"Falco, did you take my plasma scanner?" said a young Slippy Toad with his squeaky voice under a massive blue and white tank.

"Why would I need your plasma scanner?" responded the young and tall Falco Lombardi, who was seating quite comfortably on a metal chair.

"Probably because you have a tendency of stealing my equipment and selling it for cheap prices on Corneria!".

"Hey I told you I didn't sold your hypermeter, I just let a friend borrow it".

"You two need to stop stealing and making false accusations at one another" said the young Fox McCloud who had just entered the main Hangar bay of the first Great Fox. "Slippy I took your plasma scanner it's on the bridge" said Fox.

"Oh, I'll go get it right now" said Slippy who proceeded to exit the Hangar. Falco closed his eyes and leaned back for a nap.

"You need to take it easy on Slippy Falco, his mother was really important to him and he has been a little grumpy since she died" said Fox to his friend.

"Whatever, I'll mind my business Fox"

Falco was annoyed at Fox's comment; he got up and also left the hangar leaving Fox by himself. Fox looked at him and shook his head, "You'll never change my friend" he thought.

It has been one-point-eight years since the Lylat Wars. The Star Fox team has been out of the job and has been depending on their reward and small jobs here and there to maintain themselves. Lylat is still not a safe place, the war diminished the Cornerian ranks and regional pirate groups have risen throughout the system. The Star Fox has team is mostly assigned to search for pirate hideouts which are then raided by Cornerian military task forces. The Great Fox is currently roaming the outer edges of the system hoping that a Cornerian general will request their services.

Peppy Hare, the more aged member of Star Fox, sat on a chair on the bridge of the Great Fox, with a computer screen directly to his side that was attached to the chair itself. The bridge was being naturally illuminated by the yellowish light that emanated from the star of Lylat, Solar, as well by the flashes that came from computer screens and buttons throughout the bridge. Fox came in talking with Slippy through the communicator on his wrist.

"Just check them Slip, I don't want one to go off when we are sleeping" said Fox in a calm matter. Fox looked around the bridge before he took notice of Peppy; he looked as if he was in a trance since he was just staring at his computer screen. "Hey Peppy what's so interesting?" Peppy didn't seem to notice Fox, "Peppy, Peppy!" After this Peppy finally seemed to take notice of Fox.

"Uh, what Fox?" said Peppy, barely taking notice of Fox.

"I said what are you looking at on your computer screen?"

"Just looking an old picture that your mother took a long time ago"