The white snow leopard is standing in the center of the room, holding his e-journal in his left paw. He's surrounded by steel bars, locking him safely inside. He's wearing a black leather jacket, which is torn and really damaged, as well as his long, blue jeans. He stands in front of two dark silhouettes, thinking about how to tell them the truth.

"Tell him the truth. He must hear your story to trust you" the leopard hears suddenly inside his mind. He knows that this is the voice of that blue vixen standing behind the tall, red vulpine, Krystal.

"Do you want to know everything about me?" he asks the vulpine.

"Yes. All we want to know is the truth"

"Well, then we must go back to this day" the leopard says, turning on his e-journal and reverting to the oldest entry, 12th October 2431 Earthen Time, which was two years before the actual day.

"You want the truth? Then listen carefully..."

A/N: this one was used to be FanFiction With No Name in English, but I decided to change it a bit and make it (not quite, but always) another story. Have fun reading and await 4 more!

Ahh, and sorry for the many vulgarisms. They're placed on purpose, to show more greatly the change inside... Okay, I'm telling too much...

STAR FOX:
Lost Memories

12th October 2431, 8:47am, New Texas, Earthen colony on Vendetta planet

"Jack! Get the fuck behind some cover!" Mike shouted to his friend, but he probably didn't hear him because all of the noise caused by shooting guns and artillery... Or just didn't want to hear.

The planet was in state of war for three months now. The Earthen Military wanted to change this planet into military outpost, which meant either killing or taking the residents from the planet's surface. Of course people of Vendetta didn't want to give away that easily their homes, so it ended up with the first option.

"Jack, hide behind something!" Mike shouted again, watching as his friend is covering behind a steel barrel, which didn't give any protection against projectiles. Jack didn't respond, he just crouched there with a blank look on his face.

Then it hit him. Mike instantly remembered his last conversation with his friend.

"Listen. There's no chance for us to win. They're stronger, they have more powerful guns, they-"

"Shut up. You wouldn't say that if Amy was still alive!" Mike interrupted his friend's train of thoughts. He knew that it was the case. Jack wanted to propose to Amy few hours before the Army's attack. The men of Vendetta instantly ran to outpost, while the women were sent to the nuclear shelters, but, during the evacuation, the Earthen Army bombed the walking people. No one survived. Amy was one of the victims of this attack.

"I KNOW, RIGHT!" Jack shouted angrily at his friend, "It's just... you don't know how it's like losing everything in just one second..."

Believe me, I know...

"I... I don't want to live anymore..."

"Hey, hey, don't tell me this bullshit! You know that's not true!" Mike grabbed Jack's shoulders and shook energetically, trying to shake off those thoughts inside his mind. Michael T. Gray knew exactly where those feelings could bring the poor soul of his friend.

"GRENADE!" the sudden scream pulled the human back to reality. The grenade rolled slowly an inches next to Jack. He took a quick glance at the small bomb and took it in his hands.

"FOR THE MOTHER OF FUCK, THROW AWAY THAT GRE-" Mike tried to intervene, but it was too late. In one big explosion he lost his last friend in this godforsaken encounter.

"Jack? Jack you motherfucker! I won't forget what you did!" he shouted with all his power. In sudden flush of energy he took his Advanced Full-auto Assault Rifle, or A-FAR for short, took the safety off and charged onto the small soldier squad on the other side of the barricade. It was a dumb move, and he realized it few seconds later. Even if he killed almost every one of them, the sniper nailed him in the torso. The energy vanished instantly, changing into instant coolness. The darkness covered his eyes, and he fell on his knees.

Shit, Shit, SHIT! GET UP!he shouted at himself in his mind, but soon he felt too tired to even think. With a hard impact he lost all connection to the real world.

He was running. Nothing could stop him at this moment. Surrounded by a bright light, he just kept running forward. He saw his memories like pictures on his left and right. The pictures were changing immediately, but soon stopped at one.

"Are you going somewhere?" the young woman asked the man, who was currently getting out of the bed.

"Yeah, they gave me a mission without asking me for agreement. Again" he growled lightly, taking his old but still good gun, the 34th version of Glock 17 in his left hand.

"You could use a hand, I suppose" she said, kissing in on the cheek and standing up completely naked. He gazed at her and she saw a sudden lust flowing through him.

Not now... Not now...he repeated to himself, effectively refraining self from throwing her on the bed. There were more important things to do.

"Mike, can I go with you?" she asked, taking him by the hand.

"Mia, I told you already few days ago. No problem, wait in the car, I'll join you in the moment" he responded, grabbing his black leather jacket and his reliable blue jeans and going to the bathroom. He entered the shower and opened warm water for a full blast. He adjusted his back so all the water fell on his head and neck, then he reached for a shower gel. Suddenly, he heard a big explosion. Not caring about anything, he jumped out of the shower and took on his jeans while running to the exit. He didn't believe what he saw. He saw Mia laying on the ground not far away from a destroyed car. She didn't have one leg, and her body was a bloody mess. It was a miracle that she was still breathing.

"Mike, they were waiting for you... Run..." she said, coughing with blood.

"They? Who they are? Mia? Don't leave me!" he shouted to her, trying to pick her up and help her... somehow. Seeing her in this state made him feel like he wanted to kill himself.

"Those attackers were from-" she began to speak, but a sniper bullet silenced her forever. Mike quickly jumped behind a car wreck to search for a sniper. He knew that if he open himself, there will be no Michael Gray. Then he saw him - the sniper was standing on the roof of the three story building on the other side of the street. Mike took out his Glock, took the safety off and aimed only once. With a loud "bang" sound, the sniper fell from the building, crashing with high speed on the streets below.

"That's for Mia, bastard!" Mike ran to his girlfriend and watched in terror all the wounds. Most of them were from the explosion, but he saw burns, too. Since cars didn't use gasoline or any flammable material as a fuel, they didn't explode in flames anymore. They didn't explode, after all. That meant someone shooted at the car, giving Mia small time to escape.
Mike knew exactly what kind of weapon left burns on the skin, Tyrogenium bomb. It was manufactured by only one company in entire Earthen Space Zone.

"Mia, I promise you, I swear - I won't die unless I find who gave them order to kill you... me. I won't give up!"

I won't give up... I swore that to her. I WON'T GIVE UP!Mike screamed on his mind, reverting back to the reality. He didn't knew how, but he regained consciousness and managed to stand up, despite the damage he took from the enemy fire. He looked down at his torso and he didn't saw any blood or wounds - just one more hole in his leather jacket. Mike picked up his A-FAR and aimed for the last soldier in that group. He threw his gun and began to run away, but Mike was faster. With one shot he took out the last soldier.

"Hey guys, look! Mike's alive! Let's take him to the medical center!" he heard, but it was like a shouting from miles away. The words echoed in his head, the world began to swirl, and he lost control of his body. Once again he began to feel tired and soon he, again, lost consciousness.

E-Journal entry number one.
12th October 2431, 9:24pm

I've finally regained control of my body. This morning fight was strange... I don't know... I'm supposed to be dead, yet I'm alive and stronger than ever. I still think about that memories... Maybe I stood up because I remembered that I swore to Mia? This is a question that I won't probably answer. Never.

Earthen Army sent me a letter today. Strange, eh? They said they will leave the colony if I go with them. They probably know about that event more than me, so I decided I'll agree. If they kill me, I don't care. But I think they won't. I'm going to Military Camp tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Capt. Michael Thomas Gray, former leader of Vendetta Defense Forces

10th October 2431, 10:00am, Blackrock City on New Earth planet, Earthen Space Military and Interspace Communications HQ

"Maj. Gen. Rodriguez, report to the Communication center immediately" the feminine voice from the speakers sounded throughout all the base.

"What now?" Carlos Rodriguez asked himself, once again having to abort his current activities. He stood up from his chair and went through the doors on his left.

"What's happening?" he groaned to the computers in front of him.

"Incoming call from ESM HQ on Earth Prime" the computer answered.

"Connect me" Gen. Rodriguez stood in front of the holographic camera to be visible on the other side of the comm interface. The lasers on his left began to form into human silhoulette, then changed into the shape of Maj. Gen. Blazkoff, main general of Earth Prime's Space Military.

"Carlos, old friend! Long time, niet see!" Vladimir Blazkoff laughed, seeing the face of his old friend from Military School.

"I'm pleased to meet you to, Vlad. What brings you to me?"

Blazkoff instantly lost his smile and good humor. He looked with somewhat scary gaze on gen. Rodriguez, then he spoke silently. "We've found them... They're in sector Z-11"

Carlos began to tremble. He knew this day would come. He knew that the discovery of the new race will divide humanity into two - the ones who'll say "kill them before they'll kill us", and those, who'll try to manage peace between our kinds. Still, there wasn't any proof of this. They only found a star system with life signs. It couldn't mean anything - just unregistered human-conquered planets. But he knew inside this wasn't true. They have finally found the aliens - after about 400 years, humanity finally found other kind in "their" galaxy.

"What should we do?" Rodriguez asked, having no idea what could they do in that situation.

"I think we should remain silent. For a couple of months. We'll think what we'll do. But for now, consider that this conversation never happened. Earth Prime out" Blazkoff sighed, cutting out the com-link.

"SHIT! TOO EARLY!" Rodriguez shouted, smacking his fist on the table. He quickly wrote new number on the comm panel and opened new com-link, this time only voice transmission. He waited a few seconds, and clicked secure connection button.

"Emperor Bowman, they know..."

13th October, 2431, 9:10am, Vendetta Crossroads

"Yet again thrown inside the center of this godforsaken conflict... But maybe this time I'll end this fight instead of making it bigger"Mike thought while approaching the Vendetta Crossroads. It was the hub for all roads on Vendetta. Currently only three from twelve roads were useful - one to refugee's camp, one to Rebels' bunker and one to Earthen Military base. He took the third one and proceeded forward.

Vendetta was a martian-type planet - only rocks and red sand. It was liveable just because of terramorphing. The weather center on the north pole lowered the temperature to the "pleasant" 31 degrees Celsius (it was yet better than 47 degrees with climate control shut off), pumped the oxygen into the atmosphere and caused the rains to occasionally fall on the Roost, the only Vendetta city, now being completely in ruins.

Mike always liked that planet. It hid many secrets, just like him. The atmosphere was making the life almost like survival - many residents had to go for searching the water, others were flying to other planets to buy food for entire Vendetta population... It wasn't the best place to live.

But it makes people tougher, and you can't have nothing to do on this godforsaken planet.Mike smiled, remembering his first two weeks on this "survival center". He almost starved to death, when he went on a walk during the sandstorm. He had to hide inside some kind of a cave and sit here until the storm vanished. It took four days, and within that time, he learned that you have to take something to eat when you walk out of home.

He finally saw the military base. It was enormous, but that didn't surprise him - the new building technology allowed to build 50-story building in two, three weeks. It had four landing pads for the dreadnought-class cruisers, a cafeteria, two Headquarters, a barrack, capable of training simultaneously about 300 soldiers... and many more. In two months they made here an army bigged than people of Vendetta in 10 years.

Mike approached to the control point and went to the gate. The soldier sitting in the outpost was sleeping. Mike ignored him and silently opened the gate for himself. He knew that they won't kill him, at least before someone orders them to do this; he was highly recognizable - he was a former leader of Vendetta Defense Forces, one of better soldiers in Earthen Military and a former most-wanted mercenary. There was no doubt that every man in this base knew about him.

"Name?" The soldier asked before allowing the human to enter the HQ.

"Michael Thomas Gray, from VDF"

The soldier looked amazed at Mike, "You mean... you are that Michael T. Gray?"

"Yep"

"I thought so." he said silently, "Listen, I was once in VDF under your command. I owe you one, because you were the best boss I've ever had. Listen, Gen. Red is a one mean son... i meant daughter of a bitch-"

Now that was Mike's turn to be shocked, "Wait, wait, wait... Your general is a woman?" he chuckled.

"Yes, and she's the worst boss you could ever have... But she likes you, that's why she wanted to speak to you. Okay, I'll open the doors for you. On the right wall you should see the red stripe. Follow it and you'll find her office." the soldier said professionally and opened the big steel doors. "Good luck, sir"

"Landing procedure active. Welcome aboard, captain Leslie" someone said through the communication link.

The Arwing mk. I wasn't the best ship when it came to landing, because is was still a prototype, but even captain Nora Leslie couldn't afford a new one. It was a gift from dr. Phoenix from Space Dynamics laboratories.

The canopy opened and the beautiful, red vixen got out of her ship.

"Holy shit! What have you done to my little Arwing?" The green chimpanzee shouted, sprinting to the damaged fighter.

"What the-" Nora managed to say before the angry, green monkey pushed her out of the way, knocking her hard on the floor. "Andy!"

"Just... Just stay calm, stay calm" he said to himself aloud, turning around. "What do you want, ship wrecker?"

"I risked my life to help the cruiser fight off the space pirates, and you push me on the ground like that?" she growled

He let out a sigh of annoyance. "Listen, you hired me as a mechanic, not as a medic. We have WIMO. Let me do my work, or maybe do not make my work harder. She was in a perfect state" he said, pointing to the ship, "...now, she is missing a wing, the G-Diffuser looks like it wants to fly away without the rest of a ship, and the hull, once polished and shiny... NOW HAS A BIG BLACK HOLE!"

"C'mon, Nora, let the crazy with his craziness" The grey cheetah gave the vixen a hand, helping her get up.

"You know, I heard this!"

"I meant it for you to hear!"

"Hey, guys, calm down! It was, indeed, my fault to return the ship in such a bad state, but that's the cost of being a vigilante! Oh maan... We lately can't speak to each other..."

"Yeah... You know, I... I'm sorry, captain" Andy said after a brief break, "I shouldn't react like this... You didn't want to do this to her..."

"It's not only your fault... We need some serious mission, or something... Ineed a mission" the cheetah stated, turning around to Nora. "I'm sorry, too..."

"Never mind, Runner. I guess we all need to take a brief break from all this laziness"

Of course if we won't kill each other during the process...

She grabbed the chimp and the cheetah by the hands and dragged them in the way of the command center.

"What are you doing?" Andy asked when he suddenly began to be dragged.

"I said we need a break, so we NEED a break, you too, mr. mechanic!"

"I was awaiting your arrival, mr. Gray" the young feminine voice greeted the human when he entered the desired office. He didn't saw her face, though. She sat behind the wall of darkness, lighted only by small desk lamp, which revealed her female silhouette, but nothing more than that.

"Erm... Do I know you?" he said, when her voice ringed a bell in his head. He remembered that voice.

"Maybe yes. Why don't you take a look?" she asked, standing up from her chair and walking into the light, slightly smiling.

Oh... My... God...

"Lisa? Is that really you?" Mike was completely shocked. The face he saw belonged to his dead sister, Lisa Shepard.

"My name is Megan now" she whispered, "But yes. It's me"

"H-How!"

"That doesn't matter right now. When I found you on this godforsaken battlefield, and saw what you can do, I had to call you here."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait. Why did you attacked my home? Why did you killed almost half of my friends?"

"I was sent here the day before yesterday. I didn't knew that planet was in control of humans. The main general of ESM said that this planet is inhabited by very aggresive animals, which are needed to extinct... If I knew the truth, I would abort all the military tasks."

"So why don't you do that, then?" he said, crossing his hands and cocking the eyebrow.

"It's not that easy. I have to send the information to main HQ, then ask for a permission for a retreat... The procedure has started. I need now a permission. Then we'll back off of this planet"

"So the last general was an enormous liar?"

"You could say that. But it's not the time for this. I need you now."

"What exactly?"

That bitch, I will kill her when I'll get back to Vendetta!

Mike was barely finding the strength to keep his mouth shut all the way to B-31, the newly discovered planet in unexplored sector of our galaxy. She made an idiot of himself, sending him on a suicide mission in middle of unknown planet, probably inhabited by aliens. He got to know all this from the pilot of the ship he was in. In the Earthen Military, rumors were faster than the speed of light. They said that some general from Earth Prime discovered a system, which wasn't in control of humans, but it was in control of intelligent creatures. They sent a reconnaissance squad to check this out, but they never came back.

Why did she do that to me! I'm her brother, after all! That soldier on the entrance was right. I should have refused all this... Wait, what am I talking about! I couldn't refuse! Oh shut up already!

"Hey, where are we?" he asked after really long silence.

"I don't know... maybe four hours from our destination... I can be wrong, though. Just go to sleep, I'll wake up when we'll arrive" the pilot responded. He sounded somewhat confused, but Mike didn't say anything. He did what the pilot said and soon he went to really deep sleep.

"NORA! LET ME OUT OF THIS!" The yellow canary shouted, when the red vixen, with help of the grey cheetah managed to get him inside the escape pod.

"Sorry, Chip, but if you have shut up earlier, we, PROBABLY, weren't doing this" she barely managed to say this through the waves of uncontrollable laughter.

"Captain Leslie, let out Chip from the capsule, he can't survive 5 seconds without eating something"

"OH REALLY! YOU TOO, WIMO?" Chip shouted angrily, trying to kick the door open.

"ANDY! Prepare the capsule to launch! Destination - Corneria!" Nora and Runner shouted simultaneously.

"Yes sir!" Andy chuckled, entering the coordinates and sending the escape pod into space!

"WHEN I'LL GET OUT OF THERE, YOU'LL BE SORRY!" the canary shouted when the pod engaged its engines.

"So, we got rid of that stupid bird for next three hours. What we'll do now?"

"We're going after him" she said, showing his ID card to the others, "He won't exit the airport without this"

"Sooo... The little vacation on Corneria?" Andy asked.

"Not exactly. We're going to visit our old friends"

A/N: So what do you think? I tried to make this as best as I could! Please, send me your feedback. I kinda feel that I don't explain the situations very well and the dialogues are just plain words, whaddya think?

Anyways, I've introducted our main heroes - the Crimson Fox' team! (they belong to Julius Cowan, not me). Their visit won't end as planned

;)