A/N What's up? I FINALLY revised this chapter a little so now it's easier to read and you're not like "wha?" ok… here you go….

(Prologue)

Eleven years ago, the planet Algolis was once a beautiful planet with lush green fields, wonderful forests, and large cities. Algolis was completely cut off from the Lylat system, therefore making the land even more peaceful. This was not a traditional Cornerian controlled planet, in fact this planet wasn't under Cornerian jurisdiction. It had its own government, but didn't have as highly advanced technology as the Lylat system did. Algolis was destroyed by an unknown battle group.

In the ashes of apparent defeat, one hope for their race had escaped the doomed planet.

Seven years later, he is once again under attack.

Unknown to him, there are others that have a duty to protect him, for he is the last defender, and others that have the duty to end the legacy of defenders. Amidst the battle that rages against the attacking humans, the last defender fights against his enemies. To the best of his abilities


A small brown vulpine ran across a large, Grey, open courtyard. Nothing seemed to be going on until there was a distant explosion caused by the single shot out of a plasma mortar. He jumped and rolled into a small ditch at the side of a stone wall, where a small group of militia was returning fire to the Humans. he looked around, spotting a large gun and reached out to pick up an assault-rifle, when someone grabbed his hand, he looked over and saw a wolf with a missing arm.

The soldier grinned and released the teen "ok, kid listen. you can take it, only if you kick some ass for me" he said and pulled a grenade from his belt and tossed it towards the brown vulpine, with his good arm "this, ungh...may help you a bit" he said and slowly grinned "make sure t-that my family gets this" he said and pulled his COG-tags off

"But I-"

The brown fox watched as the lupine took his final breath, he leaned over to him and pulled the COG-tags out of his hands and read them, "Cpt. Ryan O'D, SW" they read. The vulpine pocketed the tags and cocked his new B.A.R199

After searching for more ammo he peeked up out of the trench and saw nothing but a large glue ball of light. He gasped and jumped as far away from the ball as possible, the vulpine was thrown against the stone wall, knocking the daylights out of him.

His vision weaved in and out of blackness. The vulpine shook his head, clearing the dizziness. 'Damn breaching charges' he thought to himself and stood up. He looked around for his weapon. He soon found it, and now it was gripped tightly in his hands. As the ringing in his ears cleared he began to hear the sounds of soldiers

"MEDIC!"

"MAN DOWN, MAN DOWN!"

"RELOADING!"

"WE NEED REINFORCEMENTS!"

"HOLD THE LINE UNTIL THE EVAC SHIPS LEAVE!"

"GRENADE! GET-" there was an accompanying explosion then momentary silence. There was a short wail of someone whose leg was blown off but no one else survived the grenade.

The vulpine had heard enough, he stood up and saw soldiers pouring through the open hole the artillery round had made, he raised his assault-rifle at the nearest soldier and fired three times. Blood shot out of the soldier's head as three anti-armor rounds pierced his skull.

The brown vulpine saw a squad of soldiers go into a trench, "perfect" he muttered and pulled out the M9 Fragmentation grenade, personally he loved the name of this type of grenade. he pulled the pin and threw the small circle-like explosive into the ditch.

There was an explosion of fire, shrapnel, and blood, A perfect throw.

He looked around for another target; he didn't see the slight shimmering air in front of him, until the soldier de-cloaked. The brown vulpine gasped and pulled the trigger and didn't let go, through the loud rifle's sound, there was a scream of pain and a large splash of blood.

he sighed in relief as the spec-ops soldier dropped to the ground with a large hole in his chest and head, "thank god, that could've been the death of me" he said and pulled the clip of his weapon out and searched for a new one. After finding one, he slapped the new clip into his weapon and wiped the blood off of his gun. He had spoken too soon, as another, much larger, Elite Spec-ops commander had approached the vulpine when his back was turned.

The smaller soldier felt a large hand grasp his neck; he instinctively dropped his gun and tried to pull off the hand, but to no avail. The larger soldier laughed and tossed the smaller vulpine into the stone wall. He connected with the rock, sending his head into a firework show.

He saw an explosion of colors and light.

The brown vulpine shook the dizziness out of his head for the second time and stood up. he mumbled as many curse words as he could think of as he watched six more spec-ops soldiers de-cloak.

Just as he thought he was dead, an exact copy of himself jumped down from the stone wall and landed next to him.

"Dad?"

"Here, take this" the larger brown vulpine tossed a large sword towards his smaller version.

The vulpine caught the sword; he looked it over for a minute and realized which one it was. he swung the sword at the three soldiers standing in front of him, they each had a look of fear on them. That drove the brown vulpine to do things most would call barbaric, but in a war of survival, anything goes. As the smaller vulpine finished slicing the last soldier in half, he wiped blood off his sword and looked up at his larger copy; he smiled and started walking towards him.

he saw a look of shock in the man's eyes, just before he asked what was wrong, he felt an unbearable amount of pain shoot through his body and something lift him off the ground. He looked down and saw a razor sharp blade sticking out of his chest. The brown vulpine felt something cold, wet, and ultimately evil soar through his body. the sword was pulled out, the Brown vulpine put his hands to the hole in his chest and looked up at his father, who barely had time to yell "DUCK!" before being enveloped in an explosion. After that the small brown vulpine fell backwards onto his back and fell victim to the darkness as a dark voice pierced his mind "there is no hope!"


CHAPTER 1

Meet the Brown


A brown vulpine rolled off his bed and fell face first on the floor, grumbling, he stood up off the ground and looked around, the room was dim but he saw a dresser and his belongings box. He let his hands fall to his knees; he held himself up and breathed deeply. The bedroom the door slid open quickly. He looked up to see a barrel of a small m93x plasma handgun.

"HEY are you ok?" an orange vulpine asked the light brown vulpine from the doorway as he pointed a pistol around the room. "uuh yeah just...a bad dream" he lied, when in truth it was actually an old memory.

"Didn't sound like it Brown, sounded like you got stabbed" the vulpine said as he flicked on the light and pointed his pistol down. "Fox turn that thing off!" Brown said as he shielded his eyes from the light. "Get up Brown we need to repair our Arwings" the vulpine said "remember what happened last time?"

"yeah yeah I hear you" the brown furred vulpine mumbled and grinned as he remembered when Fox's Arwing went into full reverse once and nearly destroyed the docking bay "and we still need to introduce you to the rest of Star fox" Fox reminded him.

'Woo hoo, more people that I have to listen to' Brown thought sarcastically 'one would'nt happen to be a smoking hot-' Anthony shook his head remembering the time he met Krystal. short, sweet, and painful. 'Never mind...I already met her'

Brown sighed and stretched his back "It's going to be a long day huh?" he asked his friend.

"Well, that's the first thing you got right today" the vulpine said as he left the doorway. Brown walked to his dresser and pulled out fresh pair of jeans and a white T-shirt. 'Why did I dream that?' the vulpine thought to himself as the pain went away.

Although he was a newer member of Star Fox, Brown was as popular as Fox himself, strangely everyone thought him a hero for being the last survivor from the attack on Algolis, even though his memory was erased and he didn't know half of what happened there. When the war with the Humans was coming to a grinding end, he had actually saved the Great Fox II from being destroyed; he had been flying by in his own squad, the 73rd squadron, AKA Siren, When he got a distress signal from ROB. They flew to it and saw a space battle between two carrier ships. Luckily he answered the transmission before the Venomians or Humans did.

Shortly after that battle the Humans and Cornerians made an EXTREMELY weak peace treaty.

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Brown sighed pulled the shirt over his head, "I hate Mondays"


It had been a very long day especially for Fox and Brown, both of them had their least favorite jobs to do: Fox had to help Slippy fix their Arwings and Brown was stuck with fixing the communications station. It had gotten damaged when Slippy spilled coffee on ROB 64 and caused the robot to short circuit and swing its arms randomly around the cabin, resulting in the breaking of the Coms.

After dropping the box of supplies by his feet, Brown took a knee to begin fixing the broken Com system; he began to think about what might happen if he was electrocuted to death. 'Would anyone miss me? Would it make a difference?' he sat for a minute asking himself the few questions that randomly floated inside his scrambled mind.

"I guess it doesn't matter now does it?" he said enthusiastically and began unscrewing the latch that led to the coffee soaked wires.


(7 hours later aboard the Great Fox II)

"FINALLY!" Brown said as he fixed the communications, it had taken the rest of his day to fix the Coms. Brown pulled up his sleeve and looked at his watch "4:00? Well that's not too bad, go to the gym possibly spar with Fox, NOT Krystal" he said, briefly remembering the time she kicked his ass on the training mat. "Then make some spaghetti for dinner" Brown moved his right arm up to his face, he typed on the touchscreen keyboard.

Five minutes passed after Brown finished resetting the Com's manual message board when a noise started going off, he jumped up off the chair in surprise and read the message. 'General Peppy Hare to Star Fox team' Brown didn't waste a second, he rushed to the small box on the wall and pressed the 'hangar' button "Fox I need you on the bridge ASAP" the light brown vulpine said into the intercom.

"What is it?"

"Its General Hare" the vulpine replied and got no answer. He started to say something when without warning Fox burst through the doors and answered the call "Yes general what is it?" he said still panting from the whirlwind sprint he just made from the hanger to the bridge.

"Ok I'm here don't start without me!" Falco said as he walked in and sat down. Peppy's head popped up on a holo-panel "Star Fox team, we have a mission F-who's this?" he said looking at Brown

"Sure Peppy what do you want us to do?" Fox asked trying to get Peppy back into the conversation.

"No name for him? introduction? Ok" he said looking at the newest member of Star Fox then back at the orange vulpine. "Something has been taking out large number of Space Force patrols near Denmair. Some of their pilots are missing as well and are possibly being held on the planet's surface; we need you to investigate what is taking our ships out, and rescue the pilots if you can"

Fox clearly didn't like the idea "that's extremely close to the Pitt" he said almost beginning to feel the dread that something was going to go wrong. The Pitt was a small galaxy that held the most wanted criminals in the universe, and although Andross was defeated, his forces have been seen around that area, and Star Fox wasn't the favorites list for smugglers and crime lords.

"Which is why we need you Star Fox" Peppy paused for Fox's answer.

"I don't know, guys what do you think?" Fox asked the brown vulpine and the blue avian.

"I say let's kick some tail" Brown said before Falco could speak.

"That's what I was gunna say!" Falco said and punched the vulpine's arm. He barely moved all that he did was stop fiddling with his wrist guard, look over, and punch Falco back. As Falco winced, Brown could see the pain in his eyes

'Ha-ha serves you right'

Fox sighed and looked back at the General "alright Peppy were in, send us the information and we'll get it done" Fox said with a stern look on his face.

"Alright good we'll send you the data now; we will be sending an attack force to accompany you there, just in case. The attack force will be near Denmair in three weeks" Peppy said before his head disappeared off screen

"Man, you've got one hell of an arm!" Falco said still rubbing his wing.

"What do you expect Falco? He's bigger than you!" Fox commented on the light Brown vulpine.

"Bite me" was Falco's reply.

"Alright well if you want to work on those small arms of yours just hit the gym not the PlayStation" the brown vulpine joked as he stood and walked towards the door.

"You know what? Why don't we go spar right now?" Falco challenged the fairly larger vulpine "because, Falco I don't want to break you in half" Brown retorted. Falco grunted in return "Alrighty tough guy lets go right now!"

"I would like to see this" Fox said grinning, he knew full damn well that Falco was strong but the new guy? He had to see how this goes down.


"So how is it coming with you and Fox, Krystal?" a brown furred vixen asked her friend as she typed on her mobile phone. Krystal looked up from her book "why?" she answered with a question.

"Just feeling gossipy" she said looking up from here phone and out the window, down to the training room. She had heard the door open thanks to her extremely well hearing.

"We're doing fine, I wish we could get out more but he's stuck inside dealing with the ship, do you know what I mean Fara?" Krystal said and started reading her book again.

"Yeah" the 'newest' member of Star Fox mumbled as she spotted the training room's door open. Fara saw Falco walk through the door first, Fox walked behind him. Fara saw someone else enter the dim room; she didn't know who he was or what he was doing, until he stepped onto the wrestling mat fallowed by Falco. Fara nearly had a heart attack when Fox flipped on the light switch.

Falco tossed a staff to the new vulpine, he took it and held it in one hand and motioned Falco to come forward and attack. His eyes were almost completely white, besides the slightly darker shade of silver that surrounded his pupils.


Fox removed his cell-phone from his pocket and pressed a button on the side "Alright Brown let's see what you've got" Falco beckoned to the vulpine. Nothing happened. Falco stood ready and Brown stood casually. Falco charged at his opponent but missed. Brown ducked left and smacked Falco in the back with his staff, making the avian stumble.

Falco spun and swung the staff at Browns chest, the vulpine easily blocked it and rolled left, he quickly stood and hit Falco again in the same spot

"C'mon Falco you can do better than that" Fox said from the sidelines as Falco once again got hit by Brown's staff.

"I'm tired of playing games" Falco growled and tried to get Brown in a headlock. Brown ducked and swung his staff to trip Falco but instead pulled it up bringing it into contact to Falco's chest. Brown flipped Falco over his head with the staff, slamming him into the training room mat.

"Alright, Falco you've lost" Fox said as Falco was gasping for air.

"Wow its hot in here" Brown exclaimed as he helped Falco up off his back.

"Yeah Slippy still hasn't fixed our air-conditioner yet" Fox said as he watched Falco put his staff away "hey Falco you know I caught that on my phone right?" Fox said grinning. Brown laughed at that last comment and realized it was true when Fox stuck a phone in his pocket.

"SO what he beat me?" Falco said very pissed off, he wasn't used to being beat by new members of Star Fox. Fox stood off the wall and looked towards the new vulpine "alright lets see what you've got" he said walking into the mat. Fox removed his vest and kept his white T-shirt. Brown removed his sleeved shirt, now wearing a muscle shirt. his gloves came off next, revealing his left hand.

"Whoa, where'd you get that tattoo?" Falco asked admiring the vulpine's hand.

"It wasn't really that hard to do" Brown replied and looked back towards Fox. "Wait, you did th-" Falco was interrupted by Brown "let's do this" he smirked as he took a fighting stance.


"I like this one" the light brown vixen said as she watched the brown vulpine duck and weave past Fox's every swing. She started having schoolgirl thoughts of what might happen if the vulpine had-

"I wouldn't count on that, Fara" Krystal said from across the room and took a sip from her tea.

Fara's long ear twitched "Krystal why do you invade my thoughts?" she asked her friend as she looked back down at the two vulpines. "You do have to admit it though he is handsome" she said and watched Fox punch the brown fox across the muzzle.

"Not to me" Krystal said not looking up from her book but taking another sip of tea

"Yes he is and you know it Krystal" a pink feline said as she walked into the room holding a large box "but you don't have to admit it."

Fara turned around from hearing her friend enter the room "hey Katt, what's with the box?" she asked as she examined the large grey square. "OH! This" Katt said as she patted the box "is our new flight suits Fara, even the new guys" Katt said putting the large box on the floor

"Speaking of which, Katt do you know his name?" Fara asked the feline "no I don-" Katt was cut off by Krystal "his name is Anthony" she said still not looking up from her book. "Anthony, as in the one who survived the destruction of an entire planet?" Fara asked looking down at the training room.

Katt looked at Fara than down at what she was looking at "I think Fara's in love Krystal" Katt whispered to her friend.

"Just a little bit" Krystal said out loud so Fara could hear them.

"HEY! Krystal stay out of my head! Telepathy's so unfair!" Fara said looking back at her friends and looked back to Anthony. "It's obvious Fara, I didn't use my powers" Krystal retorted.

Fara rolled her eyes and focused on the brown vulpine, Anthony, who was now locking Fox in a full-nelson. "He's good" she exclaimed.

"What do you mean?" Katt asked puzzled.

"Well he's got Fox in a full Nelson now." Fara said as she watched Fox try to escape.

"WHAT?!" Krystal shouted nearly spilling her tea all over the floor. no one was ever able to beat Fox in hand to hand, besides Krystal. She jumped up and ran to the window. but was too late, all she saw was Anthony lifting Fox off the floor.


"Wow Brown you're pretty good" Fox said rubbing his sore neck "where did you learn to do stuff like that?" Fox asked looking at the vulpine standing next to him. Bad memories flooded his head, very faint and yet somewhat clear. Like something was blocking his mind. Anthony looked down at the ground and had a flashback of his older brother.

Fox looked at Anthony, puzzled "hey you alright?" he asked the brown vulpine as he was staring at the floor.

"What? Yeah I'm fine" he lied as his picked up his shirt and started walking towards his room. Anthony got a strange feeling that someone was watching him. He was a bit reluctant to turn around and look but he did anyway. He turned around and looked up into the tinted windows that overlooked the training room.


Fara's heart stopped when she saw Anthony look up at her "K-Krystal can they see through this glass?"

"Nope. Why?" Krystal replied, but she knew why Fara wanted to know.

Fara met eye contact with Anthony and immediately noticed his eyes were a dark red, instead of the silver she had noticed earlier. "Nothing. I thought they could see us…"


Anthony stood for a minute and looked into the windows, all he could see was a black figure of a woman, and he knew she was watching him. Anthony turned around and walked through the door into a hallway, shaking a strange thought out of his head.


"That was weird" Falco said as he watched Anthony leave "what was he looking at?" the avian asked Fox, who just shrugged and picked up his vest "who knows, come on its almost time for dinner" he said as he walked out of the room and into a hallway. Falco got up off a chair and started towards his room.


(20 minutes later)

Fara and Katt walked down the halls of the Great Fox III towards the kitchen. Fara honestly couldn't stop thinking about Anthony's eyes, it looked like they could burn a hole through steel. Fara also couldn't help but admire it.

"You know, Falco's been being such a jerk lately" Katt said snapping Fara back into reality. The long eared fennec couldn't care less what Falco was acting like, because he wasn't dating her, nor WILL he date her in the future.

"He's been yelling." Fara said as they neared her room.

Katt bowed her head and sighed "yes...I think I'm going to...you know"

"…Break up with him?"

"Yeah"

Fara sighed. she felt sorry for her friend and yet she didn't care too much. Sure it was a mean thing but, with all honesty. Fara sighed and scratched the back of her head. "So Katt whats for dinner tonight do you know?" she asked as she heard her stomach rumble.

"Nope, sorry" Katt said as they turned a corner towards their rooms. "Alright Katt thanks anyway" Fara said as she turned towards her room. 'I need to sleep' Fara thought to herself as she opened the door and stepped in. Fara closed the door and walked over to her bed. She stood up for a minute and flopped down on her bed, asleep.


Krystal walked into the "living room" of the Great Fox and smelled something that made her mouth water. "Hey Fox what's for dinner?" she asked as she sat down on a chair.

"Spaghetti" Fox called back.

"It smells good, what are you using?" Krystal asked.

Fox walked out of the kitchen and sat down next to Krystal "hey I'm not cooking, its Brown! he's a good cook, and I mean that." Fox said complimenting on Anthony's cooking.

"Coming from you Fox that's pretty good!" Krystal heard Anthony say from the kitchen.

"He is REALLY good with hand to hand combat… Although he needs to work on not getting punched on his blind side." as soon as Fox finished his sentence Anthony walked out of the kitchen with a full bowl of spaghetti.

"Alright Fox, don't tell Krystal my weakness so she can kick my ass again. Dinner's ready" he said as he sat the food down on the table next to all the plates. Falco and Slippy were the first to jump up, Falco vaulted over the couch, Slippy on the other hand hopped off the couch forward and nearly fell on his face. "Hey thanks Brown!" Falco said to the brown vulpine.

"Yeah. Alright I'm going to bed" Anthony said as took off a large glove and started towards his room. "Wait, why so early?" Fox asked.

"I'm just tired and not so hungry" Anthony replied as he looked at Slippy shoveling food into his mouth. "Alright suit yourself, OH and hey can you get Katt and Fara please?" Fox said to Anthony.

"What rooms?"

"Six and seven" Fox told him

"Ok" Anthony said and started walking down the hall.


As he was walking down the hall he began to feel more and drowsier. Before he did a face plant on the floor, Anthony reached up and slapped himself across the face allowing a few minutes to be added to his attentiveness. After a minute of sleepily walking, he finally reached Katts room. He knocked on the door and waited. After a few seconds the door opened and a pink feline answered "yes what is it-Brown?" she asked.

"Dinners ready it's on the table, better hurry before Slippy downs it all." Anthony joked and continued to "Fara's" room. "Ok" Katt said.

Anthony knocked on Fara's door and expected an answer but didn't get one; he tried the doorbell but still nothing. "Guess she's asleep" Anthony said to himself and continued down the hall to his room.

Anthony walked down the hall and had another feeling that someone was watching him, he flattened his ears and stopped, he looked at the shadows of the hallway, and he could've sworn that he saw someone watching him. Anthony blinked and the strange feeling soon disappeared and was replaced by loneliness. Anthony sighed and entered his room and flicked off the automatic lights. His small bomfidad, Kia, jumped up and down as he entered.

Anthony took a small bucket out of his storage closet and poured a small amount of food into a bowl. "There ya go little girl" he said and smiled as his little pet chirped and ate at the same time.

Anthony stood and took off his shirt and walked into the restroom, he looked in the mirror and saw the large scar in the middle of his chest, he started to remember the day he got it, the day his entire world was nearly destroyed by an evil force stronger than Andross himself. He looked up from the scar and saw his eyes; they were now glowing with a faint red glow. "What the-?" Anthony said once he saw his eyes.

They went back to their normal silver color once he got his mind off of his deceased family. "Whoa, that's never happened before" he said to himself as he walked out of his restroom and flopped down on his bed. As he sat Anthony looked around his room, on top his dresser sat an old sword. Anthony had no idea where he originally got it, but he did know that he was damn good at using it.

A few minutes went by, Anthony began to wonder why sleeping was so hard when just a few moments ago he was tired enough to sleep through a nuclear apocalypse, until he heard his bedroom door open. He sat up and saw Krystal locking the door behind her.

"Hey what-how did?-how did you get in?" Anthony asked very shocked at the vixen's appearance.

She just stared at the vulpine.

'Alright Krystal, you are freaking me THE FUCK OUT!'

"What are you doing in here?" Anthony asked, not liking having anyone in his room without permission. The last few times he had someone enter they had shot his friend and tried to shoot him too, and that was with a group that said he could trust them.

"I felt a strange presence in here" Krystal answered in a voice that sounded like it could tear a hole in someone's body.

'What?'

Anthony began to have a feeling that something bad was about to happen "listen I know you're higher ranking than me, but you're kind of freaking me out Krystal so if you would please leave" he growled as Krystal walked closer. 'I don't like this one bit' Anthony thought to himself as Krystal took another step closer. Anthony backed up but Krystal took two forward, Anthony backed into a wall and swore at himself.

"That strange presence is illuminating from you" Krystal said as she reached behind her poking Anthony's bare chest and pushed him against the wall.

The vulpine began having extremely bad thoughts of what would happen if Fox happened to walk in. "Wha-what the wa-" Anthony shuddered when he saw Krystal pull out a baseball bat. "Where did you get that?" he asked started to think about what was going to happen.

Krystal hit Anthony in the chest with the baseball bat, he fell to the floor gasping for air 'HOLY SHIT SHE'S GOT A SWING!' he thought as he saw Krystal walk up to him. Anthony coughed as he tried to regain his breath. he began feeling something heavy on his chest.

she raised her arms and prepared to hit Anthony again he heard Krystal mumble something like "wake up" but didn't hear it, the alarms started going off aboard the Great Fox, everything started to weave and blur.

(}^{)

Anthony opened his eyes, he was still on his bed but the alarms on the ship were going crazy. "WARNING, HOSTILE BOARDING CRAFT DETECTED UNABLE TO ENACT COUNTER OFFENSE, EMP DEVICE ATTACHED MAIN THRUSTERS AND SHIELDS OFFLINE" a robotic voice said over the loud speakers. "What the?" Anthony yelled, he soon noticed what had made that dream feel so realistic, a large lamp had been knocked over and fell onto his chest. "I hope Krystal never finds out about THAT dream"

Once again ROB's voice sounded off "WARNING: TIME UNTIL FIRST IMPACT: 7 SECONDS!"


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