This chapter contains reference to drugs. If that offends you... to bad.


Ty's PoV

I guess it all began with the call. Pepper had called me with a mission. My first in a long time. I was to assist the Cornerian army with the destruction of Andross's Fleet. Seemed simple enough, the price was right and I signed onto the mission. When I asked for a briefing on what exactly was left in the forces still loyal to Andross I was told that he would brief me and another merc team at the same time. Since when was I on a team? Pepper's misplaced and misguided words only encouraged me to find out who he had mistaken to be on my 'team'. I decided now wasn't the time to dwell on it, and set a course for the Cornerian Armada. At my current speed it would only take me two and a half hours to reach them, long before the scheduled attack. I assumed the two groups were at a standstill in the negotiations of terms of surrender. Pepper's message would have been urgent had things gone sour. He knew better then to make me race to a treaty signing. As I flew towards the likely battle site I couldn't help but wonder. Would today be the day I finally avenge my grandfather? Or would it be like so many other were I promised I'd get that scum Oikonny, if it was the last thing I did. After rechecking my ship's condition I set the auto pilot and closed my eyes. I wasn't really tired; I just had a lot on my mind. My grandfather's words of wisdom floated in my head, I smiled as I heard him say the words. It was all I had left from him. And I wasn't going to lose them. A final thought crossed my mind before I finally succumbed to slumber. 'Why had Pepper called me to kill a few of Andross's followers?' That seemed like the kind of job he'd send Star Fox on. They knew to call only when things seemed Hopeless. Maybe there was something he wasn't telling me. I finally slept; visions of revenge clouded my dreams. I desperately wanted her alive, only she could cure this disease. Thinking of her only hastened the violence. This dream I wanted to wake up from, but how could I escape what I've created? I knew it wasn't my fault she had died. But I twisted the facts and made it my fault, for what I was.

But like I said, a different story, for another time.

Normal PoV


"Command. Unidentified Ship approaching." A dog, who couldn't have been over 20 said into his headset. The ship slowed as if it wanted to be hailed. "Permission to hail, sir?"

"This is command, permission granted." General Pepper answered. The old hound folded his hands behind his back and slowly paced around the control room, ensuring everyone was doing their assigned duty. The ship came up on the hologram and slowly spun around.

"Unidentified Vessel, this is the Cornerian Army Juggernaut 'Sword', you are within firing range, please identify yourself or you will be shot down." The dog said firmly, the well trained speech delivered without hesitation or trembling in his voice.

'Damn.' Tyronos thought. 'This kid means business. Trigger happy little fuck probably wants me to be an enemy.' He put his headset on and opened the link to the ship. "This is Tyronos, call sign 'Hopeless', Ship: Kojic, it won't be in your records so don't bother looking. I know General Pepper can hear me so just let me board and we won't have a problem now will we?"

"Hold on for a minute." The dog switched back to command, General Pepper nodded at him.

"It's alright Corporal, Tyronos is friendly." He said and turned to leave the room. "Contact me when the other's reach the battleground."

'We don't even use call signs anymore… how can the General be so trusting of these Mercs?' The corporal thought. He shook his head and switched back to the open link. "Call sign 'Hopeless', you are cleared to land in Hanger A, welcome aboard the 'Sword'. 'Let's hope this isn't a mistake.'

"And here I thought I was going to hang around outside all day." Tyronos flew into the hanger and landed his craft. He quickly opened the canopy and jump out, quickly inspecting his fighter. It looked similar to the arwings Star Fox used but with certain modifications. His N-bomb launcher could shoot up to three bombs at a time, Dual mounted lasers with multi-lock up to 4 targets. He even converted some shield power to the boosters for sustained boost, figuring if the enemy couldn't keep up they couldn't hit him. He hadn't worried too much on appearance but he did put his logo in the same place Star Fox's would have been. Instead his wasn't an animal, it was simply 'HT' with lightning swirling around it. Tyronos walked underneath it letting his hand brush along the grey metal. 'I seriously need to replace a few parts on this old bird. Smuggling hasn't been easy lately and no money has ruled out doing it legally.'

"Sir?" A female voice broke his thoughts. Tyronos turned to face her. A pretty, younger minx, clearly whipped into military shape, saluted him smartly. He returned it with a nod. "General Pepper requests you message him from the bridge." She turned on her heel and motioned him to follow. As he followed soldiers began running past them.

"Seems negotiations went south." He said trying to start up a conversation. The minx turned her head back to respond.

"With the Androsses we never expect an easy end to the conflict." They reached the elevator and she hit the floor number for him. "Just walk straight ahead, you can't miss it. If you'll excuse me." She took off for the hanger.

'Never thought I'd see the 'great' Cornerian army so prepared for a fight. Maybe this mission might actually be fun.' Tyronos waited for the elevator to stop before walking out and into the bridge. He overlooked the soon-to-be battlefield. At least 20 other Juggernauts had appeared since he arrived. 'Fortuna looks so peaceful. When I retire I might just come live out here.' Retirement was of course, out of the question. His live was set, forced into Mercenary work, he would now likely die then make it to that golden age of tranquility. He shook his head and walked to the hologram. "Tyronos to General Pepper."

"Pepper to Tyronos. Glad they didn't hold you outside." General Pepper saluted him. Again he nodded in return. "Now as you no doubt have guessed negotiations didn't turn out to plan. Andross's minions are now preparing to attack. We are prepared to use deadly force."

"Mind if I cut you off there?" Tyronos walked around to see the battlefield once more. "What point is there for me being here? This is a job better suited to a group of mercs, not just one." He turned back to face the general. "What was so important for me to be here asap?"

Pepper sighed. "The new leader of the revolt, it's someone you have been searching for." Pepper looked back, as if tapped on the shoulder. He nodded and waved the person away. "Tyronos I have to give orders to the ship captains. I will brief you more once the orders have been given out. Pepper out."

The image faded. Tyronos closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. 'Someone I've been searching for.' His eyes popped back open, thousands of possibilities disburses away to one simple solution. "Oikonny!" His eyes narrowed and he growled. How could Pepper just leave him now? The beast within himself was now bursting through. Uncontrollable rage, hatred, and sorrow now surged into his heart. There was no way he could fight like this, not when he wasn't in control. He needed to relax, needed to calm his body and mind. He walked to the command chair and sat down. He brought out the laptop closed the screen. He pulled a small bag out of his pocket and began his second favorite illegal activity.


"Remnants of Andross' butchers! You've kept us busy but now we have you outnumbered."

"No quarter show these dogs we mean business!"

Tyronos was quickly pulled out of his daze. "Oikonny!" He snickered at the name. 'I should tell him how funny his name sounds.' This only made him laugh harder. He left the bridge and made his way to his ship.

"All ships battle formation V!"

"Man that guy sounds so serious." Tyronos laughed again, whatever he had smoked was definitely a good buy. "All ships battle formation W!" he laughed at his own mock. His ship looked different somehow. He blamed the drug and opened the canopy and readied his ship.

"Detecting warp gate signature from outside the combat zone." The voice seemed concerned.

'Maybe he wasn't expecting anymore reinforcements; maybe the enemy had called in for support. Maybe I just talk to myself way to fucking much! Yeah… that's gotta be it!' Tyronos waited for the ship captain to clear him.

"Great Fox? Command! It's the Star Fox team!" The voice was now excited. It was obvious that guy loved the famous team.

"Star Fox? Well fucking huzzah!"Tyronos growled. The last time he had seen the Star Fox team they rushed past him at Pepper's office. Now here it was almost 9 years later and he still held a grudge against the team. "My grandfather would still be alive if it wasn't for their desperate need for a diversionary assault." Another thing that angered him was that his story was similar to Fox's. He lost his parents when he was young; he quit the academy early to pursue revenge. Hell he'd even saved the system like Fox did. Yet he had none of the fame or the fortune that Fox McCloud did. It wasn't fair.

"We'll Fox is seems we're not too late." Tyronos heard Pepper say as he launched his ship.

"Yup, of course general!" Was Fox's reply. Tyronos scoffed at his cockiness, and cut the link.

"I'll show these guys how it's done. I don't need a full team to completely destroy Oikonny and his followers. You hear me Oikonny?! You are going down this day, and my revenge will finally be complete!" Tyronos flew towards the enemy a bestial roar singled the beginning of the end.


Great Fox Hanger

"Communications line green." Fox reported after his craft had fully powered up. The other 3 ships showed up, all of them glowing green as well.

"The outcome of this battle depends on you, team. Are you all ready?" Peppy question needed no answer. "Launch all ships!" The four arwings were launched from the hanger and set directly into combat.

'Feels good to be flying again.' Fox thought as they engaged the enemy. "All ships avoid the armada's fire! Aim for Oikonny's Flagship!" Fox fired his guns, taking out a few ships. 'Still got it.'

Slippy charged out ahead. "Here we go!!" He chased after a group of 3 fighters. Firing wildly, his attention based only on the kill shots.

"Hey, Slippy don't get cocky!" Krystal scolded him. 'His back is totally open; he's likely to get shot down if he keeps this up!"

"Slippy! You've already got bogeys on your tail!" Falco yelled as he boosted to catch up.

"Uh-oh, I'm in trouble!" Slippy narrowly avoided a few shots from the enemy but also took a few hits.

'That didn't take to fucking long.' Krystal thought. She wondered how a Slippy, a pilot 8 years her elder could so easily be distracted by kills. She watched Falco shoot all the enemies trailing the toad.

"You haven't changed a bit frog-boy." Falco flew towards the new group of enemies coming out of the next ship.

"The weak point is in the middle, the purple energy shield!" Fox said as he took down a ship. "All ships aim for the energy shield, take down those ships!" He quickly headed for the next ship. 'Oikonny's line formation makes this way too easy.'

"Corneria Army now commencing third volley of cannon fire." Rob said emotionlessly, before going back to viewing the battle. "Andross's ships are being destroyed one after another."

"We can't give up now!" Falco took out another group of fighters before flying to Slippy to assist.

"Andross's fleet is dead ahead! They're everywhere." Slippy yelled his radar had multiple red dots surrounding his entire arwing.

"Calm down Slippy and remember what Fox said, the weak point is the purple energy shield!" Krystal boosted to catch up to her team leader.

"Alright. Falco and Slippy go left. Krystal and Fox hit right. Everyone strike now!" Peppy ordered, the team split into two and began destroying everything in sight.

"Right! Hit them hard and don't hold back!" Krystal flew ahead of Fox and shot down some fighters. "Hit the Cruiser Fox, I'll deal with the fighters."

"Got it!" Fox fired a nova bomb at the cruiser; it hit the shield dead on and instantly destroyed the ship.

"Not exactly subtle are you?" Krystal giggled at the destructive tendencies of her leader.

"Gotta be sure they can't get back up!" They flew towards the next ship, easily destroying it as well. "Falco, Slip. How are things on your end?"

"Fine as they can get with Slip-up around." Falco shot down some fighters before looping back and firing a nova bomb at the cruiser. "Might as well be on my own."

"Just keep on blasting through everything!" Fox noticed a new enemy appear in front of him. "What's that? Some kind of prototype?" The enemy looked like a single manned robot shaped like monkey dressed up as a knight. The grey knight assumed an offensive pose. A small piece of the machine snapped off and floated above the enemy.

"That beam's devastating! Watch out Fox!" Peppy yelled as the info on this mechanical creature appeared on his screen. "Roll to deflect its attack!" Fox did as he was told and sent the purple beam of energy straight back at his attacker, he followed up with a volley of laser fire and turned his would be attacker into scrap metal.

"Nice shot Fox!" Krystal followed behind him as they shot down some more of the few remaining Cruisers. The team reassembled and headed towards the flagship.

"Got something on radar, its quick and heading this way!" Slippy looked around outside his ship but saw no enemy. Suddenly 2 ships appeared in front of the team.

"Stealth squadron, look out!" Krystal and Slippy both somersaulted to get behind Fox and Falco who shot both lasers and nova bombs at the ships, making short work of Oikonny's secret weapon.

"Too easy!" Falco yelled as they sped through space.

"Combat detected 4 miles northeast, no cornerian army presences noted." Rob made the screen come up on theirs. The screen showed the battlefield and the two parties involved. "Record of this fight indicates a single ship has taken out a quarter of their fleet."

"Damn who is that?" Fox asked.

Peppy scanned through the ships on file. It came to a stop and he opened the file, he gasped. "It's another arwing. This one was in development years ago, but was scraped when the project became compromised. This is the guy who delayed arwing development for 6 years!"

"What's he doing assisting us then?" Falco demanded. Everyone else listened in, shooting down fighters as they drifted closer to Oikonny's flagship.

"I believe I can answer that." Pepper's voice startled everyone. "His name is Tyronos, He is a mercenary just like you guys. Oikonny is his target. You are to assist but not engage until he has understood?"

"Come on, you hired two groups of Mercenaries to do one job?" Falco huffed and gripped his controls. "Whoever gets there first gets the prize." Falco set his boosters to full and charged towards Oikonny.

"Fox, what should we do?" Krystal looked over at his ship. His thoughts were a mess.

'That name sounds so familiar.' Fox shrugged the thought out of his head and took a steadying breath. "Sorry General, I intend to End Oikonny's war before it turns into another Andross conflict. All ships, charge the Flagship! Bring him down!"

"Our final line of defense has been broken through!" Oikonny's Ship master yelled. Oikonny grumbled and hit the controls of his Flagship.

"What is he some sort of demon?"Oikonny saw this lost cause of a battle but refused give up so quickly. 'Fortuna! I'll retreat to the base and get the drop on them!' A new plan in his head he quickly turned his ship around and began heading for Fortuna. "I'll handle this!"

Oikonny's fleet watched him turn and flee. "What? Your…" The ship was destroyed before the shipmaster could finish.

"The enemy flagship is heading for Fortuna!" Rob informed the team.

"As if we couldn't see his tail tucked between his legs already… Thanks for that little nugget of info." Falco growled. He knew the Arwing couldn't keep up with the ship, but he was going to try.

"Follow him into the atmosphere!" Fox quickly hit a few buttons on the control panel. "Adjust G-Diffusion output." He waited for all the ships to mimic his. "Let's go."

"I sense him." Krystal whispered. "Tyronos's ship is approaching at a high rate of speed!" Sure enough Tyronos boosted past the team. He barely missed hitting Falco's wing but turned at the last second.

"Hey Star Fox, no lagging behind now. I thought you wanted this bounty." Tyronos's face appeared on their screens. "Gonna have to catch up, Otherwise you'll have lots of scrap metal to shoot at!" He laughed disappearing into the atmosphere.

"Why that no good!" Falco boosted after him. "How can he make the Arwing go that fast? I thought ours were the top of the line?!"

"They are. This guy modified the hell out of it." Slippy said after looking at the spec's of Tyronos's craft.

"Hey Slippy, if he can do it, can you?" Krystal asked. She watched him nod after some thought.

"A lot of the upgrades are minor tweaks here and there. But, damn. How'd he manage to mount a tri-burst Nova Bomb Launcher?" Slippy snapped out of his technical day dream.

"Guys, enough!" Fox snapped. "We can talk about him and his ship later. Right now we have to focus on the mission at hand." They all refocused on the landscape of Fortuna.

"Oikonny may be hiding, Lying in wait." Peppy said after checking over his maps. "I want all of you to proceed with caution."

"Worrying a bit much aren't you gramps?" Falco leaned his head back and forth, slightly snapping his neck.

"Let's take it in low." Fox ordered and led the team through the Fortuna forest.


"Where the fuck is he?!" Tyronos said to no one. Oikonny's ship was way too big to just disappear. He reopened the fleet wide channel. By the sounds of things the space battle was done and over with. The few remaining ships surrendered. Now the only part of this revolt still kicking was Oikonny.

"Rob, Find that blackhearted ape's location!" Tyronos heard Fox's voice. Turning his sour mood even more sour. The robot responded. Tyronos looked on his radar. A lot of small fighters had bunched up at the base.

'I should warn them. That base is going to be a trap.' A wicked grin appeared on his face. 'Then again, why not let them have something to shoot?' He flew off the trail and tried searching for the flagship by eye. "C'mon. C'mon. No point in hiding you sorry son of a bitch." He saw movement below him following a small valley. "That has to be him! No pilot in their right mind who box themselves in." He sped towards the ship, his revenge now clearly in sight.


"There he is! It's Oikonny!" Krystal led the team out of the newly opened doors.

Fox grinned. 'Sorry Ty. Looks like we win.' "You've got nowhere to run to Oikonny!"

'Shit!' Oikonny cursed as he saw the four ships slowly gaining on him. "Bah. Persistent little pests aren't you?"

"Oikonny you ignorant ape. What are you up to?" Fox didn't like how he had slowed to almost a stop.

"Careful Fox, You never know what a cornered beast might do." Peppy watched the standoff on the screen. Knowing to well that Oikonny had a backup plan. It seemed every evil leader to come out of Venom had a plan B.

"That's enough hide and seek. I will show you my true power!" Oikonny's ship began to transform after is spun to face the Star Fox team. The four wings folded out and came together forming hands. The middle somehow turned into a face that looked a lot like Oikonny. "I must bring an end to our relationship! DIE!" The excess pieces fell off his ship, leaving a very familiar enemy for Fox to face.

"You think you can win? Don't make me laugh!" Fox charged towards Oikonny. His team followed him.

"OIKONNY!" Tyronos yelled. He flew past the team quickly taking out both hands before Slippy could even get the shield analysis completed. "YOU KILLED HIM! YOU KILLED HIM! NOW I'LL AVENGE HIM!" Tyronos looped back and prepared his nova bombs for the final attack.

"What is this guy's problem?" Falco growled. "He just stole our prey."

"Assist him, watch out for the hands! They repair themselves in time if we don't keep them down!" Fox shot a volley of laser shots at the right hand, Falco followed suit. Krystal and Slippy kept the other hand down. Tyronos smiled at the Damaged ship.

"Hahahahaha!" Oikonny laughed. "Is that all you fools have got?" He forced the broken hands to grip together. "I am the one and only true heir to the great emperor Andross! The new Emperor Andrew Oikonny!" Suddenly beams of energy shot down, destroying Oikonny's ship, sending him plummeting to the ground below. "Uncle Andross!"

"NO!" Tyronos released the bombs, causing even more damage to the earth. "Damn it!" He smashed his fist against the center consol. "I was so close. Now my revenge has been taken from me."

"Reinforcements?" Fox asked Peppy. Before Peppy could respond a giant moth like monster appeared. The wings glowed many different bright colors, its body was a twisted mass of dark shades of purple.

"That doesn't look friendly." Falco charged his laser, preparing to engage the new enemy.

"Aparoid! Aparoid! Aparoid!" Rob blared. He clearly had info no one else did.

"Such strange thought patterns." Krystal thought out loud. The aparoid then tucked in its wings and twirled around, a beam of energy shot at Krystal. She screamed and barely managed to avoid the blast.

"No time to hesitative. Return fire!" Fox led the team into combat once again.

Tyronos hadn't moved since this new enemy had ruined his revenge. 'All these years, I finally had him Grandpa, but fate seems to want me to wait longer to avenge your death.' That was the problem with fate. It rarely worked out in a style of your choosing. The fire returned to his eyes. Lights inside his Arwing blinked on and off. A single word whispered into his brain, it slowly got louder and louder until his mind screamed at him. 'Kill. Kill. KILL!" It happened in a blur, nova bombs cascaded along the group smashing into its multiple targets. He took off toward the now growing group of the moth like creatures.

The Star Fox team heard Tyronos's howl of torment before watching him speed off, nova bombs dropping dangerously close to their ships. The wings of the moth they faced had nearly been completely destroyed, but still it flew like nothing had hit it.

"Damn." Slippy said finally. Everyone agreed. Whatever Tyronos had planned for Oikonny he now put to use against theses Moth like aparoids.

"Ok, shoot off the wings!" Fox snapped everyone's attention. They all managed to take down two wings a piece. "Alright nice job everyone."

"This isn't over Fox look!" The aparoid screeched at its attackers. It flew back a few yards and began spinning, the beam cutting into the earth. After a few more spins the Moth flew high into the air, the huge chunks of earth following it. "Ah Shit. Everyone move out of the way of those boulders!" The team easily dodged the rocks, only a few smaller pieces managed to hit their ships. The newly enraged aparoid came flying back down, letting out another screech.

"Shut up already!" Krystal said, firing a Nova Bomb at the creature's mouth. "A little more now guys! Aim for the mouth that pink ball is the weak point!" Everyone fired at once. The creature fell to the ground in a massive explosion.

"Bigger they are, the harder they fall… When are we going to get some real competition?" Falco rested his hands behind his head.

"Wait whats that?" Fox slowed his arwing down enough to see a glowing yellow object in the middle of the cracked pink ball.

"I don't believe it. Fox, you have to get that!" Peppy, with some serious hidden info, yelled.

Fox was taken aback by the old hare's outburst. "Really? Well, ok." He landed close to the broken body and collected the object.

"Might I suggest that we leave this planet?"

Fox looked up to see Tyronos's arwing and the trail of Aparoids following it. "He's right! Everyone evac to the Great Fox." Fox quickly climbed up into his arwing and took off towards the Great Fox.


"Fox, General Pepper just sent us a message. He wants us to host Tyronos for a while." Peppy didn't sound too happy about this news.

"Great now we have to baby sit some cocky kid?" Falco whined.

"You think I want anything to do with you guys?" Tyronos snapped back. "After 9 years of searching I finally get my chance at revenge and I have to fight for it? Since when did Star Fox interfere with personal vendettas?"

"Calm down. Jeez we didn't steal your vengeance, that aparoid thing did." Fox tried to halt the argument before it got too out of hand.

"You're one to talk. You had a full team assist yours. I've had nothing but myself since my grandfather died in a diversion to help YOUR team complete the satellite mission." Tyronos hid his face from view, tears slowly sliding down his face. "Or did you forget how many died in order to assist your vendetta?"

Fox stared blankly into space. "I couldn't forget all the noble sacrifices the Cornerian Army gave in order to make my mission a success. I am sorry for your loss, but what has happened has happened." He sounded like he had more to say but kept quiet.

"You get all the fame, just because your James McCloud's son. I've done just about every fucking thing you've done for this system. All I asked in return was payment and vengeance. Now I have neither." Tyronos knew he hit a nerve, but he didn't care if Fox was as truly sorry as he said he'd understand his pain.

Fox gritted his teeth. "I never asked to be famous. I never asked to be pushed into war after war, mission after mission. All I know that this system needed a hero, and my team fit the bill. It's not my fault that terrible things have happened to you or that your deeds went unrecognized. General Pepper has asked us to host you for a while, now fly your fucking arwing into that hanger and be grateful that everyone here understands the type of pain you're feeling right now." Fox cut the link to the arwings and led them into the hanger. Tyronos landed on the bottom of the hanger as the rest of the ships hovered until the lift locks reengaged and pull them back to their resting place. Tyronos sighed as he watched the team head to the bridge for the debriefing. He turned around to face the stars, the hanger door slowly closing.

'This mission isn't worth the price.' He slowly made his way to the top of the hanger. "This place better have a map."


Alrighty then! This is my crazy attempt at retelling a story they made into a game. I'm going to try and stick to the original dialogue as much as I can but obviously there will be some changes. Clearly I'm not going to make Fox out to be the only savior in the group, or the only one who can seem to shoot a boss… C'mon. How hard is it to design AI to shoot just one messily laser at a boss. Its right in front of you! PRESS A BITCH, PRESS A!

Reminder: Tyronos is an OC(yes, just a regular OC) based off me and I will be using him to point out a few plot holes I've noticed playing SF: Assault. Along with a few other twists.

Anywho review, tell me how it is or (lol wtf are you on dude?)

20 bonus points as to who can guess the narcotic!(drug)(Shouldnt be too hard.)

Peace,

H-T