, finnaly he puts his head in his wings. He sits like that for ten minutes. I can't stand to see him like this. I run out the apartment door, out of the building and into the hanger built next to it. I just climbed into my ship, hugged my body, and cry. Waiting for either Falco to come, or the police.
I've been building up the courage for weeks. Maybe because I knew that we were indeed moving closer together, and I felt that if we got much closer, I would have no right to keep secrets from him. I knock on his aparment door, half hopeing he's not home. That hope is dashed when he opens the door, surprised but happy to see him.
He invites me in and I accept. We talk about nothing for five minutes. He does his best to charm me and I charm him back. I almost forget why I had really come and not just to say hello. But I don't. And finnaly I can't stand it anymore.
"Falco . . . there's something I REALLY need to show."
"What's that Katt?"
" . . .. First promise me you won't hate me for it."
"How can I promise you I won't hate you if I don't know what it is?"
"Okay . . then . . how about your promise me to hear me out?"
" . . . Okay . . ."
I roll up my sleeve, Falco had never seen me go swimming dispit his best efforts, now he knows know. His eyes go wide, his beak is agasp.
"Katt . . . that's . . ." He studders.
"A Venom air force identifacation tatto . . . yes Falco, I was part of Andross' army . . ."
He just stairs at me. He doesn't know how to react. Finnaly he speaks. "You . . . you were the enemy?!"
"I was an ideot, I shallow all the garbag Andross handed Zoness along with half the planet, I . .. thought I was becoming part of something great . . . I didn't realize what I had gotten myself into until my sister Kitty stood up against them, and they killed her for it and burned her record as if she never existed. That was when it hit me what I had become. A tool of a dictatorship.
When you and the Hotrodders found me that first time, I was making my escape attempt. I didn't know if I was going to get away alive, but I least I wouldn't be helping Andross kill anyone else's sister. I honesty thought I was going to die when you came to the rescue Falco . . . you were a God send."
" . . . You . . . you lied . . . "
"Only on where I got the Cat's Paw from, I've was fighting Andross with as much passion as you."
"You know we almost lost Skippy in our run though sector six? If had one more it might of made a differnece."
"I . . . . Falco I was being honest with you when I said I thought it was sucide to try what you did. You have no idea how happy I was when I heard Fox had killed Andross. That the war was over. I thought I could burry my past Falco, but the universe doesn't work like that, you can forget the past, it's a part of you, the present is built on the past, you need to deal with it, not try to hide it. I knew what would happen if I told the Lylac goverment what I was. Endless intrrogations and poking for knowlage that I had no way to acceuss to begin with. . . . Falco I was scared."
He just sits there, not moving, not blinking, finnaly he puts his head in his wings. He sits like that for ten minutes. I can't stand to see him like this. I run out the apartment door, out of the building and into the hanger built next to it. I just climbed into my ship, hugged my body, and cry. Waiting for either Falco to come, or the police.
note: Behind the Katt's eye deals with Katt's past in more detail.
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