"It's growing unstable." Slippy warned as his team of engineers struggled to keep the portal under control. Outside the space station, the other members of Star Fox were fighting off the late Andross's goons.

"Portal status: critical. Containment fields A, B, C, and D failing."

Slippy held back a swear. It was unlike the station's AI to give out warnings without providing possible solutions.

"Fox, the portal can't take any more damage!" Slippy shouted into his communicator, "Your team needs to get out now!"

"Negative." Fox replied as calmly as he could, "There are still too many enemy fighters. I need your defense cannons to clear us a hole in this swarm."

A few stray shots from the Venom fighters hit the last containment field, causing the portal to implode. The resulting portal/black hole sucked in the three arwings before finally exploding.

"General Peppy is not going to like this." Slippy thought out loud as he tried in vain to figure out where the portal was heading, "If those stupid apes hadn't fried their computers and attacked us before we scouted…"

Meanwhile, the three arwings safely made it through the portal. The dogfight and the trip drained their fuel.

"Where are we?" Fara asked as their arwings scanned the nearby planet.

"Hundreds, if not thousands, of light-years away from the nearest Lylatian outpost." Fox told her, "My arwing's not picking up any signals."

"My arwing's detecting a habitable atmosphere on that planet." Fara told Fox.

"Try to land as close to land as possible." Fox ordered as he scanned the planet. The side of the planet facing them appeared to be almost entirely ocean. Fox doubted any of them had enough fuel to check the other side.

As the arwings entered the atmosphere, they ran out of fuel. Their only hope was for their batteries to have enough juice to power the G-diffusers. Falco and Fara safely crashed into the ocean. As their arwings slowly sank, they quickly deployed their emergency rafts and began paddling toward the island they spotted.

Fox managed to crash land on the island itself. He managed to climb out and walk a few steps before collapsing. He looked up and spotted people running toward him. He then lost consciousness.