Disclaimer; I only own the original characters and the Demon fighters in this story.

Sorry I took so long. I just need some inspiration and some good music.

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The two dog soldiers gapped at the human in shock having never seen anything like him before. He stood well over them in height and even his muscles where bigger. The younger of the two soldiers, a private and no more then a green recruit approached Jolt and shook his offered hand and replied to his greeting, "H-Hello. I'm Private Andrea Ivalice of the Cornerian Defence Force… Nice to meet you."

Jolt smiled and nodded to the female Dog soldier. Andrea was in standard CDF uniform but had small cute ears and small snout. To Jolt she was actually good looking, not as much as a wolf but good none the less. Her eyes shone green.

The elder male soldier scowled at the younger and growled, "I am Commander Durotar Galbodus of the Cornerian Defence Force. I think you should turn yourself in quietly… for all we know you may be one of Andross' men."

"Who in the what now…? Look man the last thing I heard about this space battle crap was of the Aparoids that ate my home world!" Jolt shot back.

Kisa blinked, "Wow… A real army person…" She thought for a moment, "Can we try out for that special air combat test?"

Everyone blinked. Jolt had no idea what the young girl was talking about, Andrea was shocked such a young girl wanted to try out, Hanna was horrified Kisa even knew of it and Durotar was just plain stunned and furious.

The Commander snarled at the girl, "HA! Like you could even get a fighter off the ground!" he laughed at the little girl that looked very hurt and angry before looking at Jolt, "And you're probably lying anyway! I bet my career that you couldn't fly that Arwing if you tried!"

Jolt stood in front of the Commander and scowled as he looked down at him, "You want to try us? Bring it on Fido!"

"Very well! I'll let you both enter the Special Combat Trial!" The Commander grinned up at the human, "Not like either of you two could even last one minute!"

The Commander started to leave; "We'll send you the details later!" He then slammed the door behind him ignoring how he had left Andrea behind.

Andrea apologised and said, "I'm also entering… good luck you two!" She then raced out after her superior.

Jolt crossed his arms and growled, "What a fucking arsehole… I'm going to make him eat his words!"

The details for the Trial arrived the next day. The Trial would be held in one month and Jolt was permitted to do anything he wished as long as he followed Cornerian law.

After a week of teaching Jolt the laws he would need to know and finding Jolt some new clothes Jolt and Kisa set about training. The human was very impressed by the young wolf's flight skills and in the simulations at the local arcade their dog fighting became a paying attraction through Kisa's talent and Jolt's alien manoeuvres.

Soon enough the time for the Trials came and Jolt, Kisa and Hanna entered the building. Jolt carried the young wolf girl on his shoulders as he approached the registration desk. There he found Durotar and a very meek looking mouse taking down the names of those participating. The commander sneered at them as he checked them off letting them in and pointing Hanna to the audience entrance.

Once the two entered the waiting room only half the other contestants had entered. Those there gave them startled looks at the sight of Jolt. The human just gave them a silly grin and laughed, "This is gonna be fun!"

The two sat down on one of the couches and a sixteen-year-old falcon strutted over to them, "Howdy. Names Jet Falcnor and you are Jolt and Kisa correct." She offered her hand to Jolt and winked at Kisa. The human shook the offered hand and nodded the affirmative.

"I thought so. We've been listed as wing mates for the Trials." She explained, "So let's work together ok? Oh! Almost forgot! Apparently the Legendary Star Fox team will also be in the Trials!" The falcon squealed in her excitement.

Jolt rested his chin on his hand as he thought on how he would meet his friend's son by accident when a voice brought him back to reality.

"JOLT! KISA!" The human looked up to see Andrea running up to them and grinning "Looks like we're wing mates!"

Kisa jumped from her seat and squealed, "WOW! This is really cool! Hey Jolt! Did you hear that? We're wing mates with Andrea too!"

Jolt stood up and looked at the three girls and smiled, "So we are… now we just need a name…"

The girls blinked and started to think about a name for their team. Jolt waited for a minute and smiled, "How about Star Demon?"

Before the girls could reply the contestants where lead out to a massive arena filled with flight simulators of no design any had seen before. The lights focused on a platform high above and a massive screen switched on revealing General Pepper as he began his speech.

"Welcome Pilots and spectators." He began, "Today you will be treated to a Trial that will test the skill, talent, endurance and resolve of all the contestants. The purpose of this Trial is to find five pilots with the need qualities to fly the latest model of Cornerian Fighter craft… THE M-X21A Demon Striker!"

Lights focused on the centre of the floor in the arena revealing the Demon Striker. The main hull and wings where white while the three G-Diffusers where red. One G-Diffuser was under the hull between the two forward swept wings with the Smart mine launcher mounted in front of it. The other two where above the wings behind the cockpit. It had two medium lasers and two heavy lasers as well as a nose mounted medium laser. Its three engines looked to be quite powerful for its size. To the human it looked rather sturdy and a good fighter bomber.

General Pepper hushed the murmurs with a loud cough then continued, "It has also come to my attention there will be some remarkable pilots taking part in this trial, including the first visitor from another star system." A light focused on Jolt who still had Kisa on his shoulders, "Let us welcome the first human to walk among us, Jolt Kullkaven!" Excited yells, cheers and murmurs spread like wildfire across the audience. Jolt just clenched his fist and lowered his gaze already hating the attention.

"He along with a few other's including the Star Fox team…" The general continued as a spot light lit up the said prestigious team of pilots, "Will be trying to earn the right to fly our second prototype fighter! THE M-X61A Demon Burst!"

As with the Striker before it the lights focused on the floor of the arena revealing the second fighter. The main hull of this fighter was much longer and a good bit wider then the Striker's but was still white. This model had a whopping eight wings all of which where black with red strikes at the back. The G-Diffuser unit was black and had three of the moving green glowing parts as well as two engines which had large cones at the end rather then the single solid I shaped part. These cones had thrust vectors attached that aloud the pilot to adjust the direction of their thrust. On this assembly were also ten odd black spikes. This fighter was armed with two rail guns next to the cockpit, two lasers under the fighter running parallel to the rail guns and a positron cannon in the place of a nose cone. Behind the cockpit where two large black spikes.

Jolt's eyes widened, he was going to pilot that monster, he was going to fly a fighter with a weapon that can take down a capitol ship in one hit with it's best weapon. The thought terrified the human beyond words. His heart began to race at the idea of flying that thing at the bridge of some opposing capitol ship, the terrified faces of the crew as they saw the beam come at them and the noise less cries as the beam and space end their lives.

He made up his mind there and then as a cold sweat ran down his body; he could never allow anyone else to pilot that fighter. He would win and find a way to destroy the blueprints and all technical data any way he could. That power could not be allowed to fall in some war mongerer's hands.

Soon the opening ceremony was over and all the contestants where suited up in flight suits. Jolt opted for a red suit with silver armour plating and a red helmet. His old one had been ruined in his crash but he had managed to get his one custom made once when they went to an army surplus store.

The official's had stated that pilots for the new fighters would need to wear air tight flight gear if they hoped to fly the new fighters to reduce casualties in space. Jolt had to wonder why something so obvious wasn't thought of sooner.

Once they where lead back out they where moved into their teams and assigned a VR cockpit for the battle. Jolt got comfy and began the power up sequence. The lights in the cockpit came to life and the various screens lit up. He scanned the diagnostics as it ran across one of the screens and noticed the terms 'Psyche Over Limit Analyser' and 'Disconnected Rapid Armament Group Overlook Operation Network' as various systems ran past. He wondered what they meant but had little time to think on the matter as his communicator announced that the battle royal would soon begin.

A map appeared as the count down began. The human's eyes widened as he saw just how massive the map was. It's displayed a part of Corneria and rose all the way into orbit where the warp gate stood. The player counter stood at a whopping one thousand. The screen opened up to the battle and a single glance confirmed he was in a Demon Burst and his wing mates where in Demon Strikers. The human looked around and switch to his teams channel, "Break away and fire at will! Call for back up when needed but try to handle things for yourselves."

His team gave the affirmative and Jolt pushed the throttle all the way forward and shot forward over the mountainous landscape. He saw a swarm of Demon Striker's fighting among themselves and decided to make his first kill. He pushed the foot pedals and caused the nose of the Demon Burst to rise while it continued it's horizontal thrust thanks to the vector nozzles on the engines. He aimed at the swarm and hit the third firing trigger located on the throttle causing the positron cannon to fire its lethal red and blue beam and destroy six fighters out of eight.

Kisa saw the move and gapped but kept her young eyes on the battle raging around her as she stuck to the tail of an opposing Striker. She had quickly found the Striker's lacked a charge shot and so simply hammered the tail end of her opponent with laser fire from her five guns. As soon as they exploded the young wolf girl took a hit to her wing and saw two Striker's on her tail. She hissed and dived into a fissure and began to weave and dodge among the rocks as she and Jolt had practiced. One of the bandits on her tail wasn't so lucky and slammed straight into a rather large stone. His friend lost a wing from the same rock but was then blown out of the air by fire from another fighter.

Kisa looked behind her and saw a Burst tailing her through the fissure. Her eyes widened when she saw it was none other then Falco of the Star Fox team!

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