Star Fox: Sons of Legends
Part 1: Peacetime
Chapter 1: Introduction
Fox McCloud lives an ordinary life.
At least, he lives an ordinary life now, but it had not always been that way. It was not always that he got up in the morning, prepared for work, kissed his wife and child goodbye and left for the small, airline factory, working an eight hour shift and returning home before dinner time. No, Fox used to live a much more exuberant life, filled with both danger and adventure. He was once a mercenary, a warrior, a leader. He was once the captain of a small military program called Star Fox. It was not a "sophisticated" program, that is to say, a program that was fully recognized by the Cornarian military or signed off as being truly legitimate. Regardless of this, Star Fox was made up of very real, and very heroic, arwing pilots. They were expert fighters who spent their days flying through the dark vacuum of space and facing the horrors that riddled the great unknown. What made them heroic? How about always fighting for the peace loving Lylat planets who could not defend themselves from the monsters who wished to destroy them? How about saving the whole Lylat system from a race of bloodthirsty aliens knows as Aperoids and their power hungry tyrant of a leader Andros? How about putting an end to the organized crime of the twisted mercenary program Star Wolf? But Fox has retired from that lifestyle, and all of these things are irrelevant to him now. Now he was just another man (or another vulpine to be exact, for there are many lylat species, and they all share characteristics of the animals back on earth, but these details are irrelevant for now).
Indeed, Fox was now retired, and happy to be so. Although he would admit that he did sometimes miss the excitement, the action, and the intense adrenaline that came from being an arwing space pilot, he would also say that a life always under those circumstances would be no real way to live, especially if your love life was your wing man. Fox met Krystal, the woman who would be his future wife, under the worst circumstances. Although he managed to rescue Krystal from Andros, he could not prevent the genocidal madman from destroying her entire planet. Tragically, Krystal was left a princess without a kingdom, and even now she would admit that, had it not been for Fox, her knight in shining armor, she would not have had the will to go on living. When Fox had asked her to join his team, Krystal felt like her life was resurrected. With her unique telepathic abilities, combined with personal training from Fox, Krystal quickly turned into an arwing master.
Of course, even with great skill, both Krystal and Fox and the entire Star Fox team for that matter faced many hazards. Being a mercenary pilot wasn't exactly the safest job in the lylat system, and each member had close calls during missions. Very close calls. Too close. In fact, ironically enough, it was after one mission that nearly killed Krystal that Fox finally, if not accidentally, opened up to her in an emotional fit of paranoia and fear. Although it happened under odd (and rather comical) circumstances, Krystal was enthralled to see Fox finally pronounce his love for her. In fact she was so happy she actually came to tears, for knowing that someone still truly loved her even after her whole race was lost was the best comfort Krystal could ever live under and indeed, she too had always loved Fox McCloud.
As the years passed on, peace finally began to establish itself. Wars ended, treaties were signed, organized crime gradually declined, and violence seemed to lose its grip in the Lylat system. Fox began to see that the Star Fox team was no longer needed, and both he and Krystal decided to resign from their positions. Although the program still continued under the leadership of Falco, Fox's longtime avian friend and second–in–command, Star Fox was watered down to a simple police force, stopping the occasional pirate and mercenary thug. In short, it became an old dusty relic from the past that was never really forgotten, but deemed irrelevant.
But all of this is history. Now Fox is concerned with other matters. Loving his wife, spending time with his son, paying bills, attending meetings, and taking vacations are now Fox's goals in life. But the past never truly goes away. The unexpected turns of life never seem to end, no matter how ordinary one tries to be. And it was on this day, this beautiful Cornarian spring day, a small, almost completely forgotten element of Fox's past, no, a hint of his past, would come unexpectedly into his life. Although one would not say accidentally, for the incident, with all of its amazing consequences, could not possibly be described as a tremendous accident. Fox had no idea that, today, meeting a dirty, angry, abandoned lupine child would not only change his life, but would also alter the very future of the entire Lylat system.