The Long awaited Sequel has arrived, I'm really sorry its taken so long. So there have been a few changes to the plot so I ended up just redoing ep. 2 which is one of the reasons why its late.

PLEASE READ- As stated in the first one I have changed somethings in the Star Fox universe to fit my Story, if you don't like it than just stop reading, don't be a dick head and start crying about how I changed things. this story isn't Canon to the actual Star Fox, Krystal is still with Fox in the real thing not a Human.

I'm really happy to be posting Ep. 2, just a few notes.

I will try to post two chapters once every week.

Just like last time, if I get ten reviews or one thousand views within a week then I'll post four chapters.

Every third chapter will be a flashback chapter, so you can get a better understanding of everyone's friendship and what all they went through at training.

Since I no longer have MS Word, the new program I uses doesn't correct grammar mistakes, so there my be a lot of those. I'm really bad at grammar but I will cut my left nut off before spending money to get MS Word back, money hungry thieving bastards.

That's it, I really hope you enjoyed it. Please review and let me know what you think. If you're going to post negative reviews then at least add on how I can improve the story.

Space Mercenaries
-CDAA 101-

~Joshua Grant, Lucy hare and three other members of team Ragthorn have nearly completed the ten-week training program at the Cornerian Defense Army Academy. The team head over to the planet Fortuna to complete their last week of training, however on the way to the base their Star Cruiser is attacked and crash-lands. After trying to make their way to the Cornerian base the Cadets stumble upon a small farming settlement which is being harassed by a Drug Lord. Believing the settlement will reveal the whereabouts of the drug operations to the Cornerian government, the Leader orders the settlement to be eradicated. With no way of contacting the Cornerian army, the settlement's best chance of survival rest in the hands of five CDAA Cadets. ~

Ch.1
Dog Fight

An explosion rang all throughout the valley, the peaceful Farmers quickly dropped what they were doing and turned their full attention to where the source of the sound was coming from. A large mountain sized hill that was completely covered in vegetation blocked their view of what caused the explosion. The Farmers continued to stare at the large hill waiting for something else to happen, just when they thought nothing else was going to happen another explosion occurred. This time however they saw the flames from the blast reach over the hill, and from the flames came a large black and green Star Ship. The Ship made a horrible screeching cry as it flew above the frightened Farmers, suddenly three more black and green Star Ships flew by and caught up to the first one. Before anyone could blink the Star Ships reversed and headed straight for the Farmers at full speed.

"RUN!" One of the Farmers cried out and began to shove his way past other Farmers that blocked his way, the rest of the Farmers also began to shove each other out of the way to get to safety, suddenly the Farmers heard the Ships' twin Gatling guns fire. Green plasmic rounds began to rain down on the Farmers and their settlements. Each round that struck the ground sent dirt and plasmic mist into the air, Farmers began to trample on anyone who was unlucky enough to fall to the ground, Children cried out for their parents who died, the Farm animals broke through their pens to escape to safety. It didn't take long for the attackers to set the Farming settlement to fire, columns of smoke raised high into the sky. With this settlement destroyed it was time to move on to the next.
The Leader of this ruthless gang smiled in delight at the handy work him and his buddies had done, the sight of all the destruction and death made him giggle. The Brown Fox flipped a switch on his control board.

"Another fine slaughter boys, let's say we hit one more settlement before dinner?" He asked, the reply came in sickening laughter.

"Lead the way boss." One of the members called out, the gang leader smiled even more. The thought of killing had flood his mind so much that he didn't even notice five militarized Star Ships quickly approaching from behind.

Five dark grey and yellow colored Star Ships with "CDAA" labeled in white on each wing had quickly made their way to the sight after one of them pointed out a couple of large smoke pillars rising to the sky, each smoke site they went to was the same. The grounds where covered with plasmic scorch marks and dead bodied, however unlike the other sites the attackers had yet to make their escape from this one. The Squad leader began a quick system check, everything appeared to be in order. He flipped the open com switch and addressed his team.

"We can't let these ass hats attack another settlement, we are the only patrol out in this sector, so it falls to us to take these guys out. Everyone ready?" He asked and turned his gaze to look at two holo screens on the right side of the cockpit. The Screen on bottom showed what was behind his Ship, the screen on top was split into four sections and showed the other four members of his team. To the top left was a pink and tan colored female Rabbit named Lucy Hare, the top right was a brown and white male Dog named Nathan Hugh, to the bottom left was a pink and black spotted male Pig named Jackman Stout, lastly to the bottom right was a pure white colored female lion named Leana Keith.

"Ready" They replied almost in perfect unison, they then looked at their own holo screen to see their leader. The newly discovered alien, the human Josh Grant.

"Let's kick some ass." He said and quickly placed his hand on the thruster lever and pushed it all the way forward igniting his back burners in bright blue flames and increasing his speed. The Other four pilots did the same and prepared for the battle at hand. Josh used his thumb to flip a switch on his steering stick which activated his weapons and aiming system, which was shown as a red holo square in the center of his canopy. Once he was close enough to get one of the black and green ships inside the red square it instantly turned green which meant he was locked on, to the side of the green square was a set of numbers which told him how far his target was. At the moment, he was five hundred yards and closing in fast. He kept a stead finger on the Gatling trigger and kept his eye on his target. At three hundred yards, he squeezed the firing trigger and sent hundreds of blue plasmic rounds at his target.

The rounds struck the black and green Star Ship, the Ship took damage but not enough to destroy it. The Gang Star Ship quickly spun out of the incoming fire and turned around to fire back as did the rest. A series of green and blue plasmic rounds began to fly as the dog fight progressed. Josh carefully eyed each ship that came close to him while he fought with someone else, while his team out numbered them, they however appeared to have much stronger shielding and weapons. To top it off the gang seemed to have activated some type of signal scrambler which kept Josh and his squad from getting a lock on their ships.

"I can't get a lock on them!" Nathan shouted as he kept trying to lock onto his target.

"They've activated a scrambler, switch to your Gatling and eye ball it the best you can." The Human ordered and quickly barrel rolled out of incoming fire. A few rounds still managed to strike his air craft which caused it to shake a little. Josh looked to the center of his control panel, there was a blue screen which showed a schematic of his Ship. To the lower left of the screen showed his reflector shielding's power level, which stated his shielding's power was at 73%

"Josh, you alright?" Lucy asked.

"I'm fine Lu." He replied and quickly noticed another gang ship approaching him from the left, the ship began to fire it's plasmic rounds at him. Josh quickly sent his craft into a nose dive and began plummeting to the ground. He kept switching his view from the canopy to the rear-view screen monitor. The Gang ship was hot on his trail firing its weapons at him. As the Human continued to dive down he started to swerve to the left and right to avoid getting hit.

Low altitude…Pull up…Pull up His on-board system started to say, Josh kept his focus as he approached the ground at sound breaking speed. Pull up…Pull up.

"I'm doing it, shut up already." He said and quickly pulled his steering stick all the way back sending his Ship launching back up. He quickly checked his rear-view screen to find the gang ship had also pulled up just in time.

"Shit." The Human cursed, he had hopped the idiot wouldn't have had time to pull up, suddenly an alarm started to go off in the cock pit.
You have been locked onto, evasive maneuvers recommended. Josh looked back to the canopy and noticed the warning moving across the windshield. Switching back to his rear-view screen he saw the gang member firing a missile. Josh quickly tilted the steering stick to the right, his ship moved out of the rockets path and he watched as it flew past him. Suddenly the rocket did a 360 turn and headed for him.

"God damn trackers!" He cursed and flew his craft out of the missiles path once again. The rocket turned around again and continued to chase down its target. Josh lowered his ship and flew into a lushes' green valley, he began to fly past small hills and constantly changed his course to throw the tracking missile off target.
However, no matter what he did the damn thing remained on his tail and gaining speed. The Human looked to his control panel and an idea came to mind. He quickly started to push some buttons on the panel.

Speak a command the system spoke.

"Launch all flares." He ordered, suddenly five flaps opened at the back of his ship. Nearly thirty red flares launched out and struck the missile causing it to blow up. The human cheered for a few seconds and then turned his ship around and headed back to the dog fight.

Lucy had quickly moved her ship out of oncoming fire and focused her attacks on one ship, she eyed her target and started to fire her Gatling guns. Her plasmic rounds were missing the target by a couple of feet, so she repositioned her air craft for a better aim and fired. However, the gang ship flew off into a different direction. Lucy growled.

'Damn it, I really could use my aiming system right now.' She thought and quickly back flipped her craft and followed her target. Once she was close enough she started to fire her weapons, she had to constantly maneuver her Star Ship to get a better aim, each time she managed it the target kept pulling away.

"Agh…Stop moving and stay still!" She shouted.

"Shit, my shielding is gone!" Nathan called out. Lucy turned her attention to the rest of the battle and noticed Nathan's craft being shot at.

"Hold on Nate, I'm coming for you." She called out and pulled her craft away from her previous target. Pushing the thruster lever all the way forward the Rabbit broke the sound barrier and quickly approached her endangered team mate. Lucy quickly positioned her craft and started to fire her Gatling guns at the gang ship. Only a few of her rounds managed to hit the target, but it was enough to get the enemy to move away from Nathan.

"Thanks Lu, Shields recharging now."

"No problem." She replied and pulled her craft away and noticed Stout and Leana taking on another gang member, Lucy was fixing to head to them but stopped when her craft started to shake violently from taking fire. The Hare quickly moved her craft away from the fire and back flipped behind the attacker, she started to chase the target down while firing her Gatling. Round after round flew past the intended target which began to annoy Lucy. Suddenly one of the CDAA ships crashed right into the gang ship, there was a horrible crashing sound, pieces of each ship flew into the air as both aircraft began to spin out of control, the CDAA however managed to halt it's spiral and flew off.

"There you go Lu, that ought to slow it down for yah." Josh called out. Lucy felt her heart leap out of her chest.

"Josh! What the hell! You could have died doing that idiot!" She shouted, Josh rolled his eyes.

"Stop shouting and start shooting, he's not going to spin out forever." Lucy growled in annoyance and focused on the spiraling gang craft. She flew herself as close as she could and started to fire her Gatling at the ship. Once the shielding was disrupted the plasmic rounds began to cut through the ship like a knife through butter. The Craft exploded in flames and hurled to the ground. Lucy turned her gaze to the holo screen that showed her team, she glared at the human and scuffed.

"God your as reckless as Fox, no wonder Krystal asked me to watch out for you." Josh smiled. Lucy couldn't help but smile back, the two met each other the first day and instantly became friends, at first Josh thought Lucy would have resented him for her father dyeing in the Human Gorton war, the man who gave his live to help end the War. Were it not for Peppy Hare, New York City would have been lost and Josh along with Fox McCloud would have died. However, as it turned out she didn't blame Josh at all or have any resentment towards him or the people of Earth.

Since day one the two have stuck by each other's side, each day they trained together and depended on each other. As the weeks went on she understood what Krystal meant by Fox and Josh being alike, so it came as no surprise when the Human was made squad leader of team Ragthorn, either it was the fact that he had previous military background, or the fact that everyone on the team naturally looked up to him and came to him for advice. Whatever the reason, Lucy would gladly follow her friend to the ends of the galaxy.

"Lucy look out!" Josh shouted, before Lucy could even comprehend what the Human was talking about her on board systems started to speak.
You have been locked onto, evasive maneuvers recommended. Lucy felt her heart drop as she saw the missile heading straight for her.

"Move Lucy!" The Human ordered, Lucy quickly shook her head to clear her mind and quickly moved out of the missiles path, luckily for her it was a regular missile and not a tracker. Josh quickly positioned his Ship and began to fire his Gatling at the gang member, Lucy turned her craft around and began firing as well. With the two of them firing at the same target it didn't take long before his shields disrupted, their combined barrage of plasmic rounds tore through the ship and caused it to explode. Josh moved his gaze to the Holo screen and looked at Lucy.

"You alright?" He asked in a concerned tone, Lucy nodded.

"Yeah, that was pretty close…Thanks Josh." She replied

"Don't mean to interrupt." Nathan called out, "But we still have two targets to take care of you know." The annoyed dog eyed both Lucy and Josh on the holo screen.

"You're right…We're on our way." Lucy quickly said and pushed her thruster lever forward all the way, her backburners lit up in blue fire and she began soaring through the sky, gaining speed and breaking the sound barrier. Josh followed suit and the two quickly made their way back to the rest of the team.

"Alright Nathan, Stout you two focus your attacks on one ship. Lucy, Leana and I will focus on the other." Josh ordered.

"Yes Sir." They replied and quickly sprang into action. Nathan and Stout began to attack at one of the ships while Lucy, Leana, and Josh attacked the other. In a matter of moments both gang ships exploded. Suddenly everything froze, across their Canopy windshield "Mission completed" appeared in green glowing letters. Everything except the glowing letters went black.

A few years back the CDAA began to experiment with Virtual Simulations, and just as many had believed, more Cadets performed better with Virtual Simulations than those who used traditional means. As such the CDAA started to use the Simulations in the final course of Aerial combat. The Ten-week training program was separated into two separate training courses. Five weeks of Land combat, and five weeks of Aerial combat. This being the ninth week for team Ragthorn meant that this was their second to last Aerial simulation test. After today they will head to the Planet Fortuna to finish off their last week.

For Josh that week couldn't come fast enough, during his time in the CDAA the only thing his mind was truly on was Krystal. The Telepathic alien from the destroyed planet of Cerinia. They first met each other ten months ago, when Krystal crashed her Arwing into a lake, Josh rushed in and saved her. For the next two months, she had stayed at his apartment while she tried to fix a communicator to get a ride off Earth. Over those two moths the two got real close to each other. What started out as friendship bloomed into love. Though the two talked a few times every week, it was never enough. Just talking to her didn't fill his emotional need to be with her. He had to hold her, he had to feel her body against his, to feel her hug him as tightly as he hugged her. Before the Academy the two had spent every day in each other's company, but not being able to see her and feel her whenever he wanted, it felt like a living hell, one that didn't seem like it would end. Since their departure, it felt like Josh was missing a piece of him. There was a part of his soul that was gone, a black empty void that killed him a little every day.

Josh sighed and reached his hand towards the open Canopy switch located to the far left of the cockpit. After flipping the switch the Canopy started to open, hissing as it did. Once the Canopy was fully open Josh unbuckled the safety belts and climbed out of the simulation machine designed to look like a standard militarized Star Ship on the inside. On the outside however it looked like an ice box machine that motels and stores kept around back. Josh looked over at the other four simulation machines to find each of his team mates approaching him.

Stout was the shortest of everyone, he was short and fat as you would expect for a pig. He was a shy fellow, but smart, very smart. Lucy was tall and thin, she stood a few inches taller than Josh and a foot taller if you counted her ears. She was kind and compassionate, she was also a little bit oblivious and a bit of a klutz. The bathroom and showers were in the same room, the stalls that divided the showers did not cover the back side, only the sides. The Toilets were positioned so that whoever was using them was looking right at the shower. One day she walked in, took her clothes off and took a shower, all while Josh was using the toilet. She didn't even find out until she finished and started to dry off, from then on, she made sure the room was empty before she showered. Nathan was around Josh's height and size, he had a good sense of humor and really like to tell jokes. No joke was too offensive for him. Leana was the tallest and most physically built out of everyone else, she looked like a fluffy white furry body builder. Young Schwarzenegger had nothing on her. She didn't speak much, but when she did you wouldn't believe the voice she had. Josh would admit while Krystal had a beautiful voice, it was nothing compared to Leana, you would think an angle was talking when she spoke.

Once the others approached Josh they got into their Military stance, standing straight, feet spread shoulder length, and their hands behind their back. They then turned their attention to the center of the room. There in the center was Drill Instructor Parson, a red and blue feathered bird who teaches the Aerial combat course. Next to him was a grey and white colored wolf, Thatch Skinner, their physical training and Ground Combat Drill instructor. He was the one who woke them up at around six in the morning every day and worked their asses off for hours on end preforming exercise after exercise. Much of the training at the academy was very much like the training he received on Earth.

Even though their Ground combat course was over, Skinner didn't want his Cadets to get lazy. So, he stayed on as their Physical Instructor and constantly has them preform vigorous exercises, such as having them carry a hundred-pound log five miles up and down hills. He makes them head over to the gun range to keep their Marksmanship sharp and sparing mats to keep their fighting maneuvers fresh in their minds. To him five weeks isn't enough to learn about Ground combat, in fact he has stated many times that were it up to him, Ground combat would last ten weeks as well as Aerial combat.

D.I Parson seemed to still be on the main terminal that controlled the simulations, D.I Skinner seemed to be breathing down the Bird's neck as he too looked at the terminal screen. Whatever it was they were doing Josh couldn't tell, the two men were blocking the screen. Whatever small glimpses he could see told him that they were watching some video of some sorts.

"Come on already." Nathan softly spoke to himself and his team, Josh couldn't agree more, it seemed like every time Ragthorn did a simulation Parson and Skinner would be huddling up to the terminal watching something. Now that the human thought about it maybe they were watching a recording of their progress. Though they did complete the objective which was to destroy all enemy targets, their true success lied in D.I Parson's feathered hands. If he saw something he didn't like he could technically set the mission as a failure and force them to do it again. However, he hasn't done it so far.

A few more moments passed before Parson and Skinner turned their gaze to team Ragthorn, the two men shared a quick glance with each other and then moved to confront the team.

"I'll admit, you did better than most of the other teams." Parson said, "Not the greatest strategy I've seen, but you did complete the objective without any casualties." Parson then made his way to Josh.

"Cadet Grant…What you did by flying your Ship into another was very dangerous and completely reckless. You needlessly endangered your own life, I will however congratulate you for quickly using your flares to destroy the tracking missile, and for having multiple members of your team focusing their attacks on one Ship at a time. You out numbered them and used that to your advantage, good job." Parson then made his way to Lucy.

"Cadet Hare…You should spend more time focusing your attacks instead of having idle chats." He said in a bothered tone, Lucy nodded.

"Yes Sir…Sorry Sir." She said, Parson then walked up to Nathan.

"Cadet Hugh, heading straight into an outnumbered fight is never a wise choice. Instead of calling for help you believed you could take out two enemy ships that had both superior weapons and shielding, while you had your aiming system disabled. It was only when your shields were down that you called for help, your teammates are there to help. Keep that in mind for next week."

"Yes Sir." The Dog replied, lastly Parson made his way to Stout and Leana, like most of the time they did better than the rest of the team.

"Now then." He said and took a few steps back, "All five of you have worked very hard, and showed much progress these past four weeks…Now only one final test stands in your way. Tomorrow morning Team Ragthorn will be transported to a Cornerian military base for your final Aerial combat test, unlike before you will fly real military Star Ships and preform a series of test. After that you will come back to Corneria for your graduation…As I won't be accompanying you, I would like to go ahead and wish you five good luck." He said and saluted them, Ragthorn replied by saluting back. Parson gently smiled before walking off into his office, suddenly Skinner approached them.

"Normally, you would have the rest of the day off to rest and such…However, I won't be going with you all when you go…Which means today is your last day of Physical training. And if you think that I'll go easy on you…You have another thing coming fuck tards, this is my last day to make you little shit heads sweat like you've never sweat before…And believe me, I'm going to make the best of it." He finished with a smirk "Form up!" He barked. Everyone quickly jumped at his loud shout and quickly formed into a line.

"Ready and Move out, let's start this LONG day with a nice calming five-mile jog.