AUTHOR NOTE: THIS STORY TAKES PLACE AFTER STAR FOX 64, BUT BEFORE STAR FOX ADVENTURES

It was dark, and cold. Tails was scared, Knuckles was prepared for anything, and Sonic was looking around, trying to make out what he could of this dark room they were in.

"Where are we?" Tails asked fearfully.

"I don't know" Sonic said "Might be some sort of Spaceship."

"Spaceship!?" Knuckles said in surprise. "What you mean a spaceship!? Who let us in this thing anyway!?"

"Heck, I don't know." Sonic said shrugging.

Suddenly, lights came on! The whole room was now visible, there was a metal flooring, with planes parked all around them, but not ordinary planes. These were white with blue wings, and had a more star ship look to them.

"Wow!" Tails said, he was amazed by all this space tech he had never seen before! "Looks like we are in the ship's hangar." Tails continued.

Then they heard a swish sound, it sounded like two doors sliding opposite ways to open, then they heard footsteps.

"Everyone take cover" Sonic whispered "This may be one of Egghead's tricks."

Sonic and friends ducked behind a stack of crates, waiting for the right moment to attack if it was a trap.

However they did not see Eggman's robots. Instead they saw a fox with a green shirt, a red scarf, a white jacket, and green pants.

Sonic turned toward Tails. "Look Tails" he whispered, "It's a fox, do you know the guy?"

"Sonic..." Tails whispered back. "No, I don't, that would be like me asking if you knew every other hedgehog."

Standing behind the Fox was a short rabbit, who looked rather aged. He had on a red shirt and pants with a white jacket and white boots.

"I don't understand." The rabbit said. "The sensor picked up three life form signals, they should be in here, but I don't see them."

"Perhaps their hiding" The fox said.

"Hey!" The fox shouted. "There's no use hiding, we won't hurt you unless we have to, come on out!"

Sonic looked at Tails and Knuckles, who were both looking at him. "Well, we don't have a choice." Sonic said.

Sonic and friends came out from behind the crates, revealing themselves.

"Well, well." The rabbit said. "Who are you three?"

Sonic stepped forward. "I'm Sonic." He said, then turned to his friends. "This guy here, is my best friend, Tails, and this guy here is our friend, Knuckles."

"Well, my name is Fox Mccloud." The Fox said. "This is my friend, Peppy Hare. The rest of us are back upstairs."

"Where are we?" Knuckles asked looking around.

"You're on the Great Fox." Peppy said.

"So, judging by the name, I assume you're the one in charge?" Knuckles asked pointing to Fox.

"Yes, I am." Fox replied.

"Why did you bring us in here?" Knuckles asked.

"The more important question…" Fox said. "What were you three doing in space?"

"Well…." Sonic started. "It's a long story…"

Sonic started explaining who they were, and how their arch-nemesis, Dr. Eggman, had been trying to conquer their world for years, and how me managed to capture them and launch them into space, and the next thing they knew, they were in here.

"Well, sounds like you three have been through a lot!" Peppy said.

"Indeed." Fox said. "We can help you get back to your planet."

"Thank you!" Knuckles said. "I want a chance to show that Egg-head what happens when you mess with me!"

"You three need to come back to the bridge with Peppy and I." Fox said. "It's better than staying down here in the hangar."

So Sonic and friends followed Fox and Peppy back up the elevator to the bridge of the ship.

As the elevator door opened, the group started walking down the hallway that led to the bridge.

Eventually they came to a door, and the door slid open. The group walked in the bridge of the Great Fox.

Standing in the bridge, was a short frog, and a tall, blue bird.

The bird looked over and saw Fox and Peppy walking with Sonic and friends into the room.

"Fox." The bird said. "What did you do? Who are these guys?"

"Don't worry Falco." Fox replied. "These three were stranded in space, they had an incident, and were helping them get back to their home world."

The frog looked at them and waved. "Hi" he said. "My name is Slippy!"

"Nice to meet you." Sonic said

"Alright." Fox said. "Just tell us where your home planet is and we'll get yo-"

Suddenly Fox was interrupted by an alarm going off and red lights slowly flashing.

"What's happening!?" Tails cried.

"It's an emergency alert." Fox said.

"Message from General Pepper. Priority one!" a robot named Rob said.

"Who's Genera-?" Knuckles started to ask.

"No time to explain!" Falco interrupted.

Fox walked over to the transmission screen and turned it on, and General Pepper came on screen.

"Star Fox! We need your help!" General Pepper said.

"What's the problem?" Fox replied.

"Corneria is under attack!" General Pepper shouted.