Fox, Falco, and Peppy ran down the hallway where Slippy's screams came from, in a few seconds, they reached the hanger, where they found Slippy lying face down on the ground.
"Slippy!" Peppy shouted. "You okay!?"
Slippy didn't respond, he just laid there.
Fox turned him over, and to everyone's horror, revealed a creature stuck to his face. It was spider-like, with a long tail wrapped around Slippy's neck.
"Where did it come from!?" Fox asked.
"It must have come from that egg…" Peppy said pointing to the egg with the opened top.
"Forget where it came from, we need to get it off!" Flaco said as he attempted to pull the creature off Slippy's face.
"NO NO NO! Don't do that!" Fox cried. "We need to get Slippy back to the ship!"
A few minutes later, Fox and the gang were waiting in front of the ship's hangar door with slippy.
"Krystal, open the door." Fox said through the communications line.
Krystal opened the hangar door, allowing Fox and the gang to carry Slippy in the ship. The ship then left the planet and resumed course for Corneria.
As Fox and the gang carried Slippy into the medical room, Krystal gasped at seeing the alien on Slippy's face.
"What is that!?" Krystal cried.
"I don't know…" Fox answered. "Whatever it is we need to get it off Slippy."
"You just brought that in here!?" Krystal questioned. "What if that thing is contaminated!?"
"I can't leave any crew member behind, we have to get Slippy in the medical room!" Fox answered.
In a few minutes, Peppy and R.O.B were in the medical room with Slippy laying across the table, the facehugger still on him.
"My scans indicate the creature is keeping Slippy alive." R.O.B said. "Trying to remove it by force will remove Slippy's face as well."
"Well, then…." Peppy said taking out a knife. "Looks like we're going to have to cut it off."
Peppy went and made a cut right on the facehugger's arm, green blood oozed out and fell on the floor. Suddenly, the blood melted through the floor, like acid!
"That's going to take some money to repair…." Peppy sighed. "So, we can't pull it off, we can't cut it off, what are we supposed to do?"
"Perhaps let Slippy rest, and we think of a solution elsewhere." R.O.B. insisted.
"Good idea." Peppy said as he and R.O.B left the medical room.
30 MINUTES LATER
Fox and Falco were cleaning off the Arwings in the ship's hangar when Krystal walked in.
"Have any of you two checked on Slippy?" She asked.
"Peppy said not to go in." Fox said. "The alien could be dangerous."
"That's what I was thinking." Krystal said. "Are you sure it was the best idea to bring that thing on board the ship?"
"It was the only way to get Slippy medical attention." Fox answered.
"We could have brought the medical supplies to Slippy from the ship, instead, bringing him hear could put us all in danger." Krystal said.
"I didn't know what else to do, and what's done is done." Fox answered.
Suddendly, Peppy's voice came over the intercom.
"Everyone, come to the medical room. Slippy's condition has changed. Its best you see for yourself…."
The gang made their way to the medical room, to find Slippy was completely fine! The alien was gone from his face, and he was standing between R.O.B and Peppy!
"Slippy! You're alright!" Fox said with a smile.
"Yea! Sorry I worried you guys a bit." Slippy said.
"I'm just glad you're okay." Fox said.
"How did you guys get the alien off?" Krystal asked.
"We didn't." Peppy said. "It came off itself. Probably due to a short lifespan."
"Are you feeling anything weird?" Peppy asked.
"Nope! I'm perfectly fine! But I'm really hungry!" Slippy answered.
"We'll then, let's go and eat dinner!" Fox said.
Everyone walked away from the medical room smiling and chuckling as they made their way to the dinning room.