A/N: Hey everyone! How's life treating ya. Sorry if this took me longer than before to upload but it's just that my dad's car was robbed and I was there and well it was really traumatizing but don't worry everything's fine now, I guess things like this happen when one lives in Venezuela… But what the hell life goes on! Now to the disclaimers and story.

Disclaimers: all of the characters depicted in this story are owned by Nintendo, except for some OC's that belong to me.

By the moment they had completely lost all the sense of reality they didn't know if either they moved through the hallways or the hallways were the ones moving, all they did was walking and walking and walking always led by Bill, 'Dang! He must have done this so many times that he has gotten used to all this walking' thoughts like this clouded the minds of the members of the Star Fox team, but in the end, after minutes that seemed like hours everyone arrived at department 345, department owned by the famous General Pepper.

"Here it is!" exclaimed Bill.

"Dude, how can you be so freaking cheerful after all that walking" reclaimed Falco while he and the rest were trying their best to catch a breath. The hound practically ignored this fact and proceeded to enter the password conformed by 30 characters, that certainly was high security. As soon as the door slid open the animals entered the wide department which wasn't exactly like one it was more like a house shaped so that it could all fit in one floor.

Coming out from what appeared to be the bedroom came a white collie whose appearance showed that she had been crying and in a state of desperation for a long while, she greeted them and invited them to sit in the couches positioned in the living room, taking a seat next to Bill she, between sobs, said "I suppose you've come to see my uncle"

"Precisely Fay, is he available for visits?" Fox asked softly as if trying to comfort the dog a bit (before you say anything, it is speculated by fans that Fay is Pepper's niece fact which I used to my advantage to bring her in the plot).

"Yeah sure go in, but please do it one by one he is far too sensible right now and many animals in the same room will shock him" she then began sobbing again so Bill put a comforting arm around her and smiled.

Fox was the last to go inside, what he saw was hard to believe now he understood the reactions their friends had when they came out, the once war hero had many tubes connected to different parts of his bodyand the left side of his muzzle, his neck and paws were purple and furless, actually almost skinless that looked like a side effect of being possessed by the aparoids.

Pepper was sitting on his bed looking out the window and turned around when he heard the vulpine come in.

"Fox! I was starting to wonder if you were going to show up" Fox simply looked away and frowned, also clenched his fists trying to take away the anger and guilt that invaded him, the general kept calling but he was still deep in his thoughts, the hound yelled thus snapping Fox out of his trance.

"I'm sorry… I just… can't help it…" the vulpine looked down in shame.

"Please Fox, this isn't your fault actually you stopped it from turning into something worse"

"But if I had been here sooner—"

"And what? Leave Sauria and all its dinosaurs alone?" Fox knew it he couldn't retort, he saw it with his eyes in just a few hours Sauria was almost lifeless while Corneria still stood.

"But I saw the effects of the infection, it goes destroying your brain cells until you are assimilated which means that any living being infected eventually dies" Fox told him, Pepper moved a bit took a deep breath and smiled at Fox.

"Don't we all do?"

"…"

"Fox, my boy, don't worry so much about an old sack like me for I have accomplished everything I had to do in my life, you better about yourself and the others you all have all your life ahead of you, and now be a good pup and grab the keys in this table" Pepper pointed to the keys on the table to the side of his bed.

"What are these?" Fox said after grabbing them.

"Those are the keys to the house of the team"

"Wha—" Fox was so surprised, he never heard the team owned a property aside from the Great Fox.

"Yes didn't Peppy tell you? Ever since the team earned a name among the mercenaries that house has been yours"

"He never told me that!" Pepper laughed because of the surprised face the vulpine had.

"I suppose the hare prefers living in the space following the tradition your father invented"

"The hell with the tradition! I need to see that house" and Fox ran out of the room until he remembered he didn't say goodbye and turned back to the room went and shook the paw of Pepper while quickly stating "" and went out again, the old hound chuckled "Boys these nowadays" and went back to look out the window.

Fox arrived extremely excited to the living room and yelled "Everyone what do you think we have a freaking house here in Corneria and if it's the one my dad once told me about then it should be a huge mansion!" Falco was the first to react "Then what are we waiting for let's go!" and he and Fox left as fast as they could.

"I guess we better get going the Krystal it won't be too long before both notice that they don't know how to get out" Slippy said, Krystal giggled and nodded they said their goodbyes to Bill and Fay and then left as well.

When they got to the house and saw it they realized Fox was right in his suspicion the house was huge it had two floors and was on a hill giving a perfect view of Corneria City, anxiety was killing Fox and Falco so they quickly went inside and were mesmerized for the second time in five minutes, it had a reception area that had a few couches, tables and plants, in the same area to the bottom was a large table which was there with the sole purpose to be used for doing paperwork and next to it were a set of very tall windows and to the left of this was the door to the kitchen to a side of the kitchen were the stairs that led to the second floor, these stairs were divided in two ways to the left were the four bedrooms with a personal bathroom each one (after everyone picked one they kept exploring) and to the right was the actual living room from which you could perfectly see the entrance area since it was like a balcony, in the living room was a huge TV some more couches and more tall windows after passing a hallway there was the gaming room.

"Looks pretty nice" Falco exclaimed

"Yep!" Fox and Slippy answered in unison.

"Hey Foxie I have a question for ya" the avian asked.

"Sure what is it Falco?"

"We're supposed to be on 'vacation' right?"

"Yeah I guess"

"Then how about if we go out and have some fun, you know for the old times"

"I'm not so sure Falco, I'd like to get some rest and a good shower" Fox smelled at himself he really sucked.

"Whatever…" he then turned to Slippy and thought of it for a second but then said "Nah, it's not worth it" Slippy scowled at him "In any case, I would have denied I want some rest too 'cause I plan to go to Aquas in a two days"

"Really what for Slippy?" Fox asked curious.

"Well, my family is from that planet and so I always was interested in seeing it"

"I think that sounds amazing Slippy"

"Yeah, well I'm going to the kitchen to see if there is any snack or anything, you guys want anything" Fox and Falco both denied, when the toad left Fox turned to Falco.

"And why you don't ask Krystal if she wants to go?" Falco said no like seven times.

"Why not? Seven times"

"'Coz Foxie my friend you know the rules, one doesn't ask his best friend's female out either they are dating or not, and if I did it would be too awkward" Fox simply grunted at his friends comment.

"Don't worry I'll be fine, once I'm outside I'll use my amazing sex-appeal to hook a hot female"

"Well excuse me mister ego" and so Fox left.

Hours went by and eventually night came, Falco, dressed more casual, left the house and took one of the two hovering cars that for some reason were in the garage and in perfect shape, he drove to the bar where he and Fox went 9 years ago called "The Aftermath".

Inside he saw many animals most of them drunk soldiers who were doing not very pleasant things with their "couples" if they could be called that way, the avian simply ignored everyone and went to the bar, the bartender was an incredibly tall mouse who once he saw Falco greeted him in a very enthusiastic way

"Falco Lombardi che piacere vederti qui" the accent of the mouse was italian of course. (che piacere vederti qui= what a pleasure to see you here)

"Leonardo, how have you been all this years"

"Doing great, here in my job, you know, the usual"

"Yeah I can see that, well serve me the same as always" the mouse went to prepare his drink.

"Don't worry for the bill, goes on the house"

"Really, why?"

"'Cause you are a friend and as a thank you for saving us all. So tell me didn't Fox come with you?"

"No, he wanted to stay and rest"

"Oh right, I forgot you just got here today. And what about your girlfriend?

"We broke up many years ago" the avian was once again sad, Leonardo noticed this and quickly changed the subject.

Both animals kept talking for almost an hour until Falco turned to leave.

"It was good to see you again Leonardo"

"Same here, and remember to come back with your friends"

"Don't worry, I will" and he left. He got up on the car and decided to go to the park for a night walk. There were many animals despite the hour most of them couples as always, Falco simply passed them and started remembering all the good times, the avian then saw a bench in which he saw a pink blur sitting on it, he was filled with expectations and started to run towards it.

"Hey Ka—" but then all his hopes went down when the figure turned and he noticed it was a pink weasel.

"You called me mister?" the weasel asked.

"No, sorry I just mistook you for someone else" and he started to walk back to the car on the way tears were forming in his eyes and then it started to rain hard but he didn't care the avian just kept walking, tears uniting with the drops of rain that fell on his beak.

He was not far away from his car when a hooded figure passed him running but because of the wet floor the figure slipped and landed hard on the floor, Falco went to check on the mysterious animal.

"Hey, you alright?" no answer, so he starting shaking it but nothing, the avian grabbed its wrist and noticed the figure still had pulse so he carried it and put it inside his car, once inside he took the hood off and noticed that the animal had a very bad looking injury in its head.

"Must have landed on a rock" he decided to take it to the hospital but he realized something and turned to see it again, the avian confirmed the face and was simply left breathless and in shock…

Yay Cliffhanger!

And here it is the third chapter, I would like to thank everyone for your support because now this story has 125 hits which is amazing but still no reviews, come on people I would like to know what you guys think and let me know if I need to improve on something, also I haven't forgotten about you inuyashalovingfan I'd like to thank you and I mean big time for adding this story to your favorites. Last but not least, everyone remembers I always say that I will upload more stories which is true but I haven't told you what they are about so listen one will be a crossover between assassins creed and starfox which was inspired by the job of XxSanitariumxX but don't worry it's not a stupid copy of his work and as for the other story I had on my mind it will be about Sonic the Hedgehog so you will find it in that filter. Now here comes the best part the part where I shut up. TheNight'sWolf over and out.