DISCLAIMER: I don't own Star Fox or related characters and titles. Nintendo does. Or Rare, or something.

Btw: This is my first SF fic and I was really bored when I started this so please no flames. Enjoy!

1 The Boredom Bugs

Three of the members of the Star Fox team were lounging around in the main recreational room of the Great Fox. Their leader was in his quarters, resting.

"I'm bored." Peppy said, finishing up another thumb-wrestling match against Slippy.

"C'mon! One more go!" Slippy pleaded as he grabbed Peppy's hand in the position of thumb wrestling.

"Geez, Slippy! I've already beaten you 341 times!" Peppy told him.

"Three hundred forty-two." Falco corrected, looking up from the magazine he was reading. It was his favorite magazine in the whole world, "Hot Lady Birds".

"Hey! I've got an idea!" Peppy said, defeating Slippy even while not looking.

"Aww! I lost again!" Slippy whined. He found a spot on the couch, picked up the remote, and watched TV.

"Well, what's your idea?" Falco asked, not looking up this time.

"We can go kill off the rest of Andross's baddies and make General Pepper pay us more money!" Peppy replied, cracking his knuckles.

"Nah, I'd rather stay here." Falco said, still not looking up.

"Me too." Slippy said, staring at the TV as if mesmerized.

"And now back to the all tree, all the time Tree Channel," the man on the TV said dully.

"Ooh ooh this is the best part!" Slippy said as the TV zoomed in on a white birch tree's trunk.

"Hmm. Maybe Fox will want to. He's always up for some cash." Peppy said, and walked over to McCloud's personal quarters. Peppy slammed on the door as hard as he could.

"Hey, Fox!" he shouted.

"Go, away Peppy!" a tired grouchy Fox yelled back.

"Wanna make some cash?" Peppy persuaded. The door opened instantly.

"Sure." Fox said, fully dressed. Works every time, Peppy chuckled to himself. Peppy and Fox proceeded to the Docking bay. They climbed into their own Arwings and got ready to go. Just as they opened the airlock door, Slippy and Falco came out running from the rec room. Falco was still reading his magazine as he and Slippy boarded their Arwings.

"We're coming too!" Falco called, finally putting his magazine into his back pocket.

"What's with the change of heart?" Peppy radioed the newcomers once they all were boarded.

"My boredom just suddenly ceased, and I felt like I wanted to do something!" Falco said.

"I followed him!" was Slippy's answer. "You guys know I can't stand being home alone!" The other three members shuddered at memories of what happened last time.

The four finally set out for baddie hunting, with Rob64 backing them up. They searched the entire Lylat System for any remaining forces that once held allegiance to Andross. They came up with nothing.

"Rats." Fox said as the team docked back in Great Fox. The four exited their respective Arwings and headed back to the rec room. Fox noticed an odd purple blob that seemed to have been burst under the left wing of his Arwing.

"What in Andross's name is that?" Fox asked his teammates. The other three came over to look.

"Eeww!" Slippy said and ran away.

"I've never seen anything like it…" Falco said, then shrugged and followed Slippy to the rec room.

"It looks oddly familiar," Peppy noted. "Wait! I've seen a picture of it in one of my books of otherworldly creatures!" He left to the ship's library. Fox followed.

Upon entering the library behind Peppy, Fox asked, "Since when do we have a library?"

"We've always had it Fox." Peppy replied. "Now where was that book?" He thumbed a nearby cart of books, looking for a particular book.

"Let's see, "Strange Creatures from Other Worlds", "More Strange Creatures from Other Worlds", "Really Strange Creatures, from Other Worlds", "More Really Strange Creatures from Other Worlds". Aha!" Peppy said and picked up the next one. "Even More Really Strange Creatures from Other Worlds!" He grinned and hugged it as a schoolgirl. Fox looked at him weirdly. Peppy looked up at Fox.

"A-hem," Peppy cleared his throat and donned his serious face. He started flipping through the book like a madman.

"Aha! Here it is!" Peppy stopped flipping and shoved the page in Fox's face. "That purple blob is one of these!" Fox looked at the page and read aloud.

"The egg of a hetertrophic-endocytosinis-dicilin, nick named, 'The Boredom Bug', for its affect on intelligent life forms of complete lethargy. As the name suggests, the Boredom Bug is a parasitic carnivore, and feeds off the blood of other animals. One of these eggs can release as many as 50 Bugs in a matter of hours. So?"

"So," Peppy said, closing the book and returning it to its shelf. "If that thing hatches, we'll have an infestation problem! I think it already has! It will make the entire Star Fox team completely lethargic until we all wither away in our own boredom! That is not good!"

"I wonder if General Pepper will pay me for killing these things…" Fox pondered.

"We have to kill that egg now, before it hatches! And if it already has, we have to kill the individual bugs!" Peppy shouted and ran back to Fox's Arwing in the Docking Bay. Fox followed, blaster ready. They didn't make it back in time. The egg had indeed burst, and there was no sign of the Bugs anywhere.

"Rob64, we have a problem." Peppy said.