Subspace Emissary:
The Return
Prologue
It has been a year since the Subspace Army and Tabuu have been defeated. The world went back to normal, and each hero returned to their homes. Sonic went back to racing whoever he could find, Mario went on a second vacation to Delfino, Fox and his team returned to the skies, and Link went back to Hyrule.
Mario stood in the middle of Delfino Plaza and looked around, a smile on his face. It was funny to think that the last time he has here, he was chasing Bowser, Jr. and cleaning up that devil's mess! He had plans for Blooper riding and pigging out on fruit.
He went back to the airstrip to help Peach with her things, and to make sure Luigi didn't mess anything up. It was there that he spied a box that said F.L.U.D.D. on it.
"F.L.U.D.D.? What's in that box?" Mario asked one of the flight crew.
"Well, since you left, we haven't used him at all. He's being shipped out to a dump."
"What? Let me have him!"
Mario and the water-spraying contraption were reunited, and he got ready for the vacation he had been robbed of.
Kirby sat in the Dragoon tentatively. Ever since the Subspace Army's attack, he had been getting used to racing again, but only in the heat of the moment had he been brave enough to ride the Dragoon. Now that things had calmed down, he found it harder to ride it.
It was then that he saw a huge airship passing overhead, and he recognized the Halberd immediately. As usual, his curiosity got the better of him, and he gunned the
engine quickly. Racing off down the cobbled road, Kirby tilted the nose upward, and he was in the air.
He followed the Halberd for a few miles, and then he picked up speed to get to the cockpit. Kirby saw Meta-Knight at the wheel, and waved. Meta-Knight turned to look at his visitor, waved his hand once, and then turned back to driving. Kirby shrugged his shoulders and took off in the other direction.
Kirby flew for about a hundred miles west, and eventually saw Delfino Isle in the distance. He vaguely remembered Mario saying something about vacation.
Three Arwings flew through space, eventually being joined by a fourth. Fox and Slippy veered off to the right, while Falco and Krystal aimed their Arwings to the left. It was just another recon flight. The Star Fox team was getting bored. The Subspace Army was the biggest thrill they'd had in a long time, and nothing had been going on since then.
Fox heard a voice coming over the intercom, and he said, "Come again?"
This time he could hear Slippy's voice loud and clear. "Why don't we head for Earth?"
Falco replied first, "We need action. Come on Fox, let's go!"
Fox flew in silence for a minute. "Fine," he said. "Let's go to Earth."
Lucario stood at the top of his mountain, watching the world below him. Just then, he saw Kirby on the Dragoon shoot by. His brow furrowed as he looked into the horizon to see where the little pink creature was going. A few seconds later, three Arwings plunged into the atmosphere above him, and he immediately recognized Fox and Falco, but he didn't know who the frog sitting in the third Arwing was.
As they came closer, Lucario leapt off the peak of the mountain and free fell for a second before he landed on the back of Fox's Arwing.
"Where are you guys going?" he asked.
"We need some action," replied Fox, "so we came to Earth."
"And we saw Kirby, so we're just following him!" added Falco.
"And who's the frog?" Lucario asked.
"That's Slippy! He's part of our team!"