Chapter 1

The Newborn

A baby's cry could be heard over bustling streets several floors below the room. The doctor had smiled a wide, dog-like smile, handing the tiny child over twords the mother who had just given birth to this small child.

"As your personal doctor, and as a friend, let me be the first to congradulate you both." he said with an even larger smile.

The child stopped it's crying for the momment, looking deep into his mom's deep, green eyes. The only thought that came to this child's mind at this momment was Pretty eyes.

Of course, during this, the mother couldn't stop staring at her lovely boy. She spoke to the other man that was in the room, him having had a single tear roll down his eye, trying to hide it behind his sunglasses. "James...he's...he's perfect." Tears started to roll down her cheeks uncontrollably.

James smiled softly, wrapping his arm around his beautiful wife, staring down at his newly born son. "Fox."

She looked up at him with a puzzled look, trying to to let her tears burn her eyes any more than they already were. "What was that, love?"

James removed his sunglasses, his deep blue eyes sparkling with joy only a father and husband could understand." We shall call him....Fox.. Do you think that would be ok with you, my dear Vixy?"

Vixy turned her attention to the smiling bundle of joy wrapped in her arms, looking around in awe at the world around him. "A perfect son...with a perfect name." She smiled, looking up at her the orange vulpine that stood next to her. "Would you like to hold him, dear?"

He smiled, slowly picking up the baby from his orange vulpine wife. "Don't mind if I do." As James said this, he held Fox under his arms, holding him away at arms-length to get a good veiw of his first born. He noticed he shared the orange fur, the deep, green eyes of his mother, and of course everything that followed up in the male side of his family. Of course, being too deep in thought over all of these facts left him defenseless against the first attack from an unexpected source.

Vixy chuckled under her breath as a soft trickling was heard, the baby letting out a soft giggle as well. James looked down at the source of this assault, and had realized that his son had attacked him with his urine. Joy. He handed the boy back to Vixy, her still cuckling under her breath at the sight the fell before her eyes.

"Why don't you go hand out with the guys, James? I'm sure you have been deing to tell Peppy and Pigma about this for quite some time now." She smiled at her hansome husband, smiling so brightly. There was no way she could be happier in her entire life. Who was she to stop her husband from celebrating with the guys?

James smiled back, thanking his loving wife and left soon after, saying he loved them both deeply.

He headed twords his car with the Star Fox emblem on the side. The enblem was that of a red fox running twords the green words reading "STAR FOX" outlined in yellow. He sat down in the leather seat and drove off twords the bar, having already called Peppy and Pigma to meet him at their favorite place. Fighter's Ring.

He thought himself proud to be the father to a boy. He would teach him the ways of the being a merc., if he so chose to take that path. And even a greater warmth in his heart was for his beautiful wife. She could have gone with that OTHER guy. He had only heard rumors, but this man had supposedly promised Jame's Vixy the world. No. The entire Lylat System.

That man is rumored to be one of the most dangerous people in the galaxy. So dangerous in fact, that he was sent to the distant barren wasteland known only as Venom. Venom was the planet Corneria used as a prison for those who couldn't be reasoned with. Those people would be the kind his team would go after with orders from General Pepper. "Dead or Alive. Bring him to justice!" he would say.

Heh.. He thought to himself. Good thing I didn't have to bring THAT guy to Venom.

During his thoughts, he couldn't help but realize he was speeing, and someone from the Cornerian Police Force was blaring his siren and flashing his lights. Of course, though James McCloud was a merc., he was a law-abiding man. So of course he pulled over, letting the dog walk over to him.

James opened his window with a simple press of a button labled "Open".

James looks out of the window, seeing a fully uniformed dog soldier. Just doing his job, no need to get upset or anxious. So what if I'm never late. I just need to comply with what he tells me, and everything should be fine. He smiles at the black dog, a white spot for an eye. "What seems to be the prblem, officer?"

"Ahem. Sir, do you know you were going over 80 in a 50 mph zone?" The dog opens his visor, wanting a good look at the crazy guy going 30 above the speed limit.

"I am deeply sorry. You see, I just had a son and-" The officer cut him off short.

"There is no excuse. The law is the law, and nobody is above it. Now i need to see your Cornerian citizen card, and any and all liscences you may have on you. Now."

James sighed, seeing this would take longer than he had hopped. "Yes sir." He sighed, taking out his information he kept stored in his grey jacket pocket, pulling out his citizen card from his cargo shorts. "Here you are, officer."

The police-dog didn't even get to scan over the entire first card. The citizen card. He stared at the name, awestruck by what he saw. It was a platinum card, the lettering gold-plated. His picutre was of the man in front of his standing in front of a giant white ship. Shaking, he finanly looked at the bottom-right of the card and there was the General's stamp of approval and the bottom-left corner the insignia of...Star Fox!

"J-J-James McCloud, s-s-sir?" the dog stuttered, not wanting to get fired for almost ticketing one of the best mercs out there. Especially becasue this man saved the Lylat countless times.

James looked up a little confused at the sudden change of the officer's attitude." Yes? Do you need further proof? If you want, we could go back to the-"

"NO! I mean..uh..no..sir! there is no need to do anything at all. Actually, you can go ahead with whatever you were doing, sir. I am deeply sorry for pulling you over, Mr McCloud. If there is anything you need me to do for you sir, feel free to ask, for that is the least i could do for your victories over evil!" He saultes, bac up straight, eyes looking above the car, perfectly still.

James cringed at the sudden admiration from the police-dog, but shook his head. "I do it for the money and for General Pepper. Don't worry about it. And..please don't salute me. In all aspects, you're higher rank than I am." He laughed softly at the irony, watching the dog go back to being...some-what normal at least.

"I sppose you are right, sir, but I don't ahve the General's sign of approval on my citizenship card. You go on ahead now. You were speeding for a reason. I don't want to hold you up any longer."

James smiled at the politeness, but didn't like the attention he alwasy seemed to be getting becasue of the missions. He did for the Lylat System and for all of his friends on the planet Corneira. The money was good too, but only to support himself and his family. The attetnion though...that just wasn't his thing. "You have a good day, sir." He drove off quietly, the engine barely making a hum, let alone a pur.

The officer just stood there dumb-struck. "I can't believe he even stopped for the police. He had no reason to. He could have even gotten me fired right then and there on the spot. But...he didn't. The stories really are true then. James McCloud...you were destined to do great things."