F r a m e d

-chapter two-

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By Kattz Maricle

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Admist the freely floating scrap metal and dead, antique ships that were trashed, the Great Fox hid among it all. It traveled by a large trashed ship which appeared to be a battlecruiser of some sort. Whatever it was, the ship was large enough for the Great Fox to hide behind it easily.

Falco and Slippy had just heard the news. Fox had given it to them pretty bluntly.

"Why would they want to arrest us?" Slippy asked. "What did we do?"

"We didn't do anything." Falco said, crossing his arms. "They think whoever was in that Arwing was one of us."

"Star Fox has the only Arwings, right?" Fox sat down on a couch, crossing his arms as he thought. "Who else could have one besides us and the Cornerian Army?"

"I got it!" Peppy exclaimed, hitting one paw with the other as realization hit him.

"What?" Fox blinked.

"When James was captured, Andross probably got the designs for the Arwing! He had tons of time to study how to make one."

"Is Andross framing us?" Falco asked.

"Looks liek it." Fox said. "We have to find the imposter and shoot it down."

"Oh, that'll be easy." Falco frowned." How will we know him apart from us in a dogfight?"

"You shot me and I'll let you know it, Falco." Fox retorted.

"I might shoot Slippy just for fun."

"Hey!" Slippy frowned at the avian.

"Cornerian Fighters located on radar." ROB64 said. "Distance 90."

'They're close." Falco stood up from where he was sitting.

"Until we find the imposter we have to get the Great Fox out of Cornerian space." stated Fox. "It's too dangerous if they find it or us."

"Are you nuts?" Falco spat. "There is no neutral space! Venom'll be on our tails!"

"We can shoot Venom fighters down. WE can't shoot the Cornerians down." Peppy said.

"Cornerian Fighters. Distance 50." ROB64 reminded them.

Fox remembered the existence of warp gates in the Sector X area. With some luck the Great Fox should be able to get through. The Great Fox's duel laser system would be able to punch through the warp gates with no problem, opening them up in only a mere matter of nanoseconds.

"ROB, take the Great Fox through the warp gates. We'll follow behind in the Arwings." Fox ordered the ship's computer. "We're heading for Sector Z."

"Affirmative." ROB64 replied.

Somehow the Great Fox got through unnoticed. Star Fox distracted the Cornerian Fighters just long enough for the Great Fox to get through. Soon the Arwings followed the Great Fox through. The warp gates closed just before the Cornerians were able to get through.

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The news on Cornerian channels blasted:

"Star Fox is now wanted for betraying Corneria. They have last been sighted fleeing into Venom space."

Katt Monroe blinked. Had she just heard what she thought she heard?