The Long Journey Home: Project Lylat

by MrAleuMcBalto

First crossover story. Four American recruits of IASA have been tasked with bringing the Star Fox team back to the Lylat system. In doing so, however, they get lost in a strange star system. Now they must find a way to get back on course as well as put a stop to a malicious parasite that wishes nothing more than to destroy the galaxy.

1. Prologue

It has been three months since the crew of the Daedalus-7 arrived back on Earth. Their original plan was to travel to Alpha Centauri and back in humanity's first jump-capable ship as a means to demonstrate this new technology, but fate had other plans. What followed was a long trek through the stars as the crew attempted to make it back to Earth in one piece, interacting with various alien species, both hostile and friendly, and bringing home alien artifacts as souvenirs along the way. Needless to say, their mission was a success, albeit in a vastly different way than they originally envisioned it.

And now, well, you know what they say, where one story ends another begins. Since the completion of Project Daedalus, IASA (the International Aeronautic & Space Administration) hired 4 young recruits to do dull maintenance work, at first at least. After all, it's unrealistic to expect excitement on your first day on the job, right? But today would be different. Today would be the day that these young hopefuls would get their first real mission. Little did they know just how many parallels there would be between this mission and the one from three months ago.