Chapter 1

Prologue:

Star Fox Returns

The dreadnought class mothership, Great Fox, was flying in the dark reaches of Space.

Inside, the heroic Star Fox Team was getting some well deserved rest after recently completing a standard but tiresome mission.

Their team composed of six members: four elite star pilots, a mission adviser and a robot.

The team leader Fox McCloud, a strong, proud, handsome, caring, and devoted orange and white furred fox, was sleeping along with the other team members.

The other members: Falco Lombardi, Krystal, Slippy Toad, and Peppy Hare were each resting as well.

Falco Lombardi, a strong, tough, and respectable, but sometimes brash falcon was the Team's Ace Pilot meaning he was second in command to Fox.

The two of them had always been best friends.

Slippy Toad, the Team's skilled mechanic also played a role as Team Mascot at times.

He was small, funny, and respectful, but also sometimes sarcastic and rude to enemies.

Peppy Hare, a wise and kind old hare, had been a pilot until age finally caught up with him.

He had become the team adviser and a father figure to Fox.

He was an original Star Fox Team member, the first team lead by James McCloud, Fox's father.

Peppy had become the General of the Cornerian Army, the soldiers of the Lylat System.

He had been general during the infamous Angular Crisis, but was now back with the Star Fox Team as he was replaced two years ago by the reinstatement of the former General Pepper, an old but strong and wise hound dog.

General Pepper had become very ill, so Peppy replaced him as general until Pepper was deemed healthy enough to return to duty.

That was when Peppy rejoined the famous Star Fox Team.

Finally, Krystal, a mysterious but beautiful young vixen, had joined the Star Fox team about five years ago when Fox saved her from the evil return of Andross, the sworn enemy of the entire Lylat System, during the Saurian Incident.

After that event, Krystal joined Team Star Fox and fought with them as a pilot during the Aparoid Invasion.

The Aparoid Invasion took place a year after Krystal joined the Star Fox Team.

Once it was over Fox and Krystal fell in love and they promised to stay together.

However, Fox had been very wary of the dangers posed to Krystal and forced her to leave the team so as to keep her from getting hurt or worse.

Krystal however was heartbroken and angry with him, so she vanished only to have Fox learn that she had joined the Star Fox Team's Rival team Star Wolf, a group of criminals and thugs.

More events passed however, and Krystal eventually rejoined the Star Fox Team only to leave again once the Angular Directorate was over leaving Fox alone and unloved once again.

But, another year later, all the former members of the Star Fox Team and the Star Wolf Team were called together for an investigation on a strange dark planet.

That was where they encountered the horrifying xenomorph aliens, a species of ant like monsters who were nothing but deadly and horrible.

Though there had been deaths of many Cornerian army soldiers, including the death of General Pepper, the Star Fox and Star Wolf teams both managed to escape.

Krystal had even left the Star Wolf Team to finally rejoin Star Fox once again because she had learned that Star Wolf was merely using her to make Fox miserable and lonely.

She also had another reason: Fox had saved her life once again nearly at the cost of his own.

That frightening event caused Krystal to remember how much Fox cared for her so the rejoined Star Fox.

Two years have passed since that event, and now the Star Fox team was resting while on a returning Course to Planet Corneria.

Team Star Fox was back and they were about to receive a call from the new General of the Cornerian Army, the son of General Pepper himself.

Little did they know that this new assignment they would receive would take them to the home planet of Krystal, Planet Cerinia.