Starfox: A Hero Falls

This story has nothing to do with the present, it has nothing to do with us, it has to do with those who are in it and those who were affected by it.

It is already done, nothing can be done to change what happened.

It is a story of love, a story of loss, brotherhood and betrayal. A story of evil and sacrifice, And the end of good times. It is the story between worlds, a story of shattered glass.

It is the story of the end of all and the rise of darkness.

A strange thing about stories-

Though this happened far from us that no word can begin to describe the distance, it is also happening here, now, as you read these words.

This is how a band of heroes fell and how a system that has seen war and corruption falls into darkness. This is not just the end of everything as Lylat knows; darkness falls on civilization itself.

This is the end of Starfox.

The end starts now.

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The skies of Macbeth blaze with war. The sunlight captured by the many capital ships that hovered above caused most of the residents below to close their windows. The flames of ion drives and starburst explosions caused civilians to run for cover. The falling debris caused waves to start, fires to start, it caused devestation to everything below. But then again this is a war.

Lylat is the system that has forever known war and corruption but this was different. This new war was aimed at the heart of Lylat itself. It wasn't against andross or some other evil army that wants to take over and rule it for personal gain. It is an endless series of battles that are fought between planets. The whole of Lylat is separated in a civil war. Planet's fight for there own system of government. Senators leave the democracy, the whole system is slowly sliding towards disaster.

The civil war was caused but the creation of the army the serves the democracy. The Lylatian army was created by a vote from the senate. Who would have thought the the armies first battle would be against its own citizens. Although all seems to be lost, and the democracy in shambles. One can only hope that the democracy in Lylat prevails, that this system won't fall under it's own endless series of wars.

The Prime Minister of this democracy weeps for all that has been lost in this war. That his baby, his democracy could fail at any moment as this war rages on. All is not lost though his hope still remains. One day all will be right again in the Lylat system. It is impossible to tell when though.

Through all these dark times though, one ship as white as the clouds in the sky of Corneria always arrives as a symbol of hope when all seems lost. The red winged fox on the side of massive ship shows that not all hope is gone for this government, the Great Fox is indeed that last beam of hope. Under these stressed times, two Arwing fighters blaze through the sky from this white ship and dive right into the battle. The two ace-pilots dive and spin until they are in the heart of it all. The democratic army only receives two reinforcements. To most of you this would seem insane, but two is all they need to fight this battle to its bitter end. Two fighters are all this army needs to end the movement of the separatists.

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Ion lasers flashed on all sides of the small arwing fighter as it blazed through the war filled skies of Corneria. The blasts were even louder then the clatter of Shrapnel and the snarl of his sublight drives, his cockpit hummed, rang, and buzzed with near hits from the turbolaser fire from the 5 huge enemy capital ships from the system planets of Macbeth and Titania crowding the space around him. Making him, along with his fighet, feel as if they were flies. Sometimes his whirling spinning flight through the battle filled sky would cut so close to that of enemy fire that the explosions would make his head bounce off the supports of his pilot's chair.

Right now the great Fox McCloud envied the soldiers around him. They weren't stupid enough to go head first into the heart of the fight.

"R.O.B," he said over the internal comm, "Make sure the great Fox is prepped for a quick get away. Once this is over, I don't want to be in enemy territory any longer then I have to be."

The robotic operator aboard Fox's mothership far off into the depths of space responded within mere seconds. Of course the robot would of the ship ready to leave on time. Fox's smirk grew some now, having such a perfect team was near impossible but he had pulled it off. He had some of the best warriors and pilots around. So it was natural to have an equally as good robot piloting your main ship.

New Ion charged blasts found there way to block his path but being the expert pilot he was, he surveyed everything infront of him to find a safe way through the beams. Of course there wasn't one.

Fox's mouth went into a feral snarl, twisting his Arwing fighter around the blasts that were aimed for him. The blast could have peeled the armor of his fighter like a knife peels the skin off an apple. Nontheless he loved flying, but today he just wasn't all with it. Today he had his mind on other things.

Fox's cockpit speakers crackled with noise and then a voice clear as ever came through, "You were almost turned into flying scrap Fox, get with it man!"

Fox shook his head, clearing his mind of thoughts and went back to the battle. He was still shocked from the type of leadership that had grown in the voice. Long ago all Fox could remember was someone who always wanted to be the hero, the one to go do it alone. Now though it seemed the shoe was on the other foot. It seemed last week that falco Lombardi had been sitting at home nursing a broken leg while Fox battled alone, but now Falco was doing it all. More then one occasion during this new civil war Falco had saved Fox numerous times from being turned into melted down garbage or fired fox.

"Sorry," he muttered, kicking into a dive that slipped another Ion blast by no more then a meter. "Other things on my mind."

"Well get those other things off of our mind and get what is left on your mind here dude!"

"Of course, as long as you stop calling me dude." He looked up through the cockpit canopy to find his ace-pilot flying inverted, mirroring him so closely that but for the transparisteel between them, they might have shaken hands. Fox smiled up at him. "How long have you been up there?"

"Ever since that ship almost turned you into swiss cheese."

"Ah, so that's who stole that kill from me." Fox said with a slight chuckle. Fox always loved to hear that cocky and laid back tone in Falco's voice. Although sometimes Falco over did it and tried to get Fox to jump on the band wagon and start using his form of the English language Fox decided against it.

The war hadn't changed either of them, they had been in too many now together to know that once its over. Life starts again.

"Okay my ace-pilot what should we do about these incoming heat-guided missiles?" Fox removed his had from his control yoke to direct his upside down friends attention forward.

"That maybe we should get the heck out of there way!"

Fox went straight down while Falco went straight up the missiles went right between them and exploded into a bright light behind both of them.

"More missiles incoming Fox!"

"I see them." Fox replied and spun past them, one came so close to his cockpit that he could have read the letters off of it.

Fox came back up next to Falco, "That was fun." he said.

"You have all the fun." Falco replied in a dull voice.

"Oh come on, you saved me once already. Can't I have a little fun?" Fox pulled his yoke left and dodged another Ion blast.

"You really want an answer? No." Falco said and then burst out laughing, "You have to much fun with Krystal anyway."

"I just ignore your remarks about our marriage now." Fox said.

"Whatever, their main ship is straight ahead. I forgot it's name."

"The ship's name is Vengeance Falco." Fox pulled his yoke back to dodge some more Ion blasts as they flew between to capital ships in the middle of a heated fire fight.

"Falco take out all of their main guns and shield generator. I'll take out the bridge and knock this ship out of the sky." he pulled his yoke back again to bring his small craft level with the Vengeance. The ship was huge and looked like a floating city but nonetheless it was still vunerable to the best two pilot's in the galaxy.

"Again, why do you get to have all the fun?" Falco replied and brought himself right beside Fox.

"Because I spoke first." Fox laughed and sped ahead. Falco followed in tight pursuit as they approached Vengeance.

Falco separated his formation with Fox and went into a spinning dive. Dodging massive firepower and missiles and destroyed the first battery cannon on the ship. One down 10 more to go. He flew under the belly of the massive star ship and came up on the other side destroying the battery launchers on that side. 4 more to go. Falco then spun over the bridge and killed all power in his craft and fell into a nose dive to just miss an on coming battery blast. He quickly fired his craft back-up and destroyed the remaining four battery cannons left and flew toward the hanger, he quickly destroyed the shield generator that was near the hanger door and instantly the shields went down.

Fox stopped his aimless dodging of missiles and lasers when he was the light blue coating around the ship disappear. He flew around the top of the ship and released 4 B-bombs into the bridge. The bombs exploded but the bridge remained.

"Falco, I'm not sure you noticed but the shields on the bridge are still up!" he yelled and quickly spun his craft around to begin dodging more missiles.

"Opps" Falco said and snickered. He flew up from the belly of the ship and over the top of the ship until he found the second generastor he quickly destroyed it and Fox came back and finally destroying the bridge of the Vengeance. The 2 pilots then flew away as the bridge exploded into flame and the ship began to drop down into the atmosphere of Macbeth. The battle of was over for them but the war would stil rage on but this was a devestation loss to the separatists.

Alarms on the Vengeance sounded as it began to drop into a nose-dive. The flaming mass on top was what remained of the bridge. There was no one to control or pilot the ship for that matter there were no controls. The ship plunged straight into the ocean causing massive waves in every direction. The flames could be seen for miles. The explosion could be heard around the entire planet, a ship that large was never meant to crash.

The two heroes quickly docked at the Great Fox and they sped away at light speed, going back to Corneria to report to the Prime Minster and to inform him that the battle had actually been won.