Star Fox Assault: Star Wolf Edition
Disclaimers: Rated T for depictions of violence and mildly strong language. Star Fox and all names and characters (save for the Wolf Pack) are copyright Nintendo, Rare, and Namco.
Chapter 1
It had been some time since Star Wolf had seen any major action, the last time being during Venom's war with Corneria several years ago. Since that time, the Star Wolf Team had kept busy with comparatively mediocre jobs around the Lylat System, be it scavenger raids on luckless merchant vessels that strayed into their territory, bounty hunting, or quarrels with rival mercenary gangs. Even so, it was hard to escape the tedium that peace brought to people who made a living off of strife and turmoil.
The team's leader, Wolf O'Donnel, was just contemplating this when a sudden disturbance shattered his thoughts.
"What the hell? That's the third time this week that blasted transfer device has conked out! Where's the moron who's supposed to keep these things running?" Shouted an annoyed Leon Powalski, senior member of the Star Wolf team, second in command to Wolf O'Donnel, leader both of the Star Wolf team and of the gang of criminals, low-level mercenaries, and thugs that made up the manpower needed to control the expanse of territory the team resided over. A few moments later, an ape wearing a rather flea-bitten Venomian uniform and a pair of red visor-like goggles over his eyes approached Leon, scratching the back of his head with one hand.
"What's the matter boss?" the ape asked, looking from the sparking and crackling transfer device to the not-too-happy chameleon.
"You've been slacking off on the job again, that's what! Your job is to keep the transfer devices running, and this one's broken down for the third time this week!" said Leon, pointing towards the machine in question. "If this hideout were to come under attack, these devices would be the only way of keeping enough manpower coming to keep it from being overrun! Now get off your lazy tail and get to work before I make Monkey stew out of you!" With this, the Ape promptly headed towards the device and set to work getting it running again as Leon walked off, heading towards Wolf whom had overseen the whole dressing-down.
"Monkey stew, huh? Not sure that'd exactly win many cooking contests." said Wolf as he walked along with Leon, who in turn shrugged.
"Eh, maybe so, but it certainly lit a fire under his tail."
"It doesn't help that we've barely been making enough to keep things in decent shape around here, to say nothing of getting a hold of better equipment." Said Wolf as the two boarded the elevator to the top level of their 'hideout', a remote space colony in the Sargasso region that had become overrun with all nature of criminals and ruffians, ranging from petty thieves, to murderers, and pretty much any other low-life the Lylat System could produce.
After reaching the top level, Wolf and Leon then proceeded down the hallways to the command room that served as the nerve center for the entire hideout, the large double doors parting as they approached to reveal the team's newest member, Panther Caroso, looking over an array of monitors, looking for prospective 'job' opportunities for the team. Panther had joined the team shortly after Pigma Dengar was ousted, his endless greed and self-centeredness having finally gotten on Wolf's last nerve and soon before Andrew Oikonny left to pursue his late uncle Andross' ambitions of ruling the Lylat System, taking a portion of the hideout's inhabitants with him. The dark-furred Feline was still considered a rookie in terms of time on the team, but despite being new, he still showed promise, and could hold his own just as well as Wolf and Leon in most cases.
"Find anything Panther?" asked Wolf, glancing at the monitors as Panther turned to face his comrades.
"Not yet, though there has been an increase in com traffic about encounters with something called Aparoids, said Panther, indicating the large central monitor showing a star chart with a few random locations highlighted "Seems they've been attacking long-haul merchant ships and small colonies in remote parts of the system."
"Aparoids, huh? There's a name I haven't heard in a while." said Wolf, a gloved paw rubbing his chin.
"What are they? I don't recall hearing about them." asked Leon, glancing to the thoughtful Wolf.
"Heard some rumors a while back that one of those things wasted a whole fleet of Cornerian ships a couple decades or so ago. They kept pretty quiet after that, but it looks like they're making some noise again." No sooner had Wolf finished speaking, when one of the monitors lit up with an incoming transmission alert, drawing the attention of all three of the team members to it as Panther opened the channel.
"This is Rango Alkon of the tenth Oikonnian Army; we are under heavy attack by unidentified aliens and need immediate reinforcements! Is anyone receiving me? I say again, we need immediate reinfor-AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!" The three looked on as the transmission was cut off in a burst of static, the monitor showing signal having been lost.
"Panther, where was that signal coming from?" asked Wolf, the Panther already tapping away on a control panel in front of him.
"It seems like it originated from Fortuna. Can't make much of what's going on there, this equipment's not as capable as it could be."
Leon then looked to Wolf "Don't tell me you're thinking about going there?"
Wolf then smirked, still looking at the monitors "There could be a job opportunity in there. Not like we can exactly afford to be choosy about where our meal ticket comes from these days." After a couple moments, the tall Lupine looked to his two team mates "Panther, Leon, get ready to leave. We're going to Fortuna!" The two nodded to their leader, Leon leaving to brief the gang downstairs that they'd be in charge of keeping the hideout secure in their absence, and Panther leaving to ready the team's mother ship, the Wolf Pack and their Wolfen II fighters for the trip. "Looks like business might finally be picking up." Wolf mused to himself as he too exited the command room to get ready.
End chapter 1
Original A/N, circa 2005: So what'd you think? Off to a good start so far? Yes, I know Star Wolf doesn't officially have any other ships besides the Wolfen fighters, but I decided to take a few liberties with this. Besides, it would fill in a few plot holes, such as how the team managed to get around the Lylat System so well. Please read & review and let me know how you like this so far.
New A/N: Just when you thought this story was dead, it rises from the abyss! Sorry for the lack of updates on this, been dealing with all nature of RL issues, not the least of which include my Game Cube dying and denying me access to the game which was my main reference material. I just recently got a Wii though, so I plan to bring this story out of hiatus and complete it. In preparation, I went through and revised what I had with the existing chapters (nothing major, mostly fixed grammar and paragraph structure to clean things up). I'm already working on chapter six, and will post it once I get a chance to complete it between college and other responsibilities.