I'm so looking forward to writing this story, I seriously cannot describe it with words (which might be a bit ironic for a writer), in fact, I've already finished chapter 3! I might, underline might, upload it on next Wednesday rather than Saturday, but I'm still not sure whether or not I should do that.

All that aside, before we get back to the action, please let me take a moment to reply to the reviews.

Reviews for Epilogue 2:

Max Chronicle: "IT'S HERE! (Screams in excitement)
The only problem is, I now have to look up Star Fox so I can understand this story better. Other than that, beeping spiz. That's right, spiz. It's what happens when shiz went super...I'm just saying. (Wink wink)
Can't wait to see more. You have my fav, follow and reviews.
Max out.
P.S. Sure. I'll ask the Agent Of Time...see if he can let you borrow it. Hope you'll get what you're looking for.
P.P.S. Together We Stand. Now THAT is deep."
Glad you like it so far! And, 'spiz'? Heh, I still can't help but chuckle, and it's been a week... I suppose the Agent Of Time said 'no', for there certainly is no ancient artifact capable of breaking through time itself here. I guess I'll have to wait a bit longer for R&C PS4 then... which proves to be quite the task, since I'm very, very hyped for both the movie and the game. And the title indeed has several meanings, I'll sum 'em all up at the end of the story.

Destiny W: "I enjoyed reading this chapter and can't wait for the next one. I will admit that I've never played star fox, so I am unfamiliar with some of the characters and other things that have to do with the game, but I'm still going to stick with this story the best I can until the end. : )"
Well, you'll get to know the characters of Star Fox to a certain degree as the story progresses. It might be worth reading through the possible endings of Star Fox Command though, it'll tell you quite a lot more about this 'Kursed' figure. Anyhow, I'm glad you like the story so far, and I hope this chapter lives up to your expectations.

Jadzia Kira Dax: "This was an amazing chapter! Ironically enough, I was just infiltrating Nefarious's base and impersonating the crazy robot!"
Thank you! What you describe, impersonating Nefarious, actually gave me quite the flashback, it reminded me of ACiT where you have to do just that: infiltrate the base, pretend to be Nefarious, blow some stuff up. Especially that last part is so amusing. And commanding everyone to dance, of course. Anyhow, glad you like the story so far, and I hope you'll like this chapter just as much.

Reviews for Epilogue:

saviour of worlds:

Chapter 1: "Well, that went wrong rather quickly! I love it already! A story that doesn't take 70 chapters for the fun to come in! I think I'll read the entire story in less then a month. And it looks like we finaly know where max hast been the last few years. (_)"
Hey, a new reviewer! Glad you like the story so far, and yeah, I like to get down to business rather quickly in my stories, spice things up immediately. It's more fun to get the party started than to stall the inevitable if you ask me, but in the end, it depends on the story and the plot how to start. As for the whereabouts of Max Apogee, you'll find out more eventually...

Chapter 2: "typical pirate behavior; drunk and stupid. I wonder how a not-drunk pirate would behave.
A diffrent portal you say..."
Probably a sober pirate would behave a bit wiser, although they must be pretty stupid to get drunk all the time, so I doubt the difference in behaviour would be that great. And yes, a different portal..."

Chapter 3: "the white figure said he needed ratchet. though he slaps him unconscious. Is he the good, or the bad guy? White is a good guy color, right?"
Well, he didn't slap Ratchet unconcious, he... ah, nevermind, you'll find out in chapter 4 of Epilogue. As for the color white, bad guys usually don't wear white, although the figure wearing white doesn't necessarily make him a good guy.

Chapter 4: "happy birthday ratchet. you can blow out the gigantic candles now.

fortunatly for him he can't remeber it. It would be horrible to remember such a day.
And i finally understand why such a tiny person needs such a giant throne. "that's what ya get""
Yes, it would've been most unpleasant to live with the memory of not just your parents but your whole race dying in front of you etched into your mind. And indeed, Tachyon picked a horrible birthday present for Ratchet. Luckily we all know what happened to Tachyon, right?

Chapter 5: "looks like SOMEONE has a secret love for SOMEONE. But I don't really understand why she didn't swim back for fresh air and then go back to shut it completely. But it's all part of tyhe story. And with that secret love, It can't end here!"
Well... you'll have to read on for quite a while in order to get the whole answer, though by the time you are reading this you are getting pretty close. And yes, of course, it couldn't end with Angela dying! But one does not simply come back from the dead, you'll have to read on to find out what happens...

Alright, no more reviews to reply to, so let's get back to the story!

Perihelion's cockpit opened up with a slight hiss before Angela climbed out. Angela yawned and stretched her arms. "Ah, I've been in that cockpit a bit too long."

The bounty hunter's ship touched down on a landing pad next to the one Perihelion was parked on. As soon as Angela got within range, Kursed performed a brain scan.

"She was telling the truth?! Huh... wow, look at that technology! That's decades ahead of what we have here! With that..." Kursed grinned evilly. "...I could conquer Lylat."

Kursed walked over to Angela. "Alright, who am I looking for?"

"Well, I don't even know your name, so..."

"Kursed. Now, who's my target?"

"His name is Ratchet. Lombax like me, orange fur with brown stripes, emerald eyes, tail, large ears similar to mine, always wearing a leather cap that once belonged to his father."

"And his ship?"

"Lombax tech, similar to my ship, only his ship is deep crimson in color, has a female A.I. instead of a male, and is named 'Aphelion'."

"Got it. Payment please?"

Angela frowned. She tapped her wrist-com three times, and suddenly a small pile of bolts materialized in front of Kursed. Kursed started to throw them into the back of her ship.

"So, what are we going to do now?"

"We're heading to Corneria, the planet's got the most eyes, someone must have seen him."

Kursed froze and frowned. "Hang on, how did you get here?"

"What do you mean?"

"How do you know he is in Lylat?"

"Perihelion's got a tracking device, I followed Aphelion's flight path."

"Can't you just run a damn scan then?"

"The scanner is broken, it suddenly started to error just before I found you. These are Aphelion's last known coordinates."

Angela showed Kursed the location on her wrist-com. Unknown to Angela, Kursed knew that part of space all too well.

"Well, in that case we should go to Corneria and get the scanner fixed. After that, we'll simply use the scanner to track that friend of yours down."

"Sounds like a plan but, where is Corneria?"

"I'll lead the way. You just try to keep up, okay?"

Angela got back into Perihelion, and Kursed got back into her own ship, a heavily modified starfighter that seemed to have been a Venomian Predator-class fighter. Kursed had named her ship 'Hell's Gate', and anyone who had fought it knew perfectly well that that name was not misplaced.

Angela frowned as she followed Kursed's ship. She didn't fully trust the vixen, she was a bounty hunter after all, for all Angela knew Kursed would fly off the minute she received a better offer.

Kursed herself didn't quite trust Angela either. Even though the brain scan revealed that Angela had no harmful intentions, Kursed never trusted anyone. For all she knew Angela could be a trained assassin. Kursed growled. She was not going to let some rookie take her life.

Meanwhile, Fox' Arwing and Ratchet's Lombax starfighter were entering Corneria's blue atmosphere, and mere minutes later they found themselves in the center of Corneria city. Suddenly, Aphelion received an incoming call from Fox' Arwing.

Fox appeared on screen. "Ratchet, change of plan. Apparently my Arwing needs a software update, so I'll have to land it in a special garage further downtown, but you can't land there. Find a place to land your ship and meet me at the coordinates provided."

"Gotcha." Ratchet said as he and Fox split up, Fox' Arwing disappearing in the traffic while Ratchet took a left and found himself in much calmer traffic. He landed Aphelion in a parking garage and carefully locked the ship, and burglar would get shot at by Aphelion so they better stay away.

Ratchet began to walk, and after half an hour he reached the garage the coordinates had been pointing at. The doors slid open as he approached them, and he walked into the building. "May I help you?" a raccoon sitting behind a desk to the right of him spoke up.

"Yeah, I'm looking for Fox McCloud."

"Mr. McCloud? His Arwing is getting a tuneup, sixth floor."

"Thanks!" Ratchet said as he walked over to the elevators. When the elevator he was in had reached the sixth floor, a beep could be heard, followed by the doors sliding open. Ratchet stepped out into the room, which turned out to be a large hangar, and began to search for Fox's ship, guessing that the vulpine wouldn't be far from his spacecraft.

Ratchet was correct, he found Fox' ship in the back, the vulpine himself standing next to it. "Is everything okay?" Ratchet asked.

Fox turned to him. "My Arwing? Yeah, it's fine. It's gonna take a sec for it's systems to update though."

Fox yawned. "I'm gonna get some fresh air, you coming?"

"Nah, I'll stay here."

"Alright then. I'll be back."

Fox got inside the first elevator to arrive, and a minute later he was outside. He took a deep breath, and began to walk down the street, letting his mind wander off. He began to think: would he ever find Krystal? Would he ever see her again?

Meanwhile, two people were walking down the street, approaching Fox. "Do you think they can fix the scanner?" Angela asked Kursed, who was wearing a cloak to prevent being recognized.

"Probably. They're the best mechanics around."

Then Kursed's eyes spotted something. An all too familiar face came walking towards them, eyes fixated on the ground and apparently lost in thought. Kursed gritted her teeth in annoyance and bowed her head to hide her face. Fox walked past them, so lost in his thoughts that he hadn't even noticed the two.

Angela and Kursed walked into the building Fox had come out of, and walked over to the raccoon behind the desk. "Excuse me, but I've got a ship with problems." Kursed said from under her cloak.

"Y-yes, how c-can I help you?" the raccoon asked, frightened by the fact that there was a cloaked figure standing right in front of him, he wasn't exactly used to that.

"Can't you send a mechanic to fix the problem?"

"Y-y-yes, my best mechanic, Verlix, is nearly finished with the ship he's working on."

A bleep came from the raccoon's computer. "Scratch that, he's done. I can send him with you?"

"Good. Send him down here."

"Y-yes, certainly."

The raccoon grabbed a microphone connected to the building's intercom system. "Verlix, could you come down here? Thanks."

Meanwhile, upstairs, Verlix, a Cornerian bulldog that certainly knew what he was talking about when it came to mechanics, and Ratchet were working on Fox' Arwing. Verlix frowned. "Oh. Well, you heard it, I gotta go. Nice talking to a fellow mechanical genius."

"Same." Ratchet said. "Good luck."

Verlix gave him a thumbs up and left. When Verlix came out of the elevator, he walked over to the raccoon. "What's up, Syke?"

"W-w-well, these people here seem to have a problem with their ship, c-could you help them out?"

"Sure. Where's the ship?"

"In a parking garage a few blocks away."

"Excellent." Verlix said, grabbing his toolbox and following the two women out of the building.

They walked down the street, until Verlix noticed an orange dot out of the corner of his eye. Indeed, it was Fox. He walked over to him. "Hey, Fox, your ship's fixed, go pick it up."

Fox looked up from the ground. "Thanks."

"No problem, but there's another ship I gotta go fix, see ya!" Verlix said over his shoulder as he sprinted after the two women that had asked for his assistance.

A few minutes later, Fox was back at his Arwing. "Any luck?" Ratchet asked.

"Nope, I've spoken to quite a lot of people, nobody has seen Krystal."

"Huh. Well, what now?"

"Well, I was planning on trying my luck on Katina again. Remember, you don't have to come with me."

"I'll help you nevertheless." Ratchet said. "Send the coordinates to my ship."

"Alright then. See you on Katina." Fox said as he climbed into his Arwing, closed the cockpit, started the engines and flew off.

Ratchet took the elevator back down to street level. However, as he was about to walk out of the building...

"Hey, you!"

Ratchet turned to where the voice came from. The raccoon sitting behind the desk was waving at him. Ratchet walked over to him. "Is there a problem?"

"No, I was just wondering... what race are you?"

"Lombax?"

"Huh. Are Lombaxes a new species in Lylat?"

"Excuse me?"

"Are the Lombaxes a new species settling in Lylat? 'Cause until you came in I'd never seen a Lombax, but within minutes the counter has moved from zero to two."

"Two?"

"Yeah, not long after you came in these two women came in, one of them wearing a cloak while the other was a... Lombax was it, right?"

"Can you describe the Lombax?"

"Like I said, female. She had golden hair, a ponytail, blue eyes, a tiny bit taller than you are, and I must say, she was quite beautiful. If you know her, is she taken?"

"Yeah." Ratchet growled. "Yeah she is. Thanks for letting me know."

"No problem!"

Ratchet walked out of the building and began to walk back to Aphelion. When he had reached his ship, he opened the cockpit, climbed in, closed the cockpit, started the engines, and flew off.

Thanks to Aphelion's advanced warp-drive technology, Ratchet could easily catch up with Fox. He called the Arwing. Fox's face appeared on-screen. "What's up?"

"Listen to this, apparently while your Arwing was getting fixed, my friend Angela was in the exact same building. I wonder what she's looking for here."

"From who did you get that information?"

"The raccoon sitting behind a desk near the entrance of the building."

"Well, that's only one person, I wouldn't rely too heavily on his memory if I were you. It sure is interesting, but I don't think you should immediately take it as true."

Meanwhile, back on Corneria, Verlix was at work fixing Angela's ship's scanner. He removed his wrench with a grin, and turned to Angela and Kursed. "Good to go, mates."

"Awesome!" Angela said.

"Well, there is one thing you need to know. That ship of yours is probably the most advanced tech I've ever seen, I was able to repair very little, but I was able to get the scanner to work again. However, it was damaged to severely that it cannot pinpoint the exact location of whatever you were tracking, instead it will continue to follow it's flight pattern, but it's gonna take a while for the scanner to catch up to the actual object."

"Good enough for me. Alright, how much do I owe you?" Angela asked.

"Fifty Cornerian credits and we're even."

Angela bit her lip, she had forgotten that she couldn't pay in bolts here."

"I got it." Kursed suddenly said. She paid Verlix. When she walked past Angela, she hissed "You owe me, and I want that money back, got it?"

"Alrighty then, I gotta go. See ya!" Verlix said as he walked away.

Angela sighed. "Well, let's see..."

Angela turned on the scanner, and it began to calculate.

"And?" Kursed asked impatiently.

"Hang on, it's still busy."

Kursed sighed. "Bloody junk." she mumbled.

"I heard that!" Perihelion's A.I.'s male voice blared, nearly giving Kursed a heart attack. "WHAT DAMN SON OF A-"

"Relax. It was my ship."

"Your ship? Damn, what have you been smoking?"

"Absolutely nothing. Perihelion is equipped with a highly intelligent artificial intelligence system, or A.I. for short. This ship is way smarter than you think."

Kursed grinned evilly behind Angela's back. "The more advanced the ship, the more it's worth..."

"Look at this." Angela said. "According to the scanner, Ratchet first flew to..."

"Titania."

"Thank you. According to the scanner, he then flew to... isn't that Corneria? The planet we're on right now?"

"Correct and correct."

"That means... he's somewhere around here!" Angela yelled. Kursed frowned. "Mind keeping it down? I've got excellent ears, y'know."

"Sorry. We just have to find him then."

"Didn't he have a ship similar in design to yours?"

"Yeah?"

Kursed pointed at the sky, where in the distance, Aphelion could be seen, flying out of the atmosphere of Corneria.

"Crap!" Angela yelped.

"Chill out, he's got quite the head start. Scan his flight pattern."

"Okay. Let's see... he stayed on Corneria..."

Angela and Kursed waited for an hour for the dot on the scanner to leave Corneria, Kursed getting quite fed up with waiting. At last, the dot began to move, and it seemed to move to planet Katina.

Angela and Kursed got into their ships and flew off towards said planet. Angela sighed. "I'll find you, Ratchet. Even if it'll take me the rest of my life." she mumbled as she stared out into space at the countless stars, thinking about the person she loved most.

Meanwhile, Ratchet and Fox were walking through the markets in a small village on the desert planet of Katina. They asked every person in sight if they had seen someone who matched Krystal's description, but no luck. They tried various other villages, but in the end, nothing worked. Fox ears lowered a bit as he and Ratchet walked back to their ships. "So, where are we gonna go now?" Ratchet asked as they walked through the markets of Red Sun City.

"I don't know. Zoness, perhaps?"

"Zoness?"

"Yeah, Zoness. It was once a beautiful, tropical planet, but due to Andross dumping tons and tons of poisonous and radioactive waste there, it is now an inhabitable wasteland. There is only one small city on Zoness, so I thought about trying my luck there again."

"Again?" Ratchet asked as they left the markets behind them.

"Yeah, I've asked around there before, and fairly recently too."

"Then wouldn't it be a better idea to go to a planet you haven't been on recently?"

"Hmm..." Fox hummed in thought as they reached their ships. "Aquas, perhaps?"

"Alright, Aquas it is then."

"Okay. I'll send the coordinates to Aquas, meet me there." Fox said as he climbed into his Arwing and took off.

Ratchet climbed into Aphelion, entered the coordinates, and took off.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, Angela and Kursed were landing. They began to search the city, asking everyone in sight if they had seen Ratchet.

No luck. They walked back to their ships and tried to scan Aphelion's flight path again... only to find the scanner broken once again, much to both Angela and Kursed's annoyance. They decided to ask around on the markets if anyone had seen Ratchet, where...

"Uh, excuse me, ma'am?" one of the salesmen asked Angela as she walked past him. Angela turned around. "Yes?"

"Sorry if it's a rude question, but... what race are you?"

"Lombax."

"Huh, are they a new race in Lylat or something?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, until this morning I had never seen a Lombax before, but now, first that man who was asking around and now you."

"Can you describe him?"

"Golden fur with brown stripes, large ears, leather pilot's cap, striped tail, emerald eyes, asked around if we had seen some woman named 'Krystal'."

"Did he say anything about where he was going?"

"Now that you mention it, I did hear him talking to someone about going to planet Zoness, I couldn't see the other person though."

"Alright, thanks!" Angela said as she sprinted off, greatly confusing the salesman. "I got him." Angela said as she reached Kursed, who was... 'interrogating' a stranger.

"What?! Where?!"

"Zoness, wherever in the world that may be."

"Planet Zoness?"

"Yeah."

"Alright. Get over to your ship and meet me there ASAP. I'll send you the coordinates. We gotta race to Zoness before he leaves again."

"Got it." Angela said as she raced to her ship while Kursed raised to hers. "I'm coming, Ratchet..." Angela thought. "I just hope you haven't gotten yourself into anything dangerous."

Well, only time will tell what Ratchet's gotten himself into this time, but with Ratchet's talent for finding trouble, I think the answer is already a bit clear.

And the story is picking up speed too! But don't worry, the story is only barely getting started...

Before I end these author's notes, one last thing: I've noticed a decline in the number of reviews per chapter. Although I'll keep writing nevertheless, it'd support me greatly if you leave a review if you like the story so far. It doesn't have to be a long review and you don't even need an account, just let me know that you care, and please know that any kind of feedback is greatly appreciated.

(Hopefully) see you all in the next chapter!