My first story on the site, please give your feelings. This chapter is a foreshadowing flashback introduction, and a basic recap of the events of the series up until Assault. Skip to the next chapter to begin.
--------------------14 years ago-----------------------
This was the place to be, truly. And to think, just a week ago, he'd been down in the dumps. He still shuddered when he thought about how many times he had looked at that pistol in his drawer and considered it. Maybe Manson had been right. Maybe he just didn't have the spine to go all the way. But if the spineless guys got action like this, then he was one bird who would be just fine with no backbone at all.
Katt Monroe: He'd known her his whole life, but for as close as they had been all these years, he didn't ever think he would get this close. No, he wasn't in bed with her yet, but at this rate, he'd have her in just a few minutes. He considered himself quite the bad boy, and he knew how the feline felt about that. This was the only time of his life he felt like there was no guilt, no evil, no other thing in this world. Just him, and her.
But they say reality can be an extremely cruel thing. Now, he didn't believe in philosophy and all that, but one word echoed through that room at that moment, filled with so many emotions simultaneously, that to him, it sounded like it might be the end of the world. He and Katt quickly broke the embrace as they beheld the wiry figure standing in the doorway, rings running around his snout, and everything else. But he didn't see the rings, all he saw were the eyes.
"Falco?!"
------------------Present Day--------------------
Falco Lombardi sat in the dining hall of the team's ship, the Great Fox. To be honest, it really belonged to Fox McCloud, the Star Fox team's leader. It had belonged to his old man before he croaked, and then his best friend passed it down to Fox. Fox took up the mantle of the team leader position at only the age of 19. Falco and Slippy were there also. Slippy was younger, but Falco was older, though not by much. Them and Peppy (Basically Fox's Godfather, and a member of the old team) had formed the new Star Fox.
They fought the evil scientist, Dr. Andross Oikonny, and his forces for years. Eventually, the team broke up. Falco left to seek more thrill, Slippy went to work on Corneria- the Lylat captial- with his dad in the R&D department, and Peppy retired. Fox went solo for a while (found a chick in the process) and saved some far-off planet from certain destruction, then beat Andross again.
The girl he met, named Krystal, joined him and became the team's new fourth member, after Falco and Slippy rejoined. A year or two later, they were back in action. Parasites were trying to assimilate planets, and guess who headed the defense. We found old friends, new friends, weird friends, old enemies who turned out to be, well, not quite enemies, and stopped evil again.
And now Team Star Fox had nothing to do but mundane patrol runs. Of course, you never knew where you were gonna find trouble. He certainly had run into trouble in the least expected places before. Truth be told, Falco Lombardi attracted trouble. But everything was safe, now. All his friends were safe, the Lylat system was safe. And in the end, that was all he really cared about, although he would never let that come out of his mouth. He had a reputation to protect.